Ok guys/gals I thought I would give you a little story on how I took a Kenwood R-5000 without any mods and made a complete portable HF SWL station. Well it all started back in July 2011, I was off work due to a industrial accident, I had a R-5000 that I have owned since 1987. It was stock standard and the place I am in now has a S9 noise floor across the entire HF spectrum. I decided to mod it for 12v option which can be read here. I then decided that I wanted to do ...
After being on the side lines for almost 4 years with the one brief stint as my main computer when the laptop needed to be sent away for a new screen inverter i got around to brushing the dust off my xp desktop and set it up to monitor paging messages Once the 144xlt was setup next step was to get an antenna to suit monitoring VHF paging frequencies 148.8125 and 148.9125 so a trip to Millicent was in order and $17.00 later i was watching flex & pocsag messages appear on screen ...
With summer in full swing i have managed to pick up quite a few victorian stations in frequency search mode on my 996t scanner and recorded quite a fair bit of interesting traffic These 2 clips are recordings of the dorodong fire just over the border about 20 kms from Penola
Took the family for a road trip this school holidays and ended up in Broken Hill at the Royal Flying Doctor Service HQ. The control room was about as expected. Calls for assistance from remote station are mostly via telephone these days although they get the occassional HF call. ...
Here is some thought provoking ideas as written by the late Havana Moon I have uploaded his book in pdf as its been out of print for a long time Enjoy The following piece was written by the late Havana Moon. It gives you an idea of what Numbers Stations are. Although it has been written a long time ago, it is still relevant. "Spy Numbers Transmissions" are a shortwave oddity which have been around for the last 30 years. They are ...
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