Posted: 3/5/2011 6:08:57 AM EDT
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I found a NIB Grundig M400 at work yesterday,. What do you do with short wave radios? is it kinda like SHTF tool?
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It can make for interesting listening.
Although Radio Moscow (later re-named Voice of Russia) no longer lays the propaganda on as thick is it did in the old Soviet era, Radio Havana still provides "interesting" perspectives on world news and events. Radio Taiwan International and China Radio International have some English-language broadcasts describing everyday life in their respective countries. The Armed Forces Radio Network and BBC both have good coverage of breaking news. There's even a few stations that play rock or C&W music One of the coolest aspects of shortwave radio is that you listen to stations on the other side of the world with no assistance from any man-made equipment - no satellites, no internet, no cables, no phone lines...just signals bouncing off the ionosphere. |
| Shortwave radio...now that was some awesome stuff during the Cold War. Some of the 80's propaganda being put out by everyone was epic. I used to love listening to Moscow and Havana at night. They essentially talked some cash ****. It was something else. I was always disappointed that I never could pick up Radio Berlin (East Germany) back in the day. I actually listened to the Final Four one year on AFN on my shortwave. |
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It can make for interesting listening.... Yea but you need a good antenna. That's not always expensive but it is a hassle. With me being in (roughly) the center of the USA, that means a bigger outdoor random wire or a tuned-loop. Most stations I get are Central American, in Spanish (which I don't speak). Sometimes Australia/oceania stations. Japan, Taiwan has English-language programs. The only US station still left (and the strongest signal) is the religious one with the guy who sounds like Wilford Brimly, and who seems to be broadcasting about twenty hours of every day. 
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The only US station still left (and the strongest signal) is the religious one with the guy who sounds like Wilford Brimly, and who seems to be broadcasting about twenty hours of every day. Yep, a lot of evangelists have discovered shortwave radio - It's much cheaper than a TV studio and satellite ground station! A few of the foreign broadcasts are re-transmitted from here in the US - There's a station located in Okeechobee, FL that does it for Radio Taiwan: At night after 5 p.m./6 p.m. until sometime the next morning Eastern Time (depending on daylight saving time), this station broadcasts Radio Taiwan International in English, Mandarin, Cantonese, Hakka, and Spanish.
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