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Messages - ChrisSmolinski

28366
North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID 6925 AM 02:44z 11-30-12
« on: November 30, 2012, 1306 UTC »
I had this as well on the SDR recording, but could only hear some faint audio from time to time.

28367
North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: 6925.77 AM 22:42z 11-29-12
« on: November 29, 2012, 2325 UTC »
I had a weak carrier here, but that was about it.

28368
North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID 6925A 0009 11-29-12
« on: November 29, 2012, 1303 UTC »
SDR recording, very weak signal here. Mostly just a carrier. Came on at 0006z, off at 0037z.


28369
Shortwave Broadcast / Re: WWCR Spur 6970 2310 UTC
« on: November 29, 2012, 1258 UTC »
11/28 2330 Something huge on 6970.... but this does not appear to be WWCR mix. Is this a firedrake?

Sounds vaguely oriental, Pretty much non stop music. It has a "flutter" that I associate with something coming from a long way away, thru a somewhat tortured path.

<EDIT>

Scratch that. It went away at the exact same time that 6875 left the air. I guess I still have a problem with 6970. I will have to go see my shrink now.

Don't scratch that quite so fast.... checking the SDR recording, I have what certainly sounds like Firedrake, up until 2300z sign off, on 6970. very good signal, S8 to S9.

Not noted here around 2330 as per your log, however.



28370
Shortwave Broadcast / Re: WWCR Spur 6970 2310 UTC
« on: November 29, 2012, 1138 UTC »
I need to post a sticky note by the radio "If you hear something on 6970, ignore it, it is just WWCR"

At least the fact that more than one of us is hearing it confirms it's not a problem with our radio, but with WWCR's transmitter.   Maybe we should send them a reception report, CC'd to the FCC? :-)

28371
MW Loggings / A few MW Loggings
« on: November 28, 2012, 1829 UTC »
I picked up a few new-to-me MW stations. Nothing exciting, but I got to add them to my log (the last column is distance in miles).

290   2012-11-26 21:06:00   660   WAMO   WILKINSBURG   PA    160
291   2012-11-26 21:12:00   700   WDMV   WALKERSVILLE   MD    31
292   2012-11-26 21:14:00   730   WPIT      PITTSBURGH   PA    168
293   2012-11-26 21:22:00   840   WKTR      EARLYSVILLE   VA    126
294   2012-11-26 21:27:00   850   WTAR      NORFOLK   VA    183

28372
Shortwave Broadcast / Re: WWCR Spur 6970 2310 UTC
« on: November 27, 2012, 2245 UTC »
This spur just got me again. It took about ten minutes before I realized that's what I was listening to.

28373
North American Shortwave Pirate / UNID 6935 AM 0323 UTC 27 Nov
« on: November 27, 2012, 1302 UTC »
Very weak signal, music heard starting around 0327z, slightly stronger just before 0348z sign off. OM talking at 0347z, if there was an ID I couldn't pull it out of the noise.

28374
SDR catch, very good signal, S8 to S9.

28375
Very weak here, almost inaudible at 0010z.
By 0017z, it was up to S8, I don't know this will last long, however.
Yep, crashed to S0 at 0028z.

28376
I had some weak audio here, I assumed it was the pescadores that were on earlier (such as around 1005z)

28377
Other / UNID / AXBP 6941 CW 0501 UTC 26 Nov
« on: November 26, 2012, 1352 UTC »
Some rather raspy sounding CW heard 0501-0501 UTC on 26 Nov 2012 on 6941 kHz:

Here's a recording: http://www.hfunderpants.com/mypics/6940CW.mp3

Started with K5SU DE AXBP K K5SU DE AXBP K

28378
All pictures Robot 36C, the second one was sent three times, I'm just posting the first, which had the best reception:





28379
SDR catch, 0302z sign on, with a weak signal.

28380
SDR catch, 0135z sign on with an S4 signal.