[Spooks] HAM Stuff [was: Re: Lincolnshire poacher]

[john]

ITed, it's probably both.

Even a cheapish table top used SW receiver with a random wire will pick up 
numbers stations , hams,  SWBC stations, etc.   A budget portable with a 
whip MAY be able to pick them up if you have experience with SW listening 
and are patient, but you'd do much better to get an Icom R71, or a Kenwood 
2000, or something affordable like that, and run a wire as far as you can 
(even if it's just tacked to the ceiling down the hallway).

A whip and an inexpensive portable is not going to be easy!

John


At 02:29 PM 10/7/2013, you wrote:
>Visit http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/spooks to unsubscribe from 
>this list On Oct 7, 2013, at 2:26 PM, Ted Van Beurden wrote: > Wouldn't be 
>any point.  A shortwave receiver covers more freqs (unless things have 
>changed) and should receive just as well as a ham receiver.  Unless you 
>just want to listen to hams. Just my view. I'm mostly just mulling things 
>over.  I'm new to shortwave and don't take it very seriously, but I'm 
>finding myself kind of annoyed at my astoundingly bad fortune in picking 
>up number stations with my Grundig G5 with a whip antenna.  I'd like to 
>figure out whether it's because I need a better antenna, or a better 
>radio, or because I'm overlooking something else, or simply because I'm 
>doing something wrong.  I'd say it's most likely the last one, but even 
>so, I want to look at the other possibilities as well. 
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