I tend to tune past religious broadcast stations faster than I scroll past the Campfire troll posts... Lots of Hell fire and brimstone screaming "preachers"... I just found a sermon "Living by Faith during apostate times" on 11.680.000 that's pretty good, if you are into that sort of thing.
Just found this.... looks like you can log on and control several short wave receivers around the World for free. No license required since you are not transmitting. 179 servers currently running.
I'm a HAM, and have all the toys, but when the internet goes down, I think it's easier to figure out why, and fix it.... plus my employer pays me to fix the internet, so that's good.
Intellectual honesty is the most important character trait in human beings.
LoadClear, I've managed to set up QSOs with a few Campfire Hams drop me a PM if you'd like to try that. Finding a time and frequency is challenging though.
Are you familiar with Echolink? I haven't used it much but the last contact I made was with a woman driving truck up in the Yukon. I think there is a way to set up a chat room rather than using a specific repeater. Yeah I know not "real radio" since it uses the Internet, but it's free and a Technician operator doesn't have any restrictions....
Oh and if the Internet is down because the dark overlords don't want us talking bad about them they might call in a drone strike if you go out to pull their monkey wrench out. So, that would be bad
Personally, I’m literally moving tomorrow, and all my gear is packed up… I’m usually active only on our local 2m/70cm net…. To talk to all you folks down there I’d need something like echolink which doesn’t interest me much (sorry). I’ve played around in the 80m band a bit, but I’m a Luddite when it comes to SW. I have the legal and physical ability to talk on 80 meters and above, but it’s not really my bag.
Last edited by LoadClear; 10/12/21.
Intellectual honesty is the most important character trait in human beings.
At the rate current events are going I don't think it's a totally paranoid idea that the Internet could go "poof". We have plenty of rice beans and a wide assortment of hot sauces along with springs on the property and a woodstove to "survive". I'd go through serious withdrawal if I didn't have some source of "news" to try and read between the lines of....
Checked my bean stash a few nights ago.
Got frass and drillings inside the bags. I’m thinking weevils
All getting trashed and buying new.
Wtf, Ric Bin spell checker doesn’t know what “frass” is? Run into that often with scientific terms. Spell checker stops at 8th grade instagram level.
Cuba lost more than $13 million after officials tried to silence the country’s protesters. Cuba is listed ninth on a list of 18 countries that lost money because they decided to shut down their internet in 2021. Myanmar lost about $2.4 billion in its 4,894 hours of internet shutdown, which affected 22 million people.
Receive only.... That's what you meant right? I tell my wife all the time, "Listen to what I mean not what I say"
I've got my main bean stash in Tupperware totes. Guess I need to check it... Been thinking about moving dry goods into spare aquariums stacked up... the would stop a mouse not sure about Frass (A new vocabulary word for me BTW).
I've just been tuning around in the AM broadcast section... At night long distance skip will occur. I'd guess there are 100 stations coming in. Fox radio out of Atlanta is on 0.750.000 Candace Owens was just on doing an especially good job of shredding well lots of people and organizations.
Somewhere I came across Coast to Coast... I'll have to look again to find it. I have not payed attention to that in a very long time.
A recording I made back in 2019 of Cuba's HM01 numbers station.
"A numbers station is a shortwave radio station characterized by broadcasts of formatted numbers, which are believed to be addressed to intelligence officers operating in foreign countries. Most identified stations use speech synthesis to vocalize numbers, although digital modes such as phase-shift keying and frequency-shift keying, as well as Morse code transmissions, are not uncommon. Most stations have set time schedules, or schedule patterns; however, other stations appear to have no discernible pattern and broadcast at random times. Stations may or may not have set frequencies in the high frequency band." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numbers_station
15m & 18m have been open for me in AZ. Spoke to South Africa and the Cook Islands this week on 15m. Also QRP on 40m to Japan.
James Pepper: There's no law west of Dodge and no God west of the Pecos. Right, Mr. Chisum? John Chisum: Wrong, Mr. Pepper. Because no matter where people go, sooner or later there's the law. And sooner or later they find God's already been there.
![[Linked Image from i.imgur.com]](https://i.imgur.com/7P7TF5Al.png)
![[Linked Image from short-wave.info]](https://www.short-wave.info/gif/short-wave-banner-1.gif)
![[Linked Image from live.staticflickr.com]](https://live.staticflickr.com/65535/51584725814_098645640f_k.jpg)
