Art Bell

[Lt.Uhura]

Then there is this.  Perhaps Art should have a "Weird radio broadcasts" line when he returns.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToC2QjoFluI

[Royal_Tenenbaum]

Then there is this.  Perhaps Art should have a "Weird radio broadcasts" line when he returns.

I love numbers station talk. Stuff They Don't Want You to Know did a podcast on them as well.

[albrecht]

Then there is this.  Perhaps Art should have a "Weird radio broadcasts" line when he returns.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToC2QjoFluI

I only get the Cuban number stations (I think) last time I was playing with my SWs. Will be interesting to see if all are still around since I will be using them more now that AB will be on it!  Though the Russians were still using SW stuff (recall the Anna Chapman etc stuff a few years back.) Most have, gone so-called "Christian" or, worse, Spanish language etc and BBC has cut down a lot.  But, I think good news for the medium that Art will be on!! Keep it old school, in addition to mastering the new technology of internet streaming/podcasts!
http://www.irdial.com/conet.htm

[ks3484]

Confirmed: We wil be live on Shortwave Mon-Fri on WTWW 5.085. Heard Nationwide and beyond, now that should be fun.

Art

The Shortwave  medium is great. I remember when Alan Corbeth was looking into aggressively expanding the program/show into Europe via the chat clubs circuit that was being formed by a lot of shortwave listeners. I believe he met with my friend Eric Addams, and they discussed  plans that were looking at going into all of Europe via France, and then onto Germany because of the number of shortwave enthusiast ready, willing, and able for the Coast To Coast AM ride.

That was then and this is now. So it will probably be cost prohibitive to do much of anything with the Seeing and Hearing Impaired ideas..huh.   

In time ... I wonder if there will be a grant or foundation that would help to procure the necessary funds and mediums which will allow the Seeing and Hearing passage on a ride that would have started eons ago with ... Midnight In The Desert - hosted by: Art Bell

[Northern Nights]

A few months ago I heard a numbers station at 14 point something MHz.  It was a female voice very similar to the last one in that YouTube clip, just before the 6 min. mark.

[jazmunda]

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[Lt.Uhura]

Terrestrial, shortwave and ham radio are a dying medium.  It seems most ham operators are Baby Boomers or older.  With corporate media leading the masses away from terrestrial radio to the Internet, it leaves a knowledge void for emergency broadcast communications.  I've looked around for a small electronics course to learn how to repair my vintage audio equipment and these courses are gone. 

[laserjock]

Guys, I just starting learning a little about SW/HAM because my BIL just became a licensed HAM.  Any decent radio with an external antenna hook up can be connect to a loop antenna.  Usually, for maximum effectiveness, the length of the loop would coincide with a band's central wavelength, but any length will work.  You can take regular extension wire and just hang a loop in your house on the cheap.  Of course, serious antenna work is much more involved, including impedance matching, shaping, etcetera, but any old loop will work for the high powered stations.  After my BIL shared stuff about antennas it all started to make more sense to me as to why various types of antennas have such strange shapes, there's a real reason for all of it and you can learn about it.  You can opt for a loop (square, triangle, circle) mounting horizontally to best pick up "skip", or make a beam antenna that focuses directionally.  One of each might be best.

I lost my nice Sangean that cost me almost 400 bucks during a move a few years ago, sadly.  I'm tempted to try becoming a HAM myself now, but it is a hobby that CAN get expensive, there ARE ways to do almost anything on the cheap though if you're handy with tools and shit.

[MV/Liberace!]

Here you go:

http://www.ccrane.com/Shortwave-Radios

[jazmunda]

Here you go:

http://www.ccrane.com/Shortwave-Radios

Thanks. I'll call Bob Crane in the morning.

[BobGrau]

Wonder if since Art will be on shortwave and has solar and wind power at his place -- if he will be able to keep broadcasting thru the Apocalypse?   

Art's return actually heralds the end of the Apocalypse.

[Humilia Lepus Foramen]

The Mayans were off a bit - starting in July it's the Artpocalypse!

[Coz]

Terrestrial, shortwave and ham radio are a dying medium.  It seems most ham operators are Baby Boomers or older.  With corporate media leading the masses away from terrestrial radio to the Internet, it leaves a knowledge void for emergency broadcast communications.  I've looked around for a small electronics course to learn how to repair my vintage audio equipment and these courses are gone.

Right. There are more hams in the USA right now than at any other time in history. (just shy of 800.000)

The Dayton Hamvention had 24,000 attendees last year, and the attendance numbers have been going up since 2009.

Radio sales are so strong that the Chinese are starting to compete with the Japanese for market share.

In 2012 hams were given a new band: 472 to 479 kHz

The FCC is now poised to give us more LF bandwidth.

AMSAT currently has two semi-operating satellites in orbit, and a new satellite, Fox-1A, is manifested for launch in August 2015. This cube-sat, developed by hams, carries an FM repeater. There are two more cube-sats scheduled for launch. And all three also do high speed digital modes.

AMRAD "Amateur Radio Research and Development Corporation" is involved in research, sometimes federally mandated. Most of what they work on is next gen modulation techniques, DSP, and SDR work. All of which form the basis for every radio system used by the military, police, fire, or civil service radio system.

From Wikipedia:

"Research by amateur radio operators has founded new industries, built economies, empowered nations, and saved lives in times of emergency."

We will continue to do so.

[starshine]

will  someone  tell   Art........  the  internet  has  been  invented .............

.............. no  need  to go  back to  the   short  wave   radio    stoneage  !

[Lt.Uhura]

Apocalypso..."we'll be dancin' when we go", lol


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0zvsPFfXFIo

[Nick el Ass]

will  someone  tell   Art........  the  internet  has  been  invented .............

.............. no  need  to go  back to  the   short  wave   radio    stoneage  !

But the show will be on the internet(s) too.

[onan]

Right. There are more hams in the USA right now than at any other time in history. (just shy of 800.000)

The Dayton Hamvention had 24,000 attendees last year, and the attendance numbers have been going up since 2009.

Radio sales are so strong that the Chinese are starting to compete with the Japanese for market share.

In 2012 hams were given a new band: 472 to 479 kHz

The FCC is now poised to give us more LF bandwidth.

AMSAT currently has two semi-operating satellites in orbit, and a new satellite, Fox-1A, is manifested for launch in August 2015. This cube-sat, developed by hams, carries an FM repeater. There are two more cube-sats scheduled for launch. And all three also do high speed digital modes.

AMRAD "Amateur Radio Research and Development Corporation" is involved in research, sometimes federally mandated. Most of what they work on is next gen modulation techniques, DSP, and SDR work. All of which form the basis for every radio system used by the military, police, fire, or civil service radio system.

From Wikipedia:

"Research by amateur radio operators has founded new industries, built economies, empowered nations, and saved lives in times of emergency."

We will continue to do so.

http://alandove.com/static/2011/12/the-growing-ham-radio-hobby-or-is-it/

That’s not a reason to avoid the activity, of course. I love tinkering with radios and electronics, and have no intention of quitting. But let’s stop pretending it’s the hot new thing.

[ks3484]

The Shortwave  medium is great. I remember when Alan Corbeth was looking into aggressively expanding the program/show into Europe via the chat clubs circuit that was being formed by a lot of shortwave listeners. I believe he met with my friend Eric Addams, and they discussed  plans that were looking at going into all of Europe via France, and then onto Germany because of the number of shortwave enthusiast ready, willing, and able for the Coast To Coast AM ride.

That was then and this is now. So it will probably be cost prohibitive to do much of anything with the Seeing and Hearing Impaired ideas..huh.   

Somewhere In time ... I wonder if there will be a grant or foundation that will help to procure the necessary funds and mediums which will allow the Seeing and Hearing Impaired passage onto a ride that would have started eons ago with ... Midnight In The Desert - hosted by: Art Bell.

[Lt.Uhura]

Right. There are more hams in the USA right now than at any other time in history. (just shy of 800.000)

The Dayton Hamvention had 24,000 attendees last year, and the attendance numbers have been going up since 2009.

Radio sales are so strong that the Chinese are starting to compete with the Japanese for market share.

In 2012 hams were given a new band: 472 to 479 kHz

The FCC is now poised to give us more LF bandwidth.

From Wikipedia:

"Research by amateur radio operators has founded new industries, built economies, empowered nations, and saved lives in times of emergency."

We will continue to do so.

I'm glad to hear this.  I hope amateur radio can attract younger members so their numbers will continue to grow.

[Coz]

I'm glad to hear this.  I hope amateur radio can attract younger members so their numbers will continue to grow.

My ham club, just graduated two post doc University of Chicago physicists into their tech license. They were in their mid 20s. The tech license is not difficult (by my standards)... but they wanted the license to talk to satellites on ham frequencies. I'd say half our graduates are between 26 and 40. Many of them IT professionals.

The age thing isn't the point really. To be proficient in electronics is a talent which is hard won through hard work. Hams have always been a little older for that reason. It's not about talking on a radio.- although we do that (a lot). It's about understanding the fundamental force of electromagnetism, and the electronic theory used to manipulate it into a communications medium. If you can do that- you can pretty much design anything that is based on electronics.

[nooryisawesome]

Confirmed: We wil be live on Shortwave Mon-Fri on WTWW 5.085. Heard Nationwide and beyond, now that should be fun.

Art

[nooryisawesome]

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Art bell's nightly numbers?

[AZ/CO]

Radio is an artistic sciency thing.

Exactly!!  I'm buying a shortwave radio!  Art Bell's voice belongs inside a radio, not a smartphone.  Long Live Radio!

[jazmunda]

Art bell's nightly numbers?

They are the numbers from LOST which were heard repeated on a numbers station.



When I occasionally play the lotto I will use these numbers.

I have not yet won.

[InykRose]

Wonder if since Art will be on shortwave and has solar and wind power at his place -- if he will be able to keep broadcasting thru the Apocalypse?   

I remember Gordon Michael Scallion told Art one night that he had a vision that Art would be broadcasting and helping people find safe spots. It's been so long I don't remember what the disaster was supposed to be. Most likely earth changes.

[cweb]

"I listen to George Noory's good shows.

You've probably never heard them."

[Alienmojo]

Then there is this.  Perhaps Art should have a "Weird radio broadcasts" line when he returns.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToC2QjoFluI

I have the complete Conet CD set... was really hard to find. Guess they are getting more and more rare... but it is awesome. Expensive too!

[Alienmojo]

I ya want to cheat a little.. http://websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901

Been using that for years cosman... it is awesome. Good idea to put the link up.

[Alienmojo]

My favorite Robert Redford movie. Jeremiah Johnson.

[Redstone]

Great news!  It will be fun to hear the show on radio.  I'll still connect to the show via internet stream too, even if I'm listening over shortwave so I can be counted ratings wise.

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