Intro To Shortwave High Frequency Listening, FOR FREE!

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What do you think of LC90?

Thank you, so your examples of a radio, the 1st instance Tescun PL330, does say it has a single sideband. doesn't it? Also, I watched a few Ham Youtubers from NC, and after doing though the storm recommend to get an analog scanner. Would you please recommend?

Just some info for other new people to Short Wave Listening(SWLing), a great site to use to determine where an international broadcast is coming and who it might be from is (Shortwave Info). It is the first link that pops up with a hyphen between the two words. It is free and no account creating at all. Very useful for Dxing hard to find stations.

Anybody know the name of the song at 26:35?

Thanks!

What you think about using a dedicated scanner hoshnasi.

Greetings from Sweden.
At 21:10 that was ARN Airport Arlanda about 30 km North of Stockholm.

IMHO: ...SADLY FM RADIO SOUNDS GREAT, BUT, THEY ALWAYS PLAY COMMERCIAL, OR, "PUBLIC RADIO" CRAP, OR "RELIGIOUS" CRAP, OR, SPANISH VERSIONS OF THESE SAME DISMAL STYLES.... "AM" IS EVEN WORSE, AND FULL OF STATIC, IS HAD TO GET A CLEAR STATION, AND I'M TIRED OF "HISS"!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! "SW" IS THE ABSOLUTE WORST.... CONSTANT HISS!!!!!!!!!!!!! UNINTERUPTED STATIC, BARELY AUDIBLE FOREIGN LANGUAGES, AND RADIO GEEK-SPEEK, THAT IS MEANINGLESS, AND USELESS... I DON'T LIKE ANYTHING ON "RADIO"... NEVER HAVE.....
IMHO: IT COULD, AND SHOULD BE A GREAT TOOL, USED TO PROMOTE, TEACH, USE, AND PRESERVE MANY OF THE WORLD'S DYING LANGUAGES!!!!!!!...

Remember public access tv? Wayne's World ex. We need a lil no profit, but link to soc. media broadcast band. Some time limits or you have to claim your slot and get you bits and segments together and then shut it down at the end time. Plenty of content rules and then the adapting begins. Just a missing thing in the radio spectrum.

refraction?

Shortwave good for sending encoded messages 😊

I have a realistic DX 160. I listen to shortwave on Friday and Saturday nights.

Josh, could you use Kiwi SDR to see how well you're "getting out" with your HAM station? I've often looked for friends and said "how am I sounding", then made adjustments and like "how about now". If you could use Kiwi SDR to monitor your own transmissions it would make this process easier, and you'd be able to evaluate your antenna, band conditions, etc. from a single location. Let me know what you think if this possible use. (By the way I went from no license to Extra starting with your video series, and Tech class by HRCC folks!)

nice allusion to K8MRD with embiggen!

what do you think of the teksun pl-368 super portable i love this little radio

IIRC, early 1950' (before TV) I vaguely remember whole family gathered together tuning in & Listening to very old, huge wooden Zenith 4 band radio...The huge Round "Lightning Bolt) dial had many SW Foreign broadcast frequency allocations + an odd 1600--1700 kHz "Police Radio" band & Only heard Base station (Radio dispatcher ?) transmissions....By late "50s or very early "60s, that "Polics" band went Quiet never heard again....When the Dial cord began Slipping, I marveled & Respected my dad Blindly poking his Bare hand into Rear of cabinet manually turning the dial over the "Stuck" point..."Like dad, like son" I later did that "Bare hand" maneuver Myself !! .....Thank God those naked Bare vacuum tube Top electrodes were probably low voltage "Grid" caps !!

I began listening to SW radio back in the 1970s while stationed in Europe, using a Yaesu FRG-7 receiver. In the late 1980s I acquired a Sony ICF-7600DS digital receiver, as I was travelling on a regular basis. My latest acquisition is an SDRPlay RSPdx SDR receiver which has great expanded my listening bandwidth.

That's cool that you happened across HCJB. My dad supported the Christian broadcast ministry of HCJB. I remember us getting mailings from them. Clarence Moore of HCJB invented and patented an antenna which he called a quad, but is different than from the modern quad antenna.

Check the sensitivity for SSB. The cheap radios are often rather deaf by a factor of 100.

These Kiwi stations must have a fixed number of SDRs to share, i.e. they can "fill up", right?

KiwiSDR allows me to sit in the library, copying digital modes silently on my laptop. Amazed that Marconi memorial Kiwi in California could log four milliwatt CW beacons in Arizona transmitting in the 13560 kHz experimental band.

It wouldn't be science if there weren't multiple names for the same topic. I have been confused by the term short wave for years. While, not an actual definition, I finally ended up for myself deciding that in general when people use the term Shortwave, they are talking about receiving capability primarily, even though yes, we are talking about the same bandwidths as Amateur Radio.

Thanks for video.

Im getting back into dabbling. I used to be big into the 11 meter band (if you know you know). Just picked up a sdr dongle to play woth and do some local scanner feeds with.

I started listening to shortwave before I got my ham license at 14... built a radio form junk TV parts that sorta worked, then got an old antique radio I fixed up... listened to SSB on the CW setting of that old radio with a hand constantly on the BFO because it drifted horribly LOL

Fun to hear WWVH(Hawaii) announcer(female) just before the WWV announcer(male) and if propagation is good the ticks have a very tiny offset if you are hearing WWVH long path, like an echo...


WWCR used to do a bit on amateur radio and on the station engineering of WWCR and how they tune the antennas to shift the patterns... it was an interesting 30 minute show. They may still do it, haven't listened to them in quite awhile.

Greetings from Sweden!
Just what I needed!

I have a few dongles and all work fine but..
Do you know how to get the rsp1a to work with DragonOS?

I tried to find a tutorial but I must be stupid and don't seem to find any. 😢

The Tecsun PL-330 doesn't have a waterfall display, and it's pretty much the "little brother" of the PL-990. It has a smaller speaker, but does SSB very very well. The built in rechargeable battery lasts for hours and hours, it's the perfect travel radio, and cheaper than the Skywave, though slightly larger. It also is very good at pulling in fringe FM ststions. I highly recommend it, just my humble opinion. 😊 73 DE W8LV Bill.

This is an amzing tool ! how did I miss this -hearing my cw tx overseas ! Also picks up FT8 decodes -Thanks Josh

Ok, Josh, you got me. Had to subscribe. Just got my first radio (tr)uSDX (no antenna yet), but I've been using SDR. This KiwiSDR is so much better - never heard of it 'til now. You're always pretty darn helpful and expound on things well. I've really been wanting a breakdown of what I am seeing on the HF spectrum, as that's what I'm focused on. I've wondered about those digital "streams" and thought maybe they were Sun activity. Fascinating stuff. Glad you appreciate Christian content too.

I love KiwiSDR. Love hearing the stations out there. Also had a friend in Iowa call out to a station in Australia while I was sitting here in Missouri. I was listening on a SDR stream down there and I could hear him. He also gave me a shout out while transmitting. 😀