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General Radio Discussion / Re: We need a new KUSW or WRNO!!!!

« on: November 25, 2013, 2001 UTC »

I'm having difficulty locating it now, but recently I read in the rules for international stations, that a station located within the USA could not broadcast to its own target zone, ie to the USA.  Most programs targeted toward the USA are broadcast either from the Dutch Antilles, or other islands or continents surrounding the USA.  That is why its called "international broadcasting" after all.  VOA has transmission facilities around the globe, and because of their previous rules pertaining to broadcasting to the American people, its unlikely they have any arrays facing the continent.  Anything heard within the borders of the US is probably due more to antenna limitations than by design.  Also, referring to the rules, omnidirectional antennas are prohibited, so coast to coast coverage would be difficult..legally.

Unless you have lots of money to burn, music on shortwave would probably be a losing enterprise.  So for the time being, we will have piracy

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General Radio Discussion / Re: We need a new KUSW or WRNO!!!!

« on: November 25, 2013, 1207 UTC »

The current situation is partially the fault of legislation.  Its not legal to broadcast on shortwave to the USA from within the USA, so says CFR 47.  Domestic stations that have coverage in the US do so more by accident than design.

I'm behind ya 100% I wish we had several music outlets on SW, but no one wants to pay for it.  At least for now, the best we can do is 'BCQ

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TV DX Loggings / Re: TV DXing from the transmitting side of the hobby

« on: November 25, 2013, 1201 UTC »

Last I checked, all off the shelf TV's still have analog tuners in them as well.  A LOT of small cable systems all over the country are still analog.  In addition, there are still a few analog broadcasters out there.  There is no current "analog sunset" for low power stations.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Liquid Radio 6925 KHz AM 0200z 10-24-2013

« on: November 24, 2013, 0203 UTC »

Just noticed a carrier about S8 here with dance music, and OM talking.  Canned ID @ 0202z
Hard to tell if its AM or AME with LSB.  Things have changed over the last few minutes.  @0210, its definately AM with LSB peskies.
0211 UK Garage sounding track.
0214 Faster paced Armen Van Buren trance sounding track.
0239 I don't know what this song is, but I like it
0301 Legal ID followed by nice NIN remix of "Sin"  Approaching +10 over S9 and sounding good now, 5KHz audio.
0308 Someone is now on USB, talking about man and machines.  I think I heard someone say "Whats up Redhat?"
0309 Sounds like an Orgy song now. Xymox "Obsession"
0314 Liquid Radio ID
0314 Joan Jett "Do Ya Wanna Touch Me"
0317 Back to mean sounding dance stuff U-TEK "Das Mass Der Dinge"

I will say this, I usually walk away from one of your shows with cool new music.  Thanks for the tunes!

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Wolverine Radio 6935 USB 0145 UTC 24 Nov 2013

« on: November 24, 2013, 0156 UTC »

6935.000 KHZ on the nuts...

0156 "Big Fat Mama" peaks to +10 over here.
0157 Wolverine Radio ID
0157 "Big Pretty Mama"

Perhaps a "Mama" theme?

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: 6935AM on 24 Nov at 0128

« on: November 24, 2013, 0134 UTC »

Got it here too with a mystery sounding story.  About S9 on peaks here at 0130.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: 6925usb, 0038utc 11-24-13

« on: November 24, 2013, 0042 UTC »

0039 Kid Rocks "Bawidaba"
0042 Oasis "Wonderwall"  About S9 here with a lot of barber polling....
0047 Red Mercury Labs ID
0048 Thanks for the shout Red
0051 Lou Reed "Vanishing Act"
0056 Gerry Rafferty "Baker Street"  about S8, then peaking to +10 over at 0101
0102 Live Break, talking about QSL's, your welcome
0111 Green Day "Holiday"
0115 Beastie Boys "Sabotage"
0118 Live Break talking about kids with boom boxes in Cali breakdancing....I always thought "gyrating" was a funny word.
0122 Rage Against The machine "Pocketful of Shells"
0126 Motorhead "Ace of Spades"
0129 Jane's Addiction "Been Caught Stealin' "
0132 Live Break, feel free to use it, share the wealth!
0136 Pretenders "Brass in Pocket"
0140 Def Leppard "Comin' Under Fire"
0144 Judas Priest "Breaking The Law"
0147 Rolling Stones "Its Just a Shot Away" (Gimme Shelter)
0151 Live Break "6925 Upper Side Band, the manliest of modes"
0152 That's all folks (signoff)

Thanks for the great tunes tonight!

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TV DX Loggings / Re: TV DXing from the transmitting side of the hobby

« on: November 23, 2013, 0559 UTC »

I believe most "cable ready" TV's these days will pick up a few of the ATV channels.  I had an onboard on a race bike one upon a time and used a VCR to pick the video up off air and record it.  At those speeds, multipath was a bit of a problem.  I think ATV will be around for a while, as long as the FCC doesn't auction off more of the 70CM band.

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MW Loggings / Re: Radio Enciclopedia with Radio Rebelde 530 khz AM 5:10 utc Nov 21 '13

« on: November 23, 2013, 0426 UTC »

FWIW, when traveling along the gulf states, Radio Encyclopedia can be heard pretty much every night on a car radio.  I still check it out when traveling around.

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TV DX Loggings / Re: TV DXing from the transmitting side of the hobby

« on: November 23, 2013, 0423 UTC »

If there is one good thing the conversion to digital TV has done for the ATV community, its flooded the surplus market with translators and analog video gear.  I picked up a UHF 1KW tube type translator by TTC for about 200 bucks, complete with a few tubes.  I had to modify it to accept a cable modulator for drive, but otherwise is fully functional.  Audio and video processing gear can also be had quite inexpensively.  I've also got some PA modules from VHF transmitters kicking around, but those are more for local "tom foolery" than anything else.  I thought it might be fun to run movies late at night, but with memory scan tuners, those days are probably gone forever.

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The RF Workbench / Re: Cypress CY22150 Programmable frequency generator

« on: November 23, 2013, 0401 UTC »

Or if you like, you can always grind your own.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7CS4A8wB1E

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The RF Workbench / High Powered Pirates

« on: November 23, 2013, 0307 UTC »

I know KIPM used to run mucho-power back in the day, also Radio Metallica Worldwide was rumored to be running 10KW or better, and WJDI was running a few KW's as well.  Any other notable "high power" pirates come to mind?

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Liquid Radio 6935 AM 00:32 Nov. 23 2013

« on: November 23, 2013, 0154 UTC »

About S7 here.  I can hear the occasional "thump-thump" when it comes out of the noise.  Not a peep in the car though.

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General Radio Discussion / Re: Pirate History: Remember November 22, 1987

« on: November 23, 2013, 0152 UTC »

+1

Back in my TV days, I thought about disconnecting the remote control feeds and patching in a DVD player with something as entertaining on loop...then break the key off in the lock on the way out.

But then again, they're doing a fine job of destroying the station as is.  Digital TV just isn't as much fun

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QSLs Received / Re: X-FM Shortwave

« on: November 23, 2013, 0020 UTC »

I got 506!

Also got a program log/guide.... Is X-FM doing this now after I started doing it?

Sorry to squash your ego, but we've been doing that since the start in 2011.

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