Buzzygirl wrote:

Hi there,

You might want to pick up a copy of the Passport to World Band Radio. The
2006 edition is out now, I think (someone correct me if I'm wrong here). You
can find it at Barnes & Noble or Amazon. It lists all kinds of shortwave
radio shows, many of which contain programs of special interest and music
from all over the world. There are a lot of news programs on shortwave, but
there is a lot of other interesting stuff too.

Passport comes out in October, I believe. Two months or so away. Best to
buy it from their website www.passband.com. A bookstore may not have the
most recent version.

As far as cheapo shortwave radios that perform decently, check out the Degen
DE-1103 or Degen DE-1102 (a/k/a Kaito KA-1103 and Kaito KA-1102). You can
find these on eBay, and the seller with the best service and prices is
Liypn. Do an advanced search and check out his store, V-COM Collections.
These radios go for less than $50 each and Liypn is an excellent seller.

Of course, you could pay a lot more and get a lot better radio that would
allow you to hook up an outdoor antenna and pull in really exotic, faint
signals, but since you indicate you were looking for something cheap, I
recommend both of these radios for their price/performance ratio.

If he's looking for something cheap, either one of those Degens will do.
The 1102 is easier to use ergonomically, so for a new listener, I would
recommend it. The 1103 is the same or slightly better in performance,
but its layout can be intimidating to some people.



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Hi Teddy:

at 4:00 Eastern time WBCQ , 7.415 broadcasts " Financial Survival 2000"

- which is DEFINITLY not the normal news hour..

Alex Jones ( Somewhere on WWCR) at night also
rails against Atrocities commited by Space Aliens. among other things

AND . .
If you listen to the BBC, you will eventually hear some in - depth
reporting of items from Africa & othere environs you won't hear any
where else.

Radio New Zealand covers Street Crime all over the pacific..
& then you get weather reports from Aukland..

Whilst Radio Canda will tell you aboout Fish, Fishing, Fish Prices..
and
Fish By Products..
- So keep listening


Teddy Bear wrote:
Hi There,

I was curious to try the short wave radio listening so I went for my old
and very cheapo Sony CFM-140L casette-recorder unit (16m; 19m; 21m; 25m;
31m; 41m; 49m). I don't remember how much it cost, but sure it was well
below $30.00 I got a 1.5mm diameter coated wire "plugged" atop of the rad=
io
antenna, it was around 30 feet long (it, somehow, improved a wee bit the
radio reception. No wonders though).

Later I switched to the SW dial and I started to tune stations using the
main manual dial and the fine dial knobs, reaching to listen to the
following stations, not without big efforts using those analogic knobs:

#1 RFI - French - France
#2 BBC World Service - English - United Kingdom
#3 DOA News - English - USA
#4 Radio Canada Internacional - Spanish - Canada
#5 World Wide Christian Radio - English - USA
#6 Radio Bulgaria - Spanish - Bulgaria
#7 kilo - papa - alpha - two - What was that?
#8 Radio Internacional de China - Spanish - Vhina
#9 Radio Exterieur d'Espagne - French - Spain
#10 Radio Exterior de Espa=F1a - English - Spain
#11 CBC News - English - Canada
#12 Radio Rumania Internacional - Spanish - Rumania
#13 Radio Netherlands - Spanish - The Netherlands
#14 Canada International - English - Canda
#15 Radio Japan - English - Japan
#16 Radio Slovakia International - English - Slovakia

The above list was collected after four hours of discontinued listening;
besides those, I was able to listen to a few more stations from Moldova,
Colombia, ... a station which appeared to broadcast a "repetitive nanny
song" in clock intervals of around 15 seconds and 5 mute. Other stations
which broadcasted "noise" and a plethora of stations bradcasting in German
and Arabic (many many stations!).

Almost all the radio programs were radiating news, all stations seemed to
bradcast the same news despite being all from different countries. That's
globalization! Although I find amusing to being able to listen to all tho=
se
stations I must confess that listening only to news is really bothersome!
The exception being, perhaps, Radio Internacional de China which had a
varied grill.

Therefore, as a naive short wave listener I would like to know whether us=
ing
this dial all I will find will be news, always the same all over again the
same day, or whether there are wider program grills. Moreover, from the l=
ist
of stations I heard can sombody advise me on whether buying new equipment
(receiver plus antena?) I will be able to pick up more stations? Something
below $100.00, even if it is second hand.

Eventually, as I am a completely novice in SW I would like to listen to a=
ll
your advices concerning radio equipment (cheapo!), stations to listen to
(English; French; Spanish), prime times, ...
=20
Keep it up!

In article ,
"Teddy Bear" wrote:

Hi There,

I was curious to try the short wave radio listening so I went for my old
and very cheapo Sony CFM-140L casette-recorder unit (16m; 19m; 21m; 25m;
31m; 41m; 49m). I don't remember how much it cost, but sure it was well
below $30.00 I got a 1.5mm diameter coated wire "plugged" atop of the radio
antenna, it was around 30 feet long (it, somehow, improved a wee bit the
radio reception. No wonders though).

Later I switched to the SW dial and I started to tune stations using the
main manual dial and the fine dial knobs, reaching to listen to the
following stations, not without big efforts using those analogic knobs:

#1 RFI - French - France
#2 BBC World Service - English - United Kingdom
#3 DOA News - English - USA
#4 Radio Canada Internacional - Spanish - Canada
#5 World Wide Christian Radio - English - USA
#6 Radio Bulgaria - Spanish - Bulgaria
#7 kilo - papa - alpha - two - What was that?
#8 Radio Internacional de China - Spanish - Vhina
#9 Radio Exterieur d'Espagne - French - Spain
#10 Radio Exterior de España - English - Spain
#11 CBC News - English - Canada
#12 Radio Rumania Internacional - Spanish - Rumania
#13 Radio Netherlands - Spanish - The Netherlands
#14 Canada International - English - Canda
#15 Radio Japan - English - Japan
#16 Radio Slovakia International - English - Slovakia

The above list was collected after four hours of discontinued listening;
besides those, I was able to listen to a few more stations from Moldova,
Colombia, ... a station which appeared to broadcast a "repetitive nanny
song" in clock intervals of around 15 seconds and 5 mute. Other stations
which broadcasted "noise" and a plethora of stations bradcasting in German
and Arabic (many many stations!).

Almost all the radio programs were radiating news, all stations seemed to
bradcast the same news despite being all from different countries. That's
globalization! Although I find amusing to being able to listen to all those
stations I must confess that listening only to news is really bothersome!
The exception being, perhaps, Radio Internacional de China which had a
varied grill.

Therefore, as a naive short wave listener I would like to know whether using
this dial all I will find will be news, always the same all over again the
same day, or whether there are wider program grills. Moreover, from the list
of stations I heard can sombody advise me on whether buying new equipment
(receiver plus antena?) I will be able to pick up more stations? Something
below $100.00, even if it is second hand.

Eventually, as I am a completely novice in SW I would like to listen to all
your advices concerning radio equipment (cheapo!), stations to listen to
(English; French; Spanish), prime times, ...

You did a good job in a few hours time with a cheap portable. Imagine
what you could do with a good table top radio and an out door antenna.

--
Telamon
Ventura, California

"Telamon" wrote in message
...
In article ,
"Teddy Bear" wrote:

Hi There,

I was curious to try the short wave radio listening so I went
for my old
and very cheapo Sony CFM-140L casette-recorder unit (16m; 19m;
21m; 25m;
31m; 41m; 49m). I don't remember how much it cost, but sure it was
well
below $30.00 I got a 1.5mm diameter coated wire "plugged" atop of
the radio
antenna, it was around 30 feet long (it, somehow, improved a wee
bit the
radio reception. No wonders though).

Later I switched to the SW dial and I started to tune stations
using the
main manual dial and the fine dial knobs, reaching to listen to
the
following stations, not without big efforts using those analogic
knobs:

#1 RFI - French - France
#2 BBC World Service - English - United Kingdom
#3 DOA News - English - USA
#4 Radio Canada Internacional - Spanish - Canada
#5 World Wide Christian Radio - English - USA
#6 Radio Bulgaria - Spanish - Bulgaria
#7 kilo - papa - alpha - two - What was that?
#8 Radio Internacional de China - Spanish - Vhina
#9 Radio Exterieur d'Espagne - French - Spain
#10 Radio Exterior de España - English - Spain
#11 CBC News - English - Canada
#12 Radio Rumania Internacional - Spanish - Rumania
#13 Radio Netherlands - Spanish - The Netherlands
#14 Canada International - English - Canda
#15 Radio Japan - English - Japan
#16 Radio Slovakia International - English - Slovakia

The above list was collected after four hours of discontinued
listening;
besides those, I was able to listen to a few more stations from
Moldova,
Colombia, ... a station which appeared to broadcast a "repetitive
nanny
song" in clock intervals of around 15 seconds and 5 mute. Other
stations
which broadcasted "noise" and a plethora of stations bradcasting
in German
and Arabic (many many stations!).

Almost all the radio programs were radiating news, all stations
seemed to
bradcast the same news despite being all from different countries.
That's
globalization! Although I find amusing to being able to listen to
all those
stations I must confess that listening only to news is really
bothersome!
The exception being, perhaps, Radio Internacional de China which
had a
varied grill.

Therefore, as a naive short wave listener I would like to know
whether using
this dial all I will find will be news, always the same all over
again the
same day, or whether there are wider program grills. Moreover,
from the list
of stations I heard can sombody advise me on whether buying new
equipment
(receiver plus antena?) I will be able to pick up more stations?
Something
below $100.00, even if it is second hand.

Eventually, as I am a completely novice in SW I would like to
listen to all
your advices concerning radio equipment (cheapo!), stations to
listen to
(English; French; Spanish), prime times, ...

You did a good job in a few hours time with a cheap portable.
Imagine
what you could do with a good table top radio and an out door
antenna.

You know what this means, don't you?? Teddy's
going to have to have a lot of shelf space to handle
a lot of radios in a quest for the "perfect" radio... ;-)

--Mike L.

You know what this means, don't you?? Teddy's
going to have to have a lot of shelf space to handle
a lot of radios in a quest for the "perfect" radio... ;-)

Ouch! That's gonna be expensive!

I'll start looking for something cheap on eBay, the better

And go to a building supply store and buy lots of shelf brackets and
boards for shelves and to a Goodwill store and buy some book cases.
cuhulin

And go to a building supply store and buy lots of shelf brackets
and boards for shelves

it's also a good source for antennae projects. I built a great little
10m dipole from conduit, worked the world with that and 5 and 25 watts,
with a tuner it doubled as a decent enough SWL ant. as well
Cost? $5 if that...