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Authorities estimate it can cost around 50-thousand yuan a month to set up and maintain the illegal transmitters, which are normally set up in residential areas.
While the transmitters themselves are often poorly made, many of them are high-powered.
Li Changwei with the Civil Aviation Administration of China says these high-powered broadcasts have the potential to interfere with vital communication channels.
"These shadowy radio frequencies severely affect the operations of our control towers at airports. Sometime, pilots and the air traffic controllers are unable to communicate effectively, impacting flights."

50 thousand yuan converts to over 7700 dollars a month.  I would imagine that any operation spending even a quarter of that should be quite RF clean -  lack of creating interference would be a priority because that would have the greatest impact on the pirate's longevity, and in turn, the amount of money to be made.  I'm guessing that their real problems concern "kids playing radio" and "frustrated DJs" - probably with the same cheap Rohm chip-based FM kitcasters and power amplifiers that the Chinese are selling on EBAY... to us.  What goes around, comes around.

Under Chinese law, anyone caught setting up illegal broadcasts is subject to fines and up to 7 years in jail.

All that and Chinese radio pirates are being hunted down with drones too.  God Bless America.  And thanks for posting, Oliver.

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Huh? / Re: The sugar conspiracy
« on: April 12, 2016, 1613 UTC »
BLOW-fu  ;D

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Huh? / Re: The sugar conspiracy
« on: April 11, 2016, 2102 UTC »
"Look at the bacon!"

Not to evangelize too much, but I switched to a low carb way of eating about 15 years ago. I'm happy, and my doctor was happy at my last physical earlier this year. Win - Win.
And yes, bacon is involved  ;D

I'm on board too, Chris.  I did Atkins for about a year back in 2003.  Then I did Dr. Fuhrman a few years back who preaches max fruits and vegs and min animal products.  Now I have found a comfortable balance in between the two.  Bottom line - eliminate the sugars, the salts, the glutens, and the processed foods - and eat what is left.  That's pretty much a low-carb diet.  I went from four HBP pills/day and 1000 mg Metformin/day to NO DRUGS and feel a whole lot better.  And yes, I still eat bacon too  :D

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General Radio Discussion / Re: Standing up for pirate radio
« on: April 11, 2016, 1730 UTC »
I also do not approve of pirate stations that broadcast offensive, inappropriate, or hateful material. They should be immediately shut down.

Why?  What better reason is there to take to the airwaves than to air something that cannot be aired elsewhere?  It amazes me that some people believe there is a mass audience out there breathlessly waiting to hear someone's music collection.  Do you feel marginalized because of your views?  Grow a pair - and go on the air!  Peace atrain...  ;)

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Good stuff, Moof! Especially for us fellas that have some FT-243's that aren't quite where we would want them to resonate.
Goodonya moof!  I've also been following you through your crystal grinding odyssey and learning a lot about it in the process.  Thanks for sharing!  :)

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Broadcast Announcements / Re: Radio Zed
« on: April 10, 2016, 2247 UTC »
on the normal frequency... plus about 10 mhz or so.   ;)

The 16 meter band at 0200?  You certainly ARE an intrepid soul, Jackson!   :)

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"Ghost Riders" In The Sky" into bells and ID at 2309.  SIO=333 into NY

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Thanks for all the reports folks!  I was attempting to connect with the NVIS zone but we were really skipping way out.  Glad you finally heard me barefoot Rainer - believe it or not - only 9 watts of carrier power from a Grenade here in upstate NY!  Any who are interested in a QSL just hit the box with a modest report - cut and paste is fine... 73!

wazushortwave@gmail.com


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Sorry, I have to play dumb...what's "OM?"   :D

Radio Amateur shorthand.  OM=Old Man.  It denotes a male voiced announcer.  I'm always showing my age here.  Most texter shorthand eludes me but radio stuff is like a second language.  I guess I have now turned into an OM... :)

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    Doesn't phase me, since I need a land line due to cell signals unable to penetrate my apartment's sheet rock walls and aluminum roof, which I've commented on here in the past. On the other hand what Frosts me is the $40.00 monthly bill. About 95-98% of the calls I get are solicitations & scams

I can concur with you Nella.  I have a conventional wood roof but I live in a null zone here and can't utilize a cellphone or wifi or any other personal RF communications technology above 200 MHz or so.  Like you, I appreciate the difficulties that forces upon would be snoopers and like you, I also pay through the nose for landline - about $55 a month here in the Vampire State for Verizon's crummy service.  I'd probably just cut loose and go "phoneless", but all those solicitations and scam calls are just too damn much fun.  Where else can you berate, belittle, be rude and be crude WITHOUT getting into legal trouble?  :D

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Huh? / Re: Keith Emerson of Emerson, Lake and Palmer dies at 71
« on: March 13, 2016, 1420 UTC »
I miss concerts like the ones the 70's.

Me too.  The 60s are remembered for sex drugs and rock and roll.  And we Jonesers of the 70s perfected it.  Then the money chasers got involved and ruined it.  By the 80s one had to be really really careful... :(

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General Radio Discussion / Re: Sick R71A
« on: March 12, 2016, 2351 UTC »
It's hard to say Shorty.  I'm not intimately familiar with the R71A circuit so I don't know if its loaded with ASICs.  If it is, then you're shut down before you start because only a certain number of them are produced and when they're gone, they're gone.  However, the 71A was a mid 80s unit and might have been designed completely with industry standard parts.  Even so, parts can be a real bugger to locate some 30 years later.  Josh said that some shops are still servicing these units.  I would recommend that you find one and ask them about it.  Any shop that is willing to repair a R71A has probably already sourced the hard-to-find stuff.  A few years ago I slipped my Drake R8 in for factory service literally weeks before Blonder-Tongue took over the Drake repair facility.  Although I love the R8 and have had a very happy 21 years with it, I know that when it eventually zorches out this time I will be giving it a decent burial and buying a good SDR.  The R8 will not have owed me a thing, but a sad day nonetheless...

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Huh? / Re: Keith Emerson of Emerson, Lake and Palmer dies at 71
« on: March 12, 2016, 2320 UTC »
I saw them in Buffalo on the same tour Pigmeat -1974 - I believe it was the Brain Salad Surgery Tour.  They had the quadraphonic show set up in Rich Stadium.  Although most people were pushing the stage down at the one end, there was a very large contingent of us "addled longhairs" lounging around near the 50 yard line where the audio channels converged.  Even with my reality up for grabs from the blotter acid scored in the parking lot it was one of my most memorable concerts.  And although the above article attributes Greg Lake as the "vocalist/bassist", he spent much of his time on six string acoustic guitar.  A great show.  RIP Keith...

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"King Sized Papa" (YL blues vocal) at 0110.  S6 or so with background QRM into upstate NY tonight.

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Nice S6 signal at 2235 (on 2/26/16).  Strong ute up around 6777 or so.

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