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what's your best sw receiver?
On Thu, 26 Jan 2006 07:03:11 GMT, HFguy wrote:
David wrote: On Wed, 25 Jan 2006 06:05:11 +0000, weatherall wrote: I'm curious about what everyone in this newsgroup considers as their best shortwave receiver. Mainly I'd like to know if there is a tendency for using portables vs. so-called desktop receivers. My best radio is a Sony ICF SW7600GR, and at this time, I only have portable radios. The R-390A is without a doubt the best SWL receiver I've ever had for pulling in difficult signals. It costs a fortune to operate one, however. How does the sensitivity of the R-390A above 15-Mhz compare with modern receivers? During the killer 1990 solar max I was getting 26 MHz Auxilliary Broadcast links from the upper Midwest reliably in Houston all day long. I also remember listening to Iceland on 21 Mhz every Saturday, coming in like a local. A tube radio can be extremely quiet. |
what's your best sw receiver?
weatherall wrote:
I'm curious about what everyone in this newsgroup considers as their best shortwave receiver. Mainly I'd like to know if there is a tendency for using portables vs. so-called desktop receivers. My best radio is a Sony ICF SW7600GR, and at this time, I only have portable radios. Best Desktop: AOR 7030+ Also using: Ten-Tec RX-350 Drake SW-2 Yeasu FRG-7 Lowe HF-150 Hammarlund BC-794 (Super Pro) National NC-88 Hallicrafters S53-A and others Best Portable: Panasonic RF-B65 Also using: Grundig Sat 500 Grundig Sat 650 Professional Grundig Sat 700 Hallicrafters TW-1000 Zenith T/0 3000-1 Zenith T/O 7000-2 and others. Many others. More than I have room to walkaround. Please. Help me before I listen again.... |
what's your best sw receiver?
"D Peter Maus" wrote in message ... weatherall wrote: I'm curious about what everyone in this newsgroup considers as their best shortwave receiver. Mainly I'd like to know if there is a tendency for using portables vs. so-called desktop receivers. My best radio is a Sony ICF SW7600GR, and at this time, I only have portable radios. Best Desktop: AOR 7030+ Also using: Ten-Tec RX-350 Drake SW-2 Yeasu FRG-7 Lowe HF-150 Hammarlund BC-794 (Super Pro) National NC-88 Hallicrafters S53-A and others Best Portable: Panasonic RF-B65 Also using: Grundig Sat 500 Grundig Sat 650 Professional Grundig Sat 700 Hallicrafters TW-1000 Zenith T/0 3000-1 Zenith T/O 7000-2 and others. Many others. More than I have room to walkaround. Please. Help me before I listen again.... You must have a helluva shack, Peter. Can you post or e-mail a pic sometime? I'm curious how yours looks like compared to, say, Maghakian's. --Mike L. |
what's your best sw receiver?
D Peter Maus wrote: weatherall wrote: I'm curious about what everyone in this newsgroup considers as their best shortwave receiver. Mainly I'd like to know if there is a tendency for using portables vs. so-called desktop receivers. My best radio is a Sony ICF SW7600GR, and at this time, I only have portable radios. Best Desktop: AOR 7030+ Also using: Ten-Tec RX-350 Drake SW-2 Yeasu FRG-7 Lowe HF-150 Hammarlund BC-794 (Super Pro) National NC-88 Hallicrafters S53-A and others Best Portable: Panasonic RF-B65 Also using: Grundig Sat 500 Grundig Sat 650 Professional Grundig Sat 700 Hallicrafters TW-1000 Zenith T/0 3000-1 Zenith T/O 7000-2 and others. Many others. More than I have room to walkaround. Please. Help me before I listen again.... Always glad to help: how much do you want for the Sat 650? :-) RK P.S. Happy listening |
what's your best sw receiver?
Houston,Texas and Houston,Mississippi (www.555us.com Texas and
Mississippi) isn't in the upper Midwest. www.hometownfreepress.com Texas and Mississippi,crank up your puter bolume [[volume]] cuhulin |
what's your best sw receiver?
weatherall wrote:
I'm curious about what everyone in this newsgroup considers as their best shortwave receiver. Mainly I'd like to know if there is a tendency for using portables vs. so-called desktop receivers. My best radio is a Sony ICF SW7600GR, and at this time, I only have portable radios. Best: Ten-Tec RX-340 Others: ICOM IC-R8500 WinRadio G303i (early adopter) Collins R-392 Now, which I *prefer* to use depends on exactly what I'm doing. The '8500s are within easy reach of my computer, so if I hear about an event going on, they're a quick setup. With the exception of poor dynamic range and poor rejection, the '303i is a fun radio with surprisingly good performance and audio. If it's hard to pick up or being interfered with, the TT is the way to go. The '392 is an amazing machine but gets exercised least. -- Eric F. Richards "Nature abhors a vacuum tube." -- Myron Glass, often attributed to J. R. Pierce, Bell Labs, c. 1940 |
what's your best sw receiver?
Ahhh,y'all dont want any Ten-Tecs,they are made down South in
Tennessee.y'all dont want any MFJ products either,they are made right here in Mississippi,and everybody hates Mississippi because they believe that junk hollyweird puts out,,, y'all dont want any made in Mississippi Nissan vehicles either.Hmmm,I wonder if the new USS New York Ship,being built in Pascagoula,Mississippi right now will ever set Sail next year? cuhulin |
what's your best sw receiver?
Michael Lawson wrote:
"D Peter Maus" wrote in message ... weatherall wrote: I'm curious about what everyone in this newsgroup considers as their best shortwave receiver. Mainly I'd like to know if there is a tendency for using portables vs. so-called desktop receivers. My best radio is a Sony ICF SW7600GR, and at this time, I only have portable radios. Best Desktop: AOR 7030+ Also using: Ten-Tec RX-350 Drake SW-2 Yeasu FRG-7 Lowe HF-150 Hammarlund BC-794 (Super Pro) National NC-88 Hallicrafters S53-A and others Best Portable: Panasonic RF-B65 Also using: Grundig Sat 500 Grundig Sat 650 Professional Grundig Sat 700 Hallicrafters TW-1000 Zenith T/0 3000-1 Zenith T/O 7000-2 and others. Many others. More than I have room to walkaround. Please. Help me before I listen again.... You must have a helluva shack, Peter. Can you post or e-mail a pic sometime? I'm curious how yours looks like compared to, say, Maghakian's. --Mike L. It's not that impressive. Lots of radios. Crap stacked floor to ceiling. I lost the dog in here. If I ever make sense of it, I'll take a few shots. But I'll tell you now, that Maghakian's is far more impressive. |
what's your best sw receiver?
rkhalona wrote:
D Peter Maus wrote: weatherall wrote: I'm curious about what everyone in this newsgroup considers as their best shortwave receiver. Mainly I'd like to know if there is a tendency for using portables vs. so-called desktop receivers. My best radio is a Sony ICF SW7600GR, and at this time, I only have portable radios. Best Desktop: AOR 7030+ Also using: Ten-Tec RX-350 Drake SW-2 Yeasu FRG-7 Lowe HF-150 Hammarlund BC-794 (Super Pro) National NC-88 Hallicrafters S53-A and others Best Portable: Panasonic RF-B65 Also using: Grundig Sat 500 Grundig Sat 650 Professional Grundig Sat 700 Hallicrafters TW-1000 Zenith T/0 3000-1 Zenith T/O 7000-2 and others. Many others. More than I have room to walkaround. Please. Help me before I listen again.... Always glad to help: how much do you want for the Sat 650? :-) RK That one, my friend, is not for sale. But thanks for the helping hand. p P.S. Happy listening |
what's your best sw receiver?
D Peter Maus wrote:
I lost the dog in here. I did that once. After a few months of open windows I can't even tell it ever happened. I believe little Spike's now mummified remains may be behind or under the DX-160 and the Lifelong World Band Radio. Once I receive Radio-Mart's 'cleansing' instructions I'll get to work on the extrication. mike |
what's your best sw receiver?
David wrote:
http://www.reelmoviecritic.com/Movies20031Q/id1935.htm Weird...it says: Otis (Courtney B. Vance) is a defective from Jackson, Mississippi, who has come to assist the local police in the murder investigation. Is that anyway to advertise the State? mike |
what's your best sw receiver?
Don't you have a pig to screw, or a cross to burn?
wrote: Ahhh,y'all dont want any Ten-Tecs,they are made down South in Tennessee.y'all dont want any MFJ products either,they are made right here in Mississippi,and everybody hates Mississippi because they believe that junk hollyweird puts out,,, y'all dont want any made in Mississippi Nissan vehicles either.Hmmm,I wonder if the new USS New York Ship,being built in Pascagoula,Mississippi right now will ever set Sail next year? cuhulin |
what's your best sw receiver?
reelmoviecritic.com? ok,I sent that website to my Alice (pretend name,if
Johnny Cash could have a name like Sue,I can have me a pretend name like Alice) (Alice,thanks for letting me store some overloaded websites there) [Dont mention it,you old buzzard] cuhulin,aka Alice |
what's your best sw receiver?
I know a guy in New England.He is my age,Hitler sent him and his family
to Germany in World War Two.(he was born in Croatia,German by Ancestry) He is a tough guy too.Recently,his faithfull companion Cat of fifteen years passed away.He blubbered up and cried like a baby. cuhulin |
what's your best sw receiver?
Like there aren't any murders and Detectives on the Job in your State?
cuhulin |
what's your best sw receiver?
On Fri, 27 Jan 2006 02:27:11 GMT, m II wrote:
D Peter Maus wrote: I lost the dog in here. I did that once. After a few months of open windows I can't even tell it ever happened. I believe little Spike's now mummified remains may be behind or under the DX-160 and the Lifelong World Band Radio. Once I receive Radio-Mart's 'cleansing' instructions I'll get to work on the extrication. mike Might I suggest that you also send him the desiccated dog as an appropriate thank you for his isntructions. |
what's your best sw receiver?
Eric F.Richards,I am not inbred,I dont know of any inbred folks here in
Mississippi.I have no idea of why you and some folks around the World think Mississippians are inbred.Perhaps y'all have been watching too much hollyweird fiction? Why do some folks cast stones at Mississippi and they dont know much about their own State of Confusion? I dont think Mississippians are inbred.I dont think you are inbred or the folks in your State are inbred.I dont know how to use a computer? I own some computers,but there are some sites I never go to with my computers,it is a matter of choice with me. cuhulin |
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what's your best sw receiver?
I wish I was rich enough to afford a Watkins Johnson Radio and smart
enough to operate a Watkins Johnson Radio.About nine or ten something years ago, www.universal-radio.com was selling some Watkins Johnson Radios (I still have that old Universal Radio catalog here) for between three thousand to four thousnd dollars. google.com Watkins Johnson Radios cuhulin |
what's your best sw receiver?
junius wrote:
Mark S. Holden wrote: Transportable AOR ar7030+ (custom case/power/antenna system) I'm guessing that this is *quite* a nice set-up indeed! do you do a lot of dxpeditioning? junius Nothing so formal as that - I take it on camping trips and vacations, and I'll often use it close to home when I'm going to be imaging with my telescope. |
what's your best sw receiver?
On Thu, 26 Jan 2006 22:40:58 -0600, wrote:
Like there aren't any murders and Detectives on the Job in your State? cuhulin It's a wonderful movie. Lyle Lovett plays a pervert. |
what's your best sw receiver?
Best tabletop: Drake R8B
Coming in a close second: AOR 7030+ Honorable mention: Lowe HF-150 |
what's your best sw receiver?
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what's your best sw receiver?
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what's your best sw receiver?
An elderly guy who lives down the street from me was in the 149th Signal
Company (U.S.Army) in World War Two in Europe.Another guy in Hattiesburg,he is about 74 years old,was at Kagnew Station in Africa. www.kagnewstation.com He worked in radio at Kagnew Station,decyphering radio signals. cuhulin |
what's your best sw receiver?
Every once in a while,when I am watching old,old War Movies,I see some
Hallicrafters Radios with the big H on them,sometimes there is a seperate speaker with the big H on the speaker. cuhulin |
what's your best sw receiver?
rpbc wrote:
Carter.. My uncle was in the signal corps during WWII. I acquired his Hallicrafters which had 13 tubes, I believe, and did have two 6V6s in the push/pull audio output.... SX-28 and its variants had 15 tubes I believe but I don't know the Hallicrafters line well enough to know if there was a 13 tube set or not. Do a web search on SX-28s and it will bring up some hits that have pictures so you can see if the 28 was your uncle's set. and the 12inch speaker in the separater metal cabinet with a big H across the grill. Yup, the PM-23 speaker---some had the "h", some did not; presumably the one "with" is more valuable. Had crystal phasing, bfo, great bandspread tuning, an 'S' meter... all kinds of stuff to increase selectivity. It received weak signals and more importantly, could select them from strong adjacent stations. Definitely a nice set, the top dog in its day. However, only a single conversion radio--images get to be a bit of a problem above 14 Mc/s. I've aften wanted to compare it side by side with a modern digital set. Maybe my memory of it is better than it actually was, but I don't know. Well, my credo is "I've used old and I've used new, and believe me, new is better". grin Technology *has* improved in the last 50 or 60 years. However, for styling, romance, nostalgia and just plain fun, you can't beat some of the old timers. It was really versatile at receiving and selecting a station from a crowded location on a band. It sure was heavy. 75 pounds (!) *plus* maybe another 20 or so for the speaker. Wish I still had it, great looking piece of hardware from time gone by. I'd rebuild now that I appreciate it, and have the know how. Good luck...the 28 can be a pretty tough rebuild to do it right. Again, look on the web for the trials and tribulations of a guy that documented his 28 rebuild. |
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rpbc wrote: [snip] Set the clock in your puter... dxAce Michigan USA |
what's your best sw receiver?
dxAce wrote:
rpbc wrote: [snip] Set the clock in your puter... dxAce Michigan USA Set the politeness in your manners... mike |
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what's your best sw receiver?
They Were Expendable movie is one of them.Next time I watch some old,old
War movies,whenever I see a Hallicrafters radio (or whatever other brand names of radios) in the movies,I will try to remember to write down the titles of the old,old War movies. cuhulin |
what's your best sw receiver?
m II wrote: dxAce wrote: rpbc wrote: [snip] Set the clock in your puter... Set the politeness in your manners... Stuff a sock in it, dumbass Canuck! dxAce Michigan USA |
what's your best sw receiver?
Carter.. My uncle was in the signal corps during WWII. I acquired his
Hallicrafters which had 13 tubes, I believe, and did have two 6V6s in the push/pull audio output.... and the 12inch speaker in the separater metal cabinet with a big H across the grill. Had crystal phasing, bfo, great bandspread tuning, an 'S' meter... all kinds of stuff to increase selectivity. It received weak signals and more importantly, could select them from strong adjacent stations. I've aften wanted to compare it side by side with a modern digital set. Maybe my memory of it is better than it actually was, but I don't know. It was really versatile at receiving and selecting a station from a crowded location on a band. It sure was heavy. Wish I still had it, great looking piece of hardware from time gone by. I'd rebuild now that I appreciate it, and have the know how. |
what's your best sw receiver?
Carter... Thank you for your reply. I acquired the set in 1961, my father
paid my uncle thirty dollars for it because of my interest. The set might have had 15 tubes, I remember counting but don't remember the number. I'm sure the new stuff is much better, just my sentiment talking.... has to be. It sure was exciting though for a twelve year old kid to turn on that radio and spend hours listening to stations far and near. That kind of excitment will color one's memory. If I had the old set, I would rebuild it. Mine was in perfect shape, had never been worked on, but begin to lose sensitivity a few years after I had it. I was the kind of kid that had the RCA tube manuel memorized, so when real schooling in electronics began, I was ready. By that time though, the Hallicrafters had left the ranch. Wish I had it now though. Thanks for the tip and encouragement to look it up on the Internet. I'm on my way to Google this minute. |
what's your best sw receiver?
dxAce wrote:
m II wrote: dxAce wrote: rpbc wrote: [snip] Set the clock in your puter... Set the politeness in your manners... Stuff a sock in it, dumbass Canuck! dxAce Michigan USA Why..that's just downright rude. Are you an American? mike |
what's your best sw receiver?
m II wrote: dxAce wrote: m II wrote: dxAce wrote: rpbc wrote: [snip] Set the clock in your puter... Set the politeness in your manners... Stuff a sock in it, dumbass Canuck! dxAce Michigan USA Why..that's just downright rude. Are you an American? I'm not a dumbass Canuck! dxAce Michigan USA |
what's your best sw receiver?
dxAce wrote:
m II wrote: dxAce wrote: m II wrote: dxAce wrote: rpbc wrote: [snip] Set the clock in your puter... Set the politeness in your manners... Stuff a sock in it, dumbass Canuck! dxAce Michigan USA Why..that's just downright rude. Are you an American? I'm not a dumbass Canuck! dxAce Michigan USA Well, you are certainly half right... mike |
what's your best sw receiver?
m II wrote: dxAce wrote: m II wrote: dxAce wrote: m II wrote: dxAce wrote: rpbc wrote: [snip] Set the clock in your puter... Set the politeness in your manners... Stuff a sock in it, dumbass Canuck! dxAce Michigan USA Why..that's just downright rude. Are you an American? I'm not a dumbass Canuck! dxAce Michigan USA Well, you are certainly half right... Meanwhile... you're still totally 'tard. LMFAO at the stem. dxAce Michigan USA |
what's your best sw receiver?
dxAce wrote:
Why..that's just downright rude. Are you an American? I'm not a dumbass Canuck! dxAce Michigan USA Well, you are certainly half right... Meanwhile... you're still totally 'tard. LMFAO at the stem. When did you first notice your inability to learn new words? You must have noticed it by now..it's been pointed out to you by everyone here having over a grade nine education. Those military chemical experiments have certainly taken their toll on your cranium. That in itself is amazing, as it's so shielded from the outside world. mike |
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