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North American Shortwave Pirate / Ballsmacker Radio 6960 AM 2316 UTC 4 Aug 2021

« on: August 04, 2021, 2316 UTC »

Ball Smacker Radio 6960.0 kHz AM 23:16 UTC 04 AUGUST 2021

Ref: BallSmacker On Air - 4 August - Maybe
https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,84672.0.html

23:16 UTC - Good carrier and a surprise to see Ball Smacker on-air on a Wednesday;
23:21 UTC - Station ID
23:41 UTC - Carrier off.

RSPduo | Barker & Williamson antenna | Toronto, Ontario Canada

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North American Shortwave Pirate / WRNO (Zeke) 6933 USB 2305 UTC 4 Aug 2021

« on: August 04, 2021, 2306 UTC »

WRNO 6933.0 kHz USB 23:05 UTC 04 AUGUST 2021

23:05 UTC - UNID, good and readable with Stevie Nicks - Thunder;
23:08 UTC - Station ID: "Rhino Radio" (WRNO);
23:12 UTC - Having some technical difficulties with the play list jumping around, War - Low Rider;
23:27 UTC - Station ID;
23:45 UTC - Station ID and despite the fading in and out, the signal is hanging in;
00:02 UTC - Shout-out to HFU: raypfaff;
00:09 UTC - Going out with CCR and John Denver - Take Me Home, Country Roads;
00:15 UTC - End of broadcast.

Thank you for the show.

RSPduo | Barker & Williamson antenna | Toronto, Ontario Canada

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Radio Genix 6950 USB 1155 UTC 04 AUG 2021

« on: August 04, 2021, 2251 UTC »

22:50 UTC - Someone is sending CW next to the frequency. Garbled characters and numbers at approx 30 words per minute;
23:00 UTC - CW ends with TTT TTT
00:30 UTC - Weak but readable.

RSPduo | Barker & Williamson antenna | Toronto, Ontario Canada

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Radio Genix 6950 USB 1758 UTC 03 AUG 2021

« on: August 03, 2021, 2150 UTC »

21:46 UTC - Weak and barely readable;
21:48 UTC - Heard the start of the next song but then lost the signal;
22:00 UTC - Hearing the signal again, conditions are improving, The Police - Walking On The Moon followed by Toto - Africa
00:00 UTC - The signal is still hanging in but fading in and out;
02:00 UTC - Station ID.

RSPduo | Barker & Williamson antenna | Toronto, Ontario Canada

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Longwave Loggings / Re: Summer NDB Logs from Downers Grove, IL

« on: August 03, 2021, 1724 UTC »

My favourite for NDB lookup is Martin Francis's database. It is a very slick database:
https://www.classaxe.com/dx/ndb/rna

The new and improved version is located here (although I prefer the look and feel of the classic version):
https://rxx.classaxe.com/en/rna/signals

More info, including the European and collective databases can be found here:
https://www.classaxe.com/dx/

Additional resources located at the LW Radio Beacons page:
https://www.dxinfocentre.com/ndb.htm

NAVCAN NAVAID Modernization Program, phase 1 through 12:
https://www.navcanada.ca/en/air-traffic/navaid-modernization-program.aspx

A copy of the Aeronautical Study - NAVAID Modernisation can be found here:
https://copanational.org/sites/copanational.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Aeronautical-Study-NAVAID-Modernisation.pdf

Enjoy

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Radio Genix 6950 USB 2337 UTC 02 AUG 2021

« on: August 03, 2021, 0205 UTC »

02:00 UTC - Good copy. Most of the audio is in the mid to higher end with next to no base / low frequency. Sounds like audio coming from a telephone with no fidelity;
02:04 UTC - Lost the station but can hear a "beep" every few seconds;
02:07 UTC - Hearing tracks change, starting to fade back in;
02:11 UTC - Station ID: "You are listening to Radio Genix"
02:18 UTC - Bee Gees - Staying Alive
02:40 UTC - Lost the signal.

RSPduo | Barker & Williamson antenna | Toronto, Ontario Canada

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Nowhere Radio (Tentative) 6974.9 AM 2354 UTC 02 AUG 2021

« on: August 03, 2021, 0048 UTC »

00:47 UTC - Good readable with fading in and out, heavy metal music.

Based on the frequency and the "broadcasting from somewhere in the midwest" tag from Reply #9, tentative: Nowhere Radio

RSPduo | Barker & Williamson antenna | Toronto, Ontario Canada

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North American Shortwave Pirate / WRNO (Zeke) 6925 USB 2300 UTC 2 AUG 2021

« on: August 02, 2021, 2301 UTC »

WRNO 6925.0 kHz USB 23:00 UTC 02 AUGUST 2021

23:00 UTC - Loud and clear with rap music;
23:02 UTC - Long pause between songs;
23:11 UTC - Station ID: WRNO
23:14 UTC - Station ID followed by long pause and change of music format;
23:19 UTC - Station ID
23:25 UTC - Station ID
23:33 UTC - Starting to get some marginal fading but the band is quiet.

RSPduo | Barker & Williamson antenna | Toronto, Ontario Canada

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Radio Genix 6875 USB and AM 1835 UTC 2 August 2021

« on: August 02, 2021, 2227 UTC »

22:25 UTC - Fading in and out, Queen - Radio Ga Ga;
23:05 UTC - Still hearing the station, weak barely readable.

RSPduo | Barker & Williamson antenna | Toronto, Ontario Canada

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Nuttin' On Shortwave 6925 AM 2136 UTC 02 AUG 2021

« on: August 02, 2021, 2218 UTC »

22:10 UTC - Weak but readable. Actual frequency: 6924.750 kHz;
22:16 UTC - Announcer thanking everyone for checking in;
22:18 UTC - Carrier dropped.

RSPduo | Barker & Williamson antenna | Toronto, Ontario Canada

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Equipment / Re: BELKA DX

« on: August 02, 2021, 0245 UTC »

BELKA-DX I/Q Output

I had the opportunity this past weekend to experiment with the I/Q output of the Belka. My quick tests revealed that is does work as expected.

Test #1 and screen shot #1 bellow is the Belka I/Q output connected to the PC's line input which is set to a 48 kHz sampling rate. As can be seen, Spectrum Lab can visualize a portion of the 40 metre CW band. Test #2 and screen shot #2 is CW Skimmer. Skimmer is decoding the Morse Code.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / UNID 6930 USB 0207 UTC 2 AUG 2021

« on: August 02, 2021, 0208 UTC »

UNID 6930.0 kHz USB 02:08 UTC 02 AUGUST 2021

02:07 UTC - UNID with techno dance music, good readable;
02:30 UTC - And the beat goes on ...
02:52 UTC - Starting to get some fading out.

RSPduo | Barker & Williamson antenna | Toronto, Ontario Canada

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North American Shortwave Pirate / UNID 6925 AM 0156 UTC 2 AUG 2021

« on: August 02, 2021, 0156 UTC »

UNID 6925.0 kHz AM 01:56 UTC 02 AUGUST 2021

Potentially a new station. Unmodulated carrier just came up.

01:57 UTC - Carrier went down for a few seconds and came back up on 6924.960 kHz;
01:58 UTC - Broadcast begins with rock music;
02:00 UTC - Frequency is drifting, now 6924.800 kHz, potentially 2 stations on the same frequency.
02:05 UTC - Bali_Frank, thank you for confirming that I am hearing 2 stations. My part of the hemisphere is getting classic rock music.
02:07 UTC - Also appears as someone just came up on 6930.0 kHz;
02:10 UTC - Temporarily went off the air;
02:13 UTC - Station returned, Gary Numan - Cars
02:15 UTC - The Go-Go's - Our Lips Are Sealed
02:22 UTC - Going into a deep fade out period, signal is lost;
02:54 UTC - Starting to reacquire some signal, Thomas Dolby - She Blinded Me With Science
03:10 UTC - Lost the signal;
03:17 UTC - Signal returns;
03:26 UTC - Playlist runs out or long pause, starting to fade out again;
03:36 UTC - Signal returns, a nice S8 ~ S9 with fading;
03:54 UTC - More deep fade out cycles;
03:59 UTC - Believe this is the end of the broadcast. Carrier turned off.

Thank you for the broadcast .

RSPduo | Barker & Williamson antenna | Toronto, Ontario Canada

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Captain Morgan Shortwave 6925 AM 0125 UTC 2 AUG 2021

« on: August 02, 2021, 0129 UTC »

Captain Morgan Shortwave 6924.170 AM 01:25 UTC 02 AUGUST 2021

This is not the same station as UNID 6925 USB 2359 UTC 01 AUG 2021

01:25 UTC - UNID with classic rock, the station is good and readable with some interference and audio distortion. Actual frequency: 6924.170 kHz and +/- 8 kHz bandwidth;
01:36 UTC - Potential station ID: "This is a special ..."
01:54 UTC - Station abruptly went off the air.

Station ID courtesy Chris Lobdell, Reply #2

RSPduo | Barker & Williamson antenna | Toronto, Ontario Canada

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID 6925 USB 2359 UTC 01 AUG 2021

« on: August 02, 2021, 0014 UTC »

00:13 UTC - Very weak but I can hear it over the noise;

RSPduo | Barker & Williamson antenna | Toronto, Ontario Canada