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Loggings => North American Shortwave Pirate => Topic started by: ChrisSmolinski on December 30, 2012, 2228 UTC

Title: Fruitcake Station 6924.2 Am 2226 UTC 30 Dec 2012
Post by: ChrisSmolinski on December 30, 2012, 2228 UTC

Very strong, S8 to S9.

Title: Re: Fruitcake Station 6924.2 Am 2226 UTC 30 Dec 2012
Post by: ETM71 on December 30, 2012, 2234 UTC

SIO433 w/ something underneath in usb; "Nobody likes a fruitcake..." song @2234; Strong and wide lol; swallowed by noise here @2252

Title: Re: Fruitcake Station 6924.2 Am 2226 UTC 30 Dec 2012
Post by: olddxer on December 30, 2012, 2235 UTC

yep have them here stepping all over Liquid Radio

2236 Both very distorted at this point.
2256 "That fruit cake that you got for Christmas"
2256 off suddenly

Title: Re: Fruitcake Station 6924.2 Am 2226 UTC 30 Dec 2012
Post by: RCCI on December 30, 2012, 2245 UTC

Have them here just barely above the S5 noise floor. 22:45 UTC Illinois

Title: Re: Fruitcake Station 6924.2 Am 2226 UTC 30 Dec 2012
Post by: Rockpicker on December 30, 2012, 2254 UTC

I can just barely see the carrier.  @ 6924.2 khz
Liquid Radio's signal is up a bit -and I get a Hetrodyne when 6924.2 pops up above the noise.

I have been having a difficult time receiving Pirate sig's from the East the past few days and nights.

Propagation seems to be favoring roughly North South the past few days and especially nights.

Today and yesterday during the day Fort Collins has been strong on all bands - South of me.
MW at night has been loaded with strong sig's both from the North and South - such as 1700 khz XEPE Teccate Baja & 540 khz CBK SK CA.

Propagation is a strange mistress indeed.

Title: Re: Fruitcake Station 6924.2 Am 2226 UTC 30 Dec 2012
Post by: LighthouseOhio on December 30, 2012, 2312 UTC

Heard Very very weak here in NE Ohio.

Title: Re: Fruitcake Station 6924.2 Am 2226 UTC 30 Dec 2012
Post by: Chanter on December 30, 2012, 2343 UTC

All I had was a carrier here, then a little rough audio.  I'm not sure if the talk I heard was this station or Liquid Radio, but it was so weak and unidentifiable that it's pretty much moot anyway.  The band is ridiculously loud, but I suspect that's time of day and QRM. 

Title: Re: Fruitcake Station 6924.2 Am 2226 UTC 30 Dec 2012
Post by: Hornet0123 on December 31, 2012, 1113 UTC

SDR Catch

I can just barely hear this mixed in with the noise

Title: Re: Fruitcake Station 6924.2 Am 2226 UTC 30 Dec 2012
Post by: mr. mike on December 31, 2012, 1641 UTC

Quote from: ETM71 on December 30, 2012, 2234 UTC

SIO433 w/ something underneath in usb; "Nobody likes a fruitcake..." song @2234; Strong and wide lol; swallowed by noise here @2252

Somebody jamming/keying over, or just atmospheric weirdness?