Welcome to the STORMWISE.com Low Frequency Radio Listener's Club! January 10, 2010.

This club will be a dream-come-true for many longwave radio listeners. Longwave radio on a clickable web map.

As a longwave listener you have likely wished you could travel around and listen to those beacon signals that are bouncing around all the nation's coastlines. So you're in Alabama tuned to a local beacon on 350 KHz, but what you really want to hear is a beacon in California on 350 KHz. Now you can!

Or 'I can bearly hear 205 KHz. What if one of the club members who is closer has an audio clip recorded......'

Or 'I can hear 410 KHz really strong - its literally just down the road! I wonder.....How does the signal fair 300 miles away?? Hmmm... Maybe some of the club members around in nearby states have it recorded.....'

The STORMWISE.com Low Frequency Radio Listener's Club will be made up of individuals across the United States that record short audio clips using a computer and their longwave radio.

We are providing a clickable map of external links to individual club member web pages. The member's web pages will contain various audio (mp3) files up to 30 seconds long of each transmission that is hearable from the individual member's location! Just click on the map to view the each member's radio web page. Select from their menu list of audio files. Click on the file to play it in your computer's mp3 audio player.

The longwave band is not 'empty air space' like you might have thought!

Members: Don't ignore the weak longwave stations! Record even the weak ones!

You can represent your town / geographic area here on these maps!

You can be a vital part of this effort! Use your longwave radio and computer's mp3 recorder to record what beacons that you can hear. Upload your audio to your web site. We will place a link to your site on one of the clickable maps.

Pacific Northwest	Northern Rockies	Upper Mississippi Valley	Central Great Lakes	Northeast
Pacific Southwest	Southern Rockies	Southern Plains	Lower Mississippi Valley	Southeast

Following sites are under construction:

Click on the RED squares to access each individual station web page. You can represent your town / geographic area here on these maps!

You can be a vital part of this effort! Set up your radio and record what stations you can hear. Upload your audio to your web site. We will place a link to your site on one of the clickable map.

Join the Club!

(1). You'll need any good low frequency (long wave) radio or apparatus for reception of specialized bands below 530 KHz. Make sure it is of good quality and does not have a lot of internal "hiss" noise.

(2). You'll need to look at the map of your location and roll your mouse over your location. Get the number that pops up.

(3). Set up your web site. You'll do this on your own server from your own web page provider. Just a standard web site. (STORMWISE.com does NOT host your site).

(4). Call with your map data (the number that popped up) so we can place a link on the map site to your web site. (Please specify which map you want to be placed :ie: Southern Plains, South East, etc...).

(5). With your web site up and linked, you are ready to record and upload content: Tune between 100 Hz to 530 KHz and make short (15 - 20 seconds) mp3 audio clips of all the low frequency beacons and signals found below 530 KHz. DO NOT UPLOAD ANY COPYRIGHTED AUDIO OR COPYRIGHTED MUSIC MATERIAL.

(6) Please note and document each exact frequency recorded :ie 435 KHz, 205 KHz, 60 KHz, etc, for each audio recording.

(6a)Mp3 clips should be of high quality to prevent "web garbling - mumbling noise" and should be at least "FM radio quality" which is approximately 64 kb/s sample rate. Mono audio is OK.

(7). NDB's or Non Directional Beacons (usually found between 190 KHz to 530 KHz) should be recorded in the "AM" mode [not AM band]. Do not use BFO unless absolutely needed, such as on some signals below 150 KHz Please note if BFO is used.

(8). Video content can also be uploaded of S-meter or oscilloscope or radio being used to receive the station.

(9). No obligation. You can stop any time. If you remove your web site please let us know so the link can be given to someone else who wants it.

(10). Its free. Of course you might want to buy a low frequency antenna (part number: A21T-150K-530K-BP) or a large ferrite rod (part number: VFR-27T) if you wind your own antenna so you can hear weak signals but a purchase is not required to participate in the club.

(11). Recordings should be free of computer hiss noise and other undesired local home-appliance generated noise (light dimmer buzzing, power line hum, etc). Everyone will thank you!!!!

General Purpose:

To collect sounds of radio between 1000 Hertz to 530 KHz from different locations across the USA and share them online, forming a useful collective of what can be heard below 530 KHz from various locations.

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