{"id":19275,"date":"2016-05-31T08:12:09","date_gmt":"2016-05-31T12:12:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=19275"},"modified":"2016-05-31T08:12:09","modified_gmt":"2016-05-31T12:12:09","slug":"david-enjoys-hammock-mobile-swling-with-his-icom-ic-92ad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/david-enjoys-hammock-mobile-swling-with-his-icom-ic-92ad\/","title":{"rendered":"David enjoys hammock mobile SWLing with his Icom IC-92AD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Icom-ID-92AD-Shortwave.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-19276\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Icom-ID-92AD-Shortwave.jpg\" alt=\"Icom-ID-92AD-Shortwave\" width=\"800\" height=\"440\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Icom-ID-92AD-Shortwave.jpg 800w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Icom-ID-92AD-Shortwave-300x165.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Icom-ID-92AD-Shortwave-768x422.jpg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/Icom-ID-92AD-Shortwave-624x343.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many thanks to <em>SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, David Korchin (K2WNW), for sharing this short video demonstrating the shortwave receive capabilities of the Icom IC-92AD handheld transceiver:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ts0nKkrd5OY?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/ts0nKkrd5OY\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to view on YouTube.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Frankly, I&#8217;m quite amazed at the clarity and fidelity of the Voice of Turkey interval signal on this handheld. Goes to show that with a proper antenna, and decent conditions, wide-band handhelds can certainly be used for shortwave radio listening! It also helps that David is outdoors, away from RFI, and was located on the coast of Long Island, NY.<\/p>\n<p><em>Post<\/em> readers: Have you had good fortune SWLing with wide-band handled transceivers? Please comment!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, David Korchin (K2WNW), for sharing this short video demonstrating the shortwave receive capabilities of the Icom IC-92AD handheld transceiver: Click here to view on YouTube. Frankly, I&#8217;m quite amazed at the clarity and fidelity of the Voice of Turkey interval signal on this handheld. Goes to show that with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[545,3,3196,26,43,1167],"tags":[2263,4102,5125,5126,94,106],"class_list":["post-19275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ham-radio","category-news","category-portable-radio","category-radios","category-shortwave-radio","category-whats-on-shortwave","tag-david-korchin-kc2wnw","tag-ham-radio","tag-icom-id-92ad","tag-icom-id-92ad-shortwave","tag-interval-signals","tag-voice-of-turkey"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-50T","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":33395,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2018\/08\/dave-reviews-the-icom-ic-r30-handheld-wide-band-receiver\/","url_meta":{"origin":19275,"position":0},"title":"Dave reviews the Icom IC-R30 Handheld Wide Band Receiver","author":"Thomas","date":"August 4, 2018","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Dave Zantow (N9EWO), who notes that he has published his comprehensive review of the Icom IC-R30 handheld wideband receiver. 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