Hi... I'll be making a huge trip to South America from Nov. 27 to Dec. 27, but maybe possibly extending much further into the new year. And as it happened when i travelled to several places in Europe, i would like to take my Sony ICF SW77 with me.
As the Sony receiver is the only one i have for dxing purposes, losing it may face me into the big trouble of not possesing anything to, ehem, dx, so i would like to know from people who has travelled, or lives or has crossed custom/immigration points in Chile, Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay about the following: - Do these countries allow the entrance of radio receivers? free of charge of course, i do not want to pay taxes for just a couple of days of usage - Are customs officials suspicious of radio receivers? In my country, Peru, customs allow the entrance of one radio receiver per person, but when going thru customs back from Europe, they attempted to make me pay taxes for my radio receiver, since it catches shortwave signals, which i strongly refused to the point of hanging/putting my receiver against/inside my body. - How does thieves react to this kind of recievers? I mean, do they know what is SW? And... just to finish, just a couple of questions: - Any place for SW shopping in the Buenos Aires/Santiago/Montevideo area? - Any interesting DX club in these areas? I would like to get in touch with them... Your responses will be greately appreciated. Thank you Moises Corilloclla ---[Start Commercial]--------------------- World Radio TV Handbook 2004 is coming out! Preorder yours now! Only $20.97 through us. http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0823059685/hardcoredxcom ---[End Commercial]----------------------- ________________________________________ Hard-Core-DX mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://dallas.hard-core-dx.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ _______________________________________________ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://dsl.org/copyleft/dsl.txt
