I have seen the adapters to make your current car radio to recieve shortwave
in your car.

Are there any head units out there that have the capability to recieve
shortwave?

Thanks

Ant

Ihave been loiking, and found the Sony XR-CA620X.

http://www.jackys.com/review/cust_fe...p?prod_id=1583

Any other ones out there that anyone knows about?


Thanks
Ant

Jack wrote:

Do you mean those "converters" that shifted shortwave bands down to
the 550-1600KC range so you could listen with your car radio? I
havent seen one of those since the 70's, but they might still be
available...

hehehe... Makes me recall back to the early 70's when I made a
bracket to fit my Radio Shack DX-160 under the dash of the 1967 Ford
Fairlane my mom gave me upon entering college. Most of my friends
were either CB'ers or early computer freaks (PDP stuph!), and they
were pretty impressed. I did it mainly so I could listen to Radio
Nederlands and R. Australia while I commuted between home and school.

What did you use for an antenna with the DX-160? Did you listen to RA on
9580 in the morning?


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There's the next model up - the XR-CA640X. I have one and very much like
it. As another poster mentioned, tuning shortwave while driving isn't
recommended. I use the presets on mine or I just scan to the next strong
station.

Additionally the XR-CA640X is a member of the Xplod product line. You can
add any Xplod component to the radio. I have a 10-CD/MP3 changer added to
mine. There are also amplifiers, mini-disc players, and an XM satellite
module too.

I have a full write-up on my web page:
http://www.sillett.us.eu.org/radio/s...l#sonyxrca640x

Bob


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Ihave been loiking, and found the Sony XR-CA620X.

http://www.jackys.com/review/cust_fe...p?prod_id=1583

Any other ones out there that anyone knows about?


Thanks
Ant

I have one, it's missing large segments of the HF spectrum. Tuning is
lousy. Guaranteed to get you in an accident trying to operate it,

Heh. this radio caused you an accident? wow.

Do you use the pre-sets?

Mine has a low and a high SW band. The "gaps"
are between 7740-9495, 10140-11575, and nothing
above 18135.

Tuning is either "scan and stop at strong signal,"
up/down by 5Khz, or use the preset buttons. There
are 6 presets for each SW band.

Not a DX'ing machine, but works great for bringing
in a few broadcasts (for me anyway). I use mine
whenever I'm in that car-- usually in the morning on
the way to/from jogging in the park. I have presets
set for R. Australia, BBC, R. Canada, R, Sweden
DW and R. Netherlands. These come in OK in
Atlanta using the car's original external antenna.

Geoff
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On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 06:33:55 -0600, Jim wrote:

I have one, it's missing large segments of the HF spectrum. Tuning is
lousy. Guaranteed to get you in an accident trying to operate it,
you had better be pulled over on side of road. Shortwave was an
afterhought it seems.


On Fri, 12 Dec 2003 22:32:09 GMT, "ASW" wrote:

Ihave been loiking, and found the Sony XR-CA620X.

http://www.jackys.com/review/cust_fe...p?prod_id=1583

Any other ones out there that anyone knows about?


Thanks
Ant

Hello to all,

There are three shortwave converters that I am aware of. One is in kit
form from Vectronics, model VEC 101k, and sells for $27.95

Another one is from MFJ and sells for $89.95. The MFJ is assembled and
ready to go. I do not recall the model number of the MFJ but it surely
is available on its website.

I built the Vectronics converter and it works really well. I do not
have experience with the MFJ.

The third on is from Ramsey, and is also in kit form. I built this one
too, and although is works I do not recommend this unless you live in
a warm weather climate with constant temeratures. This converter
wanders all over the spectrum in frequency. It has no real effectice
voltage regulation, and there seems to be large shifts in frequency
with changing engine speeds.

I did use the Ramsey indoors and it worked really well, so if you are
looking to convert your home stereo to shortwave, this will probably
do the job for you nicely.

Any of these converters can be built on a perf board for less than $10
so you may want to consider that also. Plans are on the net in various
locations.

There is another converter I have seen advertised on the net for
around $150. Too far out of my price range and I don't see it as being
worth the price.

www.vectronics.com

www.mfjenterprises.com

www.ramseyelectronics.com

Hope this is of some help.


Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all


de WA2AFD

Jack wrote:

On Sat, 13 Dec 2003 05:53:32 -0500, starman wrote:

Jack wrote:

Do you mean those "converters" that shifted shortwave bands down to
the 550-1600KC range so you could listen with your car radio? I
havent seen one of those since the 70's, but they might still be
available...

hehehe... Makes me recall back to the early 70's when I made a
bracket to fit my Radio Shack DX-160 under the dash of the 1967 Ford
Fairlane my mom gave me upon entering college. Most of my friends
were either CB'ers or early computer freaks (PDP stuph!), and they
were pretty impressed. I did it mainly so I could listen to Radio
Nederlands and R. Australia while I commuted between home and school.

What did you use for an antenna with the DX-160? Did you listen to RA on
9580 in the morning?

I used it mainly at rest stops on the NYS Thruway, and would park in a
dark remote corner. I took a slingshot and installed a temporary
random-wire. On the road, I tried various whips; best results were
when using Ford's stock AM antenna. Since I couldn't get the ignition
noise down far enough, I gave up listening when actually driving. I
couldn't bear to miss the Sunday "Happy Station" transmissions on 9715
at 0500 UTC. I loved the show!

And yes, I believe the R. Australia transmission I listened to came on
at about 1000 UTC. I forget the freq, but it was world and Australian
News and stock reports.

I use a Drake-SW8 in the car. The antenna is a magnet mounted whip on
the roof (BTW- Don't use a CB antenna, just a plain whip, the longer the
better). I run the radio on batteries to keep it isolated from the car's
electrical system. The sound is very good when I run it through the car
stereo.


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I built one (homemade) for the cars that had an analog tunable radio.
Covered all SW broadcast bands (by the turn of a knob) & worked just
fine hooked up the the cars radio antenna.

My last truck though had (& present one has) a radio that tunes in
10khz steps so I just used my Icom IC706MKII-G (hooked up to a
Bugcatcher ham radio antenna) for shortwave listening when I'm not
using it for ham contacts.

Expensive (for just a shortwave radio) but if you've got a mobile HF
ham radio (with general coverage recieve) then why not use it for
shortwave? I do!

Nothing like driving to work in the morning listening to Radio
Austraila.....