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Shortwave Broadcast / Re: Radio Romania International? 9666 AM 0920 UTC 5 Aug 2022

« on: August 05, 2022, 1700 UTC »

Radio Romania International (it is more useful if you use the English name of international broadcasters) does not broadcast on 9666 kHz. The only station on 9666 kHz is Radio Voz Missionaria but is it also possible that the station you heard was on 9665 kHz? There are multiple international broadcasters on that frequency.

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Shortwave Broadcast / Re: Radio United AM 1008 AM 0931 UTC 5 Aug 2022

« on: August 05, 2022, 1654 UTC »

This belongs in MW Loggings, not shortwave broadcast.

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

« on: August 05, 2022, 0508 UTC »

Back on the air by 0507 UTC 5 August.

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

« on: August 05, 2022, 0320 UTC »

Now I am having a different problem. Some of the images I have decoded do not line up for the whole image (parts of the image are shifted over). It does not happen for all images. For example, all the SSTV's on this page https://www.sigidwiki.com/wiki/Slow-Scan_Television_(SSTV) decode properly with MMSSTV. I tried to see if it had anything to do with static so I added noise to one of the SSTV's from that page in audacity but that did not cause the problem I am having on some other images. The images I have been having problems with are ones received from pirates on 43 meters and hams on 14230 kHz. While some of them have the problem other SSTV's decode without issue.  I have added some images to show the problem. Is there anything I can do about this?

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North American Shortwave Pirate / 6925 Free USB 0152 UTC 5 Aug 2022

« on: August 05, 2022, 0153 UTC »

S7 with the W3HFU KiwiSDR.

0152 UTC-ON
0152 UTC-Why Can't We Be Friends by War
0155 UTC-Hold The Line by Toto
0159 UTC-Bohemian Rhapsody by Queen
0205 UTC-Casey Jones by Grateful Dead
0210 UTC-Mr. Blue Sky by Electric Light Orchestra
0215 UTC-Pour Some Sugar On Me by Def Leppard
0219 UTC-Unknown Music
0222 UTC-Riders On The Storm by The Doors
0229 UTC-Sharp Dressed Man by ZZ Top
0300 UTC-Ballroom Blitz by Sweet
0322 UTC-White Room by Cream

0327 UTC-SSTV in ScottieDX


0331 UTC-SSTV in Robot 72


0332 UTC-OFF

Having a bit of a problem with the SSTV decoder https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,100244.0.html

Same playlist as 6925 Free USB from last night. Station ID confirmed by SSTV images.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / UNID 6925 AM 0118 UTC Aug 5 2022

« on: August 05, 2022, 0118 UTC »

S7 with the W3HFU KiwiSDR. S9+10 with the K3FEF KiwiSDR but also S9+10 static. Best sound on the W3HFU KiwiSDR. Utility QRM on USB and occasional Peskie QRM on LSB.

0118 UTC-ON
0118 UTC-Unknown Electronic Music
0124 UTC-Next Unknown Music
0127 UTC-Moving In Stereo by The Cars
0133 UTC-The Hellion/Electric Eye by Judas Priest
0137 UTC-The Devil Does Drugs by My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult
0144 UTC-OFF

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

« on: August 04, 2022, 2332 UTC »

Radio Pushka has been off air today since at least 2033 UTC August 4.

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General Radio Discussion / Active Shortwave Pirates (North America) in July 2022

« on: August 04, 2022, 2324 UTC »

This is a list I have compiled based on loggings here on the HFU. It shows all the identified North American shortwave pirates heard in the month of July 2022. Note that many stations use multiple names so determining the amount of actual transmitters in use is impossible. Some stations are also active so infrequently that they may not have been logged in July but may broadcast in the future.
Stations are listed alphabetically and show the station name followed by the number of loggings in July 2022.

Ballsmacker Radio-Every Friday night at 0100 UTC on 6960 kHz AM
Big Stinger Radio 1
Brownie Radio 1
Captain Morgan Shortwave 3
CHIL 2
Clever Name Radio 3
Cold Country Canada 1
Corn Desert Outpost 9
Fork It 1
Good Times Radio 2
ION Radio 1
Mix Radio International 3
Nonsense Radio 1
Nuttin' On Shortwave 1
One Dog Radio 1
Outhouse Radio/Damn Skippy 4
Piss Ant Radio 1
QRM 4
Radio Free Whatever 3
Radio Pushka-24/7 on 6920 kHz AM
Robin Hood Radio 1
Solid Rock Radio 2
Stoned Gnome Radio 1
Sycko Radio 6
The Crooked Man Radio 1
Truth Radio International 4
Two Dog Radio 1
WANK 1
Wasteland Radio 1
WBLR 1
WBOG 1
WDOG 1
WENO 1
WHIZ 1
Wolverine Radio 3
WTF Radio Worldwide 4
X-FM 2
YHWH-Active nightly on 7475 kHz AM
Zeeky (many different station names used) 5

Thanks to CT Yankee for the comments and two additional stations. I didn’t include Bob Dylan Radio because it is not it’s own stations but a relay by TRI.

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

« on: August 04, 2022, 0351 UTC »

Looks like they are off air today. They were still operating as of 0300 UTC 4 August but a check at 0350 UTC shows nothing.

Back at a check at 0438 UTC August 4.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: 6925 Free USB 0120 UTC 4 Aug 2022

« on: August 04, 2022, 0147 UTC »

S9+10 with the K3FEF KiwiSDR but S9 static.

0146 UTC-Riders On The Storm by The Doors
0153 UTC-Station ID? Sounded like “QSO QSO Shortwave listener (me?), this is ??”
0153 UTC-Sharp Dressed Man by ZZ Top
0157 UTC-Break On Through (To The Other Side) by The Doors
0200 UTC-Desperado by Eagles
0203 UTC-Gimme Three Steps by Lynyrd Skynyrd
0208 UTC-Jump by Van Halen
0212 UTC-Panama by Van Halen
0216 UTC-Space Oddity by David Bowie
0221 UTC-Walk Like An Egyptian by Bangles
0224 UTC-Ballroom Blitz by Sweet
0302 UTC-Break My Stride by Matthew Wilder
0305 UTC-Rikki Don't Lose That Number by Steely Dan
0310 UTC-Take It Easy by Eagles
0313 UTC-Paint It, Black by The Rolling Stones
0316 UTC-Crazy Train by Ozzy Osbourne

0321 UTC-SSTV in ScottieDX


0326 UTC-Next SSTV, now in Robot 72


0327 UTC-OFF

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Latin American Pirate / Radio Compañía Worldwide 6925 AM 2300 UTC 3 Aug 2022

« on: August 03, 2022, 2305 UTC »

Just a weak carrier on 6925.00 kHz and traces of audio with the LU4AA KiwiSDR in Argentina. The RCW Facebook page says “Ralay de RCI Medios Prensa Radio y TV señal 2. 6925 KHz” (posted 2 hours ago).

2300 UTC-Talk in Spanish? Extremely weak

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Radio Pushka 6920 AM 0519 UTC 7 Jul 2022

« on: August 03, 2022, 1943 UTC »

I have now got my sound card working and I can decode SSTV images. I recorded about 30 minuets of the SSTV images sent on July 7 and today I played the recording back through the SSTV decoder. The recorded signal was very weak and most of the images showed almost nothing but static. Regardless, I am posting the best (least static) images in case anyone is interested or can tell what any of the things in the pictures are.

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

« on: August 03, 2022, 1840 UTC »

Thank you 

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Huh? / How to save images in MMSSTV?

« on: August 03, 2022, 1730 UTC »

I have finally got my sound card working and I can now successfully decode SSTV images with MMSSTV. My problem is that I can’t figure out how to save images as file to my computer. Does anyone know how to?

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

« on: August 03, 2022, 0004 UTC »

2356 UTC Just hearing noise here

That’s what I would expect at this time of day if you are in the eastern USA. Radio Pushka’s Facebook page says they are in Phoenix, Arizona and their website says they use 15 watts AM. Even late at night I can only hear an extremely weak carrier at my location and I am likely much closer.