Help Choosing A Radio
I have tried a CCrane CCPlus with and without Terk AM Adavantage
antenna and while both work pretty well at home the reception in my windowless basement office (hey, I'm new there) still sucks. I get the same stations as I got on a cheap pocket unit just a little clearer. Since I am in a podunk town I am stuck with local AM stations and a few strong FM stations. AM won't even pick up over 25-30 miles so DX'ing looks unlikely. FM is limited to about 50 miles to the north and less than that for stations to the south (which are sadly the better ones). I am pretty sure the Crane is going back but I like the features AM/FM/WX/TV and the digital tuning, SW is optional to me especially in this location. With no window satellite is out and online satellite or streaming is also not an option. So here's my question, can anyone reccommend a good desktop radio that has AM/FM/WX/TV and maybe SW? I know it is trial and error but if anyone has some good advice I'd appreciate it. |
Help Choosing A Radio
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Help Choosing A Radio
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Help Choosing A Radio
I own between two hundred to about three hundred (just this week,I
bought a big older model Magnavox AM/FM/Tape Player radio for three dollars at the Goodwill store,it works perfectly too) old,old radios.Any one of them that works works much better than anything ccrane pedals.How do I know this? Because I once tried out two different radios from ccrane before.Anything works better than anything ccrane pedals. cuhulin |
Help Choosing A Radio
Well,if you was getting paid (ala them no d..n good Sangean ccrane
radios,ala Art Bell and ala George Noory,both of those dudes are freaks) to hype a certain name brand of radios (ala Sangean) wouldn't you rip off a lot of people too? cuhulin |
Help Choosing A Radio
On 1 Jun 2006 16:06:40 -0700, wrote:
I have tried a CCrane CCPlus with and without Terk AM Adavantage antenna and while both work pretty well at home the reception in my windowless basement office (hey, I'm new there) still sucks. I get the same stations as I got on a cheap pocket unit just a little clearer. Since I am in a podunk town I am stuck with local AM stations and a few strong FM stations. AM won't even pick up over 25-30 miles so DX'ing looks unlikely. FM is limited to about 50 miles to the north and less than that for stations to the south (which are sadly the better ones). I am pretty sure the Crane is going back but I like the features AM/FM/WX/TV and the digital tuning, SW is optional to me especially in this location. With no window satellite is out and online satellite or streaming is also not an option. So here's my question, can anyone reccommend a good desktop radio that has AM/FM/WX/TV and maybe SW? I know it is trial and error but if anyone has some good advice I'd appreciate it. Keep the CCRadio. Its digital readout will come in handy when you know a station's frequency but can't hear it (yet). For AM, you need to get your hands dirty and build a rotatable loop that you can place outside your window, with a feedline running in to the AM antenna terminals on your CCRadio. Here's a page where you can start, to see what you need: http://www.schmarder.com/radios/misc-stuff/loops.htm For FM, buy something like a GE SuperRadio. It's cheap (maybe $50) and it has terminals for an external FM antenna. Get a rotatable multi-element beam antenna that picks up FM stations, and put it on your roof. Run the feedline in to your radio. That's it. Your problem isn't your radios. Your problem is your antennas (or lack of them). Otherwise, get satellite radio and put the antenna outdoors, and run the feedline in to the radio in your basement. This will probably be your easiest choice. Ordinary AM and FM will take a lot of work, and don't expect much in the way of AM reception until the sun goes down. bob k5qwg |
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