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General Radio Discussion / Re: Since Alex Jones got the boot from social media platforms.

« on: August 11, 2018, 2153 UTC »

A failed state to the immediate south.

More failures further south.

Billionaires willing to fund “migrant marches”.

Sympathizers at all levels of American society.

And no-shit Communists throughout much of the hemisphere.

Tinder in search of a spark.

Remember, it takes some form of socialist government to industrialise mass murder.

The Nazis weren't socialist, and neither were we.

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Shortwave Broadcast / Radio Exterior de España, 15520 kHz, 10 AUG 2018, 1758 UTC

« on: August 10, 2018, 1802 UTC »

REE is up on 15520 just ahead of their official sign on time of 1800 UTC. There is no interval. I've noticed in the past week or so that they've had no interval signal or announcement of broadcast times and frequencies lately. These are ordinarily heard 1755-1800 (start of transmission) and 2200-2205 (end). Instead it has just been unmodulated carrier.

Signal is fair today. Here in Colorado, I usually get this frequency well at first, but 17855 gets better as the afternoon progresses. (Mountain time is UTC -6 during DST.) Currently I see no transmission at all on 17855.

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Shortwave Broadcast / Re: Voice of Korea, 11710 kHz, 1300 UTC, 19 JULY 2018

« on: August 10, 2018, 1746 UTC »

I've been trying to VoK in English the past few days, without success, but I did catch a Korean transmission on 15180 at 1210 UTC yesterday, which I think might actually have been KCNA?

Eibi has it as "Voice of Korea KCBS." I'm not sure why that extra KCBS is added. Most transmission blocks of VOK include one hour of Korean, and they always call it this. I do know that there are some differences from other language broadcasts (they always finish with their national anthem, and I don't think they start with the same set of patriotic music as their other language hours.. also, it ends at :50 of the hour instead of :57) Also, the Korean language broadcast usually closes out a transmission. For example, 9435 and 11710 to North America starts at 1300 and ends at 1800, or more accurately 1750, with the last hour being the only one in Korean.

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General Radio Discussion / Re: So you were wondering about that annoying UTE 6920-6950 kHz...

« on: August 09, 2018, 1828 UTC »

Ha! You got me.

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General Radio Discussion / Re: So you were wondering about that annoying UTE 6920-6950 kHz...

« on: August 09, 2018, 1504 UTC »

What's a defrag?

Probably easier to link an article than try to explain in my own words.
https://www.laptopmag.com/articles/defragment-hard-drive-windows

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ID and Translation Requests / Re: UNID 9965 khz 1837 UTC 18 July 2018

« on: August 09, 2018, 1501 UTC »

I can understand the jamming targets of the Cubans (Radio Marti, VOA and maybe some others?) and the theoretical targets of the Saudis, but I was unaware that Saudi Arabia actually engaged in shortwave jamming.

They target Iranian broadcasts that are in Arabic. I've heard it on a kiwi SDR that's in Qatar. It's a siren like whoop. As you know, there is no love lost between those two nations.

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Huh? / Re: Perseid meteor shower coming this weekend to a sky near you

« on: August 07, 2018, 1841 UTC »

spaceweather.com has a story about it on their homepage now, with an image of a fireball captured by a camera - nearly a full week before the peak. It ought to be an awesome show this year.

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General Radio Discussion / Re: So you were wondering about that annoying UTE 6920-6950 kHz...

« on: August 07, 2018, 1836 UTC »

A guy I was in MARS with coded for banks. When y2k was a thing he made a fortune going around the US fixing y2k bugs in ancient bank code, they lost millions due to the miniscule downtime, I imagine the hft guys are dealing with millions of dollars per transaction and the profit motive is too overwelming.

Did he have them do updates during banking hours? I worked for a large bank when that was happening, and all updates happened after midnight.

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ID and Translation Requests / Re: UNID 9965 khz 1837 UTC 18 July 2018

« on: August 07, 2018, 1834 UTC »

Good post, MDK2.

China figured out that the Firedrake jammer was a lot easier to note as a jammer, whereas jamming with the CNR 1 audio gives them plausible deniability that they're "accidentally" "interfering" with whoever they're jamming, as opposed to outright jamming (which is what Firedrake obviously is). 

It would be interested to hear how much power the Chinese are pumping into the HF spectrum that's entirely jamming.  If RTI is transmitting with 100 kW and the Chinese are obliterating it with CNR1 audio they've gotta be doing 500 kW or more (probably with directional antennas too). 

Since the Russians are more interested in jamming GPS, mobile phone and two-way radio/military tactical radio systems, that leaves the Chinese and the North Koreans as the big jammers.

Thank you. I'll add that Cuba is no slouch on the jamming game. I understand that Saudi Arabia is as well, but I don't think most western SWL'ers ever really get to hear that very often. But really, nobody touches the Chinese.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Mix Radio 6870 AM 2352 UTC 05 Aug 2018

« on: August 06, 2018, 0032 UTC »

0031 present but only at the noise floor here.
...................
0123 checking back in, have much more of a signal, cool jazz playing. Thanks for the show

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Ion Radio 6930 AM 2119 UTC 5 Aug 2018

« on: August 05, 2018, 2145 UTC »

2144 Weak copy on KD2OM SDR in Victor, NY, trumpets playing the same melody as the one on the song "Tom's Diner" by Suzanne Vega.
2146 either below the noise or there's no audio, just a carrier. Carrier looks very thin so I'm betting on the former.

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Shortwave Broadcast / Voice of Nigeria Digital, 15120 DRM, 1805 UTC, 05 AUG 2018

« on: August 05, 2018, 1822 UTC »

Solid copy into Denver this early afternoon, using Dream software to decode in conjunction with my RSP2pro and SDRuno. The audio is low on my posted video, so you may have to turn things up to hear it. Starting to hear little dropouts as of 1819z, so the signal is starting to fade.
https://youtu.be/X-tlDSeTxwk

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General Radio Discussion / Re: So you were wondering about that annoying UTE 6920-6950 kHz...

« on: August 05, 2018, 1654 UTC »

Perhaps they are.

What kind of license would the FCC grant for this? Is there anything that can be looked up at the ULS database?

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General Radio Discussion / Re: So you were wondering about that annoying UTE 6920-6950 kHz...

« on: August 05, 2018, 1624 UTC »

Would running those comms when the markets aren't open make any sense?

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Radio GaGa SSTV 6975 USB 0125 UTC 5 Aug 2018

« on: August 05, 2018, 1618 UTC »

Some of us heard this in Rocket Chat after Wolverine, where it was faint for everyone and failed to trigger most of the SSTV apps we use. I decided against manually starting it when it reached audible levels because it was so weak, but one person got enough of a copy of the image to share it in the chat.