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General Radio Discussion / Re: Advice or thoughts for beginner on interesting things to do

« on: January 28, 2014, 2041 UTC »

For current & updated schedules I highly recommend using either Aoki or EiBi

Aoki:  http://www1.s2.starcat.ne.jp/ndxc/

EiBi:   http://www.eibispace.de/

or better yet join the SWSKED yahoo group & get Dan Fergusons impressive daily updated spreadsheet of both those schedules & others as a handy download. I never start "playing radio" without it.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/swskeds/



Also, have you tried putting the wire antenna outside? I don't have a DE1103 but all I have read about it tells me you have a pretty good little portable radio there & you should be able to get some good dx catches with it. I sometimes use a nearly comparable portable when I walk my dog & I catch South Africa, Romania Turkey, Rwanda, Iran & others,all in English & using only the built in whip antenna as I am walking. As for number stations I can't imagine anywhere in North America where you can't hear HM01. Their schedule is on page 99 of the latest enigma newsletter.

http://www.brogers.dsl.pipex.com/enigma2000/newsletters/CEN.pdf

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General Radio Discussion / U Twente websdr chat

« on: January 27, 2014, 1543 UTC »

The operators of the Twente sdr finally got fed up with all the silliness (non radio related BS) that was occupying the chat box on their site & closed the chat "for lack of appropriate content".  Good for them. I used to enjoy going there & discussing what we were hearing on the HF bands with other knowledgeable & not so knowledgeable listeners. Lately it became just a lot of stupidity that was not in any way radio related & I just stayed away.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Wolverine Radio 6940 USB 01:09 UTC 1/25/2014

« on: January 26, 2014, 1733 UTC »

Heard the school program as I walked the dog w/ PL660. Awesome signal as usual. Chuck Berry's "Hail, Hail rock & roll & 'the Killer' Jerry Lee Lewis' "High School Confidential" really perked me up. I heard the second "run" show starting after I got home. A great time was had by all...thanx Wolverine

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Radio Ronin, 6925AM, 0142+, 26 Jan 2014

« on: January 26, 2014, 1727 UTC »

As I was on a long delayed multi hour DX dog walk (I've been sick & the temps have been waaay to low) I was trying to ID the 6925 AM station. I had them well around 1:51z as I entered a low streetlight area & heard some Steppenwolf as the signal was peaking on my PL660. I never was able to actually get an ID but I had fun trying. Thanx Ronin

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Radio Ga-Ga 6925u 2225z Jan 25, 2014

« on: January 25, 2014, 2327 UTC »

tuned in just in time for sign off at 23:24z after Steely Dan tune with "...4:20 in the mile high city, Denver...this has been Radio gaga..."  signal was about S6 & clear on a nice quiet band.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Radio Free Whatever 6925 KHz AM 0440 UTC 1/18/2014

« on: January 18, 2014, 1618 UTC »

I heard this while dog dx'ing with PL660. As Beerus said very variable strength & in fact not audible most of the time on little barefoot portable but did occasionally pop up above the noise. Unable to actually catch ID or anything else for that matter. Carrier was completely faded out for a while too.

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Clandestine Stations / Oromo Voice 17850 khz 1/18/2013

« on: January 18, 2014, 1611 UTC »

Oromo Voice is hugely inbooming this morning. with talk by OM & music. They are S9+20 here on my recently halved antenna & Grundig sat 750. Lost some wire in extreme winds on Thursday & only have about 12 meters now.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Radio Free Mars 6924.19 AM 0317 UTC 13 Jan 2014

« on: January 13, 2014, 0432 UTC »

I heard this while walking the dog on a surprisingly warm night here in KCMO. I never was able to copy an ID as the signal sometimes faded out almost completely. Several Elton John songs heard with "bits" interspersed. I'm not sure if they were comedy or just weird news bits. The signal was way up for a while around 3:15z. I tuned in from about 3:02 - 3:20z. I was using my tecsun PL660 with just the built in whip antenna.    Thanks for the show.

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Spy Numbers / Re: Possible Asian number sation 4651 kHz

« on: January 12, 2014, 1729 UTC »

Very nice. I am always looking for Asian number stations on Twente & to date have only found VC01 a few times.

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Spy Numbers / Re: Unknown Numbers Station, need help with an ID - Possible spoof

« on: January 12, 2014, 1727 UTC »

I heard several of these transmissions on the 15'th & regarded it as a fake. As Token said, the ham band thing makes me think it was just someone messing around.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID 6924.3 AM 2235 UTC 11 Jan 2014

« on: January 11, 2014, 2241 UTC »

JBA signal in Missouri...Barely JBA  (BJBA??).

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Shortwave Broadcast / Re: 9760 AM 0510 UTC China Radio International?

« on: January 04, 2014, 0340 UTC »

I think you probably heard Radio Nikkei , not China Radio International. 

   R.Nikkei 2  23:00 - 8:00   9760 khz  via Chiba Nagara, Japan   50 kilowatts    as per Aoki/SWSKEDS

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Spy Numbers / Re: HM01... REMIX!

« on: January 03, 2014, 1814 UTC »

Just stay with them & you're liable to hear most anything from 'ol Pedro. I have heard some cool Cuban music mixing with the numbers before.

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Equipment / Re: Tecsun PL-880 Review

« on: December 28, 2013, 0233 UTC »

A correction to my earlier post...the PL880 does have synchronous detection. It can be accessed by holding the usb or lsb button while the radio is on. It tunes in 100 hz increments when in synch mode & not the 10 hz increments you can do in ssb. Also the soft muting can be disabled by holding the 9 button & dialing down to 00 with the tuning knob & then pressing 9 again. You have to do this in MW  SW  &  SSB. One thing I do hate about this radio is that when you change frequencies it automatically changes bandwidth. I'm not sure what the hell that is all about. If ,for example, I am on 5000 khz it will set the bandwidth at the widest setting  9 khz. If I tune to 6180 it is set on 5 khz. If I tune to 6175 it goes to 3.5 khz. If I go down to 6165 it is on 9 khz. I'm not sure what criteria it uses to determine the bandwidth but it is annoying & I haven't figured out how to disable that feature yet. It seems like it is determining whether or not there is any adjacent channel interference but if so it's doing a lousy job of it.

btw...the synch detector sucks..no surprise that it is hidden & not mentioned in the literature. recovered audio is lousy & imo ecss works much better.

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Clandestine Stations / Voice of Tibet 9322 khz QSY to 9327khz

« on: December 24, 2013, 1401 UTC »

Not strong enough at my QTH for audio but I followed the carriers on my SDR & the audio on Twente.  VOT went from 9322 to 9327 at 13:40z & the Jammer on 9325 followed about 7 minutes later. I usually hear VOT on its 15 mhz frequencies, I notice that the jamming is not nearly as effective on the 31 mtr band. VOT is via Tajikistan on this freq.