A ghostly radio station that no one claims to run
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Re: A ghostly radio station that no one claims to run
#2Neet, I used to listen to machine sent morse code number stations as a kid on my shortwave.
https://lifehacker.com/5961035/how-to-listen-to-real-spy-bro...
Re: A ghostly radio station that no one claims to run
#3did the bbc just learn what number stations are? super cute. i think the bbc has a very young writing staff these days.
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#4I read this article last weekend and after reading it, I put batteries in my shortwave radio to see what was out there. Turns out, there's pretty much nothing.
I couldn't hear anything on 4625 kHz. I let my receiver scan and when it was done I checked out what it detected and found absolutely nothing interesting. The most powerful signals were Christian broadcasts that had a kind of doomsday feeling about them.
It seems like there's a lot of underutilized spectrum.
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#5For the lazy who were hoping to find an audio clip in the article: you can find some here: http://www.sigidwiki.com/wiki/The_Buzzer_(ZhUOZ_MDZhB_UZB76)
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#6I read this article last weekend and after reading it, I put batteries in my shortwave radio to see what was out there. Turns out, there's pretty much nothing. I couldn't hear anything on 4625 kHz. I let my receiver scan and when it was done I checked out what it detected and found absolutely nothing interesting. The most powerful signals were Christian broadcasts that had a kind of doomsday feeling about them. It se…
Were you in a good spot? I can hear a lot of stuff with my shortwave receiver and I'm in SLC, Utah. Occasionally, I get to hear pirate transmissions and whatnot.
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#7I read this article last weekend and after reading it, I put batteries in my shortwave radio to see what was out there. Turns out, there's pretty much nothing. I couldn't hear anything on 4625 kHz. I let my receiver scan and when it was done I checked out what it detected and found absolutely nothing interesting. The most powerful signals were Christian broadcasts that had a kind of doomsday feeling about them. It se…
As the article says, just because you couldn't hear it the one time you tried, doesn't mean it isn't transmitting. You hearing it depends on the condition of the ionosphere. The time of day, the number of sunspots along with other things will effect your reception of the signal.
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#8I read this article last weekend and after reading it, I put batteries in my shortwave radio to see what was out there. Turns out, there's pretty much nothing. I couldn't hear anything on 4625 kHz. I let my receiver scan and when it was done I checked out what it detected and found absolutely nothing interesting. The most powerful signals were Christian broadcasts that had a kind of doomsday feeling about them. It se…
Night hours are best for shortwave reception. You could also need an external antenna depending on how far you are listening from. Another problem, probably the biggest one today, which affects reception on these frequencies (and generally on the HF bands) is the radio noise generated by many bad designed switching power supplies and appliances. Switching regulators (power supplies, converters, chargers etc.) for efficiency and size reasons have moved from the tens of KHz through the hundreds of KHz and recently they started working above 1 MHz which means having into our homes one or more transmitters with antennas (mains or output cable) that if not properly designed, filtered and shielded will render reception on HF bands next to impossible.
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#9I read this article last weekend and after reading it, I put batteries in my shortwave radio to see what was out there. Turns out, there's pretty much nothing. I couldn't hear anything on 4625 kHz. I let my receiver scan and when it was done I checked out what it detected and found absolutely nothing interesting. The most powerful signals were Christian broadcasts that had a kind of doomsday feeling about them. It se…
From what I understand it isn't on all the time. There are actually long periods of time where it doesn't transmit anything. Last week when I was digging a little deeper I ran into an older discussion on another board where they were saying it was off for years and came back on when Russia invaded Ukraine.
It could be off again, don't know.
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#10Any speculation that it's as mundane as a test tone for a specific radio device? Is your radio working, is it calibrated properly...