What kind of listener are you ?

[KF0SKV]

#3 for the most with #2 thrown in for fun.

Emphasis on monitoring Utility/Military, etc. I'll take a spin across 6800-7000mhz for the pirates. 10/11 meter outbanders and 27.7000 SSTV is always interesting.

Listening to Amateur radio DX contests gives me a good reference on how my longwire is performing and plotting the receive pattern of each band.

 

[Blueliner]

What category is a guy with 5 SWL type radios, who has fallen into the SDR habit because of the visual nature of its tuning. I am one of those who might spend an hour or so per week on hams, broadcast, and occasional aircraft bands. Although I often get impatient waiting for coms on the aircraft bands. Found the hams chats more entertaining of late. Although I was surprised to hear a couple of them taking verbal shots at each other, really embarrassing with name calling etc. Had to move on from that one after realizing what was going on.

 

[W8WCA]

1 through 3 fit me pretty well.
4 Used to fit me - but I sold all my tube Rx's (I really miss 3 of them: a All Collins R390A that Rick Mish redid, a great condition Hammarlund SP-600-JX-21A and my Drake R4C/FS4.

 

[samcken]

Apparently none of the above. My wife says I never listen.

 

[TAC4]

Apparently none of the above. My wife says I never listen.

Gold 🥇

 

[Boombox]

#3 for the most with #2 thrown in for fun.

Emphasis on monitoring Utility/Military, etc. I'll take a spin across 6800-7000mhz for the pirates. 10/11 meter outbanders and 27.7000 SSTV is always interesting.

Listening to Amateur radio DX contests gives me a good reference on how my longwire is performing and plotting the receive pattern of each band.

I also like tuning the HF ham contests, because it's the only way to hear a lot of countries that no longer have SW broadcast outlets, or their MW outlets are out of reach here in the US (for the most part) -- Argentina, Chile, Uruguay being three examples.

 

[radar_hunter]

Out of those options, nr. 5, software geek, since I use SDRs almost exclusively. I started with SDRs and using a traditional receiver feels like searching for signals while blindfolded.

I own some 1940s/1950s tube radios too, but don't really collect them.

Other than those options, I would say I'm a utility an oddity listener. Most of the time I'm searching for all kinds of strange stuff from VLF to low VHF. Military, diplomat, numbers stations, Russian beepers and buzzers, jammers, submarine communications, also NDB and DGPS beacons, and of course OTH radars as you may guess from my username.

Broadcasts are less interesting to me, except longwave and perhaps FM DX. Ham radio, occasionally interesting, but not for very long.

 

[rf_patriot200]

I like listening to anything I'm not authorized to hear.

 

[ratboy]

I STILL have about a dozen receivers, a couple of HF transceivers, and a half dozen SDR's. That's fine, but the crazy thing is I can't really listen at home, the noise wipes out almost everything. Same goes for work, except it's worse. A ton of network cables, PCs, and a couple of NOCs really throw up the hash. All I can do is mobile listening, and that has it's own drawbacks. Sad part of it is I have to fight the urge to buy whatever new toy comes along. I've tried to switch hobbies, but I think it's too late for me. I like RC cars a lot, but the maintenance, cleaning, and battery hassles take it down the fun a little. But, it's hard to hate a foot long car/truck that goes nearly 50 MPH out of the box. I have two of them, and haven't really run them much due to the breakage thing. And the battery and charger costs. So far, I haven't broken either of them.