Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from this
list
ITed, it's probably both.
Even a cheapish table top used SW receiver with a random wire will pick up
numbers stations , hams, SWBC stations, etc. A budget portable with a
whip MAY be able to pick them up if you have experience with SW listening
and are patient, but you'd do much better to get an Icom R71, or a Kenwood
2000, or something affordable like that, and run a wire as far as you can
(even if it's just tacked to the ceiling down the hallway).
A whip and an inexpensive portable is not going to be easy!
John
At 02:29 PM 10/7/2013, you wrote:
Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from
this list On Oct 7, 2013, at 2:26 PM, Ted Van Beurden wrote: > Wouldn't be
any point. A shortwave receiver covers more freqs (unless things have
changed) and should receive just as well as a ham receiver. Unless you
just want to listen to hams. Just my view. I'm mostly just mulling things
over. I'm new to shortwave and don't take it very seriously, but I'm
finding myself kind of annoyed at my astoundingly bad fortune in picking
up number stations with my Grundig G5 with a whip antenna. I'd like to
figure out whether it's because I need a better antenna, or a better
radio, or because I'm overlooking something else, or simply because I'm
doing something wrong. I'd say it's most likely the last one, but even
so, I want to look at the other possibilities as well.
______________________________________________________________ Spooks
mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks Help:
http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Spooks@mailman.qth.net This
list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list:
http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
III
______________________________________________________________
Spooks mailing list
Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks
Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm
Post: mailto:Spooks@mailman.qth.net
This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net
Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
