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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re:

« on: January 07, 2014, 2309 UTC »

Just above the noise floor here in SE TX, I'm on a portable and am using a whip. Should be much better at home with my loop.

Picking up a bit now, I clearly hear some Megadeth. Still weak, but better than before.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re:

« on: January 03, 2014, 2338 UTC »

Nice. Lemmy always makes things better!

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General Radio Discussion / Re:

« on: December 31, 2013, 0054 UTC »

Got mine today as well. Great as always!

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General Radio Discussion / Pirate radio stations cause chaos for emergency services

« on: December 30, 2013, 2014 UTC »

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/pirate-radio-stations-cause-chaos-for-emergency-services-29870863.html

28 DECEMBER 2013

PIRATE radio and TV stations were causing chaos in 1983 for communications systems within the Irish emergency and transport services.

Confidential documents, released from the state archives, showed the government was determined to increase fines to clamp down on the soaring number of pirate stations.

One memo, dated April 23, warned: "Illegal radio stations have caused serious interference to authorised services in this country.

"Formal complaints have been received regarding harmful interference caused by unlicensed stations here to authorised broadcasting stations overseas.

Interference has also been caused to airport fire services, taxiing aircraft and aircraft immediately after take-off, to ambulance and garda radio networks and to radio and television reception."

In a separate memo to Posts and Telegraphs Minister Jim Mitchell, a civil servant warned that there were now 50 illegal radio stations operating in Ireland.

Such was the level of interference that emergency services were being impacted.

Of even greater concern, Dublin Airport had reported a total of 22 incidents in 1982 where radio frequency interference was recorded.

Irish Independent

Using 30 year old reports to justify action now? Or just an interesting bit of info from recently released documents?

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re:

« on: November 17, 2013, 0112 UTC »

Nice signal into SE Texas.

01:30 - Machine Gun by Jimi Hendrix

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re:

« on: October 25, 2013, 0020 UTC »

Just barely audible, but there is a lot of noise tonight. There are seconds here and there where it wants to punch through, but it's not happening tonight, I guess.

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General Radio Discussion / Re:

« on: July 23, 2013, 0839 UTC »

Sad days. I used to live up in north Mississippi. I remember hearing T Model, RL Burnside, and even Junior Kimbrough play various locations around the area. All were great, but T Model was probably the most entertaining.

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General Radio Discussion / Re:

« on: July 23, 2013, 0833 UTC »

Carl Sagan said it best:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4PN5JJDh78I&feature=youtube_gdata_player

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General Radio Discussion / Re:

« on: July 14, 2013, 0031 UTC »

Too soon!

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General Radio Discussion / Re: Re: End May Near for Calif. Evangelical Radio Network

« on: May 14, 2013, 0856 UTC »

Hopefully somebody with better programming choices bought the stations and will make the ether that much more pleasant.

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General Radio Discussion / Re: Re: MediaUK: What did pirate radio give us anyway - and how long will it survive?

« on: May 04, 2013, 1948 UTC »

Pirate radio serves the same purpose today as it did back then. People get to broadcast what they want. Here in Houston, a quick trip across the fm broadcast band will often get you the same song two or three times. If those songs aren't ones you like, then you get your own gear and do something about it, right?

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Equipment / Re: Re: Headphones: One type better than another for Utility/Number Station Monitoring?

« on: April 16, 2013, 2346 UTC »

I dunno about any of the actual specs and such, but I far prefer big, old, stereo headphones that cover your entire ear. It really helps to isolate environmental noises. At least for me, it does.

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Other / Pescadores 3-25, 1:57z, 6910U

« on: March 24, 2013, 0159 UTC »

Good signal, s5, lots of talk about someone named Luis. Could hear both sides of the conversation, but one side tended to fade out gradually.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Re: 01:07 Red Mercury Radio 6925USB - 03/23/2013

« on: March 23, 2013, 0117 UTC »

S4 into Houston. Heard ID, shout outs, and email address.

0117: some nice guitar work going on

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10/11 meters / 28215 usb 21:30z

« on: February 18, 2013, 0457 UTC »

Got on 10m this afternoon and the band was nice and open. Scanning through the band, i noticed loads of cw signals, but one stood out. It sounded like someone was holding a slide whistle up to an open mic and blowing a cw signal. Nothing i could make out, however. There was about a minute of sending "p" nonstop. This went on for about 15 min. until band conditions and qrm came in and i lost the signal entirely.