[jdandy]

Originally Posted by Maks

Wow, that's a great story and definitely something I would remember as well!

I'm still experimenting with placement of the RAA2 on my MR88 to achieve the best quality, but it kind of differs depending on what I'm tuning in. I'll probably give it another go tonight. I've been thinking about picking up a shortwave radio for kicks, but I'm not sure how much content is out there anymore thanks to the popularity of Internet radio.

Steve.......Internet radio is cool, no doubt about it, but there is a lot of air content from around the world that will never see the Internet. Last night I was listening to a shortwave broadcast from Vietnam. I could not understand a word spoken except the word Vietnam during station ID, but the music being played was most interesting. I tune a lot of Spanish speaking stations, including a broadcast from Buenos Aires that plays a lot of Salsa music. I really enjoy DXing around the globe on my world band radio.

When I am more interested in local activities I turn on my UHF/VHF radio and scan the local Sheriff, local police, Highway Patrol, Fire Department, Forest Service, and Emergency frequencies. Sometimes I am able to tune aircraft to ground tower communications. There are a lot of activities on the airwaves.

Here's a photo of my two DXing radios. The bottom one is an Icom IC-R7000 UHF/VHF radio with manual, direct, scanning and memory tuning. The top radio is a JRC NRD-525 short wave and long wave receiver. I listen using either the Icom IC-SP3 external speaker or Sennheiser HD600 headphones. Both radios have line outputs for recording capabilities. DXing with these two radios is a lot of fun.