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Glow worm

Glow worm

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slowmotion said:
Oh Glow worm! That's a feast! Thank you. Edit: If anybody could post a clip of their intro and outro music, a particularly spacey version of Amazing Grace by "The Bauls of Bengal", I would die a happy man....
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Can't find the Bauls of Bengal track, but some suggest this version may also have been used by Geronimo..

 
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Glow worm said:
You get that when stations are slightly off channel. The Algerians for example are particularly slack in ensuring their transmitters are spot on frequency. That's why you sometimes hear the heterodyne whistle on 252 long wave, co-channel with Ireland's RTE Radio 1, as Algeria use that channel as well.

Radio Caroline used to suffer from similar problems back in the 80's on 963khz. The pesky Tunisians who use the same frequency were forever letting their station wander off channel causing the heterodyne whistle. It would often be weeks before they'd fix it. I once rang them to complain- Explaining 'Tunisia' on my Parent's phone bill a while later to my Dad was interesting to say the least.
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Brilliant!
 
Glow worm

Glow worm

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Hmmm. This thread has me wondering if I should seek help. These are the radios from just two rooms upstairs ^_^....


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I started off with an old valve set, can't now remember which but it hooked me into listening to strange radio stations late at night. Then my mate next door bought a Sony Earth Orbiter and erected a huge aerial in the back garden and began to pick up stations from far and wide.

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I couldn't compete with that and bought a Vega and attached it to a copper aerial I'd laid out in the loft

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Often got Radio Peking on it and once got radio Chile. The thing was, if you wrote to the stations with a time and frequency, they sent you back lots of goodies. I got a diary off radio Peking, lots of stuff from Radio Moscow and quite a few no replies :smile:

I think we were both inspired by our down the road neighbour who had an old valve shortwave set he used to broadcast on illegally before eventually being caught and all his kit confiscated. They took pictures of his sets, so after they'd gone, he swopped all the valves out from another less powerful set.

So there you go, valve to Tranny, which is how I imagine 3bm to be at the wknd.
 
GaryA

GaryA

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I feel guilty reading this thread...I was responsible for the eventual demise of our family Bush radio in the late seventies-early eighties...we were poor-the tranny radio had been sold.
My sister had the annoying habit of playing radio one on it at cabinet resonating volume-all the time. To get my own back I used to go upstairs and put the electirc light switch between the on and off so the bulb flickered and the radio downstairs crackled like hell from the electric arcing-she eventually got fed up and turned it off. When she got suspicious I sent my brother upstairs to do the same thing...and blamed it on old banger cars passing by. Eventually one day it became too much for her and she took off her shoe and whacked the radio shouting " that bloody thing"
that was the end of the good old Bush Radio.
 
Wobblers

Wobblers

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GaryA said:
I feel guilty reading this thread...I was responsible for the eventual demise of our family Bush radio in the late seventies-early eighties...we were poor-the tranny radio had been sold.
My sister had the annoying habit of playing radio one on it at cabinet resonating volume-all the time. To get my own back I used to go upstairs and put the electirc light switch between the on and off so the bulb flickered and the radio downstairs crackled like hell from the electric arcing-she eventually got fed up and turned it off. When she got suspicious I sent my brother upstairs to do the same thing...and blamed it on old banger cars passing by. Eventually one day it became too much for her and she took off her shoe and whacked the radio shouting " that bloody thing"
that was the end of the good old Bush Radio.
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So you were a socialist malcontent troublemaker even then, Gary? :smile:
 
Glow worm

Glow worm

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asterix said:
I liked the morse code transmissions plus the rather eerie start up signal for some DDR radio station. All very John le Carre..
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The Voice of Korea (North Korea) to this day use quite an eerie sounding tune at the start of their broadcasts. I sometimes catch their daily English language service in the afternoons (well it beats Steve Wright) and it really is like a throwback to the 70s. It is in fact a bar from their national anthem. This is a recording of it made by someone who is presumably as sad as I am!..

 
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:popcorn: Can only be a matter of time before some of the 'old cadets' @Mark Grant for example, as well as Glow worms everywhere, come along with tales of derring-do involving No19 sets No 88 sets etc (I know you're not that old, Mark, but you know all about this stuff I bet) and a penny-farthing rider will arrive with reminiscences of 2LO. And Crackle's 'Vega' - instant spy status...just like 'The Man From Uncle'...Napoleon Solo listening to all those Short Wave channels - just in case there was a ship in distress, or a bit of crosstalk from the airwaves...I ogled the adverts in the Daily Sketch small ads offering World Radios for £12 19s 6d or similar...
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