[ARC5] Ham Radio Intercept of military Comminciations

[J. Forster]

I've played with some pre-WW II broadcast/SW radios. They are really only
useful for listening to high power broadcasters, like the BBC. Among other
things, the dials are far too compressed to be useful.

FWIW,

-John

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> On Tue, 2 Nov 2010, Robert  Eleazer wrote:
>>
>> As for other ham intercepts, remember that SW listening was discouraged
>>in WWII and many of the better quality commercial SW receivers were taken
>>by the government for its own use.  Considering that the air over the USA
>>was alive with many thousands of aircraft, and the associated radio
>>communications must have been quite extensive, I find it remarkable that
>>I have never heard anyone recall listening to that comm at their home.
>
> I don't know anything about SW listening being discouraged, but this was
> a period of time when many home radios, console and table model, were
> equipped to receive shortwave broadcasting.  But maybe network broadcast
> radio was so good then that few people were interested in shortwave
> listening.
>
>
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