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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Mix Radio International 6865 USB 1749 UTC 17 SEP 2025

« on: September 17, 2025, 2228 UTC »

Playing radio with kiwi's while pretending to work
Intuned at 22:18z
big "ol signal with waterfall graphics 14 kHz wide total
I don't recognize the music because I'm old and don't know anything after 1972
steady S9 signal via Elizabeth city, North Carolina SDR

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European Pirates and Private Stations / Re: Radio WDR 6290 AM 1518 UTC 17 SEP 2025

« on: September 17, 2025, 1850 UTC »

Intuned at 18:40 fair to good signal but a little noisy
S9 via Sweden kiwi sdr

18:40 song I dont know
18:41 CCR song(?)
18:44 Cyndi Lauper "Girls just wanna have fun"
18:46 farty sounding UTE (OTHR)
18:48 Echo-y talk into song "Hello Mary Lou, Goodbye heart"
 band getting quite noisy now

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European Pirates and Private Stations / Re: De Katz 6275 AM 1820 UTC 17 SEP 2025

« on: September 17, 2025, 1837 UTC »

Intuned at 18:30 S9+10-20 with slight fading
 via Arvika,Sweden Kiwi sdr
18:30 talk about CCR
18:31 Jefferson Airplane "White Rabbit"
18:33 song (I'm old and deliberately don't know music made after 1969)
18:38 CCR "Proud Mary"
had to adjust passband to avoid het from sound of hope on 6280
Good signal and good show

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European Pirates and Private Stations / Re: Radio Boomerang 6301 AM 1746 UTC 17 SEP 2025

« on: September 17, 2025, 1829 UTC »

LIstening via SA4BNA Kiwi sdr in Arvika, Sweden
Intuned at 18:25 UTC Music with a lovely S9+40 signal
One minute later ......gone off air
to sum up  1825 excellent signal
                 1826 off air
it was a good minute though

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European Pirates and Private Stations / Re: MysteryRadio21 4545 AM 1850 UTC 16 SEP 2025

« on: September 16, 2025, 2155 UTC »

listening via Weston-super-Mare UK SDR
20:50 ID Mystery Radio 21
20:50 song (?) in Dutch(?)
20:54 song in Dutch (?)
20:56 ID "most mysterious station on air"
Excellent signal peaking at S+20

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID 6955 AM 2130 UTC 31 JUL 2025

« on: July 31, 2025, 2229 UTC »

Playing radio with kiwis at work. Checking all over the US and this one sounds fair via Big Bend FL sdr. Still very noisy. 80's metal sounding hard rock.
Thanks for the show and keeping me from my boring job.

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European Pirates and Private Stations / Re: Zeppelin Radio 6880 AM

« on: June 09, 2025, 2000 UTC »

Heard on Sardinia kiwi-sdr just above the noise floor with " que sera ,sera at 19:59 z

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Mix Radio International 12075-12100 USB 1735 UTC 04 MAY 2025

« on: May 04, 2025, 1743 UTC »

Stumbled across this on Utah sdr. Huge signal with waterfall graphics. Signal is 12 or 13 kHz wide
Superstar -blue collar bros
Hearing nothing - Anthony Island

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Spy Numbers / Re: XingXing guangbo diantai 1 (V13)

« on: August 03, 2020, 1309 UTC »

I heard them using 7502 in the 12-13 time period again. Heard on August 2 at 12:19 utc. I am usually not able to listen at that time so I only caught them for about 2 minutes, dx'ing on my phone waiting in line at the grocery store. I checked again this morning at 12:32 utc and did not find them.

btw, here's my logs from midnight to 04:00 utc last night:
Via Daejeon, South Korea remote

2020-08-03

00:00-01:00  not found

01:00utc-01:20utc  15890kHz  H3E

01:30utc-01:50utc  15890kHz  H3E

02:00utc-2:21utc    9276kHz   H3E

02:30utc-02:51utc   9276kHz   H3E

03:00utc-03:02utc   9276kHz   H3E  interval signal, ID and off

03:02utc-03:21utc   7502kHz  H3E

03:30utc-03:51utc   7502kHz  H3E

I see that they are again 4-5 minutes shorter than they have been recently.
 
Here's the same time period 24 hours earlier:

2020-08-02

00:00utc-00:30utc not found

found in progress at 00:53utc until 00:56 18040kHz H3E (I almost missed it entirely)

01:01-01:03  18040kHz H3E

01:03utc-01:26utc 15890kHz H3E

01:31utc-01:56utc 15890kHz H3E

02:01utc-02:25utc 9276kHz  H3E

02:31utc-02:55utc 9276kHz  H3E

03:01utc-03:25utc 7502kHz  H3E

03:31utc-03:55utc 7502kHz  H3E

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Spy Numbers / Re: XingXing guangbo diantai 1 (V13)

« on: July 30, 2020, 1912 UTC »

Note the abrupt change at 1:03 from 18040kHz to 15890kHz. I've seen this happen several times when they don't broadcast at 00:00utc, the expected 15890kHz program appears on 18040kHz for a few minutes and the switches to 15890kHz.

I have seen them do this on every frequency set they use at one time or another.  It appears they sometimes forget to shift off the last time slot frequency, or they come up in the wrong frequency for the time, and then shift to the right one, mid transmission.
 
Perhaps HM01 and V13 are managed by the same people.🤔😂😉

T!

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Spy Numbers / Re: XingXing guangbo diantai 1 (V13)

« on: July 30, 2020, 1252 UTC »

Observations from 2020-07-30
via various South Asia remote receivers:

00:00utc-0:30utc  not found   except carrier on 18040kHz

00:31utc-00:56utc     18040kHz H3E

01:01utc-01:03utc     18040kHz H3E

01:03utc-01:26utc     15890kHz H3E  co-channel weak SOH

01:31utc-01:56utc      15890kHz H3E  co-channel weak SOH

02:00:52utc-02:25utc   9276kHz  H3E 

02:30:53utc-02:55utc   9276kHz  H3E  qrm from CNR 1 jamming SOH on 9280kHz (20Khz wide)

03:00:50-03:24:43utc   9276kHz  H3E

03:30:54utc-03:55utc   9276kHz 
All broadcast consist of Interval signal followed by ID and numbers in Chinese

Note the abrupt change at 1:03 from 18040kHz to 15890kHz. I've seen this happen several times when they don't broadcast at 00:00utc, the expected 15890kHz program appears on 18040kHz for a few minutes and the switches to 15890kHz.
I also find it interesting that while V13 is on 15890kHz at the same time as SOH that frequency is not jammed by CNR1 although every other SOH nearby, there's 4 or 5 of them, is covered by huge CNR signals. Most of them are about 20 kHz wide. (!) V13 was covered by the splatter from 9280kHz while it was on 9276kHz but only for a few minutes then the CNR signal remained but was much smaller allowing easy reception of 9276

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Spy Numbers / Re: XingXing guangbo diantai 1 (V13)

« on: July 24, 2020, 2227 UTC »

22-July-2020. Observations:

11430kHz AM  00:01z-00:20z
18040kHz H3E 00:01z-00:20z carrier stays on

11430kHz AM  00:31z-00:50z
18040kHz H3E 00:31z-00:50z

15890kHz H3E 01:01z-01:20z
15890kHz H3E 01:31z-01:50z

9276kHz  H3E found in progress at 2:04z until 02:20z
9276kHz  H3E 02:30z-02:51z
9276kHz H3E 03:00z-03:21z
9276kHz H3E 03:30z-03:51z  carrier remains on past 04:20z when I tuned out.

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Spy Numbers / Re: XingXing guangbo diantai 1 (V13)

« on: July 20, 2020, 1342 UTC »

20-July-2020 via Daejeon, South Korea remote:

11430kHz AM  2020-07-20 00:05z tuned in to numbers in progress until 00:20z

11430kHz AM  2020-07-20 00:31z IS ID into numbers until 00:50z

13974kHz AM  2020-07-20 01:01z IS ID into numbers until 01:20z

13974kHz AM  2020-07-20 01:31Z IS ID into numbers until 01:50z

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Spy Numbers / Re: XingXing guangbo diantai 1 (V13)

« on: July 19, 2020, 0313 UTC »

19-July-2020

11430kHz AM  2020-07-19  00:01z interval signal, ID then numbers. Gone at 00:20z recheck
18040kHz  2020-07-19  transmitter is apparently defective with carrier on and off every second or so. During interval signal the flutes can be heard each second and bits of numbers are sometimes audible (in usb, lsb and am ) also. I saw this last night too but didn't realize what it was.

11430kHz AM  2020-07-19  00:31z interval signal ID and numbers until 00:51z
18040kHz   2020-07-19  00:31z continued defective transmitter. recording below

 https://app.box.com/s/co1f355b51tjqci8n5e90jq9rx1cplh6

13974kHz AM  2020-07-19  01:01z IS  ID  and numbers until 01:21z
15890kHz H3E 2020-07-19  01:01z IS  ID  and numbers co-channel SOH until 01:21z

13974kHz AM  2020-07-19  01:32z IS  ID  and numbers until 01:43z
15890kHz H3E 2020-07-19  01:31z IS  ID  and numbers until 01:43z

not found at 02:00-3:00 or 3:00-4:00

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Spy Numbers / Re: XingXing guangbo diantai 1 (V13)

« on: July 18, 2020, 2202 UTC »

18-July-2020 V13 observations
via various East Asian remotes

13974 kHz AM  01:02utc
15890 kHz H3E 01:01utc 
Both frequencies start with interval signal flutes but drop carriers after ID but before numbers begin.

13974 kHz AM  01:32utc
15890 kHz H3E 01:31utc  Both frequencies--interval signal then ID and off at 01:33utc

9276 kHz  unmodulated carrier   I tuned in at 02:05 and promptly fell asleep so I have no idea how long they were on with no modulation.

I checked for them during the 00:00-01:00 time but they weren't on any of the "scheduled" frequencies.

Correction: I now know that V13 was on 18040kHz from just before 00:00 until at least 01:00 18-July-2020 with the malfunction that I describe below