Hey, anybody here know anything about how (what gear) to go about scanning the freq’s to see if I can hear these dudes when they’re mixin it up? They do it not too far offshore (there’s a Warning area there).
FWIW, I’m diving into SDR (software defined radio?) - stretching my geek legs a bit more.
Can’t beat the entry price; if it doesn’t work then I’m only out about 40 bucks US.
https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B011HVUEME/ref=ppx_od_dt_b_asin_title_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
See this YT
Carry on.
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Oh HELLZ ya! I’ve been a radio nut since I was a kid! My neighbor/friend’s dad was an electronics engineer and built all sorts of stuff for him including a morse code decoder back in the day … what, forty years ago! 
This tech looks way more inexpensive. 
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I wish you guys would stop forcing me to spend money on stuff that I don’t need but really, really want 
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I have my amateur radio license from waaay back in the day. I also have a lot of my father’s Ham radio equipment in the basement and have been meaning to take a look at setting it up - but there’s a lot to that and I am very out of date. Been looking at SDR for a few years but too many other hobbies are vying of my time at the moment
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Nice! I started going down the rabbit hole today …
So many acronyms LOL!
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Any vacuum tubes? I love those things, mostly because they go in guitar amplifiers, and I remember as a kid staring into my dad’s Telefunken console, watching the tubes glow. They are seriously cool (very hot actually).
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That’s how you know it’s a cool hobby! 
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Yeah I can’t wait; mine sitting in my porch waiting for me to get back next week 
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