Posted: 1/20/2010 4:07:20 PM EDT
| I keep a shortwave receiver in my gear. Anyone here listen to one regularly? What are your favorite stations/shows? |
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http://www.wbcq.com/. They're pretty cool and have a wide range of programming. Two transmitters in different bands so if you can't hear one you might be able to hear the other. I also enjoy listening to pirate broadcasters. They tend to hang out on 6.925 Mhz and 6.955, but sweep around from 6.9-7. Most of them operate USB but there are a few AM pirates. There's no regular schedule, but there are some forums and IRC channel about them. Send me a PM if you want more info. You never know what you'll hear - some people do music, weird stories, SSTV pictures, talk, talk-radio spoofs, and everything else. |
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I think PSK31 is the most useful mode now. I can get decent QSO's all the way from Southern Europe, to Florida, the Carribean, and sometimes as
far west as CA (I'm in Boston). I have G5RV antenna which is crammed into the corner of my yard, not very optimal, but I can still manage to do pretty well on PSK31, even when voice modes are poor. |
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Quoted: If you can't find anything interesting then your antenna sucks  Might be true. Right now I can hear radio cuba so I get their propaganda. Next I get about 20 different guys preaching their own spin on jesus. Yea that's useful. Then I get a bunch of stations in languages I don't even understand. Now if I go out and get some whiz bang antenna i'll be able to get all the crap I said above X 10, no thanks. Its nice to have for emergency's maybe but ham is where it's at in the radio game. I'll spend my money on my FTA satellite hobby.
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Quoted: Quoted: If you can't find anything interesting then your antenna sucks Might be true. Right now I can hear radio cuba so I get their propaganda. Next I get about 20 different guys preaching their own spin on jesus. Yea that's useful. Then I get a bunch of stations in languages I don't even understand. Now if I go out and get some whiz bang antenna i'll be able to get all the crap I said above X 10, no thanks. Its nice to have for emergency's maybe but ham is where it's at in the radio game. I'll spend my money on my FTA satellite hobby. So there's definitely a lot of religious broadcasters out there. Some are interesting to listen to for a while for various reasons. You can get the news from a lot of countries, mostly in English. There's always going to be stuff you're not interested in or can't understand. There was an Italian station I picked up a few weeks ago that played slow vocal + accordian music for a few hours. That was cool to listen to. |