{"id":13493,"date":"2015-06-12T10:21:04","date_gmt":"2015-06-12T14:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=13493"},"modified":"2015-06-12T10:21:04","modified_gmt":"2015-06-12T14:21:04","slug":"richards-search-to-find-the-best-swling-spot-on-campus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/richards-search-to-find-the-best-swling-spot-on-campus\/","title":{"rendered":"Richard&#8217;s search to find the best SWLing spot on campus"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Richard-UNB.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13586\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Richard-UNB.jpg\" alt=\"Richard-UNB\" width=\"650\" height=\"350\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Richard-UNB.jpg 650w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Richard-UNB-300x162.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Richard Langley, has been seeking the perfect spot on the campus of the University of New Brunswick (UNB) to listen to shortwave. He recently shared the following:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/129800227\" target=\"_blank\">Here&#8217;s a link to a brief video<\/a> of my recording of last weekend&#8217;s VOA Radiogram &#8220;in the field&#8221; (a UNB parking lot):<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"VOA Radiogram 17870 kHz 30 May 2015\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/129800227?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Richard goes on to say that he&#8217;s found an even better location:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/receiver_locations_smaller-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-13583\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/receiver_locations_smaller-1.jpg\" alt=\"receiver_locations_smaller (1)\" width=\"668\" height=\"430\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/receiver_locations_smaller-1.jpg 668w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/receiver_locations_smaller-1-300x193.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 668px) 100vw, 668px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;That location on campus (green pin on attached image) turned out to not be noise-free on all bands. Found an even better location (red pin). Negligible power-line interference although still within Wi-Fi range of UNB&#8217;s system but no significant effects from that discovered yet. Got excellent reception of VOA&#8217;s Radiogram this past Saturday afternoon. Extremely clean waterfall in Fldigi. And virtually noise-free images\u00a0[below]&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div id=\"attachment_13581\" style=\"width: 1035px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/voa_radiogram-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13581\" class=\"wp-image-13581 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/voa_radiogram-1.jpg\" alt=\"voa_radiogram (1)\" width=\"1025\" height=\"625\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/voa_radiogram-1.jpg 1025w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/voa_radiogram-1-300x183.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/voa_radiogram-1-1024x624.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1025px) 100vw, 1025px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-13581\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Richard&#8217;s decoded message. (Click to enlarge)<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_13582\" style=\"width: 244px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/pic_2015-06-06_181519z.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-13582\" class=\"wp-image-13582 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/pic_2015-06-06_181519z.png\" alt=\"pic_2015-06-06_181519z\" width=\"234\" height=\"162\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-13582\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">VOA Radiogram decoded image<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Many thanks for sharing this with us, Richard!<\/p>\n<p>Those of you who live or work in areas with significant\u00a0radio noise should consider scouting out a listening spot like Richard has. Also, you might be inspired by <a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/06\/testing-sdrs-noise-reduction-in-a-london-park\/\">LondonShortwave<\/a> who takes his radios to public parks. Regardless, moving your receiver as far away from sources of radio interference as possible will always yield better listening results.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SWLing Post contributor, Richard Langley, has been seeking the perfect spot on the campus of the University of New Brunswick (UNB) to listen to shortwave. He recently shared the following: Here&#8217;s a link to a brief video of my recording of last weekend&#8217;s VOA Radiogram &#8220;in the field&#8221; (a UNB parking lot): Richard goes on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[373,960,3051,3,3196,43,304,1167],"tags":[3898,2651,1296,453,3516,2066,1718],"class_list":["post-13493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-am","category-international-broadcasting","category-mobile-shortwave","category-news","category-portable-radio","category-shortwave-radio","category-videos","category-whats-on-shortwave","tag-mitigating-radio-noise","tag-radio-frequency-interference","tag-rf-noise","tag-rfi","tag-richard-langley","tag-tecsun-pl-880","tag-voa-radiogram"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-3vD","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":19938,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/theres-a-pattern-in-that-noise\/","url_meta":{"origin":13493,"position":0},"title":"There&#8217;s a pattern in that noise!","author":"Thomas","date":"July 3, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor,\u00a0@K7al_L3afta, who just shared the image (above) and noted, on Twitter: \"I just discovered the noise at the start of [the VOA Radiogram has] a purpose!\"\u00a0 https:\/\/twitter.com\/K7al_L3afta\/status\/749391585259974656 That's a brilliant discovery! 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