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2881

Huh? / Re: How to save images in MMSSTV?

« on: August 06, 2022, 0522 UTC »

What do you mean by severe frequency drift? In the receiver or sound card?

The receiver was the W3HFU KiwiSDR (I also tried the Northwest Ireland KiwiSDR and got the same results), my sound card is the Sound Blaster Audigy Rx, the audio source is set to “what u hear” (the program will hear whatever is playing through the computer), and what sound card settings do you need to know?

2882

North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Radio Pushka 6920 AM 2350 UTC 2 Aug 2022

« on: August 06, 2022, 0440 UTC »

Nothing at all today from Radio Pushka.

2883

North American Shortwave Pirate / 6925 Free Radio 6925 FM/USB 0436 UTC 6 Aug 2022

« on: August 06, 2022, 0438 UTC »

S9+20 with the K3FEF KiwiSDR.

0436 UTC-Pour Some Sugar On Me by Def Leppard
0438 UTC-Unknown Music
0441 UTC-Riders On The Storm by The Doors
0448 UTC-Sharp Dressed Man by ZZ Top

0452 UTC-Robot 36 SSTV


0453 UTC-Unknown Music, too much static to ID
0457 UTC-Space Oddity by David Bowie
0502 UTC-OFF

0502 UTC-Back on now in USB
0503 UTC-Walk Like an Egyptian by The Bangles
0505 UTC-The Bathroom Blitz by Sweet
0509 UTC-Robot 36 SSTV “6925 Free Radio” with the same alien thing as the last SSTV

2884

North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: WDOG 6960 FM 0332 UTC 06 AUG 2022

« on: August 06, 2022, 0335 UTC »

S9+20 with the K3FEF KiwiSDR.

0335 UTC-Novocaine For The Soul by Eels
0337 UTC-“This is WDOG and next we have a 1997”
0337 UTC-Bitter Sweet Symphony by The Verve
0339 UTC-OFF
0342 UTC-ON again
0342 UTC-The Night Before by The Beatles
0344 UTC-Dogs howling
0344 UTC-More The Beatles then off
0345 UTC-Back on
0345 UTC-The Ballad Of John And Yoko by The Beatles
0347 UTC-Bit from a program about The Beatles
0347 UTC-Golden Slumbers by The Beatles
0347 UTC-Dog howl over the music
0350 UTC-The End by The Beatles
0352 UTC-WDOG ID
0353 UTC-Twist And Shout by The Beatles
0355 UTC-Hello, Goodbye by The Beatles
0358 UTC-CW over the music
0359 UTC-OFF

2885

North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Pee Wee 6950 USB 0304 UTC 06 AUG 2022

« on: August 06, 2022, 0312 UTC »

S9 with the K3FEF KiwiSDR.

0311 UTC-Whiskey Devils by The Mahones

0314 UTC-Scottie 2 SSTV


0315 UTC-Sean Reilly by Meisce
0319 UTC-Scottie 2 SSTV
0320 UTC-Talking about the FCC and free radio (sounds like an old recording)
0323 UTC-B/W 8 SSTV “Pee Wee is here”
0323 UTC-Scottie 2 SSTV of the cover art for the next song
0325 UTC-Here Come The Bastards by Primus
0333 UTC-American Life by Primus

Still need to get my SSTV decoder working properly, lots of slant issues in decode currently.

2886

North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID 6910 FM/AM 0200 06 AUG 2022

« on: August 06, 2022, 0202 UTC »

S9+20 with the K3FEF KiwiSDR. Mode is 10 kHz wide FM. Because of the FM mode every fade causes the signal to go below the noise.

0203 UTC-Advertisement
0203 UTC-Bad by Michael Jackson
0206 UTC-Part-Time Lover by Stevie Wonder
0207 UTC-Dust Bowl Children by Alison Krauss & Union Station
0209 UTC-The Letter by Frank Solivan & Dirty Kitchen
0214 UTC-Unknown instrumental American folk music, tune is familiar but I can’t recall the name
0216 UTC-Switched to AM modulation
0217 UTC-Down South Blues by Dock Boggs
0219 UTC-OFF

2887

North American Shortwave Pirate / Captain Morgan Shortwave 6924 AM 0149 UTC 6 Aug 2022

« on: August 06, 2022, 0150 UTC »

Exact frequency is 6924.18 kHz. S9+20 with the K3FEF KiwiSDR. QRM from CDO on 6925 USB.

0150 UTC-Black Dog by Led Zeppelin
0152 UTC-“This is Captain Morgan Shortwave”
0154 UTC-Legs by ZZ Top
0155 UTC-“This is Captain Morgan Shortwave” over the music
0156 UTC-“This is Captain Morgan Shortwave” over the music
0158 UTC-“This is Captain Morgan Shortwave” over the music
0159 UTC-White Room by Cream
0221 UTC-OFF

0221 UTC-Station at S9+10 on 6924.13 AM playing a cover of the twilight zone, not sure if this is the same station
0223 UTC-“This is Captain Morgan Shortwave”
0223 UTC-Twilight Zone/Twilight Tone by The Manhattan Transfer
0224 UTC-Black Dog by Led Zeppelin
0226 UTC-“This is Captain Morgan Shortwave”
0229 UTC-Legs by ZZ Top
0229 UTC-“This is Captain Morgan Shortwave”
0243 UTC-Gone

The different frequency and signal strength makes me wonder if this is coming from the same station.

2888

North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: CDO Corn Desert Outpost 6925 USB 2322 UTC 5 Aug 2022

« on: August 06, 2022, 0010 UTC »

0001 - Music Here. Unfortunately, no ID
0005 - SSTV

Corn Desert Outpost sends that SSTV every broadcast. As ~SIGINT~ said this also sounds like them. I think we have an ID.

edit by Ray Lalleu : that ugly bird face was already used by CDO on 31st of July

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: CDO Corn Desert Outpost 6925 USB 2322 UTC 5 Aug 2022

« on: August 05, 2022, 2336 UTC »

S9+10 with the K3FEF KiwiSDR. Extremely tinny audio.

2335 UTC-Spellbound by Triumph
2339 UTC-Waterfall image (not sure what it is)
2339 UTC-Somebody's Out There by Triumph
2344 UTC-Super Chicken by The Cartoonz

2344 UTC-ScottieDX SSTV


2349 UTC-Unknown Music (sounds like a live recording)
0000 UTC-Live recording still going
0005 UTC-ScottieDX SSTV (looks like I had a decoding problem)
0006 UTC-Back to the live recording

2890

North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Unid 6930 USB 2300 UTC 5 Aug 2022

« on: August 05, 2022, 2311 UTC »

S7 with the W3HFU KiwiSDR. S9 with the K3FEF KiwiSDR.

2310 UTC-Music but almost inaudible under very strong Peskies also on 6930 kHz USB
2315 UTC-SSTV, too much interference from Peskies to make out anything in the image

2891

European Pirates and Private Stations / Re: WMBR 6370 AM 2024 UTC 5 Aug 2022

« on: August 05, 2022, 2120 UTC »

marinebroadcasters@hotmail.com is the right one for eQSL

Thank you for the correct email. I have already sent a reception report to that one and never heard from them. I thought I heard wmbrmarinebroadcasters@hotmail.com this time but with the level of QRM there is a high chance I was am wrong.

2892

European Pirates and Private Stations / Re: Antony Radio 6300 AMS 1903 UTC 05 Aug 2022

« on: August 05, 2022, 2117 UTC »

The address is: whiteriders@wp.pl

Thank you 

2893

European Pirates and Private Stations / WMBR 6370 AM 2024 UTC 5 Aug 2022

« on: August 05, 2022, 2025 UTC »

S7 with the Northwest Ireland KiwiSDR. Much better S9 with the GB3WB KiwiSDR in the UK. Some distortion in the audio. Bad QRM from the station that I noticed at 2039 UTC (I think it was on before this, just weaker).

2024 UTC-Talk in English
2027 UTC-ID as an FM station, must be a relay
2034 UTC-Way Down Yonder In New Orleans by Freddy Cannon
2036 UTC-Soldier Boy by The Shirelles
2039 UTC-Another station now operating on the same frequency
2040 UTC-Ahab The Arab by Ray Stevens (still severe QRM from the other station)
2042 UTC-Name of the song from 2036 UTC
2043 UTC-OFF
2044 UTC-Back on, talking
2045 UTC-ID as KFRC, advertisements mentioning San Diego, 610 KFRC ID, mention of California
2046 UTC-Angel by Madonna, talk by female over the music about and countdown and a few hours of rock & roll
2048 UTC-KFRC jingles
2049 UTC-Advertising for programs on the station
2051 UTC-No Particular Place To Go by Chuck Berry
2054 UTC-Talk and ID by male DJ
2055 UTC-Along Came Jones by Ray Stevens
2058 UTC-Runaway by Del Shannon
2100 UTC-WMBR marine broadcasters station identification and email address wmbrmarinebroadcasters@hotmail.com
2101 UTC-The Man's Too Strong by Dire Straits
2108 UTC-Talk in Dutch, name of the last song
2109 UTC-Candles by Chris Rea
2113 UTC-Talk in Dutch, name of the last song, mention of Radio Caroline and Radio London
2114 UTC-Recording of Radio London sign off and talk about Radio London being back on air with a license, sounds like it is from an old program (documentary?)
2116 UTC-Talking about Radio Caroline and other offshore stations (also sounds like from a documentary)

While it was off I could hear the QRMing station and it sounds like an Asian station. No signal on Asian KiwiSDR’s though.

Looks like KFRC 610 AM no longer exists so this is a recording being played.

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European Pirates and Private Stations / Re: Anthony Radio 6300 AMS 1903 UTC 05 Aug 2022

« on: August 05, 2022, 1933 UTC »

S9+10 with the Lublin, Poland KiwiSDR. Listening in AM Stereo. Signal is only 6 kHz wide, unusual for AM Stereo.

1929 UTC-Unknown Music
1931 UTC-Jingle “You are listening to Anthony Radio from Poland”, another jingle with ID by robot voice
1931 UTC-Next Unknown Music
1934 UTC-Jingle ID’s, left and right channel tests (yes it is in stereo)
1935 UTC-Next Unknown Music
1938 UTC-Jingle ID’s, left and right channel tests
1939 UTC-Next Unknown Music
1942 UTC-Jingle ID’s, left and right channel tests
1943 UTC-America En Olde Pekela by The Dutch Boys
1947 UTC-Jingle ID’s, left and right channel tests
1947 UTC-Next Unknown Music (played from a record, I can hear the crackling)
1950 UTC-Jingle ID’s, left and right channel tests, moved to 6301 kHz then back to 6300 kHz
1951 UTC-Scarface (Push It To The Limit) by Paul Engemann
1954 UTC-Jingle, email address (couldn’t understand due to heavy processing, will listening back to my recording)
1955 UTC-OFF

A weaker station came on on 6300 kHz AM playing music at 1955 UTC after Anthony Radio signed off but it went off at 1956 UTC.

I like the music! Very interesting stuff around 1935 UTC, sounds like old country music in an Eastern European language?

2895

Huh? / Re: How to save images in MMSSTV?

« on: August 05, 2022, 1856 UTC »

Thank you for the suggestion, but it did not fix the problem. I have now found out that MMSSTV should be calibrated to the sound card as described on this website: https://f6ikyradioamateur.pagesperso-orange.fr/images%20sstv/sstv%20anglais.html
The problem I am having is that it states I should have a slanted straight line and once it has been adjusted it should be a vertical straight line. The line I have is wobbly and I cannot adjust it to be straight. The image below shows what I get when I try to calibrate to WWV.