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North American MW Pirate Radio / Dr. Benway 1720 AM 0120z Jan 01, 2014

« on: January 01, 2014, 0126 UTC »

Good signal from Doctor Benway, S7 in New Hampshire

Live show from the doctor, saying Happy New Year to all us listeners.  Talking about trying to inspire other stations to get on 1720 kHz and all the PRB and RFW relays he's done on the frequency during the past couple of weeks.

Thanks for the remarks on you experiences on 1710.  I was curious of whether your operation there resulted in getting some emails from listeners outside of the normal pirate radio enthusiasts.

0128z  ID, undercoverradio@gmail.com (thanks Doctor)
0140z Silversun Pickups - Lazy Eye
0154z Massive Attack - Dissolved Girl
0217z ID, The doctor is spacing out... ah yes.
0220z Off

Happy New Year to you and we love it live!

dimbulb999@gmail.com

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Radio GaGa 6925 USB 2237z 31 Dec 2013

« on: December 31, 2013, 2248 UTC »

2245z Radio GaGa ID, fair signal into NH tonight, S5-S6
2246z Johnny Cash - Don't Take Your Guns To Town
2254z ID, "Live from Zipper Lake" into Good Girls Don't
2258z Neil Young - Helpless
2314z Sly - Stand
2320z "Happy new year one and all" and off

Happy New Year to you Radio GaGa

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European Pirates and Private Stations / Re: Premier Radio 6905 AM 2005 UTC 31 Dec 2013

« on: December 31, 2013, 2037 UTC »

2036z Premier ID, S2-S4 in New Hampshire - New Year's Eve show
2043z Blondie - Heart of Glass
2045z ID, "Broadcasting from Ireland"
2055z "We Gotta Get Right Back Where We Started From"
2059z ID and off

dimbulb999@gmail.com

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Equipment / Re: tube radio recomendmendations

« on: December 31, 2013, 1846 UTC »

Here's a couple of links to HQ-180 pix.

   Nice pix of the topside:

   http://www.k3msb.com/hq180/hq180.html

   This entry in a restoration blog includes some nice pix of the underside:

   http://antiqueradios.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=172244

You can see on that last underside picture how accessible everything is.

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Equipment / Re: tube radio recomendmendations

« on: December 30, 2013, 1933 UTC »

The HQ-180 has the advantage of being relatively simple and lightweight with wide-open construction making it easy to work on.  

If you have a bit of a budget and you want something more typical of an earlier age you should think about the Collins 51J-4 (or R388, the military version).  If you do some Googling you'll find lots of info including update and restoration tips.  

www.k7jrl.com/pub/manuals/collins/51j4/51j-4.pdf‎

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European Pirates and Private Stations / Radio Bluebird - 1638kHz 26-Dec-2013 0115z (late post)

« on: December 27, 2013, 2243 UTC »

  Radio Bluebird from the Netherlands was putting a great signal into New Hampshire on Christmas Evening.  The signal was S4-S6 with little fading and not much splatter from the US broadcast stations above and below.

  Operator announcements in audio clip:

  00:20  (Shout to DimBulb)
  01:38
  11:02  Bluebird ID
  15:04  Bluebird ID
  21:39  Bluebird ID
  23:23
  25:20


https://archive.org/embed/Bluebird26-dec-20130115z1638khz

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North American MW Pirate Radio / Unid 1720 AM - 2200z Dec 27, 2013

« on: December 27, 2013, 2202 UTC »

S7 in New Hampshire

2200z Argent - Hold Your Head Up
2203z Lynyrd Skynyrd - Sweet Home Alabama
2208z Grand Funk Railroad - We're An American Band
2212z Free - All Right Now
2217z Off

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Undercover Radio 13960am 1743z 12/27/2013

« on: December 27, 2013, 1750 UTC »

Benway S9+ in New Hampshire

1743z After shoutout to Borderhunter into relay of Pirate Radio Boston's 21st anniversary show
1801z Reading letters after Joe Walsh "Analog Man", Down to S4 now

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European Pirates and Private Stations / Re: Borderhunter Radio 21,455 AM 1532 27-Dec-13

« on: December 27, 2013, 1641 UTC »

Borderhunter with strong QSB, S2-S6 but good copy in New Hampshire

1640Z ID, running 2 watts!
1643z Now 1 watt, S1-S3
1647z Now 0.5w, still there but almost gone, peaks S3 now and then
1653z Back to high power, S7-s9

QSY to 13960

1659z S6-S8
1721z "Cutting power 50%" S5-S7
1725z 5 watts, S3-S5
1728z 3 watts S3-S4 "In Zaire"
1732z .5 watts S2
1736z Back to high power S8-S9

1741z Dr. Benway shoutout to Borderhunter

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North American MW Pirate Radio / Re: Pirate Radio Boston 1720 khz AM 0210 UTC 12/26/2013

« on: December 26, 2013, 0213 UTC »

Pirate Radio Boston S6-S7 into New Hampshire

0210z ID,  Pirate Radio Boston 2013 holiday special - pirateradioboston@gmail.com
0229z Colbie Caillat - Mistletoe

0355z Still sounding good, S9 now... Undercover Radio 20th Anniversary show

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European Pirates and Private Stations / Re: Radio Boomerang 3890 AM 2255- 12/25/13

« on: December 25, 2013, 2302 UTC »

2300z Great S7 signal in New Hampshire

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General Radio Discussion / Re: Incoming: Holiday booty diverted

« on: December 25, 2013, 0409 UTC »

"Praise the lord and pass the missile toe"

Shouldn't that be "Praise the lord and pass the TOW missile"?

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Wolverine Radio 6945 USB 0200 25 December 2013

« on: December 25, 2013, 0232 UTC »

Wolverine putting some Christmas blues, r&b, ..., tunes into NH at S8, Thanks

And Merry Christmas to all (and Lex)

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North American MW Pirate Radio / Re: Pirate Radio Boston 1720 AM 0055 UTC 23 Dec 2013

« on: December 24, 2013, 0134 UTC »

2013 Christmas show from Pirate Radio Boston

0133z PRB sounding good at S7 in NH
0147z Charlie Loudenboomer doing the PRB ID, pirateradioboston@gmail.com
0149z Off - Thanks PRB

dimbulb999@gmail.com

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North American MW Pirate Radio / Re: 1720am Radio Free Whatever *0229z 12/23/2013

« on: December 23, 2013, 0233 UTC »

0230z RFW is S7 in New Hampshire, "rewind show" from DJ Dickweed and Stephen.

I'm guessing this is another relay by Pirate Radio Boston... Thanks PRB

0253z The boys with ID and playlist... Q  R  M  !
0325z Still S7 here, slamming out some serious metal
0333z End of RFW show

0334z PRB theme, "Love That Dirty Water"
0336z Charlie Loudenbommer with PRB ID