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Author Topic: Old Time Pirate off the air?  (Read 2523 times)

JoeFLIPS

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Old Time Pirate off the air?
« on: May 19, 2015, 0135 UTC »
Either conditions are bad or Old Time Pirate is off the air. Not even a carrier detected here but now there are peskies on 6770 USB.
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oly1959

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Re: Old Time Pirate off the air?
« Reply #1 on: May 19, 2015, 0227 UTC »
Same here JoeFLIPS. Not even a carrier at 0225. Got to be a first. :)
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Offline clobdell

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Re: Old Time Pirate off the air?
« Reply #2 on: May 19, 2015, 0231 UTC »
Most likely down for scheduled maintenance.
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Re: Old Time Pirate off the air?
« Reply #3 on: May 19, 2015, 1512 UTC »
Nothing heard here at 1512z.
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Re: Old Time Pirate off the air?
« Reply #4 on: May 19, 2015, 2257 UTC »
I was able to tune them in in ssb, but they were way down in the muck. That was roughly 2:00 UTC.  Some AM audio had popped up when I checked around 5:30 utc, but it wasn't worth the hearing loss to brave the static with headphones.

Best reception was just above 6969 khz.
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