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Old 06-24-2006, 06:28 PM
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Most everywhere from 4.5 MhZ to 10 MhZ-or MC- should offer good listening at night.There will be several places right in there that stations will literally on top of each other, other places where the radio will seem dead as a hammer...You;ll hear allsorts of strange sounds, incredibly distorted speech, & maybe even a Spanish woman rattling off numbers...Welcome to the wild, wacky world of shortwave. The strange sounds are likely to be hams talking to each other in Morse code, or some sort of some sort of encrypted data transmission, if it sounds "fast". The "Donald Duck" voices are hams again, talking to each other on sideband. The "numbers station" are purportedly spies receiving messages, altho OFFICIALLY no agency has ever confirmed this...We could tell you more, but we'd have to Terminate W/Extreme Prejudice...<grin>
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