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General Radio Discussion / Pirate listeners younger than 30

« on: March 19, 2023, 2051 UTC »

I know this topic was brought up a few years ago, but I wondered if we have any shortwave pirate listeners who are younger than 30 right now who are active on the HFU?

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General Radio Discussion / HB Radio #4 on 5130 3/16 EDT

« on: March 13, 2023, 2107 UTC »

Hi,
Just wanted to let you know that HB Radio #4 is on the air Thursday night on the 5130 kHz transmitter of WBCQ at March 16 at 11 PM EDT/10 Central (UTC 0400 3/17). This one's a change of pace, in some ways from the last: about 9 minutes of brief shortwave news & audio clips into a long interview with Tha Dood, who has run Part-15 and carrier-current stations for 40 years and is active on HFU.

If you don't typically stay up 'til 0500 or are out of the signal range of WBCQ, it's possible that it could be relayed by other outlets at a later date. Also, I can send out some MP3 copies. I'll eventually post the shows on one of the platforms, but I'm trying to catch up with things here . . . and I tend to procrastinate with jumping into new technologies.

BTW, I've finished most of the part 2 episode with Chris Smolinski & plan to finish it soon. Then I'll make it available . . . maybe in about two weeks, but we'll see.

Thanks for your interest, patience, and/or support and hope you like the show!
Andrew

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North American Shortwave Pirate / UNID 6950 1253 UTC 18 FEB 2023

« on: February 18, 2023, 1323 UTC »

Weak with music, synch detector had problems locking. Went outside to check that the horizontal loop was OK after a day of wind & falling limbs. The antenna's OK, but the station was gone

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Outhouse Radio 6935 USB 0207 UTC 28 JAN 2023

« on: January 29, 2023, 0209 UTC »

Weak with some fade ups. Sounds like Jethro Tull

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General Radio Discussion / HB Radio #3 on 5130 1/19 EST

« on: January 18, 2023, 2225 UTC »

Hi,
Just wanted to let you know that HB Radio #3 is on the air tomorrow night on the 5130 kHz transmitter of WBCQ at January 19 at 11 PM EST/10 Central (UTC 0400 1/20). The interview is with someone you might know, Chris Smolinski. I'd never talked to Chris before, so I had a bunch of questions written down so that I could better articulate everything on air. It was like calling up a long lost friend & we talked for 3.5 hours. I essentially tossed out the questions & just winged it. I then tried to assemble a couple of big chunks that I thought shortwave & pirate DXers would be especially interested in hearing from the interview into something that would fit into the time slot. It was kind of like piecing the continents together to form Pangea, except that I was forced to discard more than half of the continents.

If you don't typically stay up 'til 0500 or are out of the signal range of WBCQ, it's possible that it could be relayed by other outlets at a later date. Also, I can send out some MP3 copies. I still am planning to post on YouTube and/or Rumble, but I thought I'd post a grouping of shows

Thanks for your interest, patience, and/or support and hope you like the show!
Andrew

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General Radio Discussion / HB Radio #2 tonight

« on: December 15, 2022, 1430 UTC »

For anyone interested, Hobby Broadcasting Radio show #2 will be aired tonight at 11 PM Eastern/10 PM Central, which is UTC Friday December 16 at 0400 UTC on WBCQ's 5130 kHz transmitter. Tonight's show consists of interviews with Chris Lobdell & James Brownyard of WHYP + a few audio clips from Thanksgiving & early December.

Thanks for your time & hope you like the show

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North American Shortwave Pirate / WBOG 6925.2 AM 1808 UTC 24 NOV 2022

« on: November 24, 2022, 1810 UTC »

Weak signal with the the 4-tone numbers station IS that WBOG signs on with

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General Radio Discussion / Hobby Broadcasting Radio

« on: November 15, 2022, 0237 UTC »

I wrote about this more on my blog, but Hobby Broadcasting Radio show #1 is done. It's scheduled to be aired on WBCQ's 5130-kHz transmitter on Thursday November 17 from 11-12 PM EST (November 18 from 0400-0500 UTC).

This show is primarily an interview with Brian Penney (longtime pirate listener and also the pirate radio columnist for NASWA), where we also talk about Halloween stations and manage to squeeze in some clips from stations on that weekend.

The plan is for HB Radio to be on the air every third Thursday of the month at this time on 5130 kHz. I'm not sure what the coverage is like for 5130, and I don't yet have it online. Let me know if you'd like to hear it, but can't.

If you hear show #1, did it sound like something you'd want to listen to each month? If not, is there anything we could do to make it better?

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North American Shortwave Pirate / WWWW 6925 USB 0135 UTC 17 OCT 2022

« on: October 17, 2022, 0140 UTC »

Steppenwolf "The Pusher" under pescador QRM

Thanks, RGG! SSTV images are still rolling at 0157

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North American Shortwave Pirate / UNID 6974.8 AM 1946 UTC 26 SEP 2022

« on: September 26, 2022, 1950 UTC »

To whoever fired up here, you have a nice carrier right now 

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European Pirates and Private Stations / Best frequencies for pirate stations ?

« on: July 02, 2022, 1858 UTC »

Original subject : Re: Comreg Raids against SW stations in Ireland

Best wishes to everyone involved. I've enjoyed hearing a number of Ireland-based stations over the past few decades.

Now that the SW broadcast bands aren't as densely packed, would it be safer to operate in the middle of, for example, 30 or 60 meters?

edit by Ray :
I split the thread and change the subject

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North American Shortwave Pirate / unid 6915 USB 0230 UTC 31 May 2022

« on: May 31, 2022, 0232 UTC »

Station pretty deep in noise with electronic music

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Unid 6930 USB 1124 UTC 29 May 2022

« on: May 29, 2022, 1127 UTC »

VG signal with a couple of modern punkish songs. No announcements yet

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Sycko Radio 6950 USB 0223 UTC 29 May 2022

« on: May 29, 2022, 0227 UTC »

Sounds & music with short phrases from a slowed-down voice: "Everything is a lie" "Do not trust anyone" "the signal is coming down from the sky" "You can't stop it" "Where do you go from here" etc.

Excellent signal

Voice ID at 0310, "What you just heard was the ramblings of a madman . . . a strange character . . . warning of the  coming dangers . . . keep your tube radios, folks . . .  "

"I guess we're not doing too bad for 20 watts of radio madness . . . especially considering the time"

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North American Shortwave Pirate / unid 6935 1247 UTC 9 APR 2022

« on: April 09, 2022, 1249 UTC »

Just tuned in to some music. I'm getting a lot of noise during the daytime from what I think is my neighbor's solar array, so I'm not getting a lot out of the signal