The ramsey stuff don't work worth a crap.
I got a real nice 1 watt synthesized transmitter with a digital
frequency readout, nice stereo separation and good fidelity.
With an outside antenna, it goes blocks, never tried to figure
out just how far.
1 watt with a good antenna should go miles.
I tri
At 11:26 AM 11/13/2004, you wrote:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> I also had a friend who discovered that old pay telephones used to use
> the sound of the falling coins striking a bell to determine whether the
> money was properly deposited in the phone.
Payphones later used frequency-shifted DTM
At 10:54 AM 11/13/2004, you wrote:
I was never in on the busy signal thing, but I did do something
similar. Telephone numbers that had the suffix beginning with 99 were
designated as "official" numbers for internal phone company use. As I
recall, you could dial xxx-9929 and have a friend dial
The best Part 15 FM transmitter kits are the ones I've purchased from DC
ELectronics http://www.dckits.com/stcast.htm
I've used their mono unit (PLL-MONO $59.95) in situations where I need
maximum range, and the stereo unit (PLL-SFM $79.95). when two channel audio is
important. Both are P
I'm new on the list. Am I mistaken or is it intended for technical/electronic
topics?
Bill
NPR is pretty mainstream now after the goivernment cut
the legs out from under them.
> Has anyone tried the Ramsey kit, or know of any other fairly inexpensive
> unit (< $100)?
>
> It's getting so there is more stuff available over the computer than on the
> shortwave bands, but right now I have to be in the room with the computer to
> listen. I'd like to be able to enjoy these st
NPR is pretty mainstream now after the goivernment cut
the legs out from under them.
The corporate sponsor notices on there are starting to
sound more and more like commercials all the time, he he!
Even more so with public TV. Some of those "sponsor notices" are nothing
but downright comm
I've gone so far as to build a part 15 transmitter so I can listen to
streaming internet stations on my old radios.
I have been looking for something that puts a stable, full fidelity stereo
signal on the FM band so I can retransmit streaming audio throughout the
house and pick it up on any
Funny how NPR and the liberal media freaks mentioned in the story can
take
something like a UTE such as a number station and turn it in to a cult! I
remember when I actually liked listening to NPR. Even 'A Prarie Home
Companion'
has gone sour like a bad compost heap. Bummer.
I don't get
On 13 Nov 2004 at 12:20, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> By the way - NPR works quite hard to be balanced in its reporting. Check
> out
> the "ombudsman" section of their website.
> http://www.npr.org/yourturn/ombudsman/mission.html
Yep. Considering that they are now largely paid for by
corporate
On 13 Nov 2004 at 8:57, Jim Isbell wrote:
> It seems to be rather non productive if you still had to call long
> distance after making the contact and getting the other persons
> number, or was there some way to use another number?
Yes. You could meet total strangers that way!
On 13 Nov 2004 at 12:13, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> That trick relies upon there being a poorly designed or damaged "busy
> trunk"
> device at the phone co central office. All the busy calls were terminated
> into one unit that put out the busy signal tones, and if it had enough
> cross-talk
>
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> I also had a friend who discovered that old pay telephones used to use
> the sound of the falling coins striking a bell to determine whether the
> money was properly deposited in the phone.
Payphones later used frequency-shifted DTMF tones to signal the deposit of
Mark Foltarz wrote:
> Funny how NPR and the liberal media freaks mentioned in the story
> can take something like a UTE such as a number station and turn it in to a
> cult! I remember when I actually liked listening to NPR. Even 'A Prarie
Home
> Companion' has gone sour like a bad compost h
Jim wrote:
> I cant remember just how it worked but I think you called a number
> that was bussy and then you listened between the beeps for the voice
> of another person.
That trick relies upon there being a poorly designed or damaged "busy trunk"
device at the phone co central office. All th
It seems to be rather non productive if you still had to call long
distance after making the contact and getting the other persons
number, or was there some way to use another number?
I didnt even hear about it until the early 90s when I was out of work
and looking for things to do. I found all s
I was never in on the busy signal thing, but I did do something
similar. Telephone numbers that had the suffix beginning with 99 were
designated as "official" numbers for internal phone company use. As I
recall, you could dial xxx-9929 and have a friend dial xxx-9930, and
the two of you could
On 13 Nov 2004 at 8:13, Jim Isbell wrote:
> Speaking of cults. did you ever hear of the cult of folks that
> communicated over the telephone on a bussy signal? I tried it once
> and it worked!!
>
> I cant remember just how it worked but I think you called a number
> that was bussy and then you
I have a few BC Band crystals available for that rig if anyone needs
them.
Several 1288 kHz and a few others here...
On 13 Nov 2004 at 8:23, Larry Roohr wrote:
> Alan Cohen wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > In any case, it is certainly a lot more interesting than the usual
> > radio fare. It sure beats t
On 13 Nov 2004 at 4:20, Mark Foltarz wrote:
>Funny how NPR and the liberal media freaks mentioned in the story can
> take
> something like a UTE such as a number station and turn it in to a cult!
> I
> remember when I actually liked listening to NPR. Even 'A Prarie Home
> Companion'
> has gon
Links to many other numbers-watchers, clandestine-watchers
and pirate-watchers are here too:
http://www.af4k.com/piralynx.htm
On 12 Nov 2004 at 21:40, Keith Anderson wrote:
> The ACE is a magazine put out by the Association of Clandestine Enthusiasts,
> this is a radio listening club devote to
Some of these stations are FAMOUS and even acquire
a special nickname, like the "LINCOLNSHIRE POACHER" -
one that the SWLs talk about. I have never heard him though.
On 12 Nov 2004 at 20:09, Mike Duke, K5XU wrote:
> Sometimes, they even show up on 80 or 40 meters.
>
> In fact, one has been aroun
Actually I remember hearing the numbers stations in England
as a new SWL in 1963 or so.
I think the old numbers stations have been around a lot longer than
three decades.
If you do a web search there is a lot of information about them.
http://www.af4k.com/swllynx.htm
On 13 Nov 2004 at 1:23, Dona
Speaking of cults. did you ever hear of the cult of folks that
communicated over the telephone on a bussy signal? I tried it once
and it worked!!
I cant remember just how it worked but I think you called a number
that was bussy and then you listened between the beeps for the voice
of another per
Oops, the grassyhill people are a '.org', not a '.com'.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Hi,
Neither one of the radio sites you quoted in your email will come up but the
transmitter looks neat.
Thanks and 73,
John, W4AWM
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Hi,
Neither one of the radio sites you quoted in your email will come up but the
transmitter looks neat.
Thanks and 73,
John, W4AWM
Alan Cohen wrote:
In any case, it is certainly a lot more interesting than the usual
radio fare. It sure beats the likes of morning drive blatherers like
Howard Stern and Don Imus, the right wing echo chamber of Limbaugh and
Hanity, the semi-automatic no-personality bad music juke boxes th
It seems to me that the cult existed long before NPR ever reported it.
They certainly were not the ones who released a CD of number stations,
nor were they the folks on both sides of the Atlantic who bought the
the things. As noted here by others, people have spent many hours
logging the stat
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