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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Captain Morgan Shortwave on 6950.17. AM

« on: April 14, 2014, 0127 UTC »

01:26  music - Signal S8 - Good audio.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID 6930U 2358UTC 13 April 2014

« on: April 14, 2014, 0006 UTC »

00:02 can barely hear above QRN level. hearing music . S4 (tops)
00:08 possible ID
00:09 music - very faint in Illinois - Can't really identify. Too many S10 static crashes here    -  Music audio portion OK.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Wolverine Radio 6940 USB UT 04/ 13/2014 00:48

« on: April 13, 2014, 0050 UTC »

00:48  Music IS starting up - Started, re-started about 4-5 times of same time length  so presume IS
00:50 ID followed by Jazz Old Time music mentioning Long Woman - Jazz - Signal the usual killer S9+ Lots of QRN here though.
00:56 new old time jazz song
00:59 clear ID into old jazz song Right or Wrong  (Theme seems to be RIGHT) Right?
01:02 new song Straighten Up and Fly Right
01:04 new song "Right to be Wrong"
01:07 ID into song Everything I Do Wrong  (Possibly a Right & Wrong theme)
01:22 song It's All Right (shortened version?)
01:23 ID into new song
01:57 ID followed by SSTV then off

As Always Wolverine... Thanks for the program. Excellent selection of music...

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General Radio Discussion / Re: [SW-pirates]LAST DAY HAS CAME :(‏

« on: April 11, 2014, 1931 UTC »

Fansome....   That - alfalima.net - link is to a great site! Thanks for posting it!...   ...Steve

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Radio Free Whatever 6949 USB *2358 UTC 7Apr14

« on: April 08, 2014, 0039 UTC »

00:38 solid S7 signal with good audio
00:45 song - King of the Road

Thanks for the Show RFW!

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: CoolAM Radio Relay 6925 kHz USB 04-06-14 0203

« on: April 06, 2014, 0251 UTC »

02:49 tuned into some music - Signala tad under S5

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Equipment / Re: Any Suggestions for equipment / software for RTTY / CW reception.

« on: April 06, 2014, 0100 UTC »

Thanks glimmer!! Best to all who responded!!  Steve / RCCI

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Radio Powerliner International 6930 AM 00:02 UTC 04/05/2014

« on: April 06, 2014, 0004 UTC »

00:02 Can hear music in background. Very Tough S5 signal just above carrier.
00:11 - Skipmuck   ....lol

Thanks for the ID Dimbulb! - I guess this post needs to go to Europirates.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: RFW 6935 USB 0013 UTC 5 APR 2014

« on: April 05, 2014, 0120 UTC »

01:08 tuned into music---is this RFW back on? Solid S8 signal, audio has an echo sound to it.
01:29 more rock music  
01:34 ID with song groups.  2 OP,s brief banter. "QRM" repeated several times. Mentioned song from Halloween to be played next.

Thanks for the Show RFW!

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: RFW 6935 USB 0013 UTC 5 APR 2014

« on: April 05, 2014, 0018 UTC »

00:17 hearing pretty strong audio with infrequent OP talking Signal about S7-8. Sounds like they are testing.

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Equipment / Re: Any Suggestions for equipment / software for RTTY / CW reception.

« on: April 04, 2014, 2034 UTC »

Hey Chris..thanks for the reply  Sorry.... I'm not giving you guys all alot to work with ---- I don't own an IPAD, IPHONE, a tablet, or even a cell phone. Pretty sad and crazy - huh! Just a 5 year old   s  l  o  w   desktop computer, and the desktop radios. I appreciate the link to the apps, and they look awesome, but...   it took me forever to just get a DVD player! No excuse though, just a bit stuck in a time warp.

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Equipment / Re: Any Suggestions for equipment / software for RTTY / CW reception.

« on: April 04, 2014, 1840 UTC »

Thanks glimmer.... Does the multipsk (looked up website) only work with SDR? It's a bit confusing. Are there any "stand alone" readers? I don't plan to get a SDR anytime soon. Is there an interface which couples a radio, (i.e. Kenwood R-1000) signal output, into a computer USB. It's been YEARS since I've fiddled with this stuff, and am hopelessly out of date .

The MFJ multi-code reader seems a tad outdated, claiming one can decipher news sources, maritime, etc., signals - as many of the signals are from satelite sources, so I'm not buying their advertising (or decoder).

Thanks for any help...  Steve

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Equipment / Any Suggestions for equipment / software for RTTY / CW reception.

« on: April 04, 2014, 0149 UTC »

Back in the 80's I had an AEA decoder, connected to my Commodore 64 with a green screen monitor. As I remember, I really enjoyed decoding RTTY and CW but you had to have patience of a saint. I also recall it was alot of fun looking at Cuba's news feeds, and so forth. I could only drool over the Universal M-7000 decoder and it's smaller cousin the M-800. - (both priced out of my budget) Are these still usable?

I'd like to get back into this and was wondering what equipment is available today? I see a used M-7000 on Ebay for $250.00.  Is everything now software/computer based? I looked at MFJ's decoder,but it did not seem to have super ratings on Eham, and most of the person's posting used it for CW, not RTTY.

Any suggestions??   ...TY-RCCI

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Other / Re: Who's on 6924 @ 0000/4april?

« on: April 04, 2014, 0022 UTC »

I hear peskies, (pescaderos) that's about it.

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QSLs Received / Re: RAVE ON RADIO eQSL #247 MARCH 8, 2014 "NO SPECIAL OCCASION" SHOW

« on: April 03, 2014, 1850 UTC »

Also received QSL. Thanks Rave On!