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Loggings => European Pirates and Private Stations => Topic started by: Ray Lalleu on January 25, 2021, 1136 UTC
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Not Mystery Radio 21
Mystery Radio 21 was not on the air on 24 Jan 2021.
(came on the air after midnight UTC time)
edit on 27 Jan 2021 :
much fuss about that tip ! I found it with name= Mystery, time = 2135z, date = 24 Jan 2021,
merged in the European pirate forum (but moved from the N.American SW pirate forum).
As discussed below, it was really from 0135 UTC on 25 Jan 2021,
but posted initially with local EST time and date, UNID and in the wrong forum!
So, after many moves, and updates to the subject,
the situation was hard to untangle.
Now I have split the useful replies, and left the fuss here for your enlightenment.
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Thanks Frank and Ray. It could well have been Mystery Radio 21, as the original report from Alleycat was in fact posted at 1:39 UTC on 25 January as the UTC date. Not sure if he posted the wrong time and date, or if it got scrambled when moved to European Pirates. I bet this was that operator.
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As the post from alleycat was dated '2135z' on 24 Jan 2021,
I had no doubts that the listening time was 2135 UTC at least when he began.
But as the post was stamped at 0139 UTC, could it be that his listening began at 0135 UTC ? And 2135 would have been his local time on the East Coast ?
After several changes of the subject line, it's more and more difficult to protect the data in the original subject.
I advise everyone to copy his first time in the beginning of the text, even if not adding later more details with time for each one. Maybe the tentative ID at that time should be added too, if not really clear, at least if the post is the first of a new thread (and surely the frequency too, as many stations jump in the middle of a transmission). All that data a second time in the beginning of a posting is protected against every subject renaming.
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Sorry for any confusion - I probably posted as I was listening, so the GMT timestamp may be correct; *possibly* I calculated it incorrectly from my local time zone (Eastern Standard), but as someone who's been an active utility monitor and ham operator since the late 1970's, I find it hard to believe I goofed this badly.
I notice the notation "Last Edit: January 25, 2021, 0817 UTC by Skipmuck" at the bottom of my post. Is there some way to know what the nature of that edit was?
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Sorry for any confusion - I probably posted as I was listening, so the GMT timestamp may be correct; *possibly* I calculated it incorrectly from my local time zone (Eastern Standard), but as someone who's been an active utility monitor and ham operator since the late 1970's, I find it hard to believe I goofed this badly.
I notice the notation "Last Edit: January 25, 2021, 0817 UTC by Skipmuck" at the bottom of my post. Is there some way to know what the nature of that edit was?
Hello alleycat! I saw the discrepancy between the 2135 UTC in the Subject and the posting time of 0139 UTC, so I made a correction of the time to 0135 UTC and the date as the 25th. After looking at the changes I made to the time and the date, I realized that you might have heard it at 2135 UTC but posted it later at 0139 UTC. I had no way of knowing for sure, so I changed it back in hopes somebody would clarify the original posting. Sorry for the confusion, but if you posted in real time, then the subject time would be 0135 UTC and the date the 25th. I also had changed the title to Mystery Radio when I moved the posting to European Pirate, then merged it with the existing posting. I undid that also and left your posting as it was originally, but forgot to change the link from the North American pirate posting!
Here's the link to the post I originally merged it with, then "un-merged"
https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,77222.0.html