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Title: Sternradio 6963.7 AM 0154 UTC 24 MAR 2024
Post by: Charlie_Dont_Surf on March 24, 2024, 0154 UTC
Changed freqs a couple times at start up. Currently on 6963.67 (approximately).
Listening on and off near the ocean in CA on a portable and a long wire. SINPO 33232 / S5 on peaks with a fair amount of flutter tonight. (The same thing was happening to Solar Federation Radio.)

0311 - Computer-generated male and female voices. Perhaps reading the email address in English and German.
0315 - Carrier off immediately after completion of national-anthem-type of song.
Title: Re: Sternradio 6963.7 AM 0154 UTC 24 MAR 2024
Post by: Chuck54 on March 24, 2024, 0158 UTC
S8-9  SIO 444  SINPO 45444

0157 UTC Money Is Not Our God by Killing Joke
0202 Destillat by Das Ich

Thanks for the broadcast!
Title: Re: Sternradio 6963.7 AM 0154 UTC 24 MAR 2024
Post by: Dr. Strangelove on March 24, 2024, 0200 UTC
S7 here
Title: Re: Sternradio 6963.7 AM 0154 UTC 24 MAR 2024
Post by: RobRich on March 24, 2024, 0200 UTC
0201z - Music. SIO 544 trending 545. Peaking over S9+10 via Airspy HF+D and 31' vertical. Static crashing and some fading but a good copy with wide audio as usual.
0203z - Sternradio station ID
0206z - 6963.664KHz
0226z - Sternradio station ID and QSL info
0233z - Music | 6963.662KHz
0303z - Sternradio station ID
0311z - End of broadcast announcement
0315z - Off air

Thanks for the broadcast! :)
Title: Re: Sternradio 6963.7 AM 0154 UTC 24 MAR 2024
Post by: Paul65 on March 24, 2024, 0201 UTC
0159 UTC Music heard but too noisy   sinpo 22222 :-[
0208 UTC Definately Stern Radio Computerized voice
Title: Re: Sternradio 6963.7 AM 0154 UTC 24 MAR 2024
Post by: myteaquinn on March 24, 2024, 0202 UTC
0202: Destillat by Das Ich.
0203: Station id. Into Metalhammer by And One.
Title: Re: Sternradio 6963.7 AM 0154 UTC 24 MAR 2024
Post by: WA0093SWL on March 24, 2024, 0203 UTC
Sternradio666 ID
Title: Re: Sternradio 6963.7 AM 0154 UTC 24 MAR 2024
Post by: Blackswan on March 24, 2024, 0204 UTC
0203 ID Stern Radio.

B.S.
Title: Re: Sternradio 6963.7 AM 0154 UTC 24 MAR 2024
Post by: TrueNorthSWL on March 24, 2024, 0206 UTC
0204: Carrier S6 to S9. Decent audio reception with fading.
Title: Re: Stern Radio 6963.66 AM 0154 UTC 24 MAR 2024
Post by: William Hassig on March 24, 2024, 0207 UTC
Tuned in at 0203 utc on Barrington Hills IL sdr with fair S5-S7 signal, technopop music, at 0209 male then female said "this is Stern Radio"   
Title: Re: Sternradio 6963.7 AM 0154 UTC 24 MAR 2024
Post by: Sarge94 on March 24, 2024, 0213 UTC
0212 - Perfect Sunrise - Stromkern
0216 - Put Your Trust in Me - Neuroactive
Title: Re: Sternradio 6963.7 AM 0154 UTC 24 MAR 2024
Post by: osiris on March 24, 2024, 0214 UTC
Not going to argue over a few hz.  :P

(https://i.postimg.cc/hvn0Yxqs/20240323-221053.jpg)

0211: Techno
Title: Re: Sternradio 6963.7 AM 0154 UTC 24 MAR 2024
Post by: Shortwave_Listener on March 24, 2024, 0224 UTC
S9 direct.

0224 UTC-Music
Title: Re: Sternradio 6963.7 AM 0154 UTC 24 MAR 2024
Post by: WA0093SWL on March 24, 2024, 0225 UTC
Just saw them go from DSB-AM to USB-AM to LSB-AM then back to DSB-AM
Title: Re: Sternradio 6963.7 AM 0154 UTC 24 MAR 2024
Post by: Jim Renfrew on March 24, 2024, 0230 UTC
Strong signal in western NY on 6963.6 khz

Announcements are hard to get even with a strong signal, computerized voice seems deliberately distorted

0158z   Electronic music
0203z   "Stern Radio" (thanks to others who have posted on this one, I thought I was hearing "Syko" or "Samurai" but now I hear "Stern")
0226z  "Stern Radio" with address for QSLs. but I copuldn't quite get it, even with a phonestic alphabet, maybe "sternradio666@", finishing with "Das ist Stern Radio"

Drake R8B, 600 foot longwire aimed west

Title: Re: Sternradio 6963.7 AM 0154 UTC 24 MAR 2024
Post by: MDK2 on March 24, 2024, 0234 UTC
About SIO 222 here. Thanks for the show.
Title: Re: Sternradio 6963.7 AM 0154 UTC 24 MAR 2024
Post by: elburndx on March 24, 2024, 0238 UTC
S9+38 signal!

0236 Psychoburbia - Dance Or Die
0239 This Much 2.0 - Battery
Title: Re: Sternradio 6963.7 AM 0154 UTC 24 MAR 2024
Post by: ChrisLobdell on March 24, 2024, 0306 UTC
0305 Talk, phases being repeated S9 *
Title: Re: Sternradio 6963.7 AM 0154 UTC 24 MAR 2024
Post by: Charlie_Dont_Surf on March 24, 2024, 0322 UTC
Just saw them go from DSB-AM to USB-AM to LSB-AM then back to DSB-AM

Yeah, I noticed this a few times too. I thought there might be some sort of weird selective fading or cancellation of one sideband going on in the ionosphere so I looked at other SDRs but saw the same thing happening there too, so it must have been coming from the transmitter.

Anyway, this just means that (I assume) they have independent control of the individual sidebands, so the transmitted signal is a summation of a carrier + LSB + USB. Which can be handy to have, I suppose. Unless you have a spectrum display you would never know by just by listening to the audio.
Title: Re: Sternradio 6963.7 AM 0154 UTC 24 MAR 2024
Post by: Charlie_Dont_Surf on March 24, 2024, 0333 UTC
Not going to argue over a few hz.  :P

(https://i.postimg.cc/hvn0Yxqs/20240323-221053.jpg)

I got the frequency for the thread title from a GPS-locked kiwi SDR. (I didn't use the readout on my portable, which didn't quite agree). I then checked that kiwi against another GPS-locked kiwi and the two kiwis were within 1 Hz, which is expected. You might want to check your RX against CHU.