Thanks to all that replied to my question. It seems like it is another
result of the switch to digital and fiber optics or sattelites. Too bad, it
was fun to hear those far off places. I got my first shortwave when my dad
was looking at a boat and the owner had an old wooden tube radio sitting by
the road for the junk man. He got it for nothing and I had to buy a tube
for it. That was in the days of jamming stations and Cuba, the Soviet Union
and all those communists broadcasting all that stuff that you never heard
about. The smell of a radio cooking the wood to give off a burnt varnish
smell with a little burnt dust mixed in. Plus they glowed in the dark Not
the same as the modern plastic, cold as ice radios of today. Well,
everything has its time I guess. Maybe some day it will come back. The
programs were getting rather boring at times. Those two hour or more talks
about the flowers grown in some valley or how some people made their wine
didn't cut it after about a half hour. Oh well. Ric in Wisconsin.

LOL!!! Yea, the days when the Soviets jammed anything aimed toward
them. Good memories in a weird way.

The Cubans still jam today, especially against spanish programs from
the states like Radio Marti and WRMI aimed toward Cuba. That swoosh
sound is how the Cubans jam those today. Tune your radio from 9700 to
9955mhz and you'll probably hear at least one Cuban jamming signal.

The Chinese use something called Firedrake where they will jam signals
they don't like with a constant stream of Chinese ethnic music. You
don't hear it much in the states but from what I understand, it's big
in the Far East. I think North and South Korea still play a jamming
game against each from time to time.

Cheers.

On Dec 29, 5:25*pm, SC Dxing wrote:
LOL!!! Yea, the days when the Soviets jammed anything aimed toward
them. Good memories in a weird way.

The Cubans still jam today, especially against spanish programs from
the states like Radio Marti and WRMI aimed toward Cuba. That swoosh
sound is how the Cubans jam those today. Tune your radio from 9700 to
9955mhz and you'll probably hear at least one Cuban jamming signal.

The Chinese use something called Firedrake where they will jam signals
they don't like with a constant stream of Chinese ethnic music. You
don't hear it much in the states but from what I understand, it's big
in the Far East. I think North and South Korea still play a jamming
game against each from time to time.

Cheers.

I hear Firedrake a lot daytimes here in California, terrifically
annoying when it covers signals on a dozen different freqs. I was
just noticing, even with the A and K indices at rock bottom tonight,
the bands are unpleasantly quiet. Sad.

Bruce

On Dec 29, 9:03*pm, bpnjensen wrote:
On Dec 29, 5:25*pm, SC Dxing wrote:

LOL!!! Yea, the days when the Soviets jammed anything aimed toward
them. Good memories in a weird way.

The Cubans still jam today, especially against spanish programs from
the states like Radio Marti and WRMI aimed toward Cuba. That swoosh
sound is how the Cubans jam those today. Tune your radio from 9700 to
9955mhz and you'll probably hear at least one Cuban jamming signal.

The Chinese use something called Firedrake where they will jam signals
they don't like with a constant stream of Chinese ethnic music. You
don't hear it much in the states but from what I understand, it's big
in the Far East. I think North and South Korea still play a jamming
game against each from time to time.

Cheers.

I hear Firedrake a lot daytimes here in California, terrifically
annoying when it covers signals on a dozen different freqs. *I was
just noticing, even with the A and K indices at rock bottom tonight,
the bands are unpleasantly quiet. *Sad.

Bruce

That would be correct. I didn't know what it was I was hearing till
Ace told me about it.
I did a little research on Firedrake - pretty interesting.

bpnjensen wrote:

I hear Firedrake a lot daytimes here in California, terrifically
annoying when it covers signals on a dozen different freqs. I was
just noticing, even with the A and K indices at rock bottom tonight,
the bands are unpleasantly quiet. Sad.

Bruce

Something big is just around the corner. We had a bunch of sunspots a
few days ago.

http://solarcycle24.com/

On Dec 30, 5:27*am, dave wrote:
bpnjensen wrote:
I hear Firedrake a lot daytimes here in California, terrifically
annoying when it covers signals on a dozen different freqs. *I was
just noticing, even with the A and K indices at rock bottom tonight,
the bands are unpleasantly quiet. *Sad.

Bruce

Something big is just around the corner. *We had a bunch of sunspots a
few days ago.

http://solarcycle24.com/

Indeed, as of this morning, I am already hearing an uptick in stations
coming through. Thanks for the link!

Just for fun I tried how many countries I can catch during just one day (Well not the whole day...hour or two in the morning and in the evening). I used Sony 7600GR radio with 20 feet of wire attached to whip antenna. Here are results:

1. USA
2. Russia
3. Germany
4. Ukraine
5. Vatican
6. Great Britain
7. Cuba
8. Austria
9. North Korea
10. China
11. Albania
12. India
13. Croatia
14. Philippines
15. Mariana Islands
16. Marocco
17. Lithuania
18. Japan
19. New Zealand
20. Portugal
21. Belgium
22. Sri Lanka
23. Romania
24. Turkey
25. France
26. Tadjikistan
27. Armenia
28. Djibouti
29. Botswana
30. Sao Tome & Pricipe
31. Zambia
32. Kuwait
33. Sweden
34. Slovakia
35. Czech republic
36. Iran
37. Poland
38. Belarus
39. Cyprus
40. Rwanda
41. Thailand
42. Bulgaria
43. Egypt
44. Spain
45. Greece
46. Saudi Arabia
47. Syria
48. Gabon
49. Vietnam
50. Norway
51. Netherlands
52. Estonia
53. Canada
54. Australia

Bravo Sami!

Ric Trexell wrote:

Thanks to all that replied to my question. It seems like it is another
result of the switch to digital and fiber optics or sattelites. Too bad, it
was fun to hear those far off places. I got my first shortwave when my dad
was looking at a boat and the owner had an old wooden tube radio ....



I tried the wooden tube radios some years ago, but found that the
filaments kept setting their little cellulose based enclosures on fire.
Glass just plain works better.





mike

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