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General Radio Discussion / Re: Radio (KCBS?) Pyongyang shut down?

« on: May 25, 2024, 2125 UTC »

I think that's it, just the reunification ones in accordance with the new NK policy that reunification is no longer the goal...which by the way all the "experts" consider scary and menacing, but I think it's a positive step.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: "6969" 6969 USB/LSB/AM/FM 0005 UTC 21 MAY 2024

« on: May 21, 2024, 0037 UTC »

0037 strong into NE PA SDR, AM mode. 0040 may have switched mode since sidebands largely went away in display, but nothing in NBFM mode so who knows. Distorted announcement but I think they only ID'd as 6969...there was an email address which I missed. Frequency jumping around quite a bit.

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General Radio Discussion / Re: List of Latin American shortwave stations from 1992

« on: May 21, 2024, 0029 UTC »

NQC, the South Africa thing sounded vaguely familiar to me so I checked a little.  See page 3 of https://www.ontheshortwaves.com/Stations/SW_History_of_South_Africa-Colin_Miller-MT_Nov_1995.pdf. 3356 and 4945 in the 1959s for Spribngbok Radio...I think this may have extended into the 1970s when I started with SWDX but I can't remember. I see some early 1970s FRENDX logs showing 49/41m for them, so maybe they gave up the tropical bands by then, or maybe they weren't heard into N America.

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General Radio Discussion / Re: List of Latin American shortwave stations from 1992

« on: May 01, 2024, 1817 UTC »

I think I've seen bits and pieces of that Klemetz book at https://www.dxinfo.se/ but I've never seen the book. He and I were in Bogotá around the same time in the early 1990s (he was a much more consistent DXer than me!) but I never knew about him till years later.  You can see some of his logs at https://www.hard-core-dx.com/swb/Dline94.htm.

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Latin American Pirate / Re: Radio Amexinha 7550 AM 2050 UTC 29 APR 2024

« on: April 30, 2024, 2257 UTC »

Same frequency 2250 UTC 20 APR, poor/fair at best on Padrinho BR SDR (maybe the same one noted above, not sure) but it's a noisy night there.

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General Radio Discussion / Re: List of Latin American shortwave stations from 1992

« on: April 30, 2024, 1743 UTC »

There is a lot more available, old FRENDXs (https://www.worldradiohistory.com/NASWA_Frendx.htm) and other stuff, if you really want to go down that rabbit hole! And there are five other editions (1978-96) of what I linked in the original post, just in a different format, at http://radiophj.web.fc2.com/rnm/ladx.html. 

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Shortwave Broadcast / UnID 6135 AM (Brazil?) 0145 UTC 29 APR 2024

« on: April 29, 2024, 0225 UTC »

US show tunes, jazz cover of Eleanor Rigby, mostly instrumental but a couple of English songs, mostly stuck in a 1930s-40s timewarp except for the Eleanor Rigby piece and one classical one, strong into Padrinho Brazil SDR but almost inaudible on other South Americans (Paraguay, Argentina, further north in Brazil) and inaudible in Europe and North America.  I know people have reported R Santa Cruz but clearly not in this case.  It's Radio Scalla-type programming but not the same as their livestream at all. (https://radioscalla.minharadioonline.net/) so maybe they have two programs. No announcements at all in 40+ minutes. Signal really took a dive 0230, like the amplifier went off and only the exciter was left.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Sternradio 6952.6 AM 0042 APRIL 28 2024

« on: April 29, 2024, 0134 UTC »

For some (pretty obvious) reason this reminds me of the old Sprockets segment of SNL.

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General Radio Discussion / Radio Sutatenza museum video

« on: April 28, 2024, 0433 UTC »

If you remember Radio Sutatenza, from Colombia on 5095 and maybe other frequencies, you can see the "house museum" in the town of Sutatenza at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-moDF1IXFQ.  They have the original 100w transmitter from 1947 (at 6:30) and some receivers of the era. 

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Ball Smacker 6960 AM 0056 UTC 26 APR 2024

« on: April 27, 2024, 0123 UTC »

While sites like this are awesome, they kind of take the sport away from Ball Smacker's guess-the-theme nights! Strong into NE once that wideband thing went away 0125.

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Equipment / Re: MFJ is closing down

« on: April 26, 2024, 2330 UTC »

It isn't clear to me if Martin tried and failed to sell the company, or if that wasn't something he considered.  The first thing I thought of was that this will accelerate the ARRL's decline, given what MFJ ad revenue meant to the print QST. I'm one of the many who didn't renew, in my case after 20+ years, when they went to the surcharge for print.  I don't know what it means for ham radio in North America as a whole--it's possible that once the behemoth of peripherals is gone, we'll see a new blossoming of small-scale, more specialized providers as we had pre-MFJ.  Or maybe someone will approach Martin to acquire one or more of the brands he bought up over the years, if not MFJ as a whole.

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Latin American Pirate / Radio Casa (Brazil) 8000 AM 0215 UTC 25 APR 2024

« on: April 25, 2024, 0223 UTC »

Strong in Pardinho, Brazil SDR and audible (barely) in Arvika, Sweden, "Oito mil kilohertz, Radio Casa," not making it to US though. Not same as livestream, though.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Musical Soundtrack Radio 6935 AM 0030 UTC 23 APR 2024

« on: April 23, 2024, 0107 UTC »

Coming into France SDR F4KIY weak but readable 0106. 0111 Officer Krupke which for me is always the highlight so I found a close SDR .

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European Pirates and Private Stations / Re: Polka Radio 6480 AM 1404 UTC 21 APR 2024

« on: April 21, 2024, 1635 UTC »

1630 Tanya Tucker, "When I Die I'll Go To Texas" and then some techno-beat thing, so not very Polka. Decent into S German SDR.

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European Pirates and Private Stations / Re: UNID 6260.30 AM 1330 UTC 21 APR 2024

« on: April 21, 2024, 1353 UTC »

Decent but not terribly strong signal into Wessex UK SDR, 1352 Dancing in the Dark (Springsteen), frequency as noted. Off 1355 after Rule Britannia.