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   Matt Blaze (mattblaze@federate.social)'s status on Sunday, 24-Nov-2024 11:53:14 JST Matt Blaze

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   The longwave (and lower mediumwave) radio band, below 500 kHz, is a rather strange and lonely part of the North American radio spectrum. Mostly populated by rapidly disappearing aviation beacons that do little more that repeatedly identify themselves in morse code (like robots left behind by a lost civilization), every now and then one of a handful of European, African, and Asian radio broadcasters makes itself heard here, as if to remind us there’s still life out there somewhere.

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     Matt Blaze (mattblaze@federate.social)'s status on Sunday, 24-Nov-2024 11:53:15 JST Matt Blaze

     Radio Nerditry:

     Getting Morocco’s Medi-1 radio weak but readably on 171 kHz longwave, first time I’ve noticed it this season. (Using a Wellbrook loop on the roof and a measurement receiver).

     Radio is still magical sometimes.

     Mark von Übelgarten repeated this.