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European Pirates and Private Stations / Re: Studio 52 6390 AM 1935 utc 27 July 2019

« on: July 27, 2019, 1947 UTC »

Alice Cooper at 1945 followed by Paranoid.

Decent signal but a lot of crashes.

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European Pirates and Private Stations / Re: Sunshine Radio - 7700 AM 1921 UTC 26 July 2019

« on: July 26, 2019, 2222 UTC »

It was FRSH on a test in readiness for Sunday's broadcast. The Sunshine jingles should not have aired. The engineer has been horsewhipped for his incompetence.

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European Pirates and Private Stations / Re: Sunshine Radio - 7700 AM 1921 UTC 26 July 2019

« on: July 26, 2019, 2000 UTC »

Some idiot forgot to remove the Sunshine jingles from the playout system 

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European Pirates and Private Stations / Re: European pirates heard in the U.S?

« on: July 25, 2019, 2103 UTC »

Are there any European pirates heard in the U.S on any regular basis? Thanks

Some are. A regular check of this forum is your best bet to see who is being received.

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Broadcast Announcements / FRSH test

« on: July 25, 2019, 1346 UTC »

I've heard a rumour that Free Radio Service Holland may be testing their transmitters on Friday evening in preparation for the Sunday broadcast. 7700 and 5800 Khz. 

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European Pirates and Private Stations / Re: Radio Merlin International raided?

« on: July 24, 2019, 2220 UTC »

No need for presuming the worst. They haven't said anything on FB to suggest a raid.

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Equipment / Re: Inverted V yagi aiming up into the sky

« on: July 24, 2019, 2109 UTC »

As an aside, I had to collect a relative from an airport a few years ago. We decided to do a bit of sightseeing on the way home and came across a strange antenna setup several miles from the airport. One seemed to be a "T" antenna mounted between utility poles and another was a yagi or log perodic pointing straight up towards the sky. I think I should have pics of them somewhere here on a hard drive. Finding them is another thing though.........

What you described sounds like an NDB (the T antenna between two utility poles) and a marker beacon for the second one. They're co-located so I'm guessing that's the probably the final approach fix for one of the runways at that airport.

This is one version of a marker beacon transmitter antenna:
https://i1.wp.com/s0.geograph.org.uk/photos/74/66/746699_4531334a.jpg


Which airport was it near?

Knock International Airport in the west of Ireland.

Searched my HDs but can't locate the pics, nor the location on Google Earth.

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European Pirates and Private Stations / unid 6338 AM 2005 UTC 24 July 2019

« on: July 24, 2019, 2007 UTC »

Good signal. Ella Fitzgerald - Every Time We say Goodbye.

2012 sudden off.

Checked again at 2100. Back on, slightly weaker, but I'm not going to listen for long knowing that the chance of hearing an ID is remote.

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European Pirates and Private Stations / Radio 319 6392 AM 1800 UTC 24 July 2019

« on: July 24, 2019, 1805 UTC »

Radio Mi Amigo recordings.
Clear ID at 1801.

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European Pirates and Private Stations / Re: Blue Moon Radio? 6850 AM 2230 UTC 18 July 2019

« on: July 19, 2019, 2101 UTC »

Slightly off topic but one of The Commitments was a neighbour of mine and I've imbibed with one or two other members of the so called group in  a local-ish pub.

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Equipment / Re: Directivity of HF dipoles

« on: July 19, 2019, 1751 UTC »

Personally I don't over analyse this things. I have 2 inverted Vs which are both approx 1/4 Lamba high and get out well into the target area. I have made small adjustments over the years and not really noticed any difference in pattern when checking the online SDRs.

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Equipment / Re: Inverted V yagi aiming up into the sky

« on: July 19, 2019, 1744 UTC »

Aiming up will give very short distance reception.
Also, think of the height of mast you would need for a properly spaced Yagi pointing upwards.  It would be impractical for me to do it anyways.

As an aside, I had to collect a relative from an airport a few years ago. We decided to do a bit of sightseeing on the way home and came across a strange antenna setup several miles from the airport. One seemed to be a "T" antenna mounted between utility poles and another was a yagi or log perodic pointing straight up towards the sky. I think I should have pics of them somewhere here on a hard drive. Finding them is another thing though.........

Nice thunder storm kicking off here now.

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European Pirates and Private Stations / Radio Sofaking 6225 AM 1935 UTC 14 July 2019

« on: July 14, 2019, 1938 UTC »

Weak, disturbed by ssb chatter.
Music, sounded like panpipes at first. Now different song but too weak to ID.



ID added by moderator Ray

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European Pirates and Private Stations / Re: Studio 52 6390 AM 1842 utc 13 Jul 2019

« on: July 13, 2019, 1940 UTC »

Good signal but annoying Morse.

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European Pirates and Private Stations / Re: Ofcom way of thinking about the law

« on: July 12, 2019, 1655 UTC »

Merlin taking a break from the airways for a while. He thinks he's being followed and there's an observation van at his transmitter site.