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QSLs Received / Radio Batavia eQSL
« on: August 26, 2017, 2033 UTC »
Thank you very much Radio Batavia.
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QSLs Received / Re: Pirate Radio Boston farewell QSL 7/29/17
« on: August 21, 2017, 0915 UTC »
Received my QSL (#23) today for the European relay.
Included in the letter are two postcards (Massachusetts & Boston).
Thank you very much Charlie Loudenboomer for very nice conformation.
I wish you all the best for your retirement.
Included in the letter are two postcards (Massachusetts & Boston).
Thank you very much Charlie Loudenboomer for very nice conformation.
I wish you all the best for your retirement.
484
QSLs Received / Radio Voyager eQSL
« on: August 16, 2017, 0830 UTC »
Thank you very much Captain Denny.
485
QSLs Received / Captain John / Radio Titanic, conformation
« on: August 15, 2017, 0541 UTC »
Receive the attached eQSL from Captain John / Radio Titanic, for my report from 13th, August 2017.
Thank you very much Captain John.
Thank you very much Captain John.
487
QSLs Received / Panda Radio eQSL
« on: August 11, 2017, 2255 UTC »
Thank you very much Panda Radio.
488
QSLs Received / Enterprise Radio - "Star Trek captains" Series eQSL
« on: August 10, 2017, 0916 UTC »
Thank you very much Capitano Denny.
489
General Radio Discussion / Re: Very sad news
« on: August 10, 2017, 0536 UTC »
RIP Rafman. You will be missed on HFU.
490
General Radio Discussion / Cyberattacks on GPS leave ships sailing in dangerous waters
« on: August 09, 2017, 1405 UTC »
After years of worries about the vulnerability of ship-borne GPS to jamming and spoofing, a handful of governments are suddenly warming up to a backup radio technology called Enhanced Long-Range Navigation (eLoran).
Reuters this week reports that South Korea’s Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries is looking to establish the technology in a test form by 2019. Elsewhere, it seems likely that the US will invest taxpayers’ money into doing the same thing on a large scale, while even Russia is promoting its own version of eLoran called eChayka, for use in Arctic shipping routes.
And well they might after a recent spate of GPS jamming incidents involving these countries. Last year North Korea was accused of being behind the mass jamming of dozens of South Korean vessels that was serious enough to force them back to port.
Other jamming events included a warning of GPS interference issued by the US Coast Guard in early 2016 and a reported mass-jamming incident in the Black Sea in June this year.
While the incidents might be new, the danger they pose has been widely discussed for years, and not just in shipping – in the UK, the routine jamming of GPS signals used to track delivery vans has been a growing problem for years.
Given the acute dangers faced by shipping, what’s taken eLoran so long to get off the ground?
Sea navigation has always been a complex undertaking, but the introduction of Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) technologies such GPS, the Russian GLONASS and European Galileo have made life a deal simpler. Using these, a ship can know its position, heading and speed anywhere on the surface of earth, in any weather, with a high level of accuracy.
These are great for avoiding collisions but GPS signals are relatively weak and interference – both deliberate and from solar activity – can cause problems. Even today, ship pilots must be proficient using alternatives such as radar, magnetic compasses and old-fashioned navigational charts.
The challenge is that switching from GPS to a manual backup system takes time and that spells danger in congested shipping lanes.
A ship using eLoran, by contrast, would have something to switch to automatically and without delay. Designed to operate in the low-frequency 100kHz spectrum over long distances, its power output also makes it much harder to jam for an attacker compared to GPS. It’s extremely hard to spoof because the land-based transmitters sit in a limited number of fixed positions.
Despite plans to implement eLoran dating back to the Bush administration in 2004, it has been stymied by a mixture of cost (an expensive network of transmitters that serve only shipping) and political inertia.
The UK was a big advocate of the technology but found it difficult to get its neighbours to invest in the infrastructure upgrades to decades-old Loran radio systems necessary to provide full sea coverage.
Complacency could be another issue, with at least one nation, Norway, wondering whether radar wasn’t an acceptable solution for avoiding collisions in open sea.
The recent flurry of GPS jamming incidents might finally change minds. Sadly, it still looks as if major global investment beyond a handful of countries will only be forthcoming once politicians can point to the effects of a major attack.
Source: https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2017/08/07/cyberattacks-on-gps-leave-ships-sailing-in-dangerous-waters/?utm_source=Naked+Security+-+Sophos+List&utm_campaign=04be0b6c6e-naked%252Bsecurity&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_31623bb782-04be0b6c6e-418495409
Reuters this week reports that South Korea’s Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries is looking to establish the technology in a test form by 2019. Elsewhere, it seems likely that the US will invest taxpayers’ money into doing the same thing on a large scale, while even Russia is promoting its own version of eLoran called eChayka, for use in Arctic shipping routes.
And well they might after a recent spate of GPS jamming incidents involving these countries. Last year North Korea was accused of being behind the mass jamming of dozens of South Korean vessels that was serious enough to force them back to port.
Other jamming events included a warning of GPS interference issued by the US Coast Guard in early 2016 and a reported mass-jamming incident in the Black Sea in June this year.
While the incidents might be new, the danger they pose has been widely discussed for years, and not just in shipping – in the UK, the routine jamming of GPS signals used to track delivery vans has been a growing problem for years.
Given the acute dangers faced by shipping, what’s taken eLoran so long to get off the ground?
Sea navigation has always been a complex undertaking, but the introduction of Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) technologies such GPS, the Russian GLONASS and European Galileo have made life a deal simpler. Using these, a ship can know its position, heading and speed anywhere on the surface of earth, in any weather, with a high level of accuracy.
These are great for avoiding collisions but GPS signals are relatively weak and interference – both deliberate and from solar activity – can cause problems. Even today, ship pilots must be proficient using alternatives such as radar, magnetic compasses and old-fashioned navigational charts.
The challenge is that switching from GPS to a manual backup system takes time and that spells danger in congested shipping lanes.
A ship using eLoran, by contrast, would have something to switch to automatically and without delay. Designed to operate in the low-frequency 100kHz spectrum over long distances, its power output also makes it much harder to jam for an attacker compared to GPS. It’s extremely hard to spoof because the land-based transmitters sit in a limited number of fixed positions.
Despite plans to implement eLoran dating back to the Bush administration in 2004, it has been stymied by a mixture of cost (an expensive network of transmitters that serve only shipping) and political inertia.
The UK was a big advocate of the technology but found it difficult to get its neighbours to invest in the infrastructure upgrades to decades-old Loran radio systems necessary to provide full sea coverage.
Complacency could be another issue, with at least one nation, Norway, wondering whether radar wasn’t an acceptable solution for avoiding collisions in open sea.
The recent flurry of GPS jamming incidents might finally change minds. Sadly, it still looks as if major global investment beyond a handful of countries will only be forthcoming once politicians can point to the effects of a major attack.
Source: https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2017/08/07/cyberattacks-on-gps-leave-ships-sailing-in-dangerous-waters/?utm_source=Naked+Security+-+Sophos+List&utm_campaign=04be0b6c6e-naked%252Bsecurity&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_31623bb782-04be0b6c6e-418495409
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Broadcast Announcements / Hitmix Birthday Transmission of OM Gunter
« on: August 08, 2017, 1013 UTC »
Our next transmission on shortwave runs at 12.August.2017 from 12:00 to 15:00 UTC on 5955 kHz.
This transmission is completly designed by Gunther of "Hitmix - Das Radio", because this day is his birthday :-).
This Transmission is sponsored by Gjalt/Studio52, DJ Nick and Erdenman/Radio60.
Source: https://studio52radiogroup.jimdo.com/
This transmission is completly designed by Gunther of "Hitmix - Das Radio", because this day is his birthday :-).
This Transmission is sponsored by Gjalt/Studio52, DJ Nick and Erdenman/Radio60.
Source: https://studio52radiogroup.jimdo.com/
492
General Radio Discussion / New shortwave station from Germany
« on: July 30, 2017, 0843 UTC »
SHORTWAVE RADIO SERVICE
broadcasting to Benelux, UK & Ireland on 3975 kHz & 6160 kHz
We are pleased to announce a new Shortwave Radio Service from Germany broadcasting to Benelux, UK & Ireland
on 3975 kHz / 75m & 6160 kHz / 49m
Listen out to test transmissions on:
6160 kHz / Monday to Saturday / 10:00-12:00 / 14:00-16:00 / 18:00-20:00 UTC
3975 kHz / Monday to Saturday / 12:00-14:00 / 16:00-18:00 / 20:00-22:00 UTC
Contact (reports, audio recordings and comments) can be send either to:
3975@shortwaveradio.de
or
6160@shortwaveradio.de
Further information will follow soon.
Note: The station is run by Shortwave Radio Enthusiasts on non political and non commercial base. Transmitting location is in Lower Saxony / Germany in accordance with a licence issued by the German BNetzA (Zuteilungsnummer # 01958434 & #01958435)
Source : http://shortwaveradio.de
broadcasting to Benelux, UK & Ireland on 3975 kHz & 6160 kHz
We are pleased to announce a new Shortwave Radio Service from Germany broadcasting to Benelux, UK & Ireland
on 3975 kHz / 75m & 6160 kHz / 49m
Listen out to test transmissions on:
6160 kHz / Monday to Saturday / 10:00-12:00 / 14:00-16:00 / 18:00-20:00 UTC
3975 kHz / Monday to Saturday / 12:00-14:00 / 16:00-18:00 / 20:00-22:00 UTC
Contact (reports, audio recordings and comments) can be send either to:
3975@shortwaveradio.de
or
6160@shortwaveradio.de
Further information will follow soon.
Note: The station is run by Shortwave Radio Enthusiasts on non political and non commercial base. Transmitting location is in Lower Saxony / Germany in accordance with a licence issued by the German BNetzA (Zuteilungsnummer # 01958434 & #01958435)
Source : http://shortwaveradio.de
493
Huh? / Linkin Park singer commits suicide
« on: July 20, 2017, 1828 UTC »
This is pretty tragic news.
http://www.tmz.com/2017/07/20/linkin-park-singer-chester-bennington-dead-commits-suicide/
http://www.tmz.com/2017/07/20/linkin-park-singer-chester-bennington-dead-commits-suicide/
494
European Pirates and Private Stations / Re: 6267 AM 20.03 UTC 14 Jul 2017 UNID -"cult music"
« on: July 14, 2017, 2055 UTC »
Mustang Radio!
495
General Radio Discussion / WWV 25 MHz Signal Swapped to Circular Polarization, Reception Reports Invited
« on: July 12, 2017, 1511 UTC »
The resurrected 25-MHz signal of time and frequency standard station WWV is now emanating from a circularly polarized turnstile antenna. WWV had used a vertically polarized antenna on 25 MHz in the 1970s. Silent since 1977, the 25-MHz signal returned to the air on an “experimental basis” in April 2014, and it’s been transmitting ever since — initially on a broadband discone until August 2015, when it switched back to a vertical, which it used until the July 7 switch to circular polarization.
“[W]e are broadcasting with 2 kW from a circularly polarized turnstile antenna,” WWV lead electrical engineer Matt Deutch, N0RGT, told ARRL this week. “It is just your standard plain-vanilla turnstile — two horizontal orthogonal dipoles with a quarter-wave phase-shifting coax linking them.”
Deutch has explained that when the 25-MHz transmitter was shut down in 1977, the antenna’s radiating element was “tossed in the bone yard, and a new longer section put on the tower to make it a 15 MHz stand-by antenna,” Deutch recounted. When WWV first reintroduced the 25-MHz broadcast some 37 years later in response to requests, it used a broadband monopole. But, it was later decided to use that antenna for WWV’s 2.5-MHz stand-by transmitter and to rebuild the 25-MHz antenna. The old radiating section was retrieved and the antenna rebuilt, so that it looked like what was being used in 1977.
Deutch said it’s hoped that the latest antenna change to circular polarization might be helpful to anyone studying propagation during next month’s total solar eclipse, which will be visible across the US. “My effort right now is focused on getting the word out, just to make people are aware that [the 25-MHz signal] is available, if it can be useful to them.”
Before the change, Deutch said WWV had received reports on the 25 MHz signal from across the Atlantic. The 25 MHz broadcast includes the same information transmitted on all other WWV frequencies and at the same level of accuracy.
Located in Fort Collins, Colorado, WWV is operated by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). WWV has invited listeners’ comments and reports on its 25-MHz signal.
Source: http://www.arrl.org/news/wwv-25-mhz-signal-swapped-to-circular-polarization
“[W]e are broadcasting with 2 kW from a circularly polarized turnstile antenna,” WWV lead electrical engineer Matt Deutch, N0RGT, told ARRL this week. “It is just your standard plain-vanilla turnstile — two horizontal orthogonal dipoles with a quarter-wave phase-shifting coax linking them.”
Deutch has explained that when the 25-MHz transmitter was shut down in 1977, the antenna’s radiating element was “tossed in the bone yard, and a new longer section put on the tower to make it a 15 MHz stand-by antenna,” Deutch recounted. When WWV first reintroduced the 25-MHz broadcast some 37 years later in response to requests, it used a broadband monopole. But, it was later decided to use that antenna for WWV’s 2.5-MHz stand-by transmitter and to rebuild the 25-MHz antenna. The old radiating section was retrieved and the antenna rebuilt, so that it looked like what was being used in 1977.
Deutch said it’s hoped that the latest antenna change to circular polarization might be helpful to anyone studying propagation during next month’s total solar eclipse, which will be visible across the US. “My effort right now is focused on getting the word out, just to make people are aware that [the 25-MHz signal] is available, if it can be useful to them.”
Before the change, Deutch said WWV had received reports on the 25 MHz signal from across the Atlantic. The 25 MHz broadcast includes the same information transmitted on all other WWV frequencies and at the same level of accuracy.
Located in Fort Collins, Colorado, WWV is operated by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). WWV has invited listeners’ comments and reports on its 25-MHz signal.
Source: http://www.arrl.org/news/wwv-25-mhz-signal-swapped-to-circular-polarization