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North American Shortwave Pirate / Moonlight Radio 6930 USB 0032 UTC 2 Dec 2015

« on: December 02, 2015, 0049 UTC »

Hearing bits of music in between the QRM from the peskies.
0032 CCR "Run Through The Jungle"
0035 CCR "I Heard It Through The Grapevine"
0042 ID over music
0044 Another iD

9872

North American Shortwave Pirate / The Crystal Ship 3431 AM 2330 UTC 1 Dec 2015

« on: December 01, 2015, 2330 UTC »

"Power Of Love"

9873

SDR - Software Defined Radio / Problems building CubicSDR

« on: December 01, 2015, 2123 UTC »

I decided to give building CubicSDR a try. I followed the instructions here: https://github.com/cjcliffe/CubicSDR/wiki/Build-OSX
I did have to make one change, I think there were typos on these two lines:

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ccliffe$ cd CubicSDR/cmake_build
ccliffe$ cmake ../ -DwxWidgets_CONFIG_EXECUTABLE=/Users/<YOUR_USERNAME>/wxWidgets/wxWidgets-staticlib/bin/wx-config -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DBUNDLE_APP=1 -DCPACK_BINARY_DRAGNDROP=1

I ended up with an app that runs, but does not find any RTL devices.  Any ideas?

Here's the build steps I used:

Build wxWidgets
mkdir ~/Dev
mkdir ~/Dev/wxWidgets-build
cd ~/Dev
wget http://sourceforge.net/projects/wxwindows/files/3.0.2/wxWidgets-3.0.2.tar.bz2/download
tar -xvjpf download
cd wxWidgets-3.0.2
./configure --with-opengl --disable-shared --enable-monolithic --with-libjpeg --with-libtiff --with-libpng --with-zlib --with-mac --disable-sdltest --enable-unicode --enable-display --enable-propgrid --disable-webkit --disable-webview --disable-webviewwebkit --with-macosx-version-min=10.9 --prefix=/Users/cps/Dev/wxWidgets-staticlib CXXFLAGS="-std=c++0x" --with-libiconv=/usr
make && make install


Build SoapySDR

###sudo apt-get install git build-essential automake cmake
git clone https://github.com/pothosware/SoapySDR.git
cd SoapySDR
mkdir build
cd build
cmake .. -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release
make
sudo make install
SoapySDRUtil --info


Build CubicSDR
cd ~/Dev
git clone https://github.com/cjcliffe/CubicSDR.git
cmake ../ -DwxWidgets_CONFIG_EXECUTABLE=/Users/cps/Dev/wxWidgets-staticlib/bin/wx-config -DCMAKE_BUILD_TYPE=Release -DBUNDLE_APP=1 -DCPACK_BINARY_DRAGNDROP=1
cpack

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North American Shortwave Pirate / THX1138 6925 AM 2100 UTC 1 Dec 2015

« on: December 01, 2015, 2100 UTC »

Just signed on with The Who "Who Are You", S7 signal.
ID at 2151.

9875

North American Shortwave Pirate / UNID 6840 AM 1952 UTC 1 Dec 2015

« on: December 01, 2015, 1956 UTC »

On for about a minute, not very strong, SIO 222. Someone conducting a test?

9876

Software / Sneak Peek - New Version of Cocoa1090 Aircraft Transponder app

« on: December 01, 2015, 1916 UTC »

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Amphetamine Radio 6930 AM 1904 UTC 1 Dec 2015

« on: December 01, 2015, 1906 UTC »

Some MCW sent, and various audio tones. S3 to S4 here.

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SDR - Software Defined Radio / Mac OS X RTL Dongle SDR Server

« on: December 01, 2015, 1714 UTC »

Another free app I wrote...

This app makes an RTL SDR dongle appear as a networked SDR, emulating the RF Space protocol. It works with SDR apps such as SdrDx.

CocoaRTLServer requires that rtl_tcp (part of RTL-SDR) be installed and running. rtl_tcp performs the actual interfacing to the RTL tuner, and serves I/Q data to CocoaRTLServer. If you have an RTL dongle, chances are you already have RTL-SDR.

Please note that I cannot provide any support for installing or using RTL-SDR.

Program page: http://www.blackcatsystems.com/software/cocoa_rtl_server.html

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North American Shortwave Pirate / UNID 6925 AM 1449 UTC 1 Dec 2015

« on: December 01, 2015, 1449 UTC »

Not sure if this is the same station as earlier, but I can actually hear this one :-)   It is still weak, however.

Sounds like Rolling Stones "Ruby Tuesday" at 1451z.
1502 Jim Croche "Operator" ?
1503 Rolling Stones "You Can't Always Get What You Want"?

Faded out to a carrier for a while, now back again with "Ledo Shuffle" at 1632.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Sousa Station 6930 USB 2233 UTC 29 Nov 2015

« on: November 29, 2015, 2235 UTC »

"The Thunderer" by the Cincinnati Pops, according to Shazam. (A march composed by John Philip Sousa in 1889)
"The Washington Post", also by Sousa.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Captain Morgan 6950 AM 2233 UTC 29 Nov 2015

« on: November 29, 2015, 2233 UTC »

Signing on now with Ringo Starr "It Don't Come Easy".

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North American Shortwave Pirate / UNID 6925 AM 2127 UTC 29 Nov 2015

« on: November 29, 2015, 2127 UTC »

Tough copy with RFW just below at 6922.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Radio Free Whatever 6922 AM 2120 UTC 29 Nov 2015

« on: November 29, 2015, 2120 UTC »

Just signed on, fair to good signal.

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General Radio Discussion / DXing DGPS Stations on long wave

« on: November 29, 2015, 1947 UTC »

An article I wrote about DXing DGPS (differential GPS) stations on long wave: http://www.radiohobbyist.org/blog/?p=1752

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Software / MultiMode 6.7.0 - CW,SSTV,PSK31,RTTY,ACARS,FAX - Updates for El Capitan

« on: November 29, 2015, 1547 UTC »

MultiMode 6.7.0 - CW,SSTV,PSK31,RTTY,ACARS,FAX - Updates for El Capitan as well as other improvements, including some major improvements to DGPS decoding.

Runs on Mac OS X 10.6 through 10.11, full details here: http://www.blackcatsystems.com/software/cw-rtty-sstv-fax-psk31-packet-decoding-software.html