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4126

Huh? / Re: Suspect arrested after 5 million bees stolen in Quebec; bees remain missing

« on: May 07, 2016, 2257 UTC »

We used to have artwork at work of bees. Local artist painted a huge painting of bees a while back. Last year, the art was removed. We were told because "busy bees were demeaning." Well, those of us that sat by the bees saw the bees and never thought the art was demeaning in any way shape or form, until we were told they were demeaning to us.

We will never forget the bees.

Plus, that's a lot of honey from 5M bees. Honey is really delicious.

4127

Shortwave Broadcast / Re: Voice of Greece 9420 // 9935 kHz AM 2145 UTC May 07, 2016

« on: May 07, 2016, 2253 UTC »

According to short-wave.info, both transmitters are in Avlis and 9420 broadcasts at 323 deg and 9935 at 285 deg, so for the U.S., 9420 should be better.

4128

Shortwave Broadcast / Voice of Greece 9420 // 9935 kHz AM 2145 UTC May 07, 2016

« on: May 07, 2016, 2216 UTC »

2145Z 35443 S7 Greek music. Both 9420 & 9935 are close in signal strength & quality. 9935 is just hair better. 9420 did go off the air a while ago for a short bit (9420 seems to do that).
2253Z 35443 S7 Greek music continues. Signal on 9420 is now slightly better than on 9935.


This is the earliest that I've heard it on 31m.




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4129

Shortwave Broadcast / Re: Voice of Greece 9935AM 0020z 5/6/16

« on: May 06, 2016, 0056 UTC »

0055Z 45444 S9 Doing a great job here tonight. Been listening to them for the past few hours on 9420 (which is // and is a bit better than 9935, but not by too much).




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4130

Shortwave Broadcast / Radio Romania International 7335 kHz AM 0020 UTC Apr 25, 2016

« on: April 25, 2016, 0023 UTC »

0020Z 35243 S7 Music (N=2 due to static crashes due to lightning)
0022Z 35243 S7 Romanian folk music
0024Z 35243 S7 Intro music from Dumitru Farcas "Tarina Mare", with OM coming on and talking (the one Romanian song that Shazam can find and they talk over it)
0024Z 35243 S7 OM is talking with YL on phone and she mentions "Radio România"
0034Z 35343 S7 Another Romanian folk song.  Static crashes decreasing.
0056Z 35343 S7 Music
0100Z 35343 S7 News
0116Z 34343 S7 Andra "Nebuni In Noapte"
0120Z 34343 S7 OM & YL talking. Some noise underneath sounds like a jammer.
0140Z 33342 S7 OM & YL still talking. Getting hard to hear RRI between the static crashes & the jammer(?)
0156Z Off air. Jammer still jamming away. Sounds like it may be the Cuban jammer.  


// 9790 15431 S5 In & out of the noise.  (however, RRI's online schedule says 9590, which its not on)



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4131

Shortwave Broadcast / Radio Tirana 9855 kHz AM 2300 UTC Apr 24, 2016

« on: April 24, 2016, 2305 UTC »

2250-2300Z 25442 S5 Interval signal
2300Z 25442 S5 OM speaking in Albanian.
2302Z 25442 S5 News
2309Z 15441 S4 ID after a report about Serbia.
2317Z 25432 S5 Music
2354Z 25432 S5 Marie Kraja "Moj Fellanxe"
2357Z 25432 S5 Interval signal
2358Z Off Air.




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4132

North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Red Beacon R 7610 AM 1920z 4/24/16

« on: April 24, 2016, 2241 UTC »

2239Z 25432 S5 Just came in, wasn't here a few minutes ago. Its slowly fading in & out of the noise, but when its up, its pretty good.
2248Z 15431 S5 Continues to fade in & out of the noise, mostly out.
0102Z 35343 S5 Fleet Foxes "White Winter Hymnal"  
0106Z 35343 S5 Phoenix "Too Young"
0107Z 35343 S5 Arctic Monkeys "Why'd You Only Call Me When You're High"
0114Z 35343 S5 Of Monsters and Men "Your Bones"
0116Z 35343 S5 Yeah Yeah Yeahs "Heads Will Roll"
0119Z 35343 S5 The Strokes "Someday"
0123Z 35241 S5 OM talking, but audio isn't strong enough among the static crashes. Saying hi to us here in HFU. Couldn't make out much more than that.
0127Z 35242 S5 Phoenix, Erlend Oye "If I Ever Feel Better"
0130Z 35241 S5 OM is back. Talking about other stations on the air.
0132Z 35243 S5 Increased power a little bit. Lightning is brutal tonight on 41m. Tuned around lower SWBC bands and those are useless here.
0133Z 35243 S5 Modest Mouse "Dashboard"
0137Z 35241 S5 ID, I think. Started off "This is... " and then static crashes just happened to wipe it out. Tough night.
0139Z 35242 S5 Washed Out "Feel It All Around"
0143Z 35242 S5 City and Colour "Grand Optimist"
0147Z 35241 S5 OM is back. Talking about condx and I have no idea what else....
0149Z 35242 S5 The Lumineers "Stubborn Love"
0154Z 35242 S5 OM talking about condx. Surprised that he's able to get out.
0155Z 35242 S5 José González "Heartbeats"
0158Z 35242 S5 Florence + The Machine "Cosmic Love"
0202Z 35241 S5 Talking about other stations & signing off.
0205Z Off Air.

Thanks for the show. Your signal would've been great here (since ~0100Z) without the stupid lightning.



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4133

North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Radio Illuminati 6150 AM 2230 UTC 24 Apr 2016

« on: April 24, 2016, 2238 UTC »

2237Z Nothing audible here, not even a carrier. Also have a lot of static from lightning crashes.




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4134

Shortwave Broadcast / All India Radio - GOS 9445 kHz AM 2226 UTC Apr 24, 2016

« on: April 24, 2016, 2227 UTC »

2226Z 25432 S5 ID & frequency information. Fading in & out with lots of noise.
2227Z 25432 S5 Music

2228Z 15421 S5 // 11670 (playing the same music). Signal is just above the noise level sometimes.




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4135

Shortwave Broadcast / Radio Romania International 9760 kHz AM 2200 UTC Apr 24, 2016

« on: April 24, 2016, 2201 UTC »

2159Z 35433 S6 RRI interval signal
2200Z 35433 S6 ID. English service for western Europe & Japan¹
2201Z 35433 S5 Radio newsreel.
2207Z 35433 S5 Contest announcement

This is supposedly // 7430, but have severe local QRM on that frequency and unable to confirm or deny RRI's existence on 7430.


¹ Same English service for both, but Japan has it on 7325 // 9790 (according to their A16 sked) and neither frequency is audible here.




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4136

Shortwave Broadcast / Re: Voice of Turkey 9635 kHz AM 1920 UTC Apr 24, 2016

« on: April 24, 2016, 1947 UTC »

According the sked, its their French service, but I'm unable to get enough signal to recognize that (or any language)

4137

Shortwave Broadcast / Voice of Turkey 9635 kHz AM 1920 UTC Apr 24, 2016

« on: April 24, 2016, 1921 UTC »

1920Z 35433 S6 VoT interval signal
1930Z 35432 S5 Time pips. OM announcer saying something, unable to understand him due to noise (his audio seems a little lower level than what the music was)




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4138

Shortwave Broadcast / Radio Romania International 11975 kHz AM 1857 UTC Apr 24, 2016

« on: April 24, 2016, 1858 UTC »

1857Z 35433 S5 Romanian music
1900Z 35433 S5 Time pips. OM & YL announcers in Romanian. Giving news?
1900Z 35433 S5 ID
1923Z 35433 S5 Music. Foisonrul De Foc "Daca Tu Ai Putea"
1926Z 35433 S5 ID. OMs talking.
2000Z Off air





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4139

Huh? / Re: Tire Pressure

« on: April 21, 2016, 2330 UTC »

I have a bicycle that's about 25 years old and last rode it about 20 years ago. Its tires are flat and last time I pumped 'em up, I rode about 10' before they deflated bad enough again. The thing currently hangs in the garage awaiting repair.

4140

Huh? / Re: Tire Pressure

« on: April 21, 2016, 0118 UTC »

That's weird.

Winter 2014-2015, my garden cart had lost its air in its four tires. Filling them up again fixed that. After this winter, its four tires are still filled.

Also had to fill up my snow blower's tires at the beginning of the snow season. Its tires are still fine.

My car has a slow leak in one of its tires. And I'm upset as the tires were made in Romania and RRI is one of my favorite stations. In my next reception report to them, I may send them that tire and demand a refund, or at least feature it on one of their upcoming QSL cards. This had better not turn into an international incident.

Something happened in 2015 to cause air to leave tires. I'm going to call my congressman to have him set up a blue ribbon commission to get to the bottom of this.