 Subaru1-3-2-4Premium
join:2001-05-31
Greenwich, CT | reply to Subaru
Re: Shortwave radio question I'm tuned into WWV right now but with all the static you can just barely make out the ticks but you can hear the guy but too much static still but better off when it got later.
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5 Mhz is way better |
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 drjimPremium,MVM
join:2000-06-13
Long Beach, CA
kudos:3 | reply to fifty nine
Thanks for the photo album, Fifty Nine! |
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5 MHz will be after the sun sets. During the day, and when conditions are good, you'll sometimes hear WWV on 15 and 20 MHz with near-FM audio quality.
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| Currently comparing WWV signals. Beam is set to 40m and is aimed to Ft Collins.
5MHz is about 40 over whereas 10MHz WWV is barely audible. In fact, WWVH is louder. There is also a Brazilian time station on 10MHz as well.
Here is their website: »www.horalegalbrasil.mct.on.br/
So 5MHz wins for late night listening to WWV.
As a kid, I grew up in the Caribbean and 5MHz was great for listening. I used to listen to the BBC relay station in Antigua on 5.975MHz. The 60m band is nice for night time propagation. The channels thing and 50W ERP (soon to be 100W) is a pain to deal with though. But I still hop on there from time to time. Can't use the beam so I use a dipole. |
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| One more interesting tidbit about WWV - it is actually the longest running broadcast radio station in the US. KDKA is the longest running commercial station but WWV is the longest running of any type.
WWV started out actually broadcasting bulletins from the dept of ag., in morse code no less. |
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said by drjim:Thanks for the photo album, Fifty Nine!
You're welcome!
I am envious of him. It's a job I wish I had - being able to live in a far off place and operate 500kw shortwave transmitters for a living? My definition of awesome.
When you look at SWBC sites worldwide, they are immense and pretty much dwarf anything any ham has ever put up. When disseminating Government propaganda (by any country), pretty much no expense was spared. |
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said by Subaru:So what are they going to do shift to the other transmitter sites? How is that less costly?
They change frequencies due to time of day and area they are transmitting to/from.
They are books/manuals available that list all the stations, where they originate, and the frequencies they transmit on and times.
Or you could go to the major players website(BBC, VOA, etc.) and they will list the times, frequencies, and area. |
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drjimPremium,MVM
join:2000-06-13
Long Beach, CA
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Yeah, definitely a job to be interested in.
One of the 'Founding Fathers' of my radio club was one of the guys that surveyed the routes PanAm used back in the 30's. He also set up most of the navigation aids used back then, dotted all across the Pacific. He went on to either found, or be a partner in ARINC, and had stories that would keep you fascinated for hours.
End of an era, I guess.......
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| Yeah, in the old days you had to go to the ends of the earth and setup radio transmitters to get a worldwide presence. Today you just have to put up servers and connect them to the Internet, and not even that. End of an era indeed. |
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said by 17775992:said by Subaru:So what are they going to do shift to the other transmitter sites? How is that less costly?
They change frequencies due to time of day and area they are transmitting to/from. They are books/manuals available that list all the stations, where they originate, and the frequencies they transmit on and times. Or you could go to the major players website(BBC, VOA, etc.) and they will list the times, frequencies, and area. Used to be you could refer to the world radio tv handbook and it would list the frequencies.
But you could also have written the stations by postal mail and you'd get a frequency schedule back. I have quite a few of those from VOA, BBC, radio Kiev, HCJB and others. |
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 DrStrangeTechnically feasiblePremium
join:2001-07-23
West Hartford, CT
kudos:1 | said by fifty nine:Used to be you could refer to the world radio tv handbook and it would list the frequencies...
You can still do that.
»www.wrth.com/ |
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| For some reason I thought they ceased publication. Thanks! |
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