Here goes that old refrain again.(I once read somewhere) Look around in
the auto junk yards in your area for Japanese auto/pickuptruck radios
which date back to the 1980's.I once read somewhere on the intenet that
some of those older model Japanese auto radios are good at picking up
long distance AM stations.(Shortwave is the higher end of AM) Someone in
this news group probally knows more than I do about that and can tell
you how to properly set up older model auto radios to use in your home.
cuhulin

Nothing beats a tube radio for long distance medium wave reception.

On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 08:16:55 -0600, wrote:

Here goes that old refrain again.(I once read somewhere) Look around in
the auto junk yards in your area for Japanese auto/pickuptruck radios
which date back to the 1980's.I once read somewhere on the intenet that
some of those older model Japanese auto radios are good at picking up
long distance AM stations.(Shortwave is the higher end of AM) Someone in
this news group probally knows more than I do about that and can tell
you how to properly set up older model auto radios to use in your home.
cuhulin

David wrote:

Nothing beats a tube radio for long distance medium wave reception.

Nothing?

dxAce
Michigan
USA

An R390 or 390A is superior to any sandbox. Your average 5 tube
superhet from the early 60s is superior to 99.99% of the transistor
radios around today.

On Thu, 17 Mar 2005 12:50:33 -0500, dxAce
wrote:



David wrote:

Nothing beats a tube radio for long distance medium wave reception.

Nothing?

dxAce
Michigan
USA

Your average 5 tube
superhet from the early 60s is superior to 99.99% of the transistor
radios around today. .......


Thats just plain silly... MK

dxAce wrote:
David wrote:
Nothing beats a tube radio for long distance medium wave reception.

Nothing?

Right off the bat I can say what beats it: a tube radio hooked to a
really long, really high antenna.

David wrote:
Nothing beats a tube radio for long distance medium wave reception.

Thats fairly silly...Whether it has tubes or not will
not be a deciding factor. He wants a radio with good
selectivity. When I was listening to the station last
night, I was *not* using a tube radio, and to tell you
the truth, I doubt any of my older tube radios would
have had the needed selectivity to weed that station out
of the muck. A car radio would have been *useless*. A normal
tube radio with standard wide filters would have been *useless*.
But my icom with it's narrow filter was the cat's ass when
it came to weeding that station out, with a local "next door"
on 790kc. Not a tube in sight...
Sensitivity will not be a factor unless the radio is
"really" lame.
MK

Could be. Car radios can often be quite good as far as reception, but I
wonder if that is due to the fact you are driving outside, without
buildings and other structures in the way. My 2004 Chrysler's stock
radio gets excellent reception on AM in the evening. Here in Wisconsin
I can pick up the big AM stations from Minneapolis, St. Louis, Dallas,
Atlanta, New York, Ontario, and so forth.

"... Car radios can often be quite good as far as reception...."

This again. I'm not disputing you. In fact, I have yet to encounter the
home hi-fi stereo receiver that approaches a car radio in terms of
AM-MW performance. I can attest to the remarkable ability of a run of
the mill Delco car radio to haul in AM stations from miles away.

There was a page at the C. Crane site commenting on this.
brief delay while I search my files. SFX: the song played near the end
of Jeopardy while the contestants think of the answer to the final
question.

Ah, here we go:


Subject: AM Car Radios For DX?
Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave
Date: 2003-02-03 14:46:59 PST

Here's that website at C. Crane:
http://www.ccrane.com/news/archives/...ws10.28.02.htm


Never throw anything away. Yeah, but, attempting to open that site, I
find that the URL no longer works. One is referred to

http://www.ccrane.com/news/news-archives.aspx
and from there to

http://www.ccrane.com/news/car-radio....10.28.02.aspx
and
http://www.ccrane.com/news/car-radio....11.11.02.aspx

These pages deal largely with poor reception and noise suppression.