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North American Shortwave Pirate / Yeah Man Radio 6925 AM 1845z February 29 2020

« on: February 29, 2020, 1847 UTC »

Very weak signal here with music.

AT 1851 signal got stronger and was able to make out some shout outs to HFU posters.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / WREC 6930 USB 1900 UTC 23 Feb 2020

« on: February 23, 2020, 1904 UTC »

Music weak in the noise.

Thanks for the shout-out and the ID.

558

General Radio Discussion / Technician's Special

« on: February 21, 2020, 2054 UTC »

I can't believe that there would be anything left at all.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/02/19/us/salvage-company-titanic-radio/index.html

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QSLs Received / Radio 48 QSL

« on: February 17, 2020, 0009 UTC »

Received this nice QSL today. Thanks for the QSL and show Radio 48.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Skippy Radio 6930 USB 2359 UTC 16 Feb 2020

« on: February 17, 2020, 0004 UTC »

Strong signal with music tonight.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Heavy Metal Shortwave 6935 USB 2212 UTC 14 Feb 2020

« on: February 14, 2020, 2216 UTC »

Have heavy metal music right now. Strong signal.

Received an email response from the operator who verified the station name.

562

General Radio Discussion / What are they thinking?

« on: February 01, 2020, 2142 UTC »

I’m not sure what to think of this.

My wife and I were off to see our grandson play basketball and DX Engineering just happened to be about 10 miles off course so we left home early to check out what was in the store. I specifically wanted to tune around on an Icom R8600. The ham radio station is in the back of the store so I walked in there and asked if I could tune around on their operating R8600 and the clerk said sure. I thought great; and then he said that there was no antenna hooked up to the receiver. “What in the hell”! So as I gazed at all the ham transceivers that were on and I wondered if they were hooked up to the big %&* antenna on the roof he said “well you can’t hear anything in the store anyway”.

I did spend about three to four minutes checking the display and menu on the “dead” receiver and walked away. Not sure what they are thinking about having the radio with no antenna attached to it. Well if I ever really get serious about buying one I know where I won’t get it. 

563

General Radio Discussion / Short story about WWV and WWVH

« on: January 26, 2020, 1615 UTC »

Short article in The Washington Post.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/these-radio-stations-dont-play-news-talk-shows-or-music-but-they-do-broadcast-very-very-accurate-time-signals/2020/01/24/3d322946-3d3e-11ea-baca-eb7ace0a3455_story.html

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North American Shortwave Pirate / WREC 6955 USB 2140 UTC 24 January 2020

« on: January 24, 2020, 2140 UTC »

Nice signal playing music on 6955.
Barracuda Man?

565

QSLs Received / Radio 48 QSL

« on: January 19, 2020, 2304 UTC »

Got this great QSL today for last nights broadcast. Thank you radio Humperdoo for relaying the broadcast.

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Huh? / I'm so lucky

« on: January 14, 2020, 0058 UTC »

I'm so lucky to be married to a person with such a great sense of humor. I recently purchased a refurbished Whistler scanner, it is their basic model but useful for going out side and working in the yard while listening to my local police, still VHF and not encrypted, and if it rains or something falls on it no great loss. Anyway, after I opened the box it came in my wife said "I think that five scanners is enough". And she was able to say it with a straight face. Well we passed that five scanner limit several decades ago so the joke is on her. 

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North American Shortwave Pirate / UNID 6930 USB 0402 UTC 5 Janaury 2020

« on: January 05, 2020, 0408 UTC »

Had two SSTV images broadcast and into talk. The images were the same the first on in Scottie 2 and the second in Scottie 2:

Just rechecked my SSTV images and there was only one image broadcast at 0401z, Scottie 1. Not sure what I was smoking thinking there were two.



Found this image on MMSSTV must have been when I took the dog out, B/W 12 at 0429z



B/W 12 at 0443z:

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Zeke's Attic 4245 USB 0120 UTC 1 OCT 2018

« on: January 01, 2020, 0122 UTC »

Good signal no ID but believe it to be Zeke's Attic.
Solid ID at 0124z. Zeke's Attic Radio

569

Huh? / The Bermuda Triangle?

« on: December 29, 2019, 0021 UTC »

2019-12-29 00:12:19> ZCZC BA01
2019-12-29 00:12:20> BERMUDA RADIO
2019-12-29 00:12:23> 010119 0001Z
2019-12-29 00:12:30> DUE TO THE DANGER OF STRANDING ON THE REEFS FRINGING
2019-12-29 00:12:38> BERMUDA AND FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION, THE
2019-12-29 00:12:45>  INTERNATIONAL MARITIME ORGANISATION (I.M.O) HAS
2019-12-29 00:12:53> ESTABLISHED AN AREA TO BE AVOIDED AROUND THE BERMUDA
2019-12-29 00:13:02> ISLANDS. THE AREA TO BE AVOIDED APPLIES TO ALL VESSELS
2019-12-29 00:13:11> CARRYING OIL OR HAZARDOUS MATERIALS, AND ALL OTHER VESSELS
2019-12-29 00:13:19> EXCEEDING 1000GRT WHETHER OR NOT BOUND FOR BERMUDA PORTS.
2019-12-29 00:13:27>  VESSELS NOT CALLING AT BERMUDA ARE ADVISED TO KEEP A
2019-12-29 00:13:32> MINIMUM OF 30 MILES DISTANT.
2019-12-29 00:13:32>
2019-12-29 00:13:32>
2019-12-29 00:13:33> NNNN

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Damn Skippy 6925 USB 0417 UTC 25 DEC 2019

« on: December 25, 2019, 0421 UTC »

Christmas songs, at 0420 playing Yellow Snow.

A couple of SSTV images were sent before the music started.

Scottie 2 at 0410z:



Scottie 2 at 0412z:



Scottie 2 at 0424z:



Scottie 2 at 0427z:



Scottie 2 at 0433z:



B/W 8 at 0436z:



B/W 8 at 0436z:



B/W 8 at 0436z:



Scottie 2 at 0437z: