| 1/15/2009 1:46:10 AM |
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kd8hho
Anderson, IN
age: 27
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Yep just as it says Ham radio,broadcast radio. got any radio peeps around?
i myself ham radio op.
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| 1/17/2009 6:19:10 PM |
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rosie2b
Ranchos de Taos, NM
age: 64
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Hello Good for you to be young and having this as something that you are hooked on. I'm not into ham radio but maybe could use some advise. I live in a rural area and most of the time can not pick up am or fm very well. I was told to get just a GOOD radio with am and fm and not all the other stuff. (cd player etc.) and that would do it. Others say I need the radio and an antenna. What would you suggest? I do not have a tv antenna either. I would like a radio with am/ fm /tv and short wave. I have a gift certificate from wal mart and went on line to see the brands and would like to get it there because of the gift. I dont remember the brand but if that is importain, I will find out. Thanks for any advice you may give me. 
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| 1/18/2009 8:25:12 PM |
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kd8hho
Anderson, IN
age: 27
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well the "shortwave" your not going to find at walmart let alone any other local place.
for a AM/FM/Shortwave combo best place to look is ebay.
as far as reception, i did a broadcast licence search using the city/state you have listed and there isnt much there, best bet will be a outdoor TV/FM antenna.
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| 1/19/2009 4:14:03 PM |
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rosie2b
Ranchos de Taos, NM
age: 64
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Wow, you just saved me from making a mistake and costing me lots more money that I wanted to spend. So i will look for a good antenna. You are talking about one that goes on the roof,right? I will have to find someone to install it. Do I have to have a wire to each radio to the antenna??
Thanks for the effort that you put into this. Yes i do live in a very remote area according to the rest of the world. Our new paper comes out only once a week if you can believe that.
I wish you Gods Blessings in your search for some one to share your life. You are young and have time to choose the right one for you. If I can help you in any way, let me know. Thanks again.
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| 1/19/2009 8:40:06 PM |
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kd8hho
Anderson, IN
age: 27
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well you will find the best radios are also early 80s late 70s models. the new crap has horrible receive sensitivity. the older radios have better adjacent channel rejection
example: 40miles north will be KAAA on 103.5 and 40miles south will be KAAB on 103.3 with alot of the older radios the adjacent channel rejection will allow you to at least listen to both stations with little to no interference from the other station.
also the older radios seem to pick up stations alot farther out.
so for FM grab a older kenwood (late 70's early 80's) and hook it to a FM antenna up on the roof you will be able to pick up stations way out there that the little "boomboxes" can't even hear. it will also be a good idea to get a rotor so the FM antenna can be turned to different directions.
SW- a good SW radio will be around 500$ new and best for them "antenna" is a 100 foot wire strung up outside.
AM.- them older FM radios will pull in stations good (but with the new technology stuff in your house "computer/tv/ect" you will find the AM band pretty noisy
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| 1/25/2009 6:00:32 PM |
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raykann
Broken Arrow, OK
age: 79
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Is there anyone out there that remembers making crystal radios as a kid. all I remember is tuneing a station in with a piece of that we moved around on a crystal and they realy worked, not much to them tho. RAY
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| 2/5/2009 7:37:43 AM |
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camperpaul
Zion, IL
age: 67
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Yup - I've been licensed for 52 years...
My first radio was a crystal set using a 1N34 germanium diode. I've built a few more since then using galena crystals which I picked up off the ground while touring the old lead mines near Galena, Ilinois.
For the HOT radios (AM, FM, SW) see http://ccradio.com .
Paul - K9ERG
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| 3/23/2009 1:29:02 AM |
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manykisses
Tonawanda, NY
age: 51
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This thread's kind of old now, sorry, but I just found it. I must not have been paying attention. 
Anyway, I'm KC2HMZ, ex-KC2FNG, licensed as a Tech in 1999 and upgraded to General in 2001, before that I was an SWL since I was about 8 years old. I'm active in ARES, RACES, Skywarn, and two local ham clubs, one of which I am currently president of.
73 DE John, KC2HMZ
Tonawanda, NY
(Hams do it with high frequency!)
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| 4/21/2009 5:47:30 PM |
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technodude48
Bloomington, IL
age: 48
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What's up ?? N9ZAS on 220mhz.and 440mhz. 
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| 4/24/2009 8:30:08 AM |
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manykisses
Tonawanda, NY
age: 51
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Ray - Yep, I remember building a crystal set back in middle school - although they called in Junior High back then. It was just an AM broadcast band receiver built from kits that the electric shop teacher supplied. Had a speaker and also a jack for plugging in mono headphones. A lot of my classmates installed the diode in the circuit with the polarity reversed. They'd talk into the speaker and hear themselves in the headphones.
Years later, a friend of mine built the Radio Shack analog multimeter kit, but when he finished it didn't work. He ended up giving it to me and said "If you can fix it you can keep it." Based on my earlier experience in middle school, the first thing I checked was the polarity of all the diodes in the device. You guessed it, he'd reversed a diode. It was the one that protected the meter movement against overload by going "poof!" in the event that too much current was somehow sent to the meter movement (diodes being cheaper and easier to replace than D'Arsonval meter movements). I corrected the polarity of the diode and had my first piece of test equipment.
Now, of course, I've "graduated" to a DMM, and the analog meter was long ago passed on to someone else who was just getting started in the hobby, but it would probably have ended up in a trashcan if I hadn't built that crystal radio in shop class.
JK
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