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SHORT WAVE LISTENING

Many of our members are not licensed radio amateurs.  However, you don’t need a license to listen to the shortwave bands, if you have a radio with those bands and a simple long wire antenna.   Following is information about stations you can listen to (depending on ionospheric conditions) and how to find them.

Finding Stations:

SWLing Station Lists
CC Crane's Station List

Decoding Maritime RTTY Weather Broadcasts

Shortwave Radio Archive - a fascinating sound file collection of shortwave broadcasts from various countries.

 

 

MYSTERIOUS SHORTWAVE STATIONS

Numbers Stations:  clandestine short wave radio stations of unknown origin and use
Numbers Stations (Wikipedia)
List of Numbers Stations

The Conet Project:  In 1992 an Englishman, Akin Fernandez, started to record numbers stations.  He eventually recorded many of them and created a 5 CD set. The recordings are available on SoundCloud.

 

RUSSIAN WOODPECKER - an over the horizon early warning radar that transmitted in the HF (short wave) bands during the Cold War.  
Here is a YouTube video about the Russian Woodpecker

Here is an article about the Russian Woodpecker

 

Additional Information about Over the Horizon (OTH) Radar:
Duga 3 explanation
Duga 3 sound
Duga 3 video