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European Pirates and Private Stations / Re: UNID 6931 AM 0321 UTC 11 FEB 2024

« on: February 11, 2024, 0328 UTC »

Are you saying this is a pirate broadcast from Europe? If so, it's only my third one since I first started logging HF pirates in 2007! (I'm in eastern North America, and should hear more, but I'm not a dedicated pirate chaser - I'm more of a generalist when it comes to monitoring.)

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European Pirates and Private Stations / Indy Radio 6931 AM 0321 UTC 11 FEB 2024

« on: February 11, 2024, 0322 UTC »

Music coming in very faintly with a lot of QRN (inc. lightning crashes) and fair bit of fading (SINFO 35432). Signal appears to be relatively narrowband.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: BallSmacker Radio 4032 USB 0157 UTC 10 FEB 2024

« on: February 10, 2024, 0333 UTC »

Much louder & clearer (SINFO 55354) signal here than on 6960 (SINFO 35332).

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID 6925.60 USB 2343 UTC 23 JAN 2024

« on: January 23, 2024, 2353 UTC »

Strong signal here - centered on 6925, not 6925.6. Steppenwolf's "Sookie, Sookie". Very slight fading with peaks a hair over S9 (SINFO 55545)

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North American Shortwave Pirate / UNID 6919 USB 0420 UTC JAN 20 2024

« on: January 20, 2024, 0420 UTC »

Hip Hop. Decent audio from 3 kHz bandwidth signal. Peaking at S9+25 SINFO 55545

ADD: Pink Floyd "Welcome to the Machine" @ 0422

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID 6950 USB 2231 UTC 10 JAN 2024

« on: January 10, 2024, 2253 UTC »

Thought I might have heard it but it was hard to make out under a super loud VFT station - now it appears they moved to 6955 (playing Zappa, so probably same station). Decent signal, but still getting some QRM from the VFT station just below it. SINFO 43443.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID 6920 USB 0243 UTC 7 JAN 2024

« on: January 07, 2024, 0302 UTC »

Peaking a bit above S9+20 with little fading above an S6 noise floor (SINFO 55345). Excellent audio quality for USB (apparently 3 kHz bandwidth).

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID 6948 USB 2158 UTC 30 DEC 2023

« on: December 30, 2023, 2232 UTC »

Signal mostly S9 with peaks above, and occasional fading to nearly inaudible (crazy propagation!). Nice 4 kHz wide hi-fi signal

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Peskies / Re: UNID 6919 LSB 0321 UTC 29 DEC 2023

« on: December 29, 2023, 0324 UTC »

Oops - apparently a peskie and probably not North America (music switched to back-and-forth conversation in Slavic? language).

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Peskies / UNID 6919 LSB 0321 UTC 29 DEC 2023

« on: December 29, 2023, 0322 UTC »

"Don't You Want Me (Baby) by The Human League. Reasonably strong signal (S9) above minimal noise floor, with slight fading - SINFO 45444. Definitely has that "SSB" audio (not high fidelity) but copy is good.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Sycko Radio 6956 USB 0108 UTC 26 DEC 2023

« on: December 26, 2023, 0221 UTC »

Can definitely hear it here in Binghamton, NY, but relatively low level (S5 to S6 peaks above an S3-S4 noise floor) with noticeable fading  - SINFO 35332.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Damn Skippy 6955 USB 0127 UTC 24 DEC 2023

« on: December 24, 2023, 0311 UTC »

Minor fading between S7 and S8 just above a noise floor of S4 to S5 here in Binghamton, NY.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID 6925 USB 0115 UTC 22 DEC 2023

« on: December 22, 2023, 0121 UTC »

Solid S9+10 signal with minimal fading - ID "WJAN Radio"

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Sternradio 6947.5 AM 2140 UTC 8 DEC 2023

« on: December 08, 2023, 2201 UTC »

hsmith77: "CW" was part of the tune - it spelled out "RADIOACTIVITY"

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Sternradio 6947.5 AM 2140 UTC 8 DEC 2023

« on: December 08, 2023, 2149 UTC »

I'm registering the center of the carrier at 6947.5 kHz. Unbelievably strong signal (peaks above S9+30) with slight fading (down to a little over S9+10). Am looking around the neighborhood now for large antennas

EDIT: My mistake - signal peaked at over S9+40 - didn't realize I had the RF gain turned down lol. Abruptly off-air mid-song at 2159z.