Path: utzoo!utgpu!ugw.utcs.utoronto.ca!CUVMA!SWL-L Date: Fri, 2 Feb 90 16:45:43 EST Reply-To: Mike Smith Sender: Short Wave Listener's List Comments: Warning -- original Sender: tag was From: Mike Smith Subject: Re: San Francisco Bay Area SWL X-To: swl-l@cuvmb.cc.columbia.edu To: UofToronto LAN redistribution Message-ID: <90Feb2.191900est.58671@ugw.utcs.utoronto.ca> Newsgroups: bitnet.swl-l Distribution: ut Approved: devnull@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu In article <35374@mips.mips.COM> crisp@mips.COM (Richard Crisp) writes: >In article <239@millbrook.fibercom.COM> lrj@fibercom.COM (Larry Johnson) writes: >>BUT... I'd get up at 5:00AM every morning, and not just from the jet >>lag. The dark-path reception to Asia was something I--as an East- >>Coaster--could not have imagined. ... >Gee 5 am.... too early for a hard core night owl like me! > >Well I certainly appreciate finding out about the world of early morning >SWL'ing in the Bay area. I guess I'll have to shift my schedule in order >to carry on my old hobby out here (I've been out here 6 months Shouldn't need to ... I have a Sony 2002 and can get Radio Netherlands, from the Antillies at about 8:00pm or was it 9:00pm ..., Radio South Africa, Germany (in the daytime, no less), Radio Canada, and I think it was Radio Luxemburg about 6:00pm one evening. Of course the VOA, BBC, and Radio Moscow and a whole host of other stuff. All of this on the built in whip antenna! None of these is an especially hard catch, but just 'cause they are easy to hear doesn't mean they arn't worth listening to! If you are a late night owl type, just stay up! It is 3 to 7 hours earlier here than in the New Zealand & Australia area. That means that if the sun sets here at 6:00, it sets there at 9:00 or 1:00am our time. You should try Australia and New Zealand at about mignight! The 'dark path' opens at 9:00 in the evening and runs as late as you want to stay up! Then there are all those little Pacific Island states and the domestic services in Asia and the far east of Russia if you want a challenge (though you do need to know some other languages ... I'm no good at Russian and my oriental language skill is limited to ordering sushi ... ) Yes, it is hard to hear the little European states. So? I wish I could get them too, but I'm quite happy with Radio Australia (Even though it isn't beamed at North America ...) Mike -- E. Michael Smith ems@apple.COM 'Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.' - Goethe I am not responsible nor is anyone else. Everything is disclaimed.