i recently acquired a grundig yacht boy 400 and am quite frustrated as i
can find almost nothing interesting on it! does anyone have any advice
to help me get started?

Mike;
- Buy a copy of " Monitoring Times" or
"Passport to Worldband Radio"..
They have listings of different shows & Frequencies..

Dan / NYC



In article ,
(Mike Donahue) writes:

Subject: newbie here
From: (Mike Donahue)
Date: Fri, 15 Oct 2004 13:58:13 -0500

i recently acquired a grundig yacht boy 400 and am quite frustrated as i
can find almost nothing interesting on it! does anyone have any advice
to help me get started?

Mike Donahue wrote:

i recently acquired a grundig yacht boy 400 and am quite frustrated as i
can find almost nothing interesting on it! does anyone have any advice
to help me get started?


It's hard to reply, when we don't know what it is you are looking for.
SW radio (and the Yacht Boy 400 is an above-average portable) is for
listening mostly to broadcasts from foreign countries, because you are
interested in their slant on the news, either in their native language,
or in their English broadcasts (few *don't* have an English-language
broadcast)or because you like to see from how far away you can get
reception/ID on a station, or because you like (fill in blank) type of
music, and want to hear it from it's native source, or because you get a
kick (or maybe even inspiration) from listening to the religious
broadcasters, who are all over the shortwave bands 24 hours a day. I
have to repeat: What is it you are looking for on SW?

There are many internet sites with a wealth of information, as well as
book publications and the like. Start "from scratch" and in six months
you'll have a good idea of what's out there, how SW works, and the
particular areas you want to devote more time to.

Tony

Mike Donahue wrote:

i recently acquired a grundig yacht boy 400 and am quite frustrated as i
can find almost nothing interesting on it! does anyone have any advice
to help me get started?

I'm not sure what kind of problems you're having, but a good place to start is with a list of times and frequencies - try he

www.primetimeshortwave.com

Howdy, Mike.

Where are you located, when will you be listening
(night, day, morning, afternoon, etc.), and what would
you like to hear?

I'll do my best to give you a hand - as will others here,
I'm sure.

73,

--
Steve Lawrence
KAØPMD
Burnsville, Minnesota

"If a man wants his dreams to come true then he must wake up."
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"Mike Donahue" wrote...
i recently acquired a grundig yacht boy 400 and am quite frustrated as i
can find almost nothing interesting on it! does anyone have any advice
to help me get started?


These links can lead you to text versions of the current schedules:

http://www.ilgradio.com/ilgradio.htm
look for the pure text version in "Data Files Shortwave, that file
is used by a nice free program... Scan320DB located at
http://www.qsl.net/ab9b/freeware/Scan320DB.html
It's a great way to filter and sort the data in the ILG file so you can locate what's on for any
time/frequency/language/

Another good text data file is at
http://www.eibi.de.vu
click the English DX Page link on the right.
You'll have to look through the eibi file yourself, I don't know any
program that uses it, but it's a great resource for finding what's on

Hi Mike and welcome to this newsgroup

You could try these sites (there are many more):

http://medianetwork.blogspot.com/

http://www.hard-core-dx.com/index.php?topic=HCDX

http://www.cumbredx.org/index.html#radio

http://www.dxing.info/

73s

Mike

Thanks for all the responses!!!!
I'm located near Chicago. I am intrested in music, world (local) news
in English and anything else that may be out there..as again, am a
complete newbie and don't really know what is available.

I simply have not had much luck scanning the frequencies. thanks again!

Mike Donahue wrote:

Thanks for all the responses!!!!
I'm located near Chicago. I am intrested in music, world (local) news
in English and anything else that may be out there..as again, am a
complete newbie and don't really know what is available.

I simply have not had much luck scanning the frequencies. thanks again!


Mike:


Unless I'm mistaken, the Yacht Boy will have an external antenna
hookup facility. If nothing else, get about 40' of bell wire, hook it
up, and stretch it out as high as you can get it (even indoors). Then,
concentrate on the following frequencies/times of day:

4700 to 7400 kHz: Evening and nights.

9500 to 11900 kHz: Anytime

13000 to 18000kHz: Daytime.

Good luck - stay in touch.

Tony

On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 13:58:13 -0500, Mike Donahue wrote:

i recently acquired a grundig yacht boy 400 and am quite frustrated as i
can find almost nothing interesting on it! does anyone have any advice
to help me get started?


Run out and get the book "Passport to world band radio".