First post, by keenmaster486
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One by one, shortwave stations around the world are discovering they can't pay the bills and are shutting down. WWV (the U.S. standard atomic time station) might get shut down soon, as NIST has requested that they be allowed to kill it. It's sad really.
But there's still a lot of action on shortwave. I hear of a lot of pirates operating around 7000 kHz but their schedules are erratic in order to not get caught, and I've never managed to pick one up.
I'm a big fan of vintage radios and communications receivers. Back in the day, shortwave was the best way to get worldwide radio stations. These days you can just find Internet streams, but what fun is that? Radio is much more fun.
I've picked up some crazy stuff. Communist propaganda... the BBC... religious nuts buying time on big American stations... various foreign music stations... etc.
I really wish the FCC would carve out a slice of the shortwave bands for low-power unlicensed broadcasters. Right now they require you to broadcast at 50,000 watts in order to receive a license. The power bills for that sort of thing are ridiculous.
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