When stations are doing remotes / sports broadcasts, the announcers often need a good radio to pickup the station. Cheap radios sometimes have marginal signals in many circumstances. Car radios seem to perform well with best reception. Any suggestions on a well performing radio that would be idea to use during station remotes?
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Best Radio For Remote Broadcasts?
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Got a Grundig for remotes. Worked for a week then the AM died. Poor assembly had the ferrite stick only held on one end. It broke. Little glue & heatshrink and back in business. That is 'till it was left somewhere never to be seen again. No more portable radios.
boiseengineer said:
"Left somewhere" LOL! It's likely in some employee's bedroom right now.
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Fabulous FM section with a good AM section too... whats nice is every WalMart and Target has it. It's as good on FM as my Grundig G8.
Fabulous FM section with a good AM section too... whats nice is every WalMart and Target has it. It's as good on FM as my Grundig G8.
Greg, do you know the model number of the Grundig you use? The antenna work pretty well without having to constantly move it? Everyone - thanks for your comments and suggestions.
Just spent last night with a Grundig G-8 plastered to my ear at a basketball tournament. We had a three-hop Marti set-up and working the day before (2 watt 450 to 160 Marti to one transmitter site--2nd 450 hop 15 miles to the station carrying the game). However, parking space reserved for our van was "appropriated" during the first game--so I had to set up the receiver/transmitter on a sidewalk. Luckily it was clear. Unluckily it was also 14, the 450 receiver drifted off frequency.
So I held the G-8 & cued talent back from breaks while we did the game over cellphone (through a J-K, of course). Talent can't listen off-air because of cell phone delay. Our local team won the championship by some 20 points, they get a "bye" on the first round of the state tournaments. (And this was the GIRLS, the BOYS are #1 in the small school classification & beat #2 earlier in the day. Looks like we will be doing lots of tournament games)
I'll stop rambling. The G-8 works well, will easily drive 2 sets of Beyer DT190 headphones & can handle strong adjacent stations well. At one high school, our station is on 92.3, while the high school has their own 900 watt station on 91.5 overlooking the school.
It does have some quirks that need to be considered. There is a sleep timer built in--it's easily turned off permanently, but you need to read the instructions. The power supply is not widely available--you can buy the radio from The Shack, but you need to order the supply directly from Eton/Grundig. Pushing the wrong buttons can lock the keyboard, or switch tuning to European (AM split channel) or Japanese (FM at 76 up) standards.
So I held the G-8 & cued talent back from breaks while we did the game over cellphone (through a J-K, of course). Talent can't listen off-air because of cell phone delay. Our local team won the championship by some 20 points, they get a "bye" on the first round of the state tournaments. (And this was the GIRLS, the BOYS are #1 in the small school classification & beat #2 earlier in the day. Looks like we will be doing lots of tournament games)
I'll stop rambling. The G-8 works well, will easily drive 2 sets of Beyer DT190 headphones & can handle strong adjacent stations well. At one high school, our station is on 92.3, while the high school has their own 900 watt station on 91.5 overlooking the school.
It does have some quirks that need to be considered. There is a sleep timer built in--it's easily turned off permanently, but you need to read the instructions. The power supply is not widely available--you can buy the radio from The Shack, but you need to order the supply directly from Eton/Grundig. Pushing the wrong buttons can lock the keyboard, or switch tuning to European (AM split channel) or Japanese (FM at 76 up) standards.
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