{"id":2755,"date":"2020-11-16T10:52:00","date_gmt":"2020-11-15T23:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2020\/11\/16\/shortwave-listening\/"},"modified":"2025-07-21T13:53:46","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T03:53:46","slug":"shortwave-listening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/2020\/11\/16\/shortwave-listening\/","title":{"rendered":"Shortwave Listening"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n
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I was listening to Glenn Hauser’s excellent shortwave listening show on WRMI this week, and he mentioned a technique that I had not been aware of: listening for the harmonics of distant stations. This is apparently being done for medium wave broadcast stations, but also for stations in the lower frequency range of the shortwave bands. If propagation makes it highly unlikely for you to hear the main frequency, perhaps propagation would be better for the the second or third harmonic. This method is discussed here: <\/b><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.pateplumaradio.com\/genbroad\/harmonics.htm<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

Here is some more background information on Glenn Hauser: <\/b><\/p>\n

https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Glenn_Hauser<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

Here is a real treasure trove of articles and recordings about the history of shortwave radio: <\/b><\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.ontheshortwaves.com\/history.html<\/b><\/a><\/p>\n

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I was listening to Glenn Hauser’s excellent shortwave listening show on WRMI this week, and he mentioned a technique that I had not been aware of: listening for the harmonics of distant stations. This is apparently being done for medium wave broadcast stations, but also for stations in the lower frequency range of the shortwave … Continue reading “Shortwave Listening”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2756,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-short-wave-listening"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2755"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2755\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2757,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2755\/revisions\/2757"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.homebrewradio.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}