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I don’t care to “get serious” with an aerial and dedicated receiver, at least not without a good payoff, which there doesn’t seem to be.

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Many of the listed channels there have very short windows of air time, too - like I’d have to stay up or past 11pm in NY to even try to receive them.

Unfortunately very little is there relative to what used to be - for example, specifically, RFI (Radio France Internationale) does not seem to be receivable in NYC any more. I found that site (see post #2, my own follow-up to the original one). If you are serious, get a communications receiver (not cheap) and a proper aerial. It’s worth bearing in mind that the shortwave bands on the average radio are something of an afterthought and usually have poor sensitivity. Type in “Shortwave directory” and there seems to be plenty of activity. If it’s showing coverage x miles away - and you live only x/4 as far - then I think the math is your signal is 16 times worse than (possible/plausible). This should allow you to figure out approximately how good your setup is. I mean what are the odds that you just lucked into the best possible situation for reception where you are?Īlso - you should be able to find maps online for the shortwave time signal stations.

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I also suspect that there might be even easier & cheaper ways now a days to incorporate shortwave radio into a radio as a “feature” without it really being that useful for shortwave radio.Īnyway - if I were you - I’d either figure out how to get a better antenna working, check different parts of your house, or get a better receiver. I suspect the same would be for shortwave - maybe even more so.

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Often nowadays (well the 90s) - most people used cable - and the receivers didn’t have to be as powerful for that - nor did they magazines that rate TV sets usually even take this into account.Īntennas made a HUGE difference. When I asked around the shop about this to the actual technicians - the prevailing theory was in a time when most people used antennas - company’s competed partially on that. Is SW completely dead? Why are they still selling these radios then?Īs way of an analogy - when I was working in TV/VCR repair in the 90s - I had the opportunity to see the reception of hundreds of people - and noticed that sometimes (usually) - people with older TV sets got better reception than newer ones. I found quite a few websites online listing Shortwave stations and their broadcasting times by UTC and region, but I suspect they’re all old and out of date, judging by their look. At a time when I remember easily finding several strong international broadcasts in different languages or from different countries, I now get one (1) Christian station. Right now, at 9pm in NYC, using the “scan” feature to stop at the first strong signal it finds -ĥ920 kHz which is “World Harvest International”, some kind of Christian station.Ħ115 kHz - something faint that sounds vaguely Bollywoodish

It sounds great for AM and even FM (albeit in mono)… But there’s almost nothing on SW! Crane CCRadio-SW and it totally brings me back to playing with radios like this as a kid 35 years ago. So I went out to buy a good AM receiver, and figured why not, I’ll focus on a model that includes SW bands too, and show it to my kids.

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So two weekends ago, after getting tired of draining my cellphone battery trying to livestream baseball game audio feeds and dropping signal in poor reception areas (especially at the beach), I remembered hey, this stuff is broadcast for FREE on the AIR with something called a RADIO. BBC, Radio Free Europe, Radio France Internationale, the VOA (Voice of America) broadcasts for foreign listeners, and so on… And sometimes random weird stuff.

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As recently as 15 years ago, I used to have a Sony portable radio that included three SW bands (SW1, SW2 and SW3) and I had fun at night listening to broadcasts in other languages and/or from other countries.