Sorry to ask what must be a perennial question, but is a car radio now available
for US market which will get me here on the west coast the big international
stations (Netherlands, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, BBC)? Along with FM and
10k-spaced AM? And preferably with selectable sideband and synchronous
detection, like on my Sony 2010 at home? (Having lived with these features, I
don't see why anyone would make a receiver without them.) And, ideally, with CD
player also?

But I'd take just the SW part of all this, if it could be wired into the car
system. ('94 Mercury Villager)

Thanks,

Jim Boyk
http://www.performancerecordings.com

Becker receivers have been standard radios installed in Mercedes Benz
over the years. Becker was selling them lately for around $500. Very
high grade of a car radio.

Thanks; but Becker's web site doesn't show any unit w/ SW---or did I miss it? -jb


Arthur Pozner wrote:

Becker receivers have been standard radios installed in Mercedes Benz
over the years. Becker was selling them lately for around $500. Very
high grade of a car radio.

beckers us site has discontinued sw radios.
the german site has them and also can be found on the net by searching for
model numbers.

paul


"James Boyk" wrote in message
...
Thanks; but Becker's web site doesn't show any unit w/ SW---or did I miss
it? -jb


Arthur Pozner wrote:

Becker receivers have been standard radios installed in Mercedes Benz
over the years. Becker was selling them lately for around $500. Very
high grade of a car radio.

After doing a little more research i have found that the new becker radios
only include the 49 meter band.

sony has several units available in asia (not sure about what freqencies
they include)
they are
xr-ca440x
xr-ca640x
xr-ca660x
xr-ca800
which are cassette based and one unit with cd,
the cdx-m8800

check them out here
http://www.sonyindia.co.in/static/CarAudio.htm

paul

"Paul Bauer" wrote in message
newsgroups.com...
beckers us site has discontinued sw radios.
the german site has them and also can be found on the net by searching for
model numbers.

paul


"James Boyk" wrote in message
...
Thanks; but Becker's web site doesn't show any unit w/ SW---or did I
miss
it? -jb


Arthur Pozner wrote:

Becker receivers have been standard radios installed in Mercedes Benz
over the years. Becker was selling them lately for around $500. Very
high grade of a car radio.

On Sun, 23 May 2004 12:42 pm -0600 UTC, James Boyk
posted: %MM

Thanks; but Becker's web site doesn't show any unit w/ SW---or did I miss
it? -jb


Arthur Pozner wrote:

Becker receivers have been standard radios installed in Mercedes Benz
over the years. Becker was selling them lately for around $500. Very
high grade of a car radio.

Several Sony radios for autos exist.

Reference to them is found on this page, the links from the page however are
dead. http://www.worldofradio.com/rxtips.txt
You have to search for the radio names to find them in the page.

Have a look at http://www.rnw.nl/realradio/html/xr-c5100.html as well
--
-UA

James Boyk wrote in message ...
Thanks; but Becker's web site doesn't show any unit w/ SW---or did I miss it? -jb
No, you didn't miss anything.
I searched and surfed on the net for a very long time. No becker's
radio with shortwave! Only car radio you can buy with a whortwave
covering almost all band length is a sony xr ca620 or 640. But these
radios doesn't have LW band. their MW step is 9 kHz. No sync detection
or selectable side band at all. So, interference is a real problem
with them (I have a sony xr ca 620). Forget hard dxing but, I can
listen to the major broadcasters like BBC, Netherlands, VOR, VOIRI,
China and VOA comfortably.
If you have any other questions, please do not hesitate to ask, I use
that radio in my car.


Arthur Pozner wrote:

Becker receivers have been standard radios installed in Mercedes Benz
over the years. Becker was selling them lately for around $500. Very
high grade of a car radio.

Would you just use the cars existing antenna? Just curious.


Brian

"Brian" wrote in message thlink.net...
Would you just use the cars existing antenna? Just curious.


Brian

Hey Brian!
I don't kow much about the technicalities of shortwave,but I started
by strapping a TecsunPL 230 to my sunroof with a velcro strap and
having the antenna sticking out.
(That works)
I sold the car with the sunroof and was shortwaveless =-(
(WBCQ is GREAT on the weekends)
also during the week http://www.thepowerhour.com
is pretty good for natural cures and news Clearchannel won't give you.
Then theres Alex Jones http:www.infowars.com
for blood curdling news weekdays follwed by Jack Blood
http:www.jackblood.com
So I missed getting my shows in the car and
....a freind of mine who used to be a British Sportscar nut said most
English cars used to come
with AM/SW
(Jaguars especially)
I got to thinking
I had this wild idea of clipping a wire to the antenna
(by the spare tire you can just clip to the connection with an
alligator clip,you can probably even clip or insert a thin wire by the
radio end but I couldn't get my hand in there) and run a wire and clip
to your radios SW antenna,I hope to get an small plug to replace the
alligator clip soon because the Tecsun has an antenna input.
Anyway...
YES your regular car antenna will work!
I asked a guy at radio shack about what kind of antenna I would need
and he told me I had to buy a special one and was showing me all sorts
a diagrams and how many feet the wire had to be for certian stations
and dipoles and yadda bladah da,he made it sound impossible.
(It was stumping him cuz I'm sure nobody ever asked him before =-)
But it isn't.
I never listen to the experts LOL
And I'm no radio technician but am an experimenter when I wat to get
something accomplished.
Your car antenna works fine for the cost of a double ended aligator
clip thingie,and some wire.
I've also got a personal CD Player with a wireless
FM transmitter on the way and plan on plugging that(Transmitter) into
the SW's headphone jack.
Then the shortwave will be coming in over my big stereo.=-)
I used a cell phone holder bracket thingie swivel base and put velcro
I had laying around on the radio,and the swivel thing and it's even
mounted now for pennies. PS
If you ride a bike by the way you can clip a wire from the antenna of
a shortwave radio to any metal part of the bike and you get as good
reception as can be expected
(just saying)
Too bad BPL is on it's way here...till then you can get it in your
car without a lot of expensive stuff.

peace

On Mon, 24 May 2004 00:33:52 GMT, "Brian"
wrote:

Would you just use the cars existing antenna? Just curious.



I find that the existing antenna on my Toyota Corolla works fine with my
Jackys-bought Sony shortwave radio.