Secrets of Shortwave Radio

[@ModernRogue]

Did you miss it? Brian broke down the fire eating routine he showed off last week in this new video: kzbin.info/www/bejne/Y5TVlWWoitiFhpI Not only did Brian break the routine down, he’s also giving away THE book on fire-eating for the next 48 hours at gimme.scamstuff.com. Practice safely and with proper supervision!

[@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.

[@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.

[@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

[@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.

[@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.

[@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

[@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?

[@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.

[@DovidStern]

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

[@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.

[@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

[@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

[@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.

[@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.

[@ProtoNeoVintage]

Thank you so much for making this video! My son recently joined a Scout Troop, and I became the radio merit badge counselor in our district. It is desperately hard to get young people interested in the hobby anymore and I am going to definitely use this video to help encourage them.

[@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

[@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

[@cooperbeggs]

This guy taught me everything about ham radio. Practically.

[@HamRadioCrashCourse]

Thanks man!

[@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

[@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.

[@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!

[@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.....

[@suzuki-ln6qc]

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

[@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."

[@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

[@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

[@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.

[@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.

[@adityasahasranshu7503]

my exams were going on... I missed a lot of episodes. but now as I come back to it. man its good content.

[@TitanicDwarf]

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

[@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.

[@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.

[@johnforeman2034]

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

[@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.

[@r0amingw0lf]

Man. I've been learning about modulation types, QAM, etc for telecommunications and you posted this at the perfect time!

[@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!

[@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.

[@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.

[@hurdygurdyguy1]

Oh man! I love love love the radio stuff!!! My Dad was a Ham when I was a kid in the '60's and would spend a lot of time with him in his "radio room" in the garage! Geat memories!!!

[@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!

[@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!

[@DarkTaker1990]

I’m in Iowa and I heard a conversation between two Hams in Alabama and New York State on my radio once. Blew my mind.

[@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.

[@spldrong]

This is an unexpected collaboration between 2 channels I am subscribed to

[@jimbonanno5460]

That was done so well. The conversation just flowed and each one of you complimented the other as you all disseminated information. Been following Josh for a while. He is one of those hams that is excellent at getting his point across and insults no one. Kudos to all three of you! I've subscribed and hit the Bell.

[@6ECF01]

2:55 You can have AM stereo. There are several methods to do it. I bought a Radio Shack AM stereo turner back in early 1987. I got it for half price. $30 and still have today, November 2021. For some reason it never really caught on in this country, U. S.A. . Maybe people felt the inherent noise and low fidelity of AM radio didn't make AM stereo worth the bother.

[@sadee1287]

Fascinating! I actually owned a Sony shortwave radio back in the early 90s. I could never get much in the way of defined shortwave from English speaking countries (not even BBC) but received some Spanish and Chinese stations. No way of knowing their location as even if they announced it I couldn't understand. However, I did pick up ham operators quite frequently, and surprisingly clearly. Sometimes both sides of the conversation, and sometimes only one side. Heard some real interesting talk about backwards messages and that secret part of Nevada (you know which one, lol...) and talk of the satellite dishes at Aricebo. I hankered after the big Grundig radios but they were WAY out of my price range. I've tried the online SDR shortwave sites, but I get frustrated with the reception, which is incredibly static-y and audio is garbled. No amount of adjustment seems to make a difference. I gather these sites figure their set up is user intuitive so are bereft of instruction, but a little advice on how to clear the signal and use the squelch and so on at the least would be a help. I usually end up giving up in disgust after ten minutes or so. I've always been drawn to radio, from my teenage years in the 80s on up. I suppose in these days of digital streaming shortwave or even medium wave is 'old school' but I'll never lose my interest in it. P.S.: Wanted to add that I recorded some of the Morse code and plugged it into the sites that can translate it, but most of it was unintelligible or just a bunch of random letters or words.

[@Adam_Adamsky]

3:03 That's a convoluted answer. The simple reason for the lower range is the higher frequency of the waves on which the FM station broadcast.

[@bradhollis1005]

Boy howdy, that was an interesting dissertation on shortwave radio. I learned a great deal. All this time I thought a short wave was a greeting from my wife who's so short you can see her feet on her driver's license photo!Amateur radio consisting of slices of the electromagnetic spectrum brings about interesting images - sliced Ham! Josh is amazingly knowledgeable as well as a laconic and perspicuous teacher. As amateur radio operators we're pretty spoiled to have him as a source of information. Which is good, but then again, there's nothing worse than a spoiled ham! Nyuk nyuk!

[@Izzy-kh6iu]

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

[@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. 🤷

[@KarlWitsman]

Loved it. I use the same SDR radio and software to listen all over the world and it's great.

[@Avensur]

YOU GUYS ARE AWESOME, I AM A BIG FAN, GONNA TAKE MY FIRST EXAM SOON TO START EXPLORING AND LEARNING MORE ABOUT HAM...CONGRATS GUYS FOR YOUR SHOW,,,,GODSPEED,,,I BELONG IN THE AIR!

[@Stache987]

I remember in the navy, sitting on the pier listening to shortwave radio, in the early 80s was enjoyable. Later in life, we couldn't pick up a station that I thought was clear channel 60 miles away in Philadelphia, but could pick up was it Buffalo? Leaving NYC after a night out, about the time before/after the tunnel, Princess Diana was killed, I called my mother from my cell phone as she adored her, and my mother was asking how I found out so quickly, I said I listened to the news radio for traffic to get out of the city.

[@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.

[@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.

[@HetzSleeps]

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

[@jasperhercus8254]

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

[@zvjezdaniput6121]

I was TRULY enjoying in this video. Thank you guys. You are THE BEST!

[@NexxuSix]

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

[@erwingifslang]

this vid gave me flash backs about molecular structure classes back in uni. I had so much to learn about radiation and energy levels for chemical alterations in the quantam level and how it affected chemical substances

[@xavierh.5102]

great video, I've never understood radio that well but this explained it perfectly.

[@ryanm3045]

Glad to see Josh on the Modern Rogue!

[@CheeseManFuu]

Hoo, yes. When I saw the announcement on Twitter I got really giddy. My father has been about HAM radio all his life, fully certified and such and has been his fun geeky hobby that I've definitely been roped into a couple times. I remember two instances of joining him for a FIELD DAY (once here in Texas and once visiting him in Pennsylvania) and you can tell the brotherhood amongst all these radio enthusiasts. If you're even remotely interested in any sort of radio service, absolutely find a local station during FIELD DAY season, and you may find amateurs who are still learning and learn with them, or learn from the veterans who for the most part are really passionate about something that seems so simple on the surface, and you may just get to enjoy some barbecue with the guys.

[@DenTilloZie]

sweet to see 2 of my most favorite channels collaborate. Thanks for the video you guys! very interesting. if you are interested in these things you should get a HAM license. its not hard to get licensed and you will be amazed how easy it is to make contacts across the globe!

[@undrkane]

Great fire eating display Brian I remember being amazed when I saw you do it in person keep it up

[@SDRplayHamGuides]

Thank you for showcasing SDRuno and our RSP1a SDR

[@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.

[@jermanoid]

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

[@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.

[@Aquapod9]

Most anticipated crossover event of the century

[@rosscassity8710]

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

[@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

[@kellyklaask7su990]

I know this is 4 years old but this is great information and presented in a way that anyone can understand. We need more of this! I know hams with Extra tickets that don't know the difference between LSB and a hotdog bun. They would greatly benefit from this! 73 de K7SU

[@chriskaprys]

I'm sure you lads have already tried this, but you can also record the signals coming from radio remotes (like those remote controlled plugs you can pick up at Home Depot) and replay them using a Raspberry Pi (there's an I/O pin that allows you to transmit low power / local radio signals). I did it for some lights around the house and made a quick 'n' dirty interface to control the lights, but I bet you guys could concoct something much more fun. It's just cool to see the signals show up in the SDR software anyway!

[@ishy6556]

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

[@steammachine3061]

Radio caroline in the uk was a well known pirate radio station that operated in international waters. It never broadcast anything nefarious they just wanted to broadcast without corporate restrictions. A movie (the boat that rocked) was made about it relitively (within the last 5 years) recently. I think the station did eventually go legit. But it was much loved station when it was broadcasting. And it was the first station a lot of well known dj's first started out on

[@stevesweeney7892]

So shocked and amazed seeing 2 of my favorite shows together. Very Cool Gentleman! Thanks. 2 worlds meet!

[@Yotanido]

AM radio is also what planes use to talk to ATC, not just old radio stations and amateur radio ;) That extra range is quite useful (Though, because it's UHF, it tends to require line of sight, anyway)

[@forgetyourlife]

AM has no capture effect is why. Also AM is not UHF it’s HF

[@Yotanido]

@@forgetyourlife I looked it up - we're both wrong. It's VHF

[@forgetyourlife]

Yndostrui Hope. it’s HF.

[@Yotanido]

@@forgetyourlife Pilot radio is 118 to 137 MHz, which is well within the VHF band (30 to 300 MHz)

[@ernestolombardo5811]

Guy on the left looks like a cross between John C. Reilly and David Morse. Also, FINALLY I bump into an explanation on why AM can be heard so much farther than FM. Great stuff.

[@James-ke5sx]

I grew up buying radio tubes from Marconi in Montréal as a kid to fix our radios. My First experience with stereo was two AM radios simulcasting the same song with different tones coming out of each

[@vicrattlehead8665]

Clicked on this video, got distracted by something for like 30 seconds. “Hey that voice is very fami- AAAAH JOSH. Didn’t know he made a video with them hahah.

[@skoalpimpin7575]

Made a short wave radio in high school for a project! Was a blast radio is fascinating!

[@un4v41l48l3]

Yes! A very rogue episode. Love it!

[@granttaylor3697]

Fact; AM is not low quality, AM stereo is just as good as FM stereo! the limitation is is the bandwidth of AM, that cuts off the higher audio frequencies. Another limiting factor is the carrier to noise required for noise AM, is a lot higher than what required for FM for noise free demodulation. You also could say the AM is the Y axis and FM would your X axis on a graph, where one is off set from the other by 90°, so you have two basic ways to modulate a radio signal or by a combination of both. As Ham radio operators this should be common knowledge on the basics of radio modulation, it was part of my Ham radio exam.

[@ShadowardVZ]

I was just playing with my radio when I remembered your previous video where you mentioned shortwave radio and thought I should look into that. Then I open KZbin and see you uploaded this. And to top it all off, around 11:50 I see the same radio I use sitting on the table. What a coincidence, hm?

[@j7ndominica051]

There is so much free space that anybody could start a radio station without being crammed into a licensed USW broadcast band. With amplitude modulation we could fit 10 good fidelity stations in place of one FM station.

[@eddiepalmer5740]

Made me nostalgic for The Three Stooges... Great info. I love you guys.

[@samreynolds9925]

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

[@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....

[@STEN-164]

Best channel. Period.

[@ModernRogue]

Thanks, man.

[@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

[@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.

[@jonathanhandsmusic]

Wolf man Jack broadcast from Tijuana MX. I forget the call sign, but it began with X. I used to listen to him in the 1960s on a GE transistor radio. I've been a dx-er ever since with MW and SW sets. Interesting video man.

[@1fanger888]

The D layer is ionizing during periods of light. E, F1 & F2 layers become more capable of refraction of radio waves during periods of darkness, between sundown and dawn, as the gray line advances, allowing signals to go further and is responsible for long distance radio communications.

[@fredfeldmeier8228]

I love to hear hip-hop generation comments on radio.. Remember to research the Hammarlund HQ-140 General Coverage VacuumTube Receiver.. and try out the experiences of some of yours grandfather yestern year.. good job guys.. thanks..

[@UndercoverFerret404]

"exist on one quantinium" - I love when Brian goes into "science" mode :D

[@USSLKA-116]

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

[@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.