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- Mon Aug 08, 2022 12:29 am
- Forum: Questions & Advice
- Topic: Does anyone actually use all these memory presets?
- Replies: 2
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Re: Does anyone actually use all these memory presets?
On my CCrane Skywave, I use a few of them all the time, mostly for common nighttime AM DX stations and local FM, and a handful for SW as well. But it's just on the first "page," and so it's no more than 10 per band. Just the basics, like how to find Coast to Coast AM in the dark when I can...
- Mon Jul 25, 2022 1:07 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: What's the best-looking shortwave tabletop receiver?
- Replies: 41
- Views: 35772
Re: What's the best-looking shortwave tabletop receiver?
All business! I do appreciate its "everything on the front panel" interface. Not that they had deeply buried menus in the 60's, mind you.
- Tue Jun 21, 2022 12:19 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Alex Jones staffer interview
- Replies: 1
- Views: 2133
Re: Alex Jones staffer interview
Thanks for the link, will listen today.
- Thu Jun 16, 2022 2:35 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: What's the best-looking shortwave tabletop receiver?
- Replies: 41
- Views: 35772
Re: What's the best-looking shortwave tabletop receiver?
I would go for the Icom IC-R9000. 217539660.jpg Incidentally, the NRD-535 has a vacuum florescent display, but the NRD-545 is a backlit LCD. Oooh, that beautiful amber-on-black CRT look is easy on the eyes. So easy that I still use it for terminal windows on my Mac while doing my retro-Fortran thin...
- Wed Jun 08, 2022 9:05 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: VEF-SIGMA 260 1980s USSR Shortwave Radio
- Replies: 3
- Views: 3466
Re: VEF-SIGMA 260 1980s USSR Shortwave Radio
Thanks for posting the pictures. That is one cool piece of Soviet-era consumer hardware and I really appreciate you showing it here, even though I'm not directly interested.
- Thu Jun 02, 2022 10:26 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: What's the best-looking shortwave tabletop receiver?
- Replies: 41
- Views: 35772
Re: What's the best-looking shortwave tabletop receiver?
From the pics posted so far, I'll go with the B-40. That piece of equipment means business, serious business.