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PostSubject: Recommend a few good world wide band receivers with ssb   Recommend a few good world wide band receivers with ssb Icon_minitimeWed Feb 05, 2020 10:29 pm

Bought a old solid state world band radio 6 months back and I have really enjoyed going through the frequencies but a couple of the short wave frequencies bands don't pick up anything. So it's slightly faulty .
But I'm interested now.

I'm looking for recommendations for another more modern radio , with ssb . If I'm honest I'm not looking to spend hundreds .is their any good radios up to 70£ max I think I should consider please.
Wider the frequencey range the better please.
If I do have to spend a little more I could consider it too.
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PostSubject: Re: Recommend a few good world wide band receivers with ssb   Recommend a few good world wide band receivers with ssb Icon_minitimeThu Feb 06, 2020 6:47 am

These are usually available on Ebay for a reasonable price.....I used one for many years and they're great for SWL. Just attach a long piece of wire and you can listen to most of the world on SSB.

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Eton-Grundig-Satellit-750-Ultimate-AM-FM-Stereo-and-Shortwave-Aircraft/114100915723?hash=item1a90f1ce0b:g:r9EAAOSwqNxeMhTj


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PostSubject: Re: Recommend a few good world wide band receivers with ssb   Recommend a few good world wide band receivers with ssb Icon_minitimeThu Feb 06, 2020 8:19 am

A lot of the old commercial shortwave bands are pretty much dead nowadays so your old radio may not be actually faulty....just nothing there to receive Wink

Decent communications receivers were and still are relatively expensive, even older second hand units command quite a price. (Or at least above the budget you mention, "expensive" is a relative term).

The biggest bang for buck receivers are SDR, (software defined radio), usually available as a USB 'dongle' and software, so long as you don't mind being tied to a computer they have a lot to offer. They're cheap, cover a wide range of frequencies, (LW to UHF), and being software controlled have a lot of demodulation options, scanning, frequency input, waterfall display, etc.
I have seen people run these type of units from laptops, tablets and even android phones so a lot more portable than first thought. At sub £20 prices and upwards they're highly affordable for what they can achieve.

For a truly portable, battery operated radio experience most modern receivers are based around DSP, (digital signal processing), technology. For the budget you mention something like the Tecsun PL-600 could be a good buy. This radio has been around for a few years, (more modern and more expensive models are now available), but has a good range of options for short wave listening.

There's too many options to give you firm recommendations of particular radios, it depends on what 'floats your boat' Smile


For me personally, SDR and DSP technology seem to suffer a lot with noise from other electronic/electric devices and can require careful setup, but people are successful with them.

I'm more of a tuning dial, coils inside sort of guy Wink No matter how fiddly they can be there's nothing like listening to radio waves with a good old valve receiver(!) It may be old fashioned but the clarity of reception has to be heard to be believed.
Most will never experience such a thing unfortunately.

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Ah b*gger....posted this after Phil's massive long eBay URL. Hope you can still read it Smile

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Thanks for the ideas tips and links ,I will go through them slowly in a while.
I'm sure the radio is at fault. On one band it's low signals and distorted audio.
I had this on all bands ehen I attached a long wire to either vhf or sw it goes over sensitive and audio become so as I can't understand it.

The air band has white noise either end of vfo scale but nothing in between. However it will occasionally pick up what o believe is sir traffic maybe.
But theirs no back ground white noise at all.
So that's not right .it's like someone turned up squelch full.

It's a koyo same as grundig model 1770 at present.

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PostSubject: Re: Recommend a few good world wide band receivers with ssb   Recommend a few good world wide band receivers with ssb Icon_minitimeSat May 29, 2021 3:57 am

Hi folks
Looking for recommendations on budget receivers with good sensitivity that can receive am usb lsb fm and more.
Iv narrowed it down to these as they fit the budget.
XHDATA D-808
TECSUN PL-880
TECSUN PL660

Let me know what you'd recommend


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Ok....
In the absence of recommendations here, many hours of research showed me that the XHDATA D-808 offered the best value for money, covered all the bands I was looking for including AIR (Pilots) had an awesome battery that's readily available and has great sensitivity.
Can't wait for it to arrive.
I'm surprised that SWL'ing isn't more popular, this device can be tuned to frequencies that I can transmit on, it might be handy as a tool to check my own equipment.

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PostSubject: Re: Recommend a few good world wide band receivers with ssb   Recommend a few good world wide band receivers with ssb Icon_minitimeSun May 30, 2021 12:55 pm

Hi Andrew,

Just noticed your posting here, it may have helped to get more responses if you'd perhaps made a new posting?

(Plus this posting became difficult to read after the lengthy ebay listing posted earlier. Wink)


Nice one with the XHDATA D-808, by all accounts a great little receiver. Recommend a few good world wide band receivers with ssb 1f44d 

SWLing is still a popular past time and I've been a 'listener' man and boy, (a flipping long time! Very Happy) I don't own the same amount of radios I used to have but I still fire up my old Lowe HF-225 for a sweep around the LW/MW & SW bands on a frequent basis.

If it helps any there's a very good site for SWL subjects I check routinely. Link below :-

https://swling.com/blog/


They also did a review of the radio you have decided on :-

https://swling.com/blog/2021/05/dan-revisits-the-venerable-xhdata-d-808-portable-radio/


Have fun with your SWL activities, I know I do mine still enjoying it after all these years.
(Don't half miss the old stations that used to abound shortwave once upon a time though.)


Still use my old Lowe for equipment checks to this day. Before my Yaesu FT-757 packed up I used the low level RF OUT as a makeshift RF signal generator! Smile


All the best,
Victor

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Thanks Victor
It looks like Swling might be a useful resource
73's
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Was scanning round Helsinki Friday on my way home from work, and came to area what was having road works , tarmac work, and the STOP n GO boards were been operated with open , normal Pmr 446 radios, no code , very open, they sent the last car reg info to the next point, close or open that part of the road for traffic, Pmr used here in Finland and children use them summer time, not a very safe traffic control, the company doing the work is a big outfit, many building work, road repair and so on, at least digi Pmr would be better, Any one else found this?

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I've heard some terrible examples of cb being used for professional purposes, the acma (radio regulator) here hasn't made rules on the matter however (from the acma website)"OH&S policies invariably indicate that CB equipment is not suitable for any function where worker safety and/or critical business activity is reliant on the equipment. The risk to any company using this technology is significant."

A miming company that I worked for were conducting a blast using uhf ch18 to convey important safety directions, uhf18 is Australia's caravan convoy ch, some travellers passed by chatting, the blast crew asked for radio silence, fortunatelythey learned their lesson and invented in a digital radio network.
Our roadworks generally use cb uhf to control traffic, whenever im stopped at roadworks I hit scan and have a listen... sometimes when I'm let through I key up and say "thank you"

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Nice reply, thanks, I will take a PMR radio out with me and see what I can find, might have a joke with some worker doing something not critical and say Hello, Some shops use it for security watch, ,have a nice day there Hotel Zulu

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Löwe HF-150. had one myself and was more than happy with this small but very good receiving radio.
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After the AR88 i had a Lowe SRX30 with the analog dial (no digital display) excellent radio, hooked up to a full size G5RV presented to me when i was 14 years old by none other than.....
Louis Varney G5RV, seriously, he was in the UK giving talks to amateur radio clubs around the UK and came to my club in Colwyn Bay in North Wales (the club members and my Dad clubbed together to buy a cheapo 5RV) and he presented it to me !!!!!

Old memory, but always stayed with me how guys i knew only from going to the club meetings put their hand in their pockets to help a young aspring radio nut !

For what is worth a SDR based radio has got to be the best bang for the buck for gen coverage listening....(until that is i find another SRX-30 on e-bay Laughing)

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Just getting to grips again with my AOR AR1000. 

Bought it years ago to listen to Airband, played about with storing frequencies, etc. and then put it away for many years. Retrieved it recently, put in fresh batteries and now trying to restore it to factory settings! Not getting much reception with the stubby "rubber duck" antenna indoors, so might need to hang up a loose wire or some such bodge to get going again.
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