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North American Shortwave Pirate / Boat Anchor Radio 6950 USB 0235 UTC 9 APR 2025

« on: April 09, 2025, 0237 UTC »

S8 direct.

0235 UTC-ID
0235 UTC-Lay Down To Rest by Lynx
0255 UTC-OFF

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID 6960 USB 0107 UTC 7 APR 2025

« on: April 07, 2025, 0140 UTC »

S9 with the W3HFU KiwiSDR. Very distorted splattery sideband.

0136 UTC-Throw Your Hatred Down by Neil Young
0140 UTC-Moving the VFO around a bit
0141 UTC-Bit of an ad played

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID 6960v USB 0226 UTC APR 1 2025

« on: April 01, 2025, 0232 UTC »

S9 with the Traverse City, Michigan KiwiSDR.

0232 UTC-Country music, extremely tinny audio that also sounds off frequency

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North American Shortwave Pirate / UNID 6990 LSB 0043 UTC 25 MAR 2025

« on: March 25, 2025, 0101 UTC »

S7 with the KT4RS KiwiSDR.

0043 UTC-Political talk by OM
0100 UTC-Gone by now

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North American Shortwave Pirate / UNID 6930 AM 0454 UTC 24 MAR 2025

« on: March 24, 2025, 0455 UTC »

Weak S9 with the K8BMZ KiwiSDR.

0454 UTC-Music

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID 6997 AM 0123 UTC 24 MAR 2025

« on: March 24, 2025, 0127 UTC »

S9+10 with the Raleigh, NC KiwiSDR. Drifty, uneven modulation and poor frequency choice.

0126 UTC-Music
0130 UTC-YL with Captain Morgan Shortwave ID
0140 UTC-OFF mid song

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Latin American Pirate / Rede RF 11055 AM 0050 UTC 22 MAR 2025

« on: March 22, 2025, 0052 UTC »

Very weak with the PY2-81502 KiwiSDR. ID based off another user on the Kiwi with this name listening to 11055 kHz from Brazil.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: The Voice of the Sky 6975 USB 0000 UTC 22 MAR 2025

« on: March 22, 2025, 0045 UTC »

S7 with the W3HFU KiwiSDR.

0045 UTC-Lady of the Lake by Starcastle
0046 UTC-Icarus (Borne On Wings of Steel) by Kansas

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Other / Re: "A Radio" 6964.58 LSB 2015 UTC 21 MAR 2025

« on: March 21, 2025, 2057 UTC »

Interesting log! OM speaking in Spanish, then in English calling CQ CQ CQ Radio 231 many times. Drifty transmitter, playing electronic music in the background and before calls at times. S9 at OE3KDC in Austria. Windows notification sound at 2058 UTC. Another CQ call at 2100 UTC then a break. Back into music after several seconds. Gone at 2103 UTC.

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Equipment / Re: Modulation Help (AM)

« on: March 21, 2025, 1922 UTC »

There are various SDR-based QRP rigs on the market, but yeah, the Hermes Lite 2 is definitely a popular enthusiast-class network radio. Main PCB, filter board, I/O board, and enclosure for ~$400.

Is the Hermes fairly straightforward to get going?  I have a LimeSDR that I got during the COVID and didn't do much of anything with it.  It just seemed to be too complicated and too much of a pain.  I write code, build rigs from scratch, make 2N2222s do things they probably shouldn't, and run Linux / BSD / etc. so I'm no dummy.  (I should probably revisit the LimeSDR and try to do something simple with it.)

Mine wasn't too hard. Build the kit (very easy, just putting two boards together and adding some thermal paste) and then I connected mine directly to the computer (rather than through a network). Thetis has a long initial bootup that confused me because I couldn't find any info about that. Once it was complete it was pretty much working, although the software stills needs some tweaks to get transmit to work, and a few other things for ideal operation.

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Equipment / Re: Modulation Help (AM)

« on: March 21, 2025, 0222 UTC »

Not to mention the Flex won't do out of band.

Really?  That's why I don't have an Elecraft K3 or K4.  Well, that, and it takes them two to three years to ship a rig after they announce it in Dayton.

Everyone I have talked to says they need a valid MARS license for the software to allow out of band transmit.

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Utility / CFARS 6775 USB 0125 UTC 21 MAR 2025

« on: March 21, 2025, 0133 UTC »

Mostly strong signals, voice traffic.

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Equipment / Re: Modulation Help (AM)

« on: March 20, 2025, 2338 UTC »

yeah flex can do it for five THOUSAND dollars.  hard pass on the kilodollar investment in a hobby for the lulz

Not to mention the Flex won't do out of band. If you are looking at 6.9 MHz or 11 meters, the Hermes Lite would be decent with a high gain amp to go with it.

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European Pirates and Private Stations / Re: UNID 6931 AM 0225 UTC 20 MAR 2025

« on: March 20, 2025, 0507 UTC »

Indy Rdaio always uses this frequency, Eldorado is SSB only.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID 6935 AM 0220 UTC 18 MAR 2025

« on: March 18, 2025, 0228 UTC »

S9+20 with the Traverse City, MI KiwiSDR.

0228 UTC-La Rossa by Van Der Graaf Generator