1.4 MILLION watt Shortwave station WRMI - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: GlennSprigg
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 14, 2019, 12:31:25 pm
content: It's always been a point of 'embarrassment' to the civilized world, how 'Hitler' may be thevery 1st thing that prospective 'Aliens' see, after the broadcast at the 1936 Berlin Olympics !!https://www.realclearscience.com/blog/2013/09/will-hitler-be-the-first-person-that-aliens-see.html

author: Gyro
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 14, 2019, 04:20:30 pm
content: Don't worry, by the time they get close they'll have been force fed decades of accelerated Australian soaps and general 'reality' TV shows! They'll have plenty of time to confirm their initial impression and veer off to go somewhere more civilized instead.Edit: I, of course, failed to mention our history of wars, famine, strife, double dealing and ecological vandalism since those first broadcasts. Any 'Aliens' that still want to make themselves known to us after viewing that little lot, wereallydon't want to meet!

author: Echo88
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: May 14, 2019, 11:06:01 pm
content: Carnivorous/Omnivorous aliens will have their own tragic past due to their development. You dont become sentient and gain empathy in an eye-blink, thats just not how evolution works.

author: GlennSprigg
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 16, 2019, 01:13:28 pm
content: Ok 'Gyro' and 'Echo88'.I'm an 'Aussie', but I have NEVER watched ANY of 'our' Soaps, EVERI preferred all the 'pommie' ones, like Coronation St, and 'HeartBeat'Maybe the 'Aliens' didn't like any of them either...Seriously though, I never meant to attack 'Germans' though, as many of my friendsare German, and are a long way removed from their 'past'. I was obviously referencing'Hitler', (who was actually an Austrian though I'm not denigrating them either!).And making 'light' of the 1st real TV broadcast. With a lot less Wattage than that.And of course, ALL so called 'civilizations' have/do go through one hell of an embarrassing'leaning-curve' of 'humanity', before being 'judged' by us more contemporary beings..

author: Gyro
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 16, 2019, 03:39:18 pm
content: To quote the late, great, Douglas Adams (Hitchhikers)...Quote

author: Lord of nothing
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 19, 2019, 01:05:42 am
content: QuoteWell he leave Austria as an unknown Painter and Joint the German Military. Later he was elected by the Germans.

author: GlennSprigg
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 20, 2019, 12:17:43 pm
content: Do you mean like an 'Artist' painter, or like a 'House-Painter'(OK, I could have 'googled' it, but didn't)Probably his only GOOD involvement in 'humanity', was the promotion of the 'Volkswagen'.(Meaning the 'Peoples-Car'). With the 'idea' that everyone could afford a simple budget car.Of course the 'company' now, has evolved WAAY beyond that original conception.Ermmm.... To keep my 'comment' evenremotelyon 'topic' hahaha....Here's a 'pic' of a Modern (not) car, with the 'latest' in portable Radio !!!!!!

author: Red Squirrel
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 20, 2019, 06:03:32 pm
content: That's a crazy amount of power. Incredible the engineering that goes into that. Just the antennas alone. I presume those are very precisely setup so they can beam form to the regions they want.Now the question is, will this fit in my 14 foot aluminium boat? Gonna start a pirate radio station.

author: Lord of nothing
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 20, 2019, 06:24:45 pm
content: Depend how big your food it.

author: xrunner
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 20, 2019, 07:02:20 pm
content: Quote from: GlennSprigg on May 14, 2019, 12:31:25 pmIt won't be embarrassing if the aliens are Klingons.

author: mc172
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: May 20, 2019, 07:27:24 pm
content: Quote from: GlennSprigg on May 14, 2019, 12:31:25 pmSheesh 'man', do you 'quote mark' 'everything'?

author: Alex Eisenhut
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 20, 2019, 11:34:19 pm
content: Quote from: mc172 on May 20, 2019, 07:27:24 pmThat's like his thing, man.

author: Stray Electron
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 21, 2019, 12:17:10 am
content: Quote from: Red Squirrel on May 20, 2019, 06:03:32 pmYou might like this:https://www.radiolondon.co.uk/rl/bentoney/bookp1.htmlBen and I worked on some genealogy together. He was one of those larger than life characters and I was very sad to hear of his passing.http://www.offshoreradio.co.uk/btoney.htm

author: bob91343
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 21, 2019, 12:51:21 am
content: Do people still listen to short wave broadcasts?

author: xrunner
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 21, 2019, 12:56:36 am
content: Quote from: bob91343 on May 21, 2019, 12:51:21 amNot many methinks. I was into it as a kid in the '70s when it was 'Big Time'. Many countries had their own voices. Now, with the internet, nobody cares anymore. My 'neighbors' in their 30s don't even know what 'shortwave' is.Quote marks tribute to GlennSprigg.

author: Red Squirrel
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 21, 2019, 02:18:11 am
content: I bought a shortwave/am/fm radio, sometimes I play around with it to see what I pickup. Not aware of any stations here in Canada but I can actually pickup some from the states sometimes. Same with AM. For AM I usually pickup more in like Toronto area, which is still like a good 800km south.

author: james_s
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 21, 2019, 02:22:50 am
content: Quote from: GlennSprigg on May 14, 2019, 12:31:25 pmThat's an interesting thought, although I'm not sure why it would even matter. To an alien race Hitler would just be another human, they would have no context of who he was or what he did soon after. At the time of the olympics he wasn't really doing anything wrong, at least in terms of what was visible to the outside world. On top of that he will have been dead for a very long time and it is not entirely unlikely that someone else will take the trophy for most evil person on Earth by then.

author: GlennSprigg
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 24, 2019, 10:16:59 am
content: Quote from: Alex Eisenhut on May 20, 2019, 11:34:19 pmToAlex, haha!! thanks man.Tomc172, Yea, pretty much I guess !!(no need to shoot me though....). I have my reasons.I've explained all this in the past, whereby I think there is a difference between a few generally concisesentences used in a Forum such as this, as opposed to how one should properly write a book !Especially in a generally technical forum where people are quickly referencing/seeing key words. At timesI will use,bold, oritalics, depending on the content/context, or, (less intrusive, I think,) 'single quotes'.To me, on a 'Forum', it is only to highlight key 'words/names/places' during quick perusal by others.ALOTof people simply justKNOWme by now, and just think... "Ahh... that's justGlenn!" Have a good day !