{"id":15190,"date":"2015-10-17T16:53:53","date_gmt":"2015-10-17T20:53:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=15190"},"modified":"2015-10-17T16:54:02","modified_gmt":"2015-10-17T20:54:02","slug":"the-bands-are-open-make-time-to-listen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/the-bands-are-open-make-time-to-listen\/","title":{"rendered":"The bands are open! Make time to listen."},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Sony-ICF-SW100-Outside-Fall\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Though I’ve spent the entire day sawing and splitting firewood, I’ve been actively recording spectrum on the 31, 25, 19 and 16 meter bands with the WinRadio Excalibur<\/a>, Elad FDM-S2<\/a> and the SDRplay RSP<\/a>. Why? Propagation–especially on the higher bands–has been the best it’s been in several weeks.<\/p>\n

As I discovered at the recent SWLing Post DXpedition<\/a>, my shack PC can handle making multiple spectrum recordings simultaneously as long as I limit each recording to the width of a broadcast band. (I’ve never tried pushing the limit very hard.) Someday in the future–perhaps when we’re having terrible propagation–I’ll play those spectrum recordings back and tune through them as if they were live.<\/p>\n

Radio time travel at its best.<\/p>\n

\"Sony-ICF-SW100-Outside-2\"<\/p>\n

When I decided to throw in the towel with all of the firewood processing, I fired up the Sony ICF-SW100<\/a>\u00a0(above) and tuned in a game on 17,855 kHz: Radio Exterior de Espa\u00f1a<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The REE signal was simply booming<\/em> into eastern North America!<\/p>\n

Hard to break away from the radio on days like this.<\/p>\n

My advice? Take advantage of these conditions and make time to listen!<\/em> <\/strong><\/p>\n

For me, SWLing\u00a0a great excuse to relax and let me back heal after a long day of splitting wood. For some, perhaps it’s a good excuse to take the radio outdoors and away from urban interference. Whatever the excuse, don’t hesitate to fire up your radio!<\/p>\n

There are some interesting stations on the bands\u00a0this evening. Feel free to comment\u00a0with some you’ve logged.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Though I’ve spent the entire day sawing and splitting firewood, I’ve been actively recording spectrum on the 31, 25, 19 and 16 meter bands with the WinRadio Excalibur, Elad FDM-S2 and the SDRplay RSP. Why? Propagation–especially on the higher bands–has been the best it’s been in several weeks. As I discovered at the recent SWLing […]<\/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":[3,26,43,1167],"tags":[412,34,3395,437],"class_list":["post-15190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-radios","category-shortwave-radio","category-whats-on-shortwave","tag-propagation","tag-shortwave","tag-sony-icf-sw100","tag-swling"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-3X0","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10733,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/nothing-on-the-bands-check-out-the-shortwave-radio-audio-archive\/","url_meta":{"origin":15190,"position":0},"title":"Nothing on the bands? 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