The part about the coaxial cable is optional. The advantage of using it is
reducing electrical noise, but I doubt that will be that much of a problem
at sea. Attaching a small weight to a length of wire as long as practical
and dangling the wire out a porthole and connecting one end to the receiver
ought to be sufficient. I'd be very interested to hear his experience with
short wave reception from far out to sea s. Radio Australia 5.990 6.020
and Radio New Zealand 9.870 ought to be good signals as well as NBC Papua
New Guinea from Port Moresby 4.890. Also, the BBC has an early morning relay
on 5.020 . Radio Japan should have a good signal (can't remember a frequency
off hand). The pacific islands and indonesia might be easilly heard . I
don't know whether south america might not be audible, such as Radio
Nacional Do Amazonia Brasilia, Brazil 11.780, Radion Nacional de Argentina,
Buenos Aires might do well on 11.710 .
Please let us know


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"Angelo Sartore" wrote in message
...
Hi there,
This topic, I'm sure has been covered before. My brother-in-law is about
to
take a long sailing trip from NZ to USA as a passenger aboard a cargo
ship.
He will be taking with him a Grundig YB 400 receiver. He had heard of
other
sailors/passengers dangling an antenna out of their port hole window to
tune
into radio stations on their SW receivers. He has asked me if I could make
something up for him to take away with him. The unit has a 3.5mm mono jack
as the ext. ant connector. The radio has a small reel of cable for the
external antenna. According to the user manual with the radio it indicates
coaxial cable as part of the antenna system with out mentioning cable
lengths. The tuning freq possible with this radio are FM 87.5 - 108 MHz,
MW
520 - 1710 kHz, LW 144 - 353 kHz, SW 1711 - 30000 kHz & 3200 - 29700 kHz
in
20 bands.
Any ideas for a portable antenna would be gratefully appreciated.

Thanks,

Angelo Sartore

Melbourne
AUSTRALIA

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