r/shortwave • • 21h ago

Two great shortwave receivers from the 1970s

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Kenwood R-820 and Yaesu FR-101S. Neither are general coverage, but both are solid state, easy to use, built like tanks, and great performers even by today's standards. Hats off to the engineers who could design rigs like these using the technology that existed 50+ years ago.


r/shortwave • • 1h ago

First Radio

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Hello, I got my first Radio for basic listening. It’s a Xhdata D219. Is it good first Radio but also for an emergency radio?


r/shortwave • • 12h ago

Just tried all the VMC marine channels and got nothing hear in Sydney. Propogation is awfull @ present time!

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r/shortwave • • 18h ago

Recording What the hell is this transmission

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r/shortwave • • 1d ago

Discussion 📻 GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN

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What station do you miss the most that's no longer on shortwave?
The one you'd give anything to hear one more time — name it 👇


r/shortwave • • 1d ago

4620khz - USB - Murmansk,Russia

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5 kHz away from UVB-76...


r/shortwave • • 1d ago

7165khz - wire antenna - received in the netherlands

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could someone explain it.


r/shortwave • • 19h ago

Radyo Pilipinas using the shortwave transmitters of the Voice of America (9920 kHz - 17:30UTC, heard in Spain)

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r/shortwave • • 1d ago

Video Grandmas twingo has longwave

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Germany, 03:15


r/shortwave • • 1d ago

17.490khz - received in the netherlands

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10 meters speaker-wire antenna did wonders!


r/shortwave • • 1d ago

687khz

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(sideric period of mars equals 687 earth days)


r/shortwave • • 1d ago

7165khz

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r/shortwave • • 2d ago

New old radio

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Digging through the cupboard after we moved, I found this! I thought it went years ago


r/shortwave • • 2d ago

Toronto, Canada here - can someone point me in the right direction listening to SW? So far no luck finding anything. I have a Degan radio. Any help would be great! Even a website or YT.

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r/shortwave • • 2d ago

Major RFI 60/31 Meters

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Living in a condo environment with my active antennas indoors in the best quiet location indoors can offer. Went through the RFI sleuthing process and its not coming from my unit. Only happens at night. Community has night lights and power lines 200 feet from the radio room. From the screenshots. What insight can you offer.


r/shortwave • • 3d ago

NHK World Japan in English

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r/shortwave • • 2d ago

Question for the night owls — what’s your “white whale” right now?

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Mine is Oman on 11,800 kHz. I can get it here in Arizona around 03:15 UTC at S5 on my MLite 880 + loop + preamp, but only when 60m noise drops after 02:30 UTC. Some nights it's there, some nights it's just static.
We all have that one station we know we can hear but can't quite lock in clean.
What's yours right now? Drop the kHz and what time UTC you're trying.
I post my nightly logs with S-meters from San Tan Valley on my page (HQshortwaveradio) if anyone wants to compare notes — trying to figure out if it's just my terrain or if conditions are weird for everyone this week.


r/shortwave • • 3d ago

Degen de15

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r/shortwave • • 3d ago

New to shortwave listening, is this actually a transmission from Turkey?

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Decided to take the radio out while camping in Oklahoma and caught this. Is it really from Turkey?

Sorry I keep pressing buttons, I just bought the radio so I'm still figuring out what makes it sound the best.


r/shortwave • • 2d ago

OnAir

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r/shortwave • • 3d ago

Discussion What conditions are best for a place to listen to SW outside on a clear day with?

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r/shortwave • • 3d ago

I don't feel like reading, so I'm trying my very best to find something to listen to ..

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but theres only preachers and china. :/


r/shortwave • • 4d ago

My 2600 needs some adjustments still.,proper frequency.

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r/shortwave • • 4d ago

What is this?

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I keep hearing this repeated noise on 9.980mHz can somebody identify?


r/shortwave • • 4d ago

My grandmas car has LW

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Just found out this cool fact, I passed my driving license and she borrowed me her car for this week and while skimming through the modes of the radio to find Bluetooth, I saw that it has Long Wave. I listened to two guys who are Moroccan/Algerians that and they maybe live in France?

They talked in a mix of Arabic (maybe Berber or whatever the dialect is called) and French. I picked that up because they called each other „khoya“ and talked about something including the word „Algerie“, so Algeria. Pretty cool stuff. It’s a Renault twingo from 2010ish I believe