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.

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

Jim:

I looked for quite awhile, but finally bought a Ham transceiver and installed it in
my truck. It covers all of the shortwave bands, and as a bonus, can also transmit
on the Ham bands. The one I got was a Yaesu FT857, but there are comparable radios
made by Icom and others. These "mini sized" full output radios could probably fit
in the dash location of a lot of cars, but I mounted mine under the passenger seat,
with the remote head on a bracket just behind the gearshift lever. Makes it easy to
tune while driving down the road, without stretching or bending.... I've tuned from
below broadcast band through 50mhz. Each band and mode has settable spacing, but I
don't know if it has Synchronous Detection on AM.... It still does a great job
cruising down the road. I typically listen to New Zealand radio on the way to work,
and Ham bands on the way home.

Just another option to consider if you want decent receiver sensitivity and wide
input frequency range.

--Rick

James Boyk wrote:

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 is more consumer junk from Harman International.

On Sun, 23 May 2004 12:23:14 -0400, (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.

You can get all the major International broadcasters crystal clear on
any Sirius satellite radio via WRN. Way under $200. No static at
all.

On Sun, 23 May 2004 08:49:21 -0700, James Boyk
wrote:

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