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FM DX Loggings / Re: Big E-skip opening logs

« on: July 04, 2025, 1554 UTC »

I really should get back into FM DXing, which is the only kind that should be as happening as it was 40 years ago...MW/SW/TV DXing aren't what they were but FM should be.  I am in a market (State College PA) without Spanish language stations, so I was surprised to find one on my beer run a few minutes ago (so July 4 1545 UTC) and it was KTUZ 106.7 Oklahoma City.  Doesn't beat my best FMDX from around 1980 which was Winnipeg (which the letter from their chief engineer called "amazing," probably because he didn't know about E-skip), but not bad for a beer run.

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Other / Re: UnID Indonesian? 4120 AM 1735 UTC 03 JUL 2025

« on: July 04, 2025, 0002 UTC »

Cool, I didn't know there were Indonesian pirates! That would explain the announcer, who sounded like a numbers station but maybe he was saying Test One Two Three in Indonesian. I see that you've written the book on the subject, or at least a very comprehensive HFU post: https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php?topic=102090.0

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Other / UnID Indonesian? 4120 AM 1735 UTC 03 JUL 2025

« on: July 03, 2025, 1748 UTC »

Poor/fair but with good audio into Bogor (west of Jakarta) SDR, not heard anywhere else, Indonesian pop music (managed to ID one, Suratan by Siska Amanda), male announcer, nothing heard on possible MW fundamentals. Next song by Ochi Alvira, titled Sepanjang Jalan Kenangan. At least I'm learning a lot about Indonesian pop music.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Thunder Chicken Radio 6950 AM 2118 UTC 02 JUL 2025

« on: July 03, 2025, 0137 UTC »

Frequency is jerking back and forth, enough to be annoying. I agree about the carrier, it's more like DSB than AM. 0135 Happy Trails and seemingly off, then back on with ID. Decent signal into NEPA SDR.

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Shortwave Broadcast / R. Cultural Amauta (Peru) 4955 AM 0050 UTC 03 JUL 2025

« on: July 03, 2025, 0059 UTC »

Wow, it's back!  They told me in February there was an antenna problem and they were working on it, but I wasn't optimistic they would spend the money to fix it. Strong enough on Lima SDR (not as strong as R. Tarma 4775 but as strong as 4820 whose name I can't remember...4810 R.Logos is always the weakest), religious talk over music, couple of minutes behind livestream but same program. Not that I'm expecting to see any others return, but one is something. ID 0110 mentioning 93.3 FM but they seem to be relying more on streaming ("la aplicación"). They were reading messages off their FB page so I posted something, and of course the transmitter popped off right at that moment, 0115....maybe they didn't know it was on, and turned it off when I mentioned it!

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Liquid Radio 6850 AM 0125 UTC 2 JUL 2025

« on: July 02, 2025, 0126 UTC »

Weak into K3FEF NEPA SDR, can't get much beyond a beat, ID per next post below so thanks!

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Shortwave Broadcast / Voice of Indonesia 4755 AM 1720 UTC 1 JULY 2025

« on: July 01, 2025, 1728 UTC »

My nomination for world's most pointless broadcast, Spanish on 60m with no darkness path to any Spanish-speaking country.  Pretty slick though, with male and female announcers with pretty good second-language Spanish.  Pretty weak even on Thailand SDR.  Maybe Indonesia needs an Elon Musk to go through their public spending.

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Shortwave Broadcast / Vatican Radio 7305 AM 0127 UTC 01 JUL 2025

« on: July 01, 2025, 0132 UTC »

I had no idea Vatican Radio was still on shortwave until I tuned by the interval signal, updated version but same tune (Christus Vincit, I think it's called) they had 45 years ago when I started with shortwave. (https://www.intervalsignals.net/Files/cva-z-vatican_radio_c1982.m3u)  Very strong into Lima, Peru SDR, Spanish program started 0130.

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Other / Re: UNID 7000 USB 2148 UTC 17 JUN 2025

« on: June 29, 2025, 2319 UTC »

Is this the same station that has had Sound of Hope in Chinese, and in AM, pretty regularly (such as right now 2310 UTC 29 JUNE 2025) when the USB anti-vax loop isn't playing? That would make sense since Falun Gong is at least allied with the anti-vax global Right, and I've never heard both at once....and the English pronunciation on the anti-vax loop is pretty bad (I can't assess the Italian).

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Boombox Radio 6915 USB 0129 UTC 29 June 2025

« on: June 29, 2025, 0243 UTC »

0242 Lond Rod to Ruin by Foo Fighters, decent signal into NH SDR

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: WDOG 6925 USB 0133 UTC 29 June 2025

« on: June 29, 2025, 0241 UTC »

0240 Closing Time, fair/good into Tennessee SDR

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European Pirates and Private Stations / Re: Indy Radio 6931 AM 2132 UTC 28 JUN 2025

« on: June 28, 2025, 2138 UTC »

Always good to hear, decent signal into Austria SDR, Devuélveme a mi chica which I think is a cool song title because of the ambiguity between "return my girl to me" and "return me to my girl."

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European Pirates and Private Stations / UnID 6905 AM 2130 UTC 28 JUN 2025

« on: June 28, 2025, 2131 UTC »

Weak into Groto Swedebn SDR, techno that Shazam couldn't identify between weak signal and all techno sounding the same, if it's Radio Tracid not bad for 10 watts.

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Other / Re: UNID 7000 USB 2148 UTC 17 JUN 2025

« on: June 28, 2025, 2117 UTC »

Apparently it's "self-amplified vaccines" which is just mispronounced. The Italian always sounded more like vaccines than toxins so that makes sense, and it makes more sense as anti-vax trolls than some kind of sinister warning about weapons of mass destruction. Getting weakly into midwest USR SDRs 0245 29 June.

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European Pirates and Private Stations / UnID Hungary 6800 AM 1945 UTC 27 JUN 2025

« on: June 27, 2025, 1950 UTC »

poor to fair into Wessex UK SDR, seems like slavic (but I don't think Russian) music, kind of techno-folk, but can't tell for sure. Not audible on any Asian SDRs still in darkness, much stronger in Poland. There's music on 6820 AM as well @1955 that also sounds Slavic, but that didn't last long.  I'm wondering if it's Hungarian Latvian or Lithuanian, 6800 that is. Shazam can't get any of it. It is Hungarian after all-- I just couldn't figure out how to get the Shazam extension to work. . Hungarian, everything from techno-folk to rap (as bad an idea in Hungarian as it is in English, by the way), good signal into Poland, better than in Hungary not surprisingly. Couple of voice breaks but couldn't ID, maybe WKOS because that's the only one I see mentioned.