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Shortwave Broadcast / Voice of Russia 9560khz 12:30z 1/3/2013

« on: January 03, 2013, 1245 UTC »

Heard fair in MO with on the 1/2 hour news & commercial touting their worldwide coverage , that is now a thing of the past as they are down to 1 frequency in North American evenings and it has frequent QRHam. sinpo 24222, they were in clear but weak. not much worse than N.AM. evening 7290khz broadcast. Also on //5885. 9560 is via Novosibirsk,Russia and 5885 is via Dushanbe, Tajikistan. How the mighty have fallen.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: unid 6924.6 AM 22:25 utc 1/2/13

« on: January 02, 2013, 2237 UTC »

fairly strong at 22:35 in western MO Rodney dangerfield still. 6924.65

22:46z ID did sound like family radio as rdla says . about 6924.69 now.

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Equipment / Re: POLL: What type of antenna do you use?

« on: January 02, 2013, 1727 UTC »

I'm using what I guess would be a delta loop 30 feet out from bedroom window to a tree. about 50 feet from the tree to another tree. this leg has a coil of about 35 loops of 14g wire around a piece of pvc in it. the third leg goes about 40 feet from the 2'nd tree back to the house. it is fed into a random wire tuner.
Sometimes I use an MFJ 1026 noise canceling unit as an active antenna. I'm too lazy to get out and put up proper noise antenna for the '1026. it works pretty well as an active antenna with just the built in whip.

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Spy Numbers / Re: V2a 5855 10:00z 12/31/2012

« on: January 02, 2013, 1555 UTC »

thanks alot Token, I'm not up to date at all on numbers stations & your reply was very helpful. I had never considered the cell phone as modem aspect of digital numbers transmissions. It still seems like the phone/laptop would possibly betray a discovered agent by having a record of its use for this purpose. But what do I know? I still have a late 90's mindset as far as numbers stations are concerned. It's interesting that I had been up late reading Simon Masons book (again) when I decided to see if there were any #'s broadcasts on . I remember hearing new star around that time (10:00z) many years ago. It took me less than a minute to find HM01. By the way, I caught them in progress, do they still use the "attencion"? 

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Shortwave Broadcast / 6360 MND radio 1235z 1/1/13

« on: January 01, 2013, 1252 UTC »

heard well in MO 12:25z with co-channel utes (UFH in sitor B & KPH in Globe wireless fsk mode). Supposed to be operated by South Korean ministry of defense. eibi listed parallel 5150 also audible but weaker.

  both off at 12:58z

http://www.northkoreatech.org/2012/08/15/south-korean-defense-ministry-steps-up-dprk-broadcasts/

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: 6970 X-FM 0526z 1/1/2013

« on: January 01, 2013, 0640 UTC »

S9+10-20 in MO at 6:40z. truly heroic signal.

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Spy Numbers / Re: V2a 5855 10:00z 12/31/2012

« on: January 01, 2013, 0627 UTC »

OK thanks Token, I had seen HM01 mentioned & had no idea what it was. It seems odd to use a digi mode for numbers stations, I always thought the idea was to be sort of unobtrusive ya know... am signals not requiring any special eqpt. Digi sigs bring a computer into the equation ( I guess), or do they use a decoder of some type? Any analysis of the digital mode been done? 

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID 6930 AM 0430- 1-1-12

« on: January 01, 2013, 0440 UTC »

Same here. Been hearing it for a while was quite strong around 4:20z. Carrier was S7. little weaker now. Same thumpy bass stuff for about 25 minutes

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Captain Morgan 6950 AM 0413- 1-1-13

« on: January 01, 2013, 0421 UTC »

heard well in MO signal seems to be drifting up slightly I'm copying around 6950.7 from 6950.63 a few minutes ago. listening in USB to avoid noise.
4:17z with Stevie Ray Vaughn
4:20 ID

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID 6950 AM 0040 UTC 1 Jan 2013

« on: January 01, 2013, 0404 UTC »

Heard on g3 portable while walking my dog. I was only able to get weak carrier inside on R75. able to copy fairly well outdoors away from houses & streetlights.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UnID 6940 340utc 1/1/13

« on: January 01, 2013, 0359 UTC »

heard at 3:40z while outdoors away from streetlights & house. used grundig g3 with whip extended. "you're connectors are on...you're frequency is centered" @ 3:42z with spacey music. tried synch detector ( not very good on g3 IMHO)  low whiney het ...unable to lock. excellent in AM though.

copying fair signal back in house. still hearing the same spacey music at 3:58z.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Wolverine Radio 6925 USB 0130 UTC 1 Jan 2013

« on: January 01, 2013, 0141 UTC »

about the same here. lovely old blues & swing music. lovin' it. thanks wolverine

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European Pirates and Private Stations / Re: CRAZY WAVE RADIO 6300 khz

« on: January 01, 2013, 0123 UTC »

audible with long deep fades in MO. not able to get much usable audio. but euros are really rare for me in midwest. just modified antenna to make loop about 40 meters. only up about 3 meters though. ID at 1:20 ...I think.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: 6940USB @0105z unID 1/1/13

« on: January 01, 2013, 0111 UTC »

steady at S9 in MO.Cool AM radio relay. heard "Kansas City" at 1:02z. occasional OTHR qrm. 

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Spy Numbers / Re: V2a 5855 10:00z 12/31/2012

« on: December 31, 2012, 1647 UTC »

Where do these new designations come from? They don't seem to follow the enigma classification system. kind of confusing.