Fishing For Zambia

Pica’s garden has turned into a amenable place to do radio. I’ve strung my 15-foot speaker wire antenna through the almond tree and hooked it up to my little Sony shortwave radio. A favorite shortwave pastime is to try to pull in signals from the far corners of the world. A good time to do this is at dawn or dusk, as the terminator, the border on the face of the earth between day and night, is a good path for radio propagation. Yesterday, at 0320 UTC on 4910 KHz, I was pretty sure I heard Radio Zambia, at least according to my database. The signal was there again this evening—very cool.