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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: TCBS 6220 USB 2310 UTC 3 JAN 2025
« on: January 04, 2025, 2344 UTC »
About S9 +5 peaks in NE Wisconsin, 23:44
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Sure, but they would need to know/try every serial number....and easy enough to add a PW for users outside your network.
Got my KiwiSDR2 the other day, thrilled to have my own!
-Nate
N8BTR
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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: WPRT 6950 USB 1940 UTC 29 NOV 2024
« on: December 26, 2024, 1623 UTC »
Anyone get any recordings of the voice/ID for this one?
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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Thunder Chicken Radio 6855 USB 2244 UTC 28 OCT 2024
« on: October 28, 2024, 2337 UTC »
23:37: 10-15 over S9 into NE Wisconsin on a KiwiSDR. Great signal!
-N8BTR
-N8BTR
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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: THUNDER CHICKEN RADIO 6950 USB 2203 UTC 01 SEPT 2024
« on: September 02, 2024, 0109 UTC »
Peaks 15db over S9 in NE Wisconsin, 0300 UTC
-Nate
N8BTR
-Nate
N8BTR
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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Sternradio 6936.666 AM 0109 UTC 30 AUG 2024
« on: August 30, 2024, 0352 UTC »
3:51 S9+ music in NE Wisconsin, on 6938
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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Mix Radio International 6950 USB 1843 UTC 29 AUG 2024
« on: August 30, 2024, 0350 UTC »
S9+5 in NE Wisconsin @ 3:50
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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Thunder Chicken Radio 6950 USB 2117 UTC 25 AUG 2024
« on: August 25, 2024, 2207 UTC »
22:07, S9 in Northeast Wisconsin, USA.
I believe they ID'd as Thunder Chicken Radio? around 22:23
I believe they ID'd as Thunder Chicken Radio? around 22:23
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Equipment / Re: Sky loop...height vs diameter
« on: July 10, 2024, 1245 UTC »
Follow up... I ended up putting up a 40m horizontal loop for now at 34 feet (10m) height, corner fed, 3 sides, with a 4:1 balun/1:1 balun combo. (Palomar Engineers)
http://21040.proxy.kiwisdr.com:8073/
I'll start with this, get some noise/RFI tackled, and eventually either add another antenna and a switch, or expand this to a larger loop.
-Nate
N8BTR
http://21040.proxy.kiwisdr.com:8073/
I'll start with this, get some noise/RFI tackled, and eventually either add another antenna and a switch, or expand this to a larger loop.
-Nate
N8BTR
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Equipment / Re: Sky loop...height vs diameter
« on: February 21, 2024, 1927 UTC »
10 years later....what's the thought on big loops, but low height?
I have a new KiwiSDR2. And I could put up a long loop this year, but it may only be 10-15 ft high for now..... My other likely option is an OCF 80m dipole at guessing 35-40 ft as an inverted V.
(The thought being probably next year I could get a higher 500 ft or 1100 ft loop in the air for transmitting as well, and use that.)
I found this article (here: https://ia904702.us.archive.org/35/items/73-magazine-1998-09/09_September_1998.pdf ) and read one from 1983: https://ia600602.us.archive.org/30/items/73-magazine-1983-05/05_May_1983.pdf
Which seems to make me think it's worth trying a 10 ft high big loop with a balun, but understanding it will be better when higher....
Any more insight on this since then?
I guess my question is: Horizontalish wire in the air 35-40 ft, or 10-15 ft high long (300-1000 ft) loop for 0-30 mhz receive?
-Nate
N8BTR
I have a new KiwiSDR2. And I could put up a long loop this year, but it may only be 10-15 ft high for now..... My other likely option is an OCF 80m dipole at guessing 35-40 ft as an inverted V.
(The thought being probably next year I could get a higher 500 ft or 1100 ft loop in the air for transmitting as well, and use that.)
'73 Magazine ran an in depth article in the late 90's called , "What's The Scoop on The Lazy Loop?" on full wavelength horizontal NVIS loops. As Chris said, the bottom frequency seems to be the key with the things. According to the author, if you could get up to about 1/8 of a wavelength for the bottom frequency the thing was an exceptional performer for receiving and transmitting up to about 15 meters.
I found this article (here: https://ia904702.us.archive.org/35/items/73-magazine-1998-09/09_September_1998.pdf ) and read one from 1983: https://ia600602.us.archive.org/30/items/73-magazine-1983-05/05_May_1983.pdf
Which seems to make me think it's worth trying a 10 ft high big loop with a balun, but understanding it will be better when higher....
Any more insight on this since then?
I guess my question is: Horizontalish wire in the air 35-40 ft, or 10-15 ft high long (300-1000 ft) loop for 0-30 mhz receive?
-Nate
N8BTR
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SDR - Software Defined Radio / Re: KiwiSDR 2 Now Available for Pre-order.
« on: February 17, 2024, 1418 UTC »Note this change for the KiwiSDR2:
“….Every KiwiSDR 2 has the proxy service enabled by default. So you can connect using the serial number, e.g. 21xxx.kiwisdr.com
If you don’t want your KiwiSDR2 accessible from the internet, you will need to disable this.
Sure, but they would need to know/try every serial number....and easy enough to add a PW for users outside your network.
Got my KiwiSDR2 the other day, thrilled to have my own!
-Nate
N8BTR
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SDR - Software Defined Radio / Re: KiwiSDR 2 Now Available for Pre-order.
« on: January 19, 2024, 1754 UTC »
First round of KiwisDR2s are all gone. Got mine right away! 
Hopefully they ship from NZ in February as promised.
-Nate
N8BTR
Hopefully they ship from NZ in February as promised.
-Nate
N8BTR
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