The strange world below Short Wave
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The strange world below Short Wave
Anyone interesting in things below 160m band, from AM broadcast DX to communications?
I'm always interested in hearing shipping stuff such as NAVTEX but have never heard anything.
I'm always interested in hearing shipping stuff such as NAVTEX but have never heard anything.
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Re: The strange world below Short Wave
Plenty of traffic there.
I suggest to use http://www.klingenfuss.org/super.htm best source of data IMO.
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I suggest to use http://www.klingenfuss.org/super.htm best source of data IMO.
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Re: The strange world below Short Wave
You have the NDB's - around 300k - 430k good slow morse practice
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Re: The strange world below Short Wave
There's lots of stuff but you need to reduce your local noise to hear some of it. A loop antenna helps enormously. Navtex is fairly easy to receive and you can download a free decoder from't'internet. Below 150kHz there's all manner of time and frequency standards and even encrypted submarine comms going all the way down to a few kHz. Once or twice a year, the SAQ 17.2 kHz TX comes on from Sweden. This is an ancient 'alternator' transmitter, just a big RF-generating mechanical AC generator putting about 80 kW up the huge vertical antenna. A shot of Grimeton as it appears on my SDR fed from a homebrew loop antenna and an audio snip of it as received on the same set up: The bigger peaks around 20-22 kHz are sub comms stations.
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Re: The strange world below Short Wave
Yes, that band interest me. I'll listen to anything down there, but late night American MW stations are my speciality.
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WBBR in New York, 1130khz, 2300-0200hrs. US stations are on a 10khz channel spacing.
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Some sort of well encrypted digital mode one would hope.
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Re: The strange world below Short Wave
Receiving, yes. Decoding no! I've tried a number of decoders with gibberish results so it's either some weird mode or (more likely) it's encrypted.
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