11/27/06 Shortwave radio
The shortwave radio bug bit me again last night, after a bunch of years. I don’t know what it is, but there’s somehting about it that’s haunting. With podcasting you now can easily listen to people from all over the world, but the shortwave radio is something else. You slowly search for some signal, then you find one and carefully tune till the voice gets as clear as possible; it’s amazing that those radio waves are travelling up to thousands of miles to where you are
Last night i looked for this homebrew antenna i used to use for shortwave (ok, it’s just a long piece of wire, but it IS an antenna anyway…), with no luck. I tried with the built in one. Some local stations, the ocasional brazilian transmition, static, more static, and more static. Bo-ring; i can get brazilian transmitions DXing with an AM walkman. I turned it off and went get the antenna from my room’s stereo (it’s broken so i keep it linked to the reciever with a piece of wire) and attached it to the external antenna input. I turned it on, and without any tuning this woman started speaking in french (no, it’s not Lost, hehe). The joy of shortwave was back!
The ghetto antenna didn’t let me listen to much. That won’t stop me from trying again tonight though. Wish me happy tuning!
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