Even though the sound quality for the other two music broadcasts have been stronger signals, it’s more the music picks of this DJ which keep making me smile (what makes me smile isn’t always whether I like the song, but rather the way a DJ picks what they play and how well they keep you on your toes). The one I’m listening to, albeit faintly at the moment, is being covered in real time on another forum called HFunderground - a forum dedicated to clandestine radio transmissions. They’ve been doing this since the mid aughts, and so long as one has line of sight to one of the satellites (there are four), one can pick them up pretty loudly and clearly. Tonight, I’m spending my time trawling the megahertz stumbling across two different kinds of pirate radio: one kind is very much like the film, Pump Up the Volume, in which (so far) three different pirate feeds have been playing music and, earlier, listening to Brazilian dudes hijack geostationary US military satellites to re-transmit back to earth. The improvement in reception quality using the Youloop, and the reduction on background static noise, is incredible. I returned after levelling up from the RTL-SDR kit-included rabbit ear antennas to a cheap, but better antenna (running about USD$30) called a Youloop - named not after YT, but after a guy named Youssef who came up with the solution. I’m back on my BS (not B S, which is “big spam”) and returned to listening to distant radio on the RTL-SDR USB adapter I bought a year ago, after reading about the post exploring a cheap way to listen to shortwave and amateur radio.
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