Hello.
First of all, excuse me for my poor English.
I am writing to tell you about one strange occurrence which involves an old walkie-talkie.
In autumn 2012, I've found an old and battered walkie talkie. It had a battery in it (its expiration date was mid 2010) and it appeared to work, so I decided to test it. I asked my father to turn on the CB radio he had in his car and went for a walk, up a hill which is a few hundred meters away from our house. The radio was on all the time, and all I heard was static noise. But halfway up the hill I heard a voice. What surprised me was that it wasn't Polish, (My parent's house is in a small town in south of Poland), but in English. I thought that I have picked up a transmission from UK, which would've been impressive, but the person broadcasting didn't have a UK accent. It was very American. The thought itself, that such a crappy radio possibly picked up a broadcast from across the ocean stunned me. I grabbed my phone and recorded the sounds coming from the speaker. You can download them HERE. At the end of the 1st one you can hear me and my dad trying to communicate, but no luck - the radio is receiving around channel 7 and it's broadcasting somewhere between 6 and 7. (Which proves that it's garbage, which makes the fact that I heard an overseas transmission even more impressive). One of the few words I could understand is "Pennsylvania". I assume that's where the person was broadcasting from.
I am posting this thread, hoping to get in touch with whoever broadcasted this message. I know that chances are the same as finding a needle in a haystack, but it's ok to try, right? I just think that it might be interesting to let that person know that he was heard much farther than he would've thought, by pure luck, through an old and battered toy. And this board seems like an okay place to start, so...
BTW, that's the radio which picked up a transcontinental broadcast. Wow.
First of all, excuse me for my poor English.
I am writing to tell you about one strange occurrence which involves an old walkie-talkie.In autumn 2012, I've found an old and battered walkie talkie. It had a battery in it (its expiration date was mid 2010) and it appeared to work, so I decided to test it. I asked my father to turn on the CB radio he had in his car and went for a walk, up a hill which is a few hundred meters away from our house. The radio was on all the time, and all I heard was static noise. But halfway up the hill I heard a voice. What surprised me was that it wasn't Polish, (My parent's house is in a small town in south of Poland), but in English. I thought that I have picked up a transmission from UK, which would've been impressive, but the person broadcasting didn't have a UK accent. It was very American. The thought itself, that such a crappy radio possibly picked up a broadcast from across the ocean stunned me. I grabbed my phone and recorded the sounds coming from the speaker. You can download them HERE. At the end of the 1st one you can hear me and my dad trying to communicate, but no luck - the radio is receiving around channel 7 and it's broadcasting somewhere between 6 and 7. (Which proves that it's garbage, which makes the fact that I heard an overseas transmission even more impressive). One of the few words I could understand is "Pennsylvania". I assume that's where the person was broadcasting from.
I am posting this thread, hoping to get in touch with whoever broadcasted this message. I know that chances are the same as finding a needle in a haystack, but it's ok to try, right? I just think that it might be interesting to let that person know that he was heard much farther than he would've thought, by pure luck, through an old and battered toy. And this board seems like an okay place to start, so...
BTW, that's the radio which picked up a transcontinental broadcast. Wow.
