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Clandestine Stations / 17540 Radio Impala 1730 UTC, 2/20 & 3/8/14

« on: February 20, 2014, 1824 UTC »

I heard an ID in English around 1730 and another one later. The announcer had an accent. It had 2 syllables and sounded like it started with a vowel. Mostly it was hard to discern because of the accent. But the frequency and time fit for Radio Mara.  Really relaxing music with singing and guitar. Singing sounded African.

So as I understand, this comes from a relay in Madagascar?  Looking at my globe, that is on the opposite side of the world from California!  

SINPO
35433

EDIT:
I listened to the links that FPE Consultant gave and it is Radio Impala and not Radio Mara.  I changed the subject...to reflect.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID 6925 USB *0343 UTC 17 Feb 2014

« on: February 18, 2014, 0349 UTC »

Nice reception here!
0349 DJ said a little then it stopped.

SINPO Ant. B
35444

0354 Dead Kennedys! Stay on I'm going outside to try out my new antenna!

0359 DK Holiday in Cambodia, then a "Goodnight" and off

SINPO 1/4 wave vertical with 4 radials all tuned to the pirate water's spectrum
44554
New antenna was better. Hard to tell by how much, music was tinny. 

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Echo One 6955 KHz AM 0147 UTC 2/16

« on: February 16, 2014, 0504 UTC »

0157
I heard Free Radio Echo One ID with a man's Brittish accent.  Then an older song.

SINPO
35333

Pretty gude reception. I couldn't enjoy it, I had to leave. Thank you, I hope to hear you again.

Did this come all the way from Brittania? 

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Shortwave Broadcast / 15.170 AM Radio Free Asia Vietnamese, with jamming 0013 utc, 2/16/14

« on: February 16, 2014, 0017 UTC »

There is an Asian language station with an annoying siren trying to jam it. Pretty cool siren, almost like a fast ambulance's siren. Or a car alarm.

Asian station
32321

The siren comes and goes with propagation. Stringed Oriental music every once and a while. Jammer doing an effective job. I bet I could understand snippets of the broadcast if I knew the language.

Siren is about the same sinpo as Asian station.

2/16/14
1824 utc
I updated the ID, thanks glimmer twin! cool stuff.

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HF Beacons / Re: beep every 4 to 5 seconds 6980 USB, 0156 UTC, Feb. 13, 2014

« on: February 15, 2014, 0250 UTC »

0247 UTC, Feb 15 2014
Nothing at this time on either of the 2.  

I'm pretty sure for the first post I searched around for the best signal to be as accurate as I could.  I wish I read your reply earlier.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Wolverine Radio 6930 USB 0129 2/15/2014

« on: February 15, 2014, 0217 UTC »

0212
Pretty dang good reception. Valentine valentine song.

0216
Wolverine Radio ID

SINPO
35434

0225
SSTV
Since then about over 100 different clips of love songs, wow! I stopped counting after 50. Somebody loves to transmit radio!  
0237
off

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HF Beacons / beep every 4 to 5 seconds 6980 USB, 0156 UTC, Feb. 13, 2014

« on: February 13, 2014, 0206 UTC »

Thar be a beacon at 6980 USB.
About a 0.5 sec long beep every 4 to 5 seconds. Sounds kind of lonely.

SINPO
25354

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The RF Workbench / Re: Stereo to mono wiring

« on: February 09, 2014, 1903 UTC »

ff
Thanks for your response, I understand now why modern, low power players are forgiving.  I have enough info to solder in some wires. I checked out your link and I like the player a lot. 

Pigmeat
I'll have to get me one of those snap-on ferrites. 

I'm being particular because I want the best sound quality I can have.  So I'm taking my time before soldering stuff into place.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Wolverine Radio 6950 USB *0101 9Feb14

« on: February 09, 2014, 0210 UTC »

0151
data on LSB, but no interference from it on USB.
Thanks for show, its nice to come back from working on car to finally get to have some fun today.

SINPO
35332   noise and propagation have joined forces and are defeating my reception

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: RTN 6940 AM 0120 UTC 9 Feb 2014

« on: February 09, 2014, 0207 UTC »

0152
ID at about 0152
electronic house music (I really like house music and wish I heard more pirates with it)

SINPO
35233

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Radio Free Whatever 6925 USB *0054 9Feb14

« on: February 09, 2014, 0205 UTC »

0153
I can tell its music. I hear a tone on usb and lsb.

sinpo
15111

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HF Beacons / Re: 6943 USB 0148 UTC Feb. 4, 2014

« on: February 05, 2014, 2019 UTC »

That Link 11 sounded like the weird ass bursts alright.  But what about the dash?  The dash was there before Link 11 and is still there now.

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HF Beacons / Re: 6943 USB 0148 UTC Feb. 4, 2014

« on: February 05, 2014, 0136 UTC »

2/5/14
0133 utc
Now there's still the dash, but some weird ass bursts. Short short short...with a long one at the end. Its on and off.  It sounds like it might contain digital computer data, I'm not familliar with the different types.

off at 0134ish

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: XLR8 6935 USB 2/04/2014 0052z

« on: February 04, 2014, 2331 UTC »

Glimmer Twin , thats a great story, thanks for sharing. My neighbor is interested but he's not around when the pirates are.

555

Huh? / Re: Conspiracy theorists think government planted 'fake snow'

« on: February 04, 2014, 0201 UTC »

Does anybody remember the power outage for the 2013 superbowl?  I thought it was done on purpose to give one side an advantage.