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To: Zionist Conspirator

I discovered SW listening during the late 1960s and progressed through several better radios until buying an Allied SX-190 (http://www.dxing.com/rx/ax190.htm) from Radio Shack in 1972. I still have that radio but seldom use it - there isn’t much that is interesting to hear anymore. Sadly, the Internet has all but killed SWL. I probably logged English broadcasts from 40 foreign countries.

I enjoyed listening to the rabid communist stations, they were all pretty extreme like North Korea today. It gave me a sense of just how dangerous the outside world really was. Radio Tirana (Albania) was probably the weirdest. I have fond memories hearing the Red Chinese screaming against “American imperialists and their running dogs”. I also was thrilled to hear the heroic production figures of Pipe Factory #47, or whatever.

Before I understood how different radio frequencies affected propagation, I used to wonder why there wasn’t such a thing as SW television. At least with the Internet I can now see video from around the world.

I once built a SW crystal radio that would pull in the BBC and a couple other high powered stations. I’m a bit too deaf to do that stunt now.


97 posted on 07/04/2016 11:33:40 AM PDT by TexasRepublic (Socialism is the gospel of envy and the religion of thieves. Socialism is governmental theft!)
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To: TexasRepublic

Radio Peking circa 1967

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vrzj251VxPU


98 posted on 07/04/2016 11:35:49 AM PDT by dfwgator
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To: TexasRepublic
I enjoyed listening to the rabid communist stations, they were all pretty extreme like North Korea today. It gave me a sense of just how dangerous the outside world really was. Radio Tirana (Albania) was probably the weirdest. I have fond memories hearing the Red Chinese screaming against “American imperialists and their running dogs”. I also was thrilled to hear the heroic production figures of Pipe Factory #47, or whatever.

Radio Tirane was omnipresent. As I said before, I've never picked up North Korea.

When I first started listening, Mao was still alive. Their station was called "Radio Peking" back then (none of this "Beijing" nonsense; that came later). I don't remember a great deal of the programming, but I do recall a segment on some sort of operation that could restore sight to the blind. They quoted one patient as saying "to Chairman Mao and socialism, we owe our thanks."

I also remember a "revolutionary folk song" entitled Joy of Emancipation.

106 posted on 07/04/2016 11:46:35 AM PDT by Zionist Conspirator (HaShem first! Anything else is idolatry, a violation of the very first commandment!)
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