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Shortwave Broadcast / Re: Voice Of America Being Shut Down By Trump Administration

« on: March 23, 2025, 0149 UTC »

So if the reports I've seen about Greenville being completely shut down (mains power even cut) are true, who's relaying Vatican Radio on 7305 and KBS World on 11880 right now (0148 utc)?

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MW Loggings / WAMM 790 khz Mount Jackson VA 0158utc 22 Jan 2025

« on: January 22, 2025, 0208 UTC »

Solid signal despite cochannel interference. Bluegrass music, WAMM radio ID, matches up with web stream. Supposedly only 40 watts at night, 1 kw daytime. I can sometimes hear this one during the day here but right now is the best signal I've heard out of it at all.

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MW Loggings / WSM 650 khz 1630 ut 14 Dec 2023

« on: December 14, 2023, 1634 UTC »

First time I've ever caught them this late in the morning, usually gone shortly after sunrise and not back until just before sunset.

1630 ut WSM ID into Paint me a Birmingham-Tracy Lawrence.

 

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Amateur Radio / Re: Waterfall Pirate 7197

« on: October 23, 2023, 1628 UTC »

Given where that is at in the band i wouldn't be the least bit surprised if that isn't either spillover of shenanigans on 7200 or someone trying to jam them.

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Shortwave Broadcast / WTWW 5085 oct 10 2023 0159 utc

« on: October 10, 2023, 0203 UTC »

Haven't heard them in a while, station ID into talk show about off grid living. 50 db on the R-390A but several deep 20 to 30 db fades.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID 6955 USB 0010 UTC 6 Oct 2023

« on: October 06, 2023, 0033 UTC »

0031z: ID-WTF radio worldwide (?) Might have been another letter after F

Went into a fade right as they gave the ID

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: BallSmacker Radio 6960 AM 0056 UTC 09 SEP 2023

« on: September 09, 2023, 0146 UTC »

0145 utc, sounds great here in south central PA when not being jammed by the sirens. Using a Hallicrafters R-649A and 60 ft wire antenna tonight.

0200 utc, Genesis "Invisible Touch" a few deep fades now

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Radio Free Whatever 6950 USB 2330 UTC 20 AUG 2023

« on: August 21, 2023, 0024 UTC »

Solid S8 here in south central PA.

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MW Loggings / WTAR 850 0535z 22 jan 2023

« on: January 22, 2023, 0539 UTC »

Music with Lucy FM 96.5 ID between songs. Fairly solid signal into SC PA, but lots of adjacent splatter from 860 and 840, and occasionally fading to another cochannel station.

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Shortwave Broadcast / Re: WBCQ 3265v AM 0101 UTC 31 DEC 2022

« on: January 06, 2023, 0232 UTC »

For them that's actually fairly close to being on frequency, their old 5110 transmitter was often closer to 5109.80 most of the time i would tune in. Considering that most of the stuff is cobbled together out of military surplus and converted AM broadcast rigs, its not a surprise.

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MW Loggings / Re: UNID AM 920

« on: December 30, 2022, 0019 UTC »

Down here in PA that's usually what 920 sounds like every night, CKNX is the dominant signal but fights against a Spanish station that I've yet to ID.

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Shortwave Broadcast / Re: WTWW 5085 AM 0215 UTC 23 DEC 2022

« on: December 23, 2022, 2038 UTC »

I heard that too last night, also noticed there was some repeating glitch in the audio that i kept hearing, then again given what was said about how trashed the transmitters there were it could've been the transmitter breaking down.

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Shortwave Broadcast / Re: WWCR 7490 AM 1231 UTC 22 OCT 2022

« on: October 23, 2022, 0109 UTC »

7490 is WBCQ.

Except from 1200 to 1500 UTC when WWCR uses the frequency. WBCQ is on 7490 from 0000 to 0500 and then 1600 to 0000.

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Utility / RWM 4996/9996 0128 UTC 17 Feb 2022

« on: February 17, 2022, 0136 UTC »

Hearing RWM time pulses underneath WWV on both 5000 and 10000 khz, the 9996 signal is coming through better of the 2.

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General Radio Discussion / AFN on shortwave still exist?

« on: February 02, 2022, 0044 UTC »

Last time i heard them was back when Key West was still on the air, but i can't find any reference to the other remaining sites (Guam/Diego Garcia) being shut down, at the same time i can't find anything recent proving that anyone has heard them recently either