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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Unid 6938 AM 9/7/2015 2243z
« on: September 07, 2015, 2249 UTC »
Hearing it here on 6938 with UTE QRM on 6941.  Noisy conditions here (local QRN).  S7 signal.  Unable to actually discern what is being played but I can hear something there.  Unable to copy at all in USB due to strong UTE signal near frequency.  S6-S7 as well on the NJ WebSDR (WebSDR is showing carrier frequency slightly lower at 6937.7 kHz).

at 2251, signal on my local radio is now strong enough to hear The Temptations - Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch and British accented announcer.  

Re-tuned my radio to 6937.7 and it does sound a bit better.  Still hearing faint UTE QRM from the signal on 6941.

2310 UTC - signal even stronger now.  UTE QRM is gone.  Nice wide audio.  Hearing it on the Grundig G3 portable nicely.  
2311 UTC - Cypress Hill - Insane In The Brain  ;D

Voiceover the rest of Cypress Hill into House of Pain - Jump Around

2318 UTC - Announcer: "KICK IT!" into Beastie Boys - Fight For Your Right

Killer tunes tonight CWR  8)

2340 UTC - operator chatter about Absolut vodka
2350 UTC - mild UTE QRM returning during the fades, Faith No More - Epic punching through on the peaks
2358 UTC - Judas Priest - Breaking The Law - kickass tune
2359 UTC - operator voice over Judas Priest, fading getting a bit worse
0000 UTC - now hearing Spanish language (I think) chatter on 6935 LSB causing some QRM

2822
North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: 18145 usb again 9/6/15 1425 utc
« on: September 06, 2015, 1437 UTC »
They're operating within the 17 meter ham band.  :o

About a S3 here, noisy, but completely readable signal.  Not hearing anything else from 18068 - 18168 kHz

Completely gone by 1445 UTC (stepped away from the radio for a minute, came back and it was gone).

2823
North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: 6950 USB 0020Z Wolverine Radio 6 Sept 2015
« on: September 06, 2015, 0028 UTC »
Hearing old time music nice and mellow.  Excellent audio and a solid S9

2824
Other / 6940 CW 0024 UTC
« on: September 06, 2015, 0024 UTC »
Hearing CW on 6940, peaking to S8

Gone

Back on at 0026

2825
North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Radio Marlene 6935 USB 2350 05 SEP 2015
« on: September 05, 2015, 2359 UTC »
Blondie - Hanging On The Telephone  8) in progress at 2357


2826
North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Cold Country Canada 6969 USB 2318- 09/03/15
« on: September 03, 2015, 2333 UTC »
Hearing "Crazy Train" nicely through the local QRN 6969.0 kHz USB

2827
North American Shortwave Pirate / Radio Free Whatever 6935 USB 0135 UTC 22 August 2015
« on: August 23, 2015, 0137 UTC »
Hearing what sounds like the Soviet National Anthem on 6935 USB.  Nice and loud tonight.  

Shoutout to R4002 (me!) and HFU 0140 UTC

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Wolverine Radio 6950 USB 0037 UTC 23 Aug 2015
« on: August 23, 2015, 0103 UTC »
Solid S9.  Top notch signal, armchair copy of "Lucky Man" in progress at 0101 UTC

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Burn It Down Radio 6962 USB/AM *0045-0117* UTC 17Aug15
« on: August 17, 2015, 0137 UTC »
Scorpions - Wind of Change at tune-in (0135 UTC)

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: NOCALL SSTV 6925 USB 2342 UTC 16Aug15
« on: August 17, 2015, 0004 UTC »
Somebody forgot to turn the "template" feature off in MMSSTV  ;D

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: KHAT 6925 USB 0025 UTC 16 Jul 2015
« on: July 16, 2015, 0057 UTC »
John Couger - Jack and Diane here solid S9 signal through the local QRN.

Love the cat theme! 

2832
10/11 meters / Re: Different Language QSO'S on 25.845 LSB
« on: September 17, 2013, 2238 UTC »
The majority of "export" radios (also sold as "10-meter" radios but are switched "converted" down to 11-meters through a simple set of button pushes or another simple modification) cover considerably more frequencies below the 10 meter band allocation than they do above the 10-meter allocation.  The "standard" export radio frequency plan is six sets of 40 channels, 25.615-28.305 MHz.  I've heard of some of the newer radios going up to 30.105, 30.555 or even 31.005 MHz.  You'll notice each set of 40 channels is the same bandwidth as the legal CB band (450kHz).  Of course, some radios go below 25.615, usually down to 25.165 but some of them go down into 12 meters or even below, 24.715 or even 24.265 MHz.  

The two export radios I use, a Voyage VR9000 (a.k.a. Galaxy 88, Superstar 3900F/3900EFT, Super Jopix 2000, and a dozen others - of course they're all made by Ranger/RCI) covers 25.615-28.305 MHz.  My CRE 8900 covers up to 30.105MHz but I see no point in going above 10 meters when there's plenty of empty channels below 28.000 MHz.

So therefore, you're looking at people running exports on band "A" (assuming the legal CB band is band "D" - as it usually is), channel 19A - 27.195MHz "down three bands".  So that means the radios they're using have that lovely +10kHz switch, allowing you to get to the "A" channels (26.995, 27.045, 27.095, 27.145 and 27.195 MHz).  So each band really has 45 channels and not 40 channels.  I've heard truckers on 25.835 MHz plenty of times (band A, channel 19).  Makes sense don't it?  Just flip that band switch down to band A, I feel bad for these trucker's radios, I'm yet to hear of a CB antenna that can do 27.185MHz and 25.835MHz with a decent SWR.  You know these guys aren't adjusting their antennas when they move up and down the freeband.  

Hearing SSB transmissions below 27MHz is uncommon though.  Most of the stuff below CB channel 1 [26.965 MHz] I hear is in AM mode, and I'd say 3/4 of the transmissions I've heard above CB channel 40 [27.405 MHz] are in SSB mode.  Of course, there's some AM above channel 40, usually in the form of truckers flipping their bandswitches up to get away from the noise of the legal 40 channels.  Interesting to see SSB below channel 1.  I've noticed it on 26.500, 26.515, 26.540 and 26.555, all LSB..but below 26MHz is a new one for me.

It seems like there's a "gentleman's agreement" on the freeband, as much as hams (especially the QRZ or eHam forum types ;)) would hate to hear something like that.  

2833
10/11 meters / Re: 26.485 data signal
« on: May 20, 2013, 1523 UTC »
Could it have been some sort of jamming system? 

I could see IEDs and other remote-control bombs using the 26-28 MHz band, considering how many R/C frequency allocations there are there (and in the 29MHz, 30MHz, 31MHz, 35MHz and other "high-HF" and "low-VHF" bands).

2834
10/11 meters / 26.485 data signal
« on: May 07, 2013, 2100 UTC »
I hear it (26485) when the band is open, especially to Mexico/Latin America.  Only in LSB and CW mode.  There's similar activity around 27.650 MHz. 

27.650 is almost always there.  Was wondering if anybody else on the east coast of the U.S. (or anywhere really) could also hear these signals.

I'm interested in what military/government use of the 25-28 is still in existence, even the proliferation of export radios to the point of every 5-10 kHz from 26.5 to 28 has signals on it during a good band opening.

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General Radio Discussion / Re: Storm Thorgerson, 69, Designer of Unsettling Album Covers, Dies
« on: April 22, 2013, 2334 UTC »
RIP Storm.

Wish You Were Here is one of the greatest album covers of all time.  Dark Side of The Moon is iconic.


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