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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID 6925 USB 2228 UTC 9 MAR 2024
« on: March 09, 2024, 2244 UTC »
Signal very clear via KiwiSDR in Jumonville, PA. Thanks for the great tunes!
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0116 UTC Not cloud splitter any more Id say Kiss 108 FM rebroadcast? UNID Now id say
Maybe the best introduction is to check out the Wikis on Shortwave, whether here or at Wikipedia.
There are some SW sites like The SWLing Post that have a lot of information on various aspects of the hobby.
Overall, it's tough to learn a lot by doing right now because propagation is so poor. The best thing to do is to check the bands -- if you're into ham bands, 40 meters (day or night, although night is best), 80 meters (at night) and 20 meters (afternoon and daytime) are probably best, and if you're into SW broadcasts, the 49 meter band at night and 31 meter band during the evening are probably the best bets for hearing stuff.
When conditions improve in a couple years, the other bands (15 meter ham band, 10 meter ham band, 19 meter SW broadcast band, 17 meter SW broadcast band, etc.) will open up.
As for LSB and USB, it's 'sideband', which is a form of transmission that gets a signal out farther per watt. Hams use it mainly (along with a few other services), but on the 40 meter and 80 meter ham bands you will hear LSB, and 20 meters and higher the hams use USB. If you want to listen to the morse code sections of the ham bands (usually the lowest section of each band), either LSB or USB will decode it.