Secrets of Shortwave Radio

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Brian and Jason were very excited to finally learn how to do the shortwave dash on the skywave map, especially when they heard that all you need to do is turn the radio on.
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Huge thanks to Josh for coming through and giving us the rundown on our many questions about radio. If you want to learn more about radio, you should check out his channel at Ham Radio Crash Course - / hoshnasi
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[@ModernRogue]

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[@ccrusher1]

I loved that episode! It was so well done!

[@roddywoods9344]

Is really cool for you to give your bike out for free I’m definitely gonna get it and try to eat some fire

[@IrishEagIe]

Demystifying Shortwave Radio

[@mdent6233]

The giveaway is still going on? Sweet! I thought it ended a week ago.

[@avuozorsamuel5145]

Hi how are u?

[@HamRadioCrashCourse]

This came out wonderfully. Thanks for letting me come on the show and show off some radios!

[@WickdPerfekT]

Well done.

[@TheSlowpC]

Was like... Wait a second!? - Is that ... yep it is! Great work here to the whole team here!

[@wobblysauce]

If only there was more information available.

[@HamRadioCrashCourse]

@@wobblysauce hmm, I may know a guy.

[@CyberPirate2008]

The waterfall looks like the radio thing you see on Ships and subs etc.

[@travisharms6472]

Oh my goodness, I've been spending the last few days looking up shortwave radios and how they work, just for you to publish this video

[@tntcake6327]

theyre tracking you

[@fatherlandchild2780]

Same!

[@avuozorsamuel5145]

Hi I hope u have been good girlfriend?

[@fatherlandchild2780]

@@avuozorsamuel5145 What?

[@danielteegarden8982]

me too. lolo trip

[@JustinY.]

Obligatory reviewbrah mention for shortwave radio

[@kibordplays6109]

Ahh you are a fan of MR, who would've known the "Y" was a modern rogue

[@Mrfizzledeggs]

Justin you have way too much damn free time

[@samgrange3671]

Hello Justin

[@netherstarbuild]

how does this only have 70 likes

[@dawnqwerty]

@@Mrfizzledeggs just think tho, so do you. If you commented on every video you’ve seen him comment on, you’d be in the same position

[@shinjisan2015]

Former military HF operator here. There is a mistake in his explanation of ionospheric layers. D-Layer doesn't exist at night. It recombines into the F-Layer. During the day there is typically the following layers from lowest to highest altitudes. D-Layer, E-Layer, F1-Layer, F2-Layer. At night the ionosphere recombines into typically a single F-layer. The D and E layers are either non-existant or unsuitably thin.

[@ashiksaleem360]

Thnx buddy

[@McRuessel]

Greetings from a former electronic warfare HF operator! :)

[@wingwong8304]

Is there a website to see the ionosphere?

[@SnifferRiffle]

@@wingwong8304 Google images

[@fungo6631]

Don't the D and E layers just disappear overnight and not recombine into the F layer?

[@JohnSmith-lp7px]

Have a coworker who loves rebuilding antique shortwave radios. He wanted a radio that would only pick up the atomic clock in Texas so he built one from scratch. He wrapped the coils, installed the tubes. It was really amazing to watch. AND IT WORKED

[@billybbob18]

I'm amazed by things like that. People used to wind their own motors. I accomplished the same task as your coworker with a 40 dollar amazon purchase and a free computer program. Things have become so easy that we don't get a chance to know how our stuff works. Kudos to your coworker. We would have probably gotten along well.

[@Plasmastorm73_n5evv]

@@billybbob18 The cheap and easy is a big problem when it comes to lost skills. All of these things are killing off many parts of this and many other hobbies that used to exist, like winding your own motors.

[@bens.7298]

One night my friends old guitar amp started picking up distant am signals, it was spooky as hell

[@butre.]

my amp will sometimes pick up Cuban radio stations

[@allanrichardson1468]

In the 1970s and 1980s, drivers of semi trucks were heavy users of the 27 MHz Citizen’s Band, and many of them broke the law by putting out up to a kilowatt, using linear amplifiers marketed for legal use in the adjacent 28 MHz (10 meter) ham band. I once lived in an apartment complex just off I-4 in Florida, and my apartment was on the highway facing side of a building near the wall separating the complex from the highway. One night I was awakened by a few seconds of a CB transmission on my clock radio, when the radio portion was OFF, no power. Some trucker must have been using even MORE illegal power than 1000 watts (1 KW); the LEGAL limit for CB is FIVE watts! His signal was so powerful that the transistors in the AUDIO amplifier demodulated it and passed it to the speaker with NO POWER from the power supply!

[@earthman6700]

@@butre. Cool

[@raymieh8905]

@@allanrichardson1468 when I was in the hospital is San Francisco like 1986 I bought a ridiculous huge linear from two cool asain guys. Because I was a stupid kid. I never used it. It recently burned up in the Paradise CA camp Fire

[@allanrichardson1468]

Raymie H Sorry for your property loss. Too bad you didn’t sell it; it would still be legal for a ham to use on 10 meters. And lots of tech people love “retro” stuff.

[@richardpowell4281]

Four full-length videos in an 11 day period.... YES! The Ouija Board and Voodoo incantations are working!!! Now if I can only get the blood from one of their many injuries.... Tears would work but DAMN IT **pounds fist on table** we all know they don't cry (except for when tear gas is involved)....

[@IceDragon978]

Become a top-tier patron. They'll mail you a jar of gamer tears.

[@Abdega]

Will stool samples work too? If you’re really lucky (and they are UNlucky) you might can get all three from the same bowl after one eventful night!

[@stavinaircaeruleum2275]

@@Abdega ew

[@avuozorsamuel5145]

Hey are u in there

[@blackguard5883]

HAM is a series of slices... *Who knew?!?!?*

[@lilmoeszyslak4810]

Blackguard It’s also delicious 😋

[@trevordavison4078]

I love this comment, as a fellow dad joke connoisseur, this was marvelous

[@parac0sm0naut26]

Some cultures reject HAM Radio.

[@gregoryadkins2213]

Blackguard who says it has to be slices.

[@allanrichardson1468]

This kind of ham is OK for Jews and Muslims, and both Israel and (depending on their degrees of political censorship) most Arab and Muslim countries have ham radio. One well known example is the late King Hussein ibn Abdullah of Jordan, father of the current King Abdullah ibn Hussein (named after his grandfather), who operated a ham station for many years, just having regular ham to ham conversations, not mentioning royalty (unless asked) or politics.

[@KRAFTWERK2K6]

Shortwave is quite an exotic thing among the radio frequencies because it spreads out in a zig zag shape and really can become a bit unpredictable and almost alive like a living creature. This is why it has so much drift and when you listen to a radio station on shortwave you have this fading and drifting because it's all the atmospheric effects on the radio wave. The weather has a huge impact too and also the seasons.

[@chriskaprys]

After a lifetime of always finding radio endlessly magical and fascinating, then finally seeing the northern lights in person a few years ago, I now picture the aurora borealis when imagining the propagation of radio waves, how it slithers and shifts through the sky, like you said, like a living creature. Love it.

[@Plasmastorm73_n5evv]

@@chriskaprys Completely different thing. The AB is a MAGNETIC storm sent by CME towards the earth...aka a solar storm. Radio is not that.

[@steveleblanc4260]

there IS AM Stereo. I had one back in the late 80's, and it rivaled FM Stereo

[@jayrogers8255]

I’ve heard A.M. stereo stations that exceed F.M. stereo! C-Quam & the Magnavox system.

[@hdofu]

Steve LeBlanc yes but the format never was popularly adopted

[@johnfire3194]

I got a little Sony radio with AM stereo... It's very cool

[@thawthug]

Did you see that? A secret sign, scratching elbow, what does it mean.. it seems deliberately done..

[@pwnerj]

It means they're going for a steal

[@antiisocial]

The look ¹, the scratching of the arm ² and the walking away ³ are the international outdoorsman's signs for ¹ "Wtf! ² A stupid mesquito bit my my arm! ³ I hate mesquitos. I'm going inside."

[@nickg924]

I have my ham radio license, and a few weeks back I was doing a contest. I was using a directional antenna pointed west (im on east coast and was trying to pick up stations west of me) and wound up hearing a station in Morocco. Being it is directional, it sent the RF power to the west, all the way around the world over to the person's antenna in Morocco. Looking up his location, it propagated nearly 21,000 miles and he gave me a 5x9 report. By far one of the coolest, and longest contacts that I have made on the radio.

[@bblair502]

You may have picked him up off the back of the Antenna. There is still a fair amount of radiation coming off the back of a directional antenna, especially a yagi type. Take a look at the radiation pattern of your antenna. You'll find a number of lobes (especially off of the back) that are radiating. just a thought....

[@Plasmastorm73_n5evv]

It's called LONG PATH. Transmissions can go in both directions long and short paths from one radio to the other.

[@Plasmastorm73_n5evv]

@@bblair502 It's called LONG PATH TRANSMISSION.

[@DevinSper]

This episode just sent me into an hour long research session into the atomic clock and I am speechless

[@HritikV]

Were you able to find how it's broadcasted ? I tried 10MHz on websdr.ewi.utwente.nl:8901/ but couldn't really understand anything.

[@SkyTheHusky2021]

@@HritikV I don’t think they pick it up very well where their antenna is located. I know around me, if I can get somewhere without much noise (like out of the city), I can pick it up fairly strong on my Tecsun PL-330.

[@Shortwaveguy]

I work at WRMI, an international shortwave radio station. We have 14 shortwave transmitters. I had to pause the video while I brought up transmitters 12 (5850 kHz) and 13 (7730kHz). It was a fun and informative video.

[@kh-ro5su]

i'm glad wrmi exists and keeps broadcasting alive but ugh the religious progressing is awful haha. would be nice if it was limited to a certain percentage but i am guessing without them, wrmi would not have the money to operate

[@billyandrew]

Radio Caroline_ was an illegal; offshore station, in the UK, back in the day, with all the 'operators' later becoming housebold names as DJs on legitimate stations, such as the BBC.

[@Statusinator]

This was also how the Principality of Sealand was eventually founded.

[@Izzy-kh6iu]

Is it just me, or does Josh look like what would happen if you mixed Brian and Jason

[@muhammadbaqir3081]

@14:51 I can confirm that's not music, that's actually a recitation from the Quran, probably from Pakistan. I know this becz thats how Quran is transmitted over here on Radio. A few verses in Arabic and then the translation in "Urdu", and then on to the next verse.

[@KKoKoRR]

Dude, it can be from everywhere, either Saudi Arabia, Egypt or somewhere in US or World. I think the qari is Abdoulbasit Abdoussamed but it's hard to figure out from noisy sound.

[@roman3380]

"Also lots of DC programming" and we have our Comic Reference. Wrap it up, missional accomplished. Good job Rogues.

[@HamRadioCrashCourse]

Man I missed that reference when he dropped it. I was thinking Direct Current :D

[@dafoex]

I'm not sure what other DC there would be, other than maybe AC/DC

[@HamRadioCrashCourse]

@@dafoex Yep that was what I thought he meant when he said it, Direct Current.

[@avuozorsamuel5145]

Hi how long will u see us is ur friends

[@superotterboy7937]

I love how radio remains a hobby regardless to how dated people think it is! As someone who just rediscovered an in interest in shortwave myself, this was a great video to watch! It's refreshing to see a video on the subject from people my own age range! Thanks for a great and informative video!

[@Plasmastorm73_n5evv]

The biggest plus for radio is it just works when the power goes out and all other communications avenues are down.

[@liquidmidnight1]

I was listening to Wolfman Jack in the early '60's while lowriding in my Oakie raked Oldsmobile, on the streets of Lake Tahoe. We were unincorporated then, no police dept. only the county sheriff. We only recieved one AM station in the daytime, out of Reno, 50 miles down the mountains. At night the Wolfman blew loud and clear from Cuidad Acuna, in Mexico. Those early border stations broadcast at 250,000 watts and he could be heard all across North America and as far as Russia. People could drive from New York to NOLA and hear his channel all the way. I remember, as a boy, when transistor radios cam out of the size to fit in a shirt pocket and battery powered! I would lie in bed in the SF bay area and listen to channels from the north up to Canada and the LA police, all in the wee hours of the night. Kind of romantic and exciting space travel for the times. Regards, DVK and the wonder dog Dharma.

[@roberthunt1540]

Memories!! The station was XERB. I thought it was in Tijuana. Wolfman, and the annoying Turfcraft, horse racing and betting. Ads for Sister so and so fortune telling. That was LA stuff, and I was listening from Santa Barbara, on a crystal set that was handed out for use in bomb shelters. Single earpiece . . . under the sheets at night after my dad said prayers with me. I fell in love with soul music because of that.

[@valerieadams7001]

Yes it was XERB in Tijuana. My brother worked there late 60s,transmitter right on the ocean.

[@TheAttacker732]

First impression: A Modern Rogue video where injury is an implausible outcome? Huh, neat.

[@Abdega]

10:15 it’s like they could hear you

[@HamRadioCrashCourse]

Well, there are two more episodes...

[@avuozorsamuel5145]

Hi where do u base

[@THENOOBLEGACYTEAM]

Can someone translate that morse message on the last part?

[@TheAechBomb]

I second this motion

[@Endet_]

I definitely wanna know what was being said. I threw a portion of it into a translator but didnt get anything.

[@thejerkyshack8040]

Cq cq cq de w1aw W1aw de k7uva K7uva w1aw 7aCT W1aw k7uva 4aUT Typically callsigns would be sent three times Not the actual conversation but that is essentially what it would have been considering it was field day. Here is that exchange decided. CQ-anyone out there De-this is K7uva my ham radio club In Utah W1aw arrl headquarters 7aCT we have seven transmitters on emergency power in Connecticut 4aUT we have 4 transmitters in emergency power in Utah.

[@zemerick]

Well, the first part was m6ka m6ka. He talks over the next, so it's even harder to decode, and I suck at it even at 1/4 speed. Someone better at morse could probably finish it up far faster than me.

[@SubSleeps]

also curious, so im leaving this comment to get a notifcation whenever someone translates that.

[@DovidStern]

A COLLABORATION BETWEEN TWO OF MY FAVORITE CHANNELS??? What a treat! So excited! 73!

[@cooperbeggs]

This guy taught me everything about ham radio. Practically.

[@HamRadioCrashCourse]

Thanks man!

[@johnforeman2034]

Funny enough. I literally stumbled across this channel before your vid was posted and subscribed to him and bam.

[@tomthetoaster8004]

Review Brah wants to know your locat...frequency.

[@user-vn7ce5ig1z]

8:40 - Dammit Brushwood, I just burned half an hour on your shortwave page. ¬_¬ 19:02 -FrontPage and Dreamweaver. 😒 And ColdFusion; I never figured out what that even was. 🤷

[@NGinuity]

It was cool seeing this in both my KZbin feed and on the HRCC Discord server! 5:45 - Minor correction here. There's four-ish layers of the ionosphere. The D, E, F1, and F2 layer. The D is the lowest and F2 is the highest. During the DAY the D layer is active (we actually call it the Darn D/Damn D layer) and inhibits the lower frequency propagation. After sunset, the D and E layers erode and some degree of the F1 and F2 layers (and even possibly a bit of the E layer) are generally the only ones in tact. Depending on the state of those and how much the sun has effected them during the day is how radio operators fare on shortwave at night. Very good video overall, though. Best quote ever: "Don't reset the injury counter on a RADIO video, OKAY?" Still laughing.....

[@jerryenix5134]

Any one know Morse code and able to translate that I’m curious

[@jackharvey8005]

"Garlic bread is the best bread.."

[@thejerkyshack8040]

I didn’t actually translate it but it was a field day exchange so it looks something like this. Cq cq cq de w1aw w1aw w1aw W1aw de k7uva k7uva k7uva K7uva w1aw 7aCT W1aw 7ACT 4aut k7uva K7uva qsl 4aut 73 w1aw qrz Here is that exchange decodes. CQ-anyone out there De-this is K7uva my ham radio club In Utah W1aw arrl headquarters 7aCT we have seven transmitters on emergency power in Connecticut Qsl revives and acknowledged 4aUT we have 4 transmitters in emergency power in Utah. 73 best regards Qrz next

[@Sardious]

audio to morse output can be done here morsecode.scphillips.com/labs/audio-decoder-adaptive/

[@SamNM5N]

CQ FD W6KA W6KA FD Translation: Calling All Stations Field Day [station call] [station call] Field Day. W6KA identies the Pasadena Radio Club in California.

[@timothyparryjropen]

@@thejerkyshack8040 W1AW is the American Radio Relay League station, the support organization for all of Amateur/Ham Radio in the United States. People try and contact them on Field Day the most because that's when they operate the most during Summer & Winter Field days, respectively. They transmit some voice(phone) & some CW(Continuous Wave)/Morse Code on multiple ham radio bands(sets of frequencies) to help hams get contacts & their call sign in that ham's log for Field Day. It's basically a "test" station to help hams make sure their equipment is working properly on that frequency band for Ham Radio. Josh had the SDR on the 7 megahertz/7000 kilohertz range, which is technically the 40 meter band on shortwave radio. This is a weird band because the ITU has different designations around the world for it depending on which ITU region one station might be in. Here in the United States it is primarily used for Amateur/Ham Radio communications, but around the world in different ITU regions, there may be broadcast shortwave stations that we as Hams have to share that space or "slice" or the RF spectrum, with. A general rule of thumb in Amateur Radio communications is that the lower one goes, the mode will change. Phone(Voice) usually resides at the top of the frequency band, and then you get into digital modes(computer assisted) such as Radio Teletype, Slow-Scan-TV, the FT8/Olivia/"Ghost Modes", and then at the very bottom of the frequency band is where you find the CW/Morse Code Operators. Josh said that 40 meters is a nighttime band, but technically it can propagate almost all the time, depending on what the ionosphere is doing, however sometimes ionospheric propagation only allows for it to be used at nighttime. This is how it is sliced up(the main ham/shortwave bands), at least for Amateur Radio in the US. 1.8-1.9 MHZ is the 160 Meter Band(which propagates well at nighttime, just like the AM broadcast band and requires extremely large antennas). It is called the "Gentleman's band". 3.5 MHZ-4.0 is the 80 Meter Band, which again, propagates well at nighttime and requires larger antennas for long distance communication. 5.3 MHZ- The 60 meter band, which technically isn't a ham band, but we have "channels" that we must reside within a small frequency space on each to avoid interference with shortwave stations in different ITU regions. This band can propagate day and night. 7 MHZ-7.3 MHZ- The 40 Meter Band, again we might have to share with shortwave stations in different ITU regions, although there are no "channels" in this band. 10.100 The 30 Meter Band, which like 60 meters is shared band & and a secondary "ham" band. And one can only transmit up to 200 Watts Peak Envelope Power and only in CW/Digital Modes, phone(voice) is not permitted on this band in the United States. 30 Meters is very similar to 40 meters, as it can propagate day and night. 14-14.350 MHZ is the 20 meter band, the most active ham band, and the one where most (contests, aka "fishing for contacts") reside. This band propagates well during the day, but can work at night, occasionally. Now, we get into the "daytime" bands. 17 Meters 18.068-18.168-MHZ, 15 Meters, 21-21.450-MHZ, 12 Meters 24.890-24.990 MHZ and 10 Meters 28-29.700 MHZ. From 17 Meters and above(up to 10 Meters) these bands rely heavily on the sunspots that the sun produces and the E layer of the ionosphere to allow for long distance communication, so if there are little or no sunspots there will be very few band "openings" (on those frequency bands). One can use AM/Single Sideband/CW/Digital on all Frequency bands, except for 30 meters. 10 Meters allows for Frequency modulation at 29 Megahertz and there are "repeaters"(stations that relay other frequencies) at 29 Megahertz, as well, such as the KQ2H repeater at 29.620 MHZ. The 12,17 and 30 meter bands were designated in 1979 by a group of countries at the World Administrative Radio Conference for special uses and have special requirements, such as no contesting and 30 meters has a morse code/digital mode only requirement, in the United States.

[@samreynolds9925]

First Demo Ranch/Donut Operator then these two, will this time get any better

[@BAHBDL]

Awesome video! As a ham operator myself I enjoy scanning through the frequencies to see what I can find. I wish you had told people how easy it is to become I licensed operator because ham radio is absolutely a survival skill. We are emergency communicators because we require no existing infrastructure to setup and begin communicating with others over large distances when disaster strikes and takes down modern communications infrastructure. As a side note I was working that band on field day and kept listening for my call sign to come across.

[@Qutoe]

Except for electricity.. that is existing infrastructure

[@suzuki-ln6qc]

Thank God that my bois at the modern rogue continued to upload ‘till this day.

[@mablestark6501]

I know almost all of the frequencies coming through are normal not ghosts, aliens, or nefarious government stuff, but for whatever reason, hearing them scanning through the different stations freaks me out! Like full blown going to have trouble sleeping freaked out. One of my irrational fears is the sound of tinny old time music or conversation. That being said, I'm gonna watch all of these videos

[@ishy6556]

Just picked up a Romanian station lol, this stuff is great!

[@hurdygurdyguy1]

18:19 ... "Remember ... to ... drink ... your ... Ovaltine!"

[@fluxx23]

Wow...hoshnasi and Brian doing an episode together!? Two people I've followed for years and never thought I'd see them in the same video. Awesome stuff!

[@elesjuan]

It's been a minute... but I used to go to the Hamvention at Dayton Ohio every year. We'd routinely string up a very similar antenna right off the 2nd floor of the motel to the adjacent tree. Management and staff were used to us being a little... strange.. Never complained about it.

[@cooker4409]

that's W6KA.....the morse code station.....worked many times during field day....I have missed 2 field days since 1980.....AB5ZA/7 here....

[@jbash0824]

Imagine getting a ham radio license and spending months studying for it so you can send an amogus meme half across the world with sstv

[@TheNotaRubicon]

Yah, but you didnt mention the Roger-Beep.. Fail!

[@fungo6631]

Anyone who actually does FM DXing knows that FM radio is anything but line of sight whenever the weather is right. Sometimes it even bounces from the ionosphere.

[@theblindredneck747]

It’s mentioned that One of the main selling points of FM is it’s ability for stereo separation, what about AM stereo?

[@sandmanxo]

AM stereo wasn't standardized until the late 80s or early 90s and by that time it was too late as fm had taken over music. C-QUAM is a good standard though and could produce high quality signals.

[@jermanoid]

I used to work at Schriever AFB and got to see the clock .. didn't know it was broadcast like that though. neat.

[@III-zy5jf]

I learned more than a semester of digital communication in college! (My degree has been useless)

[@JohnSmith-xm4dk]

Well I could of told you that /s

[@parac0sm0naut26]

Think how I feel, I took a Master Course in Analog Stone Tablet, and Chisel... if only I had listened to those Paparus Upstarts...* hangs head

[@TomKD0QKK]

Y'all just need to get your ham tickets. A great hobby with a crap load of geeky fun! 73, KD0QKK.

[@nyaadams8693]

Tom Usher I’ve been trying to get into it for a while, any recommendations for an affordable beginner radio?

[@samuraiBSD]

ranakamikaze you can get a Baofeng UV-5R for local stuff (mostly repeaters), but if you want shortwave (or as hams call it, HF) it’s hard to beat an old Kenwood TS- series radio on cost. If you’re looking for something new, the Yaesu FT-450 is a nice enough rig. You’ll definitely want to get a VHF and an HF radio to start, since using a VHF repeater is going to be the easiest way to find local hams who can help you learn the ropes after you get your license.

[@nyaadams8693]

@@samuraiBSD thanks for the answer!

[@TomKD0QKK]

@@nyaadams8693 What James said. I have a 450D that I've used for years. I might suggest, however, that if you're going to buy new, an Icom 7300 is a lot more radio for just a little more money. The hobby can be as expensive or as cheap as you want it to be. Just get your Tech ticket and dive in. The General ticket isn't much more difficult and you can test for both for the price of one if you do them the same day. Most of what you'll learn will come from being involved in the hobby and talking to other hams. Join your local club. It really is a hobby that requires mutual assistance. No matter how long one is involved there is always something that will completely stump you. If you have any questions e-mail me at [e-mail]. I'd be more than happy to help.

[@nyaadams8693]

Tom Usher thanks!

[@TitanicDwarf]

welcome to the Modern Rogue Pantheon Josh. Love these episodes on communication. This one especially because my dad was a ham radio operator.

[@theflawedamy]

how can anyone spell "rogue" wrong? EDIT: after i made this comment i immediately spelled "Rogue" wrong

[@ryanm3045]

Ok

[@sammarsh1985]

Seriously. How does this channel not have over 1 million subscribers by now? This is such a scientific and high quality content. Keep it up guys!

[@ModernRogue]

spread the word!

[@swordscar6278]

They do now

[@jmsjms296]

A little vague and inaccurate or... plain too complicated. Look elsewhere for better explanations!

[@WickdPerfekT]

Came here from Ham Radio Crash Course

[@parac0sm0naut26]

My culture forbids the use of HAM Radio.

[@chucksherron]

@@parac0sm0naut26 do you mind telling us what culture that is?

[@parac0sm0naut26]

@@chucksherron Muppet.

[@scottb2794]

I have seen people demonstrate amazing reception by flying a wire over 60M using a kite.

[@alexkintigh5720]

Pretty awesome video and as someone who uses ham radio, this was very good content. W0KAS

[@svinjamaria]

I have some Next episode opinions lol -have him pilot a shortwave receiver and try to find and decode number stations -OR grab the makers of priyom.org and have them demystify number stations

[@HamRadioCrashCourse]

Number stations can be hit and miss, there are many out there on consistent schedules, but due to band conditions and your location you might not hear them. Google "number stations forum" and there will be posts on what people are hearing out there.

[@johnsimonritchie326]

So much MISinformation crammed into a little 20 minute video! Unbelievable!

[@shadowydragonpirateninja]

A lot of our viewers don't know how radio works... I know! I'll explain with a record player.

[@negativeman7716]

How bout we turn on the radio? Would you like Am or Fm??

[@srvfan42]

I was hooked on poking through a whole bunch of WebSDR sites after the Numbers Stations video, and it was super interesting! Until a few days later when I realized that the only thing that people talk about over shortwave radio is their own shortwave radio setups.

[@michaelmize1155]

During the summer of 1976 after 9pm I would start receiving the AM station WLS(Chicago) to where I lived in SW Virginia. Rock music was hard to come by in the mountains where gospel, bluegrass, and country all had local sources but on many a night I was tuned in until the crackle of dawn shut down the signal. WLS played a lot of home town bands like (Chicago, Styx, and Cheap Trick) as well as the breaking bands of the day like Boston, Nantucket, Kansas.During the summers there was no harm indulging "AllNighters" but more then once a "Schoolday" was sacrificed by sleeping in and missing the bus. This fascination for Tech led to an Electronics degree and a few interesting adventures around the World(VMAQ-2, WMTR Kwajalien, and 22 years on the Space Shuttle Program). Great Episode!

[@TwoHumans]

ok

[@thugasaurusrex6004]

You got first comment after Brian's lol gg

[@Destt528]

ok

[@averagealoneredditor]

Demystifying Shortwave Radio is now Secrets of Shortwave Radio. Do you guys change the title after release?

[@amyshaw893]

Get him back, ask him about noaa satellites, get him to make you a v-dipole antenna for RHCP 137mHz, he seems like he knows his stuff. also, ive been picking up a russian numbers station, all the way from the uk. only at night though

[@mindbreak666]

aaaah, those damned dead man nukes

[@skittermckitter05]

137mHz? youll need a 500 kilometer long antenna for that!

[@ClokworkGremlin]

This is more relevant to the ad than the video, but my first webpage was made in MS Word. That's when I found out MS web authoring software has special exceptions that deliberately break the page if you're not viewing it on one of their browsers. I code all my web stuff by hand ever since then.

[@wmd40]

I still use AM because where I live the FM stations go in and out way too much, due to terrain. But it seems like there's no AM stations. Most of the frequencies are open

[@USSLKA-116]

Correction. AM is capable of "stereo reception" also.

[@parodox1000]

Since ghost hunters use shortwave for their spirit boxes, couldn't they just broadcast a station(s) with messages they want picked up and just slow down the sweep to where they come in as "voices from the other side"?

[@Draknfyre]

Slow down the sweep? They'd have to completely stop it, unless they were using multiple radios transmitting on multiple frequencies at once.

[@dordtonline5340]

FM can be used in medium wave but THAT SIGNAL WILL OCCUPY A WIDER FREQUENCY RANGE which means that only few stations could occupy the medium wave and long wave band. For this reason it is more practical to use FM in higher frequency bands.

[@billyvillacis9975]

"The world was a garbage dumpster fire......... before squarespace" How to properly promote your sponsors XD

[@CastleBomb44]

What atomic watch is Josh wearing?>

[@zacke1434]

Actually HAM Bands go up to 1300MHz

[@KingOfTheBeyond23]

I loved this episode, any chance you guys could make a tutorial for receiver on shortwave radio? You know in case of an apocalypse

[@earlpettey]

One of my favorite parts on all these videos is the promo stuff where they make sure to remind us how rogue is actually spelled unlike how people on mmorpgs do it.

[@xMaverickFPS]

holy shit, from kansas? what are you guys doing spying on my state? >:( lol

[@grayeaglej]

Seeing if you are still under water like we are in Iowa o.o

[@xMaverickFPS]

@@grayeaglej lol nah not anymore, that let up about a week or two ago.

[@geoffgreen2105]

4:06- Now we know why Brian is always claiming other people have his problems.

[@jasperhercus8254]

My 2 favorite youtubers... l like this episode the best so far! :D

[@CasualCodeChannel]

I love this! The video that introduced me to the channel was the Software Defined Radio one, so I’m stoked to see the topic resurfaced!

[@ghost-blossom]

Slightly disappointed that one of the international converter pop ups didn’t say “Pirate Radio = The Boat That Rocked” for all non-American viewers lmao

[@BrandtHughes]

Definitely a missed opportunity on my part.

[@seansoblixe9711]

THIS COMMENT IS STRICTLY FOR THE OVER EXCITED MODERATOR, GIVE YOUR GUESTS A BREAK TO SAY SOMETHING.....YOU ARE SO SELF CENTERED THEREFORE . TWO FAT THUMBS DOWN UNTIL YOU LEARN MANNERS

[@BrandtHughes]

Typing in all caps does not make you more heard.

[@monkeyking2030]

17:58 "A6KA W6KAFB" what does that mean?

[@SoundJudgment]

Commercial Am Radio has 'allowed' for stereo-transmissions since the mid-1980s.

[@DougJK]

You’re not supposed to let these secrets out

[@NexxuSix]

This is definitely a good primer for the beginning Amateur Radio Operator. Well done! 73!

[@rosscassity8710]

Why aren't these guys at 1 million subs yet???

[@KruzSanchez]

this might be small or not read, but i like this thumbnail better than the first one. good job

[@ModernRogue]

Thanks! first one was just a stand-in.

[@SDRplayHamGuides]

Thank you for showcasing SDRuno and our RSP1a SDR

[@jimmystagger]

ZZ Top's "Heard It On The X" is about the so-called "border blaster" stations like the one Wolfman Jack worked for in Mexico, because Mexican call signs started with "X."

[@augiegarcia8876]

Xkrb baja californa.

[@augiegarcia8876]

50 thousand watts.

[@m.7n6]

uvb76 is my favorite number station

[@thestonerguy5276]

The frequency determines how far the signal travels - not the mode.

[@TheElshagan]

My parents used to participate in a local ham radio club here in Sweden. Think they still got their callsigns.

[@Seventy5Percent]

$100 to whoever can decode what was at the end.

[@RadioSpectrumDXer1217]

It is also for that same reason that when it gets dark the FCC or Federal Communications Commission requires that most local stations on the AM broadcast band reduce power and or change radiation patterns to protect other stations on the same or adjacent frequency. There are some that are called "clear channel" (not to be confused with "Clear Channel Media" now known as Iheart Media, but this is an FCC designation) that are specially licensed by the FCC to broadcast at the full legal power for AM of 50 Kilowatts (or 50,000 watts) although they may still be required to change antenna patterns at night. These are the ones that you are hearing for hundreds up to 1000 miles at night. I live just outside of Orlando, FL and yet WBT AM 1110 from Charlotte, NC booms in here at night stronger than most of the locals! Yet im about probably 500 to 600 miles from Charlotte, NC. (Sorry for edit)

[@allanrichardson1468]

Most of the Clear Channel stations in AM broadcast are the “pioneer” stations which came on the air in the first few years after WWI: stations like WGN Chicago, WSB Atlanta, etc. They are allowed 50 KW 24 hours because no other stations were, or will be, licensed to operate within 20 KHz above or below. Other AM stations can share channels if they are far enough apart, but are allowed less power than Clear Channel stations, and even less after dark.

[@joakimboulanger4490]

Can you do the Tom mullica cigarette trick ?

[@Wyttt95]

Is it weird if you guys are becoming my favorite KZbin channel?😂

[@parac0sm0naut26]

If you didn't I would recommend you for exile.

[@idiotwithasolderingiron]

7:30 There is a guy at my local HAM meet, that was telling me a story about that broadcast station in US/Mexico. He was saying that none of the fluorescent lights had mains power hooked to them and the wall switches did nothing. All the lights were lit with the RF radiation given off my the transmitter.

[@bullie86]

There was a pirate station ship off the coast of the Netherlands until a few years ago. The station was called Veronica. It is a legal fm classic rock station now. Cheers guys!

[@peterjunker5873]

i understood nothing looollll.... anyone else dumb like me?

[@snowy7976]

Hashtag dumb squad

[@RGC198]

Interesting discussion. AM Stereo has been done during the 1980's and 1990's and the sound quality was even better than FM Stereo. Unfortunately, AM Stereo has since been phased out. SW covers worldwide distances. AM does allow for long distance reception (DX) especially at night and under good conditions signals can be received over thousands of miles. FM also has DX possibilities and this can be received mostly during the summer months. One of my best FM DX catches from here in Melbourne Australia was of Radio Suara Timor in Kippang INS. Before analogue disappeared, TV DX was a real possibility as well. My best TV DX catch was BBC1 Crystal Palace UK via F2 DX in Sydney Australia.

[@claytoncuba9580]

Thanks so much for the video Bryan, Jason, and Josh! I got the sdr radio you did a video on several years ago and got sdr# but have never been able to do anything besides listen to analog airband. I tried getting digital signals by using Unitrunker, DSD Plus, the VB cable and all that but it just didn't work for some reason. So my question is, how are you decoding your digital signals? Thank you so much for your work Clayton

[@tobylatino8737]

WSJT-X is what i use

[@joshvanriet5445]

Hoshnasi on the modern rogue???

[@chucksherron]

Same. I thought I was seeing things for a second.

[@kevinreid3529]

I have been a ham radio operator for a lot of years. This is just an all around great video, Thanks for sharing. 73's.