{FireArm} wrote:

In regard to the last post about the voice of america getting jammed,
i was wondering if anyone could explain too me how jamming is achived
by countries and why they do it -

Jamming is achieved by placing another transmitter on the frequency and
either playing noise, such was with the case of the Radio Marti
transmission, or by simply playing another program.

Why? because the country doing the jamming does not want their people to
hear the program that is being jammed.



I am very new to the hobby of shortwave radio, i have just bought a
cheap portable radio and I am fascinated by how much I can recieve! -
I have in the past listened to shortwave on my IC-R5 (radio scanner) -
but because its not a dedicated reciver i had lots of trouble picking
anything up despite having an outside antenna -

Thanx
{FireArm}