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General Radio Discussion / Re: Get those long wave antennas ready
« on: February 12, 2018, 0547 UTC »
Keep the ammo dry. Global cooling could also possibly cause food shortages, and who knows what else.
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I realise this is an old post, but I just found it. I've heard the Indonesians on the lower edges of the 40 meter ham band, and just below. I don't know Bahasa Indonesia, but I gather they are just chatting like CBers do. Then they play the game "record us all chanting" and play it back. I have no idea what they say otherwise, though. I have a hard enough time deciphering the Spanish from Latin American hams, and I took it for 3 years in high school...
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General Radio Discussion / Re: NASA lost contact with a satellite 12 years ago. An amateur just found its signa
« on: February 03, 2018, 0643 UTC »
Would love to know more about the amateur astronomer's equipment, but his blog has no info on it whatsoever. Just that he monitors the 2.2-2.3 GHz range, looking for control telemetry from secret satellites. I'm guessing he uses an SDR and a dish...
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Other / Re: Indian hams track down insurgent clandestine radio nets
« on: February 02, 2018, 0838 UTC »Good to see "radio amateurs" being alert and vigilant in these times of terrorism and rampant drug running.
It's the local radio amateurs that have the edge over most of us as they have the command of local languages and dialects, to us, it's just jibber jabber from some unidentified language.
I often wonder what is being said among the hundreds of Philippine and Indonesian stations that operate with what appears to be an open hand across 6-12MHz in this region.
I realise this is an old post, but I just found it. I've heard the Indonesians on the lower edges of the 40 meter ham band, and just below. I don't know Bahasa Indonesia, but I gather they are just chatting like CBers do. Then they play the game "record us all chanting" and play it back. I have no idea what they say otherwise, though. I have a hard enough time deciphering the Spanish from Latin American hams, and I took it for 3 years in high school...
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Other / 6993 khz, 1258 UTC 2-1-2018, Bizarre CW transmission
« on: February 02, 2018, 0832 UTC »
I was testing my Radio Shack 200629 Synthesised World Receiver (RS's ATS505 -- I figured out how to keep it from sounding like a theremin -- it doesn't like mono SW EXT antenna plugs in the SW EXT stereo jack) and I tuned through the utility sections of the SW band, something I don't usually do.
With this radio, it's more fun to tune through the utility bands because it doesn't chuff, and tuning through a swath of HF spectrum is like tuning an analog radio.
Anyway, I came across a bizarre CW transmission on 6993 kHz (it may have been a kHz or two off -- the RS 200629 has a BFO with clarifier, and I may have had it tuned off by a kHz or two). It was sent by hand, because the characters varied in speed, with small breaks sometimes between them. Signal strength also varied, starting at around S3 and ending up between S0 and S2.
Here's an example of what I heard. The dots are breaks where it faded out. Spaces are where there were short pauses:
NR091 KN CCK35180201 ... (fade)... RMKSC7 ... (fades) (speeds up during fadeup)... N65 5t6 2 tu7... 3... N.... 5
CRTTN72UM05....
...it went on, and then stopped around 0106UTC.
Very strange. I'm guessing it was somebody messing with CW out of band, for the fun of it, or possibly a spy operation. Or maybe a military or government station testing by just sending out junk? I have no idea.
Doing a search, I guess some other HFU people have heard other stuff on 6993. Any one hear CW? I'm sure it wasn't an image. The sending was too bizarre for a ham or ship transmission.
With this radio, it's more fun to tune through the utility bands because it doesn't chuff, and tuning through a swath of HF spectrum is like tuning an analog radio.
Anyway, I came across a bizarre CW transmission on 6993 kHz (it may have been a kHz or two off -- the RS 200629 has a BFO with clarifier, and I may have had it tuned off by a kHz or two). It was sent by hand, because the characters varied in speed, with small breaks sometimes between them. Signal strength also varied, starting at around S3 and ending up between S0 and S2.
Here's an example of what I heard. The dots are breaks where it faded out. Spaces are where there were short pauses:
NR091 KN CCK35180201 ... (fade)... RMKSC7 ... (fades) (speeds up during fadeup)... N65 5t6 2 tu7... 3... N.... 5
CRTTN72UM05....
...it went on, and then stopped around 0106UTC.
Very strange. I'm guessing it was somebody messing with CW out of band, for the fun of it, or possibly a spy operation. Or maybe a military or government station testing by just sending out junk? I have no idea.
Doing a search, I guess some other HFU people have heard other stuff on 6993. Any one hear CW? I'm sure it wasn't an image. The sending was too bizarre for a ham or ship transmission.
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General Radio Discussion / Re: A 'NEW' Bro. Stair ???
« on: February 01, 2018, 1137 UTC »
Hearing him this a.m. on 5890 kHz. Not sure if it's a recording or not. Was testing my RS World Receiver, radio which doubles as a theremin if you plug the (mono) external antenna plug all the way into the stereo SW EXT antenna jack.
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Shortwave Broadcast / Re: VORW Schedule Changes
« on: February 01, 2018, 0400 UTC »
What's VORW? The new acronym for the Voice of Russia? I thought they went off the air.
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Shortwave Broadcast / Re: What are some easy catches that are not relayed through the U.S/Canada
« on: February 01, 2018, 0359 UTC »
Radio Havana Cuba on 6000 khz is English during the Evening, if memory serves.....
CKMX Calgary Canada has a SW relay on 6030 khz that sometimes gets out... They play comedy.
There's another AM station's relay in Toronto on 6070 khz (can't remember the call letters). Some news talker out of Toronto.
On 6160 khz there is a CBC low power relay out of St. John's Newfoundland. I heard it once on a small portable SW radio here in the PNW -- but that was a fluke. Others have heard it back east, though -- so it does get out.
There used to be another CBC relay on 6160 out of BC Canada but it's basically MIA, and has been for several years. Even if it wasn't MIA, if you're in the Eastern US, you probably wouldn't hear it, anyway....
Good luck.
CKMX Calgary Canada has a SW relay on 6030 khz that sometimes gets out... They play comedy.
There's another AM station's relay in Toronto on 6070 khz (can't remember the call letters). Some news talker out of Toronto.
On 6160 khz there is a CBC low power relay out of St. John's Newfoundland. I heard it once on a small portable SW radio here in the PNW -- but that was a fluke. Others have heard it back east, though -- so it does get out.
There used to be another CBC relay on 6160 out of BC Canada but it's basically MIA, and has been for several years. Even if it wasn't MIA, if you're in the Eastern US, you probably wouldn't hear it, anyway....
Good luck.
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General Radio Discussion / Re: A 'NEW' Bro. Stair ???
« on: January 28, 2018, 1129 UTC »
Maybe he's out on bail... I would guess if there were any chance of prosecution his travails aren't over.
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General Radio Discussion / Re: A 'NEW' Bro. Stair ???
« on: January 27, 2018, 0459 UTC »
I know he has other guys who have spoken on his programs, whether callers or deacons of his church or whatnot....
Also, the last time I heard his program there was a re-run of a much younger Stair -- possibly a recording from the late 1980's or 90's some time.
Also, the last time I heard his program there was a re-run of a much younger Stair -- possibly a recording from the late 1980's or 90's some time.
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General Radio Discussion / Re: Brother Stair re-run on 5.890MHz?
« on: January 21, 2018, 1629 UTC »
I heard it also, a night or two ago. Very grainy reception here, both on my DX-398 through the indoor wire and the G2 off the whip.
Sounded like a replay of a sermon on Revelation. Lord knows he has tons of stuff that isn't time stamped that could be replayed -- just like Gene Scott, or any other religious commentator, for that matter.
Sounded like a replay of a sermon on Revelation. Lord knows he has tons of stuff that isn't time stamped that could be replayed -- just like Gene Scott, or any other religious commentator, for that matter.
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Equipment / Re: PK’s Loops Model A-LOOP-TAM AM Loop Antenna review.
« on: January 20, 2018, 0848 UTC »
Looks like you could make a better performer out of a plastic milk crate, some wire, and an old BCB tuner cap (if you can find one) and save a bit of money (about $65 and then shipping from Oz) -- but I digress (just me being snarky I guess)
But it's cool that someone is making these loops for the MW crowd, especially when the only other mass marketed one (at least that I am aware of) is the AN100. Select-a-tennas aren't made anymore.
Power to the guy making them. I hope he does well. It sounds like these antennas are good performers and tough, as well.
MW is the new SW. Enjoy it while it's still here. :-)
But it's cool that someone is making these loops for the MW crowd, especially when the only other mass marketed one (at least that I am aware of) is the AN100. Select-a-tennas aren't made anymore.
Power to the guy making them. I hope he does well. It sounds like these antennas are good performers and tough, as well.
MW is the new SW. Enjoy it while it's still here. :-)
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General Radio Discussion / Re: Has anyone seen a decrease in US Comm. SWBC since Bro. Stair has gone?
« on: January 18, 2018, 1032 UTC »
I say that I hope for the best, but fear for the worst. Propagation isn't helping things much.
Agree on the stupidity of demanding that SW stations run 50 KW minimum. Lower powers can work well with the antennas many of these stations have.
Agree on the stupidity of demanding that SW stations run 50 KW minimum. Lower powers can work well with the antennas many of these stations have.
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General Radio Discussion / Re: Propagation
« on: January 13, 2018, 1008 UTC »
Interesting in that this propagation report from Tad Cook doesn't have the usual anecdotes and observations from hams, including instances where they were saying how much DX they bagged -- which generally has appeared interspersed in these prop reports in the past.
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General Radio Discussion / Re: Someone in New Zealand is pranking the police by playing an NWA song
« on: January 12, 2018, 0949 UTC »
Why do people vandalise anything? Because they want to.
I see these pranks as the same thing. People who want to wreak havoc really don't need a reason. They just do it because it's their version of "fun".
I see these pranks as the same thing. People who want to wreak havoc really don't need a reason. They just do it because it's their version of "fun".
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Propagation / Re: is it me?
« on: January 09, 2018, 2112 UTC »
Tuning around earlier this a.m. on 40 & 41 meters, seemed like prop was down. One unreadable weak CW around 7045, and one weak, barely readable SSB QSO in Spanish higher in the band. The Chinese BCB stations higher up in the 41 meter band weren't very audible, either. Was better a couple mornings ago.