{"id":45013,"date":"2020-08-25T13:05:40","date_gmt":"2020-08-25T17:05:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=45013"},"modified":"2020-08-25T22:23:20","modified_gmt":"2020-08-26T02:23:20","slug":"listening-to-shortwave-broadcasts-on-the-lab599-discovery-tx-500","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2020\/08\/listening-to-shortwave-broadcasts-on-the-lab599-discovery-tx-500\/","title":{"rendered":"Listening to shortwave broadcasts with the lab599 Discovery TX-500"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The lab599 TX-500 Discovery<\/strong> is a general coverage transceiver with AM mode, which means it can do double-duty as a shortwave receiver.<\/p>\n

If you’ve been following previous TX-500 posts, you’ve seen me take this near military-grade portable transceiver to the field<\/a>. I’ve activated a total of 6 parks in 6 days with it and it’s been a load of fun.<\/p>\n

At home, I’ve also been doing a fair amount of SWLing with it in the evenings. I have a pre-production model that doesn’t include all of the accessories that will be provided with the production model. I don’t have a good way to port the audio out of the transceiver for recording at present, but I have been listening to broadcasts in the shack using a simple battery-powered amplified speaker.<\/p>\n

I made a short video demonstrating the shortwave listening experience with the TX-500. It’s not a deep-dive by any means, but I thought it might provide a little more context. Keep in mind, I recorded this with my iPad, so the audio is far from ideal.<\/p>\n