Listening to any type of radio signal

#1

This popped up on reddit today. It’s apparently a little-known sub about how to listen to any radio broadcast with a $2 USB tuner. OP says we can listen to air traffic control, shortwave from around the world, the magnetic storms on Jupiter, etc.

I don’t know if it’ll be useful to us, and it’s a bit over my head, but I thought I’d pass it along, just in case. Never know, maybe someone can at least have fun with a new hobby. :stuck_out_tongue:

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/6n73th/what_are_some_great_subreddits_whose_names_cannot/dk7k4yd/

Direct link to the sub: https://www.reddit.com/r/RTLSDR

#2

Did you too had the feeling Emily might be poltergheisting on us through some radio-station?

#3

Apparently you can also do this with WebSDR: http://www.websdr.org

And here’s an example of HAM groups doing monitoring of signals. I like the notes like "Mysterious oscillations on 28000 kHz. I found mysterious and unstable oscillations on 28000 kHz on June 20th at 0711 utc. The direction was about 60 deg. from DL. Purpose unknown."

#4

this connects to the numbers station post as well (check the references there as well).