Monday, February 5, 2024

Radio

 I wanted to talk a bit about radio.

I quite enjoy radio as a hobby. I have several radios including a good desktop and a portable shortwave receiver  that each cover AM, FM and shortwave bands. Also a desktop and a handheld scanner plus a handheld ham radio.

The radio I use the most if a small box by my computer that is controlled by computer software. It looks like this when running:

This radio receives EVERYTHING. AM, FM, all shortwave and ham radio bands. Also aircraft, public safety, and a lot more.

Anything really interesting that I manage to hear I will try to record and share here.





Another radio related thing I wanted to pass along is the website Radio Garden.
When you go there you will see a map of the world with lots of green dots:

Each of those dots is an active radio station. This screenshot is of a station in London that I was listening to.
You can move around the world map and click on a dot or you can use the search function to bring up stations in a particular city anywhere in the world.

If you speak a second (or third, fourth, etc.) language you can navigate to that country and listen to stations there.

Well, that's all for now.
Peace Out

Saturday, February 3, 2024

New Blog

 Welcome to the new home of John's Bailiwick,

I was always a bit frustrated by the lack of features on my Facebook page; i.e., multiple fonts, embedded images and videos. A dedicated blog site will give me more flexibility when posting. 

For now I have nothing else to add but am looking forward to playing here for a while.