Shortwave radio

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Who else here loves it? I've been listening to NHK world every day, & then there's the novelty of listening to Voice of Korea...& I've actually found Radio Habana Cuba to be a rather decent news source for communist nation...

I listen to it every now and then while I'm working on my antique radios. When properly electronically restored, some of the sets that were built before WWII are FANTASTIC SW receivers.

Also, even though a repressive governmental regime might try to and somewhat successfully block access to certain internet websites, they are hard-pressed to stop up all of the SW bands - and before the late 1980s, Radio Free Europe was very instrumental in bringing down the Commies in Eastern Europe.

Mike

Short wave radios? These days we have the internet.

Still, when I was a kid back in the 1960s I had a shortwave radio.

I used to listen to Radio Peking. It was a hoot!

"This is Radio Peking. Today the US imperialist paper tigers and their running dog allies have committed more atrocities in Vietnam"

It was so bad it was hilarious.

There isn't much on shortwave radio nowadays. Most of the big stations have shut down. I used to listen to Havana during the Bush Administration, they actually had some interesting news about America, secret news. I'm thinking of tuning in Russia who seems to be our main enemy now and seeing if they have any secret news about us. Voice of Korea (North Korea) should be interesting, they usually broadcast in the mornings US time so I am never up early enough.

I'm listening to it right now, and I am licensed to transmit on certain parts of the short wave spectrum, using max 1500 W.

Radios are one of my special interests. I have many of them (and parts of them) piled up everywhere.

I built my first home-made radio receiver when I was 6, and my first radio transmitter when I was 10.

Another radio ham here although I spend a lot of time tuning around the broadcast bands to see what I can find.

As a kid I had a wire antenna running the length of my parents garden but one neighbor didn't like this. One day the doorbell rang and my father answered the door, the next thing I knew he was ORDERING me downstairs RIGHT NOW! There was a police officer standing there who, quite calmly, apologized for calling round in uniform but someone had reported that a Communist spy was living in the house and reporting back to Moscow on his transmitter. I took the officer upstairs to show him my receiver (no transmitter then as I was too young) and as we walked into my room the first thing he spotted was a QSL card from Radio Moscow on the wall.

He left, smiling. I'm still free.

Vanilla_Slice

I listened to BBC on the Internet. Surprisingly, Radio Moscow doesn't seem to 'transmit' during reasonble hours...