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General Radio Discussion / Re: GPS Under Attack as Crooks, Rogue Workers Wage Electronic War

« on: September 10, 2016, 0410 UTC »

And I don't see any LORAN signals going into my LORAN receiver.

I will patiently await a little bit more.

4007

North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Drunken DJ Radio 6950 USB 0026 UTC 10 Sep 2016

« on: September 10, 2016, 0220 UTC »

0219Z 45444 S6 ID "Drunken DJ Radio"
0219Z 45444 S6 Pet Shop Boys "West End Girls"
0224Z 45444 S6 Sheryl Crow & Kid Rock "Picture"
0231Z 45444 S6 Rickie Lee Jones "Young Blood"
0234Z 45444 S6 ID "WDDR: Drunken DJ Radio"
0234Z 45444 S6 Big Country "Steeltown"
0240Z 45444 S6 Drunken DJ giving shoutouts to HFU
0240Z 45444 S6 ID
0240Z 45444 S6 Leonard Cohen "Everybody Knows"  --- thanks DDJ!  
0246Z 45444 S6 Concrete Blonde "Everybody Knows"  (nice)
0247Z 45444 S6 ID
0247Z 45444 S6 Gladys Knight "Stormy Weather"
0301Z 45444 S6 The Blue Baron Band "Jump and Shout"
0304Z 45444 S6 ID
0305Z 45444 S6 Rod Stewart "Tonight I'm Yours"
0309Z 45444 S6 DDJ - winding up the night. + ID
0310Z 45444 S6 Deep Purple "Hush"
0315Z 45444 S6 DDJ "How the hell could I have forgot that."
0316Z 45444 S6 ID
0316Z 45444 S6 Cream "Badge"
0319Z 45444 S6 Led Zeppelin "Whole Lotta Love"
0325Z 45444 S6 the Doobie Brothers "Black Water"
0330Z 45444 S6 The Jackson 5 "Never Can Say Goodbye"
0333Z 45444 S6 Van Morrison "Jackie Wilson Said"
0336Z 45444 S6 DDJ: Working on #6 of a 6 pack. 8.4 ABV
0336Z 45444 S6 The Cars "Good Times Roll"
0341Z 45444 S6 Jimmy Cliff "Many Rivers to Cross"
0343Z 45444 S6 War "All Day Music"
0346Z 45444 S6 ID
0347Z 45444 S6 Danny O'Keefe "Angel Spread Your Wings"
0351Z 45444 S6 Aretha Franklin "Chain of Fools"
0353Z 45444 S6 It's A Beautiful Day "Bombay Calling"
0358Z 45444 S6 ID
0359Z 45444 S6 The Rascals "I've Been Lonely Too Long"
0402Z 45444 S6 DDJ signing off.
0403Z 45444 S6 SSTV 1
0405Z 45444 S6 SSTV 2
0407Z 45444 S6 SSTV 3
0408Z Off Air.


Sounded good here. Widened up the filter for maximum enjoyment.


_{Kenwood TS-690S with Wellbrook ALA-1530S+ loop}

4008

General Radio Discussion / Re: GPS Under Attack as Crooks, Rogue Workers Wage Electronic War

« on: September 10, 2016, 0215 UTC »

Give Me LORAN or Give Me Death.

4009

General Radio Discussion / Re: GPS Under Attack as Crooks, Rogue Workers Wage Electronic War

« on: September 10, 2016, 0009 UTC »

Its been one month and one day. LORAN is still not back. I'm sure it will be back soon.

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Shortwave Broadcast / Re: R. Rossii Returns!

« on: September 05, 2016, 1445 UTC »

From DXLD mailing list:

TL;DR:
- On air due to typhoon hitting the east coast of Russia.
- 9895/7245/5900kHz & 810 kHz
0200-0700 - 7245kHz
0700-1000 - 9895kHz
1000-1500 - 5900kHz

810 has ~75 kW power.

Sun Sep 4, 2016 3:42 pm (PDT) . Posted by: wilsdruff
First, the reason:
http://tass.com/society/897667

GTRK Vladivostok is probably not aware of the shortwave relay so far. Also today they announced only reactivated mediumwave, at 4:30 in their newscast:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FngPKTvLE0U

And here's the 810 kHz transmitter at Razdolnoye, rising from the ashes after 1.5 years:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBp-NoWuYCQ

Kai

---In dxld@yahoogroups.com, <h.seiichi@...> wrote :

9895/7245/5900kHz R.Rossii

http://radio.chobi.net/DX/bbs/?res:1330#1576

S.Hasegawa

4011

North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Wolverine Radio 6955 USB 0035 UTC 04Sept 2016

« on: September 04, 2016, 0039 UTC »

0038Z 45544 S7 Bumble Bee Slim "Just Yesterday"
0039Z 45544 S7 ID "Wolverine Radio"
0039Z 45544 S7 Billie Holliday "Yesterdays"
0043Z 45544 S7 Jethro Tull "A New Day Yesterday"
0046Z 45544 S7 ID "Wolverine Radio"
0047Z 45544 S7 Leo Reisman Orchestra with Larry Levin  "A Year From Today"
0049Z 45544 S7 Sarah Vaughn "Its You or No One"
0052Z 45544 S7 Jimmy Beaumont & The Skyliners "It Happened Today"
0054Z 45544 S7 ID "Wolverine Radio"
0054Z 45544 S7 Judy Collins "I Think Its Going To Rain Today"
0057Z 45544 S7 The Grass Roots "Let's Live For Today"
0059Z 45544 S7 Jimi Hendrix "I Don't Live Today"
0103Z 45544 S7 ID "Wolverine Radio"
0103Z 45544 S7 The Chambers Brothers "Time Has Come Today"
0108Z 45544 S7 Blind Faith "Had To Cry Today"
0117Z 45544 S7 ID "Wolverine Radio"
0117Z 45544 S7 Charlie Spivak "Tomorrow"
0120Z 45544 S7 Patsy Cline "How Can I Face Tomorrow"
0122Z 45544 S7 The Shirelles "Will You Love Me Tomorrow"
0124Z 45544 S7 ID "Wolverine Radio"
0124Z 45544 S7 Jimi Hendrix "Wait Until Tomorrow"
0127Z 45544 S7 The Beach Boys "Lookin' At Tomorrow"
0129Z 45544 S7 ID "Wolverine Radio"
0129Z 45544 S7 Ziggy Marley "Tomorrow People"
0133Z 45544 S7 Joan Armatrading "Is It Tomorrow Yet?"
0137Z 45544 S7 Echo ID
0137Z 45544 S7 SSTV
0138Z Off air.



_{Yaesu FT-847 with Bonito Boni-Whip antenna}

4012

North American Shortwave Pirate / WJD 6930 USB 0116 UTC 3 Sep 2016

« on: September 04, 2016, 0018 UTC »

0116 35433 S5 James Bond theme.
0117 35433 S5 ID "WJD"
0121 35433 S5 Spoof ad about replacing a roof.




_{Yaesu FT-847 with Bonito Boni-Whip}

4013

North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: RFW 6210 AM 2344z 9/3/16

« on: September 03, 2016, 2359 UTC »

2345Z 35433 S7 Soviet national anthem
2346Z 35433 S7 ID
0007Z 35433 S7 Baio "Needs"
0013Z 35433 S7 Hot Hot Heat "Talk To Me, Dance With Me"
0014Z 35433 S7 ID
0015Z 35433 S7 Car Seat Headrest "Drunk Drivers / Killer Whales"
0026Z 35433 S7 Holy Esque "Hexx"



_{Yaesu FT-847 with Bonito Boni-Whip and Wellbrook ALA100LN loop}

4014

North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: unid 6.935 USB, 2350 utc, Sep 3, 2016.

« on: September 03, 2016, 2357 UTC »

2357Z 35443 S7 OM talking with music in the background.
0005Z 45544 S9 MC5 "I Can Only Give You Everything"
0009Z 45544 S9 Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band "Nutbush City Limits"
0034Z 45544 S9 The Who "Pinball Wizard"
0036Z 45544 S9 The Who "We're Not Gonna Take It"



_{Yaesu FT-847 with Bonito Boni-Whip and Wellbrook ALA100LN loop}

4015

Shortwave Broadcast / Re: R. Rossii Returns!

« on: September 03, 2016, 2238 UTC »

HFCC A16 has them listed (BRC=RRS), but there are 105 entries.

They have an entry for 5900, but how many of the other 104 are live?

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;----+----+----+------------------------------+---+----+-------+---+---+-------+------+------+-+-----+----------+---+---+---+-----+-+-----+-----+-----+-------
;FREQ STRT STOP CIRAF ZONES                    LOC POWR AZIMUTH SLW ANT DAYS    FDATE  TDATE MOD AFRQ LANGUAGE   ADM BRC FMO REQ# OLD ALT1 ALT2  ALT3  NOTES
;----+----+----+------------------------------+---+----+-------+---+---+-------+------+------+-+-----+----------+---+---+---+-----+-+-----+-----+-----+-------

 5900 1000 1400 43,44                          KHB  100 218       0 217 1234567 270316 291016 D       Rus        RUS RRS GFC  3884                    


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Shortwave Broadcast / Re: Rock n Roll Music on Shorrwave Tonight Friday August 26!

« on: August 28, 2016, 2235 UTC »

That's too bad...I brought the Zenith T/O G500 on the front porch to enjoy the music. .

Sweet radio.

I have an H500. Just wish we could still get batteries for it and take it to the beach to listen.

4017

General Radio Discussion / Re: The criminally annoying Russian Woodpecker

« on: August 23, 2016, 0026 UTC »

I remember that dumb thing. Interfered with good broadcasting.


This spring I found that a woodpecker had bore a hole in the siding of my house and started a family. For weeks, they were making noise. Chirping & eating. That's it. Then they moved out. Think I saw them yesterday in the tree, where they belong. Hole is patched.

Not sure which was more annoying... The Soviets or these birds.

At least my woodpeckers left on their own and didn't need a nuclear explosion to go away.

4018

MW Loggings / MOVED: UNID 1690 AM 2147 UTC 21 Aug 2016

« on: August 21, 2016, 2300 UTC »

This topic has been moved to MW Free Radio.

https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php?topic=29595.0

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SDR - Software Defined Radio / Re: New version of RTL-SDR.com dongle now available

« on: August 21, 2016, 2231 UTC »

Update for MW:

Using DX Tools Quantum DX Loop v3.0.

Found a station on 1690 and was of decent strength. Compared to what my Kenwood TS-690S with Wellbrook ALA1530S+ was receiving and was closer than I expected (as far as SINPO was concerned, not comparing S-meter readings). The TS-690S still beat the RTL-SDR, but they're in the same neighborhood.

The 1690 station went abruptly off and another station was underneath. Tracked that down to an image from local station 690 KFXN.  According to FCC records, KFXN is 500W daytime that's 2.5 miles away, with a directional antenna. Most of it goes to the ESE (away from me), but they have a significant lobe to the back that I'm well within.

Even with the tuned loop, the RTL-SDR is picking up an image.

That was on 0.250 MSPS. Switched to the higher rates and the image went away.  This isn't the first time I've seen this, and this is with two different programs, Studio1 and SDR#.



Update for FM Broadcast:

Antenna are $6 rabbit ears about 6' away balancing on the top of a door.

Had to turn off AGC for RTL & Tuner, otherwise it would overload. Manually set it to 16.6 dB and its doing pretty good. Any higher and can see the images & a lot more noise. At least at the low end of the dial here. Tuned up further and had to decrease the gain further or would get overload. Looks like will have to keep a close eye on the gain for best reception. And the tuner AGC kills it, so that stays off.

Max sample rate of 2.4 MSPS. Any more than that and the stereo & RDS cut out. This is while listening to a 100 kW station about 20 miles from here.

Dialing things back from testing this morning with things maxed, found a few new FM stations. Might spend some time here checking it out. Usually had little interest in FM, but the SDR has made FM fun.

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North American MW Pirate Radio / UNID 1690 AM 2147 UTC 21 Aug 2016

« on: August 21, 2016, 2152 UTC »

2147Z 35433 ID "Real Oldies Channel"
2147Z 35433 The Guess Who "These Eyes"
2150Z 35433 Jay & The Americans "Cara MIA"
2203Z 35433 ID: "WRIT-FM Milwaukee. The Real Oldies"
2203Z 35433 The Righteous Brothers "Little Latin Lupe Lu"
2205Z 35433 The Monkees "Last Train To Clarksville"
2208Z 35433 Paul Anka "Put Your Head On My Shoulder"
2214Z 35433 Melanie "Lay Down"  (cut off about 15 seconds into the song)
2214Z Off air about 15 seconds into the last song.

The songs are not consistent with the playlist online at WRIT's website (95.7 BIG FM), but they are partially consistent with iHeart's "Real Oldies" playlist.



_{RTL-SDR v3 USB dongle with Quantum Loop}*