A test of one, and other things

[symbioidlj]

a test here, of changing my font in xjournal client. I'm using optima font. I'm guessing, but not certain, that perhaps fellow mac users may see this post in optima, but those who don't have said font will fall back on their default.

probably not. but it would be a cool feature, eh?

Now..... That shortwave radio is sooooooo fun.

I tuned in the standard time clock thing, and noticed there was an extra low buzz before the main ticks, and sometimes this buzz sorta bounced to a second buzz. Very faint, had to turn the radio all the way up, and the bass up and treble down. But I could feel it in the radio.

Second, I heard an eastern european language station. My guess is Russian or Serbian(is Serbia considered eastern or central?) Aren't they related languages? (_2012_om_, I'm hoping you can answer that one...)

A Chinese(or Taiwanese) language program. Very cool...

Also, something very strong is generating a very powerful alternating rumble. We live a few blocks from a power plant, and I wonder if that has any effect at that specific frequency(5252 khz I believe)

And what I believe to be an esperanto station. at first I thought it was french, but then heard what i thought was german or dutch. and some english words. these were all mushed together. so i figured it's not actually french or german, etc... but an amalgamation of sounds that are related to those. but i think that esperanto also has a strong central european tint to it, i can't recall.

Comments

[rance.livejournal.com]

If you search for them, there are some entertaining late-night shortwave programs addressing such topics as black helicopters, the gold standard, the international Jewish conspiracy, Christian identity, the Illuminati, etc. I used to catch them pretty often.

[rance.livejournal.com]

As you might guess, these programs tend to emanate from stations located in the southern US and from remote survivalist compounds in the Rocky Mountains.

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Serbia and all of former Yugoslavia would be considered Eastern Europe. My impression was that when you cross the now defunct line of the iron curtain, you have crossed into eastern Europe, and on the other side is considered western, but i could be wrong.
The Serbian/Croatian/Bosnian language is of slavic origin which does sound very similar to Russian. Of course, there is also the Chekoslovakian language which (I think) also sounds alot like Russian. Coulda been any of these I'd suppose.

I've got a crappy shortwave radio with analog controls and a weak ability to pick up stations, so i can't really tune in to much of anything beyond the Americas it seems. I miss my old SW radio that i had as a kid- i was able to pick up broadcasts from all over the globe with that one.