[Spooks] Question about spy numbers

Fri Jun 25 08:07:35 EDT 2004

I'll echo that, I found a fabulous OLD, Philco at a yard sale for $1.00.
When I say OLD, I mean LOCTAL tube old, power supply choke wound in speaker 
old, but I bought it because when I plugged it in, I heard stuff around 13 
mhz, with NO antenna.
All I really did was clean it, replace a couple filter caps, and replace 
the fabric covering the speaker, and its in the living room corner rite 
now. Its a piece of furniture.
Never can tell what you might find. I've heard of SWL's finding working 
Zenith trans-oceanic's for $5.00 at flea-bag sales. If you can find one, 
they're usually well worth the time and trouble to resurrect. Schematics 
are available.

You don't need a whiz-bang state of the art radio to start enjoying the hobby.

At 05:53 6/25/2004, you wrote:
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>check out flea markets and yard sales - you might luck into something! I
>found an old (working) radio from Sears with SW capacity for 50 cents
>(that's probably 25 cents US?).
>And maybe you have older relatives with lots of stuff? I am the proud owner
>of a 1941 RCA Victor, with the cool brown Bakelite body, and it has SW. The
>vacuum tubes appear to be OK, unfortunately I have to find someone who knows
>more about electronics than I do because it's powered by one of the old dry
>cell batteries which you can't get any more!! 73s, Sue
>
> > Sue Hickey, Forum editor, the Messenger
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>Susan, thank you for the recommendation.  I will keep it in mind, but
>at the moment I am flat broke, with 60 cents (us) to my name.  Don't
>think I could buy any radio for that.  :-(  Soon, soon...
>
>On Fri, 25 Jun 2004 00:19:36 -0230, Susan C. Hickey
><sue.hickey at warp.nfld.net> wrote:
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> > unfortunately unlike most of the well-wired gang on the Spooks mailing
>list
> > I don't have my amateur radio licence, don't have any ham radio equipment
> > (though I dare to dream!) yet...and unlike most of you I haven't picked up
> > too many numbers stations. Great to read everyone's postings though.
> > As for equipment? You can get into the expensive stuff like the Icom but
> > mine right now is a Sangean ATS-818, was given to me so I'm not sure how
> > much it is these days, for those on a really tight budget, Scarecrow, how
> > about the Grundig YB300 PE? I've got that too, about $99 Canadian, and I
> > take it just about everywhere. It has a digital tuner so you know what
> > frequency you've got.
> > Anyway, happy numbers hunting! And BTW I edit a column for the Canadian
> > International DX Club magazine, so any suggestions for my Forum column,
>wing
> > them my way.
> > 73s, Sue
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> >
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> > [mailto:spooks-bounces at mailman.qth.net]On Behalf Of SKaReCRoW
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> > I looked up info on that Kenwood TS-850 and found it on eBay for
> > $540.00.  That's a BIT out of my price range, considering I haven't
> > gotten a paycheck in over 4 months.  I'll try to borrow something for
> > now, and maybe look into picking up the Kenwood again after I start
> > getting paid again.
> >
> > On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 17:56:13 -0500 (CDT), Zack Widup
> > <w9sz at prairienet.org> wrote:
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> > > On Thu, 24 Jun 2004, SKaReCRoW wrote:
> > >
> > > >
> > > > As far as radios, I really need to get something better, hopefully
> > > > with digital tuning.  I have an old Grundig Traveller II PE that I
> > > > borrowed from a friend, but I can't tell what frequency I'm even near,
> > > > so tuning to a specific freq at a specific time is near impossible.
> > > > It's a little pocket radio with alarm clock, so you can't expect too
> > > > much from it.  I've heard of a few online streaming scanners that
> > > > pickup all freq's and let you tune in to whatever you want, but I
> > > > haven't had time to check any of them out.  Has anyone else used any
> > > > of those?  If so, could you recommend one?
> > > >
> > >
> > > It seems quite a few hams start tuning around out of the ham bands and
> > > find a whole new world.  Some of us were SWL's before we got our
>licenses.
> > > In any case, some of us stumble across numbers stations and get very
> > > interested.
> > >
> > > I have a Kenwood TS-850 transceiver, which is a bit old but still
> > > considered one of the finest pieces of ham gear made. I think it's one
>of
> > > the best deals for the money for a piece of used equipment.  The general
> > > coverage receiver is superb.  It covers 30 kHz - 30 MHz.
> > >
> > > 73, Zack W9SZ
> > >
> > >
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