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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Nonsense Radio 6925 USB 2233 UTC 16 July 2022

« on: July 16, 2022, 2309 UTC »

would it be nonsense to ask  could you please QSL ?

That's up to the op to decide but given the name is "No Nonsense", you have to make the request the only sensical way that you can. 

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Nonsense Radio 6925 USB 2233 UTC 16 July 2022

« on: July 16, 2022, 2303 UTC »

2245 ID by OM then silence ...... no programming?

Given the station name, a sense of irony is required to grasp it all. 

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Radio Pushka 6920 AM 0519 UTC 7 Jul 2022

« on: July 09, 2022, 2243 UTC »

I could be a bot.

Yes and I could be Brittany Spears.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Radio Pushka 6920 AM 0130 UTC 9 Jul 2022

« on: July 09, 2022, 0248 UTC »

I will check this out again early in the morning. It has been quite awhile!

Best propagation to the east coast (confirmed in software) should be approximately just before your dawn and then there might be some gray line enhancement while the sun rises for you.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Radio Pushka 6920 AM 0130 UTC 9 Jul 2022

« on: July 09, 2022, 0245 UTC »

I have him with Slavic music. ID at 0245 UTC.

To give you some indication, Ball Smacker is currently pretty much neck and neck with Pushka, both around S7-S8, and the former is on the east coast. He must not be using high power at this time.

On the other hand, sunset has not arrived here (~0315 UTC) so we shall see.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Radio Pushka 6920 AM 0519 UTC 7 Jul 2022

« on: July 08, 2022, 2326 UTC »

So now I know for certain it is Radio Pushka

(Insert thumbs up emoji.)

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: YHWH 7475 AM 0345 UTC 8 July 2022

« on: July 08, 2022, 2242 UTC »

I am amazed that after already being busted once that he hasn’t been busted again.

They have bigger fish to fry (MW and FM pirates in the large cities) and plenty of other things to do with mobile vans than to be poised and ready to find and give the knock to HF pirates who are only transmitting for 45 minutes at a time and on an irregular schedule.

FCC enforcement is not what it used to be in "the bad old days" (1970s-90s). As proof, I submit the stories of some of the "hams behaving badly" (e.g. W6WBJ, "the World's Best Jammer", some of the activity on 7200 KHz in the east, and so on) whose sagas go on for years and years but also stations like Ball Smacker, who advertise ahead of time when they will be on and keep to a regular schedule - making them completely predictable - and have been doing this for quite some time. In the olden days, even without someone making a complaint, I suspect that many of the low-hanging fruit would have been found and given a warning long ago. These days, it just doesn't seem to have the same priority.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Radio Pushka? 6920 AM 0519 UTC 7 Jul 2022

« on: July 08, 2022, 2217 UTC »

I should have been more specific,

No, I think most of us understood (I know that I did) but the extra detail is fine and since you are doing it, I shall too, at the risk of being ridiculously pedantic.

I was actually not joking around with that answer.

There are no rules. (It is supposed to be lawless, not bound by rules, regulations and conventions, after all.) Stations come and go, change their name(s) on a whim (e.g. Zeeky and Outhouse). Many never give an ID and just want to play some music. I personally don't expect a schedule or a fixed format (e.g., Ball Smacker), but if that's what someone wants to do, that's OK too. 

Why was the transmitter on? I don't know. Maybe the guy flipped the transmitter on to show his girlfriend and forgot about it. Maybe he flipped it on to drive around to check the signal in the next state/province over and it took him 12 hours to come home and turn it off. Maybe he was testing his new station operation software and needed 24 hours to do it well. Maybe he left it on because it was a Wednesday night, he felt like getting drunk and fell asleep.

So the fact a signal was heard that bears some resemblance to an entity once known as "Radio Pushka" (and might be called "Radio Mildred's Tattoo and Dog Wash Emporium International" when it resurfaces next week/month/year/decade) is, as you say, notable, but we can also speculate for months about what it was and never find out too. Maybe I'm completely wrong and it was not Radio Pushka. I'm not going to get too hung up on what it was that you heard other than to note what it seemed like to me and that is where I will leave it.

Cheers

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Radio Pushka? 6920 AM 0519 UTC 7 Jul 2022

« on: July 08, 2022, 2132 UTC »

Yep, one minute it's sittin' there doing nothin' and "Wham!" it's on and broadcasting.
 
Transmitters are funny things.

Ahhhh, but that's not what I wrote, Mr. PorkFlesh. Didn't say anything about haunted transmitters.

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European Pirates and Private Stations / Re: Indy Radio (presumed) 6931.1 AM 0024 UTC 8 JUL 2022

« on: July 08, 2022, 0355 UTC »

The Kiwi SDR in Milford, Pennsylvania (K3FEF) is perhaps one of the most sensitive Kiwis on the east coast of North America for ~7 MHz reception. For months I have been consistently able to see a trace of a carrier on its waterfall during the evening and nighttime hours at ~6931. (Their frequency appears to have some long-term drift. Today it's 6931.05. )

It's never strong enough to really get a good copy (especially now with the static QRN) but it's there, I can heard music in SSB or SAU modes and it is // what I hear on Weston-super-Mare on the same frequency.

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General Radio Discussion / Re: Two Brits arrested in Albania, accuse them of spying after seizing radio gear

« on: July 08, 2022, 0325 UTC »

Dxpedition gone wrong...

https://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scots-radio-ham-says-im-27202744

OFF-TOPIC RANT:

Colin and Paul, 61, took a field trip to Albanian capital Tirana to set up a new radio station to broadcast their signal to other enthusiasts worldwide.

They hired a villa and set up a wire antennas to broadcast information, using their established call signs.

Pet peeve: it's not broadcasting. Why do people use the words "broadcast" or "broadcasting" to describe any time anything gets put out over the airwaves? Hams don't "broadcast". Your cellphone does not "broadcast" a signal. Your garage door opener fob does not "broadcast" a signal to the garage door opener. Your laptop computer does not "broadcast" to your Bluetooth (TM) headphones. You can and should substitute the word "transmit" in every instance above. Stop misusing the word "broadcast". It drives me nuts.

RANT MODE OFF

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The RF Workbench / Re: Hellschreiber Beacon Mk II

« on: July 08, 2022, 0243 UTC »

You seem bent on using old inefficient technology at every step.

I'll leave you to it bud.

Another suggestion (I really don't know why I bother!)

Why not run class E, way more efficient and will consume far less current for same O/P.

Gave you loads of advice as have others but you seem stuck in the past with a design from the 1950's

Not satisfied with rubbing people the wrong way on another forum with a similar line of criticisms, you have to continue to do it here too. (Shaking my head.) I actually happen to agree with you in your general thrust on that other board about using obsolete transistors and boat-anchor-style construction techniques but I would not have conducted myself in the same manner.

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The RF Workbench / Re: Hellschreiber beacon - with some oomph!

« on: July 08, 2022, 0212 UTC »

You boys are losing your edge. Three pages to get to the fights. You used to be going at it after three posts. Pitiful.

I've turned over a new leaf.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Radio Pushka? 6920 AM 0519 UTC 7 Jul 2022

« on: July 08, 2022, 0208 UTC »

Interesting, I thought they were inactive.

Lately it seems that is true but it would not be unheard of for someone to switch on their transmitter out of the blue, for no particular reason.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID 6920 AM 0519 UTC 7 Jul 2022

« on: July 08, 2022, 0018 UTC »

Nothing heard at 0015 UTC 08 July.

I suspect that this may be (or is associated with) Radio Pushka, given the frequency, the content, the time of the signal fade and the long duration.