Photography @fedia.io Matt Blaze @federate.social 2mo ago

Shortwave "Discone" Antenna, Former AT&T High Seas Radio Site, Ocean Gate, NJ, 2009.

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There’s no equivalent SWL library I know of to record the sounds of various shortwave tech as it passes away never to be heard from again, e.g. Loran A signals on 1.85/1.95 MHz. Same for ships at sea.
- @[email protected] There are some archives out there, but they're scattered and largely poorly indexed.
  
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  I meant, library equivalent to the Internet Archive. Well, I imagine the NSA has one, but…
  
  Thanks!
  
  ps, I ran across the Radio South Africa sign-off on YouTube a while back. It seemed very exotic to me as a kid listening on my radio in Washington State.
  
  https://youtu.be/2JZ8N_gk9SY?si=SNmyoGM02R7sVaJe
- @wa7iut @mattblaze There's the Signal ID wiki: https://www.sigidwiki.com/wiki/LORAN
  
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  Thanks! LORAN A sounded a lot different. It operated around 1.8 MHz. It was more of a droning, like a piston engine airpland cruising along. LORAN C operates at 100 kHz and sounds more impulse or digital to me. I was actively listening in the late 1960s and LORAN A went away in favor of LORAN C in the early 70s. Soundtrack of my youth, along with WWV😂
  
  @wa7iut @kyhwana That's also my recollection of what LORAN-A sounded like. More of a buzz than a pulse (which is how LORAN-C sounds).
  
  The Russian Woodpecker (which was actually Ukrainian!) is another of the sounds I won't forget but that are almost lost to history.
  
  @[email protected] @[email protected] And don't get me started about WGU-20...

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