Jupiter radio

[Alfies]

So do I just need a radio with short wave band that picks up 20.1 mhz too listen too Jupiter can I get one off amazon

[wulfrun]

Jupiter doesn't broadcast on exactly 20.1MHz and you'll need an antenna dish pointed at it to receive radio waves from it, if you don't want to pick up everything else (mostly man-made). I'm fairly confident the answer is no, a simple SW radio won't work like that. I used to trawl the SW bands in the days when they were busier and never noticed any particular Jovian interference. Nowadays there's a lot less commercial use on SW but I still doubt it'll be so simple. There is a section on radio astronomy on here, you might get a better answer there?

EDIT: according to Wikipedia, decametric Jovian radio bursts were first picked up in 1955 on 22.2MHz

Edited December 28, 2020 by wulfrun