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Messages - Charlie_Dont_Surf

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Recognize the instrumental music but can't place it.
Weak on an SDR in Pennsylvania. The band has gone long.

0032 - ID, "W T F Radio, worldwide"
0036 - Better on an SDR in The US South. Announced they are moving to somewhere between 4175 to 4185 KHz in about 15 minutes.
0038 - Repeat the announcement
0039 - Off

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North American Shortwave Pirate / UNID 6950 USB 2223 UTC 02 Dec 2023
« on: December 02, 2023, 2225 UTC »
2224 - Sign on with electronic music. S8 / SINPO 45455 on an SDR in Pennsylvania.
2227 - Instrumental music
2233 - New piece.
2251 - Long pause or off the air. No ID.

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2220 UTC - Off

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S9+5 on peaks, SINPO 55545 with some slow QSB on an SDR in Pennsylvania.

2211 - CW ID "WDOG" at 2211 and dog howls over Gary Neuman.
2212 - voice ID, into "Do You Want to Dance?"
2215 - "It's a 1950s show". Elvis Presley, "Blue Suede Shoes".
2217 - "La Bamba"
2218 - "Ain't That a Shame"
2221 - The Isley Brothers, "Shout"
2255 - "Stay". Op: "WDOG is cooking with gas. Whatever that meant back in the 1950s." Into "Barbara Ann".
2258 - Lee Dorsey, "Ya Ya".
2310 - "Johnny B. Goode"
2322 - "Chantilly Lace"
0001 - "Suzie Q"
0020 - "This is W D O G, shortwave." Off

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Some of the earlier comments in this thread indicate that they went off the air a few hours ago but perhaps not or they went back on again.

I started to type this at 0015 UTC and enough people interrupted me that I'm just getting back here at 0144 UTC.

0037 - YL announcement 2x: ID and celebrating the life of ________. Etc.
0144 - Checked back and TX is off.

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Utility / Re: SHARES North Net 6965 USB 0053 UTC 10 November 2023
« on: November 27, 2023, 2310 UTC »
Fair enough. It's not a FEMA net but it is under the auspices of CISA, which is part of Homeland Security.

You are right about the frequency. I will correct.

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and immediately before the blues/honky-tonk music:



0046 - ID. Just before the ID:

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Amateur Radio / Re: UNID 3725 AM 0523 - 0600+ 11NOV23
« on: November 11, 2023, 0618 UTC »
File under "hams behaving badly" and not really a pirate broadcaster, in my opinion. Sorry to rain on the parade.

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The RF Workbench / Re: NCP driver sucks
« on: November 11, 2023, 0612 UTC »
Used them to 15MHz without issue.

Driving 6nC GaN @6V.

Str.

Let us be clear about the situation we are discussing.

The GaN Systems transistors that seem to be your transistor of choice these days appear to be quite nice based upon review of the datasheet and I'm sure they work well in reality. However, the drive requirements are somewhat light compared to the other 99.99% of transistors on the market. (I chose one of the three of their current production FETs with Qg ~6 nC to show below as an example but the exact model number matters little.)

I have no interest in continuing to use a FET driver with a somewhat niche application (and freaks out when presented with anything beyond the lightest of loads like a GaN Systems FET) when I can easily obtain other drivers that can drive your GaN Systems transistor to full Rds_on with ease and also handle most or all low, medium and high- power transistors that I or any other hobbyist would want to use.

I'm actually using the ISL89163 in a work application, providing what amounts to continuous synchronization pulse distribution/fan-out driver for hundreds of loads though many tens of meters of wiring harness and PCB traces - with all the parasitic L and C that this represents - and it doesn't argue with me, doesn't do weird shit and doesn't burn up. Case closed.





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Much better designs around now as shown by myself and the other chap on here.

Catch up fellas!

Str

What is interesting to me is that you will complain about this stuff because it's "out of date", but when someone posts something about one of the many Greek suppliers of RF wares, you're totally cool with it, you know, because you sense a business opportunity selling drivers for the Greek supplier's PAs.

https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,119275.msg371225.html#msg371225

So gate modulated AM is "out of date" but then using one of your Class-E transmitters boosted by a Class AB PA from Greece (with the ensuing ~40% PA efficiency, if you are lucky) is not "out of date" ?

Give us a break, man. You're full of self-contradictions. Today this is OK, next week, it's not. I hope that you don't work for the Met Office, because if so the British public might never be sure from which direction the wind is blowing.


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Good reception into Masset, BC measuring 6959.974 on my KiwiSDR at 04:03 playing
To Cut A Long Story Short by Spandau Ballet

Pretty sure it's this: https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,120964.msg375728.html#msg375728

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North American Shortwave Pirate / UNID 6960 AM 0358 UTC 11 Nov 2023
« on: November 11, 2023, 0405 UTC »
SINPO 45444 with some selective fading here at my house. Similar on KPH SDR in NorCal. I saw the transmitter came on a few seconds after Ballsmacker signed off.

0358 - Heaven 17, "Fascist Groove Thing"
0401 - "Questions, Questions" (forgot the group name)
0405 - Echo and the Bunnymen. Signal has faded down on KPH and KFS.
0413 - Tears For Fears, "Pale Shelter ".   This guy is hitting all the New Wave anthems tonight.
0421 - A Flock of Seagulls, "Wishing" (a.k.a. "If I had a photograph of you")
0426 - Signal is fading here at home. Crappy reception currently on a number of western states' SDRs.
0432- Thomas Dolby, "Europa and the Pirate Twins". Signal has recovered at home a little but the trend is negative. Band conditions are not great tonight.
0435 - The Motors, "Airport".
0440 - The Cars, "Shake It Up". Signal is fading rapidly then recovering but overall a bit better than 20 minutes ago.
0446 - Dead air, I think.
0450 - Blue Oyster Cult, "Transminacon MC"
0454 - Blue Oyster Cult, "Cities On Flame With Rock and Roll", Tougher reception at home again and pretty bad across the West as well. I'm about to hang it up.
0500 - This sucks. I'm out, y'all.

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Might have been something to do with the 75th anniversary of Air Force MARS recently.

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Utility / SHARES North Net 6765 USB 0053 UTC 10 November 2023
« on: November 10, 2023, 0128 UTC »
This is a FEMA network. Net control is NNA5HF.

I tuned in to casual conversation about property drainage before officially seeking check-ins, then having heard a few, then sent digital traffic. Some traffic or other digital transmissions followed. After the initial flurry of activity, there was a lot of dead air (several minutes at a time) between net control transmissions and I did not stay with it.

Recording, including digital traffic: https://voca.ro/146vc7jT8ims

More info on SHARES: https://www.cisa.gov/resources-tools/programs/shared-resources-shares-high-frequency-hf-radio-program

Heard on the K1VL SDR in Vermont, USA.

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Note: Crew B will be doing the show this week so things may be a little different.  Last week we had an amplifier fail during the show so we will be running on backup this week.


Yes, I can tell. Somewhat weaker than normal on the K1VL SDR in Vermont: S7, SINPO 25242. Roughly the same on the Northern Utah SDR with the beam pointed east.

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