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Shortwave Broadcast / Re: Imaginary Station 3975 // 6160 AM 2025 UTC 03 SEP 2023

« on: September 03, 2023, 2116 UTC »

already same confusion last night

This is why listening for an ID -  or at least determining if what you are hearing seems likely to be a pirate - before reporting is often a worthwhile activity. (Hint, hint.)

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Shortwave Broadcast / Re: Imaginary Station 3975 // 6160 AM 2025 UTC 03 SEP 2023

« on: September 03, 2023, 2106 UTC »

2025 UTC
S 6
Male talking about freq   and times

Mr. Coffee--Lagwagon

Hmmmmm. W1NT kiwi SDR in New Hampshire with a 500 foot beverage aimed at Europe has "Overcomer Ministry" (WBCQ) at 2105 UTC: http://w1nt.onthewifi.com:8073/?f=6160.00amz6, overpowering "overcoming" (pun intended) anything else by a huge margin.

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European Pirates and Private Stations / Re: Shortwave Radio 3975 // 6160 AM 1906 UTC 03 SEP 2023

« on: September 03, 2023, 2103 UTC »

Listening on a kiwi in Switzerland.

2101 - "We are the new sound of shortwave radio for Europe. This is Shortwave Gold."
2102 - Similar to the above in German.

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European Pirates and Private Stations / Re: UNID 6120 AM 1908 UTC 03 SEP 2023

« on: September 03, 2023, 2032 UTC »

Off at 2032 UTC.

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European Pirates and Private Stations / Radio Mi Amigo 6205 AM 1833 UTC 03 SEP 2023

« on: September 03, 2023, 1838 UTC »

Strart up at 1833 UTC. Announcements mostly in Dutch but some English used.
Power announced as 100 Watts.
"This is Mi Amigo from Holland."

1841 - ID and email address in Dutch.
1846 - "dit is radio zender Mi Amigo."
1914 - Close down announcement.
1916 - Thank you to somebody. "Goodbye." TX OFF.

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European Pirates and Private Stations / King Shortwave 6210 AM 1825 UTC 03 Sep 2023

« on: September 03, 2023, 1836 UTC »

Difficult listening due to QRM and QRN but clearly audible on an SDR in Switzerland. SINPO 23222 with filtering involved.

QRM = Mi Amigo on 6205 KHz, Data signal on ~6215 KHz.

Off at check back 1905 UTC.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID 6960 USB 0207 UTC 01 SEP 2023

« on: September 01, 2023, 0305 UTC »

0303 UTC - off, I believe.

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SDR - Software Defined Radio / Re: KiwiSDR future/replacement?

« on: September 01, 2023, 0212 UTC »

Without using the 1hz url parameter, I could not tune arbitrarily between the 10 hz increments on the K1VL receiver. It would round and tune to the nearest 10 Hz.

Ah HAH! It's not just me imagining things.

... After having fun doing it by ear, I went to SAM mode and did indeed notice the audio panel's sync offset display respond to those 1 Hz steps (or not, if I didn't have 1 Hz tuning enabled).

Ok, well I was right for a little while anyway. 

That sync offset is a pretty slick way to compare receivers, if you tune them both to the same station! After picking and poking around on several receivers, checking then against WWV, I can say that most are within a couple of Hz and some are dead nuts on frequency - within a few tenths of a Hertz, plus or minus some QSB effects.

If they are GPS locked with acq[uisition] of enough satellites (hopefully 4 or more), I would hope so.

I have encountered a few non-locked (I assume) in the southern hemisphere that are ~100 Hz off frequency at 10 MHz - which might not be a big problem in some contexts - but can be misleading in others like FT8, where the TX bandwidth is only ~50 Hz and accuracy down to <10 Hertz is kind of important.

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Huh? / Re: A 1MW MW transmitter coming to Pakistan? Looks like it.

« on: September 01, 2023, 0127 UTC »

I get TV over the air. I have some channels with marginal reception at my house and generally they are better in the day than at night.

Because I'm a geek, I will go into the settings of my TV to get the SNR values and compare 1) when I can receive certain channels well, 2) when it is indicating "no reception" at all and 3) when it's marginal (cycling between displaying a screen image and not). In general, the threshold where my TV stops showing a consistent image is around 19 +/- 1 dB SNR. Not really knowing much about digital TV, I assumed that it would need a better SNR than that, but apparently not.

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Huh? / Re: Hurricane heading Josiah's way...

« on: September 01, 2023, 0111 UTC »

No doubt that he got a bit wet. If his bus roof had leaks (which would seem possible given what it looked like) it might have been a "fun" time.

Has he been on since August 20th? He hasn't been reported since before then. Hmmmm....

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Software / Re: Any SDR# (SDRSharp) Users Out There?

« on: September 01, 2023, 0103 UTC »

<snip>

However my biggest pet peeve is that it defaults to a mode where it makes receiving mode choices (AM/USB/LSB/NBFM) for you based upon frequency. Perhaps this is acceptable for VHF/UHF or exclusively HF ham frequencies but it is super annoying for HF if you jump around listening to a variety of different things as I do. You can disable this feature but it seems like that disable setting is not saved in NVM and when you power it on again, you have to disable it again. You can save the GUI layout for future recall but that setting is not saved or recalled as part of that save.

Easy fix.  Go to Band Plan and uncheck Auto update radio settings. 

--
Mike

as I wrote above, (and highlighted in bold) that setting is not saved in NVM and you have to do that every time you run the the software. I don't have SDR# running constantly and since it does crash from time to time, it's not really my favorite feature.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Radio 48 via Mix Radio International 6950 USB 0110 UTC 30 AUG 2023

« on: August 30, 2023, 0141 UTC »

Listening on a Kiwi in Pittsburgh with 10 KHz bandwidth, which I'm using fully. Sounds great. SINPO 55555 / S9 on peaks.

0138: MRI ID
0141: MRI ID again mixed in with music.
0202: YL voice "You're listening to the sound of FM radio on shortwave. Mix Radio International."
0203: Remix of The Smiths
0215: Song lyrics: "Who are we? We da shit!"

I'm just noticing that there are no peskies on tonight.

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European Pirates and Private Stations / Zeppelin Radio 6959.9 AM 0053 UTC 30 AUG 2023

« on: August 30, 2023, 0053 UTC »

Presumed due to the 1940s-1950s music played. Strongest in Europe but some very noisy reception on the east coast of North America.
S8/SINPO 35333 on an SDR in Ischia, southern Italy.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Drunken DJ Radio WDDR 15th Anniversary 6960 USB 0109 UTC 13 AUG 2023

« on: August 13, 2023, 0334 UTC »

Very respectable signal on the left coast at 0332 UTC (about 20 min after dusk): SINPO 34233, roughly S7 on peaks on my longwire.

0452 - Off, I think.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Two Dog Radio 6935 USB 0302 UTC 13 AUG 2023

« on: August 13, 2023, 0330 UTC »

SINPO 55555, S9+ at my house (yes, I really am in California!) on my long wire. I checked around various SDRs here in the west and of course, the signal is dominating. I'm wondering if you can hear it on the east coast?
Noting he is using very heavy audio compression, more than most other SSB ops. (That's not a complaint.)

0326 - "You're listening to the dog. Two Dog Radio."
0342 - GNR, "The Jungle"
0431 - GNR, "Sweet Child o'Mine"
0433 - "Woof, woof, woof. Two Dog Radio"
0436 - Nine Inch Nails,"Head Like A Hole"
0449 - ID and email address. Kraftwerk, "The Model"
0452 - Kraftwerk, "Radioactivity"
0459 - Kraftwerk, "Showroom Dummies"
0505 - "You've been listening to Two Dog Radio. Good Evening. Bow Wow." Close down.

Thanks for the entertainment, man.