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North American Shortwave Pirate / BOR 6925 usb 2:45 ut 1-16-13

« on: January 16, 2013, 0250 UTC »

2:45 ut BOR Intro - sig started out S5 - S7 strong rapid fades at times.
2:46 - Who is this gal - you play most? shows - good tune..
2:49 ut BOR ID's
2:50 ut Irish like tune - but I started to loose your sig during ID's
2:52 - 2:54 ut Lost in the noise now...
2:54 - 3:24 ut Mostly Nada - S4 noise floor - rare ~S5 peak with faint audio.
3:24 ut Sig back up 4.5 - s5 peaks - Roy Orbison - "Crying"
3:29 ut   UNID Female vocals
3:34 ut - Is this the Waifs again?  - lots of static but sounds like same vocalist.
3:34 - 3:58 ut S4.5 - S5 Plenty of static but can copy songs
3:58 - 4:00 ut Multiply ID's over musdic
4:00 ut "Lighthouse"
4:04 ut  2001 SO outro - off air

Thanks for the song ID..  Waifs - Lighthouse - Good radio programming - introducing the listener to new artists -

497

North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Radio Ronin Shortwave 6925 1:40 UTC

« on: January 16, 2013, 0245 UTC »

Thanks for the initial ID GT - Finally got one here just before sign off..Thanks for the shows RR

New carrier on at 1:40 ut 6925 AM  S6- S7
Repeated Intro jingle I don't recognize - Probably different broadcaster?
1:42 ut into Boom Boom  Boom BOOM- blues music
1:44 ut fading sown again but more blues music
1:48 ut barely see the carrier now - once again no copy of station ID
2:00 - 2:21 ut Very few peaks above the noise - blues music continues
2:21 ut Sig up a bit to S5 - rare S6 "Thats Alright Mama"
2:24 ut "Well I Jump Right In"
2:28 ut  "I'm A Man"
2:32 ut  "You Ain't nothing But A Hound dog"
2:35 ut  UNID Blues
2:40 ut  ID At last!  "Radio Ronin ID then OFF the Air

498

QSLs Received / Re: Radio Jamba International 12/12/2012

« on: January 16, 2013, 0227 UTC »

Saved mine (same) with Krakers E-mail - made it more personal.

499

North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Radio Vixen International 6925 KHz AM 0017+ UTC 1/16

« on: January 16, 2013, 0138 UTC »

6925 AM
1:30 ut  Beach Boys John B Sloop S5 just above the noise here on peaks.
1:32 ut back down into the noise at S4
Never heard an ID
Carrier off ? while I was first posting this

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Equipment / Re: Decoder sofware for SSTV and other digital modes

« on: January 15, 2013, 0110 UTC »

Ive downloaded the package for QSSTV 7.1.7 but have not loaded it yet.
Spent a lot of time playing with Fldigi with the Win Radio this weekend,
Works really well with the PSK, RTTY, and Olivia, also the best CW decoder I've tried so far.
I down loaded the Linux version of Fldigi as well. Checking out the various digital modes
fired up my imagination and is giving me some ideas I want to try

501

North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Blue Ocean Radio 6925 USB 0020 UTC 14 JAN 2013

« on: January 15, 2013, 0041 UTC »

6925 khz USB

00:25 ut  Rollin w/ my babe / gal
S6 - S7  SIO 444
00:32 ut Hendrix

Nice to hear a signal I can listen to again - Propagation's been poor - awful on this band day & night for me lately.
Now - 30 meters & up was smoking hot East to West most of yesterday - go figure?

00:37  ut  BOR Id's

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: BOR 6925 USB 0000 UTC 11 Jan 2013

« on: January 11, 2013, 0021 UTC »

00:03 utc Tuned into 6925 USB to  various Id's - BOR relay?
00:03 utc music in the noise over pescadores
00:09 utc  BOR & other Id's
to 00:17 utc good blues music
00::18 BOR & other ID
00:19 utc more good old blues..

S6 - few S7 peaks  SIO 344

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Equipment / Decoder sofware for SSTV and other digital modes

« on: January 08, 2013, 0516 UTC »

I've just started looking into decoder software for various modes and have downloaded
some Freeware decoding software for CW & SSTV . (MMSTV)

I have various flavors of Windows & Linux to work with at home.

The Freeware SSTV  MMSSTV Ver 1.13A worked fine. Easy to setup and free.
I put a splitter in the on board sound card output then patched  one side to the mic input and one side to the speakers.
I setup MMSSTV then I played a recording of the Wolverine 12-25-2012 6925USB show and it worked first time!

Rockpicker

504

Other / Re: UNID voice and digital traffic 6903.5 USB 17:05 utc 1-7-13

« on: January 07, 2013, 2122 UTC »

Thanks Token.
I just noticed a post about this MARS net from Chris & Andrew about 4 slots under this one from 12-29-12. 
I had to look up what MARS meant - Interesting.

I've just started looking into and have downloaded some Freeware decoding software for CW & SSTV . I only just leared that all you need is the audio of the signal for CW & SStv decoding. I'm also interested in not so freeware but I'm in the  learning process of understanding what I'm looking for. There is a surplus of equipment around here, running XP Vista and 7 as well as Mint & Ubuntu Linux.  I don't happen to have a Max box or clone at this time but I have used them before as well. IN other words No operatingsystemitis around here.. I should post this in Equipment.

Rockpicker

505

General Radio Discussion / Re: Counting Sunspots and Sunspot Inflation

« on: January 07, 2013, 1839 UTC »

Thanks for this link. I spent hours there last night.

506

Other / UNID voice and digital traffic 6903.5 USB 17:05 utc 1-7-13

« on: January 07, 2013, 1758 UTC »

17:05 USB Noticed USB traffic on ~6903.5
I recorded the last 10 mis of their conversation.
They were attempting to sent up a message net.
Talk about setting up the software to send and receive message's
Talk about liking this frequency for daytime use, leaving it set up for today.
I don't have decoding software yet but it looked something like at SSTV stream?
Chat session ended at 17:17 utc - with Alfa Zero Alfa this is Alfa Alfa Zero Zero KIlo Mike the out but have left the net running.
Just recorded more digtal streams at 17:51 utc & 17:55 utc & 17:57 utc

I'l go back and listen to the recording later  - There was some reference to equipment and software.

507

Other / "HOMER" UNID now on 12088 khz USB 16:25 utc 1-7-13

« on: January 07, 2013, 1629 UTC »

16:25 utc Just found it on 12088 khz.  Same loop same timing off an on.
12,088.5 khz - I agree - sounds like Homer again now...
I noticed the other signal (~13570 USB) is still running simultaneously.

I wonder if there are any others? -  someone possibly with considerable Tx resources?

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Other / UNID 13570 khz USB 14:56 utc 1-7-13

« on: January 07, 2013, 1505 UTC »

Very strange UNID 13570 USB
Tuned into this at 14:56 ut  S6 - S7
Repeating loop "What the hell are you reading (Bush?) for?
The audio is going off (~8 seconds)and on (~3-4 seconds) with the same loop running continuously.
15:00 utc Now running on top of an AM sig.
(USB sig. was all alone or background AM sig was very low when I first noticed the SSB sig and tuned into this.)
15:20 utc currently under a CODAR signal but still audible.
15:58 utc  AM sig both under and adjacent are off now - I tweaked the tuning and clearly hear Homer and "books" now.

Come to think of it what an appropriate phrase for intel op to use

Enough audio - but between the music, Codar , and this message what an interesting loop this might be for a DJ mix...

Went of this frequency at 16:39 utc - was simultaneous on 12088.5 khz for a few? minutes.

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QSLs Received / Re: WPOD Radio eQSL

« on: January 06, 2013, 0647 UTC »

I received this one as well.
It looks fantastic printed on matte photo paper.

Thanks WPOD

510

Longwave Loggings / Re: longwave NDB's

« on: January 06, 2013, 0356 UTC »

While I am in an ideal (vvvery quiet) and very rural location I still spent about 6 weeks ferreting out various household sources of RFI.
There are several threads  here at HFU that offer excellent advice on this subject and I read them all. My sincere Thanks to All.

Anyway here is a sample of results:

NDB Paradise!