On Mar 22, 2:55*am, Hils wrote:
Gregg wrote:
I've always been curious of this and like Bob said "Post and don't
worry about it" - something like that. ;-)

How often - how many hours a week you actually have your receivers on
AND monitoring?

I keep mine on 24/7 mostly out of habit. A few years ago I used it to
monitor 29352kHz over a period of several months for signs of the old
amateur satellite RS-15. I wrote a perl script which could control the
rig from a command line, and cron jobs to switch the rig to the beacon
frequency a couple of minutes before expected AOS. It wasn't fully
automated (I'd generate a batch of cron jobs once a week or two, it
didn't seem worth the time to automate that part) but it enabled me to
use the receiver for other things in between passes.

More recently I've monitored Russian cluster beacons over periods of
several hours, but I've only the one working computer at the moment, and
I use it for "real" work, so radio projects are in abeyance until I can
be bothered to get a second PC to use as a data logger. :-)

These days the receiver is mostly on the BBC sports/news channel, ICAO
frequencies, or ham CW frequencies.

Do any of you guys keep a specific receiver on all the time when you
have left the house or sleeping with your recorder going in hopes of
a
catch or am I the only retarded one?bowing head

SWLing is way cool. People who listen to ipods all day are losers. :-)

With this last point, I agree, although it depends largely on the
quality of music on the IPOD. If it's pop pap, truly. Classical or
jazz or other quality music deserves no small amount of respect, as do
those who enjoy or make it.

As to amount of radio use, my home receivers are only on if I am in
the room listening. I have considered using a recorder, but I do not
have the radio attached to a PC and I am not sure how many stations
would accept a cassette of a program for a QSL anymore (it sure would
be handy for foreign language broadcasts).

Bruce