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I got a shortwave radio!

Here is my log!

23 responses total.

Okay.  I've listened to various stations.

Right now, I am listening to Radio for Peace International,
which is from Costa Rica.  I am in Eastern North America.

I am getting it on 7445.  It also broadcasts on another frequency,
but I can't recieve that one, as well as I can this.

They are talking about the "general strike" in Venezuala; it
seems to be, to say the least, a
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station.

World Harvest Radio has some great right-wing conspiracy theorist kooks on
weekday evenings until about 8 pm (when they switch to religious
broadcasts.) I think they're 5745 kHz or somewhere around there; don't have
my radio handy so I can't look at the memory bank.  They broadcast from
somewhere in Indiana.

So far I've 'learned' that fluoride in drinking water causes brain damage in
children, and the government knows this but is using it for population
control.  Our money system is doomed to collapse because it's not backed by
gold.  Oh, and the border control is deliberately doing a bad job keeping
out Mexicans, because the government wants cultural clashes and ethnic
strife to happen so the UN will have an excuse to march in and take over.

WWCR (world wide christian radio) 5170 KHz also has some great right-wing
paranoia programs.....it's actually quite funny.

Listening to staticy Chinese music on China Radio International at 9690.

Now listening to World Harvest Radio on 5745.  Told me:  George Schultz had
a tatoo on his buttocks.

!stty erase ^?

Just learned:  We must preach to prisoners, as Islam rates behind bars are
increasing, and we don't want them to come out as Muslim terrorists.

Listening to DW Radio; 6020kHz.

MORE China Radio International at 9730kHz; clear, English news programme.

Japan.

YES!  Listened to haiku made by listeners; rated by proffesional haikuer.

DW Radio from Germany is planning to stop service to North America,
Austrailia, and New Zealand, according to a report I heard on Radio Korea
International.

SAVE DW RADIO!

This is worse than the BBC stopping, because I don't think DW comes to me
clearly on ANY OTHER STATIONS than the ones appropriate to NA!

The DW website mentions nothing about stopping service, but does mention
two rebroadcasts of NEwslink to North America starting in 2003.

THESE A RUMOURS OF THE FUTURE, goose.  Trust me; I am correct.

I never trust anyone who says "Trust me" ;-)

I heard some more about it on FLANDERS BRUSSELS RADIO

speaking of which:
        does Hey  ham radio go AROUND the world by some magic, or is it just
 more local?

It depends on the frequency.  Anything below 30 MHz (which would be the
160 through 10 meter amateur bands) is considered to be in the "HF"
(High Frequency) region.  Under the right conditions it's refracted by
the ionosphere enough to send it back to earth (often referred to as
"skip", since the signal "bounces off"), which lets it reach parts of
the earth over the horizon.  Whether the "skip" is good for a particular
frequency is a complicated question and depends on the season, the
sunspot count, and the time of day, among other things.  Generally the
lower-frequency bands are better at night, and the higher ones during
the day.  This is because of a layer of the ionosphere called the D
layer, which thickens during the day and tends to absorb lower
frequencies but refract higher ones.

Frequencies above 30 MHz are VHF (Very High Frequency), UHF (Ultra High
Frequency), and Microwave bands.  They generally aren't refracted enough
by the ionosphere to come back to the surface, so they continue out into
space instead.  30 MHz isn't an absolute cutoff, but the higher you go
in frequency the less likely you are to get a signal over the horizon. 
Skip occasionally occurs at 50 MHz (the 6 meter amateur band) when the
sunspot count is high, and on rare occasions it occurs at 144 MHz (the 2
meter amateur band.)

This is a really interesting but complicated topic, and there are
several books that explain it in great detail if you're interested.

When will Radio Free Polytarp start broadcasting on 6955 kHz?

Heh...I'll be listening for it!

Speaking of which, which book would be good for explaining short-wave radio
stuff on a technical level?

Which short wave radio stuff? For some of everything, the ARRL handbook
would serve. But the stuff runs from ohms law to wave propagation from
antennas - several orders of magnitude differences in complexity. 

OOH.  THat sounds just like what I Want.

IN FACT, mr Curl, it is, thanks a lot for your help and all geez.

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