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General Radio Discussion / Re: The future of 'Zombie' RadioShack

« on: June 13, 2014, 1727 UTC »

I think after people got fed up enough with them asking their address, they stopped doing that and then just started asking for zip codes.

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General Radio Discussion / Re: The future of 'Zombie' RadioShack

« on: June 13, 2014, 1258 UTC »

I haven't been in a Radio Shack in years.  If I need electronic components I either scavenge them from old PC boards or get them from All Electronics or Mouser. 

One thing that turned me off years ago was the insistence on giving your address even if you were buying a $5 with cash.  That, and the fact they were more interested in selling cell phones rather than other electronics.

I guess if I were desperate for a particular part I might visit one again, but otherwise I can't think of any reason to darken their doorstep.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: 6930 usb Turtlehead, 0408 UTC Mar. 1, 2014

« on: March 01, 2014, 0447 UTC »

Coming in good here in SE KS, first time I've ever heard this station.

Live audio at http://n2uhc.listen2myradio.com

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: RML 6925usb Mar1'14 0326

« on: March 01, 2014, 0336 UTC »

Good signal into SE KS.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: WFUQ 6925 USB 00:05UTC 12/7/13

« on: December 07, 2013, 0026 UTC »

After Molly Hatchet op came on and his audio sounded a bit scratchy, then at 0023 he started the next song and the audio dropped way out... sounds like either audio problem or tx problem.  Coming back up at 0026.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: WFUQ 6925 USB 00:05UTC 12/7/13

« on: December 07, 2013, 0019 UTC »

Nice strong signal here in SE Kansas as well.  DJ Jackhammer playing lots of rock music, ID's of WFUQ, F--- You Radio.

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Spy Numbers / Re: Interesting number station msg

« on: December 02, 2013, 1856 UTC »

M12 ends with 000 000 which this one apparently didn't, unless they forgot to send that, but most of the ex-KGB stations never sent AR SK as far as I know.

It could possibly be dummy traffic, but even most dummy traffic consists of totally random groups.  I wouldn't think this would be a dummy message unless they intend for the other agencies to waste their time focusing on the 62, 63, 72, and 73's.

I really wish I'd have caught the beginning of the message.

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Spy Numbers / Interesting number station msg

« on: December 02, 2013, 0351 UTC »

Was going back through old traffic recently when I came across a numbers transmission I remembered copying because the message groups don't appear to be random.  The message was from a CW station heard on 9458.5 back on 17 April 1996 at 0520 UTC:

>041796
>0520Z
>9458.5KHZ
>CW
62460 62455 62050 62940 62130 62520 44018 73573 73072 72972
72877 62578 62374 62565 62755 62348 62240 62529 62820 44020
63568 73375 63280 73177 72978 62775 62573 62960 62953 62749
62445 62142 62730 62919 63133 63530 44022 63555 63152 62845
62654 62542 62736 63036 63538 44024 63086 62875 62870 63067
73267 63270 63175 63076 19191 BT AR SK
>EOT

As you can see all groups start with 62, 63, 72, 73, or 44, with a 19191 stutter group at the end.  What it seems like is that it was a message which was sent out without first encoding it with a one time pad.  There's no way these groups are random.  If there were ever a number station message decoded by hobbyists, it would be this one.

I don't even know for sure which station (ENIGMA designator) which sent this message, and I've never copied anything like it since.

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Other / Re: More 6914 Oddities 0647 UTC 30 Nov 2013

« on: November 30, 2013, 2147 UTC »

This looks a lot like the suspected US military SIGINT intercept training traffic I used to copy all the time back in the mid to late 90's.  The frequencies in use back then were 10225 and 16303.6 running parallel.  There were all sorts of different types of message formats sent, some obviously fake plaintext, but lots of coded message group traffic.  Modes used were CW, Sitor-B (FEC), RTTY in various different speeds but always 170 Hz shift, and even ASCII mode.

According to my logs I first logged it in 1996 and last logged it in 2007.  I've also on occasion found other activity on other frequencies which may have been related to SIGINT operator training.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Radio Echo 1 6925 AM 2340- 11/29/13

« on: November 29, 2013, 2346 UTC »

Weak, somewhat readable here in SE Kansas, lots of pesky peskies underneath.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: WDDR(Drunken DJ Radio) 6935u 0100Z Nov. 29, 2013

« on: November 29, 2013, 0213 UTC »

Here's some songs I'd like to hear:

Low Rider - War
Little Wing  - Jimi Hendrix
Crossroads - Cream

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: WDDR(Drunken DJ Radio) 6935u 0100Z Nov. 29, 2013

« on: November 29, 2013, 0112 UTC »

Good levels here in SE Kansas, have it streaming on my live feed (http://n2uhc.listen2myradio.com) right now.

Anything by Pink Floyd sounds good to me.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UnID 3450 KHZ 0309 - 0313 UTC

« on: November 28, 2013, 1431 UTC »

Anyone got a licence on that frequency?

Someone Bethsoft could outsource to?

That's in the middle of an aeronautical band.  It's highly unlikely the FCC would grant them a license to use 3450.  The FCC doesn't just grant licenses to use random HF frequencies anyway, but they definitely wouldn't allow a game maker a license in the aero band.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID 3450. AM 2138 UTC 27 Nov 2013

« on: November 27, 2013, 2328 UTC »

Weak here in SE Kansas, can hear DTMF tones and EAS tones.  Can hear a male voice speaking but hard to make out any words.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Unid 6925 USb Nov 25'13 0117

« on: November 25, 2013, 1724 UTC »

If memory serves, wasn't it CW McCall's birthday recently? Perhaps this is why this station is up

I think he was born during the dark of the moon on the 6th of June in a Kenworth pulling logs...