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Loggings => North American MW Pirate Radio => Topic started by: JollyGreen on August 31, 2022, 0115 UTC
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Hearing music, mostly Classic Rock, S9 -S 10 signal level competing with noise from weather.
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You didn't mention from where you were listening but there is a some sort of broadcast (low power, pirate?) in Sturgis, SD on the frequency playing Classic Rock. I don't believe really a pirate.
http://www.knkl.net/
BTW, welcome to the board.
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Huh... It doesn't come up on Radio locator. Here in SW WV, I still mainly hear that pest TIS from NJ on 1710AM. However, I have occasionally heard a few notes of tunage in there with it and wondered about that. Certainly, nothing that I could possibly ID with that damned TIS in there. Huh...
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Frequency: 1710
Mode: AM
Date: 3 September 2022
Time: 0431
SINPO: 33333 in Brimingham AL
Signal meter: S5+
0431 - Queen - Under Presssure
0435 - Grand Funk Railroad - Footstompin' Music
0438 - Van Morrison - Brown Eyed Girl
0443 - OM and YL talking
0444 - Big Brother and the Holding Company
0449 - Rod Stewart - Young Turks
0454 - Vanilla Fudge - STRA/You Keep Me Hanging On
0500 - The Eagles - Twenty-One
0504 - The Doobie Brothers - Wheel of Fortune
0508 - OM speaking
0523 - ZZ Top - Cheap Sunglasses
0528 - Lynard Skynard - That Smell
0534 - Rod Stewart - Downtown Train
0538 - STYX - Snowblind
0544 - Canned Heat - On The Road Again
0550 - Head East - Never Been Any Reason
0554 - CSN&Y - Helpless
0557 - YL ID??
0558 - Seals & Crofts - Hummingbird
0600 - Areosmith - Sweat Emotion
1355 - Stlll on with Classic Rock Format
Thanks for the broadcast. PSE e-QSL to bad_fish@hotmail.com
(https://i.imgur.com/60yVIHW.jpg)
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05:00 UTC - I can hear someone speaking (non-English) down into the background noise but the station is too weak unreadable and fading in and out from my location.
05:02 UTC - Now in English, something about direction (of travel) and a web address: www.??.com for further information.
RSPduo | End-fed longwire
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05:00 UTC - I can hear someone speaking (non-English) down into the background noise but the station is too weak unreadable and fading in and out from my location.
05:02 UTC - Now in English, something about direction (of travel) and a web address: www.??.com for further information.
RSPduo | End-fed longwire
That is the Hudson County travellers information station on this frequency.
I can’t hear a signal other than the Hudson County TIS on any receiver :(
Still going at 1850 UTC! Got it on the N4DKD KiwiSDR in Alabama.
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Ref the Hudson County TIS, not bad for a 10 watt station.
FCC Universal Licensing System: WQFG689 (https://wireless2.fcc.gov/UlsApp/UlsSearch/licenseFreqSum.jsp?licKey=2826342)
I did find a thread indicating that the power was increased during the COVID pandemic "increase power from 10 to 100 watts for 90 days or the cessation of the national emergency, whichever occurs first" and that as of March 2021 "WQFG689 does still appear to be transmitting with increased power".
Unknown at this time if the station is operating at 10 or 100 watts.
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Here in Springfield, Massachusetts I am located about 2-1/2 miles from the Springfield Armory National Historic Site with it's TIS on 1710 AM "broadcasting with 10 powerful watts of powerful sound atop Springfield Technical Community College". It is S9 24/7/365 and rarely does anything overpower it, although I have heard the NJ TIS and Radio Corsair in the past. The announcement is looped. It is about a minute 28 seconds long and a YL speaks over an unid big band instrumental. Here is what it sounds like from my location.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1XbmRL3MwjFovrFys0I1SBIgCzWmMvLNJ/view?usp=sharing
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Identification heard at 1948 UTC. I couldn’t understand but I am recording and I will post it when I am done recording.
1948 UTC-ID “Your listening to ?? 1710”
1948 UTC-Da Ya Think I'm Sexy? by Rod Stewart
1952 UTC-Whiskey, If You Were A Woman by Highway 101
1955 UTC-Eclipse by Pink Floyd
1957 UTC-Harmony Song by Pure Prairie League
2003 UTC-Natural Thing by The Doobie Brothers
2006 UTC-Hot Stuff by The Rolling Stones
2012 UTC-Handle With Care by The Traveling Wilburys
2015 UTC-Shambala by Three Dog Night
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Here is my recording: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtVLdmJh9Y4
Please have a listen and see if you can tell what the station ID says. It is at the very start of the recording. I have listened to it repeatedly and I think it might be "Your listening to shortwave 1710" but I'm not sure. I had recorded longer but YouTube sucks and it wouldn't let me publish the whole recording because it had Take It Easy by The Eagles in it >:(
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I hear: "Your listening to shortwave 1710".
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I hear: "Your listening to shortwave 1710".
Thank you, this confirms what I thought.
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Ref the Hudson County TIS, not bad for a 10 watt station.
FCC Universal Licensing System: WQFG689 (https://wireless2.fcc.gov/UlsApp/UlsSearch/licenseFreqSum.jsp?licKey=2826342)
I did find a thread indicating that the power was increased during the COVID pandemic "increase power from 10 to 100 watts for 90 days or the cessation of the national emergency, whichever occurs first" and that as of March 2021 "WQFG689 does still appear to be transmitting with increased power".
Unknown at this time if the station is operating at 10 or 100 watts.
They are still running at 100 watts. This is why 1710 is not a good frequency choice for pirates, 1720 and above would be better.
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Still going today.
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For folks in the upper South, the state of KY. uses 530 and 1710 for TIS starting at roughly at and west of I-65.
There are so many TIS's on 1710 these days, unless you're hearing an actual broadcast clearly, it's hard to tell what it is.
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I used to get a religious station from Baton Rouge aimed at a Hispanic audience on 1710, it got busted, and of course, Lubvitcher Radio out of NYC. The latter folded it's tent when Rabbi Schneerson died and failed to resurrect.
The Springfield TIS used to be a regular visitor.
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Still going today, S7 with the Birmingham Alabama KiwiSDR.
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1710 adult standards to south 8 Nov 0143 UTC
Not terribly strong
South antenna best, weak on west.
I'm just north of Toronto