Posted on 10/25/2014 8:42:21 AM PDT by mylife
That’s a great radio and back in the day, that’s why Radio Shack was so great, selling those at a reasonable price and then, take it home and presto, listen to the world.
Then there was all that other stuff about setting up one’s own antennas to get better reception, hanging wire and all that. I never did it but heard about it.
Ditto. I'm sure the CIA put me on some list.
This is the one thing I miss the most from Radio Moscow.....regardless of the politics, this was one swinging tune.
Moscow Nights.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zT0aeNLHB54
BTTT
In 1990, England of course lost to zee Germans in the semi-finals of the World Cup, may have been a shootout, I forget but there were riots in England when that happened when I guess there was still plenty of hooliganism and the BBC reported it, I can remember listening to it thinking “Oh Wow.” I don’t know where else I would have found out about it though I’m sure newspapers actually covered it.
The BBC back then, not now of course but back then had a reputation for being a fairly unbiased neutral objective reporting organization. They were probably all of that except for perhaps some of their own affairs, Northern Ireland and the like.
Nowadays, I think they’ve recently gotten better but still: http://biasedbbc.org/
That said, they remain a bit of a favorite nonetheless, football/soccer coverage is still good.
I hope England can be saved from these immigration woes they seem to have.
Sometimes they call the "Beeb" something like Auntie, I guess that is it, affectionate term. I wasn't sure if it was Auntie or Granma.
Maybe they haven't gotten better recently.
Podmoskovnye vechera. Another rendition: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8LjuCMETO8
Here's what the Voice of America was using for an interval signal back in that day:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wPGOmWnaaMI
That was back when even Democrat Americans were patriots.
VOA later changed its interlude to Yankee Doodle. Here is an over-the-air recording:
I'm still looking to put together a travel setup, first choice for a centerpiece being a FT-817ND. The guys at ar15.com (it has a great ham radio forum) are buying up KX3s in high numbers this year but that is too rich for my blood, for something to throw in a suitcase or plunk down on a rock. Plus with all of its features, it still lacks some that I want.
But with increasing numbers adopting the latest thing, I'm seeing 817s starting to drop south of $500 - and at that level I can afford to drop in the dual filter kit and have a serious QRP kit (and SWL too) that won't break the bank.
Patience. Speaking of which I haven't asked you in a while - have you, uh, you know...?
45.5 baud. Boy, does that take me back. I thought my 14.4 kps modem was a screamer.
I would say it is a certainty that governments will continue to influence and even outright control what is sent over the air, but there will always be opposition - and pirates.
In case you haven’t been paying attention, the world is sort of catching up to Alex Jones.
Like you, I do my SWLing with one of my transceivers now (at least what little I do).
He is seeming more prophetic than crackpot lately...as crazy as that seems, the people running the show seem crazier.
About then the 33.6K & 56K modems were coming around for the landlines and hams were doing that too but it required much more sophisticated equipment on the radio side.
But now, variants of the 802.11B/G/N protocol are being ported to ham radio, since so much of the radio side of it has become software defined, commercial and consumer WiFi devices can simply be reprogrammed to transmit within ham frequencies and outside of their normal unlicensed power limits, and the communications protocol changed to exclude unlicensed users, and high speed data is returning to ham radio.
The cutting edge talent has changed I guess, from designing radios and modems to writing software.
I think Alex Jones probably is right some of the time. The problem as I see it is he makes his living doing conspiracy so he’s got to do it 5 days a week or however often his show comes on. Their forum I believe is called Prison Planet at info wars, there are a lot of wild things over there and I’ve just got to say, I don’t believe most of this stuff, not that I have ever participated in it, I haven’t. But I will read it from time to time.
The Interval Signal on Shortwave, that would give you a clue, that the broadcaster, BBC or whomever was going to be on the air with their main programing.
Radio Havana’s was great. I do think it could be a few notes from the famous song, ‘Guantanamera’.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UeJOYSJ5mzQ
Also caught the Beeb’s, good also.
I will listen to it all, I’m not always wired but will get around to it. Thanks.
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