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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Presumed Outhouse Radio on 6926 kHz AM relaying Old Time Radio
« on: June 08, 2010, 0315 UTC »
6926 AM just barely audible here since 0200z, not enough to copy or ID anything.
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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Radio Ronin Shortwave on 6950.6 AM
« on: June 07, 2010, 0142 UTC »
6/7/10
6950.6 AM
0130z: Just tuned in, music just barely audible, sounded like a lyric with something like "it's no longer"?
0135z: Clear Radio Ronin ID popped up during brief signal peak before fading again! My first clear on-air catch of a Radio Ronin ID.
(Gopher Stomp, TX - Indoors with Sony 2010 portable in AM sync)
6950.6 AM
0130z: Just tuned in, music just barely audible, sounded like a lyric with something like "it's no longer"?
0135z: Clear Radio Ronin ID popped up during brief signal peak before fading again! My first clear on-air catch of a Radio Ronin ID.
(Gopher Stomp, TX - Indoors with Sony 2010 portable in AM sync)
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North American Shortwave Pirate / Happy Birthday from Radio Ga-Ga
« on: June 04, 2010, 1202 UTC »
6/4/10
6925 USB
1140z: Happy birthday songs to someone from Radio Ga-Ga, including Beatles birthday song.
1146z: "Celebrate" Kool & the Gang, with RGG urging "Drill, baby, drill" over music. Not sure I wanna know what's going on up there.
1150z: Earth, Wind & Chipmunks
1153z: SSTV, no copy, wiped out by sudden burst of local RFI.
Fair peaks, low noise, lots of slow fades.
6925 USB
1140z: Happy birthday songs to someone from Radio Ga-Ga, including Beatles birthday song.
1146z: "Celebrate" Kool & the Gang, with RGG urging "Drill, baby, drill" over music. Not sure I wanna know what's going on up there.
1150z: Earth, Wind & Chipmunks
1153z: SSTV, no copy, wiped out by sudden burst of local RFI.
Fair peaks, low noise, lots of slow fades.
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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: 6855khz
« on: June 04, 2010, 0747 UTC »
6/4/10
6855.8 AM
0300z: Just tuned in, booming AM signal, Outhouse Radio ID, "Wow, cool, far out", boogie woogie rock 'n' roll with "Rocking 88's" in lyrics.
0305z: Billy Preston "Outa-Space"
0323z: Fee-rocious static crashes now, sounded like J. Geils Band? Then OHR ID.
0327z: Carrier dropped after that spacey-trippy guitar instrumental OHR has played before.
SINPO=44233, S9+ signal but S7-S9 t-storm crashes.
(Gopher Stomp, TX - Palstar R30C w/ indoor fugloop)
6855.8 AM
0300z: Just tuned in, booming AM signal, Outhouse Radio ID, "Wow, cool, far out", boogie woogie rock 'n' roll with "Rocking 88's" in lyrics.
0305z: Billy Preston "Outa-Space"
0323z: Fee-rocious static crashes now, sounded like J. Geils Band? Then OHR ID.
0327z: Carrier dropped after that spacey-trippy guitar instrumental OHR has played before.
SINPO=44233, S9+ signal but S7-S9 t-storm crashes.
(Gopher Stomp, TX - Palstar R30C w/ indoor fugloop)
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HF Beacons / Re: NVIS condx in CO
« on: June 03, 2010, 0743 UTC »
Interesting you mention that. I'm not a beacon hunter and have logged only a handful. But I've noticed recently what seems to be a strong NVIS effect on HF with much poorer conditions beyond my region for anything less than flamethrower signals. Even some of those flamethrowers - the usual broadcasters like WWCR, WYFR, etc. - are weaker than usual here. But regional hams (I'm in N. Central Texas) are often booming in on 40m and 20m during daytime while the East and West Coast hams I used to hear in 2007-'09 are barely audible now.
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North American Shortwave Pirate / UNID Latin musc 6925 AM
« on: June 02, 2010, 0451 UTC »
6/2/10
6925.1 or .2 AM
0440z: Spanish male vocals, not sure if style would be called salsa or something else.
0445z: Suddenly off or completely faded out here.
Outdoors with barefoot Sony 2010 in AM sync. Fair signal with lots of fading, usual springtime static crashes. Very good audio, nice sound in the rhythmic music. (Gopher Stomp, TX)
Update: E-mail from WEAK Radio indicated this was WEAK testing in AM mode. Said they went off air right at 0445z. Later broadcast of Latin music was probably someone else.
6925.1 or .2 AM
0440z: Spanish male vocals, not sure if style would be called salsa or something else.
0445z: Suddenly off or completely faded out here.
Outdoors with barefoot Sony 2010 in AM sync. Fair signal with lots of fading, usual springtime static crashes. Very good audio, nice sound in the rhythmic music. (Gopher Stomp, TX)
Update: E-mail from WEAK Radio indicated this was WEAK testing in AM mode. Said they went off air right at 0445z. Later broadcast of Latin music was probably someone else.
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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: 6950a
« on: June 02, 2010, 0224 UTC »
6/2/10
6951 AM
0155z: Heard Hendrix "Red House" around 6951 AM outside just before 0200z, outside with portable. Not sure if Ronin or someone else? Couldn't copy ID, fair signal peaks but lots of fading and static crashes.
6951 AM
0155z: Heard Hendrix "Red House" around 6951 AM outside just before 0200z, outside with portable. Not sure if Ronin or someone else? Couldn't copy ID, fair signal peaks but lots of fading and static crashes.
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North American Shortwave Pirate / Outhouse Radio 6855 AM
« on: June 01, 2010, 1231 UTC »
6/1/10, 6855 AM
0135z: Just got home in time to catch Outhouse op talking and Hendrix "Star Spangled Banner" on 6855 AM. Fair signal on the indoor Sony 2010 in AM sync.
0140z: Some funky piano. Got Sony 2010 in AM sync and Palstar R30C in LSB, rare instance of perfect matching pitch with keyboards.
0143z: Some version of "Battle of New Orleans"
0155z: That yodeling song that makes Martian heads explode.
0212z: "Man of Constant Sorrow" - sudden big signal jump, smug layer over Dallas must've just come in.
0215z: SSTV, no copy, signal faded again.
Received eQSL from Outhouse Radio later that night confirming Memorial Day show.
0135z: Just got home in time to catch Outhouse op talking and Hendrix "Star Spangled Banner" on 6855 AM. Fair signal on the indoor Sony 2010 in AM sync.
0140z: Some funky piano. Got Sony 2010 in AM sync and Palstar R30C in LSB, rare instance of perfect matching pitch with keyboards.
0143z: Some version of "Battle of New Orleans"
0155z: That yodeling song that makes Martian heads explode.
0212z: "Man of Constant Sorrow" - sudden big signal jump, smug layer over Dallas must've just come in.
0215z: SSTV, no copy, signal faded again.
Received eQSL from Outhouse Radio later that night confirming Memorial Day show.
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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: WHYP 6875a
« on: June 01, 2010, 1229 UTC »
From around 0130z, steady carrier around 6874.8 but no intelligible audio through heavy static crashes, until obliterated by WYFR sign-on.
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Shortwave Broadcast / 6185 AM oddities
« on: May 29, 2010, 0945 UTC »
5/29/10
6185 kHz AM
0940z: Assuming this is Radio Amazonas, logged here before on this freq. For past half hour hearing some odd, random vocalizations, sing-song nonsense, counting, repetitive chanting. A bit of a departure from the usual jazz and other structured programming heard here before.
1002z: At top of hour, switched to more conventional programming, Spanish ID as Mexican station, presumably XEPPM Radio Educación. Whatever it was between 0900-1000z, it was... interesting.
6185 kHz AM
0940z: Assuming this is Radio Amazonas, logged here before on this freq. For past half hour hearing some odd, random vocalizations, sing-song nonsense, counting, repetitive chanting. A bit of a departure from the usual jazz and other structured programming heard here before.
1002z: At top of hour, switched to more conventional programming, Spanish ID as Mexican station, presumably XEPPM Radio Educación. Whatever it was between 0900-1000z, it was... interesting.
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Equipment / Re: WR-G31DDC 'EXCALIBUR' SDR from Grove
« on: May 28, 2010, 0516 UTC »
"Excalibur", hmm? So, does it only work if some guy named Arthur pulls a rock out of it?
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Equipment / Re: Super Antenna
« on: May 27, 2010, 2137 UTC »
I've been told the Super Antenna is so easy to use, even a monkey can operate it.
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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: 6932a
« on: May 26, 2010, 0207 UTC »
Same heard here, other faint bits of audio, not enough to ID anything.
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Utility / MARS net 6903.5
« on: May 26, 2010, 0029 UTC »
5/26/10, 0030z (5/25/10, 7:30 pm local)
MARS net on 6903.5 USB, net control AAM6TTX.
Google sez: Texas Army MARS net, so strong signals here, S9+
mp3's, one less than a minute, the other four minutes:
http://www.mediafire.com/?r1tmzyli000
http://www.mediafire.com/?xyowkmwnxtt
MARS net on 6903.5 USB, net control AAM6TTX.
Google sez: Texas Army MARS net, so strong signals here, S9+
mp3's, one less than a minute, the other four minutes:
http://www.mediafire.com/?r1tmzyli000
http://www.mediafire.com/?xyowkmwnxtt
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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: 6930kc usb 0237z
« on: May 24, 2010, 0257 UTC »
5/24/10
6930 USB
0235z: Skynyrd "Sweet Home Alabama", pretty good signal
0239z: Faded or dead air?
6930 USB
0235z: Skynyrd "Sweet Home Alabama", pretty good signal
0239z: Faded or dead air?
