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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: YHWH 7475 AM 0232 UTC 28 March 2020

« on: March 28, 2020, 0245 UTC »

SIO 334 in SoCal at 0245 UTC.  Usual programming.
0249 - scripture about "burnt offerings".
0256 - near complete fade into the noise in mid-sentence. Hasn't seemed to recover by 0310 UTC.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Mix Radio International 4175 USB 2234 UTC 27 March 2020

« on: March 28, 2020, 0034 UTC »

No one should be surprised at this but it's too early for the west coast. No signal at home. Tried a few SDRs in CA and NV and only a hint of audio. If you move the VFO up and down 10 Hz at a time, you can tell that there is something there but it's at the noise floor.

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General Radio Discussion / Re: All India Radio suspends shortwave and “pure DRM’ transmissions during Covid-19

« on: March 26, 2020, 2319 UTC »

“pure DRM’

"Pure" and "DRM" should probably not be used in the same sentence.

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European Pirates and Private Stations / Re: Mystery_Radio_21 4700 AM 0716 utc 26 Mar 2020

« on: March 26, 2020, 2300 UTC »

I am listening on the KB1UIF Kiwi SDR in western Massachusetts in the northeast US. Good signal at 2300 UTC (approximately sundown at the receiver). SIO is 343 with some static crashes.

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European Pirates and Private Stations / Re: Mystery_Radio_21 4700 AM 0828 utc 25 Mar 2020

« on: March 26, 2020, 2257 UTC »

I think they are around Munchen Germany,

Actually, I say north of there but you have the right idea.

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Equipment / Re: What Radio Did you start your listening hobby with?

« on: March 14, 2020, 1813 UTC »

I suppose that the first was an old RCA radio from the 1930s with MW and HF coverage. It lacked sensitivity (I realize now that it needed a tune up and some new tubes) but it was good enough for the major international broadcasters. It was a large stand-up radio (not sure of the correct term) that one might put in their living room/foyer with a dark mahogany laminate exterior and an electric eye to indicate signal strength.

Second was my father's Collins 75A4, but that received the HF ham bands only.

Third was a Hammarlund HQ-180A, which was general coverage. I used that all through high school.

I didn't get a portable until well after college.

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Shortwave Broadcast / Re: UNID 4055 AM 0510 UTC APR 15 2020

« on: March 14, 2020, 1750 UTC »

If there is ever a question, you can consult one of the databases where known legal transmissions are listed. One example is: https://www.short-wave.info/

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Huh? / Re: Radio Corona?

« on: March 14, 2020, 1746 UTC »

I wouldn't be shocked if we here a pirate called Radio Corona or something similar online.

Not too much later in time, one did. Isn't that interesting.

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Huh? / Re: Oregon Engineer Makes History With New Traffic Light Timing Formula

« on: March 14, 2020, 1743 UTC »

Traffic signal controllers will not go go any lower than 5 seconds of Green and no lower than 2.5 secs of Yellow timing most cases are 2.5-3. The controller will not except values any lower. Source- I program them.

OK, but it appears that you are not programming them out here.

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Shortwave Broadcast / Re: UNID 4055 AM 0510 UTC APR 15 2020

« on: March 14, 2020, 0716 UTC »

4055 is normally the frequency for Radio Verdad in Guatemala, a legit Spanish-language station and not a pirate.
http://radioverdad.org/?q=en/node/331

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Huh? / Re: Radio Corona?

« on: March 14, 2020, 0356 UTC »

With all of the over-reaction to Covid-19,

Hmmm. What would you call an "appropriate" level of reaction?

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Huh? / Re: Oregon Engineer Makes History With New Traffic Light Timing Formula

« on: March 14, 2020, 0336 UTC »

They could use some revision to the light timing formula in California. I've never seen such ridiculously short yellow lights anywhere else in the world.

Yup.

Depends upon where you are but where I am, in certain parts of town, you won't even be able to get halfway across the road in a car before the light turns yellow for about 0.25 to 0.5 seconds then red. There are certain lights where it is virtually impossible to not be running a red light making a left turn unless you own a car with fantastic acceleration.

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Amateur Radio / Re: 3840 khz Bootlegger Net & Jammers (LSB) 05:30 UTC

« on: March 14, 2020, 0324 UTC »

As bad as 3840 LSB can get (and I have a particular interest in this one because one of the regulars, KØAXE, is only about 28 miles from me as the crow flies - I wonder if I'll ever run into him at the local HRO or any ham gathering in town), I have to say that it amazes me that W6WBJ is still on the air with a license now 12 years expired, which the FCC won't renew, but which he can keep using because he's apparently a skilled enough attorney to keep the appeals going. His determination to jam the WARFA net on 3908 with some of the worst garbage you've heard on the ham bands is a measure of both determination and profound mental disturbances. Probably one and the same with this loon.

I've heard him live on 3840 a couple of times. He's with his kind of people there.

W6WBJ recently was finally, finally denied his appeal of of the rejection of his 2007 (?!!) license renewal. (http://www.arrl.org/news/fcc-turns-down-amateur-licensee-s-appeal) However, they have not, the last time I checked, canceled his license. So he continues to operate, jam the WARFA net, etc.

It's incredible to me that someone has so little going on in their life and is so petty that they feel the need to attempt to jam every occurrence of a net (3x/week), for years on end, non-stop. But that's ham radio...where introverts with no social skills end up.

As for the rest of the 3840 KHz crew, it seems like that frequency has been more quiet in the last year or so, though I don't check too often so I will admit to some ignorance. Once people started to jam that frequency with recordings on a daily basis, the regulars (NO6EL, KK6FR, K0AXE, et al.) have found other places to be, apparently.

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Amateur Radio / Re: 3840 khz Bootlegger Net & Jammers (LSB) 05:30 UTC

« on: March 14, 2020, 0259 UTC »

There's even a 440 repeater in socal that carries much the same bunch with the same repertoire. Can't recall the freq but they're famous for having fcc investigations and so on.

K6MWT: 147.435 (output), 146.400 MHz (input), 103.5 PL tone.

https://your435.com/about/

The Southern California 147.435 FM repeater (435) is famous for lively discussion on controversial subjects.

- Though to me it just sounds like a bunch of people calling each other names most of the time.

You can listen here: https://www.broadcastify.com/listen/feed/14747/web