On Mon, 06 Mar 2006 19:52:44 GMT, Gunner
wrote:

On Mon, 06 Mar 2006 10:38:48 -0600, Don Foreman
wrote:

On Mon, 06 Mar 2006 09:38:56 GMT, Gunner
wrote:

Ive already discovered you need an external antenna for any band
besides FM. Which is rather odd. And the manual (came with the
original manual and ear piece) sorta glossed over it.

Any "shortwave" radio needs an antenna -- but just a few feet of wire
often works surprisingly well.


This has a Huge telescoping antenna..the famous Magnet Wave or some
such. But it apparently has no connection to the LW/BC/SW band
portions of the radio

Gunner

The older Trans-Oceanics ('60's vintage) had a wire from the whip
that could be connected to the LW/BC/SW antenna terminal.

Just stick a random bit of wire on the ant terminal. You might be
surprised. It won't work as well as a long, high outdoor wire, but
I'll bet it'll get ya some SW and BCDX. It won't work inside a metal
enclosure like an RV, of course.

I can pick up WWV and CHU on my Yaesu tranceiver with just a 3 foot
cliplead -- in the basement! The TransOceanics were pretty good SWL
radios. They lack a lot of features that a good communications
receiver might have, but they had tuned RF stages with pretty good
sensitivity.