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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: VFO Radio 6925 USB 0001 UTC 22 Mar 2025
« on: March 22, 2025, 0010 UTC »
Excellent signal, with minimal fading - up to S9+5 over an S5 noise floor (SINFO 55445).
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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID 6950 AM 0100 UTC 8 MAR 2025
« on: March 08, 2025, 0118 UTC »
Great show - Alan Parsons, "Sirius" @ 0118. Decent signal with a fair amount of fading over moderate noise (SINFO 45333).
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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: The Voice of the Sky 6975 USB 0100 UTC 08 MAR 2025
« on: March 08, 2025, 0107 UTC »
Signal level is excellent (nice high fidelity 15 kHz bandwidth audio), but it significantly impacted by digital signal QRM (SINFO 52453)
EDIT: Much clearer following frequency adjustment. I was mistaken about the 15 kHz bandwidth - evidently I mistook part of the wideband digital signal for the broadcast.
EDIT: Much clearer following frequency adjustment. I was mistaken about the 15 kHz bandwidth - evidently I mistook part of the wideband digital signal for the broadcast.
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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID 6938 USB 2357 UTC 16 FEB 2025
« on: February 17, 2025, 0000 UTC »
ID "Radio Time Machine". Booming in here SINFO 55545 with signal fading between S9+3 & S9+10
EDIT: Now playing "To Drive the Cold Winter Away" by Horslips
EDIT: Now playing "To Drive the Cold Winter Away" by Horslips
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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Mix Radio International 6917 was 6880 USB 2302 UTC 15 FEB 2025
« on: February 15, 2025, 2315 UTC »
Powerful signal (pushing S+30 at times, with fading down to S+10) with killer (15 kHz bandwidth) audio; SINFO 55545.
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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Radio Free Euphonia 6950 AM 2349 UTC 2 FEB 2025
« on: February 03, 2025, 0035 UTC »
Is "Euphonia" definitely correct? I've previously logged Radio Free EUPHORIA, although it's been quite some time (on 6955 kHz when I was in Kulpsville, PA for the SWL convention in March of 2004).
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North American Shortwave Pirate / UNID 6950 AM 2350 UTC 2 Feb 2025
« on: February 02, 2025, 2352 UTC »
"For a Reason" by Aalson (according to Shazam app). Audio fair with noticeable fading above S5 noise floor (SINFO 45333)
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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: 77LJS 6930 USB 2122 UTC 3 JAN 2025
« on: January 03, 2025, 2207 UTC »
Powerhouse signal with minimal fading - minimum nearly S9+20 (SINFO 55445). Decent audio for USB (apparently approximately 4.5 kHz bandwidth).
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North American Shortwave Pirate / Space Junk Radio 6950 USB 0100 UTC 27 DEC 2024
« on: December 27, 2024, 0104 UTC »
Solid S9 signal with awesome 10 kHz bandwidth audio and no fading - killing it over the S6 noise floor. No ID yet, but I'm going to take a wild guess and say maybe Mix International based on that audio. SINFO 55555.
EDIT: More like 8 kHz bandwidth, but when I include the upper end, the treble is a bit weird - sounds best dialed down to around 7 kHz bandwidth (albeit with slight loss of fidelity).
EDIT2: I believe the ID at 0113 was "Space Junk Radio"
EDIT: More like 8 kHz bandwidth, but when I include the upper end, the treble is a bit weird - sounds best dialed down to around 7 kHz bandwidth (albeit with slight loss of fidelity).
EDIT2: I believe the ID at 0113 was "Space Junk Radio"
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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: WDOG 6925 USB 0003 UTC 27 DEC 2024
« on: December 27, 2024, 0054 UTC »
S9 signal over an S5 noise floor with very little fading (SINFO 55344). Was getting a bit clobbered by a 20 kHz-wide digital signal that mercifully just ended (wish I could upload my waterfall image rather than having to have it hosted online).
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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Liquid Radio 6850 AM 0039 UTC 26 DEC 2024
« on: December 26, 2024, 0149 UTC »
Signal close to S9, but a bit difficult to pick out of the S5+ noise floor in part due to moderate fading & a heterodyne from a carrier in the lower sideband (SINFO 44333).
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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: 77LJS 4185 USB 2040 UTC 14 DEC 2024
« on: December 14, 2024, 2229 UTC »
S9+15 over an S8 noise level here with minimal fading (SINFO 55243).
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HF Beacons / ODZ (beacon) 6783.9 kHz CW 2215 14 Dec 2024
« on: December 14, 2024, 2221 UTC »
Hearing CW beacon ODZ (SINFO 35354) with carrier centered at 6782.07 kHz. Can someone tell me where it is located? I couldn't find anything searching the web. and searching "ODZ" on this website yielded 5 pages of posts with "gODZilla" in them lol. Thanks!
EDIT: I see a thread that notes, "Please use this thread for chat about the beacon list" but I can't seem to locate the beacon list; perhaps if I knew where to find it, my question would be answered.
EDIT: I see a thread that notes, "Please use this thread for chat about the beacon list" but I can't seem to locate the beacon list; perhaps if I knew where to find it, my question would be answered.
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QSLs Received / Re: Voice of KAOS 6950 USB 0042 UTC DEC 12 2024
« on: December 07, 2024, 1602 UTC »
QSL received via email - thanks Voice of KAOS! Hope the noise level's lower next time around so I can better appreciate the broadcast 
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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Voice of KAOS 6950 USB 0042 UTC DEC 12 2024
« on: December 07, 2024, 0049 UTC »
Heavy fading between "can barely make it out" (lost in solid S5+ noise floor) and S7. Center frequency appears to be 50 kHz below 6950. Claiming to be in Capetown, South Africa with an interesting and atypical show (news briefs punctuating music).
