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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID Old Time Radio 6771 AM 0118 UTC 7 Jun 2014
« on: June 07, 2014, 0135 UTC »
JBA het at 1:34. Very weak audio at the wishful thinking threshold.
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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: XLR8 6925U 0121Utc 7 June 2014
« on: June 07, 2014, 0131 UTC »
a little weaker than it was a few minutes ago. about 22 dBu here.
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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: XLR8 6925 USB 00:37 06/07/14
« on: June 07, 2014, 0117 UTC »
The first time I've had an evening to listen to shortwave in a while. Intuned XLR8 at 00:50 on my PL880 with only the whip as I wait for a pizza on the front porch. XLR8 was very weak on the whip 12 dBu (S2 I guess). Attaching it to my 10 meter random wire it goes up to 36dBu until apparent sign off at 1:17z.
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General Radio Discussion / Re: Voice of Russia returning to shortwave ??
« on: June 01, 2014, 1332 UTC »
You mean "Voice of Koreer". I always listen to them on 11710 at 13:00z on Saturday & Sunday mornings to start the day with a laugh
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General Radio Discussion / Re: What's a "Pestador"?
« on: June 01, 2014, 1330 UTC »
There is also a "Pescadore preacher" heard on 8989usb. I have seen speculation that this guy is from Nicaragua but I don't know. He preaches for a while in Spanish & then QSO's with some of the fishing boats. I haven't heard him in a while but when I did hear him it was around 23:00 UTC
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General Radio Discussion / Re: DRM Takes Part in International Radio for Disaster Relief Trial
« on: May 31, 2014, 1315 UTC »
also here:
http://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,16567.0.html
It seems a bit silly to use DRM for this test. The Chair of the HFCC Mr Oldrich Cip says
“With only six per cent of people in
low-income countries using the internet in 2011, the digital
divide is still stark and access to low cost
media technology is really the key.”
Maybe I'm wrong but do these people on the non-internet side of the digital divide have DRM radios?
He continues
“Receivers are inexpensive and there are no access
fees,” he said. “Shortwave radio is important for
travellers and isolated people and it reaches across the
Digital Divide to the most disadvantaged and marginalised
societies.”
DRM? reaching the most disadantaged & marginalised? I'm not sure it even reaches very many advantaged & non-marginalised societies.
http://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,16567.0.html
It seems a bit silly to use DRM for this test. The Chair of the HFCC Mr Oldrich Cip says
“With only six per cent of people in
low-income countries using the internet in 2011, the digital
divide is still stark and access to low cost
media technology is really the key.”
Maybe I'm wrong but do these people on the non-internet side of the digital divide have DRM radios?
He continues
“Receivers are inexpensive and there are no access
fees,” he said. “Shortwave radio is important for
travellers and isolated people and it reaches across the
Digital Divide to the most disadvantaged and marginalised
societies.”
DRM? reaching the most disadantaged & marginalised? I'm not sure it even reaches very many advantaged & non-marginalised societies.
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General Radio Discussion / Voice of Russia returning to shortwave ??
« on: May 28, 2014, 1003 UTC »
They seem to be changing their mind about abandoning SW & LW
http://lenta.ru/articles/2014/05/26/radio/
http://lenta.ru/articles/2014/05/26/radio/
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General Radio Discussion / Re: From the horses mouth ,EAT MY SHORTS !
« on: May 24, 2014, 1945 UTC »
Where do they say they are manipulating the weather? or earthquakes? Does the ionosphere effect weather? I see no admission of anything terribly unusual here. No vindication. Still an unproven conspiracy theory
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Other / what is a coconut call?
« on: May 22, 2014, 1221 UTC »
I listen to the maritime mobile net on 14300 Khz sometimes when there is nothing in English on the SW broadcast bands. During my local night time I hear the Pacific seafarers net which consists of the net control going through a roll call of vessels & making contact & getting reports from them. Its kind of cool to hear these guys & imagine them in their sailboats in the Pacific ocean. After completing the roll call the net control will call for someone (a station that can relay for the net control) to make "coconut calls" to certain vessels. I can't figure out from the context what the hell a coconut call is. Anybody know?
btw, last night I heard a commercial vessel in the pacific break in to the nets roll call & after being told he should not be operating on an amateur frequency the vessel explained that he had no other means of communication & asked for the net to send an e-mail for him.
http://14300.net/
btw, last night I heard a commercial vessel in the pacific break in to the nets roll call & after being told he should not be operating on an amateur frequency the vessel explained that he had no other means of communication & asked for the net to send an e-mail for him.
http://14300.net/
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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: RFW 6924 AM 2312 UTC 17 May 2014
« on: May 17, 2014, 2352 UTC »
barely audibilized when listening in ssb & nothing in AM. Still lots 'o' daylight here & RFW usually does better after the sun goes away.
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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: MAC Shortwave 6950.4 AM 2200 UTC 17 May 2014
« on: May 17, 2014, 2307 UTC »
Weak signal here in Missouri,peaking at about S4 on my R75. Strong enough to hear & enjoy though. Great tunes. Thanx MAC
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Clandestine Stations / Re: A14 Clandestines
« on: May 15, 2014, 1920 UTC »
Seeing this today I was moved to carve a little time out of an exceptionally busy day to check for clandestines. The format you posted the sked in works perfect for me. Thanx again.
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Clandestine Stations / Re: A14 Clandestines
« on: May 15, 2014, 1138 UTC »
Extremely useful, thanx. Now if I can only find the time to play with my radios.
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Shortwave Broadcast / Re: WWV 25MHz 13 MAY 2014 at 1430UTC
« on: May 14, 2014, 1928 UTC »
I've been trying for the 25 MHz WWV since they reactivated it last month & only heard it once but I can get a JBA carrier most days.
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General Radio Discussion / Re: AmericanRadioHistory.com - Documenting the History of Radio and TV Broadcasting
« on: May 12, 2014, 1944 UTC »
How cool! I just spent an hour when I was supposed to be working checking out 1934 editions of Short Wave Radio magazine. I can see this is going to be a real problem.
