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General Radio Discussion / Re: Aircheck hosting...anyone have any ideas?
« on: January 14, 2016, 1922 UTC »
Yeah, you see I hate 'scoped' airchecks. In most cases the music is the best part 
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Someday when all this is in the history books and I'm out of the country (on a private island preferably) I will
For obvious reasons it's not a good idea to do that. Besides, I thought DX'ers enjoyed the mystery of it
Kilo, do you still have issues if it's a 'private' post, ie one that will not show up in searches?
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Anyone having trouble downloading the file, please send me an email with your type of connection and browser, the prof thinks it may be related to that. I've heard from a few people having issues, and webhosting is not exactly my forte' but let's see if we can get this working for everyone.
Its a hosting problem. The workaround is most versions of firefox have a 'retry' button that will pop up next to the failed download in your download list. It will probably take several tries, but until I get something else set up, this is the way it will have to work.
Any suggestions should be added here http://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,25598.0.html to help keep this on topic.
Thanks,
**Update** I have posted this show and also the halloween show on archive.org for everyone's ease. It is tagged and easy to find, but links can be found in the above referenced thread.
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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Unid on 6930 USB at 2335 utc, 13 Jan 16
« on: January 14, 2016, 0047 UTC »
0042 Tuned in to 6930KHz USB to hear the refrain 'Hallelujah, Hallelujah'
0043 brief pause, then much weaker ID 'LTO Radio ID's..ID's Louisianna Texas Ohlahoma, this is LTO Radio', then off/QRT
About S9 on peaks here using the loop and the WR G331DDC
Thanks for the show!
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0043 brief pause, then much weaker ID 'LTO Radio ID's..ID's Louisianna Texas Ohlahoma, this is LTO Radio', then off/QRT
About S9 on peaks here using the loop and the WR G331DDC
Thanks for the show!
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General Radio Discussion / Re: Aircheck hosting...anyone have any ideas?
« on: January 13, 2016, 1504 UTC »
Oy... And the record industry wonders why people steal music?
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The RF Workbench / Re: Higher power design.
« on: January 13, 2016, 1326 UTC »
It is true, battery operation above a certain power level begins to get ridiculous, and that point seems to be 100W-250W. Above that, generators or shore power are the logical choice.
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The RF Workbench / Re: Higher power design.
« on: January 13, 2016, 1240 UTC »
I always like to look at the whole package, you never know what someone may try to hack up.
Just because it's in a rack doesn't necessarily mean it's indoors. My TX lives in a road case and spends quite a bit of time with nothing but stars over it
Battery power is appealing if your operating from somewhere where you are not necessarily welcome, someone's field for instance, or back parts of a park. Generator power in these instances, even with modern inverter type generators can raise the 'here I am' flag, as if a tall antenna didn't say it already.
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Just because it's in a rack doesn't necessarily mean it's indoors. My TX lives in a road case and spends quite a bit of time with nothing but stars over it
Battery power is appealing if your operating from somewhere where you are not necessarily welcome, someone's field for instance, or back parts of a park. Generator power in these instances, even with modern inverter type generators can raise the 'here I am' flag, as if a tall antenna didn't say it already.
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General Radio Discussion / Re: Pirate Radio: Spawned by Copyright Idiocy?
« on: January 13, 2016, 0852 UTC »
Hmm, and they wonder why people steal music. This is one of the reasons I'm happy to see the indie music movement gaining some traction over the last few years. This level of stupidity has already forced the closure of some very good online stations, and the ban on listener interaction I think proved just how out of touch the recording industry is with the rest of the consumer base.
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The RF Workbench / Re: Higher power design.
« on: January 13, 2016, 0847 UTC »
The problem with that is you still have the weight problem to contend with. I like rack mount stuff, there's just something 'official' looking about it. A relatively shallow 3U chassis could contain up to 1KW, and weigh less than 25 pounds. At the 1KW level even considering modest efficiency, you still need around 1600W during 100% modulation, and that takes a rather heavy transformer. Build a PFC boost circuit to get 250VDC, isolate the drive, and there you go. I'd call that progress. Leave the iron to the scrappers 
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The RF Workbench / Studio gear used for X-FM's 2015 Halloween show
« on: January 13, 2016, 0048 UTC »
I won't publicly post pictures of transmitter gear, but studio stuff is usually innocent enough. So with that a snap of the gear used last Halloween while the show was in progress.
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Huh? / Re: Sean Penn drops a dime on El Chapo.......
« on: January 12, 2016, 0538 UTC »
Damn, touche' pussycat!
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General Radio Discussion / Re: Aircheck hosting...anyone have any ideas?
« on: January 12, 2016, 0349 UTC »Why not make the aircheck into a video....a few pictures of the audio equipment and transmitter etc popped on top of the audio and post to youtube.
Someday when all this is in the history books and I'm out of the country (on a private island preferably) I will
For obvious reasons it's not a good idea to do that. Besides, I thought DX'ers enjoyed the mystery of it
Kilo, do you still have issues if it's a 'private' post, ie one that will not show up in searches?
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General Radio Discussion / Re: Aircheck hosting...anyone have any ideas?
« on: January 09, 2016, 0524 UTC »
We'll try archive.org and see how it goes. I put the January 2nd show up there.
https://archive.org/details/XFM122016Show192K
And also the Halloween show with a bunch of callers.
https://archive.org/details/XFM1112015HalloweenShow192K
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https://archive.org/details/XFM122016Show192K
And also the Halloween show with a bunch of callers.
https://archive.org/details/XFM1112015HalloweenShow192K
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General Radio Discussion / Re: Aircheck hosting...anyone have any ideas?
« on: January 08, 2016, 1824 UTC »
There is some clause in the web hosting TOS that prohibits web accounts from being used as a 'file repository' hence why it runs great for 30 seconds then times out. FLAC aircheck run about 1.3 GB, MP3 ones around 300 MB. I don't really know much about archive .org, outside of some recordings of us out there. When putting something like this out there, the joys of copyright and fair use often get slung around.
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General Radio Discussion / Aircheck hosting...anyone have any ideas?
« on: January 08, 2016, 1027 UTC »
I got the website fired up again thinking I would put some airchecks up there for people to download. Turns out there is a limitation on file size, even though the hosting is unlimited bandwidth.
Someone mentioned using torrents for distribution, but then you need a seedbox somewhere which is more money (this thing doesn't create income, BTW).
I really don't want to run a webserver at the house for obvious reasons, but does anyone else have any suggestions. Free is always nice, but I live in the real world too
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Someone mentioned using torrents for distribution, but then you need a seedbox somewhere which is more money (this thing doesn't create income, BTW).
I really don't want to run a webserver at the house for obvious reasons, but does anyone else have any suggestions. Free is always nice, but I live in the real world too
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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: XFM 7530 AM 2114 UTC 7 Jan 2016
« on: January 08, 2016, 0020 UTC »
Too weak to copy here, but Thank You to the relay OP.
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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: XFM 6955 AM 0133 UTC 02 Jan 2016
« on: January 07, 2016, 2002 UTC »Its a hosting problem. The workaround is most versions of firefox have a 'retry' button that will pop up next to the failed download in your download list. It will probably take several tries, but until I get something else set up, this is the way it will have to work.
Any suggestions should be added here http://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,25598.0.html to help keep this on topic.
Thanks,
**Update** I have posted this show and also the halloween show on archive.org for everyone's ease. It is tagged and easy to find, but links can be found in the above referenced thread.
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