I rigged up an antenna the other day and thought I would try to old 49 metre band and there it was booming in - the Voice of Vietnam from 10 pm to 11 pm at 6175 Khz. Who knew?
And there are not a lot of not quite post-Communist stations left out there with their bland mix of the elevator music of others and obscure news bulletins about their nation's joint agricultural committee meetings with the Finns or Peru. In the good old days, every capital had a really bad station and the best were those who worked "hegemony" into as many sentences as possible. Good to see that someone believes an entire communications infrastructure dedicated to the true hardcore radio nerd is still worth the public investment.
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brian - December 6, 2005 9:00 AM
Nice to hear someone else who turns on the shortwave from time to time. I hardly ever hear anything too interesting from here... although when I was in Iraq I was able to monitor coverage of the Pope's death.
There's also a certain preacher on about 5 different frequencies who sounds like all he does is tell long, dull stories. Never could figure out who it is or what station(s).
Alan - December 6, 2005 9:42 AM
That is a southern US station that is in some place like "Red Lion, Alabama". I will have to look it up. I think that there is a freuqency around 7200 Khz which is the old Radio Moscow zone.<p>In 1991, I listened to the end of the Ryder Cup golf in Poland on BBC shortwave. That was a bit odd but the image of the missed putt by Langer is burned in my brain even though I did not see it.