What are you listening to?

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Once again the odd ball.....
Years ago, well only about 20 or so, I was a nightly SWL (short wave listener) I had bought a Drake R8B and living in the woods had the property to put up a 300 foot flat top antenna fed with open feeder.
Well, that's enough of that....
Anyway I was interested in the strange signals, number stations, clandestine ops, NORAD, and pirate radio just to list a few.
Splashing on the air was this pirate who called himself Allen Maxwel KIPM.
Transmitting on AM with an amazing sinal just below 40 meters (7Mhz), an odd pirate who produced what could be called radio shows. I was setup to decode and record things on demand so I had lots of them, but they were lost to time and moving.
Searching for something on the web, a site was in the list that caught my eye. Well, some one had archived a few of his shows, this brought back some memories and I thought I would share.

So, if you would, imagine a cold winter night sitting in your easy chair, turning on your radio for a listen, and then you tune to........

https://archive.org/details/KipmIlluminatiPrimaMateria-AlanMaxwellPirateShortwave


One of my favorites was He Who Shrank

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Jex Thoth - Nothing Left To Die

 

Pagan Altar - Walking in the Dark

 

That's totally cool! Those shows are really entertaining.

I used to be a SWL when I was in middle and high school, back in the 1970s. Like you, I lived out in the sticks and so had plenty of space for an antenna. At first, it was just a simple Radio Shack regenerative shortwave radio kit and a longwire copper antenna. Simple, but it worked reasonably well. Later I used a Panasonic shortwave radio, which I still have. Really amazing and eye-opening to hear overseas broadcasts, especially when most people had not even heard of the Internet, and well over a decade before the Web was invented. Of course, running across the occasional pirate radio station was always interesting.

I didn't have much time for SWL after starting college, but did start listening to FM pirate stations later on. San Francisco had Pirate Cat Radio, which was shut down by the FCC 10 years ago. It seems to have been revived at some point as an Internet-only station. The staff revolted when it was shut down and formed Mutiny Radio, also now an Internet station. Santa Cruz, 60 miles to the South, still has Free Radio Santa Cruz, which can be heard at https://www.radio.net/s/freeradiosc and on the air.

 

Most did not know what short wave radio was. I built my first receiver a Heath Kit super regerative receiver in my preteens, well that was all it took. I built some radios from the arrl hand book that worked realy great too.
Things aren't the same on the bands as they were then, but stuff changes with time.
Thanks
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If you don't already know, explaining it won't help.

I want this played as they lower my box.

 

I like that one.
But this is the way I saw it on a tribute to the great Ernie Kovacs.



He was a funny guy.
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Way ahead of his time.

 

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Jess And The Ancient Ones - Equinox Death Trip

Some trippy psychedelic rock!

 

Nostalgia

 

More Nostalgia

 

Like it should be...



Requested..........
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