Re: WGSR (Was: 89.3 pirate goes ID-crazy)

["Dan Strassberg" <Dan.Strassberg@att.net>]

It means using the radio's built-in antenna, rather than some other
antenna--or for that matter rather than an antenna booster, such as the
Select-A-Tenna capacitively tuned passive loop, which couples to the radio's
built-in antenna. My guess is that some DXer wisely chose barefoot rather
than naked. I think that, in searching for a single short adjective to
characterize an unaugmented radio, most people would have arrived at naked,
but that would have raised more eyebrows and would have caused more DX
newsgroups to be filtered out by "decency" software. And to think that the
adjective was probably chosen decades before political correctness became de
rigeur!

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Dan Strassberg, dan.strassberg@worldnet.att.net
Phone: 1-617-558-4205, eFax: 1-707-215-6367

-----Original Message-----
From: A. Joseph Ross <lawyer@world.std.com>
To: 'dan.strassberg@att.net' <dan.strassberg@att.net>; EM1 GITCHIER
<RGITSCHIER@doyle.navy.mil>
Cc: 'boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org'
<boston-radio-interest@bostonradio.org>
Date: Saturday, May 05, 2001 1:54 AM
Subject: RE: WGSR (Was: 89.3 pirate goes ID-crazy)


On 4 May 2001,  EM1 GITCHIER wrote:

> In the daytime I can even hear the 30 watt
> xmtr in Charleston, SC with barefoot radios, such as my Sony cheapo boom
box
> and Radio Shack DX-398.

Barefoot radios??