Last night I took my shortwave radio and ghetto random-wire antenna outside to see what I could hear. I threw the antenna on the roof and got to listening. I was able to find a ton of stations that were broadcasting out of Asia and Australia!
Everything was going great until I found a creepy station on 8140 khz. This was a numbers station.
People think these stations are to relay information to spies out in the field. You can read more about it here
Thanks to my Cellphone, I was able to capture a short video of this station.
Here is same broadcast I found, but on another freq.
Pretty creepy stuff huh? Shortwave radio is a fun (but very nerdy) hobby!
Wednesday, September 12, 2007
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
9/11 and the Bascom station bomb scare.
Today was like any other day. Take the light-rail, go to class and take the light-rail back. I really didn't think much about the 2973 people that lost their lives back in 2001.
Those memories came flooding back when it was anoounced over the intercom that the Bascom station was closed down due to police activity in the area. I quickly pulled my phone out and went to the Mercury News website to see what was going on.
I guess there was something suspicious left at the station and the police didn't want to risk it. So the station and line was closed at Fruitdale and all the passengers (myself included) had to hoof it over to a bus and have them drive us around the closed station.
Since 9/11 our country has changed. We are now more alert than ever when it comes to potential terrorist attacks. Hell, even the light-rail and bus system will tell passengers every few minutes to mind for unattended (read: possible bombs/ biological weapons.) items.
Many terrorists like to target public transportation due to the light security and large groups of people. I would say in San Jose the people riding mass transit are the most at risk for such an attack. I hope that taking the light-rail instead of buying a 200 dollar parking permit doesn't cost me my life.
Those memories came flooding back when it was anoounced over the intercom that the Bascom station was closed down due to police activity in the area. I quickly pulled my phone out and went to the Mercury News website to see what was going on.
I guess there was something suspicious left at the station and the police didn't want to risk it. So the station and line was closed at Fruitdale and all the passengers (myself included) had to hoof it over to a bus and have them drive us around the closed station.
Since 9/11 our country has changed. We are now more alert than ever when it comes to potential terrorist attacks. Hell, even the light-rail and bus system will tell passengers every few minutes to mind for unattended (read: possible bombs/ biological weapons.) items.
Many terrorists like to target public transportation due to the light security and large groups of people. I would say in San Jose the people riding mass transit are the most at risk for such an attack. I hope that taking the light-rail instead of buying a 200 dollar parking permit doesn't cost me my life.
Monday, September 10, 2007
blogging on the go
Well I am trying out how well blogger works on on phone. So far the interface loads very slowly on my top end pocket pc. It seems like there is a way to text message blogs to blogger but why pay the text fee? Blogger needs a better mobile website. I am just glad it even works. It is pretty cool to write this as I am on the lightrail. I wonder how well it works on the iphone...
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)
