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Rfman100
| | Posted on Thursday, September 18, 2003 - 11:51 pm: | 
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I have 3 portable shortwave receivers. Each one use it's own telescopic atenna. Reception is not great for either of them at times. I try little experiments with antennas to see what would happend. It's seem that the 49 meter band is the band that comes in best in each one. I wonder why. I wonder if Shortwave broadcaster compete to be in the 49 meters?
But my biggist disappointment is that most Shortwave radios do not the HF zone. (3-30 MHZ). Unless your going to spend giga bucks.
Now comes Yaesu: I was looking around a website and I came across handheld wideband receivers. The Yaesu VR-5000, seem to have the coverage I want. But it is mentioned as something like 5-3000 MHZ. (I am not sure of the exact numbers)
Does this really cover all of that? Or is it broken down in bands, like scanners do?
30-50, 144-148, 420-460, etc.
Also, this handheld wideband receivers comes with a rubber-ducky antenna. Will that bring in good reception indoors???
And is there a differents between Shortwave and Wideband?
I guess, why buy a scanner, you may be better off with Wideband!
Thanks, Sam Smith. |
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