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Wars. and Rumors of Wars: Clandestine Shortwave Broadcasting

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gr8oldies

As of this writing, it appears Ukraine and Russia will be duking it out, and who knows if the U.S. will be involved. If this were the 60s or 70s, there would be some interesting things on medium and shortwave radio. Radio Swan would have been one example. I remember Radio Euzkadi (voice of Basque separatists if I remember right) apparently broadcasting from Venezuela. Ecos del Torbes brokered the 4980 facility to I believe an anti-Castro group.

Who knows, with the remote SDRs, there might be something to hear. Here's an article about clandestine (different from pirate) radio,

 
I was listening to Radio Free Grenada when the station was bombed. They were in the 15 MHz shortwave band.
 
gr8oldies said:
Wasn't that a legal station at the time? I remember hearing it....complete with obituaries (which they made quite a production out of) and promos for "1980 the year of education".
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The voice of the revolution brought to you by Coca-Cola.
 
Harvey_Dogg said:
The voice of the revolution brought to you by Coca-Cola.
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Reminds me of something I saw in Argentina in the mid-60's: Around Buenos Aires, rebels had painted "Yanqui Go Home" on walls and bridges in rough lettering. Suddenly one morning, most of those graffiti legends had a neatly stenciled light blue "Via Pan Am" added to them.
 
Iran used to have a great daytime signal into Eastern North America on 15084. Before the Islamic revolution, it had a commercial format. I remember hearing ad where all I could understand was "Pepsi!". The revolution came and I tuned in to hear the takeover by the "students". Lots of dead air and kids fumbling with the mic on not knowing how anything worked
 
Speaking of clandestine and Russia. Has anyone monitored "the Buzzer" lately? I listened for a couple minutes on Friday night but a couple of minutes is about all I can handle at one time.
 
Mitch Brewer said:
Speaking of clandestine and Russia. Has anyone monitored "the Buzzer" lately? I listened for a couple minutes on Friday night but a couple of minutes is about all I can handle at one time.
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Not lately. People like to go to the University of Twente SDR (which allows a couple of hundred people to tune at a time) to monitor the Buzzer.
Several years ago folks got it in their head that thery could go to a frequency and hear the launch of World War III. Go figure.
 
gr8oldies said:
Not lately. People like to go to the University of Twente SDR (which allows a couple of hundred people to tune at a time) to monitor the Buzzer.
Several years ago folks got it in their head that thery could go to a frequency and hear the launch of World War III. Go figure.
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There is a very strong broadband buzz signal spanning 8145 to 8165 KHz today (centered around 8155). It was interfering with the marine nets in the Florida / Caribbean area, but actually seems to be nearly everywhere on SDR's in Europe and the US. Probably just coincidence...
 
channel99 said:
There is a very strong broadband buzz signal spanning 8145 to 8165 KHz today (centered around 8155). It was interfering with the marine nets in the Florida / Caribbean area, but actually seems to be nearly everywhere on SDR's in Europe and the US. Probably just coincidence...
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Hmmmmm.
 
I usually listen on the Twente SDR. I'd like to have software to record and then just playback with spectrum and look for anything other than the regular tone. I'll check out 8155 to see hear what it sounds like.
 
Found one in Germany picking up BBC World Service and several others. Lots of live coverage even if I don;t understand the languages
 
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