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Loggings => North American Shortwave Pirate => Topic started by: Zoidberg on December 18, 2022, 0122 UTC
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4185 AM
Caught show opening just after I got home from errands. This was supposed to be my rest day from running workouts (prepping for half marathon), so a good excuse to put up my feet and listen.
0104 UTC Op chatter about new battery for broadcast, Sevendust "Xmas Day"
0128z op checking HFU logs, shout-out to loggers, Smooshing Pimpkins "Beguiled"
0128z RHCP "Dani California", able to Shazam that from across the room. Shazam usually struggles on my phone with music in sideband, but better in AM
0150z Redhat chatter about challenges of playing radio outside or via mobile in cold weather.
0157z op chatter, checking logs, "Some Velvet Morning" by Lee Hazelwood and Nancy Sinatra, possibly the weirdest pop song of that era to actually become a minor hit. More popular now than it was then (yeah, I'm old enough to remember).
0205z Same song, Some Velvet Morning, this time Primal Scream with Kate Moss.
SINPO 44323, S3-7 rapid fluttering peaks and fades, better than usual to my indoor antenna setup. Great audio, as usual. Kinda makes me wish the Palstar had the kind of adjustable AGC as some better SDR setups.
By 0205z signal improving, SINPO 44333, S9 peaks, somewhat less crazy fluttering fades.
0218z Redhat chatter, peaking S9+ now. Reading logs: "'Rock song by woman'. I'm guessing that's Garbage." (I laughed harder than I should have over how that sounded. )
0224z "Chinese High" Gang Gang Dance
0227z Spoon "On the Radio" , SINPO 44444 now
0234z Redhat talking about challenges of playing radio in cold mobile unit without gloves, tech issues with antenna and fiber optic cable. Reading logs from email.
0240z my recording will include a loud sneeze because I'm recording off the speaker using my backup phone ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
0241z "Ballad of Chasey Lain" Bloodhound Gang. Never heard this one before ;)
0248z Kraftwerk "Radioactivity" remaster
0300z mic doesn't have frost on it yet but getting almost cold enough. Chris Cornell "Long Gone"
0319z Fifi "Criminal", strong peaks, a bit more fading again, SINPO 54334
0332z Dido "Don't Believe in Love" conditions back to beginning of broadcast, S5-9, rapid fluttering peaks and fades.
0354z Chromatics "Time Rider" , signal hanging in there but conditions fading, SINPO 44323
0358z 3EB "I Want You"
0408z sign off ID and chatter, Flunk "Blue Monday"
Palstar R30C with indoor RF Systems EMF antenna strung along the ceiling, beer can end transformer dangling across the curtain rod. Works a little better than bare random wire, especially after guesstimating number of coils in feed line and ferrite chokes to control local noise.
Six off-air recordings, five of which are a few minutes long throughout broadcast, one was two hours long. Audio quality of my recording is pretty mediocore due to the open mic on my old phone picking up room noise. I kept fiddling with distance between the phone and speaker, recorder AGC and levels, wav vs mp3, but none of it really helped. Too bad because my previous off air recordings using this method outdoors were fine, probably because there was no room noise and reverb messing with phasing.
The actual broadcast audio quality and signal were very good. For about an hour it was near broadcast quality signal, comparable to how I usually receive Radio New Zealand and Australia here at night.
https://archive.org/details/xfm-4185-am-2022-12-17-20-05-10
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Sadly, a very weak carrier here...fragments of audio but mostly deep in the noise :(
0132 UTC I can tell redhat is talking but no chance of copy
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SINPO=14221
123- Hearing fast beat to music, but can't copy anything other than that right now, unfortunately.
133- Hearing Redhat on the mic, but still can't copy.
228- Brief fade up, "On The Radio" by Spoon.
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01:27 UTC - Sadly, very weak to me as well and I have to contend with an S6 buzzing noise level and XFM is only at an S7. Just some occasional splatters of audio;
04:02 UTC - Red Hat signing off with shout-out to HFU users;
04:10 UTC - End of broadcast.
Thank you for the show ... listening saved by a Kiwi SDR.
P.S. SIP is Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) and is used for Voice over IP (VoIP).
RSPduo | Barker & Williamson T2FD antenna
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Pushing it up to S9+19 tonight!
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signal S9+5 on the SDR in Milford, PA
01.31 talking, greetings to HFU reporters, ID, email + music in the background
01.38 song "Beguiled" ?
01.42 ID
01.42 song "Poem"
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0134 UTC S7 into W PA...
0248 UTC S7 up and down. Nice Show Thx
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Only bits of audio , monster QRN my location.
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XFM is S9 here in Central Wisconsin. Good signal here.
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0132 "Bruised and bloodied" - Seether, Redhat w/ ID and talk incl. conditions, shout outs, email address, "Beguiled" - Smashing Pumpkins.
S8 - 9 some surges of noise periodically.
Thanks for the show Redhat!
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Carrier is up and down, but some music is heard at times. Too faint to identify what is said. Still, thanks for the show.
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0140 UTC The Smashing Pumpkins - Beguiled S6-S7 signal with a lot of fading here in SE WI
0142 UTC Taproot - Poem
0146 UTC Red Hot Chili Peppers - Dani California
Thanks for the show!
Radio: Grundig Satellit 800
Antenna: End fed random wire antenna
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35333
0150z XFM Power to the X ID
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Good signal at 0148 tune in
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0145z
Good signal into Central Missouri. - S9+10
0146z
ID'd as XFM
The power of X
Thanks for the show.
0150z
Talked about being cold. Need to use gloves to put up the antenna. Looking for gloves.
0214z
ID'd
Got email about distortion from "Outhouse Radio". XFM sounded good in head phones. Still looking for gloves.
0411z
Sign Off
QSL appreciated.
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booming on the memphis tenn sdr http://km4rt.ddns.net:8073/
warm thoughts RH !!!!
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Weak and very noisy here.
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4185 AM
Signal is fair to weak with noisy conditions; listening in sideband currently.
01:55z "..it's definitely one of those nights.." - Redhat
01:57z ID
Good to hear ya XFM!
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Tuned in at 0208 utc on Traverse City MI sdr with fair S9 to S9+20 signal, excellent audio, listening in CQUAM, hear rock tune sung by woman, at 0219 he read my comment on HFU, still going strong at 0349 with many nice pop tunes, off air at 0411 utc. Thanks for the broadcast.
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Decent signal here tonight. Thanks for the show RH.
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S7 to S8, good copy @ 0233 with Redhat on the mic, discussing heater problem and giving shoutouts [thanks!]. Some utility QRM on the LSB
0314 - S8 with "Impossible" Royksopp
0407 - "Blue Monday" cover by Flunk
Thanks for the show!
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10-20 over here but with a high noise level tonight. Still sounding good. Thanks for the show!
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listening to the harmonic 8370 khz at S5 in Vt
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Considering the second harmonic on the transmitter is measured at better than -50dBc, It is MUCH more likely you heard an image created within your receiving system.
Thanks all for making the best of a cruddy night. Much enjoyed on this side of the mic!
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0135 bits of weak audio through the noise, not the Red Hat signal of yore ... :-\