What do you listen to away from BC bands?

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I’m a casual SWL on the BC bands away from my ham activities. I listen to a lot more if I have the time.
Wonder if anyone else listens to other frequencies for non broadcast stations?
Being a radio ham I wonder if anyone listens to the ham bands - I realise you need SSB to listen to them. There are a few cheap chinese HF receivers that do SSB. Not the best but they do work for basic stuff. There is occasional AM/ FM activity on the ham bands, notably around the 29.600 MHz FM calling frequency.
And there is CB across the 27Mhz band :wink:
I also listen to other things on HF including aircraft weather broadcasts like VOLMET but these are also SSB.
Of course there is also plenty to listen to away from HF on VHF/ UHF. As it’s local you can often pick a few signals up using a cheap walkie / talkie. Don’t expect miracles and sometimes you have to be patient to hear an activation :wink:

BTW - always willing to chat to anyone that might be curious about starting in ham radio if I can help them - I may have a UK slant on that :+1:

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I’m mostly casual for the most part, all over the spectrum. Lately getting into digital just to see what is there like FT8 really interesting to see just how far you get get packets from. Also ADS-B aircraft transponders at 1090Mhz, and P25 trunked calls (though most have gone encrypted now). Sometimes fun to watch the aircraft plots on virtual radar while listening in on their voice (I do listen in on the HAM bands, I’m using SDR’s so am, fm, ssb, cw not issues for them, my really old Grundig yachtboy has developed issues over the years so rarely used anymore)

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I heard radio amateurs in 28 MHz once woth Xiaok radio. My RTL SDR also catches ham bands. I do not listen to radio amateurs often.