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There's a small community of pirate shortwave broadcasters in the US. They can typically be found around 6925. Here's their main forums where they give each other listening reports - http://www.frn.net/vines/ Also, I have an Eton E10. Any thoughts on this radio? I've seen it for around $100 but I got it for $45 off Ebay
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Jun 7, 2007 14:54
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drat, I was about to post https://www.dxtuners.com. That was a site which had a couple dozen receivers around the world attached to computers so you could listen to any of them and tune them online for a subscription fee. Unfortunately the guy running it shut it down because he didn't have time for it anymore.
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Jun 9, 2007 12:57
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AstroZamboni posted:The E100 lacks selectable fine tuning steps on SW, has 350 less storage slots, lacks automatic tuning-storage, and lacks antenna trim function (E10 is the only one to have antenna trim). Here's the specs on each one: Frankly I've found the antenna trim function on the E10 not to really do anything. Is it only supposed to be used for certain frequencies? I turn the dial and it sounds the same.
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Jun 10, 2007 00:20
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Thought tonight I would kick out the E10 with my longwire, which I threw out the window over a fence. The passport book has the great guide for identification of stations by frequency and language. I was able to grab a lot in just 20 minutes just scanning the 5500-5900 and 7100-7300 bands (I'm currently in Germany): Deutsch Welle, three times Vatican Radio (repetition of Ave Marias and Pater Nosters) Voice of Russia Voice of the Islamic Republic of Iran. I think it was that but the beautiful music being played was a little too modern, it may have been radio libya. Radio China Int'l Radio Prague (the spanish service) Radio Canada Int'l (in French) There's nothing like sitting around a campfire at night and pulling in stations from far away...
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Jun 16, 2007 20:08
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AstroZamboni posted:Some of these morse broadcasts could be letter beacons, a bizarre phenomenon thought to be related to Numbers Traffic. I remember some people a while back on the pirate shortwave site that I posted (https://www.frn.net/vines) were talking about beacons they put out in the desert for shits. Because these guys all tend to build their own transmitters they had no problem wiring something like this. They would take photovoltaic cells out of calculators and such, and they would hardwire a frequency and a certain morse code pattern into the circuit board for the transmitter. Basically it would charge a 9V or such battery during the day and at night would broadcast the morse incessantly at a couple hundred mW. The pirates would go out in the desert in the southwest US and drop it off in some remote location, and see how long it would last, use it to test their equipment for low-power DXing, etc. Here's some examples: http://www.spynumbers.com/USSWbeacon.html And here are the most recent loggings from the site if you really want to try and catch these stations. Do I smell possible goon project on the horizon?  I'd love to hear ... .- every time I start DXing...quote:19 March 2007 Milka fucked around with this message at 09:39 on Jun 20, 2007 |
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Jun 20, 2007 09:35
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Here's a couple more links for listening in the US: http://www.wbcq.com/ This is primarily a rebroadcast station for christian stuff but it seems they have branched out and are now offering a lot of music and talk shows as well. You might find some kooks as well (one of the listed shows is about gold and silver trading). 5110, 7415, 9330, 18910 kHz. http://mt-shortwave.blogspot.com/ A nice blog from Monitoring Times with a lot of new int'l broadcaster schedules posted.
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Jun 20, 2007 20:41
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Ol' Tortoiseblossom posted:Can you direct link to where the best lists are for number stations? I know you said Simon Mason's page and the Spynumbers page, but there's a lot of different stuff there, including just lists of frequencies, and several different pages for Mossad signals, and it's all a little bewildering. Is there just one consolidated resource somewhere that I could check? Maybe I'm asking for too much, but it would be great if there was something like the Passport to World-Band Radio listings, but for numbers stations. So I could go "okay, it's 4:30 world time, I should check the following 10 frequencies." God, I could swear there was a site like this maybe a year or two ago. It would just check the current time and give you a list of numbers stations currently broadcasting and the frequencies.
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Jun 22, 2007 02:30
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SoundMonkey posted:If you find this, let me know, because I've been frustrated all night trying to hear some faint voice through interference, only to find out it's just another crazy jesusfreak. http://www.spynumbers.com/numbersDB/ It's "see what stations may be on the air right now". Some of the listings are from the late 90s but there's enough recent stuff so you should be able to catch something.
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Jun 22, 2007 11:29
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nmfree posted:Nope. In order to keep costs down, they used a single-conversion receiver inside. What this basically means is that you're physically limited to what you already get unless you modify the circuitry to add another mixing crystal. 6900-7000 is pirate shortwave terrority in the states, if you can pull in a 10 watt signal from across the country transmitted on modified ham equipment.
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Jun 25, 2007 02:08
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OK, I read through the dry parts of the passband book this weekend, can someone explain to me what an inverted-L antenna is and what the difference between that and longwire is? Does the reel-up antenna that I got with my E10 count as a longwire? Also, what's this Yagi that I keep hearing about? Furthermore if I want to catch a station for example from the east, should I set up a longwire pointing towards the east, or towards north-south? I understand that since these stations use antenna nets to broadcast, polarity wouldn't matter.
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Jun 25, 2007 12:50
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