Iran too. Iran's transmitter is shitty though. But anyway they are probably gearing up for an Internet cutoff and this will be their primary method for broadcasting their views. China of course, dominates the entire shortwave spectrum with several channels always coming in strong in every region on the planet. English, French, Spanish, Tagalog, Japanese, Korean, even Finnish.BBC, DW, RFI, even the Romanians are ready. US is too. Japanese also maintain the very highest quality and fidelity short wave programming on earth, with a proper radio in a target area it's as good as local AM assuming a competent receiver. It's quite something.I guess the point of all of this, is that it's finally time to take the advice I've been giving you for a decade or more, and buy a short wave radio. One that runs on batteries, that can take an external antenna, that does SSB, and ideally, has AM sync.You might not have much time. The best of these are only available used, or cost thousands of dollars now. I'll advise you on what to buy if you give me your budget. Software defined radio is an option but beware - it's kinda shitty for various technical reasons, in the cheaper implementation.
A good antenna located away from your home or anybody else's is great for your signal, it doesn't take a super turbo expensive radio to get a good signal out in the woods, even with the built in antenna. If you live in an apartment block there are specific ways to even cope with that but for a modest investment (active local noise pickup + phase cancellation box, it's like $200).But if you have a yard just stick an antenna in the yard, it can just be a wire on your fence line or between some trees or bushes. It's a million times better than having it indoors where all the noise is. And run a shielded feed line to it, boom.
>>523657260I got this but I don't really know how to use it.
I don't really understand what the point of having one is if it's just foreign propaganda, OP?
i have a baofeng. it's laying on the floor under a desk where it fell like 2 years ago.
>>523657494That's unfortunate.>>523657864It's not. As a ham the main "function" we will have is interoperation, passing messages on behalf of what used to be post and telegraph and telegram and datagram services, and etc.But a side effect is that, we will also be able to hear news from all corners of the globe, places like France and Germany, as well as our vital close partner and lover China and even the dreaded Russians.
>>523657260Perfect! Right when we stop broadcasting propaganda through RadioFreeEurope and other such gov’t subsidized SW stations, Russia and DPRK fill the void. Already well prepared and familiar with the calling channels available via SW, HF, VHF, and UHF/GMRS. Patiently building a repeater network for my pagers and GSM cell phones.
>>523658055No I think we should keep blaring Britney at the Russians, that's fucking effective.Actually they should put /pol/ on it. We could do more damage. Honestly like 100% not even memeing. But that's not kosher.Look what happened to the last Russian Nazi who teamed up with the west...
BumpReceivers are cheap, might as well.
>>523657864At the end of the day, even privately owned stations wind up being unwitting proprietors of propaganda, it’s just the nature of the beast at this point. Hell, marketing at large could be said to be tailored propaganda. News wise, the best you can do is collect information from as many sources as possible, then read between the lines. Preparedness wise, it’s good practice, establishing operational-level familiarity with your equipment and its capabilities, especially for mobile/portable operations. One can participate in regular “nets” for testing the local emergency preparedness system, or just participate in chatter wherever you may find it, if you wish. DX competitions can be fun, too, and less personal in nature, though Morse code is a must(you should have learned years ago anyhow).
>>523657864With just a shortwave receiver you can get NIST (atomic time sync, if internet sync dies you can listen to this and get pinpoint accurate time) and NOAA radiofax (regional weather maps, you'll need a smartphone/tablet, anything that uses apps, to record the squawking and translate that into pictures on the screen) and listen to govt/civilian emergency broadcasts as well as random shitposters if your receiver can do SSBAlso AM/FM stations and NOAA All Hazards (weather radio, no maps, just a robot telling you about conditions in your area) but you can do that with a basic bitch emergency radioThere's also uhhhh probably some other cool stuff you can do with SW but I'm not a HAM autist and my knowledge is limitedhttps://swling.com/blog/2023/01/balazs-spots-radios-in-the-last-of-us/
>>523657494Supposedly a really good radio. >>523658026I have a couple with my local repeaters programmed ready for Z day.
>>523658498You can also do time-arrival from time-locked airport beacons for a poor man's GPS even if GPS goes down.
>>523658156It actually is entirely feasible and quite affordable (even through usual means rather than attracting a huge following of viewers) to purchase a controllable high-altitude weather balloon to attach an xmitter to, controllable via satellite IP connection or even easier through encrypted HF. This has long been a dream of mine, for transmitting radio/tv feeds into DPRK, but I’d like to see the the technology for indefinite solar-powered loitering flight advance a little further before I step in to actually try to do it.
>>523657864One day you wake up and there is no power, no internet, no cell service, no cable, no landline, and local radio stations are quickly running out of generator fuel. How will you determine if this is a local problem that will blow over soon or something much larger?Starlink maybe but it is a big unknown as the entire system is dependent on one company and if our government tells them to suspend service obviously they will comply.
>>523658771I don't know why is this is so important, just use the moon and bounce your signals off that with whatever encryption you wish. If the beam is tight enough who would even know?It's the poor man's telecoms beacon.
I run a TS-590sg digirigged to a laptop on a G5RV. From EN 83, I've had a QSO with someone on Christmas Island.
>>523658498I have a VOIP phone patch for my GSM repeater that I’m running at very low power for now, until I can gain a station license for that band. Until then, I have a Motorola International 8200 with credit card sized SIM for making wireless calls, as well as a pager service at 154MHz.
Ambienthttp://sdr.websdrmaasbree.nl:8901/
Tell me more OPpretty sure my pops has some old radio equipment ill have to go over run through the basement and take photos of his shit.I should really get into this shit.I used to drive a dump truck in my early 20s, it had a CB radio for the old days I guess, nobody really used them much anymore except inside the pits, but I did fuck about 6 or 7 ladies I probably wish I didn't get so horny over that also drive trucks, when I passed by them, they hollared at me via the CB channel 19 lol
>>523657260>>523657494Dont need it, I train messenger birds for fun, we run competitions the best one I have went for 1200 kms and successfully reached its final destination.
>>523658858Requires far more specialized receiving equipment and protocols. The idea being to transmit on frequencies using protocols that are already in place, so that people don’t even need to modify their sets for more spectrum coverage. Just tune in with their usual dial and listen. At some point, higher RF power will be needed though, as the norks will surely try to block out the signal.
>>523658907I have used a number of rigs, my first HF rig when I got licensed was an FT-450, which is still a great radio. Then I also got an FT-817, which I sold then I got an FT-818 again later. IN the mean while I got a KX3 and then the matching tuner, 100w amp, and the 2m module too. And the matching panadapter. You can plug in a USB keyboard and it will decode cw and rtty and etc. and you can send in all these modes just by typing.I also got a HackRF and other radios along the way, a Clansman set, Biennephone, etc. All kinds of things.>>523659002I have an HP "1g/2g" test set, which I can use to create a phone network for 1g and 2g phones (up to 16) and connect directly to the POTS. The only issue is getting phones that can be rebanded to the ham 900 MHz band, and there are a couple DOZEN. So at this point I have my own cellular network over amateur radio in my area of "coastal oregon" but the tx power is only 5w, compared to the 40w of a normal cell tower. So I can only go a few miles away. But I live on a hill so that helps! But I never use this. It was just an experiment.
>>523657260>Roman>>523657458>>523658042>>523658718>>523658858is this like a radio?or whats the point?
>>523658771>one wish in life is to broadcast his mass consumerism and LGBTQ bullshit into North KoreaAnd people ask me why I think America is the cancer on humanity.
>>523659176>Requires far more specialized receiving equipment and protocols.PSK31 will run on a small MCU or any ancient computer... FT8 too and it's probably the most efficient one inside or outside the lab as far as anybody knows... and they are dead simple. At moon distances RTTY can provide interactive-speed terminal communications.
What books/videos would you recommend for an extreme newbie who can barely follow the terms in this thread? I want to know more but feel a tad overwhelmed by the prospect
>>523659530ARRL Guide to Amateur Radio. It's got everything you need to know. I'm sure there are general interest books but the radio's instruction manual will teach you what you need to know to tune into a shortwave broacast. It's not much different than using an FM or AM radio, I'm assuming you know how...
>>523659683Are you talking about the ARRL Handbook for Radio Communications?
>>523660084Sure. But any one would do you don't need the newest one.
>>523658042>France and GermanyI will save you the work anon, all you are going to hear are prayer calls ten times a day and random imams issuing fatwas against each other.
>>523659223Epic, I’d love to get a hold of one of those(care to ship anon?), for now I have quite a setup that I’ve acquired near free for RF and electronic work. An HP signal generator being my crown jewel, along with a nice logic analyzer/scope, and an Agilent LCR meter. I’d step up the power a bit and see if a cease and desist letter comes in. If not, let it be. 25W to start.
>>523657260>radioLike in the car?
>>523659349If I ever manage to get this wish granted, say, from terminal colon cancer like every other millennial at 35, you’ll hear about it on the news, I’m sure. Or at least if you tune in to my broadcast, you will, lmao. SSTV FTW
>>523659467Anon, think about the intended recipient, who has only whatever bullshit radio and tv as made available to them from their leaders. Computer being a necessity is untenable.
>>523661004That's fancier than my setup, I have a couple Tek scopes and my HP has a specroscope, but I don't have really any logic stuff.I am more of a radio amateur who got inot electronics to support my hobby than an electronics person who got into radio.>>523661175People have done SSTV off the moon. It's just fun.
>>523658718What is even better is downloading an android emulator package, installing an open map software package, and then cloning all of your regional satellite data with street name and other information. You can then export this onto microsd cards and turn any cell phone into an instant navigation tool. The gps won't work but if you have a compass and satellite imagery, its pretty easy to find your way around. Right now this involves a massive amount of private effort and only a few people in the world probably have it set up. But as a turn key prepper software package which can be shared with others some cracked version that allows bulk layer data to be downloaded without a licence would be worth its weight in gold the second the grid went down. A major government control factor is the ownership of maps and navigation information. Make that available laterally with .apk exports and you kick an entire leg out from the tyranny information prison.
>>523661056>Water, like from a toilet?I can’t believe we have to mandate AM radio in US cars because some fat cat penny pincher thought it would be a good idea to just get rid of what they were drowning out with electrical interference, despite it being the literal backbone of our emergency communications network(including on many interstates for traffic advisories).
>>523657864The chair is against the wall The bear walks under the moonlight
breaker breaker toilet paper any aliens out there come on back?henlo.. any aliens want to 10-4 my back door?
>>523661327Actually the AM stations get a kick back from the car companies, lol. The general public mostly doesn't give a shit.Here's my question - why don't cars have weather radio receivers? We pay for a nation wide network of LOCAL low power, local weather stations to blare out computer voice weather updated to the last 15 minutes, nation wide. At all times. They even have a standard tone they can play as an alert. Why don't all car radios have this? Just hit the 'weather' button and it auto tunes to the strongest, ie most local, weather radio station and gives you up to the minute weather?We literally pay for this system. It works even in extremely remote areas. But... no car has ever had this radio capability.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NOAA_Weather_Radio
>>523661213I’m trying to picture a nork with a satellite dish pointed to a very narrow band of their horizon with the “military level” equipment required. I doubt citizens have access to even SSB technology let alone SSTV. I’m an electronics guy who got into CRT repair and radios when I stumbled on a 1950’s transmitter-receiver. I found my way to vintage computers through an Apple IIc for $10 in 2005, which helped me understand the modern systems to a much more in depth degree. Even my 1985 40-channel logic analyzer is 100% compatible with the bus speeds and comms protocols used today.
>>523661544I used to love the fact he broadcast from his trailer
>>523661639All you need is a telescope mount capable of tracking the moon, the original Meade Autostar could do it 40 years ago. Most hams use that, a yagi being even lighter than the big scopes they are typically used with.
>>523661599Excellent question. I receive it on my VHF radio and there are some UHF rebroadcasts as well, but indeed it is some bullshit. I live on the coast of MA so have marine programmed in as well, some interesting SOS and alerts come through now and then, such as when overhead support won’t be available in an area due to a reconnaissance plane leaving that airspace for a window of time.
>>523661862Should be in all cars for sure. You don't want to wait for some DJ to finish smoking a marijuana before he notices some alert and finally reads it out.
>>523657260What a fucking beast that machine is, holy fuck. And I'm here with my measly Tecsun (can't complain anyway).>>523657458Every time I go to the middle of bumfuck nowhere I love to carry my radio and listen to random shit. With the external antenna placed on top of a tree I can hear quite a lot of radios with decent quality.
>>523661656Middle of fucking NOWHERE.
>>523657260what sw frequency are they broadcasting on?
>>523661228It seems better to have a dedicated device for offline GPS. Smartphones are so temperamental and can be bricked remotely.
>>523661725>capable of tracking the moonwhat kind of transmission actually bounce off the moon with a strog enough signal that you can tell what is being said?**side note - I was watching an interview with a salor who was board the USS Liberty when the jews attacked it. He said they regularly bounced their signal off the moon to transmit data to the NSA in Washington.
>China of course, dominates the entire shortwave spectrum with several channels always coming in strong in every region on the planet.respect to China
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>>523662352I agree. The benefit to the memory card map system is that you can clone them as often as you want and then put them into any device (desktops to tablets) and instantly extract an entire country's satellite imagery. This is beyond priceless to have on hand and offers an extremely valuable bartering chip since everyone loves sat maps.You can do this yourself right now but it takes forever.1. Download android emulator2. Download offline maps apk3. Install and allocate minimum 100gb for map data4. Labouriously download each zoom layer in tiny fractions of the overall map. This will take you several months with it just running in the background while you use your computer5. Manually confirm all layers are present in including street names overview6. Export entire directory to microsd card7. Include separate apk extractor app so people can swap emulator data8. Test it on various devices9. Make a few dozen and give them to your friends so they can use sat maps even if they are forced to faraday cage their devices10. ....>Or some enterprising software guy could turn the above into a single click software package and then air drop the files everywhere people who are worried about getting vanned live so they can figure out how to escape without bringing a literal tracking beacon with them. Realistically how can draft gangs be avoided if you need to use government maps to avoid them?
>>523662352what is that thing?
>>523657260>even the Romanians are readyKek. We are always caught by surprise - by winter in december, by flooding in flood season, by the change of tides and times. If we were ready for once in our lives then it would be the end of all Creation.
>>523662352What the fuck is that thing.
>>523662352It’s good advice to anyone, get a Garmin. -LM models have lifetime map updates, but there’s a forum(free to register) that hosts all the updates for free- just save as the correct filename and transfer to SD or upload directly to the device with BaseCamp. There’s a website with OpenMaps data ported to Garmin format as well.
>>523662352kino
What are they saying?
>>523657260That aint no shortwave. That's a freaking expensive HF DX rig.
ah, yes, the latest scare campaign by the chinese.no one is afraid of you chinks and south korea and japan would glass you niggers faster than you could say PING BONG CHING LING or however you say "we surrender" fuck the indonesians and the philipenese might get in some cheap shot rapes as well but the japanese are going full hog into that chink pussyspeaking of, its nearly time for my rape trips to china and i've got my red envelopes for cops readyi hope your sister enjoys getting raped
>>523663340WinTAK seems a lot easier but I haven't actually gotten into it yet myself.
>>523664237Here’s a schematic for FM/AM/SW reception as found on the bottom of my radio
>>523663610>>523663885https://conciousdoom.wixsite.com/website/post/the-division-cyberdeck-2-0-is-hereOffline maps, wikipedia, and general library.
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>>523664429Dude if you are worried about getting abducted and tossed into a trench as drone bait that shit is 'shines like the sun' tier glow niggery. It has to be a small memory card that people can secrete on their bodies or in a cavity. Even an usb drive is potentially too large. If they are stopped and searched they will be punished for transporting contraband. If they can hide a map, they can find a cache, and then equip themselves appropriately. The bottleneck is really around the map software.>If you want someone to get vanned immediately, use their wifi to look at routes out of Ukraine.
>>523657260>>523657458>>523657864you talk like a russian>>523658156post proves you're a russianstop bumping russian glownigger threads
>>523663890LM models seem to be car units but yes a Garmin is good advice.>>523665521I could be wrong but my understanding is WinTAK can be carried on microsd and installed offline. It is the same as your android offline maps except for Windows and WinTAK is more developed/less DIY. Also I'm not worried about getting abducted and tossed into a trench. This is for when some day the internet is gone.
>>523666315The control filter is at the map hosting level. Unless the layer information is included in the package someone is just painting a target on themselves.I get it man and I appreciate your effort posts itt. I think its great that people are being encouraged to prep intelligently. Any form of intelligence collection, or reserve, (signals v. maps) is worth pursuing. Europe is headed down a really dark path and information scarcity is looming for many people.
Most amateur radios run off 13.8V aka car battery voltages, I have mine set up with a LiFePO4 backup and field day battery. Farthest I've made contact from Texas is Perth, Australia. HF radio operation is a very good skill to have.>>523662428Moonbounce is a thing some amateurs do, there's a guy near me that does it but the loss is very high so you need hundreds of watts to transmit, and very sensitive receivers. I believe it's also all CW (morse) too so you also need good copy skills.There are also some early cold war era satellites with VHF/UHF repeaters on them you can hit pretty reliably with direcitonal antennas if you know when and where they pass.
>>523666067Look at this no-tech cope. You talk like a girl.
>>523667096Packages can be downloaded and distributed. It's meant to work offline as WinTAK is just the windows version of ATAK.
>>523668047you're literally a russian faggot. russia lost in ukraine, russia lost the space race
>>523662034>>523661544FROM SOMEWHERE IN THE DESERT*bass starts thumping*
>>523668158The "US" can't launch a man into space safely. Only China, Musk, and Russia.Russia might win in Ukraine, we will see. It's a hindsight thing. I know Russia must NOT win but history will tell, and Putin wants 'em to win and he's kinda in charge.I say YOU'RE not American, you weren't born here, you're not from here, we don't care about other countries if they won't uphold our apparently now singular Enlightenment ideals. EU=USSR. It's OVER nigger.Now don't @ me.
>>523668309you're such a coping russian faggot. you're going to die, faggot. look what russia has to do, you have to shill on fucking /pol/ of all places you're such a loser country and a loser people. total trash, your entire family is garbage
>>523668295 THE KINGDOM OF NYE
>>523668594https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpW3C_k0WMY
>>523668295I thought he would say HIGH DESERT. Been a long time though.
>>523657260i was into this hobby of kings until one of my schizophrenic neighbors tore down my antenna spreading rumors i am a spy.
>>523668800From the High Desert, under the stars of the Kingdom of Nye, this is Coast to Coast. I’m Art Bell, coming to you from a lonely microphone where the night is quiet and the questions are loud.Wherever you are—turn your radio down low, settle back, and get comfortable.You’re about to cross the line… into the unknown.
>>523668965Yeah something like that.
>>523668484This isn't how Ukraine wins. Your 'tude has turned off America. It's why we no longer send money, weapons, intel, men. You need to humble yourself. Stay humble. Beg a bit. You're a pill and you can be ignored.
>>523668965>>523668800Huh. I swore that he would say "from somewhere in the desert" but that might be the more recent stuff nearer his death. https://archive.org/details/ArtBell_Somewhere_In_Time/1994-05-20-Art-Bell-SIT-David-Aikman-Waco-The-Coming-Civil-War.mp3
>>523669928He used high desert and kingdom of nye
any of you guys listened to Vyzygoth back in the day.
>>523657260It's not that deep it's an old hobby that's seeing a comeback my dad uses the air the play chess with a guy from some little backwards part of Russia call abansky,it was huge in the 80s.
>>523657260which model fits all your OP requirements and is the most cost effective?That's my starting point please.
>>523657458>super turboBeloved game
>>523671630Respect. Fightcade bullying kids with guile, something about forcing them to jump right into a flash kick triggers some primal neuron. although I’d rather bully them with Aegis Reflector unblockables.
>>523657458Hook your radio to the closest big tree and you've got your antenna
>>523670184You put up a wire antenna in suburbia nowadays and every nut within a mile will blame you for everything from their refrigerator not working to their cancer.Last time I listened to short wave it was just garbage like Radio Peking or Radio Moscow or bible bashers ranting at 500Kw. Marine HF has mostly disappeared as has aeronautical SSB.
>>523657260So what sdr starting point you'd recommend?
>>523672539>>523672511
>>523661486John has a long mustache. I repeat, John has a long mustache.
>>523657260>give me your budget.$100i'm better off just joining a club and befriending some boomers with them, i can be their security goon or whateverthoughts
>>523659132That’s pretty cool. I always thought homing pigeons would be a cool hobby. Falconry, too. Falconry seems so neato.
>>523657260>Software defined radio is an option but beware - it's kinda shittyTell.me a good transmitter and receiver for. SDR.that it is cheap. None
>>523673662It is. But the.homing birds fly only.one direction. From thr place you release them back to their home coop.
>>523657260Xiegu g90 do AM sync?
>>523661228Why not just download the society military maps, OsmAnd+ maps, Canada Maps and US topo maps apps and download them onto your devices? I have the entirety of north and south America on a SD card and copied between devices. Good enough for navigation with tablet and compass.Of course nothing beats paper.
>>523657260Convinced me. I just bought one.
>>523657458bumpalso what is the best ham radio to communicate if shit hits the fan?give me all the info you got niggers
>>523657864>what the point of having oneto transmit encrypted signals over long distances
>>523657260I have an sdr i forget the model but its the newer V4. picks up china really well with a 7m peice of single core wire around my ceiling, and a mini connection and some coax i soldered to it.however, i live next to an electrified rail line and by golly fuckwhen the pulses arrive on the nearby line before a train comes it fucks up everything for a moment, also noaa shutting down weather satellites sucked.I am getting into 868 but there's no repeaters near me.
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>>523657260Nigger, no one cares. I don’t want a fucking government propaganda device in my home. I don’t give a fuck about communicating with other people if civilization collapses. I will kill everyone near me and horde their resources. China is doing incredibly based things right now like making game devs enlarge breast, banning niggers from media, banning hypergamy, and banning OnlyFans. Meanwhile our government has brought so many fucking Somalian invaders in we have turned into them and started pirating Venezuelan ships, we have openly corrupt politicians, we demonize law enforcement, send all our taxes to niggers and Jews, and worship both, let HR destroy and lawyers destroy our society, and are in the middle of a civil war were both sides are celebrating high profile deaths.TL; DR: fuck your radio
>>523657260You need a EcoFlow and solar panels, also
>>523679688>>523681256>>523681543Unfortunately our knowledgeable anons are gone for now. Hopefully OP makes another thread tomorrow.
>>523681730yeah he'll be back
There is tons of Youtube videos giving you recommendations to which radio model to buy.+ tips and tricks
for poorfags, sms is available on Meshcore or Meshtastic.
>>523657260Man i want a HF so bad, but i have no where to run an antenna... (apartment fag)
>>523657260Yes yes goy... erm anon, buy te pagers and wireless radios.
>>523682902Shalom
