I’m picking a lot up tonight on shortwave. Making recordings, here’s what I am working on:

• Radio Romania International, 7340khz, 4:26-4:57, Signal started strong and clear and gradually got worse.  They played a lot of music.
• BBC, 7445khz, 5:00- , It’s rare I pick up the BBC from my apartment, fun to listen tonight.

I haven’t had good luck on shortwave recently, it seems every time I listened I got static lately, so tonight is much more fun.  The challenge for me is I live in an apartment, so my options for antennas are severely limited.  The AN-LP1 antenna really helps pull in signals better than the whip antenna or a wire.  I’ve used it camping outdoors and I can listen to so many different stations.

For me the fun of shortwave is how far around the world I can listen to.  No infastructure, no subscriptions, just a radio that pulls signals from everywhere.  Tonight I’ve listened to stations that are a distance of 5219 miles (Țigănești, Romania) and 6017 miles (BBC- Ascension Island).

I listened to Area 51 tonight from WBCQ on 5110khz, Radio Newyork International was on, but this was before I pulled my recorder out.