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10/11 meters / Re: CH 38LSB alive with F2 today! And, even into the early night!

« on: October 11, 2021, 1826 UTC »

Thought twice that 11M was going to die-out, but 1st time, at sunset, S and Mid CA bang in there with a vengeance! Finally, died-out at 9PM EST, or 01:00UTC.  What little activity I did hear on 10M was a very weak QSO on 28.400USB, then an Aussie accent on 28.450USB, commenting about State-side contacts. So, the Aussies may have indeed been in there last night.

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Pirate Radio History / Inside Pirate Radio Documentary, now +30 years ago!

« on: October 10, 2021, 1841 UTC »

Well, this is certainly pirate history, and Youtube still has it up,  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_oXEMu7Rzo What prompted me to this VID again? Running Radio Wolf International over my stations this Columbus Day Weekend. Hey... The Youtube copy is a better VID version than what I'd bought back in 1991 on VHS.

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10/11 meters / CH 38LSB alive with F2 today!

« on: October 10, 2021, 1831 UTC »

After bring back from the dead, a 1978 RCA SSB Co-Pilot CB, with a new VCO modual, bought from the same UK dude selling FM CB boards, (See the earlier post on that.), I went to bed with it on the 10M Ringo on CH 38LSB. This morning, I woke-up to a flurry of SSB activity from AZ, NM, TX, Mexico, and CA. In the mid-afternoon, WA, OR, N. CA, BC, and Alberta, all banging-in there at +9lbs. Went to 10M on the HF rig, and found no activity. Hmmmmmmmmmmm...

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Huh? / Re: Russian metal band mentions being back on WBCQ! Went very well!

« on: October 04, 2021, 0602 UTC »

I love it when propagation works. 7490kHz AM banged in at my QTH at S25/9, and that's with 1/2-leg of a Windom. The 9/23/2021 storm ripped the other leg out. Hope to do it again in a few weeks, but this time, on 3265kHz AM. Stay tuned!!!!!

UPDATE 11/18/2021: Master put up a Youtube VID of the show here,   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQXbP5pdSBU

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Huh? / Russian metal band mentions being back on WBCQ! X2!! (And yes, I've translated.)

« on: October 03, 2021, 0608 UTC »

I bought time on WBCQ's 7490kHz AM for a review of the Russian Metal band, Master's, latest release, Sunday evening 9PM EST, Monday 01:00UTC. And, they've mentioned this on their main web site as their latest news,    http://master-rockgroup.com/



But, if your Russian really sucks, like mine, here's the translation by that big-ass WBCQ mic logo:

"Radio review of the album "Master of Time
Master,Yesterday 3:29 pm

This Sunday, The Underground JAM program on American Independent Radio will feature a review of the "Master of Time" album. Spanish-language songs will also be aired.
Detailed announcement: http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?13,9431,9431#msg-9431
You can listen live here: http://splatterbox.us/wbcq1
Time: 9 p.m. EST on October 3rd.
Moscow time will be 4:00 AM MONDAY, October 4th.

Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)"

Well, I think it's kind of neat. how many bands do you know that mention that they will be heard on shortwave radio?

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General Radio Discussion / Re: US CB to get FM? SWL'ing posts on it.

« on: October 02, 2021, 1932 UTC »

https://swling.com/blog/2021/10/fcc-approves-fm-for-cb-radio/#comment-674404

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Amateur Radio / Finally!!! Decent 75M propagation last night!

« on: September 25, 2021, 1806 UTC »

Coming home around 05:30UTC, that 1710kHz Hudson Valley TIS, (a.k.a. The Pest!), was just booming over the truck stereo. There was some lightning crashes in there, but not outrageous. So, when I got home, I kicked on the HF rig and found 3799kHz and 3795kHz very much alive with Spanish EA1 stations and several UK stations. The 'Big-Guns' were in there at S9!. However, the weaker, 100W on-a-wire dudes, were all heard from S1 to S3. And, this is RX'ed on a compromised Windom, where 1/2 of that blew-down during the 9/22 storms. COOL!!!! And, this was at 06:00UTC, while one Brit commented the the Sun was up for 10min, already. Let's hope for more. I did also check 60M, but just FT8 on CH3. 160M there was domestic stations at 1880kHz, all coming in from S9 to S10/9, and lower lightning crashes. Catch ya on the lower bands? Let's hope...

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Equipment / Re: Titus II DRM? Should we even bother, at this point?

« on: September 20, 2021, 1850 UTC »

Apparently, they have some newer, yet sketchy, info on the Titus II.    https://www.rtl-sdr.com/is-the-titus-ii-portable-android-tablet-shortwave-sdr-close-to-release/      At this point, tech has marched-on to where there are better alternatives. I say, stop teasing us!

624

Equipment / Re: Steps to set the internal clock on a Malachite SDR

« on: September 19, 2021, 2339 UTC »

Have you been to this dude's site?      https://www.qsl.net/n9ewo/malahit.html      This is a very tempting receiver, indeed.

625

MW Loggings / Re: AM DX From Alaska? Anything from the local AFB?

« on: September 16, 2021, 0556 UTC »

Geez... Where you are would be a HAM's, even a Part #15 AM station op's, dream. Not to pirate, since the Anchorage FCC Office has a reputation of being really tough on that. Question is, does Tatalina Air Force Base, right near you, have a local AM / FM station? Why do I ask? When I was up in Eielson AFB in July 1985, I was told about an on-base 10W AM station that they had, and was shown the antenna, side-mounted, from ground up, on a 20-something ft wooden utility pole. I never did hear that station on-air in operation while I was there, though. So, that was disappointing. Still, interesting stations that you are catching up there. Just keep all of those mosquitoes.

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MW Loggings / 1630 KCJJ is propagating, again.

« on: September 14, 2021, 0526 UTC »

After a poor RX'ing of KCJJ in Iowa City, IA all summer, I heard them for a few minutes bangin' back in on the truck stereo around 04:35UTC. Interesting contrast of tunage, early Beyoncee Knowles to early 80's Sammy Hagar. https://www.1630kcjj.com/

627

Huh? / Re: Yeah, 9/11, but remember the night of 9/10/2001 in radio? Here's more!!!

« on: September 13, 2021, 1851 UTC »

Awh yeah??? Well, if y'all liked that, then here are these:

https://archive.org/details/pat-murphy-roger-skinner-interview-on-art-bell-3-1998-edited


https://archive.org/details/art-bell-midnight-in-the-desert-rec-test-boadcast-via-wbcq-7490k-hz-off-air-7-19-2015-edited


And, if any station wants to air the following, please do:     https://archive.org/details/the-underground-jam-slate-no-tuj-09122021-review-of-master-master-of-time

And, while we're at it, here the expanding Archive.org page:   https://archive.org/details/@thadood

What else to put up there? How about several 1990's pirate ops' interviews? Thank you, and ENJOY!!!!

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Huh? / Re: Yeah, 9/11, but remember the night of 9/10/2001 in radio? Now, on Archive!

« on: September 12, 2021, 0727 UTC »

Want to download that interview for yourself? Looks like the upload to Archive.org worked. Goto    https://archive.org/details/andrew-yoder-on-art-bell-c-2-c-am-mon-9-10-2001-edited    Scroll down to VBR MP3, then Right-Click for option to download. Enjoy!!!!!!

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Amateur Radio / Re: Age of ham radio operators?

« on: September 11, 2021, 0620 UTC »

Awh yeah... I definitely fit the +46 category, but I was 22 when I was 1st licensed. Then again, it was just before the internet hit.

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Huh? / Yeah, 9/11, but remember the night of 9/10/2001 in radio, that then wasn't?

« on: September 11, 2021, 0612 UTC »

Oh yeah... I certainly remember the morning of 9/11/2001, since I was on the road to my Grandpa's funeral in Buffalo, NY. Needless to say, 930WBEN was exciting to listen too right then, as my family and I did. However, I was sleep deprived from staying up all night, 9/10/2001, for big night on the then Art Bell's Coast To Coast AM, when his guest was Andrew Yoder, on the subject of Pirate Radio, mainly the shortwave scene. I stayed up to record off-air the whole thing off of WHTK 1280AM. (I did the same with the Pat Murphy interview as well.) I thought that it all went well, Art got to tune-in to what may have been his 1st pirate station on shortwave, He Man Radio doing the broadcast for the occasion. Art actually aired several pirate ID's and actually aired a full skit from The Voice Of Laryngitis, as well as promote Hobby Broadcasting Zine. Also, a mention of Number Stations that Art has tuned-in to before. I was actually happy with the whole show, then the events of what happened a few hours later totally erased everything. Andrew's thunder was really sniff-out, for sure. Certainly glad that I did the off-air records, and they were on-line on a couple of sites. Are they still? So, even though the terrible events to the twin towers changed everything in America, and even the World, the night before, 9/10/2001, turned out to be the radio event that was, then all of a sudden, wasn't.