5026
Shortwave Broadcast / Re: 25 meter band hit by broadband noise, possible jammer
« on: January 14, 2013, 0101 UTC »
Doing plenty of damage here tonight.
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0004Z 55444 S9+ Discussion
0028Z 55444 S9+ ID
0028Z 55544 S9+10 Music
0108Z 55544 S9+10 Music continues
0132Z 55544 S9+20 Music
0155Z 55544 S9+20 Ivana Banfic "Otisak Prsta"
0158Z 45444 S9 Ivana Kindl "Nisi Sam"
0200Z 55444 S9+10 ID
0255Z 55444 S9+10 Lisac Josipa "Zivot Je Samo Most"
0300Z 55444 S9+10 Croatia Today (English program)
0300Z 54444 S9+10 Croatians across the country welcomed the new year.
0305Z 54444 S9+10 Ireland took over the EU presidency
0309Z 54444 S9+10 Sports & weather.
0312Z 54444 S9+20 Radio Luksemburg "Hrabri Se Ne Lome"
0329Z 54444 S9+10 Zoran Mišic "Gdje Si Sad"
0330Z 54444 S9+10 La Voz de Croacia
0342Z 54444 S9+10 Music
0400Z 54444 S9+10 News
0405Z 54444 S9+10 Dalmatino "To Nije Zna Niko Ka Ja"
0410Z 54444 S9+10 Prva Liga "Ti Si Jaca Od Mene"
0426Z 54444 S9+10 Bojan Jambrosic "Dvije Zvijezde Kraj Bagrema"
0429Z 54444 S9+10 Tose Proeski "Vezi Me Za Sebe"
0432Z 54444 S9+10 Jinx "Tamo Gdje Je Sve Po Mom"
0500Z 55444 S9+10 News
0506Z 55444 S9+20 Antun Tomislav Saban "Gibonni-Kad Sam Nasamo S Njom"
0514Z 55444 S9+20 Antun Tomislav Saban "Tina Vukov-U Tudoj Ruci"
0527Z 55444 S9+20 Lisac Josipa "Živim Po Svome"
0533Z 55444 S9+20 Gabi "Za Mene Je Sreca"
0600Z Off air.
Not sure why they're on as last night was supposed to be their last broadcast. In looking at their online schedule, 7375 is not listed. Perhaps someone forgot they were to end? Hope they got a serious case of amnesia and it keeps going...
Perseus SDR with Wellbrook ALA1530S+ loop
Oh good grief. Yes. WEOH.
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5027
Shortwave Broadcast / Re: V.O.R.
« on: January 13, 2013, 0125 UTC »
I've been listening to R Aus since 1988 when I started with shortwave. In recent years, its been 9580 in our morning (CST). A few weeks ago, discovered them on 7240 when they leave 9580 and its usually pretty strong for a little while, then it fades as the sun continues to rise.
Used to be on in our evenings in 19m. Haven't had much luck lately with them there. We'll see if success on 19m returns in the summer.
While it may not be specifically NAm, they shoot it out to the Pacific and since we're on the other side of it and the signal is strong here, that's close enough.
Used to be on in our evenings in 19m. Haven't had much luck lately with them there. We'll see if success on 19m returns in the summer.
While it may not be specifically NAm, they shoot it out to the Pacific and since we're on the other side of it and the signal is strong here, that's close enough.
5028
North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: WFMT Family Radio 6924.53 AM 0025 UTC 13 Jan 2013
« on: January 13, 2013, 0121 UTC »
0120Z 45444 S9 ID
Kenwood TS-690S with 102' G5RV @ 25'
Kenwood TS-690S with 102' G5RV @ 25'
5029
North American Shortwave Pirate / Liquid Radio 6925 AM Jan 12, 2013 2115Z
« on: January 12, 2013, 2126 UTC »
2115Z 45444 S9 ID Liquid Radio, followed by music.
Kenwood TS-690S with 102' G5RV @ 25'
Kenwood TS-690S with 102' G5RV @ 25'
5030
Equipment / Re: An SDR for $17 - The R820T USB SDR DVB-T Dongle
« on: January 12, 2013, 2048 UTC »
Last fall, I picked up a Newsky DVB-T (with the E4000 tuner).
It gets the job done and for its price, can't complain. Does seem like there's images all over the place with it, but could be overloaded by the GP-15 on the roof.
Have listened from the FM BC band up through 900 MHz. Not much to listen to on the 800 MHz around here since the large public safety system is APCO-25 and of the few services on FM 800MHz, they're trunked.
It gets the job done and for its price, can't complain. Does seem like there's images all over the place with it, but could be overloaded by the GP-15 on the roof.
Have listened from the FM BC band up through 900 MHz. Not much to listen to on the 800 MHz around here since the large public safety system is APCO-25 and of the few services on FM 800MHz, they're trunked.
5031
Shortwave Broadcast / Re: V.O.R.
« on: January 12, 2013, 1646 UTC »
Off the top of my head, the remaining broadcasts to the U.S.: Australia, Romania, China, Cuba. New Zealand used to come up here in the evenings, but haven't heard them lately (could be conditions). Spain comes in well here, but don't know if they're sending to us.
Greece still comes in pretty decent, but don't know if they're sending that to us.
Past few weeks have been picking up Deutsche Welle broadcasting from Africa.
Haven't had much time lately to take a survey of the bands.
Greece still comes in pretty decent, but don't know if they're sending that to us.
Past few weeks have been picking up Deutsche Welle broadcasting from Africa.
Haven't had much time lately to take a survey of the bands.
5032
General Radio Discussion / Re: An alternative to Coast To Coast AM
« on: January 11, 2013, 0110 UTC »
On Sunday nights from 11:00pm to 1:00am EST (Monday mornings 0400-0600Z) on AM 740 CFZM Toronto is The Conspiracy Show with Richard Syrett.
5033
Utility / Re: Alaska on 518 kHz NAVTEX 0935 UTC 1/5/2013
« on: January 08, 2013, 0344 UTC »
Nice.
Tried for Hawaii recently, but no luck.
Tried for Hawaii recently, but no luck.
5034
MW Loggings / Re: MW monitoring
« on: January 08, 2013, 0343 UTC »
For decoding NAVTEX, I use YaRD. Its pretty slick.
5035
General Radio Discussion / Re: A UNIVAC as a Morse Code practice oscillator
« on: January 03, 2013, 0339 UTC »
Hahaha... Lilek's site is great. Minutes turn into hours. Hours turn into days.
However, haven't looked at it in a while and appears some major changes.
He used to have a podcast called The Diner. Wish he'd start that up again.
However, haven't looked at it in a while and appears some major changes.
He used to have a podcast called The Diner. Wish he'd start that up again.
5036
North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: 3942 300utc GCN Network Alex Jones live show ID
« on: January 02, 2013, 0421 UTC »
The Alex Jones show can also be found on WWCR on 4840 kHz M-F starting at 0300Z and I think on various MW stations around the country.
Could this be a spur or an image of 4840? Difference is 898 kHz. Do you have a local station on 900 kHz (could be mixing that with 4840)?
Could this be a spur or an image of 4840? Difference is 898 kHz. Do you have a local station on 900 kHz (could be mixing that with 4840)?
5037
General Radio Discussion / A UNIVAC as a Morse Code practice oscillator
« on: January 02, 2013, 0209 UTC »
http://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/univac/morse.html
The Morse Code Exec
October 1971
by John Walker
As might be gleaned by examining other documents available on this site, I have somewhat of an affinity for the absurd. In terms of outrageous applications for computers, I peaked early in my career, with the program you find below. This program, written in the fall of 1971, was a full-fledged operating system which transformed a UNIVAC 1108 mainframe computer worth millions of dollars into…a code practice oscillator! When idle, it played synthesised music generated by an algorithm invented by Harry Pyle and used in a little digital gizmo he built.
This program was written more than 20 years before audio hardware became a commonplace component of computers. Nonetheless, the UNIVAC 1108 maintenance panel included an “Audio” button. This was an obscure feature intended to be used in conjunction with the program alarm for debugging operating systems. It caused the program alarm, sounded by the ALRM instruction, to be gated by the guard mode bit in the processor state register. This resulted in an audible signal on the console when the operating system was in control, for example, because the system had gone idle.
A little experimentation (no button must go unpushed, after all) revealed that even if the program alarm was not sounding, an artifact of the circuit caused the program alarm speaker on the operator's console to emit a little “tick” every time the processor went into or out of guard mode. And that, of course, was a glitch big enough to permit generation of arbitrary tones, given a suitable program to flip guard mode on and off at the proper rate.
Since user programs always ran with guard mode on, that meant the tone generation trick had to be done by code in the operating system, or by a stand-alone operating system booted from tape. I chose the latter, in large part to compound the absurdity of the whole thing; very few UNIVAC programmers ever wrote stand-alone operating systems—they wrote user programs that ran under the operating system or modified components of the operating system itself, but few ever looked at the boot code in the system or contemplated writing their own. Shortly before I wrote this program, I had been involved in the development of the boot code for CHI/OS, an operating system being developed from scratch at Chi Corporation in Cleveland, so I was sufficiently familiar with low-level boot code to pull this off.
Despite its ridiculous intent, this was a fully general 1108 operating system which could be booted by any processor of a multiprocessor system, and into any memory module. On a multiprocessor system with a console on each processor, one could even boot multiple copies into different memory banks and enjoy stereo or three-channel sound. To my knowledge, nobody ever tried this. The 1108 console had a set of “selective jump” switches on the operator's console which could be tested by programs, so I used them to allow the user to set the speed at which the Morse code was transmitted. The code even adapted automatically when run on an 1106, which it detected by timing instruction speed against the hardware real-time clock. Unhappily, the successors of the 1108 and 1106 lacked the “Audio” feature, so the Morse code exec passed into history when the machines for which it was written retired from service.
The program was written so that, when executed in user mode, it wrote its own boot tape. Gosh it was cool, late at night, to type on the console and know that several million dollars of hardware were exclusively dedicated to making Morse code come out of the speaker. Folks familiar with user-mode 1100 programming will notice some oddities resulting from the fact that this code runs in the executive set of registers, which have different memory-mapped addresses when referenced in instructions. If you're hazy on the 1100 instruction set after all these years, check out the instruction set reference.
.
. M O R S E / S Y N T H E S I Z E R E X E C
.
. OCTOBER 1971 BY JOHN WALKER
.
. YOU BOOT THE TAPE THIS THING WRITES INTO ANY MODULE THROUGH
. ANY CHANNEL OR IOC PATH OF ANY PROCESSOR. BEFORE PUSHING START, PUSH
. THE 'AUDIO' BUTTON ON THE MAINTENANCE PANEL (IT'S RIGHT BENEATH THE
. PHASE LIGHTS, AND TO THE LEFT OF 'INITIAL LOAD'.) AFTER STARTING UP
. THE PROCESSOR, BEHOLD THE MARVELOUS SOUND THAT ISSUES FROM THE ALARM
. SPEAKER ON THE OPERATOR'S CONSOLE.
.
. AFTER YOU TIRE OF THAT, TRY TYPING ON THE CONSOLE. YOUR
. INPUT WILL BE SENT BACK TO YOU IN MORSE CODE. THE SPEED OF THE MORSE
. CODE IS SET BY THE BINARY VALUE IN THE JUMP KEYS 1-10 (1 IS THE LOW
. ORDER BIT). THE JUMP KEYS ARE READ WHENEVER THE RETURN KEY IS HIT.
. YOU MAY GET AS FAR AHEAD OF THE OUTPUT AS YOU LIKE. SETTING JUMP KEY
. 15 WILL CAUSE INPUT TO BE QUEUED, AND TO BE SENT AFTER JUMP KEY 15 IS
. TURNED OFF. IF YOU TYPE NOTHING FOR 10 SECONDS AFTER OUTPUT CEASES,
. THE SYNTHESIZER WILL START AGAIN. TYPING A HAPPY-PUNCH (¤) WILL
. IMMEDIATELY ABORT THE MORSE CODE AND START THE SYNTHESIZER.
/.
AXR$
R0 EQU 0100
.
. 'HOW IT SOUNDS' CONSTANTS
.
RATE EQU ; HOW FAST TO SHIFT SYNTHESIZER REGISTER
100000
BSLENG EQU ; BASIC TIME INTERVAL FOR MORSE CODE
3
SYNPTC EQU ; SYNTHESIZER BASIC HIGH NOTE PITCH
250
MPITCH EQU ; COUNT FOR MORSE PITCH
1000
.
. REGISTER DEFINITIONS
<snip>
The Morse Code Exec
October 1971
by John Walker
As might be gleaned by examining other documents available on this site, I have somewhat of an affinity for the absurd. In terms of outrageous applications for computers, I peaked early in my career, with the program you find below. This program, written in the fall of 1971, was a full-fledged operating system which transformed a UNIVAC 1108 mainframe computer worth millions of dollars into…a code practice oscillator! When idle, it played synthesised music generated by an algorithm invented by Harry Pyle and used in a little digital gizmo he built.
This program was written more than 20 years before audio hardware became a commonplace component of computers. Nonetheless, the UNIVAC 1108 maintenance panel included an “Audio” button. This was an obscure feature intended to be used in conjunction with the program alarm for debugging operating systems. It caused the program alarm, sounded by the ALRM instruction, to be gated by the guard mode bit in the processor state register. This resulted in an audible signal on the console when the operating system was in control, for example, because the system had gone idle.
A little experimentation (no button must go unpushed, after all) revealed that even if the program alarm was not sounding, an artifact of the circuit caused the program alarm speaker on the operator's console to emit a little “tick” every time the processor went into or out of guard mode. And that, of course, was a glitch big enough to permit generation of arbitrary tones, given a suitable program to flip guard mode on and off at the proper rate.
Since user programs always ran with guard mode on, that meant the tone generation trick had to be done by code in the operating system, or by a stand-alone operating system booted from tape. I chose the latter, in large part to compound the absurdity of the whole thing; very few UNIVAC programmers ever wrote stand-alone operating systems—they wrote user programs that ran under the operating system or modified components of the operating system itself, but few ever looked at the boot code in the system or contemplated writing their own. Shortly before I wrote this program, I had been involved in the development of the boot code for CHI/OS, an operating system being developed from scratch at Chi Corporation in Cleveland, so I was sufficiently familiar with low-level boot code to pull this off.
Despite its ridiculous intent, this was a fully general 1108 operating system which could be booted by any processor of a multiprocessor system, and into any memory module. On a multiprocessor system with a console on each processor, one could even boot multiple copies into different memory banks and enjoy stereo or three-channel sound. To my knowledge, nobody ever tried this. The 1108 console had a set of “selective jump” switches on the operator's console which could be tested by programs, so I used them to allow the user to set the speed at which the Morse code was transmitted. The code even adapted automatically when run on an 1106, which it detected by timing instruction speed against the hardware real-time clock. Unhappily, the successors of the 1108 and 1106 lacked the “Audio” feature, so the Morse code exec passed into history when the machines for which it was written retired from service.
The program was written so that, when executed in user mode, it wrote its own boot tape. Gosh it was cool, late at night, to type on the console and know that several million dollars of hardware were exclusively dedicated to making Morse code come out of the speaker. Folks familiar with user-mode 1100 programming will notice some oddities resulting from the fact that this code runs in the executive set of registers, which have different memory-mapped addresses when referenced in instructions. If you're hazy on the 1100 instruction set after all these years, check out the instruction set reference.
.
. M O R S E / S Y N T H E S I Z E R E X E C
.
. OCTOBER 1971 BY JOHN WALKER
.
. YOU BOOT THE TAPE THIS THING WRITES INTO ANY MODULE THROUGH
. ANY CHANNEL OR IOC PATH OF ANY PROCESSOR. BEFORE PUSHING START, PUSH
. THE 'AUDIO' BUTTON ON THE MAINTENANCE PANEL (IT'S RIGHT BENEATH THE
. PHASE LIGHTS, AND TO THE LEFT OF 'INITIAL LOAD'.) AFTER STARTING UP
. THE PROCESSOR, BEHOLD THE MARVELOUS SOUND THAT ISSUES FROM THE ALARM
. SPEAKER ON THE OPERATOR'S CONSOLE.
.
. AFTER YOU TIRE OF THAT, TRY TYPING ON THE CONSOLE. YOUR
. INPUT WILL BE SENT BACK TO YOU IN MORSE CODE. THE SPEED OF THE MORSE
. CODE IS SET BY THE BINARY VALUE IN THE JUMP KEYS 1-10 (1 IS THE LOW
. ORDER BIT). THE JUMP KEYS ARE READ WHENEVER THE RETURN KEY IS HIT.
. YOU MAY GET AS FAR AHEAD OF THE OUTPUT AS YOU LIKE. SETTING JUMP KEY
. 15 WILL CAUSE INPUT TO BE QUEUED, AND TO BE SENT AFTER JUMP KEY 15 IS
. TURNED OFF. IF YOU TYPE NOTHING FOR 10 SECONDS AFTER OUTPUT CEASES,
. THE SYNTHESIZER WILL START AGAIN. TYPING A HAPPY-PUNCH (¤) WILL
. IMMEDIATELY ABORT THE MORSE CODE AND START THE SYNTHESIZER.
/.
AXR$
R0 EQU 0100
.
. 'HOW IT SOUNDS' CONSTANTS
.
RATE EQU ; HOW FAST TO SHIFT SYNTHESIZER REGISTER
100000
BSLENG EQU ; BASIC TIME INTERVAL FOR MORSE CODE
3
SYNPTC EQU ; SYNTHESIZER BASIC HIGH NOTE PITCH
250
MPITCH EQU ; COUNT FOR MORSE PITCH
1000
.
. REGISTER DEFINITIONS
<snip>
5038
Shortwave Broadcast / 7575 kHz Voice of Croatia Jan 2, 2013 0004Z
« on: January 02, 2013, 0030 UTC »0004Z 55444 S9+ Discussion
0028Z 55444 S9+ ID
0028Z 55544 S9+10 Music
0108Z 55544 S9+10 Music continues
0132Z 55544 S9+20 Music
0155Z 55544 S9+20 Ivana Banfic "Otisak Prsta"
0158Z 45444 S9 Ivana Kindl "Nisi Sam"
0200Z 55444 S9+10 ID
0255Z 55444 S9+10 Lisac Josipa "Zivot Je Samo Most"
0300Z 55444 S9+10 Croatia Today (English program)
0300Z 54444 S9+10 Croatians across the country welcomed the new year.
0305Z 54444 S9+10 Ireland took over the EU presidency
0309Z 54444 S9+10 Sports & weather.
0312Z 54444 S9+20 Radio Luksemburg "Hrabri Se Ne Lome"
0329Z 54444 S9+10 Zoran Mišic "Gdje Si Sad"
0330Z 54444 S9+10 La Voz de Croacia
0342Z 54444 S9+10 Music
0400Z 54444 S9+10 News
0405Z 54444 S9+10 Dalmatino "To Nije Zna Niko Ka Ja"
0410Z 54444 S9+10 Prva Liga "Ti Si Jaca Od Mene"
0426Z 54444 S9+10 Bojan Jambrosic "Dvije Zvijezde Kraj Bagrema"
0429Z 54444 S9+10 Tose Proeski "Vezi Me Za Sebe"
0432Z 54444 S9+10 Jinx "Tamo Gdje Je Sve Po Mom"
0500Z 55444 S9+10 News
0506Z 55444 S9+20 Antun Tomislav Saban "Gibonni-Kad Sam Nasamo S Njom"
0514Z 55444 S9+20 Antun Tomislav Saban "Tina Vukov-U Tudoj Ruci"
0527Z 55444 S9+20 Lisac Josipa "Živim Po Svome"
0533Z 55444 S9+20 Gabi "Za Mene Je Sreca"
0600Z Off air.
Not sure why they're on as last night was supposed to be their last broadcast. In looking at their online schedule, 7375 is not listed. Perhaps someone forgot they were to end? Hope they got a serious case of amnesia and it keeps going...
Perseus SDR with Wellbrook ALA1530S+ loop
5039
North American MW Pirate Radio / Re: 1710 KHz "The Big Q" 0557 UTC 1/1/2013
« on: January 01, 2013, 0606 UTC »
0005Z 35433 S7 ID "The Big Q"
0005Z 35433 S7 Dusty Springfield "Wishin' And Hopin'"
0008Z 35433 S8 Larry Williams "Slow Down"
0011Z 35433 S8 ID
0011Z 35433 S7 Edison Lighthouse "Love Grows"
Perseus SDR with Wellbrook ALA1530S+ loop
0005Z 35433 S7 Dusty Springfield "Wishin' And Hopin'"
0008Z 35433 S8 Larry Williams "Slow Down"
0011Z 35433 S8 ID
0011Z 35433 S7 Edison Lighthouse "Love Grows"
Perseus SDR with Wellbrook ALA1530S+ loop
5040
Longwave Loggings / Re: 495 kHz CW WESH
« on: January 01, 2013, 0308 UTC »That looks like WEOH (not WESH). Experimental amateur station WEOH -WD2XSH/16 . I believe they qsl. google for info.
Very weak here. I would have missed it if not for yer post....
Oh good grief. Yes. WEOH.
