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Peskies / Re: Angry Bahstads 6870 USB 1627 UTC 30 Oct 2019

« on: November 21, 2019, 1754 UTC »

I've been hearing them frequently the last few days, one guy has what I would call a New Jersey accent and the F word is frequently  used and always in English

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Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID 6935.5 AM 2043 UTC 17 Nov 2019

« on: November 17, 2019, 2245 UTC »

Seems to be a little clearer here in LSB mode  22:45 UTC

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Shortwave Pirate / Re: Mix Radio Int. 6880 USB 2343 utc 09 Jun 2019

« on: June 10, 2019, 0109 UTC »

0108 Run Around Sue

good signal here on 6880.1 USB

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10/11 meters / Re: 26275 FM 1544 UTC 13 Aug 2018

« on: August 23, 2018, 1224 UTC »

Not sure how up to date it is but this is the best resource I've seen on "CB " frequencies around the world.  Back in the late 80's and 90's when I was heavily into 11 meter Freeband, I frequently talked to UK stations on their legal FM 40 channels that ran every 10 kcs from 26.60125 to 27.99125, in those days you could work the world with an omni antenna and a dozen watts. I also see a New Zealand contact SSB  down below the US channel 1 and a comment in my old log that the operator said it was a legal NZ Frequency, loved that old 5 band silver President Jackson.


edit: by the way HF Underground has the best list of CB frequencies I have found on the web, Kudos  https://www.hfunderground.com/wiki/CB

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10/11 meters / Re: Truckers construction traffic on 25835 AM 1030 UTC 10 July 2018

« on: July 27, 2018, 1907 UTC »

That chart looks like the one I had for my old silver faced President Jackson in the eighties except mine had the "A"  frequencies  that you got to with the plus 10kc button.

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Shortwave Broadcast / Re: WTWW AM 15815 1715 UTC May 28 2018

« on: June 17, 2018, 0116 UTC »

15810 Mhz 1:12 UTC Organ Music , guessing it is WTWW and the Bob Heil Organ programme.  Very good signal again

Edit: still no mention of this on their webpage as a frequency .

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Shortwave Broadcast / Re: WTWW AM 15815 1715 UTC May 28 2018

« on: June 16, 2018, 0206 UTC »

WTWW back on 15810 with a big signal in southern Ontario at 0200 UTC.   

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Shortwave Broadcast / Re: UNID AM 15815 1715 UTC May 28 2018

« on: May 28, 2018, 1756 UTC »

Yes , WTWW, initially when I heard it there was breaks in the audio and heard trying a new frequency and got a partial email for reception reports, I immediately assumed a pirate.  No mention of any test freq on their website.

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Shortwave Broadcast / WTWW AM 15815 1715 UTC May 28 2018

« on: May 28, 2018, 1718 UTC »

listening for ID playing Neil Sedaka now

Sorry it is WTWW trying a new frequency.

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Peskies / Re: 6900 kHz LSB Spanish Language Freebander Net - Analysis - 23-24 April 2017

« on: March 08, 2018, 1400 UTC »

  They certainly do sound like the 43m version of 11m freebanders, they operate down here when 11m doesn't support propagation (in addition to the actual fishermen that we do occasionally hear). Which leads to the question... where else do they operate?

try looking on these freqencies

http://www.freebanding.co.uk/echo_charlie.htm

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10/11 meters / Re: Freeband 85 and 45 metres ?

« on: March 04, 2018, 2105 UTC »

Well I've always been 'Stretchy' something or other.

I used to live in the NW of the UK and was on 11m around the mid to late 80's when the skip was good.

I rarely TX these days, too busy building them!

Str.

I was on in the late 80's from here in southern Ontario, Canada. You had 40 FM channels running from 27.601 up to just below the 10 meter Ham Band, when conditions were good then I could talk in local conversations on those UK frequencies, a lot of the time they would not believe I was across the Atlantic in Canada. 

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10/11 meters / Re: Freeband 85 and 45 metres ?

« on: March 02, 2018, 2255 UTC »

I must inform you I know all about freebanding and 11m, we all have to start somewhere...

 

Maybe we have contacted each other in years gone by, I operated as 9AT113 from '87 to 2000, got just under 200 countries DXCC confirmed by direct mail  QSL's on 11.

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10/11 meters / Re: Freeband 85 and 45 metres ?

« on: March 02, 2018, 1535 UTC »

This thread is in the wrong category btw.....

Str.

Actually gave it some thought and decided here as most operators on these frequencies would also freeband 11, these are not pirate broadcasters but qso type conversations, the other category I considered was the Peskies as their operation seems to be similar to what I was talking about. Found this link through google to give you a better understanding of  this aspect of freebanding.

http://www.freebanding.co.uk/echo_charlie.htm

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10/11 meters / Re: Freeband 85 and 45 metres ?

« on: March 02, 2018, 0018 UTC »

I was more interested in North America than Europe, I have a 50 foot long wire but it doesn't hear as well as multi band fan dipole I could run back then as an inverted V on a free standing tower with a tuner. 

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10/11 meters / Freeband 85 and 45 metres ?

« on: March 01, 2018, 2013 UTC »

As a freebander in the 80's and 90's I recall on occasion keying up on 3470 or 6670 lsb in the evening when 27MHz was dead. These freq's were more popular over in Europe but a few NA stations were OTA irregularly. Also 13555 usb too i think, anyone using these freqs today with  11 metres being quiet at this point in the solar cycle and enforcement not being what it was years ago? Not hearing anything but then I am antenna challenged compared to the wires I had up at that time.