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Author Topic: Radio True North 0553 UTC 6924.8 AM  (Read 454 times)
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« on: July 12, 2012, 0455 UTC »

Great signal tonight into Northwest Oregon on the dipole at 0553 UTC.  Signal is S9 with some fading.  Not sure of the music but very mysterious sounding to me.  Great job and take care RTN!

Thanks for the free radio!
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« Reply #1 on: July 12, 2012, 0457 UTC »

Pretty weak here with lots of t-storm noise, but I have decent audio making it here.
Thanks for the show, RTN!
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« Reply #2 on: July 12, 2012, 0508 UTC »

Playing the album The Man Machine by Kraftwerk.  This made my night infinitely more awesome. Smiley

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man-Machine

Here's some info?  Smiley

Caught at end of The Robots, intro of Spacelab. Cheesy
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« Reply #3 on: July 12, 2012, 0517 UTC »

Playing the album The Man Machine by Kraftwerk.  This made my night infinitely more awesome. Smiley

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man-Machine

Here's some info?  Smiley

Caught at end of The Robots, intro of Spacelab. Cheesy

Never would have guessed that, thank you!
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« Reply #4 on: July 12, 2012, 0536 UTC »

Playing the album The Man Machine by Kraftwerk.  This made my night infinitely more awesome. Smiley

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Man-Machine

Here's some info?  Smiley

Caught at end of The Robots, intro of Spacelab. Cheesy

Never would have guessed that, thank you!

Welcome Smiley He was playing Robots and Spacelab, which is a great clue.  Sign off at 0536 UTC Smiley
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« Reply #5 on: July 12, 2012, 1139 UTC »

Recorder catch:

Rx parked on 6925 USB mode SIO 333

Good signal with some fading, unfortunately was offtuned from tx frequency a bit south of the dial.  Caught Radio True North's ID - you can hear the 'sound effects' station in the background.

05:01z Radio True North voice ID (thnx for the clarification JF & RTN! Smiley )

Audio(05:01z-05:04z): http://archive.org/download/ShortwavePirateRadioCont/RadioTrueNorthUnid6925Am-usb0501z-0504z07-12-12.mp3

Thanks RTN! Smiley
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« Reply #6 on: July 12, 2012, 1355 UTC »

Carrier signed on at 0406 with electronic music. Weak signal at first, then much stronger periods starting around 0417z (unless it was really another station that came on, difficult to tell. The signal strength changes were very abrupt, not what I would expect from fading). Off at 0536z.
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« Reply #7 on: July 12, 2012, 1511 UTC »

I wasn't sure which thread to post this under, but this is the full audio file containing both the 'effects' station and Radio True North's broadcast:

Audio(04:07z-05:35z): http://archive.org/download/ShortwaveOddsSodsTransmissions/Unid_soundEffectPirateRadioTrueNorth6925Usb0407z-0535z07-12-12.mp3
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« Reply #8 on: July 12, 2012, 2144 UTC »

12 July 2012

My overnight recording is very confusing.  At a minimum, there were at least two things on at any given time until around 0600, one of them being the spooky noise which was very loud here at times.  I was also off-tuned it seems by a country mile.  At times it seemed liked there were three things on, and recreating a solid timeline of what was going on...I gave up.

I'm curious about the CW around 0501.  I have never had the chance to hear extended CW from RTN, and I am wondering if this was actually him.  Here in Chicago the CW was much louder than both RTN and the spooky noise.  Hopefully he can clarify this for me if he has the time.

The copy I got has 6 CW repetitions, all of them being the word "RADIOACTIVITY", except for the 4th, which sounds like "RUNEIOACTIVITY".  You can hear an RTN ID after the 1st rep.

Thanks!

Audio:    http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?ph6egv5jzapbdja


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« Reply #9 on: July 13, 2012, 0137 UTC »

Hi guys.  Yes was a very interesting night.  I was monitoring my signal via a online web rx and heard the whales station behind mine.  As for the CW that was not me.  Dont think I played Radioactivity.  It was somebody else.  Very interesting anyway and thanks for all your reports.
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« Reply #10 on: July 13, 2012, 0143 UTC »

Thanks for the clarification, RTN!
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Joe Farley
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« Reply #11 on: July 13, 2012, 0157 UTC »

BTW, I checked my recording and the sig was really pretty good here. Unfortunately, I had the receiver in USB and I was mistuned by about 200 Hz or so. In all, the recording was unusable, but I could tell that the signal was at least fair here. Too bad I didn't do a little better job with the radio! :O)
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« Reply #12 on: July 13, 2012, 1102 UTC »

BTW, I checked my recording and the sig was really pretty good here. Unfortunately, I had the receiver in USB and I was mistuned by about 200 Hz or so. In all, the recording was unusable, but I could tell that the signal was at least fair here. Too bad I didn't do a little better job with the radio! :O)

Jeez Andrew, you're such a slacker with all this pirate stuff! Wink
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