251 - Searching, Seeking, and Finding Anomalies with Radio McRadioface

Do you know how to find Pirates, Anomalies, and odd transmissions? Our guest today, “Radio McRadioface” hunts out these transmissions from his location just outside of Washington DC. He is always tuning around looking for interesting transmission and keeping logs on what he is finding.  McRadioface’s setup is a bit extreme, but today he will share how anyone can have fun logging these oddball transmissions with equipment you already own at home. What You Need To Know Radio McRadioface became interested in radio when he was a kid.  The love for all things radio and his setup has become what would rival a professional-level shop. His goal is to log everything he can hear and pickup with his radio setup. One of his favorite things to hunt on the radio are Pirate Radio Stations. These stations typically operate unlicensed in the SWL band. Another recent hit of his has been listening to Russian forces testing out Radar Arrays. In the recent past, McRadioface has logged very interesting communications around the Washington DC area in the VHF and UHF spectrum. Many of these transmissions are received via SDR, which makes it easy to replay at a later date to review what might have been received overnight. Learning what users might be on a particular frequency and figuring out who they are and what they are doing is part of the fun. ==================================== 🔗 Links from this week's podcast (Some of these links may be affiliate links) ==================================== Radio McRadioFace on Twitter: https://twitter.com/mcradioface ==================================== 🎙 Join our new Scanner Radio Community ==================================== Join our FREE Discord server and connect with other Scanner Radio Users! By using Discord, a free, multi-platform community portal, you can now be part of the Scanner Radio Discussion! Chat real time, share photos, ask questions, and give feedback to other's in chat. 🔗 https://www.scannerschool.com/discord ==================================== 🎓 Check out our online courses ==================================== Our free Software Defined Radio course will have you up and running with a SDR in a weekend. Upgrade to our Advanced Course, and learn how to setup SDR Software like a pro. 🔗 https://www.courses.scannerschool.com ==================================== ⚠️ I want to answer your questions ==================================== I am always looking to answer your scanner radio question. If you have a question you'd like answered, please leave me a voicemail with your question: 📞 516-308-2885 🔗 https://www.scannerschool.com/ask ==================================== 🏆 Thank you Patreon Supporters ==================================== Thank you to all monthly Patreon Supporters. Supporting the podcast can be done for as little as $1 per month. Supporters at the $3 and $5 level will receive the podcast without the middle commercial break. Supporters at the $5 level not only receive the podcast early, but they also get access to discount codes, monthly zoom meetings, and Squelchy sticker packs. 🔗 Join our Patreon program at https://www.scannerschool.com/patreon ==================================== 🎥 Subscribe to our growing YouTube Channel ==================================== We are live once a month on YouTube to answer your questions. 2022 will be the year of Video for Scanner School Be ready for the upcoming videos by subscribing now to our YouTube channel 🔗 https://www.scannerschool.com/youtube ==================================== ➡️ Follow Scanner School on Social Media ==================================== ▶︎ Twitter - https://www.scannerschool.com/twitter ▶︎ Facebook Page - https://www.scannerschool.com/facebook ▶︎ Facebook Community - https://www.scannerschool.com/faceboo... ▶︎ Instagram - https://www.scannerschool.com/instagram ▶︎ TikTok - https://www.scannerschool.com/tiktok ==================================== All session notes with links to the items we talked about can be found on our website at https://www.scannerschool.com/session251 #podcast