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Spy Numbers / Re: UNID CW at 4870 KHZ

« on: January 06, 2019, 1741 UTC »

Some hints on getting software cw decoders to print legibly;
Use the second harmonic of the cw note if you can, that way no band noise to give you false output.
Another is to use a decoder that works well to begin with, such as cwget, wcode, k500, etc.

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Spy Numbers / Re: CW Stn on 4088.5 KHz

« on: January 06, 2019, 1738 UTC »

"While it seems improbable, in this day and time, that stations like VC01, VC03, and MC03, could be part of an actual military network, after all they seem so old school, once you get over that preconceived bias the possible answers become few, and such a military network starts to rise to the top as an answer."

The reason for Chinese and Russian military use of hf cw is they want their radio ops to be fluent in cw and the vagaries of hf before the big one starts. They know the sats and land based telecom switching centers will be the first targets to be hit (kinetically or electronically) in any real global conflict.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: WUHD Ultra High Definition Radio 6965 AM 0142 UTC 6 Jan 2019

« on: January 06, 2019, 1722 UTC »

Thanks for the Vertical Horizon track!

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Skippy Radio 6925 USB 2324 UTC 05 Jan 2019

« on: January 05, 2019, 2343 UTC »

Jba @ 2343.

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Utility / WWV

« on: January 05, 2019, 2338 UTC »

WWV is coming in on 2.5, 5, 10, 15, and 20MHz @ 2337Z 05JAN19, no trace of 25Mhz sadly. Noticed my rig was off a few hz so used wwv to clear that up and checked each wwv freq.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Captain Morgan 6935 AM 2303 January 5th 2019

« on: January 05, 2019, 2316 UTC »

6934.9 s3 "get this show on the road" and off @ 2315.

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Utility / Re: 11175 USB

« on: January 05, 2019, 2300 UTC »

11175 USB FSK off @ 2300Z 05JAN19.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Voice Of Uncle Don 6950 USB 2236 UTC 5 Jan 2019

« on: January 05, 2019, 2253 UTC »

S6, something about diehard, into music @ 2252.

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QSLs Received / Re: KAID KitchenAid Radio eQSL

« on: January 05, 2019, 1950 UTC »

When ferrets won't do, it's time to open the case and get jiggy like wil smif suggested in that video with some .01 ceramics rated a few kv. Or perhaps add one of those ac line filters you can plug a ac cord into?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JcmQONgXJM
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Line_filter


Then you'll have more woos, ah ahs, uhs, and yos than wil smif.





wooo

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General Radio Discussion / Re: Are police security measures and new technologies killing an American obsession?

« on: January 05, 2019, 1942 UTC »

Amazing a city as large is still not trunked and digital by now. Omaha was still analog uhf for police, fire, and ems, and many of the fedz were still on the 160mhz band in the clear to the mid 2000s. Always fun to listen in on the dea doing stakeouts almost every day, then meeting the dea head after graduating the academy.

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Software / Re: Windows 7 SP1A download

« on: January 05, 2019, 1936 UTC »

I goggled w7 sp1a and got links for sp1 for 2016, but no 1a.

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Equipment / Re: General Coverage Comms rxer down to 20KHz?

« on: January 05, 2019, 1932 UTC »

Maybe this isnt what you are looking for, but if you look long enough on ebay you can find a preamplifier for a lock in. These are usually made by stanford research or princeton applied research (eg&g PARc).
These often have a 1 to 10 MEGohm full differential input, and will really bring a rather VLF deaf receiver to life, as in many cases the poor performance of some receivers in that range is just because of their lack of sensitivity.

Beware bandwidth limitations though, some of these have an upper frequency of a kilohertz or less. many, however, will go up to a couple hundred kilohertz.

PS. there are also transimpedance models that have near zero input impedance, and a gain between 10 KV per amp or 1GV per amp. these are good for loops

Having one or more of these is arguably bragable.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Mix Radio 6002 USB 1826 UTC 5 Jan 2019

« on: January 05, 2019, 1901 UTC »

Jba with narrow filtering @ 1901.

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Latin American Pirate / Re: UNID 6935 AM 0013 UTC 5 Jan 2019

« on: January 05, 2019, 0024 UTC »

Carrier barely noted here @ 0024.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Mix Radio 4871 USB 2340 UTC 04 Jan 2019

« on: January 04, 2019, 2356 UTC »

Just bouncing the smeter @ 2355Z, Roy Orbison?
Everyday People @ 0001.