No Shortwave radio reception

[wa2ise]

Originally Posted by SuperPsycho

I just wonder if there's anything I can do or if I'm just boned.

15 or 20 feet of any old wire strung behind the furnature in the room should be enough. Or string the wire thru the attic crawl space. You don't need to climb up into there, just tie a weigh of some sort to one end of the wire and toss it as far as you can (with the other end of the wire firmly tied to say a doorknob or such so it all doesn't sail into the attic!). I did that in apartments I rented to set up crude ham radio transciever shortwave antennas. Worked well enough for me to talk to someone in Antartica one day. Transmitters are much more fussy about antennas than receivers are...