I've read that there are quality control issues with Degen, or at least there were in earlier days - so maybe you've just been unlucky.

Check out the reviews on eHam.net for the Degen De 1103:

http://www.eham.net/reviews/detail/4...5449d1ca46e932

The Sony's are nice - my biggest problem with the Sony ICF-SW7600GR, which by all accounts is a great radio, is that it doesn't have a tuning wheel!

I just couldn't deal with that. I've found so many numbers stations and various oddities, by using my radios tuning wheel that I really couldn't live without it - buttons are no replacement </rediculously petty irk>

Keep an eye out for the Grundig G3, which is coming in the next month or two.

It's an evolution of the De 1103 -> Eton E5 -> Grundig G5, and it apparently features improved Single Side Band operation and Synchronous Detection, which can be a big help for reception on SW if it's implemented well.

http://www.universal-radio.com/CATAL...able/4033.html

Perhaps this article sheds some light on the ever buzzing enigma that is UVB-76

When the order comes it sends out a coded digital signal enabling "Perimeter"

http://www.wired.com/politics/securi...urrentPage=all

that's awesomely scary stuff.

The article forgot to mention that the Soviets put their system on an automated response as a result of the continued American belligerence, and that Americans have one too.

It appears that the chaps and ladies over at GCHQ have decided to end their shortwave shenanigans.

The wonderful Linolnshire Poacher was cut off last year, but a month or so back, it appears that its Australasian sister station, Cherry Ripe, was cut too.

It's a real shame, but I'm glad I have recordings of the latter - all the way from Ireland. I'll be throwing up a compilation in around a month, This may be the last - shortwave is dying a death right now.

^^^ you are a top-contributor of one the best threads ever.

thank you and please don't forget to post the comp!

cheers floating...

I have to disappear into the countryside to complete this compilation...

I really want to grab a chinese or german station, but they're both enigmatic gits.

Will post some kind of compilation here before the end of march - will probably be half an hour, you'll just have to suck it up!

I'd be very interested in your compilation too, thanks.

I could listen for hours to that stuff (I once listened to all 4 Conet Project CDs in a row).

I'd be up for a compilation too. You did a short-ish collage thing before that's been put on quite a few times round casa de Glice.

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So, um, it took me more than a year to actually sit down and edit something together with 18 months of random shortwave recordings, but anyway, here it is:

http://www.archive.org/details/ShortwaveSnippets4

Usual warnings - bad/awful audio quality, transcoding and open mics...

Runs ~30 minutes

In memory of the sadly departed Cherry Ripe.

yay! I was listening to the last one you uploaded just a few weeks ago and was wondering when I could hear more.

a thousand thank yous.

^^^
This.

Quick note to let you know as of March 1st - Mossad quit sending numbers, so no more Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, Uniform Lima X-ray, etc etc.

Purely coincidental with the departure of Suleiman and Mubarak?

Maybe one day we'll find out.

1234567890 / 1111 /ACHTUNG!

Re-release of The Conet Project: Recordings of Shortwave Numbers Stations in a special 5CD edition.

TCP / 1111 will consist of:

1. A shrink wrapped copy of The Conet Project, containing the original 4CDs in their own quadruple Jewel Case
2. Four post cards
3. The 80 page booklet in its own Jewel Case
4. The new 5th CD in its own Jewel Case with its own new full color booklet.

http://www.irdial.com/conet.htm

http://www.pledgemusic.com/projects/tcp1111

http://archive.org/details/ird059

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