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Re: Radio bullcrap
« Reply #60 on: March 11, 2009, 10:51:55 AM »
Well that figures... easier than fiddling around with a radio I guess.
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Re: Radio bullcrap
« Reply #61 on: March 11, 2009, 03:01:07 PM »
Quote from: Nubbins on March 07, 2009, 01:14:35 PM
Yeah, I know man.  I felt guilty buying it.

/expensive?
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Re: Radio bullcrap
« Reply #62 on: March 11, 2009, 03:44:54 PM »
Quote from: monkey! on March 11, 2009, 03:01:07 PM
Quote from: Nubbins on March 07, 2009, 01:14:35 PM
Yeah, I know man.  I felt guilty buying it.

/expensive?

You could do very well for around $100.  And, as Nubbins said earlier in the thread, you can pretty much make your own antenna to boost reception.  In fact, you can even make a shortwave set for just a few pennies.  It's still, pretty much, the same technology as in the first half the 20th where kids would build the shit, or those resistance types during WWII.

However, it's one of those dangerous hobbies.  Get really into it and you start buying more and more shit.

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Re: Radio bullcrap
« Reply #63 on: March 12, 2009, 01:27:03 PM »
I want to build one.
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Re: Radio bullcrap
« Reply #64 on: March 12, 2009, 01:37:30 PM »
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Re: Radio bullcrap
« Reply #65 on: March 12, 2009, 01:39:51 PM »
Could my radio wave fingers touch your fingers?
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Re: Radio bullcrap
« Reply #66 on: March 12, 2009, 01:40:49 PM »
I'd need one as well.  And we'd need licenses.
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Re: Radio bullcrap
« Reply #67 on: March 12, 2009, 01:42:01 PM »
Quote from: nacho on March 12, 2009, 01:40:49 PM
I'd need one as well.  And we'd need licenses.

Nobody needs a license in Europe.
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Re: Radio bullcrap
« Reply #68 on: March 12, 2009, 01:42:51 PM »
Then you can talk constantly and, just like here at GS, I can watch in horrified silence.
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Re: Radio bullcrap
« Reply #69 on: March 12, 2009, 01:46:02 PM »
I bring you to horrified silence?
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Re: Radio bullcrap
« Reply #70 on: March 12, 2009, 01:52:40 PM »
Your blue penis does.
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Re: Radio bullcrap
« Reply #71 on: March 12, 2009, 01:55:02 PM »
Quote from: nacho on March 12, 2009, 01:52:40 PM
Your blue penis does.

It's only blue when I paint it.
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Re: Radio bullcrap
« Reply #72 on: March 12, 2009, 01:57:26 PM »
*horrified silence*
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Re: Radio bullcrap
« Reply #73 on: March 12, 2009, 02:01:07 PM »
Quote from: nacho on March 12, 2009, 01:57:26 PM
*horrified silence*

rrrrwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhrrrrrrr
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Re: Radio bullcrap
« Reply #74 on: March 12, 2009, 02:46:38 PM »
My radio was a little over $100 at Fry's last week.  I think it was on sale too.

It's like the SA thread pointed out though... if you get one, you want to get one you can tune 1khz at a time on the shortwave bands... you also want an input for an external antenna.  I'm going to start hitting up thrift stores soon because they are supposed to be a good place to find decent equipment for really cheap.  I'll also probably hit up the local library for some antenna theory books and whatnot... 99% of this shit is stuff that I don't even understand.

But yeah, Nach is right... you could pretty easily build one of these things if you knew what you were doing.  My problem is that my understanding of all this shit is pretty rudimentary, so I have no idea if I'm improving my experience by, say, draping 65 feet of speaker wire all over my deck outside my apartment and flinging cables onto the roof. 
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