Online Radio and TV

A while back I posted about whether or not amateur radio was still relevant and I think it is…. that post has had a fair amount of interest and I thought it would be worthwhile to dig deeper and look at some of the reasons why both amateur radio and shortwave are and should still [...]

On hearing the news this evening of the massive earthquake that has struck Haiti I started looking to see what emergency net frequencies I could find active on shortwave this evening. I have picked up a bit, but not a lot at the moment. I suspect in the days to come there may [...]

I hope to resume the digital broadcast tv conversion series next week, but in the meantime….
So many things have been achieved by asking what if… These days radio receivers, AM, FM, shortwave, etc. have wide variations, there are simple cheap sets and then there are those with all the bells and whistles, meters, etc. [...]

I’ve spent some time building some pages detailing where you can Listen to Radio Online, especially listening to Live Shortwave Radio Streams Online. At this point I’ve devoted most of my energy to the following pages: English Language Shortwave Radio Streams and Multi-Language Live Radio Streams Both have links to live shortwave streams. [...]

Our atmosphere is a remarkable thing. Active solar cycles keep things juiced up well for good long distance radio propagation. Solar Cycles are cycles of sunspots, they are usually quite numerous, in fact the last solar cycle (23) was fairly active. Solar Cycle 24 is somewhat of a mystery at this point. [...]

NHK Radio Japan is an international broadcaster with a long history. It was initially modeled on the BBC of the United Kingdom and founded in 1926. The first shortwave broadcast was launced in 1935. Through the dark years of World War II it was an official mouthpiece of the Imperial Army. [...]

The Monitoring Times has for a long time been a good solid no-nonsense magazine for those into monitoring the various radio bands out there. Several of their columnists now have online blogs which I can only imagine will help to grow interest in their magazine. Today I’ll highlight a few of those. [...]

For amateur radio equipment you learn that grounding is important. For antennae you learn that grounding is important. One area we don’t think too much about though is grounding of our OTHER equipment. For several years I’ve had reception annoyances in certain AM ranges as well as shortwave ranges. It’s the [...]

If you’ve been slow on memorizing which frequencies are in which meter bands…. there’s an easy to use formula for it http://www.zyra.org.uk/freqwav.htm has the reference, although I’m SURE it’s other places too…. basically the speed of light (in meters per second) divided by the frequency gives you the wavelength and if you can’t recall 299792458 [...]

World Radio Network www.wrn.org is a good resource for those of you interested in news from around the world without buying a shortwave radio and just tuning in with your PC. They also have signals available over satellite, so if you have satellite tv you might be able to retrieve their satellite stream. [...]