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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Liquid Radio (Presumed) 6850 AM 0037 UTC 14 DEC 2024
« on: December 14, 2024, 0042 UTC »
0039z - Music. SIO 443. Peaking ~S8+ via Airspy HF+D and 31' vertical. DSB sync tuning. Some band noise and fades but copyable.
0043z - ID perhaps? Moderate to deep fade.
0044z - Music.
0048z - Liquid Radio ID.
0048z - Liquid Radio ID.
0055z - Music. SIO trending 444. Better SNR with my 30' inverted delta loop (without preamp for a change).
0058z - Liquid Radio ID.
0115z - Liquid Radio ID and liquidradioonline.com mention.

Thanks for the broadcast! :)

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: BOAT ANCHOR RADIO 6953AM 00:02 UTC DEC 2024
« on: December 14, 2024, 0031 UTC »
0029z - Waterfall carrier. Intermittent modulation. Airspy HF+D and 31' vertical.
0031z - Carrier disappeared. Likely OTA.

Nonetheless, thanks for the broadcast! :)

63
Equipment / Re: Best MWDX antenna?
« on: December 13, 2024, 2217 UTC »
Power company knocked out part of my local RFI. Lose clamp on a nearby pole. Waterfall looks better.

Changed preamp on the 148' LoG. Still not a great preamp, but it pulls me back into the top 30 SNR rankings for Kiwis, at least at night.

Using an active RF distributor to split the 148' LoG to my two online SDRs.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID 6905 USB 1415 UTC 13 DEC 2024
« on: December 13, 2024, 1448 UTC »
1440z - Faint waterfall activity and intermittent blips of modulation. Airspy HF+D and 30' inverted delta loop with preamp.
1454z - Intermittent faint modulation present but undiscernible here.

65
North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Sternradio 6967 AM 1951 UTC 10 DEC 2024
« on: December 10, 2024, 2030 UTC »
2026z - Moved to 6965am, likely due to intermittent UTE above.
2028z - Music. SIO 444. ~S8 peaks via Airspy HF+D and 30' inverted delta loop with preamp. DSB sync tuning. Some static crashing but otherwise a decent to good copy with some noise filtering applied here.
2036z - Music. SIO trending 443 at times but still copyable. The recently added ability to set IF/AF DSP noise filter bandwidths in SRSharp 1921 beta helps.
2038z - Sternradio ID.
2113z - Switched to ~6962.2am at some point. SIO 444. Peaking over 50dB SNR.
2141z - Sternradio ID and QSL info.
2156z - Music. SIO 443. Wide audio.
2203z - Signing off music. Band also seems to be improving here. SIO 545. Peaking over S9+10.
2306z - OTA.

Thanks for the broadcast! :)

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Liquid Radio 6850 AM 0215 UTC 8 DEC 2024
« on: December 08, 2024, 0317 UTC »
0316z - Music. Closer to ~6849.92KHz, so likely Liquid Radio. SIO 433+. ~S8 via Airspy HF+D and 30' inverted delta loop. with preamp. DSB sync tuning. Some band noise but generally copyable.
0322z - Liquid Radio ID into music.
0327z - Liquid Radio ID into music.
0353Z - Music. SIO 333+. ~S5 via KiwisDR 2 and 148' LoG. AM sync tuning and some noise filtering. Some fades but listenable.
0356z - Liquid Radio ID into RoboCop ED-209 clip.
0359z - Music.

The forum crashed last night, but IIRC, the broadcast continued to sometime after 0500z.

Thanks for the broadcast! :)

67
North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Yeah Man Radio 6925 USB 0135 UTC 8 DEC 2024
« on: December 08, 2024, 0224 UTC »
0219z - Music. Light My Fire. SIO SIO 333+. ~S5 via Web-888 and 148' LoG. Decent copy with a little DSP noise filtering.
0220z - OM on the mic. Yeah Man Radio ID.
0221z - Music. Mustang Sally.
0231z - OM on the mic. "It's that time..."

Thanks for the broadcast! :)

68
SDR - Software Defined Radio / Re: Airspy HF+ R5.0.0 Firmware Updates Available
« on: December 08, 2024, 0017 UTC »
The current SDRSharp 1921 beta now includes the ability to set bandwidth when customizing the IF and AF noise filters. 8)

https://airspy.com/download/

69
North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Brain Brothers Pirate Radio 6905 USB 0000 UTC 8 DEC 2024
« on: December 08, 2024, 0005 UTC »
0003z - Professor Plum and Miss Scarlet talking. SIO 555. S9+ via Airspy HF+D and 30' inverted delta loop with preamp. Armchair copy.
0003z - Brain Brothers Pirate Radio Network ID.
0004z - Music. Jingle Bells.
0007z - Music. Rudolph. Peaking S9+10.
0010z - Noted as Brain Brothers' final show of the year and ID.
0010z - Music. Frosty.
0019z - Sounds like Microsoft Sam as Santa.
0021z - ID into music. The Jolly Old Man In The Bright Red Suit.
0023z - Noted a peak of over 42dB SNR.
0024z - Music. Silver Bells.
0027z - Nursery rhymes. Jack Be Nimble. This Old Man.
0029z - Music. Please Come Home for Christmas.
0032z - Music. Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree.
0034z - Music. Holly Jolly Christmas.
0035z - Professor Plum and Miss Scarlet talking. QSL info. HFU mention.
0038z - Miss Scarlet saying good night everyone. Professor Plum has left the building.
0038z - Music. The Star-Spangled Banner.
0041z - JFK then OTA.

Thanks for the broadcast! :)

70
North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Godzilla Radio 6955 USB 2254 UTC 7 DEC 2024
« on: December 07, 2024, 2328 UTC »
2326z - Music. Elvis Presley. SIO 444. ~S7 via Airspy HF+D and 30' inverted delta loop. Decent copy with good modulation.

Thanks for the broadcast! :)

71
North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: 77LJS 6930 USB 2134 UTC 7 DEC 2024
« on: December 07, 2024, 2223 UTC »
Music. SIO 434. Occasional ~S7 via Airspy HF+D and 30' inverted delta loop with preamp. Pulsing buzzer underneath but otherwise a decent to good copy.

Thanks for the broadcast! :)

72
North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: WFDR 6915 USB 2200 UTC 7 DEC 2024
« on: December 07, 2024, 2217 UTC »
2215z - Historical talk format. The Pearl Harbor Attack occurred 12/7/2024. SIO 444. ~S8 via Airspy HF+D and 30' inverted delta loop with preamp.

Thanks for the commemorative broadcast.

73
North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID 6940 USB 2241 UTC 4 DEC 2024
« on: December 04, 2024, 2244 UTC »
2243z - Jazz music. SIO 333 via Airspy HF+D and 30' inverted delta loop with preamp. Some noise but a generally listenable copy.

Thanks for the broadcast! :)

74
Equipment / Re: Useful audio DSP gear? Could be. Taramps Pro 2.4D Dynamic Peak (audio DSP)
« on: December 04, 2024, 2146 UTC »
Basically a multi-channel equalizer and limiter, though no noise filtering is noted.

BHI does have a parametric equalizer, but otherwise most of its product line is known for the company's digital noise filtering routine(s).


I have not used BHI noise filtering, but I do have a couple of now ancient Timewave DSP-9 noise filters. They are decent for narrow CW filtering and filtering, plus cleaning up some of the background noise in casual SSB voice listening.

With SDRs these days I like SDRSharp for its integrated IF, audio, etc. digital noise filters. Otherwise I sometimes pipe audio through EasyEffects to use RNNoise and/or DeepFilterNet algorithms. StereoTool's dehummer and noise gate filters can also help cleanup background band noise.

75
North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Art Bell Stretchyman Parody 6950 USB 2105 UTC 4 DEC 2024
« on: December 04, 2024, 2109 UTC »
2108z - Peskies and some RFI here. Airspy HF+D and 30' inverted delta loop with preamp.

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