https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGSADQ06KYY

Received using about 5m of random wire connected to Ext Antenna socket (as the telescopic antenna on this G3 is a bit knackered, and I’d built an adaptor lead (3.5mm mono jack plug to Euro telly antenna connector so i could use the Band II antenna on the roof of my house (or others in better positions) for monitoring VHF when there is tropo.

HF reception is patchy in my house until late night due to high levels of QRM from electric cables (the 400V service cables to most of the surrounding houses run parallel to my house, and the substation with 11 000V trafo is just behind my garden.Plus there is a larger number of electronic devices in my house than some others, such as an entire telephone exchange in the roof space, network switches, a NAS and all sorts else. Any HF radio will only get a half decent signal with a local battery and no connection to mains protective earth at any point, or all the noise gets in too
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This relic from the Cold War era is still going strong (there have recently been some messages sent on it, around the same time everything kicked off in UA), they have been linked on Soundcloud (it would be pointers to encrypted stuff anyway)

Added to which my Russian language skills are limited, I did try to learn it in the 1980s (but found it too difficult, as it has both the complex grammar of Latin and a different alphabet!).

I grew up just outside Reading, SE England, very near where lots of people did (and still do) listen to what is in the airwaves using rather more sophisticated setups than this, and you could earn a good living translating content in Russian and other similar languages….€