Shortwave radio - The dark web of the airwaves in 2020
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Keywords: shortwave, sw, swl, radio, tuner, receiver, ham, amateur, broadcast, dx, dxing, wwv, wbcq, wewn, wrmi, band, scan, bandscan, lw, longwave, beacon, morse, code
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Length: 23min 35sec (1415 seconds)
Published: Sun Feb 09 2020
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When the bullet hits the bone, HF is superior to the internet because the net can be chopped at anytime by governments. I don’t look forward to that happening but the fact is radio, whatever mode, will never go out of style.
"The Internet made shortwave radio obsolete over 20 years ago, yet it somehow still lives on today, home to Cuban propaganda, Vietnamese music, time signals, and religious groups and conspiracy theorists paying $35 an hour to get their message on the air."
Shortwave is the opposite of the web...no one can track your listening history...it is mainly just an audio service...and it's FREE 🤗
The reason I started listening to it in the first place was the idea of being able to pick it up anywhere. The farthest I've usually gotten from my current location which is somewhere in the northern U.S (Not revealing my state for privacy) is WRMI from florida. I did pick up radio havana cuba once or twice, but only during the late night hours. My current antenna is the stock periscope antenna, so I'd say it's not too bad.
The pirate stations that broadcast most evenings between 6.2 and 7MHz are pretty "dark-webby", IMO. :)