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From: wetcw@pyuxa.UUCP (T C Wheeler)
Newsgroups: net.followup,net.politics,net.misc
Subject: Re: Listen to Radio Moscow
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Date: Fri, 21-Sep-84 08:40:26 EDT
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Posted: Fri Sep 21 08:40:26 1984
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For anyone who is interested, if you have one of those cheap
clock radios beside your bed, you can bring in quite a few
SW stations after dark along the East coast.  It seems most
of these radios don't have filters.  I can start at the low
end of the AM band and pick up at least 15 or 20 SW stations
from all over Europe, the Middle East, North Africa, and
several other areas.  I often listen to Radio Moscow when
something interesting has happened just to hear what they
have to say.  During the great British/Argentinian affair
last year, I was listening to the station on Ascension Island
(Radio Volcano) where the news was being relayed from  the
Faulklands.  (They also had a great Disc Jockey).  I have
DXed perhaps 50 or 60 different countries using the old
clock radio.  Everything from the BBC Home Service to
Radio Bulgaria.  Most of the broadcasts are in English.
One other bennie is that you can pick up a couple of
homegrown SW services being broadcast from the USA.  Ther
is one somewhere in the midwest, Radio Earth I think it's
called, and one being broadcast from New Orleans during the
World Fair.  When you are tuning the radio for stations, you
have to have a very light touch.  Move the dial very slowly
and listen to everything you come across.  Once you get better
at it, you can pick out teletype transmissions, telemetered
transmissions from sattelites, and all sorts of other odd
transmissions.  I have a GE clock radio and one other from
some off brand company.  Both of these radios pick up the
SW transmissions after the sun sets.  They get so much traffic
after dark that I have difficulty picking up the local
station I use to wake me up.  The SW comes blasting in over
most local stations.  Give it a try, you might have a cheap
way to listen to RM and the rest of the world.
T. C. Wheeler