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From: klemets@ttds.UUCP (Anders Klemets)
Newsgroups: net.followup,net.politics,net.misc
Subject: Re: Listen to Radio Moscow
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Date: Sun, 16-Sep-84 05:26:36 EDT
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Posted: Sun Sep 16 05:26:36 1984
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> What is the short wave band and frequency for the Radio Moscow broadcasts?
When I first read this I almost thought it was a joke.
Here in the northen Europe it's more difficult AVOIDING listening to
Radio Moscow on a AM-radio. I hear Radio Moscow in my stereo-recorder and
in the microphone connected to my sound-mixer. I'm bored of Radio Moscow.
But I think that the situation must be the same in the US too. Or are there
maybe local stations that interfere stronger than Radio Moscow there?
By the way, did you know that in 1981 the Radio Moscow World Service had
transmissions in 63 different languages? They also have another station,
called "Radio Peace and Progress - The voice of the Soviet public opinion."
Sounds disgusting, doesn't it?
If you haven't yet had the unpleasant experience of listening to Radio Moscow
you can try dialing a shortwave radio (or mediumwave, but not in the US)
with as short antenna as possibly. With a short antenna you will only be
able to receive local stations, Radio Moscow and it's opposite pole,
The Voice of America (I don't enjoy listening to it either).
Dial slowly through the 49, 41, 31, 25 and 19 -meter bands on the radio.
If you hear a station where the speaker has a typically American dialect,
it's not Radio Moscow. Radio Moscow is so easy to recognize, because there's
always a soft metallic sound added to the speakers voice, like he is speaking
through a tube.
If you try to listen at some other station, you will often find that
Radio Moscow is disturbing the station by transmitting on the same frequency.
If you hear a terrible noise, then it's a Soviet jammer. Sometimes they
accidentaly jam themselves.
Should you hear something thats sounds like a slow machinegun, it's the
Soviet radar which sees beyond the horisont. It's often called "The
Russian woodpecker". The US also has shortwave radars (I think I read
something about that they don't) but the difference between them is that
the Russian one operates on the public radio bands (eg. the 19, 25 -meter
bands and so on) but the American doesn't. (The American one doesn't sound
like a furious woodpecker either.)

The more interesting aspects in DX-ing (shortwave listening) is to listen
at Radio Polonia, Radio Afghanistan, The Voice of the Islamic republic of
Iran, The voice of Lebanon, and all the others and try to 
make oneself an own opinion.

73's de Anders Klemets
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