Re: BBC on the web

[Sven Franklyn Weil <sven@gordsven.com>]

On Tue, 22 Jan 2002, Dave Faneuf wrote:

> it on the web in the car and unless you happen to be a ham short wave is
> also out of th question

Dave,

I still manage to catch BBC radio here in NYC over the shortwave.  I use 
an old Zenith Transoceanic Royal 7000 with its whip antenna.  Nothing 
fancy...but a good "daily driver".  Granted it's not quite the same 
reception as before, but it's fairly listenable...for what shortwave from 
half-way across the world is worth.... :-)

Maybe if you use a long-wire antenna clipped to your antenna it would 
help?  You could make one yourself with a long roll of copper wire...or 
buy one of those 8.99$ long-wire antennas (the one that comes wrapped up 
in a little spool) from Radio Shack.  I use one of those when I use my 
Baygen Freeplay (the original model) and it imporves things greatly on 
that radio since it doesn't have a fine tuning control.

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