Grundig shortwave radio
I have seen these on the shelf at radio shack for years,around $100 dollars. Anybody have one? What would you use it for? How far away can it reach,and what would you be listening to? Does it pick up ...
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pa traveler wrote:
Thanks for replys ,I know a more now about it then I did,sounds interesting.I was thinking it may be something to listen to while camping,thought maybe near ocean you could listen to ships ,or I thought maybe you could listen to ham radio transmissions? Guess I should check into ham radios, is there a device to listen to ham transmissions without a license? Thanks
Most (like 99%) of Ham voice is what's called SSB or Single-Side-Band (as is some CB). It takes a more expensive and complicated radio to decode SSB. That little AM/FM/SW probably doesn't have the ability to decode either SSB or morse-code (CW). Let alone TeleType, Radio-Fax, etc, etc.
But it takes no license (in the US or most of the rest of the world) to listen to any radio station
