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North American MW Pirate Radio / UNID MoR 1620 AM 0217 UTC 29 JAN 2024
« on: January 29, 2024, 1224 UTC »
Heard from 0217-0547
Shortwave Pirate Radio In North America And Around The World, And Other Signals That Go Bump In The Night
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North American Shortwave Pirate / Radio Free Whatever 6965 USB 2016 UTC 28 JAN 2024
« on: January 28, 2024, 2016 UTC »
2016 Just tuned in, SIO 444.
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North American Shortwave Pirate / Yeah Man Radio 6925 USB 0031 UTC 28 JAN 2024
« on: January 28, 2024, 1547 UTC »
SDR recording catch
0031 Sonny & Cher "I Got You Babe"
0034 "Downtown"
0036 ID, Million Dollar Weekend
0045 "Game Of Love"
0051 Off
0031 Sonny & Cher "I Got You Babe"
0034 "Downtown"
0036 ID, Million Dollar Weekend
0045 "Game Of Love"
0051 Off
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North American Shortwave Pirate / TRI 6930 AM 1438 UTC 28 JAN 2024
« on: January 28, 2024, 1439 UTC »
1438 OMs speaking, talk show? SIO 333
1550 OM speaking, I swear it sounded like Leonard Nimoy, but weak.
1559 "Calling all autobots"... shout outs to listeners, off.
1550 OM speaking, I swear it sounded like Leonard Nimoy, but weak.
1559 "Calling all autobots"... shout outs to listeners, off.
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North American Shortwave Pirate / TRANCE 6935 AM 1556 UTC 27 JAN 2024
« on: January 27, 2024, 1556 UTC »
1556 May have recently signed on? Dance music, SIO 444.
1558 Big fade, down in the noise now.
1558 Big fade, down in the noise now.
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SDR - Software Defined Radio / SDRPlay RSP1B
« on: January 26, 2024, 1757 UTC »Quote
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The key advantages over the RSP1A are that it comes in strong black painted steel case instead of plastic, and it has significantly improved noise performance below 1MHz (i.e for MF, LF and below), and in the 50-60 MHz region. There are also noticeable noise improvements in the 3.5-5.5MHz and 250-320MHz spectrum. It also has It has improved signal handling at HF frequencies.
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North American Shortwave Pirate / UNID 6930 USB 1635 UTC 25 JAN 2024
« on: January 26, 2024, 1404 UTC »
Late SDR recording catch, on from 1635-1652 UTC. Weak music, SIO 222. May have been the same station on 6930 around 1808 UTC.
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North American Shortwave Pirate / UNID 6930 USB 1808 UTC 25 JAN 2024
« on: January 25, 2024, 1808 UTC »
1808 Just signed on directly into music, SIO 333.
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SDR - Software Defined Radio / SDR++
« on: January 25, 2024, 1410 UTC »
After using SdrDx for ages with my netSDR, ever since I got my first SDR, an SDR-IQ, SdrDx has finally stopped working after a macOS update (Sonoma). It had a good run.
I've switched to SDR++ as it seems to do most of what I want. I'm also running Gqrx on this machine (M1 Mini) with an AirSpy Discovery, monitoring 27700 USB for SSTV.
I'm curious if there are any other SDR++ users here, as I still have a few questions:
The number of built in sample rates for the RF Space netSDR is rather lacking: 200, 400, and 800 kHz. Is there any way to add additional sample rates? The netSDR supports arbitrary sample rates, within some parameters. Previously with SdrDx I used 250 kHz and I'd like to go back to that if possible.
The only AGC settings I see are attack and decay. They don't have any units displayed. Based on the range of values, neither seconds nor milliseconds seems to make a lot of sense. Or at least they're rather narrow. I didn't see AGC slope or threshold values, I assume they don't exist?
I could not find a way to get it to write consecutive I/Q baseband files. It seems to just write one file each time you start and stop recording. I was able to get around that by writing my own little app that leverages its built in rigctl server, to start and stop recordings every 30 minutes. Kinda kludgy, but it works.
I'll probably have more questions
I've switched to SDR++ as it seems to do most of what I want. I'm also running Gqrx on this machine (M1 Mini) with an AirSpy Discovery, monitoring 27700 USB for SSTV.
I'm curious if there are any other SDR++ users here, as I still have a few questions:
The number of built in sample rates for the RF Space netSDR is rather lacking: 200, 400, and 800 kHz. Is there any way to add additional sample rates? The netSDR supports arbitrary sample rates, within some parameters. Previously with SdrDx I used 250 kHz and I'd like to go back to that if possible.
The only AGC settings I see are attack and decay. They don't have any units displayed. Based on the range of values, neither seconds nor milliseconds seems to make a lot of sense. Or at least they're rather narrow. I didn't see AGC slope or threshold values, I assume they don't exist?
I could not find a way to get it to write consecutive I/Q baseband files. It seems to just write one file each time you start and stop recording. I was able to get around that by writing my own little app that leverages its built in rigctl server, to start and stop recordings every 30 minutes. Kinda kludgy, but it works.
I'll probably have more questions
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General Radio Discussion / Preventing Illegal Radio Abuse Through Enforcement Act Annual Report to Congress
« on: January 24, 2024, 1826 UTC »
Preventing Illegal Radio Abuse Through Enforcement Act
Annual Report to Congress
January 24, 2024
https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-399986A1.pdf
Annual Report to Congress
January 24, 2024
https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-399986A1.pdf
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North American Shortwave Pirate / UNID 6900 AM 1811 UTC 23 JAN 2024
« on: January 23, 2024, 1829 UTC »
Tuned in just in time to hear it go QRT. On from 1811-1827 UTC per the SDR recording. Fairly weak here.
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Latin American Pirate / AD149 6935 AM 2340 UTC 22 JAN 2024
« on: January 23, 2024, 1227 UTC »
SDR recording catch, on from 2350-0015 UTC, mostly just a weak carrier here.
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North American Shortwave Pirate / Thunder Chicken Radio 6955 USB 2152 UTC 22 JAN 2024
« on: January 22, 2024, 2152 UTC »
2152 Just tuned in, SIO 444. Not exactly sure yet what I listening to. Someone, or several people talking? Sound effects?
2159 OM speaking, but low modulation. Off?
2200 No, back with sound effects.
2207 Music. 6955.1 might sound a little better?
2228 SSTV
Thanks for the wonderfully weird pirate radio!
2159 OM speaking, but low modulation. Off?
2200 No, back with sound effects.
2207 Music. 6955.1 might sound a little better?
2228 SSTV
Thanks for the wonderfully weird pirate radio!