I confess...
 

Sometimes I use a radioteletype signal to lull myself to sleep. Anyone
else do things like this?

I rely on large quanties of ALE

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I rely on large quanties of ALE

Heh!! Good one.

I have sometimes gotten drowsy just by listening to static. Which I don't
like to do, but sometimes reception's crappy. What can you do? Oh yeah, turn
off the radio, I guess! :)

Jackie

"atomicthumbs" wrote in message
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Sometimes I use a radioteletype signal to lull myself to sleep. Anyone
else do things like this?


No, but when the "wood-pecker" was around, it would make me drowsey
listening to it. Almost hypnotic. Either that, or it would make me want to
smash the radio. Depended on my mood, I guess. I can just hear it now....
psht psht psht psht psht psht psht psht psht psht psht psht psht psht psht
psht psht psht psht psht psht psht psht psht psht psht psht psht psht psht
psht psht psht psht psht psht psht psht psht psht psht psht psht psht psht
psht psht psht ... and so on...

Michael

atomicthumbs wrote:
Sometimes I use a radioteletype signal to lull myself to sleep. Anyone
else do things like this?

It works better if you stare at the o'scope.

--
Brian Denley
http://home.comcast.net/~b.denley/index.html

From: "atomicthumbs"
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Newsgroups: rec.radio.shortwave
Date: 9 Mar 2005 10:53:51 -0800
Subject: I confess...

Sometimes I use a radioteletype signal to lull myself to sleep. Anyone
else do things like this?

George Noorey on "Coast to Coast" works for me - knocks me right out It's
like static but with commercials.

Greg

atomicthumbs wrote:

Sometimes I use a radioteletype signal to lull myself to sleep. Anyone
else do things like this?


I have, at various times, been lulled to sleep by...

- numbers stations
- VOLMET and HF Aero comms
- HF Marine
- R. Australia and R. New Zealand
- L.Am. tropical banders
- CFRB (well, CFRX actually)
- Radio Mil, when they used to be heard fairly easily on 6010

Is Radio Mil still there on 6010? I haven't listened in a couple years.

On 9 Mar 2005 10:53:51 -0800, "atomicthumbs"
wrote:

Sometimes I use a radioteletype signal to lull myself to sleep. Anyone
else do things like this?

I used to listen to weather balloons - radiosondes - when they used AM
tones on HF. Very eerie series of almost-repeating tones in a strict
rhythm, drifting in and out somewhere around the otherwise silent
reaches of 26MHz in the middle of the night. Occasionally, you'd get
an ionosonde sweeping through.

The balloons are now all on UHF and FM data, so they just go
chuff-chuff-chuff. Not the same, not the same at all.

R

That works for me too, but if I try, I can stay awake for the entire
thing. They haven't been as interesting lately.

I wouldn't be able to hear anything on sideband w/ my little KA-1101...
I'm going to buy a 7600GR soon.

Is Radio Mil still there on 6010? I haven't listened in a couple
years.

Yepp - still there (as of last week). Messy area, though, around 6010.

Bruce Jensen

The old bastid,cuhulin lets me come over here and use his webtv box so i
can keep up with my chitchat lady friends.he is in Bogalousa,Louisiana
right now,he has a gadget here that he bought somewhere that makes
sounds like crickets,waterfalls and about half a dozen other soothing
sounds.i am listenting to it right now.
~Alice~

atomicthumbs wrote:
Sometimes I use a radioteletype signal to lull myself to sleep.
Anyone
else do things like this?

About three minutes of Glenn Hauser and World of Radio in his monotone
will do it for me.

Les Locklear
Monitoring since ' 57
Monitoring from the Gulf of Mexico
Hammarlund R-274C/FRR (SP-600JX-14)
R-1051B/URR
Ten Tec RX-340
Alpha Delta Sloper
Quantum QX Loop
Various Longwires
CU-2279/BRC Multicoupler
http://www.hammarlund.info/homepage.html

Les wrote:

atomicthumbs wrote:
Sometimes I use a radioteletype signal to lull myself to sleep.
Anyone
else do things like this?

About three minutes of Glenn Hauser and World of Radio in his monotone
will do it for me.

Blasphemy!

dxAce
Michigan
USA

"dxAce" wrote in message
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Les wrote:

atomicthumbs wrote:
Sometimes I use a radioteletype signal to lull myself to sleep.
Anyone
else do things like this?

About three minutes of Glenn Hauser and World of Radio in his
monotone
will do it for me.

Blasphemy!

Heh heh heh. I've found myself nodding off in my chair
listening to HCJB in Spanish, or RFI in French, particularly
late in the evening after the kids are in bed.

--Mike L.

YEah, I have an old Patrolman-50 AM vhf reciever... don't get much of
anything on VHF lo exept didgital transfer modes and 2 mexican tv
stations.

Buzzygirl wrote:
I have sometimes gotten drowsy just by listening to static. Which I don't
like to do, but sometimes reception's crappy. What can you do? Oh yeah, turn
off the radio, I guess! :)

My all-time favorite is to find a spot on the dial that sounds as though
there is a faraway talk station that's just too weak to receive intelligible
speech from. Speech-like patterns, but no discernible speech.

I turn everyhing off and go to sleep and dream about wimmins.
cuhulin