Welcome to SWL with The Tech Prepper

This is the companion site for Shortwave Listening with The Tech Prepper.

This site is used to distribute challenges, clues, and additional material for listeners following along on shortwave broadcast.

Episode 5: S2 Underground

    WBCQ 7490 kHz
    Sunday, July 26th, 2026 at 10:00 PM Eastern
    
    WRMI 9455 kHz
    Thursday, July 30th, 2026 at 11:00 PM Eastern
  

Episode 4: Isaac Botkin

    WRMI 9455 kHz
    Thursday, June 25th, 2026 at 11:00 PM Eastern
  

Episode 3: Seth King (Armoloq)

    WRMI 9455 kHz
    Thursday, May 28th, 2026 at 11:00 PM Eastern
  

Episode 2: Allan Weiner

    WRMI 9455 kHz
    Thursday, April 23th, 2026 at 11:00 PM Eastern
  

Episode 1: John Jacob Schmidt

    WRMI 9455 kHz
    Thursday, March 26th, 2026 at 11:00 PM Eastern
  

A code was transmitted during Episode 1.

On this page there is an image that uses steganography.

Download the image and use the steghide command to decipher the message hidden in the image.

Your objective is to recover the hidden message and follow the instructions.

Hints:

1. Install steghide:

   sudo apt install steghide

2. Extract secret:

   steghide extract -sf IMAGE