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Radio nerd who loves the signals found by digging through static. Firm opponent of censorship. Posting here about things related to longwave, mediumwave, or shortwave radio, and maybe even a book, song, or rant. I'll follow back real people :-)

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This IS a wild story! Prince, before and after his nane change, lurking on early internet services.

16.11.2025 04:32 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

How about asserting some states' rights and say "no" Trump and his Feds? He's not a king, so what about that?

States need to find a way to say, "fuck you - sue me."

09.11.2025 15:23 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

There's a kitty who knows how to live.

09.11.2025 13:24 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

That's disheartening. I was hoping to see conditions improve in the new week, but it appears to not be in the works. LOL maybe people will post more pretty aurora images.

09.11.2025 13:22 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Clarifies things indeed. Did Roger Stone write them an editorial policy manual?

09.11.2025 13:04 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The BBC has become gutless organization. To call them sheep is disrespectful to sheep. I quit listening to their news because they REPEATEDLY took Trump at face value, without fact checking. BBC cannot be respected if it does not respect truth.

09.11.2025 12:56 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

FUCK THE HERITAGE FOUNDATION

09.11.2025 12:42 β€” πŸ‘ 24    πŸ” 1    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

LOL that is upsetting and disparaging of scrotums!

09.11.2025 12:39 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Since you read "1984," now go to "The First Circle" by Alexandr Solzhenitsyn. It is about a guy who catches the attention of the state organs and the people he will soon meet, already on the inside...

09.11.2025 11:44 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
I taught an octopus piano (It took 6 months)
YouTube video by Mattias Krantz I taught an octopus piano (It took 6 months)

Overcoming a learning plateau with a piano playing octopus. If someone simply told me the story, I would have never believed it. But here it is...

youtube.com/watch?v=PcWn...

08.11.2025 10:54 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
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Radio Nacional da Amazonia was strong tonight, and sounding fabulous on the sync AM demod. It was pretty luxurious with the bandwidth set to 12 kHz. Received on the K3FEF RX888 / NovaSDR in Pennsylvania.
novasdr.k3fef.com:9002?frequency=61...

#novasdr #websdr #swl #sdr #shortwave #brazil #brasil

08.11.2025 02:16 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Remember how easily DOGE went in and said, "fuck them" and all of the Project 2025 people were all-in for it. Eugenics.

07.11.2025 15:52 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I'm cheering for Yuri. He's a tough kitty; he endures.

07.11.2025 13:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Imagine if a regular person tried that Trump regime 50% bullshit with alimony, child support, or other civil judgment.

07.11.2025 13:39 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Yeah, I'm a radio nerd going back decades. So much of a radio nerd that I even recognized an audio clip of Greaseman, from DC-101 when the podcast talked about morning zoo / shock jock radio.

I'm doing my second binge listen to the Divided Dial, looking for things missed the first time πŸ˜€

07.11.2025 13:05 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

That's the rose's way of saying everything's gonna be alright.

07.11.2025 12:54 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Those evil motherfuckers.

07.11.2025 12:50 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

None of the bullshit going on today is surprising, considering that the far right was always there, talking points and all. But they were largely broke until the BILLIONAIRES started buying up media and dumping buckets of money on people of similar ideology.

07.11.2025 12:45 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Brother Stair was just amusing, screaming and yelling like a madman about "the Pope of Rome" and how, saying for 30 years that this was the LAST generation. But some other serious militia types were out there too. No doubt Timothy McVeigh, the bomber, was listening and being a TRUE BELIEVER.

07.11.2025 12:38 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

WGY got pretty boring pretty fast, so I built a loop antenna for AM, then got back into shortwave. Fuckin' shortwave was a distilled shot of conspiracies and insurrection, with the likes of Bill Cooper and some hardcore religious stations every night below 49 meters.

Not so different from today...

07.11.2025 12:34 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I was living in upstate NY and doing trips to a lot of small towns, with interesting talk shows in the afternoons and evenings. Often Chuck Harder ("For the People") to Tom Valentine ("Spotlight") and late night with Art Bell ("Coast to Coast AM").

07.11.2025 12:29 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0
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On the Media: The Divided Dial | WNYC Studios | Podcasts WNYC’s weekly investigation into how the media shapes our worldview.

I'm drilling down on "The Divided Dial" season one from @onthemedia.bsky.social / WNYC. It was a mystery to me how AM talk radio turned to such crap, as I observed in the 1980s and 1990s. Long before the 2000s. This is the history, starting with episode one.

www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/otm...

07.11.2025 12:25 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 3    πŸ“Œ 0

Trump views corruption as the mark of an apex predator, fit to survive. He wants a nation of such evil bastards.

07.11.2025 11:50 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

LOL are you saying they did *not* get the lightning bolt conversion experience like the apostle Paul? No whoomp whoomp and then they saw the light? I keep hoping they changed...

07.11.2025 11:41 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
Skywave Linux internet SDR list now shows the freq and mode preset.

Skywave Linux internet SDR list now shows the freq and mode preset.

User-friendliness up a notch on the Skywave Linux list of internet SDRs. Now it shows the current frequency and mode preset. Click on a link and that is how the new tab is set up - on freq, on mode, good to go!

skywavelinux.com/best-sdrserv...

#websdr #kiwisdr #novasdr #swl #bcbdx

07.11.2025 11:38 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0
New S-Meter on the SV1BTL WebSDR

New S-Meter on the SV1BTL WebSDR

News and chatter over morning coffee? How about ERA-1, from Athens, received at the SV1BTL radio...

"Is that a monster S-meter, or ya just glad to see me?
sv1btlham.no-ip.org:8900?frequency=72...

#websdr #novasdr #sv1btl #mediumwave #bcbdx #swl

07.11.2025 11:31 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The burden of proof ought to be on the state, not on the voter.

01.11.2025 07:10 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

That link to WHAS got auto-tweaked from plain http to https, so try this instead:

novasdr.k3fef.com:9002?frequency=84...

01.11.2025 07:07 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

If you try and tune in after sunrise, WHAS will have faded out, but WNYC on 820 kHz will no longer be covered by noise. It is nicely audible during the day:

novasdr.k3fef.com:9002?frequency=82...

01.11.2025 06:54 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

It is a fun night for listening on the AM / mediumwave band. I'm listening by way of that fabulous new SDR set up by K3FEF in eastern Pennsylvania. Here's a link to tune WHAS, right now running "Coast to Coast AM:"

novasdr.k3fef.com:9002/?frequency=840000&modulation=SAM

01.11.2025 06:47 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

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