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North American Shortwave Pirate / UNID 6925 USB 1141 UTC 9 Jan 2016

« on: January 09, 2016, 1258 UTC »

Signed on with water droplet sound effects - Moonlight Radio?
Into instrumental music. SIO 333.
Off at 1148.

9062

North American Shortwave Pirate / Radio Azteca 6900 A 2240 UTC 8 Jan 2016

« on: January 08, 2016, 2241 UTC »

About an SIO 444. Mailbag program.

9063

HF Beacons / Remote listening to beacons 8 Jan 2016

« on: January 08, 2016, 1229 UTC »

Since I can't presently seem to hear the west coast beacons here, I used the Mojave Desert online radio this morning, starting around 1145z. Here's what I heard:

2008.42  Dasher, strong, seems to start and stop, not sure if this is the beacon or just propagation
2018.29  Dasher, very weak
2097.30  A - Very strong
4094.50  X
4095.94  "Viking" good signal
4096.29  "Hexie" presumed, appeared at 1428z.
4096.38  "Haystack"  good signal
4096.56   "Kelsie" extremely weak, only just barely there
4096.85   Fast dits, fairly weak, "Marin Dit" ??
4097.70   Weak, but a dasher of some sort. Who could this be? It is stronger now at 1445z and seems to be a carrier, so perhaps QRM?

I tried for Coxie on 4096.0, but not heard.

Interesting how much can be heard out there. I logged several beacons above that I've never heard here.

9064

North American Shortwave Pirate / UNID 6935 USB 2355 USB 7 Jan 2016

« on: January 07, 2016, 2356 UTC »

Some soft music heard.

9065

North American Shortwave Pirate / Cold Country Canada 6969 LSB 2256 UTC 7 Jan 2016

« on: January 07, 2016, 2256 UTC »

About an SIO 444.

9066

North American Shortwave Pirate / XFM 7530 AM 2114 UTC 7 Jan 2016

« on: January 07, 2016, 2115 UTC »

Sounds like a relay of an older XFM show, solid SIO 555 here.

9067

North American Shortwave Pirate / Soft Rock Radio relay 6925 AM 1553 UTC 7 Jan 2016

« on: January 07, 2016, 1553 UTC »

"American Pie" at tune in, SIO 322.
IDs for Soft Rock Radio, which you can hear as streaming audio on the web.

9068

10/11 meters / Some 10 meter beacons 1530 UTC 7 Jan 2016

« on: January 07, 2016, 1550 UTC »

I heard a few 10m beacons from down south while checking out 11 meters. Most fairly weak:

28217.15   N5MIG    helena, AR
28280.06   K5AB     Goldthwaite TX
28285.77   WA4ROX Largo, FL
28291.73   K5TLJ    Trumann AR
28298.45   K5TLL    Hattiesburg MS
28300.24   KF4MS   Tallahassee FL

9069

Other / Dits 6619.2 0107 UTC 7 Jan 2016

« on: January 07, 2016, 0109 UTC »

I am getting some occasional dits on about 6619.2 kHz. Not sure if this is a beacon, or something else.

I noticed this while looking for the beacons around 6626 that I have never heard.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Moonlight Radio 6935 USB 2338 UTC 6 Jan 2016

« on: January 06, 2016, 2338 UTC »

Instrumental music, about an SIO 333.
CW 0011z with VVV, shifted down 1 kHz just after the VVV, then MOONLIGHT RADIO ID.

9071

General Radio Discussion / Addendum: Shortwave Pirate Radio 2015 – A Year In Review

« on: January 06, 2016, 2108 UTC »

I just posted an addendum to the year in review article: http://hfunderground.com/blog/?p=493

This is an updated list of the ratios of reports to logging threads, suggested by Richard Blaine of Radio Casablanca. The previous list only included stations with 11 or more threads (broadcasts), this list has all stations, even those with just one logging thread. There's a substantial difference at the top. Thanks for the suggestion, Richard!

9072

Clandestine Stations / Voice of the People 6518//6600 1225 UTC 6 Jan 2016

« on: January 06, 2016, 1230 UTC »

A very good signal this morning on 6600, not quite as strong on 6518, or maybe there is more jamming.

9073

European Pirates and Private Stations / Radio Anthony Poland 6265 USB 2106 UTC 5 Jan 2016

« on: January 05, 2016, 2207 UTC »

Weak, but getting music and talk, SIO 222.

Good for just 20 watts!

9074

HF Beacons / Some 13.56 MHz Beacons 1800 UTC 5 Jan 2016

« on: January 05, 2016, 1806 UTC »

MTI 13557.53
GNK 13563.98
H     13558.22 - New one for me, I can't seem to find any references to it online. Apparently there was an HI on 13558 about a decade ago.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Cold Country Canada 6969 LSB 0114 UTC 5 Jan 2016

« on: January 05, 2016, 0114 UTC »

About an SIO 333.