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Originally Posted by Пятхъдесят Шест
Excellent!!!
What are you using to pick up these tremendous finds? An expensive tabletop nightmare? Antenna the size of Chile?
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Cheers for listening
I'm actually just using a small wideband scanner, which everybody curses when it comes to shortwave - but I've had a lot of luck with it. When it's all you have - you tend to work towards getting the most out of it.
There are a few nice models out there that would do a better job than what I have and are a *lot* cheaper:
The Degen De 1103 & its more expensive cousin the Grundig G5 - are really quite small and very effective SW sets from everything I've read. Check out the Degen on eBay - they're really nicely priced, and I'm having trouble stopping myself getting one
The Redsun RP2100 is bigger, with a nice chunky speaker and it's worth a look too, but it has no Single Sideband option which is a no no if you're interested in the odd stuff.
As regards the antenna - all of this has been picked up on simple longwires, but yes they are the length of Chile's coastline
One of the wires is around 14m long and I've had a lot of luck with it.
I've got another one for when I'm in the sticks, which is about 40M long and excellent.
Simple speaker wire does the job.
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Also if anyone wants to sample any of this for anything - go right ahead, you don't need permission from me as I've just borrowed it from Russian/Cuban/Polish/American/God knows what else military/diplomatic/intelligence agency anyways
(no I wont sue you, unlike irdial disks and wilco)
In the last few days I've managed to pick up Cherry Ripe - the Lincolnshire Poachers (RIP) sister station. The transmitter is located in Guam - the other side of the planet, so reception is pretty poor but I'll stick it on my next dealy.