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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Unid 6925USB 0232 UTC May 4'16

« on: May 04, 2016, 1728 UTC »

I was checking the bands at that time (looking for Ride of the Valkyries) and heard nothing. Since Radio Zed usually comes in well for me I'll guess that this transmission wasn't them.

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General Radio Discussion / Re: WRMI move from 6915 to 6855 due to complaints from MARS

« on: May 04, 2016, 1637 UTC »

I might be wrong but didn't WRMI use 6915khz 15 years ago or so?  Anyway I don't understand why they would even consider operations down in the part of the band... It's almost like a 'graveyard' assignment in the broadcast band.

With the conditions of late I haven't heard WRMI above the noise level (vertical or horizontal) here and I wonder where they are broadcasting to... perhaps the western areas?  Even then its a waste of kilowatts in my opinion. But Bro. Stair(knutcase) has plenty of money from all the 'lost' folks of his 'flock'.

I can't speak for every transmission frequency WMRI uses, but 6915 was always weak here in Denver and this new 6855 one isn't any better. Their broadcasts in 60, 49, and 25m OTOH come booming in. (31m, not so much.)

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: TCS 6876 AM 0047 UTC 5/4/16

« on: May 04, 2016, 0119 UTC »

0119 Faint but audible signal, some fading but little noise. 242.
0154 Flipped over from XLR8 in time for some Smithereens. Sun going down, signal really coming through now.

Thanks for the show JP!

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: XLR8 6955 USB 0027 UTC 4 May 2016

« on: May 04, 2016, 0113 UTC »

Clear but weak signal. Hey, you got any Swans in your library? Maybe something nice from "White Light."
0118 Signal gaining strength. Come on, sundown!
0121 XLR8 ID into "Marijuana, The Devil's Flower" by MR. Sunshine *
0124 "Do It Again" by Shinichiro Yokota *
0129 "That's the Way It Goes" by Micatone *
0133 XLR8 ID into Swans "When She Breathes"    er, make that "Song For Dead Time." Still didn't have to shazam it, though!
    * shazamed
0139 "Aufstehn!" Seeed feat. Cee-Lo Green *
0143 "No More Mr. Nice Guy" Alice Cooper
0146 XLR8 ID into "The Mouth Don't Stop" by Fear. Now that's a blast from the past. I sold "More Beer" years ago (probably for more beer) and haven't heard anything off it since.
0149 old skool punk song, can't place this one, shazam isn't helping. But sounds good.
     If we're going this way, how about some Dils?
0051 XLR8 ID into "Bright Yellow Gun" Throwing Muses *
0055 Bo Diddly "She's Fine She's Mine" *
0058 Destroy All Monsters I think? (Yes! Confirmed by shazam, "Nobody Knows")
0201 XLR8 ID into UNID song. (just messed up my BFO, making matters harder). Seems to be called "Don't Go."
0209 XLR8 ID into Sonic Youth (can't remember the song title but it's on Sonic Nurse)
     fades starting to increase.
0213 Bikini Kill?
0215 Iggy! "The Passenger"
0220 XLR8 ID into "Don't Wanna Fight" Alabama Shakes *
0224 "My Way" Limp Bizkit *
0228 "Gin and Juice - Metal Cover" by Leo *
0232 "Jet Airliner" Paul Pena (not Steve Miller) *
    If it's cover song time, I was always fond of what Butthole Surfers did with "American Woman."
0237 XLR8 ID into unshazamable song
0243 XLR8 ID into "Slave of Fear" Stone Axe *
0248 "Fascist Pigs" The Nosebleeds * (nice one)
0250 signal just faded a bit, all I can hear are drums and a bassline
0254 signal still faded but strong enough for shazam to ID "Dust" by Parquet Courts *
0258 unid song, can hear drums bass and screaming vox but no guitar. Lyrics about acid rain falling.
0302 XLR8 ID into "War/Subvert" Zounds *
     reception pretty deteriorated by 0319, some peaks above noise floor.
 
Thanks for the show!!

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General Radio Discussion / Re: Why 69xx kHz?

« on: May 03, 2016, 2211 UTC »

Check this out if you haven't already:

http://freeradiocafe.com/forum/index.php

Not that you can't get good answers here, but I believe this forum has a bit more emphasis on the practical aspects of unlicensed broadcasting.

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General Radio Discussion / Re: Why 69xx kHz?

« on: May 03, 2016, 1537 UTC »

Adding to what Chris said... Speaking as a complete noob, having owned a real SW receiver for about 3 months now (initially interested in getting numbers stations but finding that pirates are much more plentiful to hear, and easily with the very basic two receivers and longwire I'm using at the moment - no SDR and fancy waterfalls to help find things to listen to), knowing that I can just scroll through that band, either in AM or USB, and sometimes find something without waiting for someone to post something here is very, very satisfying. If you go to a different band, at the very least you would have to announce it somewhere ahead of time (and they do have a subcategory under PIRATE here for that purpose) in order for someone like me to know that there's something worth finding in those bands. I don't go scrolling through 10-11MHz very often because aside from the VOLMET at 10051 kHZ that whole band is something of a dead zone for me. (Doubtless there's interesting stuff there that I don't know how to find, or can't receive with what I have.)

Anyway, I haven't seen the much more veteran commenters address this point, but isn't 43m something of a dead zone, regulation-wise? (WMRI at 6915 notwithstanding.) I mentioned the VOLMET at 10051, and I know there's another at 15034. The frequencies outside the SWBC bands are used for other purposes like marine and military, but 69xx is pretty free of that (excepting the MARS frequencies Chris mentions) and thus makes it less likely that you'll interfere with someone licensed who will notice and complain to the FCC. Confirmation and/or correction on this point is greatly appreciated, veteran DX'ers.

Good luck, and hope to hear your broadcast soon! Paranthetically yours, MDK2

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Shortwave Broadcast / Channel Africa, 5980 kHz

« on: May 03, 2016, 0400 UTC »

3 May 2016 - Tuned in about 0355 to music, and heard station ID "This is Channel Africa from Johannesburg" (paraphrasing) at 0357. Sign off at 0359. S3, perhaps aided by a bit of dawn enhancement.

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QSLs Received / Re: Radio Azteca "Rejection Rejection" card example

« on: May 02, 2016, 2344 UTC »

So you got this in the snail mail? It's great!

They're completely inaudible out west, at least judging from the lack of commentary from other westerners on their logs. (I'm not yet at the point where I would judge a signal by my own inability to hear anything.) I wonder what they might send in response to a nonreception report?

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Shortwave Broadcast / Re: 9895kHz Cairo

« on: May 01, 2016, 2311 UTC »

The digiDX post from today reports that their transmitters are in a state of neglect. Maybe that's what's wrong.

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Other / Re: unID 6933 LSB 0310z

« on: May 01, 2016, 0322 UTC »

0321 just tuning in to music that sounds like 80s industrial.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Ride of the Valkyries 6930 USB 01 May 2016 0239 UTC

« on: May 01, 2016, 0321 UTC »

Quite well heard in Victoria, BC until 03:05 UTC with same alpha-numeric sequences, and "out".  Wonder whether he'll be back.  Caught him after VOA Radiogram on 5745.  Was there an ID for Ride of the Valkyries?   Walt

This is a station some of the people hear have been logging for the past couple of weeks. Format is an electronic, maybe 8-bit version of the Ride of the Valkyries melody followed by OM reading alphanumeric ASCII in hex. Basically someone is doing a pseudo numbers station, so no other ID is given.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Ride of the Valkyries Pseudo Numbers Station 6930 USB 0239 UTC 01 May 2016

« on: May 01, 2016, 0239 UTC »

0239 Electronic beeping version of Ride of the Valkyries
0239 OM reading numbers and letters (letters in NATO phonetic)
         SIO 333-444, depending on fading. Sometimes comes in quite strong, but quickly fades.
0249 OFF
0254 OM back on reading alphanumeric codes
0304 OFF

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID 6925 USB 0222 UTC May 1, 2016

« on: May 01, 2016, 0236 UTC »

Been listening from 0221-0236, can't find any BFO setting where it doesn't sound completely wrong.  
EDIT @ Tom Hooper, that would explain why I couldn't zero in the BFO. The ol' Grundig doesn't fine tune finer than 1 kHz.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Radio Zed 6925 USB 0138 UTC 01 May 2016

« on: May 01, 2016, 0139 UTC »

0138 Hearing big band music, SIO 222 at best.
0144 faded out or off.
0147 CW and OM, Radio Zed ID and email (radiozed at hushmail dot com). (I couldn't hear any of it clearly but I recognize the format and voice from past broadcasts.)
0148 big band music
0202 Signal improving, SIO 333. But I'm also getting local interference in the form of intermittent beeping. It's been ruining much of my 40m listening lately.
0206 Tommy Dorsey, "Who?" per shazam
0208 Tommy Dorsey, "Yes, Indeed!" per shazam.
0211 Rheingold Beer commercial per shazam.  Is there anything this app doesn't know?
0212 Tommy Dorsey, unshazamable. Apparently there is.
0215 faded or off.

Thanks for the show Radio Zed!

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Shortwave Broadcast / All India Radio New Delhi (Vividh Bharati) 9380 AM

« on: May 01, 2016, 0125 UTC »

01 May 2016 0120 UTC - Bollywood music just barely audible, frequent fades. It's just after sunrise there and just before sunset here.