Good Quality Long Range Portable Radio

Previous posts on this subject have recommended Degen radios, can be bought online from overseas.
They work very well, we have a Degen 1106 which has rechargeable batteries and mains charger/power supply, works well and when we're not on the road is the shed radio.

have got one of these http://www.amradioantennas.com/quality_radios.htm excellent radio, and those loop antennas are worthwhile

Big ask, TTD.

These days try a Sangean, think Dick Smith still sells them, or there was a small chinese made multi-band radio available off internet, for about $90.00. There should be some archival stuff on this site, about chinese radios, about 3 years back.

Depending on your vehicle, you can improve remote area reception by fitting an AM/FM aerial from Mobile One, or Axis. They are 60" long, and look like a 27 meg unit, but really improve reception. Toyota radios(Fujitsu) have good sensitivity, as did the now defunct Eurovox, they were the best.

About finals time, the weather will be warming up too, so afternoon reception will be a bit ordinary. Why don't you camp in a motel with Austar, and watch it there, cool aircon, mini-bar, what else do you need?

Good luck,
Bob.

Gidday

Just back from the Great Victoria desert where I was able to listen to the AFL on Saturday afternoons on Radio Australia's shortwave service on my Sangean ATS 909 radio. Sunday afternoons they do the NRL. Sangean make a good range, more expensive than Dengen I think. At night the mysteries of radio propagation mean that you can pick up many a local ABC station on the AM band, but they might not be broadcasting the AFL in Queensland.

Cheers

Rocco

Hi TTD1,
We have a conventional am/fm radio from Aldi in the Caravan. Have an ex marine fold down 27meg aerial on the roof. Recently in Borroloola we could pick up Sydney AM stations at night and from Birdsville could pick up 2MG 1449 at Mudgee
It is probably more aerial than receiver!
Guy

Thanks to Robin, I got a Tecsun 660. Great AM reception, and SW, SSB and as a bonus has airband so you can listen to ATC. Lots of memorys too.
About $100 on ebay.


The other thing I bought was one of those loop antennas. Great purchase.
Tecsun Loop antenna

It works with my Sony as well as the Tecsun or any AM radio. It makes a signal that is bearly above noise level, go to full signal - clear as a bell. Previously at one favorite camp spot deep in a valey, I could just get ABC 774 Local radio, 828 local and on a good night 1024 news radio overnight. But at sunrise they would fade to noise. This antenna makes all of them relaible even in the day.

I put the radio in the middle of the antenna and tune the antenna and hey presto great reception. This alone might solve your problem. It doesn't even need batteries. Amaizing