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General Radio Discussion / Re: favorite SWBC station that still exists?
« on: November 08, 2014, 0411 UTC »
Radio Progreso and Radio Rebelde for music on shortwave. Typical S9+40 without a preamp tends to make for easy reception at night. ;)

CRI, Radio Austraila, Radio Havana, Radio Japan, Radio Romania, and a few others for the occasional cultural segment and similar.

Moving down the dial, Radio Medi 1 from Morocco for music on longwave. Not exactly easy reception, but it is often listenable for an hour or two most nights here.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Liquid Radio 6925.24 AM 0215 UTC 08 NOV 2014
« on: November 08, 2014, 0333 UTC »
Hearing an utility operating around 6925.25KHz. Way down in the noise floor. Sounds like data. Otherwise, nothing much else near 6925KHz at the moment, at least here.

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Briefly caught what sounded like another faint carrier at ~0335z.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Unid on 6.925 usb at 0301 utc Nov 8
« on: November 08, 2014, 0328 UTC »
Sounds like an utility station (data?) at approximately 6925.2KHz. It is down in the noise floor, but apparently still strong enough to generate a mild het near 6925kHz, at least with notch filtering disabled.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Unid on 6.925 usb at 0301 utc Nov 8
« on: November 08, 2014, 0307 UTC »
Right at the noise floor here. Barely twitching the S meter at times. Heard the flute in the music, or at least it sounded like one when cooked through DSP filtering. Now sounds like a music track with a guitar.

Thanks for the broadcast.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: XLR-8 6935U 0026 08 November 2014
« on: November 08, 2014, 0238 UTC »
0236z - Metal track?
0237z - ID

Peaking S9+10. Preamp now engaged, though. ;)

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Radio Free Whatever 6920 USB 0205 UTC 8 Nov 2014
« on: November 08, 2014, 0211 UTC »
Peaking S4 with good audio. Quite nice sound quality for SSB.

Some intermittent QRM in background for a few seconds?

Thanks for the broadcast.

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0232z - Talking about Elvira. Peaking upwards of S9+15 with the preamp engaged.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: XLR-8 6935U 0026 08 November 2014
« on: November 08, 2014, 0148 UTC »
Same. Electronic music. Now peaking S7. Mild QRM. ID at ~0148z.

0201z - Up to S9 peaks for awhile during the Ozzy track.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Big Dawg Radio 6925 USB 0011 UTC 8Nov19
« on: November 08, 2014, 0143 UTC »
Back on air around 0142z. S5 without the preamp. Audio is a little narrow, but sounding good.

Thanks for the broadcast.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Pirate Radio Boston 6919.7 KHZ AM 0118 UTC NOV 8, 2014
« on: November 08, 2014, 0127 UTC »
Faint signal. Right above the noise floor, so using a narrow filter and active DSP here. Sounded like talk about antennas and wattage for awhile, plus I think a mention of Undercover Radio. Now talking about an Icom and wire antenna.

Thanks for the broadcast.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Cool AM Radio [relay] 6920 AM *0016- 11/8/14
« on: November 08, 2014, 0107 UTC »
Faint signal, but nonetheless there. Using a narrow filter and active DSP to pull music out of the noise floor here.

Thanks for the broadcast.

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Equipment / Re: I finally put up a Beverage antenna
« on: November 08, 2014, 0054 UTC »
You probably can forget the antenna analyzer due to the 9:1 balun and the ground losses involved. I suspect it wil show a decent impedence match across much of the HF spectrum.

Since you are running a terminated beverage, if possible, try increasing the length to gain directivity off the terminated end. Beverages are often at multiples of desired wavelengths. Your beverage easily could be like -30dB (or lower) from an isotropic. You either need more antenna gain and/or possibly a preamp to offset the difference. You can build a basic HF preamp for a few dollars, or perhaps even consider a combined preselector/preamp unit from MFJ or similar.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID 6935U 0026 08 November 2014
« on: November 08, 2014, 0031 UTC »
Floating around S5 here without the preamp.

0028z - Song. Must know something?
0038z - XLR8

Thanks for the broadcast.

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10/11 meters / Re: UNID 27150KHz AM 0024-0027 10-28-2014
« on: October 28, 2014, 0126 UTC »
I used to be big into talking DX on CB back in the early- to mid-1990s.

These days 11m CB is hardly any worse than certain frequencies on the 20m and 75m amateur radio bands. Admittedly, those bands can provide lots of "interesting" listening opportunities, too. ;)

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10/11 meters / Re: UNID 27150KHz AM 0024-0027 10-28-2014
« on: October 28, 2014, 0037 UTC »
I was rolling the VFO through the 11m CB band to see how upper HF conditions were as we move into evening time here at the QTH.

Check the 10/11 forum. Lots of interesting - and some outright bizarre - stuff on the 11m band, especially when propagation to Europe is available.

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10/11 meters / UNID 27150KHz AM 0024-0027 10-28-2014
« on: October 28, 2014, 0030 UTC »
SINPO 45555. Surprisingly decent audio, too.

0024z - banjo music
0026z - Family Guy FCC skit

Not QRM since the frequency is clear (here anyway), but probably not a traditional pirate station, either. Move to 10/11 forum if needed. Thanks!

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