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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Clever Name Radio 6940 USB 2335 UTC 12 DEC 2017

« on: December 12, 2017, 2344 UTC »

2338 rock
2340 welcome to Clever Name Radio (3 times), other track
edit:
2346 ID, music with S.E. Europe in mind ?
2352 IDs, request lines open. (What about "Catfish blues" ?)
2353 rock tracks
edit:
0000 more rock, IDs..
0015 blues, about 30 years I did not hear that one, someone else gave the reference, thanks CNR !
then more rock and IDs, 0031

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Clever Name Radio 6940 USB 2137 UTC 10 Dec 2017

« on: December 10, 2017, 2201 UTC »

Unid at first :
2137 music, 2138 "Sunshine superman"
2139  Doors , whisky drinking story, endless (still running at 2155)
Probably CNR
2201 some other track, 2207 hard rock (also whisky story?)
2213  Welcome to Clever Name Radio, music, 2215
2221 sampled from "Paranoid" ?
2226 "Riders on the storm" speeded, mixed with "Billie Jean"...
2234 more IDs, talk (not well copied, signal a bit weak here)
2244 "Who are you" (+many IDs), "Pinball wizard", etc... rock 2257

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European Pirates and Private Stations / Re: 6270kHz unid 2340 UTC Dec 8

« on: December 09, 2017, 2249 UTC »

0002 accordion and singer
0008 ID as Johnny Tobacco
more music and talk, short het on 6270,7
JT still on at 0015

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North American Shortwave Pirate / CLEVER NAME RADIO 6940 UTC 2243 UTC 08 DEC 2017

« on: December 08, 2017, 2249 UTC »

UNID 6940 UTC  2243 UTC 08 DEC 2017
rap then Donovan "Mellow yellow"
edit:
2249 "Barbra Streisand"
2252 IDs, more music
edit :
weak signal tonight on this side of the pond
more rock, rap, songs, IDs
2328 Twistin' the night away

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID 6940 USB 2245 UTC 7 Dec 2017

« on: December 07, 2017, 2314 UTC »

 CLEVER NAME RADIO 6940 USB at 2254 UTC, (TA  signals not so strong tonight)
2254 Nancy Sinatra "These boots..."
2255 ID (5 times)
2257 rap show
2308 ID, more rap, 2310
edit : 2320 rock, 2325 IDs and talk about requests
2328 music, 2331 somewhat Irish music tracks (thanks from Keltia ! )
2335 techno, pops, patchwork?, 2343 AC-DC alike, etc
2348 good night, ID, off

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North American Shortwave Pirate / UNID 6880 USB 2204 UTC 05 Dec 2017

« on: December 05, 2017, 2212 UTC »

UNID 6880 USB 2204 UTC 05 Dec 2017,
heard in W Europe, then off at once.

edit : probably CNR (same kind of signal)

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID 6940 2111 UTC 5 Dec 2017

« on: December 05, 2017, 2200 UTC »

UNID 6940 USB at 2150 with rock, heard in Europe
typically like CNR yesterday night,
2155 a part from The Who ?, and off
edit :
back at 2214 with Supertramp (2216 off for about 30 sec.)
2219 CLEVER NAME RADIO  IDs, rock show, more IDs, etc....
2237 xylophone ? junior voice, rock again
2239 fading down, weak, some QRM (maybe from 6940 LSB ?), etc. 2255  off

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Clever Name Radio 6940 USB 2212 UTC 4 Dec 2017

« on: December 04, 2017, 2237 UTC »

Good signal here in Europe,
2219 rock
2221 IDs over intro of more rock
2224 bit of comedy? then Joan Baez ?
2227 Hello this is Chrissy of Clever Name radio, a few seconds off,
2228 some techno, etc  2232
edit : 2238 Jethro Tull
2245 Welcome to CNR
2249 Doors "America"
2254 IDs, some punk rock tracks (2259 off)
2309 again, rock, strong signal
2316 many IDs, then curses?? for facebook ?
2321 off

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID 6930 USB 1906 UTC 02 Dec 2017

« on: December 03, 2017, 1423 UTC »

That transmission not heard here over the pond,
but seems to be a repeat from previous day at 2327-2341* heard here. (See that entry).
Maybe a jingle ID about 8 minutes before switch off ?
(or just that child whispering about the crooked man?, maybe "Crooked Man" is the ID ?)

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Unid 6930 USB 2327 UTC 01 Dec 2017

« on: December 01, 2017, 2347 UTC »

Unid  6930 USB 2327 UTC 01 Dec 2017, heard weakly in W. Europe,
quiet music tracks,
2335 Xmas church mx ?
2339 traditional (on La Carmagnole tune ?? but played mildly)
2340 baby jingle toy, 2341 off ?

edit (on 03 Dec) : That short transmission seems to have been repeated on 02 Dec, again on 6930 USB (not heard here).
What I named  'baby jingle toy' (just before s/off) can also be described as 'music box'.
(From my notepad : at 2333 maybe a jingle ID).

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European Pirates and Private Stations / Re: UNID 6285 AM 2233 UTC 1 DEC 2017

« on: December 01, 2017, 2309 UTC »

UNID 6285 heard all afternoon in Europe (then long skip, f/out) with pop oldies, no announcements, no jingles,
That reminds me something, if I'm right, that station will go on  on the air all of Saturday and Sunday, with a 6 hour long programme in a loop.

(LHU said tentative R. Pamela)

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Old Time Radio 6770 AM 2135 UTC 30 Nov 2017

« on: November 30, 2017, 2238 UTC »

Again the trace tonight on 6770.05 first noticed at 2124, better around 2155 (seemed modulated, but could not get audio), then down to a faint trace, still on at 2232 UTC.

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SDR - Software Defined Radio / Re: AirSpyHF+

« on: November 30, 2017, 2044 UTC »

An early review of the Airspy HF+ is available in the December issue of "Radio User" (UK).
Mike Richards got a preproduction unit and goes through the new design:
-coverage: LF to VHF (up to 260 MHz)
-using a new type of mixer (frequency changer) ahead of the ADC: 16 phase mixer, giving adequate rejection of harmonics up to the 21th harmonic, so there's no need to use a bank of many RF filters ahead of the mixer, also no need of high gain preamplifier
-using a low phase-noise oscillator
-using a Sigma-Delta 16 bit ADC, followed by a digital filter (design said to produce less quantization noise)
- from there, a decimation stage (as usual), then the output
From only a few days of use, Mike Richards noticed a "pretty amazing" strong signal performance on VHF (around 138 Mhz) and on HF (around 7 MHz).

The key components makers were not named. Maybe we are at the beginning of a new generation of (almost) low cost and high performance SDRs ?

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European Pirates and Private Stations / COAST FM 3975 AM 1940 UTC 29 Nov 2017

« on: November 30, 2017, 1117 UTC »

COAST FM 3975 AM 1940 UTC 29 Nov 2017
That relay of Coast FM (Tenerife) assumed to be in Ireland
has moved from 4015 to 3975 kHz.
Still on 3975 at 1030 UTC on 30 Nov UTC (and parallel 6240 kHz).

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Old Time Radio 6770 AM 2330 UTC 29 Nov 2017

« on: November 30, 2017, 1107 UTC »

Assuming that Skipmuck logging at 2330-2331 UTC is on Wed. 29 Nov.
Assuming that Chris Smolinski logging at 0015 UTC is on Thurs. 30 Nov
(all UTC time and date !)
After reading the report from Skipmuck, I listened again on 6770 kHz at 2345 UTC
and found again that weak carrier on 6770.05 kHz, but no hope to get audio again.