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AstroZamboni posted:Longwave reception and internal battery recharging. There isn't anything to listen to on Longwave, and the battery recharging is a fairly minor convenience. So, you're not really missing anything. Are you sure? I'm reading the website and comparing the two models: G5 posted:AM/FM-stereo and LW/Shortwave (150-29999 KHz) G6 posted:AM, FM, Aircraft Band (117-137 MHz) and LW/Shortwave (150-29999 KHz) Looks to me like the G6 doesn't omit any of the longwave spectrum.
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Foggy posted:How about that, I just picked up (and subsequently lost) a really faint aviation communication on 3484 in SSB. Guess that button does do something after all! I'm getting this tonight in USB, but it sounds like some sort of weather report. I can also get some CW on 3583 LSB. Correction, it sounds like it IS aviation status reports. That's some cool stuff. Illegal Clown fucked around with this message at 06:16 on May 22, 2008 |
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Illegal Clown posted:I'm getting this tonight in USB, but it sounds like some sort of weather report. I can also get some CW on 3583 LSB. You could well be hearing a VOLMET: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VOLMET - a kind of automatic aviation weather report transmitted by various airports for pilots to use. They are to be found in USB in roughly the kind of area you're looking at there. Also: the new SoftRock SDR kit is now available. http://www.softrockradio.org/SoftRock The new version, the Lite Xtal, has the benefit of covering multiple bands whereas the previous versions required one board per band. Slightly dearer than the old version but still cheap as chips really. I placed an order for mine yesterday and had confirmation within the hour and it's supposed to ship next week. To the goon who suggested sharing shipping costs to the UK - in the end it didn't seem worth the hassle since he is only charging $1 extra to ship to the UK anyway. You're only paying about 50p more.
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May 22, 2008 10:24
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stinky ox posted:You could well be hearing a VOLMET: I think that may be what it was. The reason I could tell it was for aviation was I kept hearing the voice call out altimeter readings among the other data. It did seem like it was an automatic reading so I'll assume it was VOLMET for now.
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May 22, 2008 16:09
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I'm expecting to receive mine any day now, here's hoping I know enough to use it. (I haven't been keeping up with the message postings about it but I've got a great soundcard and a long antenna so we'll see what happens.)
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May 23, 2008 01:18
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stinky ox posted:Also: the new SoftRock SDR kit is now available.
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May 23, 2008 22:44
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There are plenty of crazy preachers out there, but the one that's on 5745 right now is the best I've ever heard. He has approximately the same speaking style as the kid in There Will Be Blood. edit: he went off at the :30 
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May 24, 2008 04:26
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Checking in for the first time in 2 weeks, and what 2 weeks they have been. Basic rundown: Stuck in a shack on a side of a mountain in Colorado freezing my rear end off and tending to an unexpected and expensive broken ankle. (the prize payout will have to wait until I'm no longer in debt from the doctor's bills for X-rays and splints and painkillers with no insurance). On the other hand, I have NO SW interference up here, and the listening has been great. I'll be back to civilization in about 2 weeks and I can update the OP massively and get the grand prize winner his winnings. Now back to your regularly scheduled programming.
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May 24, 2008 22:05
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stinky ox posted:Also: the new SoftRock SDR kit is now available. Oh SWEET! Cheers! 
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Sort of a dumb question: I've noticed a few nights in a row that 192 kHz is absolutely silent - there's something on that frequency that's broadcasting loud enough silence that it blocks out the background static. It's definitely at 192 exactly, if I go to 191 or 193 I get a little bit of fuzz. It's sort of useful for finding local interference (for example if I tune to 192 and hold my radio close to my computer I can hear the interference) but other than that I have no idea what it is. Anybody know? Edit: I'm in Chicago in case it's a local thing
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Now that I've got a Yaesu FRG-100 and a Kenwood TS-430, the Eton E5 is just sitting here in its case gathering dust. It got about 5-10 hours of use in January and February before I had to stop playing with amateur radio for a couple months due to family issues. Edit: On its way to a new home! Have fun. mrbill fucked around with this message at 05:27 on May 26, 2008 |
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May 25, 2008 08:55
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stinky ox posted:The new version, the Lite Xtal, has the benefit of covering multiple bands whereas the previous versions required one board per band. Slightly dearer than the old version but still cheap as chips really. I placed an order for mine yesterday and had confirmation within the hour and it's supposed to ship next week. Hmm. I assume 'DX' is their inside-joke version of "shipping outside CONUS", but the site's beardishly impenetrable for someone who doesn't know the project. To receive only, what do I need? "SR-LXv8.3" (without the 'si570')? Do I need additional BPF boards? Is the "Lite+Xtall" the transceiver version? 
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Foggy posted:Sort of a dumb question: I've noticed a few nights in a row that 192 kHz is absolutely silent - there's something on that frequency that's broadcasting loud enough silence that it blocks out the background static. It's definitely at 192 exactly, if I go to 191 or 193 I get a little bit of fuzz. It's sort of useful for finding local interference (for example if I tune to 192 and hold my radio close to my computer I can hear the interference) but other than that I have no idea what it is. Anybody know? Two possibilities: One is that there is a strong relatively nearby transmitter sending "dead air" which is illegal, but it happens. Another is that this is an issue with the radio itself. Almost all radios have this quirk where in certain frequencies where it will show high signal strength when there's nothing there, even so much as to stop autotune. I forget what this phenomenon was called right off the top of my head, but there was a discussion of it earlier on in the thread.
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edit: ^^^^ this is what I'm talking aboutFoggy posted:Sort of a dumb question: I've noticed a few nights in a row that 192 kHz is absolutely silent - there's something on that frequency that's broadcasting loud enough silence that it blocks out the background static. It's definitely at 192 exactly, if I go to 191 or 193 I get a little bit of fuzz. It's sort of useful for finding local interference (for example if I tune to 192 and hold my radio close to my computer I can hear the interference) but other than that I have no idea what it is. Anybody know?
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meltie posted:Hmm. I assume 'DX' is their inside-joke version of "shipping outside CONUS" meltie posted:beardishly impenetrable  meltie posted:To receive only, what do I need? "SR-LXv8.3" (without the 'si570')? v I'm guessing you set each board up for a band that you want to listen to. For instance, I'm planning on setting one up so I can monitor 500 kHz.
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nmfree posted:Unless you have an SI570 chip floating around, you'll need that too. It looks like it comes with some BPF boards already, but v It comes with 4 BPF boards (they are supplied as one board that you cut into 4 pieces). There's a good page on building and testing the kit here: http://golddredgervideo.com/wb5rvz/Home.htm which explains what comes with the kit and suggests an order for doing the build testing as you go. And yeah I suppose the "shipping to DX" line is a bit radio-geeky, but I guess he assumes that if you're buying a tricky to build SDR radio kit chances are you're beardy enough already  .
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May 26, 2008 12:35
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stinky ox posted:It comes with 4 BPF boards (they are supplied as one board that you cut into 4 pieces). There's a good page on building and testing the kit here: Lovely stuff, cheers 
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May 26, 2008 13:32
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nmfree posted:edit: ^^^^ this is what I'm talking about Thanks! I knew the word was something to do with golf, but I couldn't remember what it was.
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Ok, this is retarded of me. I bought an E5 a few months back thanks to this thread, but it wasn't enough. So, today I was doing some Ebaying and I picked up a Uniden BCT8 Scanner, and a Kenwood R1000 shortwave receiver. So chalk it up to this thread. I spent 159.99 on the Bearcat, and 175.99 on the Kenwood. I'm only a little upset that you guys have tricked me into spending MORE money on this, but it's ok cuz I have a bit of disposable income this month, assholes!
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U.S. Barryl posted:Ok, this is retarded of me. I bought an E5 a few months back thanks to this thread, but it wasn't enough. So, today I was doing some Ebaying and I picked up a Uniden BCT8 Scanner, and a Kenwood R1000 shortwave receiver. So chalk it up to this thread. Didn't trick nobody, jackhole. Enjoy the toys!
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I found the online SDR linked in another thread and it's pretty cool. I've been interested in shortwave for a while, but I didn't really want to spend a lot of money to get a shortwave and then discover that it's boring. So the online version is really good for me as a sort of trial, and I like it so far. To be honest, I like listening to the weird bleeps and bloops and such as much as I like listening to the voices. I know next to nothing about shortwave (beyond numbers stations) but I've kind of picked up a little, Wikipediaing while listening to the online one. There's one station that I can pick up on the WebSDR, at around 7039 Hz. It just broadcasts C in morse code over and over. What is that?
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Jeremiah Smith posted:I found the online SDR linked in another thread and it's pretty cool. I've been interested in shortwave for a while, but I didn't really want to spend a lot of money to get a shortwave and then discover that it's boring. So the online version is really good for me as a sort of trial, and I like it so far. Probably a "letter beacon," a totally weird kettle of fish thought by some to have a relationship with number broadcasts as being clandestine activity. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_beacon
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AstroZamboni posted:Probably a "letter beacon," a totally weird kettle of fish thought by some to have a relationship with number broadcasts as being clandestine activity. Yeah, it says 7039.0 kHz is one of the frequencies the C letter beacon operates at. Neat! Edit: What's a good (preferably free) software program to practice hearing and sending morse code? I've seen a few results on Google and stuff but I have no idea what's good. (I'm reading backwards through the thread, so maybe I just haven't gone back far enough to see one recommended.) Nicolae Carpathia fucked around with this message at 22:22 on May 26, 2008 |
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May 26, 2008 21:35
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Jeremiah Smith posted:Yeah, it says 7039.0 kHz is one of the frequencies the C letter beacon operates at. Neat! The Ham goons in the amateur radio thread would probably be pretty helpful on that count. Go to the OP of this thread and there will be a link to the Amateur Radio GBS thread.
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To answer right in this very thread - there's something called the Koch method which is pretty good if you plug away at it, and this program works as well as any for learning it.
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Thanks! I'm going to try the Koch stuff. For the moment, I'm more interested in learning to receive it than understand it, since I'm still just using the WebSDR. But it couldn't hurt to know, right?
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New addition to Eton/Grundig's product lineup, the "G6 Buzz Aldrin Edition." http://etoncorp.com/product_card/?p_ProductDbId=545912 Basically just an E6 with the words "Buzz Aldrin Edition" on it next to a little spacesuit logo. Now, I'm as much of an apollo nut as anyone, but I still have to ask WHY?
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Aw man, I want MY radio to be endorsed by Buzz Aldrin!! I can't figure out the point of this. It isn't any different than the normal G6 as far as I can tell. Maybe it can recieve signals FROM THE MOON?
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Your average new shortwave listener is about 50-70 years old, looking for something to do in the long, slow summer evenings, and likely views Aldrin, Armstrong, etc. as the scientific superman explorers of their generation. I can think of a few worse random names to silkscreen on, given that context. I want a Stephen Hawking edition Grundig with built in RTTY text to speech synth =/ edit: Does the Richard Dawkins Special Edition filter out the megawatt religious stations? THAT'd be a selling point.
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Jonny 290 posted:I want a Stephen Hawking edition Grundig with built in RTTY text to speech synth =/ The one including both would be the "Hawkin' & Dawkin' Signature Edition." Holy Jesus masturbating on horseback, I want that radio SO BAD.
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For any interested numbers afficionados, I have Novembeer Lady calling out phonetic alphabet stuff on 7689 kHz right now (22.09z). (I am in Wales).
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stinky ox posted:For any interested numbers afficionados, I have Novembeer Lady calling out phonetic alphabet stuff on 7689 kHz right now (22.09z). (I am in Wales). Do you mean the Mossad E10 station? November lady was an old term for the west German 2 letter stations that have been retired for a very long time, at least I'm fairly sure.
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AstroZamboni posted:Do you mean the Mossad E10 station? November lady was an old term for the west German 2 letter stations that have been retired for a very long time, at least I'm fairly sure. Yeah, I think it's the Mossad station. I just call her Novembeer Lady because she has that odd pronunciation of November as "Novembeer" . She's quite frequently heard around here.Bloody big message tonight, she's been at it for ages. Pity the poor spy who's having to write all this down.
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stinky ox posted:Yeah, I think it's the Mossad station. I just call her Novembeer Lady because she has that odd pronunciation of November as "Novembeer" Have you the current schedule for this station? Long rainy night, they mustn't have much else to do 
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meltie posted:Have you the current schedule for this station? Well there's a schedule for Mossad E10 on this page: http://www.spynumbers.com/ - can't find the frequency I heard it on in that schedule though. According to the frequency list here: http://www.simonmason.karoo.net/page52.html maybe it was E1. But I don't know how up to date those lists are, for all I know they may well have changed by now. [edit] definitely not e1, having listened to a recording of it. Looks like it was a Mossad E10 station from this list: http://www.simonmason.karoo.net/page69.html quote:CIO KPA MIW SYN VLB and GPO draw on a pool of frequencies below. stinky ox fucked around with this message at 00:30 on May 28, 2008 |
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Most E10 transmissions go on for about 45 minutes. Same with E3 and V2. I was kind of shocked when I first started listening to number transmissions. All I had head before were the edited snippets on "The Conet Project" and didn't know how long he transmissions really went. Sorry for the mix-up. I just thought "Novembeer" was a typo. I was thinking of the Old 2-letter stations and DFD21/DFC37. The female voice narrating those stations was sometimes called "November Lady" because the most famous of the stations was "Papa November.'
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AstroZamboni posted:Most E10 transmissions go on for about 45 minutes. Same with E3 and V2. I was kind of shocked when I first started listening to number transmissions. All I had head before were the edited snippets on "The Conet Project" and didn't know how long he transmissions really went. I wished someone had told me that they went on for so long as well. The first time I heard the Spanish Lady it was so cool. Then it kept going for five minutes. I would go to another station for a while and check back, and it was still going. I fell asleep listening to it after 45 minutes. I had some pretty weird dreams that night.
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Any suggestions on how to optimize my chances of catching numbers broadcasts, or is it pretty much just "read the text file to get times and likely frequencies, and hope you get lucky"?
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Illegal Clown posted:I wished someone had told me that they went on for so long as well. The first time I heard the Spanish Lady it was so cool. Then it kept going for five minutes. I would go to another station for a while and check back, and it was still going. I fell asleep listening to it after 45 minutes. I had some pretty weird dreams that night. I once spent a week listening to the Conet Project every night as I was falling asleep. I had some hosed up dreams that week, I can tell you what. It was an experiment to see if I could drive myself insane. I think it might have worked, although I think I might have been insane in the first place to have attempted that kind of experiment. Accursed posted:Any suggestions on how to optimize my chances of catching numbers broadcasts, or is it pretty much just "read the text file to get times and likely frequencies, and hope you get lucky"? DINGDINGDINGDINGDING! This is exactly how you optimize your chances of catching number traffic. There is no better way, and there probably won't ever be due to the clandestine nature of the stations themselves. AstroZamboni fucked around with this message at 15:06 on May 28, 2008 |
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AstroZamboni posted:New addition to Eton/Grundig's product lineup, the "G6 Buzz Aldrin Edition." Because of this: http://youtube.com/watch?feature=related&v=mQKxAqpjroo You do not gently caress with Buzz Aldrin  Edit: Either way, it looks like the regular E6 and the Buzz Aldrin special are both the same price on Amazon, so at least they aren't trying to charge you extra money for some screen printing on the case
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