Heard he went with the rocket...
Hey Nick-give us a time window on that one so I can give it a try here
Hmmm...if it was Bolivian, then you got a goodie, because Bolivia is a VERY hard country to hear on HF. I have heard R Diff Acreana from Brazil (in Portugese, natch) on that freq on a semi regular basis in the eves, (R Clube do Para - also a Brazilian - is also a commonly reported Brazilian here) but you're on the west coast. And yes, things get rather hectic when sporting events are broadcast. Wait until you've heard your first 'goooooaaaalllllll' (hi). Brazil has a pretty heavy presence on this part of 60. 73 Mike
Some of us here were wondering about that Grundig a while back-did you just get it?I unrolled a 50' speaker wire in the back yard, strung it between the house and a tree.
caught a bunch of CW on 3510 and at least 3 hams talking about the band plan on 3766. Apparently, they'd been consntantly pushed around by contesters, and one of them fired up FM in the DX Window (3755-3800 kHz). Interestingly enough, none of these guys ever ID'd. I finally caught a callsign in passing. (I have identified 4 different voices at this point.)
Between 04:45 and 05:30 UTC from San Diego:
Found some not quite intelligible stuff from Australia on 15515, news from Havana on 6010, a German language program on 6170, a woman discussing a story on 3510, and a harmonic of a local radio station on 3800.... that's annoying, since it's right at the 80 meter ham band.
This was the first time I've ever used a real SW radio - Grundig Satellit 750
I unrolled a 50' speaker wire in the back yard, strung it between the house and a tree.
This was the first time I've ever used a real SW radio - Grundig Satellit 750
Some of us here were wondering about that Grundig a while back-did you just get it?
The point of this thread is to sort of show that SW is alive and well-and you certainly contributed some good catches...the "woman discussing a story"-was that a broadcast or was it amateur?
If you have a digital camera, could you put up a video of that thing in the "show off your shack" thread...I'd like to see the Grundig in action!
Caught some callsigns on 20 meters CW and RTTY over the weekend. Furthest away was Florida.
Rtty and CW is fun to monitor. I haven't heard any PSK yet, but I'm keeping my ears open.
Would anyone like a tutorial on how to grab digital Ham signals?