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Shortwave radio still packs an audible thrill
reuters ^ | 1/14/09 | Robert MacMillan

Posted on 01/16/2009 5:29:03 PM PST by mylife

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To: mamelukesabre

Its both. It covers the entire general comm band as a receiver, but you can also use it as a panoramic adapter for any front end from radar to sonar.

Very cool sigint stuff for the masses


401 posted on 12/27/2009 7:12:00 PM PST by mylife (Obama is a fine orator, and Janet Napalitano is cunning linguist)
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Toss a wire up in a tree, and your connected.

I don't think you understood me. You don't need a wire in a tree to listen, and I've never been a Ham. All you need to listen is the radio.

I understood that ISP's were doing something that would drown short wave out with noise.

402 posted on 12/27/2009 7:28:56 PM PST by Zionist Conspirator (Chazzaq! Chazzaq!! Venitchazzeq!!!)
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No. Broadband over powerlines could disrupt RF signals but That has met with enough resistance that I think the idea is dead.


403 posted on 12/27/2009 7:59:00 PM PST by mylife (Obama is a fine orator, and Janet Napalitano is cunning linguist)
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No. Broadband over powerlines could disrupt RF signals but That has met with enough resistance that I think the idea is dead.

That's good. While the Internet in many ways has rendered listening to short wave "obsolete," it certainly doesn't need to be made technically impossible.

404 posted on 12/27/2009 8:00:53 PM PST by Zionist Conspirator (Chazzaq! Chazzaq!! Venitchazzeq!!!)
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I agree.

There is a battle between the two as of present.

I love the internet, but the shortwave and digital shortwave predate it...and in a real pinch? The shortwave is gonna win for communication.

You can drop an atom bomb and some guy with a tube set and a generator will be online,


405 posted on 12/27/2009 8:04:54 PM PST by mylife (Obama is a fine orator, and Janet Napalitano is cunning linguist)
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MARK


406 posted on 12/27/2009 10:23:29 PM PST by JDoutrider
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