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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: YHWH 9600 kHz AM AUgust 26 2014 0326 UTC

« on: August 26, 2014, 0403 UTC »

0402
Very weak reception. I can hear voice fading in and out amongst noise.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: YHWH 11590 kHz AM August 21 2014 1643

« on: August 21, 2014, 1737 UTC »

1700utc
Barely fades in now and then on skyloop. Same with vertical 1/4 wavelength longwire.
On usb the tone fades in and out.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: XLR8 6930 USB 0200z 8/21/14

« on: August 21, 2014, 0308 UTC »

0304utc
Electronic music now. With some guitar?
Very quiet reception over the noise floor. I'm using a noise canceler.  
First pirate in a while! Thanks XLR8. The sun goes down earlier here now. 809pm now.

0331
Angry sounding lead singer.
I switched the polarity on my antenna and my reception doubled to a 2 overall.
SINPO
15342

0336
Punkish music
ID in deep voice sounded like 2 sylables. "___ radio".

Intermittent interference from a utility that I'm pretty sure is on 6930.

0340
"ex el arr ate" ID

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID noises on 6945 USB 8/14/14 0048z

« on: August 15, 2014, 0229 UTC »

I didn't see the part about the organ. Could it be a leslie sound effect? I had an organ with that effect.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID noises on 6945 USB 8/14/14 0048z

« on: August 15, 2014, 0228 UTC »

I hear it pretty good. It sounds like undulating old computer sound effects.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Wolverine Radio 6940 USB 0113 UTC 10 AUG 2014

« on: August 10, 2014, 0219 UTC »

SINPO
15342

Thanks Wolverine!

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: KCPR 6925 USB 0303 UTC 08 AUG 2014

« on: August 09, 2014, 0413 UTC »

I came back from a walk and found a station with cowboy music and great reception.
CW identification.
CCR
0409utc SSTV (I didn't capture it)

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Other / Re: Interesting ham communication set for tomorrow, July 30, 2014, 1600utc

« on: July 30, 2014, 1634 UTC »

Hey srfpunk138, did you hear them?

14347
1604utc
Hawaii and Vancouver? were on again. VA7BGK? and VA7HJG? not sure about their call signs.
The noise with my skyloop was too loud for Vancouver so I went ran to my vertical magic wand in the back yard and then I could hear them both great. 
Hawaii is now 60mi from the islands and there is no wind. The sun rose for him 10min prior. He sees no other boats, just birds. Vancouver recommended he calibrate his digital barometer. 
HAwaii doesn't think he'll make it by tonight. they plan to talk again tonight prob. around 0400utc like last night.

I just remembered last night Hawaii was talking of using a sextant with stars.  I wonder if its his main form of navigating because today he said he looks forward to looking out the window and seeing islands so he knows he's in the right place and not somewhere in the middle of the ocean.

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Other / Interesting ham communication set for tomorrow, July 30, 2014, 1600utc

« on: July 30, 2014, 0458 UTC »

Just now on 14347usb at 0400utc I heard some ham-sters. One guy was on a boat 117mi from Hawaii getting the weather forecast from a Vancouver guy. Then Vancouver introduced Hawaii to North Dakota guy and they talked. Hawaii at first was difficult to hear but then he was very good as well as Vancouver and N. Dakota. 
So Vancouver and Hawaii plan to talk tomorrow morning at 1600utc.  I assume around the same frequency.

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Equipment / Antenna noise canceler/ phaser diversity combiner

« on: July 27, 2014, 2113 UTC »

I got a JPS ANC-4 (the same as a timewave ANC-4).  I want to use it as a diversity combiner.  I have attached 2 vertical wires 71feet apart (1/2 wavelength for 6925mhz).  So theoretically I can now steer a reception pattern that look like a figure eight. Do I have this correct?

Can anybody point me in the right direction on information on how to operate the thing?
Thanks.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Unid SSTV 6940 USB 7/27/2014 0318z

« on: July 27, 2014, 0406 UTC »

I heard it here but the 'puter didn't 'put it even when I forced reception. 

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Wolverine Radio 6940 USB 01:55 UTC 07/27/2014

« on: July 27, 2014, 0244 UTC »

Hello Wolverine, I missed your last shows but I caught you today!
0233utc

I heard some California Dreamin' and an ID some minutes ago.
I'm enjoying the music as I clean my fingernails.
 
SINPO
45343

Signal is borderline 3/4. Noise is 3 because of the atmospheric noise thats been plaguing me this month. Cutting through pretty good despite daylight and noise.
I see some activity on 6940mhz on the Twente SDR waterfall. Edit: You can be heard pretty good on the Twente SDR! Thanks for representing North America in the pirate radio scene.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: LODE Radio 6930 USB 1:17 utc July 26 2014

« on: July 26, 2014, 0216 UTC »

0215
I could make out a woody woodpecker laugh. 

Its difficult to tune in the usb.  The sun is still up and reception is better than 30min ago.

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Equipment / Re: Preamplifier uses

« on: July 19, 2014, 2347 UTC »

My controls are:
gain
delay
band
tune

I don't know what delay does.

I read that smallish receiving loops need a preamplifier. Is this the same kind of preamplifier that the loops use?

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: YHWH now 15655khz 2303 in progress 7/19

« on: July 19, 2014, 2331 UTC »

2329utc
I have nothing here.

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