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    From Chris Krascek@VERT/RICKSBBS to All on Mon Mar 9 23:06:27 2026
    Hi all,

    Not quite HAM but.. related. Anyone here also do shortwave?
    I'm curious if you had any luck getting any broadcasts. At one point I could get quite a few at night with a couple during the day but now-- nothing at all comes in. Could be general noise from wifi and cell towers that interfere, I'm not sure. Im using a Sony 7600 with a long wire strung (that's new as I never needed anything more than the antenna on board.

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  • From Mortar@VERT/EOTLBBS to Chris Krascek on Tue Mar 10 12:07:18 2026
    Re: Shortwave
    By: Chris Krascek to All on Mon Mar 09 2026 23:06:27

    Anyone here also do shortwave?

    Yo!

    I'm curious if you had any luck getting any broadcasts.

    All the time.

    At one point I could get quite a few at night with a couple during the day but now-- nothing at all comes in...Im using a Sony 7600 with a long wire strung (that's new as I never needed anything more than the antenna on board.

    Short answer: Go back to the radio's antennae, but if you want to avoid the hassles of external antennaes and signal propagation, use the various online SDR networks. Whereever you want to listen, there's probably an SDR you can listen in on. AFAIK, none of them have a phone app, so you'll need a real computer.
    Go back to the radio's Go back to the radio's

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  • From Mortar@VERT/EOTLBBS to Chris Krascek on Tue Mar 10 12:13:16 2026
    Re: Shortwave
    By: Chris Krascek to All on Mon Mar 09 2026 23:06:27

    GRRRR...Ignore the last line of my previous post. I really wish we could delete/edit our own msgs. after posting. Why? 'Cuase !@#$ happens. Aaaanyway...

    Here are the links to the SDR networks I use:
    WebSDR.org
    KiwiSDR.com
    UberSDR.org

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  • From fusion@VERT/CFBBS to Mortar on Tue Mar 10 16:23:00 2026
    On 10 Mar 2026, Mortar said the following...

    GRRRR...Ignore the last line of my previous post. I really wish we could delete/edit our own msgs. after posting. Why? 'Cuase !@#$ happens. Aaaanyway...

    actually that just made me think.. it would be kind of neat if BBSes had a message stack thing. everything you posted during the call goes on there and then they're posted either when you hang up or at a time you specify

    which in turn could allow you to edit messages in the stack until the point they're sent along

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  • From phigan@VERT/TACOPRON to Chris Krascek on Tue Mar 10 13:51:29 2026
    Re: Shortwave
    By: Chris Krascek to All on Mon Mar 09 2026 11:06 pm

    Not quite HAM but.. related. Anyone here also do shortwave?
    I'm curious if you had any luck getting any broadcasts. At one point I could

    It probably makes a big difference where you are geographically. I'm in Phoenix, and I have the same luck. Once in a while I can find a broadcast or two at certain times.. Faintly, of course. It's usually religion, but sometimes it's weird foreign music (rarely). And then sometimes, just nothing.
    There are some SW schedules online.. They haven't really helped me much, though. It's probably different on the East coast, or maybe further up North.

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  • From Chris Krascek@VERT/RICKSBBS to Mortar on Tue Mar 10 23:02:46 2026
    Re: Shortwave (take 2)
    By: Mortar to Chris Krascek on Tue Mar 10 2026 12:13 pm

    Re: Shortwave
    By: Chris Krascek to All on Mon Mar 09 2026 23:06:27

    GRRRR...Ignore the last line of my previous post. I really wish we could delete/edit our own msgs. after posting. Why? 'Cuase !@#$ happens. Aaaanyway...

    Here are the links to the SDR networks I use:
    WebSDR.org
    KiwiSDR.com
    UberSDR.org

    Thanks for the reply. I'm not keen on my long wire. I'll have to explore your links you provided. I just feel it takes the fun out of tuning and following stations on a radio but... now that the warm weather is around the corner, I will take it outside and hear what I can.

    Cheers,

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