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FM Free Radio / Re: Radio DJ Who Replaced Classical Music With Rap Faces The Music

« on: October 24, 2012, 1731 UTC »

So then he wasn't really trying to "take over" or "infiltrate" the licensed station's signal, but was pirating on a frequency just 200 kHz away and interfering.  The article makes it sound like he was deliberately trying to take over WKCP's signal.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: NRUI CW 6925 01:26z-01:28z 10-24-12

« on: October 24, 2012, 1617 UTC »

I wondered what the significance of the NRUI callsign was.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID CW 6925 01:26z-01:28z 10-24-12

« on: October 24, 2012, 1254 UTC »

From your recording:

VVV VVV
HAPPY HALLOWEEN DE NRUI NRUI NRUI 73 EE
VVV HAPPY HALLOWEEN DE NRUI NRUI NRUI EE

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID 6925CW 0126 23Oct12

« on: October 23, 2012, 1630 UTC »

Maybe they were watching the presidential debate.

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General Radio Discussion / Re: IS PIRATE RADIO DEAD ?

« on: October 23, 2012, 0334 UTC »

Man I really hate it when they remake good classic movies.  If they want to remake movies, they should only be allowed to remake crappy movies which totally sucked, like "The Room" or "Birdemic."

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General Radio Discussion / Re: I thank you, Belinda thanks you!

« on: October 22, 2012, 2152 UTC »

I don't know... I think heaven really might be a place on earth.

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FM Free Radio / Re: Radio DJ Who Replaced Classical Music With Rap Faces The Music

« on: October 22, 2012, 1732 UTC »

I hate it when non-technical reporters write articles on technical issues like this.

"Infiltrated" how?  Did he take over the STL?  From the article it's not clear, but I'm guessing that's probably what he did.

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General Radio Discussion / Re: IS PIRATE RADIO DEAD ?

« on: October 22, 2012, 1655 UTC »

You mean there's a point to pirate radio? 

For me, I just enjoy having something interesting to listen to on the HF bands.  If a pirate is going to risk his virtual neck to put a show on just so I can be entertained after a long hard day at work, then I'll definitely tune in.  I agree with Chris, I see it as a hobby.  If you're actually trying to reach the general population with your opinion, there are better ways than broadcasting to the few dozen or so of us pirate radio listeners out there.  But if you want to voice your opinion on your HF pirate station, there's nothing wrong with that, either.

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TV DX Loggings / Re: I miss analog TV!

« on: October 22, 2012, 1629 UTC »

Yeah, and not to mention snow on the screen when the station was weak.

I've never tried digital TV DXing but I'm guessing it will be pretty hard because most digital receivers will blank out when a signal is too weak.  With the old analog signals you could at least see *something* through the snow.

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Equipment / Re: POLL: What type of antenna do you use?

« on: October 22, 2012, 1509 UTC »

OK this weekend I put the vertical back up and built the switchbox.  Details in the thread I started about it.

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Equipment / New (old) antenna up at my QTH

« on: October 22, 2012, 1500 UTC »

My main HF listening antenna for the past year or so has been a ~150 ft. random wire up between two trees on my property.  I'd been noticing that it wasn't very effective at the upper ranges of the HF spectrum so decided to resurrect my old Cushcraft trap vertical.  When we first moved in here I had it up on a corner of the house, but I had so much noise there (probably due to its proximity to power lines on the north side of the house and not having a good ground) I had about an S9 noise floor but little signal.  This weekend I put it up next to the garage and it is working great.  I still need to run a few ground radials, install a grounding rod, and get about 100' of coax and run it properly under the eaves of the house and garage rather than the just-long-enough coax running across the ground from the window to the house.  But for now it works.

I built a switchbox to be able to switch between either the wire or the vertical, and to switch both of them in together if I want.  I've found that on some signals with selective fading, it helps to have both antennas connected since sometimes the horizontal polarity fades but comes in strong vertically, and vice-versa.  I've noticed that signals which were coming in OK on just one antenna really jump up a few S-units when both are switched in.  This is what I learned in the military is called polarity diversity.  There's also the advantage of space diversity, but my two antennas probably aren't far enough apart to take advantage of that.

At any rate, I should be able to pick up signals in the upper HF spectrum better.  With the 10/11 meter opening this weekend, I definitely noticed a difference between the vertical and the wire.

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Equipment / Re: DARPA-Funded Radio HackRF Aims To Be $300 Wireless Swiss Army Knife For Hackers

« on: October 22, 2012, 1442 UTC »

Now if they had one that went down to, say, 60 HZ or so up to 6 GHZ, then we'd have a decent, all band receiver (or transceiver)

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Wolverine Radio 10/19/12 0016 6925USB

« on: October 20, 2012, 0201 UTC »

Anything by Pink Floyd, Led Zepplin, or Dire Straits is good for me.

Absolutely awesome signal booming in here to Kansas tonight.

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Utility / Re: A few 11175 KHz logs.

« on: October 15, 2012, 1854 UTC »

They use multiple transmitters, but I don't know where they're all located.  That's why they often have that echo.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID Phonetics 6925/6950USB 0131z 15Oct2012

« on: October 15, 2012, 1611 UTC »

Sounds like an excellent spoof of EAM's as heard on 11175 and other USAF frequencies.  In fact, that's what I thought it was until I noticed the "ROMNEY SUCKS" message.  I'll have to look up the callsign "SULFURIC" and see what I can find.