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Equipment / Re: ATS25X2 MW breakthrough on the Tropical band

« on: April 15, 2025, 2257 UTC »

You could still have this problem even when using a loop, as you have noted this happening with a Wellbrook and MLA-30.

A more appropriate solution requires attenuating the MW signals while not attenuating the tropical bands. This is a job of a high-pass filter between the antenna and the receiver.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Stern Radio 6966.5 AM 1853 UTC 14 APR 2025

« on: April 14, 2025, 2047 UTC »

Both CQUAM and SAS modes on KiwiSDRs seem to sound identical to me when it comes to L vs R separation, which is what I was hoping for.

Yeah, they seem the same to me. You could do an over the air (OTA) test: 15 seconds of single-tone left+right, then the same but left only, then the same of right only, to judge the separation.

Also noticed you are on 6966.666, because....well, you know.

2104 - TX off.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Liquid Radio 6850 AM 0055 UTC 14 APR 2025

« on: April 14, 2025, 0056 UTC »

EDM on a Texas SDR. SINPO 44344.

0100 - ID at the top of the hour, next track.

I have to split for a while. I will be back after 0300 UTC. Enjoy.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Liquid Radio 6850 AM 0100 UTC 13 Apr 2025

« on: April 13, 2025, 0150 UTC »

About 30 dB above the noise level on my home receiver with a dipole at 30 feet/9 meters. It's still well before sunset though and it could improve. SINPO 24242.

0147 - ID, then into Yazoo, "Situation".
0153 - "Celebrity" ID, next tune.
0157 - ID.
0237 - Serious screamo metal tune. The sun is down here but signal is about the same as before.
0247 - Metallica, I believe. We're about three or four songs into this evening's metal set.
0300 - Wideband digital QRM has started up.  I have to switch to an SDR.
0320 - I had to step away for a while. The QRM has gone.
0350 - QRM is back.

0427 - I'm out. Good night. Thanks for the show.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Radio 48 via Mix Radio International 6930 USB 1952 UTC 12 APR 2025

« on: April 13, 2025, 0144 UTC »

Relatively strong signal for an eastern pirate out here in SoCal at 0130 UTC, well before sunset.  SINPO 32333 on my home receiver with a dipole @ 30 feet/9 meters.
Recording at 0135 UTC: https://voca.ro/1eHPimctfFEn

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North American Shortwave Pirate / UNID 6930 AM 0326 UTC 12 APR 2025

« on: April 12, 2025, 0326 UTC »

Carrier and maybe very weak music? It sounds like I hear music but it might be my imagination. The carrier drops out (or greatly reduces strength) every few seconds or so.

OK, group consensus is it's just a dead carrier. I didn't see it there a while ago but maybe I wasn't paying attention.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: 6934.7 USB 0254 UTC APRIL 12 2025

« on: April 12, 2025, 0306 UTC »

Fair reception just a bit above the noise floor direct at my house in SoCal with a low dipole, SINPO 25242. Some IF noise reduction on the AirSpy helps (London Shortwave profile).

0305 - "At the Hop"
0309 - "Sixteen Candles"
0312 - Wolfman Jack interlude to the next song.
0318 - I wonder if this is the American Graffiti soundtrack album. I had this a long time ago but sold all my vinyl decades ago.
0320 - "Barbara Ann"
0321 - Wolfman Jack again, into "Smoke Gets In Your Eyes."
0333 - "The Great Pretender"
0335 - SSTV (but I don't have the decoder on).
0337 - Van Halen (incomplete)
0339 - Then into The Who, "Who Are You?"
0345 - Another SSTV.
0351 - ID, "Radio (something)" repeated 2 or 3x.
0355 - SSTV.
0404 - Someone in my neighborhood just turned on an appliance or something and my noise floor went up 10 dB. Station is barely audible now.

I'm out! Good night.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Liquid Radio 6850 AM 0114 UTC 11 APR 2025

« on: April 12, 2025, 0116 UTC »

Tuned in to EDM. SINPO 55455 on an SDR in eastern Texas. Sounding great tonight.

0015 - ID, next track.
0132 - "So there it is, the transmitter, some beer, some music.." Liquid Radio ID. Next track.
0137 - "That looks like asbestos. It should probably go right in the trash, but I'd rather grind it up and snort it." Liquid Radio ID, next track.
0141 - "It can't be bargained with. It can't be reasoned with. It doesn't feel fear and absolutely will not stop, EVER." Liquid Radio ID, new wave-ish track.

0147 - I have to head out but I may check in from home later. Good night.
 
0258 (approximately) - TX off. I got home, turned on the receiver heard LR but realized that the antenna was tuned for 20 meters. Retuned (with the receiver off) for 43 meters and when I came back LR had disappeared. Such is life.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Liquid Radio 6924.9 AM 0107 UTC 6 Apr 2025

« on: April 06, 2025, 0139 UTC »

Weak at my house, not pleasureful listening. (It's still light here for a while.)  Using an SDR in Texas.
I have the carrier at 6924.94, in case anyone cares.

0137 - Liquid Radio ID, (not WAX) into Bjork.
0145 - ID then Romeo Void, "Never Say Never."
0159 - The Modern Lovers, "Pablo Picasso."
0225 - Just noting that their signal is still too weak for me direct here at home. The carrier is 30 dB above my local noise but that's not enough.
0227 - "There it is the transmitter, some beer, some music..." with ID then screamo-EDM tune.
0259 - LR is doing hard core thrash stuff now.
0304 - ID. The band is starting to go long and local reception is fading. Moving to another SDR.
0350 - Reception is difficult everywhere. All the distant SDRs that are usually OK have noisy, fluttery reception and the SDRs closer to the TX have almost no signal.
0400 - ID.
0448 - TX Off.

Very difficult reception for the last hour, but "the best of the worst" was the KFS Kiwi SDR at Half Moon Bay, California. Let's hope the the ionosphere calms down a little soon.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Liquid Radio 6850 AM 0107 UTC 5 Apr 2025

« on: April 05, 2025, 0123 UTC »

Strong on an SDR in Texas. SINPO 45444 / S9 with some fading.

EDM.

0126 - ID, next track.
0130 - digital interference commences....and halts 30 seconds later. 
0132 - Ministry, "Everyday is Halloween."
0138 - ID
0154 - ID
0159 - ID, Beck, "The New Pollution."
0205 - Body of Light, "Time to Kill".
0206 - digital interference starts up but only on for ~20 seconds. ID, next track.
0215 - ULTRA SUNN, "Can You Believe It."
0217 - ID, into The Human League, "Heart Like A Wheel."
0221 - Peter Shilling, "Major Tom."

0257 - I have to leave. Good night.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Artificial Intelligence Radio 6935 AM 0020 UTC 4 APR 2025

« on: April 04, 2025, 0024 UTC »

Carrier on at about 0020 UTC. EDM. Maybe Liquid Radio?
I have been snooping around various SDRs. The usual SDRs that would normally have a good signal for LR generally do not right now.
Listening on the Chetek, Wisconsin SDR. SINPO 35343.

0043 - "Artificial Intelligence Radio" repeated several times by computerized voice, over a bed of trance-y EDM.
0045 - "Artificial Intelligence Radio" repeated several times by computerized voice. Then "Next song...", into next song..
0049 - Interrupt the music for announcement by same computerized voice: "Please lock on receivers."
0051 - "You are tuned to Artificial Intelligence Radio."
0119 - "It's Artificial Intelligence Radio" multiple times, with a different intonation on the last word than the other three, like the sentence was edited together.
0129 - EDM continues with interruptions for various buzzwords like "nanobots" and various phrases like, "our hands are virtual hands" and "they go inside our brains."
0136 - "The more different channels you look in, the better chance you have" repeated several times by a male on the telephone.
0137 - "It's Artificial Intelligence Radio", with a different intonation on the last word than the other three, like the sentence was edited together.
0145 (approximately) - TX off.

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Peskies / Re: Weather Report for Peskies 6820 USB 0100 UTC 26 MAR 2025

« on: April 03, 2025, 0223 UTC »

I recorded almost the entire weather report this evening. I missed the very first second or so. Transmission started at 0102 UTC (03 APR 2025) and finished at 0115 UTC. This was recorded on the NA5C kiwi SDR in south Texas, very near the Mexican border. (There is a 30-second break in transmission from approximately 0:15 to 0:45 in the recording.)

https://vocaroo.com/1hIcxJcwKyOH

My Spanish comprehension is inadequate to get all the details but I definitely got the gist of many sentences. If I understand correctly, the transmissions come from "Radio Pedragan" (spelling?) in the Mexican state of Campeche (0:13 in the recording) and the forecast details center on the Gulf of Mexico (not the "Gulf of America" ! ) and the Mexican states near there: Campeche, Quintana Roo, Yucatan, Vera Cruz, etc. At the conclusion, he wishes "good night and good fishing" and stations will reply thanking the op and he replies with his thanks and "good night" again. I kept the recording rolling for about a minute after the forecast to catch the "peskie banter".

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Amateur Radio / Re: G0EVY, 7136 kHz USB, 02:20 UTC, 26 Mar 2025

« on: April 03, 2025, 0155 UTC »

Yeah, I was going to mention his 40 and 80 meter Yagis, which he raises up and down by a crane. He raises and lowers the boom every night. (I suppose when you have a crane at your disposal, why not use it?) I think he said that he (and/or his spouse) doesn't want it raised up in the daytime often.

He has this schtick (that I've heard too many times) where he talks about his yagis and then demonstrates that he probably doesn't need the 100 Watts he uses by reducing his transmit power down to 9 Watts and asks others to note his signal strength. (I suppose a multi-element Yagi at 100-150 feet [30-45 meters] elevation would be quite helpful in that regard.  )

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID 6850 AM 0024 UTC 3 APR 2025

« on: April 03, 2025, 0131 UTC »

SINPO 45344 / S9 on an SDR in Texas. Seems to be // the online feed. (https://live365.com/embed/player.html?station=a83993)
For what it is worth, the SDR audio is about 2 seconds behind the stream. I can't receive direct so I can't tell how much delay there is between this and the actual online stream though. It doesn't matter much anyway.

0123 - 0126 - Three minutes of ads for businesses in Ionia, Michigan.
0131 - Nazareth, "Love Hurts"
0137 - Ads for the Ionia Elks Lodge.
0138 - Weather forecast.
0153 - TX off after Three Dog Night, "Joy to the World."

I wonder if the real WION would QSL this bootleg SW feed? 

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: "Live on 35" (Presumed) 6935 AM 0202 UTC 2 APR 2025

« on: April 02, 2025, 0221 UTC »

It's "Live on 35." (Presumed)  Sycko Radio and a guest (coming in over the internet) working through transmitter and audio issues, subcarrier frequencies, "experimenting".
The guest's audio generally sounds rumbly, like he is very much overdriving something.

S9 on an SDR in NY State with rolling QRN. SINPO 44243.

0222 - "Folks, you are just going to have to bear with the live testing."
0228 - Drowning Pool, "Bodies"
0230 - "...Gotta have some smoke. What do you think, Two Dog?" (Reply was unintelligible.) (The guest is Two Dog.)
0234 - Leroy (Outhouse) enters the chat. (His mic audio sounds fine.)
0243 - "We got wires and shit strewn everywhere". I bet you do!
0328 - Using C-QUAM, into Roger Waters, "Radio Waves". I'm listening in "QAM" mode on the kiwi, which I think is the right one.
0346 - I have to go. Good night.