DonnieZ
Member
Hi -
Been reading these forums for the past couple of months, and I finally decided to get an account to start posting tonight.
Been an SWL throughout various stages of my life - I'd play with my Dad's Realistic Patrolman-60 when I was a kid and pull in all kinds of wierd stuff. In my late teens I picked up a RadioShack DX-380 and ran the RS longwire kit between my antenna tower and a tree and I used to pick up all kinds of stuff. Being the computer geek that I am, I added a Ten-Tec RX-320 to my collection of radio gear about 8 or 9 years ago. Blew the FETs in it a couple of times, and ended up putting it away for a few years while I managed to find myself a wife! Now that we're settled in, I decided to pull the Ten Tec RX-320 out of the closet. I managed to replace the FETs myself and got the unit up and running about a month ago.
I must say that I'm dissapointed in how SW broadcasting has changed in just a short few years. I remember listening to the US and British forces marching into Kabul in late 2001 on the BBC. Too bad there's few BBC or VOA stations that are audible in the US anymore. I also remember scanning the dial and at just about any given time I'd be able to hear the monotonus lady speaking numbers in Spanish. (Numbers stations always creeped me out and fascinated me at the same time....)
So instead of being a town of a few hundered people with an acre of land to run whatever type of antenna I wish, I'm now living in a condo in a suburb of Chicago and I've managed to run a 40 some odd foot longwire antenna along the rafters in the attic here. Surprisngly, the antenna is very quiet for being in town.
Ok, now that the personal history report is done with, I've found two or three stations that I was wondering if the experts in the field could identify..
It seems that on 9500, 9600, and smetimes 9700 KHz there's just a carrier. No voice, no anything, just a carrier. It's hitting about S1 on the meter on 9500 and 9600 tonight. On 9690 there's carrier that's coming through that's absolutely silencing anything else and it's booming in at S7-S8 here.
Anyone know what's up with these stations? (Out of all the oddities I hear on SW since getting back into the hobby, I have to ask about the dead carriers
)
Thanks
- Don
Been reading these forums for the past couple of months, and I finally decided to get an account to start posting tonight.
Been an SWL throughout various stages of my life - I'd play with my Dad's Realistic Patrolman-60 when I was a kid and pull in all kinds of wierd stuff. In my late teens I picked up a RadioShack DX-380 and ran the RS longwire kit between my antenna tower and a tree and I used to pick up all kinds of stuff. Being the computer geek that I am, I added a Ten-Tec RX-320 to my collection of radio gear about 8 or 9 years ago. Blew the FETs in it a couple of times, and ended up putting it away for a few years while I managed to find myself a wife! Now that we're settled in, I decided to pull the Ten Tec RX-320 out of the closet. I managed to replace the FETs myself and got the unit up and running about a month ago.
I must say that I'm dissapointed in how SW broadcasting has changed in just a short few years. I remember listening to the US and British forces marching into Kabul in late 2001 on the BBC. Too bad there's few BBC or VOA stations that are audible in the US anymore. I also remember scanning the dial and at just about any given time I'd be able to hear the monotonus lady speaking numbers in Spanish. (Numbers stations always creeped me out and fascinated me at the same time....)
So instead of being a town of a few hundered people with an acre of land to run whatever type of antenna I wish, I'm now living in a condo in a suburb of Chicago and I've managed to run a 40 some odd foot longwire antenna along the rafters in the attic here. Surprisngly, the antenna is very quiet for being in town.
Ok, now that the personal history report is done with, I've found two or three stations that I was wondering if the experts in the field could identify..
It seems that on 9500, 9600, and smetimes 9700 KHz there's just a carrier. No voice, no anything, just a carrier. It's hitting about S1 on the meter on 9500 and 9600 tonight. On 9690 there's carrier that's coming through that's absolutely silencing anything else and it's booming in at S7-S8 here.
Anyone know what's up with these stations? (Out of all the oddities I hear on SW since getting back into the hobby, I have to ask about the dead carriers
)Thanks
- Don
