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Loggings => North American Shortwave Pirate => Topic started by: ka1iic on January 03, 2016, 1345 UTC
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Receiving the OTR Station on 6770 KHZ 1330 UTC 01/03/2016
Just at the noise level but I heard enough on peaks to know it's there. I am beginning to think this station is on 24/7.
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i was listening to it this morning between 7:00am and 8:00am ET, it came up pretty strong for a short while and sounded like old radio mystery programs playing with well great sounding modulated audio within 10Khz bandwidth however, its right on the dot of 6770 Khz.
i suspect some type of crystal controlled tube transmitter with an output of 5 watts or less.
ive been checking out OTR every day at different times between 12/27 and today and have never seen the carrier disappear from the waterfall.
even at 3:00am ET i can see the carrier on the waterfall but thats it.
i have to wonder if this is intentionally done to provide some sort of "entertainment service" for an old friend that does not have a computer/internet to play this content.
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I been thinking of it too. I use to have a 5 watt carrier current rig I made from an article from Popular Electronics (early 1970's). Heising modulation 6AQ5 RF driven by another 6AQ5 for the modulator. Had it on the Broadcast Band at 1000 KHZ. Trouble was the electrical wiring in the old house I was living in wasn't in any kind of shield and there were a lot of lines to nowhere so it radiated to the 'outside' world like crazy. Also the fact that the house was over 30 feet tall didn't help. I did have my own pole pig so it didn't radiate down the power lines to my neighbors so to speak.
You know... It just might be a hook up for one of those 'retirement' homes for older dudes like me... just an idea... The BCB is so full in alot of places not like where I was in Maine... lots of open BCB space up there... low noise too in most places.
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OTR has been on more or less continuously for about a year and a half now. From what I've read (mostly things posted by members/admins of this forum, actually) and elsewhere on the Internet, there are no legal stations licensed for that frequency.
According to this post --> http://www.radiohobbyist.org/blog/?p=1495 (http://www.radiohobbyist.org/blog/?p=1495) on Chris S's blog, the first logging on HF Underground of Old Time Radio was on May 18th, 2014. It has been going since then.