{"id":38421,"date":"2019-07-07T08:34:51","date_gmt":"2019-07-07T12:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=38421"},"modified":"2019-07-07T08:34:51","modified_gmt":"2019-07-07T12:34:51","slug":"whats-your-favorite-shortwave-listening-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/whats-your-favorite-shortwave-listening-story\/","title":{"rendered":"What’s your favorite shortwave listening story?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Zack Schindler (N8FNR), who writes:<\/p>\n

Back in the 1980’s I was tuning around and came across two guys talking back and forth in a non-ham portion of the HF spectrum. They were not using any callsigns which I found weird so I kept listening. It became obvious that one guy was on the ground and the other was in a plane. The guy on the ground was trying to give the other guy instructions on where to land. The pilot kept saying that he was not seeing any of the landmarks that the other guy told him to look for. The man on land then gave the pilot a beacon callsign to navigate by so I looked it up and it was in the Yucatan. The pilot said that he was not receiving the beacon but after a bit said that he could see a water tower in a town. He flew near the tower and read off the name and it was a town in the panhandle of Florida.<\/p>\n

So it appears to me that they were probably drug smugglers and the pilot was so bad that he was off course by 700 miles or so. I always wondered how this story played out.<\/p>\n

Please reply with your favorite SWLing story here. I look forward to reading yours.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

What a great idea, Zack!<\/p>\n

In fact, I’ll sweeten the pot…<\/p>\n

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Next Sunday (July 14t, 2019) I will pick a commenter at random from this post and send them a copy of Joe Carr’s Loop Antenna Book which has been graciously donated by Universal Radio.<\/p>\n

This is open to anyone, anywhere–I’ll ship it globally.<\/p>\n

Please comment with you favorite shortwave listening story!<\/p>\n

[Note: Please include a valid email in the email address field of the comment form, else I will not be able to contact you to get your shipping address. We never share your email or use it for any other purpose.]<\/em><\/p>\n

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Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Zack Schindler (N8FNR), who writes: Back in the 1980’s I was tuning around and came across two guys talking back and forth in a non-ham portion of the HF spectrum. They were not using any callsigns which I found weird so I kept listening. It became obvious that one […]<\/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":[3,305,288],"tags":[4082,7878,7879],"class_list":["post-38421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-nostalgia","category-radio-history","tag-shortwave-radio","tag-shortwave-stories","tag-zack-schindler-n8fnr"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-9ZH","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":41702,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2020\/01\/radio-west-catalog-at-american-radio-history\/","url_meta":{"origin":38421,"position":0},"title":"Radio West catalog at American Radio History","author":"Thomas","date":"January 22, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Zack Schindler, who writes: Oh this brings back memories. 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