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3766

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.

3767

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

3768

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

3769

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

3770

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.

3771

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 

3772

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?

3774

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.

3775

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.

3776

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.

3777

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.

3778

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?

3779

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.

3780

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