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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: FUBAR Radio 6955 USB 0122 UTC 19 MAY 2023

« on: May 19, 2023, 0154 UTC »

S9+20 with the K3FEF KiwiSDR.

0153 UTC-Time To Change by The Brady Bunch
0154 UTC-OM “time to change my underwear after hearing that”, that was a request from Big Badfish Al, couldn't play the requests last week because the internet was down, this is FUBAR Radio
0155 UTC-Pretty Ballerina by The Left Banke
0158 UTC-That was a request from CT Yankee, got a request from Paul Turkk
0159 UTC-Wplj by The Mothers of Invention
0201 UTC-Having a cable problem, CT Yankee keeps calling the op Zeke, another request from Big Badfish Al
0203 UTC-Crazy Horses by The Osmonds
0204 UTC-That was better than his last request, FUBAR Radio live, one more request from last week
0205 UTC-Never Been Any Reason by Head East
0212 UTC-Talking about Zeke
0212 UTC-OFF

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General Radio Discussion / Re: New (?) Shortwave Database

« on: May 19, 2023, 0105 UTC »

Here are some links to the stations, including my old time acquaintance Harold Sellers from our days past at the Ontario DX Association (ODXA). Harold now lives in BC and I moved 800 km North of Toronto in June 2022.

If memory serves me correctly, CFVP was off the air for a very long period until Bell Canada technicians finally repaired the transmitter in late 2022.

https://cfrx.webs.com/
https://cfrx.webs.com/apps/photos/

Site of the Week 3/31/2023: More Toronto-Area AM Sites
https://www.fybush.com/site-20230331/

Cool pictures. The CFVP transmitter was fixed a few years ago, not last year.

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General Radio Discussion / Re: New (?) Shortwave Database

« on: May 18, 2023, 2242 UTC »

I don't really consider CFRX and CFVP shortwave stations in the traditional sense. They are merely relay stations of their AM radio counterpart. There is no "shortwave" programming. If you ask me, the biggest mistake ever made was to close down Radio Canada International (RCI).

They are more similar to the old Tropical Band stations on 60 and 90 meters. Their programming is a simulcast of their AM station and they aren’t really interested in an international audience.

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General Radio Discussion / Re: New (?) Shortwave Database

« on: May 18, 2023, 1429 UTC »

Thanks,

I had a quick look at it and the databases (EiBi and AOKI) seem to incorporate more than just broadcast stations. I picked Canada as a target country and got a listing of well known commercial and UTE stations. Other than CFRX 6070 Canada no longer operates any HF broadcast facilities therefor the list of additional non-broadcast stations will be very handy. I have used the EiBi database in Excel format and memory panel in SDRuno for years but the web interface is much easier and faster to use.

CFRX Toronto and CFVP Calgary are both still active. CFVP is a rare catch outside of Western Canada because of Radio Marti on the same frequency.

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Shortwave Broadcast / Re: CFVP Calgary

« on: May 18, 2023, 0502 UTC »

I can copy this station okay during the winter daylight hours, but its difficult during the summer because of Radio Marti signing on at 0000 UTC and staying on through the night. Usually I copy the 1060 AM 50 kW transmitter much better.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Radio Crapola 6905 USB 0000 UTC 18 MAY 2023

« on: May 18, 2023, 0005 UTC »

S9+20 with the K3FEF KiwiSDR. No signal here, as expected at this time of day.

0004 UTC-Dirty Laundry by Don Henley

0037 UTC-Miss Scarlet saying the broadcast is almost over, email address, Professor Plum talking about the crapola_pirate_radio Reddit page, thanks for listening, good night, ID
0039 UTC-OFF

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QSLs Received / Re: Radio Clandestine re-broadcast via TRI eQSL

« on: May 17, 2023, 2344 UTC »

Got mine as well, thanks!

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Radio Clandestine re-broadcast via TRI 6925 AM 2257 UTC 17 MAY 2023

« on: May 17, 2023, 2311 UTC »

S9+30 with the K3FEF KiwiSDR.

2311 UTC-Roll Over Beethoven by The Beatles
2312 UTC-Unknown Music
2315 UTC-RF Burns speaking, what goes on behind the scenes here at Radio Clandestine
2316 UTC-Unknown Music
2319 UTC-Switch Board Susan by Nick Lowe
2323 UTC-RF Burns with some words from our sponsors, spoof ad for a dictionary (hard to understand due to audio issues), Marijuana helper ad
2325 UTC-Radio Clandestine ID
2326 UTC-Unknown Music
2327 UTC-Next Unknown Music
2328 UTC-Timtron talking about the audio issues from the tape
2329 UTC-No Time to Lose by Tarney/Spencer Band
2332 UTC-OFF mid song

924

Shortwave Broadcast / Re: Another Rogue RHC broadcast

« on: May 17, 2023, 0322 UTC »

This frequency has been in use since  the start of A23, most of the shortwave schedules online are not very accurate. Only good one I have found are the British DX Club articles.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Radio Vostochnaya Zvezda 7400 AM 0351 UTC 15 MAY 2023

« on: May 17, 2023, 0054 UTC »

Interesting, the op posted on the discord chat last night saying he was off air and will be for a while. Nothing heard on SDRs right now. Maybe something from Asia?

If you mean the evening of the 15th (early 16th UTC), keep in mind my post is a day late so maybe I caught the last. And it was broad daylight, so it couldn't be from far away.

Okay, makes sense now.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: B Side Radio 6934.9 AM 0248 UTC 16 May 2023

« on: May 16, 2023, 2310 UTC »

Tuned in with the trusty old Satellit 750 and G5RV last night - I was having internet issues and could log in to post in real time, but I did tune in at 0332 UTC to a decent SIO 333 signal of jazz (sounded like a four or five piece combo featuring a solo trumpet prominently), with a voice which was unintelligible at 0338z just when it went QRT - likely station ID. Thanks for the show.

That was The Miles Davis Quintet, last song of the show. I'm still knocked out by the signal and the audio he was getting out of that transmitter. That SDR was just ahead of the greyline, which helped the signal, but that doesn't explain the high quality audio. Bud must be tinkering with that transmitter?

He has always had excellent audio, you just need a very strong signal to hear the full bandwidth (most people in the east do not get it that strong). The signal strength of his broadcasts is always impressive, I get the feeling he runs a bit more than the claimed 10 watts...

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Radio Vostochnaya Zvezda 7400 AM 0351 UTC 15 MAY 2023

« on: May 16, 2023, 1923 UTC »

On 15 May around 1545 UTC this was coming in fairly well here in Denver. I was experiencing a power outage and took advantage by getting out my Satellit 750 and plugging it into the G5RV to see what was copyable, and this was good enough for me to Shazam "Happy Nation" by Ace of Base (sounded like a surprisingly heavy tune - not heavy like metal, but much more serious sounding than their ginormous hit "The Sign" - first time hearing it). Rx eventually degraded but it was quite good at that moment.

Interesting, the op posted on the discord chat last night saying he was off air and will be for a while. Nothing heard on SDRs right now. Maybe something from Asia?

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: B Side Radio 6934.9 AM 0248 16 May 2023

« on: May 16, 2023, 0253 UTC »

Exact frequency is 6934.965 kHz. S9+20 here.

0251 UTC-Bud Bigly talking about the music
0252 UTC-Angel Eyes by Dave Brubeck
0258 UTC-Talking about the music, hello to people on the HFU, promotion for my YouTube channel (thanks!)
0300 UTC-Deep River by Toshiko Mariano Quartet
0305 UTC-Talking about the music, B Side Radio with your host Bud Bigly
0306 UTC-By The Numbers by John Coltrane
0318 UTC-Talking about the music, tried to play the next song on Saturday, the next record was a little expensive at the secret record store in the Mojave
0319 UTC-Duck Theme / Jimmy and the Duck / Peter's Theme / Meal Time by Jimmy Smith
0329 UTC-Talking about the music, good evening to Pigmeat, one more song for tonight
0331 UTC-Love Me Or Leave Me by Miles Davis Quintet
0338 UTC-OFF

Screen recorder crashed and I lost the video  At least I have the audio.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Voice Of The Voyager via TRI re-broadcast 6925 AM 2245 UTC 15 MAY 2023

« on: May 15, 2023, 2313 UTC »

S9 with the AB1KW KiwiSDR.

2312 UTC-I Only Want To Be With You by Bay City Rollers
2316 UTC-The entire Voice of the Voyager crew is there, Disco Dan is going to give his review of the top 10 beers, going to play some more tunes while we set up the phone, 6850 kHz
2317 UTC-Surrender by Cheap Trick
2321 UTC-Phone calls will have to wait until after the end of the broadcast, postal address, this is the final broadcast
2323 UTC-All Shook Up by Elvis Presley

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Radio Vostochnaya Zvezda 7400 AM 0351 UTC 15 MAY 2023

« on: May 15, 2023, 0353 UTC »

S9 with the KFS SE KiwiSDR.

0351 UTC-Music