[BC] What brought me into radio

[Alan Shea]

On 2014-07-31 00:38, Mike Vanhooser wrote:
> They were the old Soviet jammers, blocking out all Western/free
> programming and information.

Yes I remember listening to those and wondered how they managed to 
generate such awful sounding racket. What a waste of engineering. They 
would often appear within a minute or so of Voice of America signing on 
for a particular frequency.

I also remember in retrospect hearing fewer and fewer of them in 
1988-1989, and found it more difficult to find Radio Moscow, who usually 
had a broadcast on every shortwave radio band day and night.

The most telling thing was that it got more difficult to identify when 
you landed on Radio Moscow instead of BBC -- even though the accents 
were mostly the same, I usually could tell within a couple of minutes, 
because, for instance, nobody else uses the word "capitalist" in normal 
conversation.

The fact that I listened to Radio Moscow for 20 minutes without 
realizing it (looking back in the early '90s on memories of the late 
'80s) made what happened to the Soviet Union seem obvious.

-- 
Alan Shea
N2UDV, CSRE, CBNT
Cel +1 260-645-0663 (EDT/GMT-4)