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North American Shortwave Pirate / "Paging Commander Bunny" 6925 USB 2146z
« on: November 03, 2008, 2147 UTC »
"Paging Commander Bunny" repeated a few times.
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31172
North American Shortwave Pirate / MAC Shortwave 1529z 6950.8 kHz
« on: November 01, 2008, 1529 UTC »
6950.8 kHz, just barely audible here in MD at 1529z
31173
Equipment / Re: T2FD Antenna
« on: October 31, 2008, 1909 UTC »LMAO!!!
A good 75% percent of my tx'es over the years have been made with antennas consisting of nothing but Dollar Store speaker wire for feedline and antenna. They cost less than two bucks and when the feedline gets so twisted it's not working well,I split it for the next antenna's legs and buy another 100 feet of the same stuff. The stuff is actually lower loss than RG-58.
With a third hand tuner I've been heard across most off North America for the better part of a decade on 10-14 watts of AM and close-out wire. LOL!!!
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31174
North American Shortwave Pirate / UNID 1834z 6925 AM
« on: October 31, 2008, 1842 UTC »
Heard someone on for a short time, played what sounded like an Irish song, off at 1841. Someone testing? S3 or S4 signal here in MD.
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Shortwave Broadcast / Re: Broadcast station schedules
« on: October 29, 2008, 1053 UTC »
A very good list of international SWBC station schedules is here: http://www.eibispace.de/
31176
North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: "UN?D" Radio, "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida" & SSTV
« on: October 27, 2008, 0006 UTC »
S6/S7 at 0002 UTC, with music "I'm Your Pocket Calculator"(?) then into SSTV, had some problems with the SSTV audio at first.
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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: WPON "The Weapon" 645z
« on: October 26, 2008, 0012 UTC »
Thanks to Al's brilliant deduction, I was able to get a decode from the SSTV image, and did a short writeup on the wiki: http://www.hfunderground.com/wiki/WPON
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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: WPON "The Weapon" 645z
« on: October 25, 2008, 2216 UTC »
Copying SSTV again at 2215z. very strong signal, S9+
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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: WPON "The Weapon" 1845z
« on: October 25, 2008, 1942 UTC »
Instrumental version of Floyd's "Money". S5/S6 signal into MD.
ID at 1904. "WPON The Weapon" and a gun loading sound effect.
Ron Paul interview at 1920z.
ID at 1904. "WPON The Weapon" and a gun loading sound effect.
Ron Paul interview at 1920z.
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North American Shortwave Pirate / WPON 6925 USB 1857z
« on: October 25, 2008, 1901 UTC »
Instrumental version of Floyd's "Money". S5/S6 signal into MD.
ID at 1904. "WPON The Weapon" and a gun loading sound effect.
Ron Paul interview at 1920z.
ID at 1904. "WPON The Weapon" and a gun loading sound effect.
Ron Paul interview at 1920z.
31181
North American Shortwave Pirate / Northwoods Radio 6925 USB 1243z
« on: October 25, 2008, 1244 UTC »
Sign on with the loon and an ID. Very strong signal, S9 at times. Into music.
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Equipment / Re: T2FD Antenna
« on: October 22, 2008, 1521 UTC »
Since coax loss at HF is typically very low, I don't see a 100 yard run causing major problems. 100 yards of RG-8 results in a 3 dB loss - half an S unit. Even crappy RG-58 only doubles that to 6 dB, and RG-58 isn't really even coax ;-)
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North American Shortwave Pirate / Purple Nucleus of Creation 6925 USB 2058z
« on: October 21, 2008, 2104 UTC »
S9+ signal, probably a relay from the same station as Possum Huntin' Radio.
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North American Shortwave Pirate / Possum Huntin' Radio 6925 USB 2028z
« on: October 21, 2008, 2048 UTC »
Started off fairly weak, but up to S9+ at 2047 UTC. Music, frequent IDs, mention of FCC agents.
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Equipment / Re: T2FD Antenna
« on: October 21, 2008, 2025 UTC »
A few weeks ago, I finally put up my T2FD. I went with one 131.5 ft long, so cut for 2500 kHz and up. I'm using a 12:1 balun and feeding it with 100 ft of RG6-U 75 ohm coax. The center termination resistor is 800 ohms.
The high end is perhaps 50 ft up, the low end about 20 ft, and it slopes to the south. Not my preferred orientation, but you take what the trees give you.
I'm really amazed with the reception. While the signal is generally an S unit or two lower than that from one of my dedicated dipoles (for the 90, 60, 48 and 43 meter bands), the noise is much less, hence a much better signal to noise ratio. And it works everywhere on HF, I don't need to keep flipping between antennas.
Performance on the high end of the MW band is also excellent (as compared to an approximately 500 ft long random wire). Performance is much worse on the low end, as expected.
I'm really pleased with the results. I'm actually very close to removing the antennas switch, and just connecting this as my only antenna. It's that good.
The high end is perhaps 50 ft up, the low end about 20 ft, and it slopes to the south. Not my preferred orientation, but you take what the trees give you.
I'm really amazed with the reception. While the signal is generally an S unit or two lower than that from one of my dedicated dipoles (for the 90, 60, 48 and 43 meter bands), the noise is much less, hence a much better signal to noise ratio. And it works everywhere on HF, I don't need to keep flipping between antennas.
Performance on the high end of the MW band is also excellent (as compared to an approximately 500 ft long random wire). Performance is much worse on the low end, as expected.
I'm really pleased with the results. I'm actually very close to removing the antennas switch, and just connecting this as my only antenna. It's that good.