Still waiting on my Grundig 750, but had the chance to do a bit more reading and some experimentation before it gets here.
A friend of mine can barely get the clock in Fort Collins at 5000khz. Barely. He gets nothing else. That's just with a DX-440 with the built in antenna that he got off a friend for a few bucks.
Read a review on the 750 where someone in Colorado cannot hear the clock at all (or anything else) and is disappointed.
Went to Radio Shack and played with a portable. Couldn't get anything that was listenable. I could tell stuff was there, but couldn't even tell you which language it was in.
Is Colorado particularly bad for shortwave? Or, is this all operator error or circumstance? I'll know in a week or so when my radio gets here and my 400 feet of wire for antenna, but this is buggin me. Thanks in advance.
A friend of mine can barely get the clock in Fort Collins at 5000khz. Barely. He gets nothing else. That's just with a DX-440 with the built in antenna that he got off a friend for a few bucks.
Read a review on the 750 where someone in Colorado cannot hear the clock at all (or anything else) and is disappointed.
Went to Radio Shack and played with a portable. Couldn't get anything that was listenable. I could tell stuff was there, but couldn't even tell you which language it was in.
Is Colorado particularly bad for shortwave? Or, is this all operator error or circumstance? I'll know in a week or so when my radio gets here and my 400 feet of wire for antenna, but this is buggin me. Thanks in advance.
