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Loggings => North American Shortwave Pirate => Topic started by: Jolly Roger on August 05, 2012, 0359 UTC

Title: Somebody on 6930AM
Post by: Jolly Roger on August 05, 2012, 0359 UTC
Hearing someone on 6930. Not strong enough for an ID but I can hear faint announcer and music.
Title: Re: Somebody on 6930AM
Post by: ChrisSmolinski on August 05, 2012, 1325 UTC
Noted here as well on the SDR recording, from before 0400 until 0602 sign off.
Title: Re: Somebody on 6930AM
Post by: BOR on August 05, 2012, 1923 UTC
That would have been me, Blue Ocean Radio. I was testing out an AM transmitter and relaying a show by CoolAM, a European pirate. I was only running 25 watts to my G5RV and I don't think condx were all that great. I was hearing myself on some western remotes quite well though. Fall is coming, I have a solution to the low power situation on the way and some ideas for improving my antenna system so, hopefully, you should be hearing better signals from BOR (AM) very soon. Thanks for the reports...cheers to all!!
Title: Re: Somebody on 6930AM
Post by: Pigmeat on August 05, 2012, 2039 UTC
If you've got the room,a dipole cut to frequency, will easily outperform that G5RV,w/ your current low power set-up.

Even set up inverted "V" style,the dipole will knock the G5RV in the creek.
Title: Re: Somebody on 6930AM
Post by: DavidB on August 06, 2012, 1527 UTC
That would have been me, Blue Ocean Radio. I was testing out an AM transmitter and relaying a show by CoolAM, a European pirate. I was only running 25 watts to my G5RV and I don't think condx were all that great. I was hearing myself on some western remotes quite well though. Fall is coming, I have a solution to the low power situation on the way and some ideas for improving my antenna system so, hopefully, you should be hearing better signals from BOR (AM) very soon. Thanks for the reports...cheers to all!!

You put an incredible stunning signal out to the Cascade Mountains of Washington state. S-9 to 20 over as received on my Icom R75 and tuned random wire. I recorded about 75 minutes of audio and hope to upload it to my web site this week as time allows.
Title: Re: Somebody on 6930AM
Post by: BOR on August 06, 2012, 1754 UTC
That would have been me, Blue Ocean Radio. I was testing out an AM transmitter and relaying a show by CoolAM, a European pirate. I was only running 25 watts to my G5RV and I don't think condx were all that great. I was hearing myself on some western remotes quite well though. Fall is coming, I have a solution to the low power situation on the way and some ideas for improving my antenna system so, hopefully, you should be hearing better signals from BOR (AM) very soon. Thanks for the reports...cheers to all!!

You put an incredible stunning signal out to the Cascade Mountains of Washington state. S-9 to 20 over as received on my Icom R75 and tuned random wire. I recorded about 75 minutes of audio and hope to upload it to my web site this week as time allows.

Thanks for that...it more or less confirms what I thought that skip was pretty short that night. I'd be very interested in hearing the audio if you do get a chance to post it. Cheers....BOR
Title: Re: Somebody on 6930AM
Post by: DavidB on August 08, 2012, 0450 UTC

Thanks for that...it more or less confirms what I thought that skip was pretty short that night. I'd be very interested in hearing the audio if you do get a chance to post it. Cheers....BOR

I'd be happy to, here it is!

http://blackcap.name/audio/pirate/Blue_Ocean_Radio_20120804.mp3 (http://blackcap.name/audio/pirate/Blue_Ocean_Radio_20120804.mp3)
Title: Re: Somebody on 6930AM
Post by: BOR on August 08, 2012, 1531 UTC

Thanks for that...it more or less confirms what I thought that skip was pretty short that night. I'd be very interested in hearing the audio if you do get a chance to post it. Cheers....BOR

I'd be happy to, here it is!

http://blackcap.name/audio/pirate/Blue_Ocean_Radio_20120804.mp3 (http://blackcap.name/audio/pirate/Blue_Ocean_Radio_20120804.mp3)

Thanks very much for posting that audio, David. It's obvious to me from listening to it that there are no audio issues with the AM transmitter. I might look at boosting the highs a bit more. In a week or so I will have the capability to increase my power output to about 200 watts so that should help with the signal strength. Best regards.....BOR