03-11-2011, 01:38 PM
When I'm not fixing sets or on general Dad duties I like to have a twiddle about on the short wave bands.
I have a few sets with several dedicated SW bands which perform quite well within the limitations of my aerial (a loop running around the loft) but even my little Pye P75 is quite responsive. Last month Radio Australia was coming in quite well on one of my Murphys.
Even before I got into repairing old sets I've always found it quite enjoyable searching for the most distant broadcast on my more modern comms receivers. Of course, there are also features about other nations and their culture we might not otherwise know about which are educational in themselves. One of the more interesting of these I've come across recently was a feature on Radio India on the Indian Durga Puja festival. China Radio also has some excellent features on their culture as does Rumanian radio.
A couple of months ago I repaired a GEC set and almost the first thing I picked up on its return to life was a numbers station on the 31m band. This was a very strong signal and it was quite weird listening to the robotic counting of number codes while wondering where it was being broadcast from.
Does anyone else have any other interesting stations to look out for?
Andrew
I have a few sets with several dedicated SW bands which perform quite well within the limitations of my aerial (a loop running around the loft) but even my little Pye P75 is quite responsive. Last month Radio Australia was coming in quite well on one of my Murphys.
Even before I got into repairing old sets I've always found it quite enjoyable searching for the most distant broadcast on my more modern comms receivers. Of course, there are also features about other nations and their culture we might not otherwise know about which are educational in themselves. One of the more interesting of these I've come across recently was a feature on Radio India on the Indian Durga Puja festival. China Radio also has some excellent features on their culture as does Rumanian radio.
A couple of months ago I repaired a GEC set and almost the first thing I picked up on its return to life was a numbers station on the 31m band. This was a very strong signal and it was quite weird listening to the robotic counting of number codes while wondering where it was being broadcast from.
Does anyone else have any other interesting stations to look out for?
Andrew