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Loggings => Shortwave Broadcast => Topic started by: RadioDiscountCabbage on July 31, 2014, 0950 UTC
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This was a new one for my logs: A sports talk station principally on the MW band in Uruguay called Radio Sarnadi has a SSB relay at 6.045 MHz. It is a very low power station, transmitted at a mere 300 hertz. I always get excited when I log low power South American stations like this one, especailly those low power station in Spanish rather than Portugese, since I can fluently correspond with the station which helps loads when you are dealing with a small domestic outfit.
I will be calling up the station later today to ask a bit about their broadcasts (specifically why they transmit on SW in a mode rarely used for commercial radio) so I can have a complete log and will report back.
Has anyone else logged them?
Here is my log:
Tuned 6.045 MHz on USB, best reception with Grundig 750 using Apex 700 DTA active antenna clipped to (and thus tuning) my first ever HF antenna: a 25' roll of aluminum foil rigged up on the south and east facing crown molding of my shack. SINPO: 24232.
Programming was in Spanish. Despite the noisy band I was able to copy:
09.16-09.20 Zulu: Two announcers discussing Luiz Suarez (the biter from the World Cup!) who is apparently due to learn his fate soon.
09.20-09.30: Smaller domestic teams were discussed and the station ID was given at the half.
By 09.38 Zulu the signal was overcome by noise and I was unable to dig it out by adjusting gain.
End RR.
Has anyone else picked up this runt of a signal on SSB?
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Very cool. I will have to break out the SDR & try for this one tonight. Thanx for the heads up.