Hi Zach,
There is still a lot of stuff to hear on hf. It just depends on what you are
interested in hearing.

BBC made the decision to greatly reduce their shortwave service, eliminating
the north american service altogether. With regard to the north american
service, "Bush House" decided that the money going into broadcasting to
North America was really being wasted since most people can and do now
listen to BBC in the US via domestic radio services (like the BBC programs
carried on a lot of NPR stations) or via the internet.

As I said in a previous post, there are many shortwave stations to hear,
especially on ssb.

73

Ron Miller


-----Original Message-----
From: For blind ham radio operators [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
On Behalf Of Zach Shifflett
Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2013 9:26 PM
To: [log in to unmask]
Subject: Re: Danny's June 27 comments on the small portable SSB capable
shortwave radio thread.

Hey all,
This disgussion has been great.  I'm glad my newbie questions inspired such
an informative pow wow.
I guess I might hold off on buying a receiver for now, as it sounds like
there's not much to hear.  I guess I'll just have to wait till I get an hf
transceiver, then I can receive the short wave stuff, along with my over the
air cw practice with that.
I'm surprised that bbc doesn't still have a sw station operating, as I
thought they did.
73s to all,
Zach, kk4ruz

On 6/26/13, Ron Miller <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> Wow, great post, Danny.
>
> My Grundig doesn't have a record feature at all. I bet it's a G3 and 
> I'm just having a Duh moment. It is about a third the size of the 
> ATS909, which I also own and like a lot. The ATS909 is only so-so with 
> the telescopic whip on hf, not great at all, but has a very good fm 
> broadcast receiver. The G3 has pretty good receive using the 
> telescopic whip on hf, a pretty good broadcast fm receiver and a 
> pretty good aviation vhf receiver which lacks a squelch circuit. It 
> runs on four aa batteries.
>
> My apologies for misstating the model of the Grundig I own.
>
> Ron Miller
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: For blind ham radio operators 
> [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> On Behalf Of Dan B Dyer Jr,/Danny
> Sent: Wednesday, June 26, 2013 8:36 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Dannys June 27 comments on the small portable SSB capable 
> shortwave radio thread.
>
> Hi All, some further observations on the portable SSB-CW capable = 
> portable radio discussion; Tot necessarily given in order of importance:
> 1, I have _No Experience with any of the C Crane equipment.
> 2, I have no experience with the Kaito KA1103 receiver.
> 3, I am not familiar with the Grundig G4, although a quick google 
> search = showed a unit with an MP3 Recorder-player that sold for $200 or
so.
> 4,Grundig's older Yacht Boy/YB400 or YB400PE, radios, are about the 
> size = of the Sony 7600 G and GR radios, have forty volatile memories, 
> are easy = to operate, but in my experience tended to be battery 
> hogs/they take six = AA batteries, rather than the Four AA for the 
> Sonys, and 3 AAs for the = Kaito KA1102, the yb400s go from around 
> seventy to a hundred dollars = used.
> 5, I have no experience with any other of the Grundig/Eton SSB capable 
> = radios.
> 6, There are several other receivers worth considering, Sangean = 
> ats909/Radioshack DX398, Sangean ATS505,/Radioshack DX402, both of 
> these = run off four AA cells, are similarly sized to the yb400 and 
> sonys, and = can sell for 90-150$s for the 909, and 70-100 for the 
> 505.
>
> 7, Panasonic made some older units, two of which were similarly sized 
> to = the above mentioned Grundig, Sony, and Sangean units, they used 
> 4AA = cells, and had ten or so memories, but their model numbers 
> escape me.
> 8, the Sony ICFSW100 is a wonderful shirt pocket SSB cabable radio = 
> running off two AA cells, but which sells for 2-300$s used.
>
>
> 9, Sony also haves some earlier 7600s,/those have only ten volatile = 
> memories, run off four AA cells, and there's even a 7600 of some 
> stripe = that's not SSB capable, and is only a analog radio with 
> several short = wave listening bands, rather than continuous coverage.
>
> 10, I tried to send the review of the Kaito KA1102 to the list, but it 
> = was goo long, so if some of you want that review, write me off list 
> at,
>>d d y e r 1 AT g m a i l dot com, using the subject line of your first 
>>=
> name+1102, and I'll get it to you.
> 11, But back to the earlier discussion/comparison of the sony 7600G 
> and = GR, with the Kaito KA1102.
>
> if memories aren't really important to you, if you can get along 
> without = selectable sidebands and cynchronus detection, both nice and 
> helpful, = but not necessary tools for copying SSB and CW,if smallness 
> of size is = more important than fullness of sound,/(the Kaito has 
> probably a 2.5 = inch speaker, where as the Sonys have probably a four 
> inch speaker,)
>
> If you'd prefer a new, rather than used radio, can spend between $60 
> and = $70$s, from Amazon, The Kaito, KA1102, that's Kaito, K A 1 1 0 
> 2, not what an earlier post = of mine said----/I thought I'd proof 
> read better than that, is probably = a good choice/I'm not_____ 
> financially connected with the Kaitos in any = way, but find the 
> little things, and they will fit nicely in a suit coat = pocket, and 
> even in some shirt pockets, and once you get the hang of = them, 
> they're pretty surprising.
> *I'm sending this much longer than I'd intended, epistle, to the list 
> as = a separate post, and I want to thank everyone who has 
> contributed, = questioned, commented, etc. throughout this thread.  
> HTH, Danny Dyer, = Wb4idu
>