This is what happens when you end up listening to and reading 3 languages at once
and was inspired by the irony monitoring military comms at a housing co-op
whilst one of the young women there had gone to an anti war march – although
todays radioamateurs are the 1960s hippy era..
and even if its more politcally correct with a message of peace, it is completely
geographically incorrect as the original location was no where near East Anglia
but a lot of folk do thing the stuff I do looks like something out of WW II era…
I used indoor-antenna for my shortwave radios..
but! Signal-to noise, goes not well…
als vele storing zat de lucht erin – en ik werd boos! [1]
I must put up longwire antenne und all Europe I now tell
I kan receive Wetter-Berichten on the Siegfried Line
From the Hamburg-Sender of the DWD.
And I shall learn if it might rain or if the Sun will shine
Over the coast of the North Sea….
Also – the signal sent uit Northwood is bestimmt Kaputt! [2]
And no longer can I trust the BBC..
So I receive Wetter-Berichten on the Siegfried Line
Now we’re at peace with Germany!
I set up once a listening-post in the Camel House… [3]
Die zat in the olde WC..
En built an RF-filter mit the trap for a Maus…
as QRM far more ist Problem – laat de muizen all run free! [4]
while I receive Wetter-Berichten on the Siegfried Line
from the Hamburg-Sender of the DWD.
And radioamateurs from Nederland and Deutschland heard
From their fieldday en jamboree.. [5]
Want mijn frienden all environmentally concious are
they have geen x-box und auch kein Plasma-TV
so there they maken minder etherstoringsoverlast
naar zijn woningbouwcorporatie![6]
[1] storing = interference, there was too much so I was annoyed
[2] RAF Northwood / the RAF and Royal Navy transmit weatherfaxes from there, but the signal is weaker
[3] Random Camel housing co-op, they have a big garden, good place for a longwire and there is a less used WC in the workshop, the window opens out to the garden
[4] QRM = radio interference caused by humans and/or their gadgets (the live mouse trap was metal and being used as faraday cage)
[5] on 2013-09-09 IARU Region 1 had a field day for using portable HF radios
[6] NL for a housing coop – they had them since the 19th century!
