Showing posts with label Short Wave Listening. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Short Wave Listening. Show all posts
Monday, October 14, 2024

Monitoring Maritime Radio Messages with YADD

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  Click on the image for a clearer view This is really cool and very easy.  Easy nerd thrills.   On Friday, Steve VE7SL, put up a blog post...
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Wednesday, May 29, 2024

2014 "Off the Shelf" Regen Comes Off the Shelf (Two Videos)

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Walter KA4KXX spotted an error in the schematic of my 2014 "Off the Shelf" regen receiver: The source resistor on the MPF-102 sho...
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Thursday, March 7, 2024

The Wizard of Schenectady -- Charles Proteus Steinmetz

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Such a beautiful article.   Ramakrishnan VU2JXN sent it to me.  It reminded me of how puzzeled we were when we found "Schenectady"...
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Saturday, November 25, 2023

Some Short-Wave Listener QSL Cards

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Click for a better view I haven't received many, but I always like QSL cards from shortwave listeners.  Someone out there is listening! ...
Wednesday, November 15, 2023

Whole Earth Catalog Part II: More on SWL (and a Hippy One-Tube Receiver)

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Click on image for a better view Lee McKusick was correct about many things, but of course we were a bit disappointed by his focus on store ...
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Tuesday, November 14, 2023

From the Last Whole Earth Catalog (1971) -- Short Waves -- Part 1

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Click on image for a better look Having recently returned from San Francisco, it seemed somehow appropriate for me to take a look into the L...
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Wednesday, February 1, 2023

Hammarlund HQ-100 Misidentified in 1963 FCC Film

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Oh the indignity!  It appears at 7 minutes 16 seconds in this FCC film.  It is clearly an HQ-100, but the FCC subtitles identify it at an HQ...
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Sunday, January 8, 2023

A Really Great Podcast: 90th Birthday of the BBC

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  Listen! https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/w3ct4lzh
Sunday, November 20, 2022

Watching Shortwave Broadcast Stations on the TinySA Spectrum Analyser

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November 18, 2022 1244 UTC. I was using a TinySA spectrum analyzer to look at noise levels on the 40 meter ham radio band. I also wanted t...
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Wednesday, November 9, 2022

Direct Conversion Receiver -- Simple 2-Diode Mixer Defeats Radio Marti, but Diode Ring is the Best

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  Here is another update on Direct Conversion receiver construction. In Northern Virginia we get very strong signals from the Radio Marti t...
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Friday, June 17, 2022

SolderSmoke Podcast #238 -- SolderSmoke Shack South, Cycle 25, Chiquita Banana Radio, RCA, HQ-100, Mate Mighty Midget, Sony SWL RX , Mailbag

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SolderSmoke Podcast #238 is available:  http://soldersmoke.com/soldersmoke238.mp3 TRAVELOGUE:   Cathartic decluttering:  Bill preparing for ...
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Wednesday, May 25, 2022

HF Bandsweep with the Hammarlund HQ-100 (video)

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It has been a while since we last did a bandsweep.  Too long.  Here is one using my recently fixed up Hammarlund HQ-100.  Repair details are...
Saturday, May 21, 2022

Repairing the Sony ICF SW1 Receiver -- Used for Numbers Station Reception? Why no replacement for C-625?

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Ten years ago, my friend John gave me this tiny Sony receiver.  It wasn't working.   I tried to fix it but quickly discovered that the t...
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Thursday, April 28, 2022

Shortwave and Numbers Stations in 2022 (video)

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Thanks to Rogier PA1ZZ for sending this to me.  
Wednesday, March 30, 2022

Mike WU2D Looks at the "Dream" SW Receivers of the 1960s and 70s (Video)

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Wow, I really liked Mike's walk down memory lane. I saw several of my own dream receivers:  S-38E.  Indeed, this little monster did add ...
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Wednesday, November 24, 2021

Gloria -- A Netflix Series about a Shortwave Broadcast Station in Portugal

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Rarely if ever will we come across a high quality NETFLIX series built around a shortwave broadcast transmitter.  But that is what we have i...
Thursday, June 24, 2021

Radio Netherlands -- Bonaire Relay Station

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Thanks to Rogier KJ6ETL, PA1ZZ for sharing this video with us (that's Rogier on the Vespa).  I wonder what they did with the towers and ...
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Friday, June 18, 2021

Jean Shepherd on CW, and Strange Propagation -- QRP!

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From 1965.  Great CW stories from Shep.  QRP!  Shep running 2 watts on 20 CW, working DX.  He discusses shortwave listening,  and predicted ...
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Monday, April 5, 2021

Shortwave Event: Brother Stair is Dead

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https://www.live5news.com/2021/04/04/colleton-county-pastor-ralph-stair-dies/?fbclid=IwAR2g607BgdaxodCVIjQjdOYg_O-CHyr-LYFpKjbCyRmyTbYcGaiei...
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Sunday, January 10, 2021

The Dream of a Shortwave Fiend

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  Thanks to Mark Rowley and Jeff Murray for posting this magazine cover on Facebook.
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