Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site pyuxa.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!gamma!pyuxww!pyuxa!wetcw From: wetcw@pyuxa.UUCP (T C Wheeler) Newsgroups: net.followup,net.politics,net.misc Subject: Re: Listen to Radio Moscow Message-ID: <1001@pyuxa.UUCP> Date: Fri, 21-Sep-84 08:40:26 EDT Article-I.D.: pyuxa.1001 Posted: Fri Sep 21 08:40:26 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 25-Sep-84 21:32:43 EDT References: <582@ttds.UUCP>, <4664@brl-tgr.ARPA> Organization: Bell Communications Research, Piscataway N.J. Lines: 33 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