Just got a G8 :)

[radio-dinosaur]

gar, try this site http://short-wave.info/index.php.  i'm new to swl and this site is very helpful

[gar fla]

Wow. Thanks!

I like how it has the areas shaded in darkness and sunlight too.

Here's the video I got of my catch from last night. Listen carefully to the first words the announcer says.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwu3F5O2RF8&feature=youtu.be

Anyone know what I was hearing?

[cyberdad]

gar, try this site http://short-wave.info/index.php.  i'm new to swl and this site is very helpful

Well, I've been into SWL since the '60s....at least on a semi-regular basis.  And that site is a fabulous resource.  Thanks for posting!

[radio-dinosaur]

I stumbled on to short-wave info last summer when I got my first SW radio. It is invaluable. I'm now on my 3rd radio, Sony 7600-gr.  love it.

[crainbebo]

I used to listen to SW a lot before Netherlands stopped English programs, and before Sweden/Bulgaria left us. Now all you hear except for a few exotics are religion (like WWCR/Dr. Gene Scott), China and Cuba.

-crainbebo

[gar fla]

Well, I checked 7445 khz a little before 7 pm local time and couldn't hear a thing.

According to the hfradio.org site, the only station broadcasting at the time was the 100kw station China International Radio from Beiging.

Then a few minutes after 7, I checked again and I can hear a weak station that sounds like the one I was getting last night this time but the signal is not that good.

hfradio.org shows the VOA 250kw station from Sri Lanka as coming on the air at 7 pm my time too.

I then checked the Short Wave Info site but that station is not being shown, however Sri Lanka is still in the darkness according to the map and the entire path to here would keep it in darkness.

The station in China has been well into the sunlight for hours and the signal path would take it through too much sunlight from there to here to be received at the lower frequency of 7445 kkz, I would think.

Considering that and the fact this other station came on the air at the time the hfradio.org site says, I think I can conclude it was the station from Sri Lanka.

[MarioMania]

I saw an old Grundig in an antique shop for $30, it took D Battaries..I didn't pick it up...

[gar fla]

Well, this is a first for me.

I'm listening for WWV on 15,000 khz here in Tampa a little past 10:30 pm and it's a weak signal but there's no sign at all of the man's voice giving the time at the top of the minute.

I can only here the woman's voice, so I'm only getting WWVH!   

I've never heard WWVH alone here on any of the three frequencies WWV and WWVH uses.

It's only been WWV or WWV with WWVH in the background.

[cyberdad]

I'm going to guess that the reason you're getting WWVH "solo" has to do with the solar storm and the fact that at the time of your post it would've been still daylight in Hawaii, but dark in Colorado.

But like you, the only time I've ever heard WWVH in Florida has been under WWV.

[Tincap]

gar, try this site http://short-wave.info/index.php.  i'm new to swl and this site is very helpful

This an awesome site. I bookmarked this one, after someone generously posted it here a while back. Although, for some reason, Radio Sonder Grenese (Radio Without Borders...the locals nick name it, 'Radio Sonder Mensen', Radio Without People...) and the Afrikaan language have been removed from the lists. 

~BG