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These can be fascinating. If you tune in at the right times on some American receivers, you can hear the truckers communicate via shortwave. They chat on a few
by SL61 7y ago
These can be fascinating. If you tune in at the right times on some American receivers, you can hear the truckers communicate via shortwave. They chat on a few different channels from hundreds of miles apart. It's like typical office chatter, but when they say they're locations it'll be a driver in Louisiana chatting with a driver in Ohio.
Then you can find the number stations (using http://priyom.org/ http://priyom.org/ to find their schedules), screaming fundamentalist preachers, pirate music stations, ham radio (conversations can get very weird), cults, etc.
It's a whole different world, and it's especially fun to browse through at 2 or 3 in the morning.
- themodelplumber 7y agoYou can occasionally hear truckers with ham radio licenses, too. :-) If you're in the US there's a reasonable chance of finding the Cuban numbers station on any given day. I pick it up from my back yard in CA all the time. In fact, a bit more elusive and exciting to me are some of the trickier stations like Radio New Zealand or NHK. Even North Korea is in many cases an easier pull than those... By the way, anybody interested in an easy and inexpensive on-ramp to listening from your own radio, check out the Radiwow R-108 and XHDATA D-328. These are less fiddly than SDRs, which can be a nice advantage for learning or portability. The Eton Elite Mini is another one that's been really surprisingly good in a small package.