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North American MW Pirate Radio / Re: UNID 1710 am 0259 UTC 27Sep15

« on: September 27, 2015, 0500 UTC »

An interesting thread on Radioinsight:

https://radioinsight.com/community/topic/chim-fm-possibly-making-an-unlicensed-return-to-terrestrial-airwaves/

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North American MW Pirate Radio / Re: UNID 1710 am 0259 UTC 27Sep15

« on: September 27, 2015, 0423 UTC »

Still going.  This sounds like Christian music and there have been mentions of Canada.  After a little Googling, I found this which *might* explain what I'm hearing: http://www.chimfm.com/  and then this Facebook mention from June 24th:

CHIM RADIO 1710 AM IS PRESENTLY BEING RELOCATED TO OUR NEW 150 FOOT TOWER IN SOUTH EAST TIMMINS TO SERVE OUR CITY BETTER.  CHIM RADIO CELEBRATING 20 YEARS ON AIR AND ON LINE.

Looks like CHIM has several low powered FM stations throughout Canada, but I question the legality of this 1710 operation.  If this is really coming from Timmins, Ontario then I probably shouldn't be hearing it way down here in Michigan.  I don't know what the rules are for Canadian Part 15 AM stations (is there such a thing?), but I'm guessing this one isn't running legal power.

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North American MW Pirate Radio / Re: UNID 1710 am 0259 UTC 27Sep15

« on: September 27, 2015, 0329 UTC »

This is strange but it almost sounds better when using FM mode, which leads me back to a harmonic but 855 khz x 2 doesn't make sense.

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North American MW Pirate Radio / UNID 1710 am 0259 UTC 27Sep15

« on: September 27, 2015, 0310 UTC »

Someone here playing music, fairly consistent signal but badly over-modulated.  Best here in LSB to dodge the IBOC hash from the new 1700 station.  Some announcements between songs but the speech is very difficult to understand due to the poor modulation.  Anyone else hearing this?

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Radio True North 6950 AM 0148 UTC 27 Sep 2015

« on: September 27, 2015, 0233 UTC »

ID just now and into Kraftwerk song.  S6-S8.  Thanks RTN!

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID Thumpage 6915 AM 0213 UTC Sept 27, 2015

« on: September 27, 2015, 0223 UTC »

Massive signal here, first noticed on 6935, then this happened:



and finally settled on 6915, at least for now.  Thanks UNID Thumper!

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MW Loggings / Re: Maybe Australia on 1629 kHz

« on: September 25, 2015, 0033 UTC »

It's unlikely to have good props towards the South Pacific and China at the same time, at least from my experience trying to DX these signals from the midwestern US.  Run your app overnight against these signals and I bet you'll see them start to fade in around Australian sunset.

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MW Loggings / Re: Maybe Australia on 1629 kHz

« on: September 24, 2015, 2252 UTC »

Nice work Chris!  These are all trans-pacific stations you're seeing carriers for, and more specifically, probably all Aussies, the 1629s for sure are.  The 1521 is likely Australia too or the New Zealand station, but I suppose Asia is possible but it wouldn't be the Saudi powerhouse at this time of day.  You'll find a bunch on 1611 too, also low powered coming from down-under land.  1548.01 usually has the best carrier strength here coming from 4QD in Emerald, QLD.  I actually had decent audio on this one earlier in the year during sunrise.  Surprising to me is that these high band down-under signals are always best on my North D-KAZ as opposed to my southwest BOGs which do better for the Aussies at the lower end of the band.  The goal now here is to confirm reception of one these low powered Aussies in the X band.  Almost had it last Wednesday morning when conditions seemed to peak.  Conditions this week have been unimpressive here, but the chase goes on!

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MW Loggings / Re: Looking at MW Carriers

« on: September 24, 2015, 0046 UTC »

Not near the resolution that you're achieving Chris, which looks great BTW, but here's a close-up view of 1629 kHz spanning several minutes captured here last week.  Note the four dominant carriers that stand out, and the high one might have multiples underneath if I could get the resolution tighter.  There's about 10 low powered stations on 1629 kHz in Australia, most listed at 400w.  You're seeing 4 of them here as they peak at my local sunrise.  'Tis the season for Aussie MW DX!

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MW Loggings / Re: Looking at MW Carriers

« on: September 24, 2015, 0029 UTC »

Great stuff Chris.  I look forward to the results when you have your 10 mhz reference connected, especially on the saw-tooth carriers.

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QSLs Received / Re: Amphetamine Radio QSL

« on: September 20, 2015, 1839 UTC »

One received here also, thank you AR!

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: X-FM 6950 USB 9/20/2015 0200z

« on: September 20, 2015, 0247 UTC »

Very weak music here right now at 0245 UTC, too weak to ID it.  Frequency drift up to 6953u mid-song at 0249 UTC.  Possible canned X-FM ID at 0251 UTC (on 6955u now).

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: R True North 6960 AM 0132z 9/20/15

« on: September 20, 2015, 0200 UTC »

Hey RTN, I've been following you around the band tonight.  SSTV copy here at 0146 UTC:

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Wolverine Radio 6950 USB *0021 UTC 20Sep15

« on: September 20, 2015, 0139 UTC »

Great show tonight Wolverine, thanks!

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Amphetamine Radio 6930 USB 2325 19 Sep 2015

« on: September 19, 2015, 2339 UTC »

S6-S7 right now over lingering summer static, Scorpions right now at 2338z.  Thanks AR!