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North American Shortwave Pirate / 6925am Capt Morgan (per OHR) 0017z 8-09-2010

« on: August 09, 2010, 0018 UTC »

More when available

Freq 6924.66 +-

Missed copying ID/URL address at about 0019z

0024z I'll go with Capt. Morgan then!

0027z Static crashes esp. bad here too ...

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North American Shortwave Pirate / 6926.15am Radio Euphoria 0132z 8-08-2010

« on: August 08, 2010, 0132 UTC »

More as it unwraps

0134z Modulation characteristics similar to those of OHR ....

0145z More CW ... no loon yet ...

0156z Close to 6926.2 now ... ID: "Radio Euphoria"

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North American Shortwave Pirate / 6933L UNID Active for awhile 0119z 8-08-2010

« on: August 08, 2010, 0120 UTC »

Voice, a speaker, talking

Foreign speaker; this may be a spurious from another transmitter/band somewhere (kinda like I experience on 6940) ...

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North American Shortwave Pirate / 6935u Loon and CW - RFE? 0117z 8-08-2010

« on: August 08, 2010, 0117 UTC »

Weak signal ATTM, more as available

0117z Sound of Loon -

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North American Shortwave Pirate / 6930am (more or less) UNID (maybe OHR?) 2217z 8-07-2010

« on: August 07, 2010, 2217 UTC »

More as available ...

OHR if I had to guess ...

2220z Freq approx. 6932.2

2223z Freq approx 6932.0

2224z shift up to approx 6933.5 still LSB ...

2226z approx 6934.6

2229z Prop condx have chgd for the worse ... and I need to go get some Rotella T for the buggy ...

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North American Shortwave Pirate / 6925u Radio GaGa 0249z 8-03-2010

« on: August 03, 2010, 0249 UTC »

More as available ...

Freq may not be exactly 6925 ...

0254z ID: "Radio GaGa"

0255z Freq closer to 6924.97 kHz ...

0256z Signal not optimum for good copy here ...

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North American Shortwave Pirate / 6924.59am Ultraman/"The Kid Pirate" on MAC 0310z 8-01-2010

« on: August 01, 2010, 0311 UTC »

0310z ID and E-mail addy given ...

Full DSB w/carrier! It's an AM signal!

0311z Full blast of OTH/Auroral RADAR!

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North American Shortwave Pirate / 6931.5am UNID 2317z 7-31-2010

« on: July 31, 2010, 2318 UTC »

Sounds like pgm content is/was rock ATTM

2320z Signal weak ATTM, can detect carrier but not much, if any audio owing to changing condx

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North American Shortwave Pirate / 6928 - 6932 The Wide, Drifty Pirate (wide, drifting AM signal) 0021z 7-31-2010

« on: July 31, 2010, 0022 UTC »

More as available

Drifty, seemingly over-modulated ...

Needs to be copied in LSB/USB because AM doesn't sound that good, but, it drifts so the tome keeps changing ...

0031z Freq as 6929.18 now moving up ... presently at  6929.89

0036z Now at 6931.62 ...

0038z Now 6932.0 area ...

0044z Now 6931.80 area ...

0049z Now 6931.8x area ...

0054z Sudden shift to around 6930.5 ... then back to around 6931.9 ... Best copy for me using AMS (AM/Synchronous on WR-G303e)

... Waiting for the OHR ID to appear ...

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North American Shortwave Pirate / 6930u WEAK Radio 0337z 7-28-2010

« on: July 28, 2010, 0338 UTC »

More as available

Actually, a fair amount of LSB and USB (DSB, no carrier that I can detect)

0344z Kinda synthesized, kinda rock, kinda psychedelic, a lot of drums right now as far as pgm material ...

0347z Audio response seems to extend above 3 kHz ... sounds good when it's in here!

0349z ID: "WEAK Radio"

0351z "One small step for man ... one giant leap for mankind"

0353z Audio response seems to extend at least to 4 kHz (viewing real-time spec an Winradio interface software)

0359z Pgm continues, I've got to cut out, 73's to all ...

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North American Shortwave Pirate / 6940am Update WWCR 0203z 7-26-2010

« on: July 26, 2010, 0204 UTC »

More as available

0205z 6940.00 kHz, too weak for a good copy ATTM

Talk, not music, format so far ...

0220z Signal has been weaker than previously experienced, carrier still detected ...

0224z Only snippets of speech coming through occasionally ... a source of QRM has cropped up too, a noisy, slowly sweeping narrow band signal that sweeps from 2 up to 3.5 kHz and back down just above the 6940 kHz carrier frequency ...

0314z Sig strength has picked up considerably ... this sounds like a commercial SW service; pgm content ATTM is male speaking; sounds like a preacher/teaching session.

I was/am unaware that this frequency is used/assigned for broadcasting ... maybe in another hemisphere at this time?

0344z Detecting a slight echo on this signal as well ... may be a very long path involved as well as the primary path ...

0405z ID and address heard, but not copied (weak signal+ some QRN) - commercial/paid for/religious broadcast

This station (on 6940) in the future will not be reported/logged.

0513z **Update** This is carrying WWCR program material ... do they have a mixing product they transmit? Remember two different receivers and two different antennas pick this up! The signal has gotten strong enough to copy the audio ...

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North American Shortwave Pirate / 6923.04am Outhouse Radio 1602z 7-25-2010

« on: July 25, 2010, 1603 UTC »

Very weak signal, verified on/initially about 6923.18 kHz

Had been copying for some number of minutes ... verified using two diff rcvrs, two diff ants

1610z Voice ID "Outhouse Radio ... gotta get out of here ..."

1611z Freq best for AMS = 6923.04 kHz

1613z Good morning yourself, OHR!

1615z Copy is a little more than rough here, OHR, only when signal peaks can I completely copy every word ...

1121z Off-air

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North American Shortwave Pirate / 6926.46am UNID 0027z 7-25-2010 (very weak signal)

« on: July 25, 2010, 0028 UTC »

0027z Very weak signal ... able only now to hear some pgm content

Carrier freq determined to be 6926.46 kHz +-10 Hz or so

Two different radios (WR-G303e and 756II) and two different antennas (2' tuned loop and dipole respectively)

Nothing heard/found there before, so, unlikely it's an image or mixing product locally ...

0032z Still present

0042z Still present, still very weak (obscured also by some QRN enough to keep obscured, although at times the signal peaks enough to hear more pgm content)

0051z Still present, some pgm audio heard on and off (bass guitar licks really sem to come thru)

0116z Still present on both rcvrs (but just barely!); signal has trademark characteristics of ionospheric propagation, e.g. fading and peaks ...

0142z Still present, still noted on 2 rcvrs/different ants

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North American Shortwave Pirate / 6925am UNID 0351z 7-24-2010

« on: July 24, 2010, 0352 UTC »

Really too weak to copy, but, cdx may improve.

Carrier noted for last several minutes

Approx freq 6925.2 kHz

0404z Narrowed it down to 6925.25 kHz (-+ 10 Hz)

0406z Slightly better results using an in-building tuned 2' loop on account of noise e.g. QRN

0411z Some serious guitar jamming is taking place ... sounds like genre is rock ... significant lows ... need a bigger loop ...

0422z Whomever this is, they are jammin ... lots of bass guitar coming through, no detectable ID (not that I could pull it out) signal is up and down some too. Need to cut out of here soon too ...

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North American Shortwave Pirate / 6950am OHR says: Radio Ronin SW 0115z 7-24-2010

« on: July 24, 2010, 0116 UTC »

More to follow

0119z ID: Radio (I thought I copied _____ but will wait)

Cndx not really conducive to good copy yet/tonight


0147z Finally got good freq for USB on the IC-756II determined: 6950.59 kHz ...