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Les Oeufs posted:I'm using an android app called Shortwave Schedules. It seems to be working quite well. I've heard people complain that some of the info is wrong, but it seems to be working pretty well for me.
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foobar posted:I don't have much info about current antennas but I had an AN-LP1 (which I sold to another goon in this very thread) and it was AWESOME - I highly recommend seeing if you can get your hands on a used one. While not AN-LP1 awesome the Degen 31 active antenna works pretty great for me; http://www.ebay.com/itm/New-DEGEN-31MS-Indoor-MW-SW-Active-Loop-Antenna-/320934832996?pt=US_Radio_Antennas&hash=item4ab934eb64 Hard to beat for under $20. I use mine to DX at a table away from a window. Put the loop in a window with a suction cup, run cord to my Sony 2010 or Grundig G5. Only downside is having to tune two knobs, frequency then antenna to clearify the signal. This antenna often brings barely-there signals to S3 levels, very helpful with tropical stations.
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foobar posted:I don't have much info about current antennas but I had an AN-LP1 (which I sold to another goon in this very thread) and it was AWESOME - I highly recommend seeing if you can get your hands on a used one. Yeah, I'm still using the AN-LP1 I picked up years ago, and it's pretty impressive especially for its size. And it's very portable with how it folds up. Well worth it if you can find one for a decent price on eBay, they seem to pop up pretty regularly. Although to be fair I haven't tried out anything in the same size range, so I don't know how it compares to something like the Degen that Radio Nowhere mentioned.
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If anyone is still interested in number stations, there is one right now at 6.768 MHz. It's in Spanish, probably from Cuba. edit - Good times: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=278DSbDh2HE TremorX fucked around with this message at 05:27 on Jul 28, 2012 |
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Jul 28, 2012 02:36
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TremorX posted:If anyone is still interested in number stations, there is one right now at 6.768 MHz. It's in Spanish, probably from Cuba. They're one of the main reasons I want a shortwave radio. Anyone hear Firedrake lately?
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Radio Nowhere posted:While not AN-LP1 awesome the Degen 31 active antenna works pretty great for me; Just ordered one from that link. Free shipping. After conversion it was $20.57. I'd say that was agreeable
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This has already started, but something to listen for this weekend:quote:Scandinavian Weekend Radio special broadcast this weekend
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UVB-76/MDZhB (The Buzzer) 4625 KHz has changed the tone of its buzzing. Sounds much less menacing now with a higher pitch.
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I prefer the old buzzer. 
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foobar posted:I don't have much info about current antennas but I had an AN-LP1 (which I sold to another goon in this very thread) and it was AWESOME - I highly recommend seeing if you can get your hands on a used one. It's me. I was the other goon. The antenna is great! Sorry for a long-delayed response to this; I don't generally listen to my radio during the summer, so I don't check the thread very often except in fall/winter/spring. That being said, I'm looking forward to pulling it back out now that it'll be darker earlier and I feel less obligated to do things outside!
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Jasta posted:I prefer the old buzzer. Well due to popular demand it's back!
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All is well in the world. Anyone hear Firedrake lately? I'd love to find it and show some of my friends. 
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Jesus, this loving thread is still going? loving losers. I kid! I kid! Tragically I haven't been able to do much SWL in the last couple of years. Moved to a new city and my mag loop got wrecked in the move, and there's lots of interference from assorted data burst and spread spectrum military poo poo nearby (Colorado Springs is a garrison town). I'm tickled pink to see the thread still going strong, though.
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I don't know if this is the right place to ask, but does anyone know where I can find a sample (complete) Weatherfax transmission in MP3 or WAV or whatever format? I don't have a radio but I want to try this HF FAX iPad decoder that I bought on a whim because it looked super neat.
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This might help. There are so many weird, wild sounds on HF that googling up whatever you're looking for plus "sound sample" usually yields results.
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Thanks! I'll give those a look. There are plenty of samples that I found, but they don't usually include the sync sounds at the beginning of the transmission, and this app doesn't make adjusting after the fact very easy. I'm going to try to just find a cheap SW radio and do this myself if I can't find a complete transmission online at some point. Seems like I can get into this for not a terrible amount of money which is good since I basically just want to dick around with HF-FAX and SSTV  e: That site only has ten seconds, and it's surprisingly difficult to find a complete transmission on Youtube. I emailed the developer of the app to see if they can supply a sample, but I might just end up throwing $50 or something at a radio and test it with the real thing. some kinda jackal fucked around with this message at 23:34 on Sep 17, 2012 |
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AstroZamboni posted:Jesus, this loving thread is still going? loving losers. This was my thought too! A couple weeks ago I was thinking, "What ever happened to that shortwave thread I used to read four years ago?" I was going to look through the archives bu I was shocked to see it still going. My last post in it was two years ago and somehow it got removed from my bookmarks. My old E5 has been sitting mostly unused since I got a full time job two years ago and I can't stay up too late anymore. I went camping with some friends last month and for the heck of it I brought my radio. We listened to various stations. Thankfully my group had people who could speak Arabic, Chinese, and Japanese so they could translate some of the stations. I really want to get back into listening more this winter if I'm not too busy.
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You know, when I get home from work I'll try to produce a sample weather fax image and record the sound. Pretty sure I can do it with MULTIFSK.
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quote:AFN (AFRTS) drops Key West transmitters
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quote:The Mighty KBC testing transatlantic signal on 9.4 MHz, October 7, 2012
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You see this? http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3509741&pagenumber=1 Remember that idea we had way back when of starting a Something Awful pirate number station? WHY THE gently caress DIDN'T WE DO THAT FOR REALS?!? That would have made all this poo poo even more hilarious.
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Not shortwave at all but none of my friends care and I want to tell SOMEBODY. I found a Tivoli Model One at the thrift store for $9. It's the Platinum Edition which means it costs $50 more because it's ~~Really Shiny~~. The tuning was awful and loud so I opened it up to clean the tuner and discovered that all four posts that the screws that hold it together thread into were snapped off. Also there were a bunch of dried out broken rubber bands inside. So I cleaned the tuner and found some long screws that would reach the now shorter posts and put it back together and it sounds GREAT. But yeah a $200 radio is held together with rubber bands.  Dog Case fucked around with this message at 00:56 on Oct 10, 2012 |
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Dog Case posted:Not shortwave at all but none of my friends care and I want to tell SOMEBODY. That's a pretty sweet deal. I actually really like all those tabletop "high-end" radios made to look vintage that started popping up last decade.
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Dog Case posted:Not shortwave at all but none of my friends care and I want to tell SOMEBODY. I really like these table radios as well, but you just confirmed my suspicion that they are all held together with the cheapest bullshit works the factory can put out. A while ago I asked if there was a Tivoli-style radio kit you could put together (like in the 70's) and that met with silence. Google searching also met with silence. So I take it that route is dried up?
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quote:Mighty KBC test transmission now scheduled for October 21st
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Crosspost from ham radio thread Numbers station alert! (on the ham bands) I was on w4ax.com tonight listening to the bands. I have to do it over the net now, my old shack is now my son's bedroom. I am looking at the waterfalls on the site and there is an odd looking signal at 14.132, LSB. I click on it and its a person reading phonetic alphabet letters with some numbers. "oscar whiskey uniform kilo 4 whiskey..." I was listening for over 20 minutes. There was an occasional pause, and the person reading even switched to a different person once. Another person who was listening with me on the site said they had heard it last night too. So maybe its a nightly thing? It stopped around 10:45PM EDT. Not sure when it starts, the other listener said that they had been listening for an hour. So what do you think it is, fellow goons? The signal was strong for 20 meters that late, this time of year, it was about the only signal on the 20 meter waterfall. Maybe it was coming from near Atlanta, GA, where the receivers are for the web site.
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It could also be an emergency action message. I'll see if I can pick it up tonight; I'm in northern Virginia so if it's an EAM there's a good chance it's being sent from here. EDIT: That link does a real poo poo job of explaining what's going on. Here is a better one. There are also youtube videos(search for x06shadow, he has a ton) of EAMs broadcast openly on shortwave. The TLDR version is that they're basically just the modern equivalent of guards on a tower shouting "eight o'clock and all is well!" The Muffinlord fucked around with this message at 22:11 on Oct 13, 2012 |
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Anyone heard The Buzzer lately? I can't really grab it where I am, but the wikipedia page makes it look like it's been going crazy lately.
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quote:Another Mighty KBC transmission into North/South America–Nov 4th
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For number station freaks "The Conet Project" is being re-released on CD with a new 5th disc. http://www.pledgemusic.com/projects/tcp1111
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quote:North Korea updates transmitters and jamming ability
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I was thinking about making a new post in the DIY & Hobbies thread about rebuilding a R-392 500k-32MHz receiver. After 5 years, I finally located an original mildly radioactive signal level meter for it. Anyway, I was wondering if anyone would be interested in that or radio restoration in general. Edit: Yay, my first thread created. Wonder how well it will be received and I hope it doesn't get gassed. Paperweight fucked around with this message at 02:04 on Nov 5, 2012 |
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Paperweight posted:I was thinking about making a new post in the DIY & Hobbies thread about rebuilding a R-392 500k-32MHz receiver. After 5 years, I finally located an original mildly radioactive signal level meter for it. Anyway, I was wondering if anyone would be interested in that or radio restoration in general. Yes, please.
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An interesting little twist on their test transmissions:quote:The Mighty KBC tests 9,450 kHz and will send a digital message this weekend
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Radio Nowhere posted:For number station freaks "The Conet Project" is being re-released on CD with a new 5th disc. Come on people, get on the Conet Project Bus. I don't want to have to end up with 20 copies just to get them over the line. ACHT NEUEN ACHT ZWEI SECHS TRELLUNG DREI SIEBEN ENDE
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I've been spending way too much time on webSDR servers like http://websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901/ I was looking at getting a SDR receiver setup with continuous frequency range at least ~100kHz - 30MHz, (ideally more) for under a few hundred $. It seems like the best choices are between FUNcube Dongle Pro+ (150khz - 240 MHz, 420MHz - 1.9Hhz, ~220$) FiFi-SDR (200khz - 30MHz, ~190$) HPSDR (DC - 55MHz, ~700$) I'm leaning towards the FUNcube since it has a very large range at a pretty good price point. But i wonder if the quality is going to be significantly reduced since it downconverts, compared to say the HPSDR which does direct sampling with a 16 bit 130MSPS ADC Transmitting would be nice but i'm not too interested in it at the moment. I'll still have to figure out how i'm going to run an antenna(s)/preamp for such a massive frequency range
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I'm going to give this cheapo SDR a crack: http://rtlsdr.org/start Ordered up a dongle with the necessary RTL2832U/R820T guts for £9.90 on Amazon. http://www.amazon.co.uk/DVB-T-RTL-SDR-Receiver-Realtek-RTL2832U/dp/B009VBUYA0/ref=pd_rhf_pe_p_t_2 Decent SDR for under a tenner? Got to be worth a try. stinky ox fucked around with this message at 23:41 on Dec 22, 2012 |
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Have a TECSUN PL660 on order, arriving Wednesday. Here's to hoping there is something out there to listen to. Has anyone thoughts on the quality of the unit? Seemed to get pretty good reviews elsewhere.
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Got the tecsun set up. AM is passable but not as good as my truck's OEM radio. A lot to do with it is the office I have it set up has a ton of electronic stuff in it. Going to give the home-brewed magnetic loop antenna a shot when time allows. For now I have a wire lopped around a west-facing window (inside) and get a handful of SW stuff at night. I suspect being in a valley surrounded by honking huge mountains may block a smidge of the signals.
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I got bored and decided to find out what would happen when I tuned my radio to the same frequency as NFC devices. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IDlnTtpI4U hazza fucked around with this message at 20:37 on Jan 12, 2013 |
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