Shortwave Radio (EWTN)

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I’ve noticed that a few people have mentioned listening to CA via EWTN’s shortwave radio broadcasts. I do. On the off chance that anyone may have questions about listening via shortwave radio (improving reception, giving it a try, logistics, ect.), I’ll do my best to answer them.

I have spent most of my life around shortwave radios and I’m a user of shortwave radio since I’m an amateur radio operator.

Just thought I’d try to help out.
 
Well hey there, ---- here in Cincinnati. I wonder how many of us hams are on the forum.

73
 
I am the XYL of ---- in Rochester, NY! He crazY about this stuff! He has been building radios since he was 5 years old.

We went to Toronto on our honeymoon 23 years ago. On top of the CN Tower lookout he pulled out his hand held to see what kind of coverage he could get. So much for a romantic moment.
Look him up! ----

No I don’t have my license. He has been trying to get me to for years!

73
 
Wow!

I may have started a ham radio thread! Thanks to all of you for checking in.

I’m ----and I operate mostly 80m and 2m. I do have a go at 40m and 10m occasionally. I was originally licensed in 1969.

----sounds like a local AM station overnight (5810 or 5850 khz.) on my IC 706 and 40m inverted vee.

To contemplative: Got your message. Thanks.

👍

73
 
Well Zevel,
I can’t get the old man to register on CA Forums…not even to talk shortwave radio. I did ask him to get me the study book for my license … I am giving it another try. A few years ago I had Morse memorized but not fast enough. I gave up. Now I don’t need Morse.
I will tune in when I get my license…will do it this time.
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Contemplative
 
Our family was blessed to meet with Mother Angelica back in April 1993 to thank her for WEWN and promise to promote short-wave radio 🙂

BUT we have a problem hearing during the day…so now we have Sirius…which is great because you can take it everywhere! I still of course have my short-wave…

I’ve had the pleasure of talking with a fine gentleman I met on the forums on EchoLink…

Elaine KE4YYJ
 
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zevel:
Wow!

I may have started a ham radio thread! Thanks to all of you for checking in.

I’m WA6HZN and I operate mostly 80m and 2m. I do have a go at 40m and 10m occasionally. I was originally licensed in 1969.

WEWN sounds like a local AM station overnight (5810 or 5850 khz.) on my IC 706 and 40m inverted vee.

To contemplative: Got your message. Thanks.

👍

73
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Hey, “ham” radio is still “radio,” right? So, if you have started a ham radio thread…great! Does that mean you’re all a bunch of hams? :rolleyes: (Booooo!!!).

Jerry
 
Jerry, having an amateur…ham license allows you to talk on the air…on the amateur bands…but we might as well make you an honorary “ham.” 😃
 
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Jerry, having an amateur…ham license allows you to talk on the air…on the amateur bands…but we might as well make you an honorary “ham.” 😃
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I was thinking this…glad someone else said it!
 
Hey contemplative, good luck with the license exam. With just a bit of study, all should go well.

I can understand why your husband got out his handie talkie up in the CN tower. We amateurs tend to be fascinated by elevated places. I’m not, but a lot of amateurs are also pilots.

Hey Jerry…
One theory for the origin of the phrase “ham radio” goes something like this. There were 3 guys experimenting with radio transmission about 100 years ago, when radio was a sort of free for all and one usually just made up one’s call sign. HAM initial letters of the last names of these 3 intrepid experimenters.

Amateur radio has been around, officially, for around 85 years. In the early days of radio, amateurs were intrepid, pioneering types. These days we tend to be people who are fascinated by the art of radio transmission, although, if you were to ask some of us why we got into amateur radio, you’d probably get at least as many reasons as the number of people you questioned.

Up through the 80s or thereabouts, shortwave radio (amateur and broadcast) was a sort of “world wide web” albeit not terrifically interactive, if one was just a listener. Of course, the internet has made shortwave radio technology obsolescent, but we amateurs have been blending the two. I can talk to a friend quite easily with my radio going through a repeater that is interfaced with the web, just to mention one possibility. My friend is well beyond the range of the repeater I use and he uses his laptop instead of a radio to complete the circuit.
 
I installed a MFJ 4-band converter in my car and can now receive 5810/5850 nights, 9955/9975 morning and evening, and 13615 Khz daytime in my car! I got it from AES last time I was up in Cleveland. For anyone who might be interested and don’t want to pay for “Xm”.
 
Hi Bro. Rich

That’s neat! I didn’t know that MFJ or anyone was making shortwave converters for the car. When I was a kid, in the 60s, there was a company making little converters that one could have put in a car. I think they were called Tune-A-Verters or something like that. I used to see them advertised in a ham radio magazine I subscribed to. I may try out an MFJ converter in my truck.

Thanks for your post.

zevel
 
Hi, Radio people! My little Grundig Yacht Boy receiver has kept me in touch for years via WEWN shortwave. In touch with my beautifully reverted-to Catholicism. For all the souls you people must have saved, Heaven will have to have an especially delightful section where apologists, orthodox lecturers and faithful radio priests will be accomodated. :clapping: :dancing: :clapping:
 
Hi,

----here. I have a YAESU VX-5R handheld which recieves shortwave, but I don’t know if I’m tuning it to the correct S/W freq. I tried 9975, but nothing came in. I live in S.E. Georgia so maybe I have to use a different freq. Any advice will be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Joe Usher
 
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jusher7281:
Hi,

----here. I have a YAESU VX-5R handheld which recieves shortwave, but I don’t know if I’m tuning it to the correct S/W freq. I tried 9975, but nothing came in. I live in S.E. Georgia so maybe I have to use a different freq. Any advice will be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Joe Usher
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You have to remember that Short Wave is NOT a domestic service in the United States. So the signals we receive are technically intended to be received in other countries. You may be too close for the Reflected wave and too far away for the Ground wave. 9975 Khz is only used for one or two hours in the early evening, then it’s 5810 Khz.
 
Hi Joe,
You wrote…
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Hi,

----here. I have a YAESU VX-5R handheld which recieves shortwave, but I don’t know if I’m tuning it to the correct S/W freq. I tried 9975, but nothing came in. I live in S.E. Georgia so maybe I have to use a different freq. Any advice will be greatly appreciated. Thanks.

Joe Usher
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Brother Rich is correct. You’re too close to WEWN for 9975 khz. Your best bet for WEWN would be 5810 khz. beginning at 8pm ET. Depending on radio conditions, you could probably continue listening at 5850 khz. from midnight ET.

zevel
 
Try these frequencies at these times:

Frequency Time
5825 mhz 0000-1300 UTC

9955 mhz 1300-1600 UTC

13615 mhz 1600-2200 UTC

9975 mhz 2200-2400 UTC
 
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