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North American MW Pirate Radio / UNID 1710 AM 0221 UTC 25 JAN 2025
« on: January 25, 2025, 0524 UTC »
Mostly seemed like a dead carrier until a male voice was heard at 0221 UTC with "Hello 1-2-3, 1-2, 1-2, 1-2. This is a test" while thumping on the mic.

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North American MW Pirate Radio / UNID 1710 AM 0418 UTC 24 NOV 2024
« on: November 24, 2024, 0423 UTC »
Very weak music just above my noise floor with "Gagliarda" by Mannheim Steamroller at 0418 UTC.  Mostly a carrier with occasional bits of music heard.

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Presumed Greek pirate?

#1: Carrier first noted coming on 0405 UTC and then off at 0411 UTC.  Very weak as expected into West Michigan, some faint audio heard.

#2: Carrier back on again at 0412 UTC and off at 0420 UTC.  Signal was a little stronger this time with weak Mediterranean music clearly heard.  It was during this block that FlairMax identified the Greek artist Antonis Repanis with the song titled "Apopse Se Thimithika" at 0414 UTC.

#3: Carrier back on again at 0422 UTC and off at 0428 UTC.  Very weak by this time with no discernable audio heard.

The frequency and the one song identified leads me to believe this was a Greek pirate.

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At first I assumed this was just another UNID North American pirate popping up in the middle of the night, however a FlairMax hit at 0359 UTC identified a song titled "Paranomi Mou Agapi" by Greek artist Rita Sakellariou.  Greek music heard on my NNE DKAZ loop which favors Trans-Atlantic reception is also more evidence this is pointing to a Greek pirate.  Audio was very weak, just above my noise floor.  Signal was drifting slightly upward.  Carrier dropped at 0408 UTC.

Anyone else catch this one?

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North American MW Pirate Radio / UNID 1710 AM 0708-0819* UTC 21 SEP 2024
« on: September 21, 2024, 0753 UTC »
1709.9918, UNID, poor with occasional peaks above the noise floor:

0707 UTC:  Male speaking but covered by static crashes.
0708 UTC:  Gary & The Pacemakers ""Ferry Cross the Mersey"
0737 UTC:  Dave Brubeck "Take Five"
0808 UTC:  Del Shannon "Runaway"
0819 UTC:  Off


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North American MW Pirate Radio / UNID 1710 AM 1159 UTC 7 FEB 2024
« on: February 08, 2024, 0118 UTC »
Another "barely there" signal with "Soulful Strut" by Young-Holt Unlimited heard at 1159z, briefly above the noise floor, very weak.

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North American MW Pirate Radio / UNID 1710 AM 0453 UTC 2 FEB 2024
« on: February 04, 2024, 0532 UTC »
Triumph "Lay it on the line" bubbled up over the noise floor just briefly, very weak for a few seconds and then lost.

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North American MW Pirate Radio / UNID 1710 AM 0412 UTC 23 NOV 2023
« on: November 23, 2023, 0415 UTC »
Weak with occasional audio:

0412z: Ten Years After "I'd Love to Change the World"


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Edit 11/23/23: After a second night of hearing this I've finally identified the source of the programming as coming from AM 1580 WWCD "CD 92.9", an alternative rock station in Columbus, Ohio with an FM translator on 92.9.  1580 WWCD programming is parallel to 1550 WQCD in Delaware, OH.  I'm guessing this is some sort of spur or mixing product.

This math may explain it: 1717.68-1580=137.68 kHz & 1717.68-1550=167.68 kHz, 167.68-137.68=30 kHz which of course is the difference between 1580 kHz & 1550 kHz.

This thread can probably be moved.

Very faint music heard on my overnight SDR recording right at the noise floor, carrier measuring 1717.6784 @ 0302 UTC.  This station appeared to be on for several hours but much too weak to discern music genre or much of anything else.  Anyone else catch it?

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1709.9978-1709.9970 (carrier slowly drifting downward) with Man and woman speaking, way down in the static.  Not any of the usual TIS stations.

0045z: Old commercial for Sears Roebuck & Company
0053z: Instrumental music, John Fox "Being with you"
0057z: Live time check and Community Radio Network ID mentioning 1710 and an FM frequency
0100z: Phone number and time pips at TOH

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Very very weak at my noise floor with occasional fade-ups. Time pips heard at 0000z TOH and then "That's All" by Genesis during another fade-up at 0007z.  No sign of Hudson County, NJ - did it finally drop back down to 10w?

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North American MW Pirate Radio / KRAP 1730 AM 0100-0137* UTC 04 SEP 2023
« on: September 04, 2023, 0101 UTC »
Just saw this pop-up on my waterfall, S7-S9 with wideband audio into West Michigan was a dance tune right now at 0101 UTC.

0104z: Club Nouveau - Lean on Me
0107z: Live announcer with KRAP ID, mention of broadcasting C-QUAM Stereo on 1730 kHz.
0108z: Looking Glass - Brandy
0111z: Argent - Pleasure
0120z: Chicago - Along Comes a Woman
0121z: DJ chatter, KRAP AM Stereo ID
0125z: Brother Beyond - Girl I Used to Know (per announcer)
0126z: Gentle Giant - I am a Camera
0129z: ID "KRAP AM Stereo 17-30" and into song intro for "Dead Skunk"
0132z: DJ mentioning monitoring signal on Maryland remote SDR at "10 over"
0133z: The Who - Slip Kid
0137z: Carrier dropped after end of song
0141z: Dead carrier cycling on & off

Stereo recording of reception: https://youtu.be/vXqmdasPiFU?si=7oYU-sBkIKzaaD9J

Great music, great signal, would love a QSL!  Thanks for the broadcast, Fred!

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Started and ended with Gary Numan with a bunch of good 80s tunes in between.  Up to S9 here at times with occasional rapid fading but overall good.  It was great to catch WDOG on MW, thanks for the show tonight!

Recording: https://youtu.be/Rf2OxtBev3M

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This is a weird one.  I can't really explain it but I'm sitting here in Michigan listening to Aruba air traffic control on 38.275 MHz handling flights inbound and outbound to Queen Beatrix International Airport in Aruba.  Best in FM mode but clearly an AM carrier present on the SDR waterfall.  This is being heard on several different radios in the shack (same antenna).  Aruba ATC is listed as 120.9 MHz and this is verified against the traffic that I'm hearing.  Obviously some kind of odd harmonic or mixing product that is propagating.

Antenna used is my 140 FT DKAZ terminated loop, amplified by a Wellbrook FLG100LN.

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S7 over heavy static tonight:

0315 UTC: Kenny Loggins "Danger Zone"
0320 UTC: Blue Swede "Hooked On A Feeling"
0323 UTC: Off
0325 UTC: Carrier returned briefly with a very weak signal & audio.

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