![]() Over the last decade higher-end digital radios have replaced analog tuning knobs and dials with liquid crystal displays and push buttons. ![]() New shortwave radios, however, have a feature clearly aimed at lazier travelers. Many of them maintain Web sites, for example, that include frequency charts. Fonteyne suggested that anyone interested in finding a specific station at a set time check with the broadcaster. ''If you now receive one frequency very well, perhaps next year at the same frequency you will not receive anything,'' said Jacques Fonteyne, head of the broadcasting division for the International Telecommunication Union, which coordinates the assignment of shortwave frequencies among countries. Some broadcasters also transmit at several different frequencies to improve reception in different parts of the world. One consequence is that shortwave broadcasters change their frequencies generally twice a year. The time of year, the time of day, sunspot activity and other factors can affect shortwave reception. By repeatedly ricocheting off the ionosphere and the earth's surface, shortwave broadcasts can travel enormous distances from their transmission towers. Shortwave signals, however, bounce off it. The signals used for AM and FM radio and television either pass through or are absorbed by the ionosphere. Shortwave broadcasters like Voice of America and the BBC's World Service rely on the earth's atmosphere to carry their signals over long distances. Learning from my mistakes, I then brought one of the radios along on the trip. Since the terrorist attacks, however, their United States operations have struggled to keep up with the demand.īefore heading back to France this spring, I tried out a number of shortwave radios from Sony, Grundig and Sangean (which also makes units for several other companies, including Panasonic, Radio Shack and Philips). In the past, Sony and other manufacturers sold most of their shortwave - or, as the industry prefers, world-band - radios in Europe. 11, interest in shortwave radio has grown in the United States. While shortwave may conjure up images of bulky metal boxes filled with vacuum tubes, manufacturers have co-opted microelectronics to greatly improve how their radios operate while reducing size. ![]() I might have saved myself the pain of watching too many talk shows on French television had I brought a shortwave radio along. Night after night I was in hotels where my modem became useless after the switchboard was closed down for the evening. But I found a major flaw in that theory while in rural France last year. track&trace.THE proliferation of Web-based radio stations should mean that a traveler with a modem and a laptop is never without up-to-the-minute news, conversation and music from home. The last picture shows the original Bush from way back when! On the front is a small discoloration visible, due to a removed price label - radio comes with powercord - no original box. UK 2008, in cream and blue color setting, in as good as new condition.įeatures LW and MW, like the 'old-one' but with FM added to comply to 21th century demands - has excelent reception of lots of stations and a full, warm sound - has a volume and a tone controlĪnd 3 knobs for wave selection - radio works on 230 Volts AC or batteries 'C ' type (not included) - the antenna is 60cm long when fully extended. Vintage Bush TR 82, replica of the famous transistorradio from the late 50ties, early 60ties. bandĬomes with a shortwave chart - original box not available. Has a wrist cord for carrying and a fold out support on the back.įM - 88 -107 MHz // MW - 530 - 1600 KHz // LW - 160 - 270 KHz The radio is 15cm wide, 8cm tall and 3,5cm thick. ![]() No schratches - battery compartment is clean. Seldom used, so it's as good as new - exterior has almost Works with 2 AA batteries (included) or a 3 Volts DC adaptor. Nice 12 Band world receiver ICF-SW11 by Sony, Japan - 2011įM Stereo/LW/MW/SW1-9 Multi-Band Reception ![]()
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