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Originally Posted by radio63
Yes lots of good memories here...the magic of finding a new-to-you radio that had magical bands like MB and SW. Wondering what you would hear, maybe something really great that you had never heard before...
I listened to short wave a lot back in the mid to late 70s when I was a kid. I had a Zenith Royal 1000 that I got around 1978. I would sit at the kitchen table for hours slowly dialing and listening to each signal. Some became "good friends" such as Radio Canada, VOA, BBC, South Africa, even Cuba and USSR. And then there was the occasional new find, a station in a country I had never heard before. I recall tuning in Australia, Japan, and Austria for the first time!
What wonderful memories when radio was magical! But it still is, I have never lost that spirit of magic. This is one of the many reasons I love radio!
Gilbert
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I know. I fin ally got my own SW radio in 1978, a Sanyo RP-8700, I still use it to this day. The AM reception is very good, the ferrite antenna is very thick, it is on par to the GE Super Radio according to some. The only bigger ferrite I've seen is in my grandfather's 1953 5 tube Philco, it also gets "Marine Band" from 1600 to 3500 kc along with AM, I get WWV on 2500 kc at night without an external antenna. I did see a picture of my mother doing her homework while in high school as she listened to that same radio and now I use it to this day. Shortwave radio also calms me right now, been going through a lot with Mom battling breast cancer although she just has a mastectomy and they say they got it all although she will still need chemo/radiation once she heals as a precaution since it can be aggressive. Until I get to sleep, I like to listen around to broadcast, hams and even planes flying across the Atlantic. We lost power one night and I picked up the air traffic control in the Azores and Ireland on my Grundig G6. I've love to put in a BFO in the Sanyo, it is a great radio.
I've also picked up Iraq and North Korea on the Sanyo.