G4NSJ - Short Wave Listening SWL HF bands
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- Опубліковано 18 кві 2020
- Short wave listening is still alive and kicking. The HF bands are full of broadcast stations, marine and air traffic, amateur ham radio... take a listen in my amateur radio ham shack!
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I have been listening to shortwave for over 50 years since i was a little child
Excellent!
I remember listening to my dad's old shortwave receiver through the day and not hearing anything, then listening secretly at night.
I remember as a young lad thinking all these mysterious stations only transmitted at night because they had secret messages to pass or something - and they didn't want everyone listening!
Thanks for another great video.
Matt
M0PTO
Thanks Matt, it's nice to hear from you.
it's not us that are nerds it's every one else!! . love the work shop good luck
peter nilan thanks!
Re-kindle my interest in SWL? That you did, so thank you!
miata149 excellent!
There is not so many as there used to be, I remember asking my parents why teo stations were at the same place, of course they didn't know but my mother got close when she said "Perhaps they are from different countries," She was right, but I was so young I didn't know. It is a lot quieter than it used to be, but at night it comes alive, but we tend to go to the TV these days for entertainment. No one thinks of having a listen around and it would upset the wife not hearing East Enders, Coronation Street or what ever. I recall that in the winter it was just crammed with stations, but in summer not so much, but then I would have been out, so maybe that is why lol. We just got a call to come in as it was bedtime, so no radio. We didn't have a TV until late 60s, so radio was the only thing to listen to.
I used to hear some strange things on the old radio before it stopped working, it was split into so many bands (I didn't understand them back then) that I would go from one end of the dial to the other, flick onto the next band and do the same, stopping when I heard something. Those were the days, a good fire roaring away and sitting looking for something to listen to. What is it you say, oh yeah "HAPPY DAYS".
A good fire roaring away... excellent! They were, indeed, happy days! Cheers, Ray.
thanks for filling in the info gaps 👍
Not boring at all brilliant I call it. Many thanks.
Thanks for that Ray, very helpful.
Another info filled video. Thanks 🙏 for taking the time to pass those frequencies on. Regards. G4TZV.
Very interesting video!!! Thank you very much for posting.
thank you Ray, YOU are brilliant ! Greetings from Germany
I used to be able to pick up Australia on 17.795 in the US in the daytime years ago on a GE 10 band radio. Keep up the great vid's!
I used to listen avidly as a teenager in the 90s. Gave it up when I went off to uni and didn't have a radio. This is the second thing this week to rekindle my interest, and now I have a garden to put up some sort of antenna. No longer London, but the West Coast of the US, that will be a bit different I guess.
I always wanted one of those Lowe receivers, remember the reviews and adverts in ShortWave Magazine...
Hi Tristan, it's nice to hear from you. The Lowe receivers are amazing, I'm so glad I found mine... second hand from a friend. Cheers, Ray.
That static sound, you get used to that here in florida in the us everyday during the summer months on mw (AM here in the us) when we have our daily afternoon thundershowers.
Excellent, love it!
I´m a SWLer. I use a very old FRG 7700 with a piece of """""wet string """"" about 30 mtrs long abot 10 mtrs high going down the garden. I would like to mention the British DX Club if I may. They bring out a montly magazine Called ..Communication....use any search engine find BDXC..well worth joining in my opinion.
Excellent, thanks!
SWL's or Hams,we are all radio nerds Ray.LOL :) Keep the videos coming :)
Thanks!
Love listening to you Ray. Great stories! I have been tinkering on the FM band. Filtred of course! Dead bug fun and a bit of wire.
Thanks Steven!
Oh for those that think it's expensive. A tp roll makes a coil and a rf diode/ af amp will do the honours. First reciver worked with a guitar amp. At 7 years old. A hobby that keeps giving SW L. PS 69 YEARS YOUNG
You are a PURE TONIC! ALL BRILLIANT info! Cheers - EI2EBB :-)
Thanks!
The HF-150sounds awesome! GreT sound. I would like to get one someday. They are pretty expensive on the used market now days.
They are very expensive. But well worth it.
Excellent Stuff Ray. in LockDown I am Currently doing alot of this and so good to see your approach from a different country. Thanks. Stay Safe Good Luck. Max.
Thanks Max!
Brilliant video - yes, definitely rekindling my interest in HF listening.
Years of trying to make contacts on HF, we forget that there is so much to listen to.
Not much interest in broadcast stations, but very interested in HF marine and HF aviation.
Another interesting thing to look out for on HF are the numbers stations.
Thank you Ray!!
Ah, the numbers stations! Yes, they are still going!
The Lowe HF-150 a beautiful bit of kit with a nice punchy speaker as can be heard on Ray's. It can be also run from AA batteries if I remember rightly. I had one for all of a week - difficult find on eBay to win!
Very interesting..Thanks Ray. Ian. G0YAP.
I find as night kicks in that the bands come alive. My Xhdata 808 connected to a long wire is fine at home. I even take it out, use gardening wire to make a very decent long wire in the woods. I can bin it after usage. DX-ing is still a great hobby. I love nothing more than finding a new pirate station, or anything that I have not heard before. The summer is amazing for this!
years b4 I got my license I was lent a Racal RA17 (?)
many fascinating hours at night with a few beers listening!! 73
Same here - what a heavy monster of a rig that was. How's your back these days? :-)
@@MrSuperheterodyne funny you should say that....it also kept my garage warm!
@@madcarew.3256 Loved the thing and regretted selling it.... mind you the valves had become microphonic in it - so when you tapped the casing you would hear it thud out of the speaker.
Would have cost a bit to get replacements.
for listening to usb whit a normal tube radio you need two.. Tune the one on the frequenty you here the signal, then tune whit the other radio until they interfere, There is your ssb signal!
Great video Ray. Some nights are quite lively on SW especially when you can get some of the weaker stations and pirates, I log all the frequencies and stations.
Interesting results with the mini whip on all the bands you have demonstrated it on, I might have to invest in one 👍🏼
Thanks!
As a kid I sat for hours with my parents' Pye P75 - but then, you know it, Ray - you refurbished it for me last summer! 73 de Phil M1GWZ
Very interesting Ray, I started my interest in SWL long before i got licensed, had many hours listening on what then was a Grundig Yacht Boy Radio and later a sony with a long wire that plugged in the side, looked like a tape measure, and then in 1993 I got my ticket and SWL took a back seat, may give it a go again sometime soon, Shortwaveschedule.com looks good, i used to use the WRTH for years,
Again many thanks, Mike G7POG/M3MHM
Ray I have been doing some extensive NDB listening over the past few weeks, and so far have logged 118 NDBs throughout Europe and the UK. Antennas for reception are, a rotatable Wellbrook loop and a 100ft half delta loop. Reception mode is LSB, using 2 external audio filters, a Datong FL1 and MFJ digital audio filter which gives me 3 notches in total. Receiver is the ICOM 7600. Do you remember the Trio JR-310 receiver from way back in the 70s, I still have one and it works great with it's stable FET VFO and valve line up.
Radio China International - one of the biggest QRM'ers on the broadcast bands!
Indeed!
I am watching your video, after finishing shortwave radio program of BBC Bangla service .
My 1st radio was an R1155 (wish I still had it) that was replaced with an FRG7 ... still got that ! 50 years old now ... does that count as vintage 🤣. Mainly listen on either my IC7300 or an SDR RSPdx2 ... lot flasher but not as exciting these days ... oh for the days of Radio Australia, tirana etc ... but wouldn't be without a shortwave set of some sorts.
You're right, it's no as exciting these days, but still great fun.
Nice video Ray...👍
Thanks!
Great times during cold war when 41 and 31 m and 25 m were full of Radio Moscow, BBC World etc. during daytime AND nighttime. Once I counted just for fun how many times I could receive Moscow the same time - 19 times it appeard between 4.8 and 15.5 MHz. I often listened to "Sweden calling DXers", Media Network from the Netherlands, HCJB from Equador and of course Luxembourg on 6090 kHz. And still by now - there's a lot to discover on the bands! Have fun and good dx!
Home brew Riggs. Some times I'd spin the wheel on the equations. And get some strange segments. Of spectrum. Ie wind a coil and cut a antenna. Let her rip. So you can imagine Riggs setting on my shelf. And besides beeing a ham. Swl is just as interesting. I've learned to roll my own" satisfying"tks Fer good show om De kv4li. 73
Yeah but you say you’re in the U.K. Most of those station that you’re hearing there are almost local to you.
Located in Ohio USA those signals just don’t make it here or if they do make it here they’re practically unreadable.
But you’re right about daytime versus night time. I catch a lot of my stations at night as you said. Thank you for the great video I am now a subscriber
Hello RR, we can receive those Chinese and Arabic broadcasts here as well during the day in the 15Mhz band 👍
Great information. Here in the states we get a lot of Cuban shortwave station and of course the big stations out of Florida. What sw radio would you recommend for 100$ or under?
My SWL started in the 70s when my grandad gave me a BUSH valve SW radio 📻 sat in grandads tuning the radio I kept getting garbled noises and asked what it was one of grandads mates was their ex Royal Signals said that’s SSB il be back soon and we will decode it 😉 anyway old Baz turned up with another SW radio and he showed me the magic of oscillating the 2 sets together and sort the the SSB signals and that was me hooked on Radio 40 years later I’m still messing with radios
Shortwave listening is not dead
Great video Ray, shortwave is far from dead people just need to invest a little time and effort to see results... BTW we are all radio nerds👍
I used to do the same and listen to the static from thunderstorms :)
Keep in mind we are at the bottom of the sun spot cycle and slowing climbing back up. Radio conditions will keep getting better and in a few more years you will not believe all the activity, day or night.
I have a magnetic loop (preamp at antenna) for rx below 7 MHz.
Not cheap but a good way to rx from my city shack.
73 Ray, Scott W0KU
When I was very young I purchased a coil shortwave radio for $6.50, also purchased a radio called an “ocean hooper” short wave radio. How about the crystal radios, rocket radio.
I love short wave listening, but, in the UK, as you say, in the day the most you will hear is noise. Being such an avid fan I have experimented, and one of my passions was how to resolve the ssb problem when all I have is a radio not equipped with a bfo. I have found, however that often I can resolve this problem by placing another short wave radio close to the listening set and using the tuning dial on this set (with the volume turned down) I will often find, somewhere on the tuning scale, a spot that will make the ssb signals coherent. I dont know why, I just know that in some cases it works. Perhaps you could explain this. Many thanks for your interesting video.
Excellent! The second radio acts as a BFO. What happens is the oscillator in the second radio beats with the oscillator in your radio. Well done! Cheers, Ray.
16 and 19 meter bands where forbidden for listen in Soviet Union, so you could get up to three years in prison if somebody finds your reciever on those bands. 41m, 49m and 75m (that band was maybe Soviet only?) where allowed but all “Capitalist Propanda” stations where jammed. Anyway, with a well stationed areal and highly sensitive narrow band reciever, there was possibility to get programs recorded to cassette tapes and distributed.
Do you have a link to the aerial you describe, Ray, please? I'd like to get one and be sure I'm buying the right thing! Cheers 73, G7JFI
Steeps1969 yes, it’s here... www.ebay.co.uk/itm/333434154701
Cheers Mr Ray..I looked on eBay and cant find the he 150 receiver..can you send me a link on purchasing one..thanks for the demo...I was 6 years when I started using parent's helicrafter sw radio...been hooked ever sence..have a safe and sane week..73s from the UA-cam.com.700 weedkiller/videos...Cheers
Sadly, they stopped making the HF150 in the 1990s.
Interesting video cheers!!!
Ray, brilliant channel, many thanks, have you tried any of the modern portable SW receivers?? XHDATA are excellent little machines even on their own whip antenna.
Hi John, I haven’t tried the modern portable SW receivers. I’ll look into that. Thanks. Cheers, Ray.
@@g4nsj Thanks Ray, I'm quite new to this, unlike yourself, but these new portables are amazing.
@@johncrawford6640 👍
Looks like your in the UK which would be a lot better than living where I am on the west coast of the U.S., where a lot of the stations dont broadcast to north america anymore.
That website doesn't list Harmony, on 5780. Maybe because its a pirate!
Hi Andy.Just laughing out loud mate.😂73.G7HFS
Love the video and would not mnd you spending hours tuning the bands.Not boring at all!
Thanks. I'll be doing another short wave video in a day or two.
Grate video thanks for sharing
I enjoy all ur video
Your 5555 over heating
Can be fix by changing voltage ic
To the maxmod by palamar
It in a large Cass n it has a more efficient pad n I'm shure you know
The Chinese don't youshule put a nuff compound on them
I see a nuff of your video's to KNOW you know more about electronic than me but I dint know you know about the maxmod n I think it just rebrande made over seas
I have use a couple on my radios
N thay work n less the ten buck
03:12 Radio România Internațional
the first radio station went thousands of miles
would not mind being a ham operator ---you have to get all your stuff on the internet now
Any work on crystal radio projects
Not yet but it's inn the pile line.
@@g4nsj great thank you for the reply just wondering on the bandwidth of crystal radio, anyway hope your ok and bye for now
Very knowledgeable and always a good listen, to shame there is not more interest in ham radio. Shame you don’t have an apprentice to pass your skills on to.
I have used a lot of short wave in my life ---using more of the internet now
I would love to be ham atm I'm mobile cb hoping for skip. I'm in South Ireland and pretty much dead except for the Italian's. Y are all these ham radios so expensive, I was already on a budget and now lost my job.. These radios are way out of my league, evn second hand. Please can someone help, I am after buying gear to make my own inverted v for the Last 12months so when I say limited budget..
I can listen to very little short wave as one of my neighbours has one of these bloody plt devices which has destroyed the hobby for me, the interference even encroaches into 10 meters, I phoned ofcom but they couldn't care less, ah well......
What is this pit device your neighbour has, just a bit curious
@@michaelclutton8446 it's a PLT device and they're a bloody nuisance..
www.ban-plt.org.uk/what.php
I will not buy a portable radio with out short wave
You need a haircut!
I do! Everywhere is closed so I'll just have to go back to my hippie days!
I always did better at night