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North American Shortwave Pirate / Radio True North 6945 AM

« on: April 28, 2012, 0736 UTC »

4/28/12, 6945 AM
0715z: RTN moved to 6945 AM from 6950 AM
Ah Ha "Take On Me", Elton John "Bitch Is Back"
0735z: Radio True North ID, wondering who's listening out there (reportedly being heard across the pond)
Gary Wright "Dreamweaver", Cory Hart "Sunglasses at Night", Peter Schilling "Major Tom"
Off a little after 0800z

Listening via east coast web tuner.  Good carrier on home receiver but wiped out by local RFI.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Radio True North 6.950 AM 4/28/2012

« on: April 28, 2012, 0700 UTC »

Listening on and off via east coast web tuner, "Hot Child In The City", Radio True North ID, Berlin "No More Words", Soft Cell "Tainted Love".
0659z: "Approximately 6950 AM" RTN ID, Irene Cara "More Than A Feeling" Flashdance song.

0715z: RTN moved to 6945 AM
Ah Ha "Take On Me", Elton John "Bitch Is Back"

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Red Mercury Labs 6935 USB

« on: April 28, 2012, 0320 UTC »

4/28/12, 6935 USB, 0317z: Soundgarden "Black Hole Sun", "Spoonman"
0325z: Red Mercury Labs ID and live chatter, signal reports from listeners kilokat, skeezix.

Good signal but harsh local buzzing RFI on 6935 nearly obliterating signal.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: 6925u High Plains Relay Svc - Crystal Ship 0200 UTC

« on: April 28, 2012, 0211 UTC »

4/28/12, 6925 USB, 0200z: High Plains Relay Service relay of The Crystal Ship.  Fair to good over the usual blanket of white noise RFI on the home rig and indoor antenna.  "FCC F*** You" and "F*** You All So Very Much" songs.
0214z: Donner family restaurant parody ad, Juliana Montana ID.
0216z: Commentary from The Radical.
0221z: REM "Losing My Religion"
0228z: "Drunken Poet's Dream" Hayes Carll, great song
0229z: Commander Bunny voice "sockpuppet" and "three ring sockpuppet circus" audio bits, "Dear Mr. Bridgewater... I wish to report a communist... who calls himself 'The Poet'..." email. "Ya long eared sockpuppeting FCC snitch!" "I'm all for peace, love and understanding.  But if that doesn't work, bring on the Elmer Fudd solution." "Kill da wabbit!" song by Elmer Fudd.
0235z: Youngbloods "Get Together"
0240z: Promo for sockpuppet-free FRC in bunnyvoice
0242z: Alice Cooper "Poison"
0246z: eBeastiality spoof ad
0255z: Steely Dan "Don't Take Me Alive", Glenn Frey "Smuggler's Blues", Warren Zevon "Lawyers, Guns and Money"
0301z: Gunny Hartman bit, TCS ID and contact info by The Radical, Quint singing, Ramones "We Want the Airwaves"
0308z: Off after JP "Breaking the Law"

Enjoyed the show - adversity seems to have inspired Poet.  And thanks to HPRS for the relay!


Started out fair to good but peaked much better by 0220z.  SINPO=43433, not much QRM/static crashes, mostly local RFI.

Off-air recording (starting about 20 minutes into broadcast):
Stream from embedded player.
Download link.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Undercover Radio 6925

« on: April 27, 2012, 0610 UTC »

4/27/12, 6925 AM, 0430z: Leonard Cohen "Everybody Knows", Undercover Radio ID.  Off or steep fade out a few minutes later.  Listening via east coast web tuner - no luck here at home.  Propagation seemed pretty poor Thursday after a couple of pretty good weeks.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Turtlehead Radio SSTV 6925

« on: April 26, 2012, 0353 UTC »

4/26/12, 6925, 0248z-0256z: Caught two SSTV images from Turtlehead Radio.  First was barely legible but second was good enough to confirm first appeared to have same THR logo.  Will post later.

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Other / Unid music 7000 USB

« on: April 26, 2012, 0209 UTC »

Add another to the mystery that is 7000 kHz:

4/26/12, 7000 USB, 0200z (approx): Via east coast web tuner and home, besides the usual sideband chatter in Spanish and Portuguese, occasionally hearing music.  Only song I could identify sounded like Boston "Amanda".  Lots of tone beep QRM, not CW, and between the intermittent music, sideband chatter on both LSB and USB, and the QRM, it sounded pretty much like a typical day on 14275 and 14313 USB and some 75-80m freqs.

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General Radio Discussion / Couple win online libel lawsuit against individuals

« on: April 26, 2012, 0203 UTC »

This report from our local Fort Worth newspaper is a noteworthy case because it involves a fairly uncommon instance of personal liability being affirmed against individuals libeling other individuals online in publicly accessible forums.  Whether it withstands appeal is another matter.

Nowadays libel suits by individuals against individuals are fairly uncommon.  Usually it's a "deep pockets" type of tort.  Either corporations with deep pockets will sue individuals and entities for defamation, or individuals will sue corporations.  In this case it's possible that the plaintiffs may have taken into account the fact that Topix, the online forum on which they were repeatedly harassed and defamed, is owned in part by the same corporation that owns the Fort Worth Star-Telegram.

In many other countries journalists and free speech advocates are trying to have libel/slander laws overturned or revised, since in some countries those laws are used primarily to silence journalists and critics of government and wealthy oligarchical powers behind the elected officials.


Couple smeared online win lawsuit
Read more here: http://www.star-telegram.com/2012/04/24/3909676/couple-smeared-online-win-lawsuit.html#storylink=cpy

...a Tarrant County jury awarded the couple $13.78 million in a libel judgment. The ruling sends the message that people have the freedom to write what they please online, but they can be held accountable.

The award is the largest ever assessed in an Internet libel case, the Leshers' attorney, Meagan Hassan, said Tuesday.

Lawyers for the plaintiffs "compiled more than 25,000 instances of libelous online posts ... that accused her clients of engaging in sexual perversions and molestations, drug dealing and other criminal behavior."

But in court, they introduced only 800 of the worst, Hassan said.

"No one who has ever read the comments has argued that they were reasonable or rational," Hassan said. "This is a good case to show just how bad things can get online."

The case shows that those who libel others online and rely on Internet service providers or hosting companies to protect their identities are out of touch with the times, legal scholars said.

"This case proves that you just can't say bad things about someone without any consequences," Vogel said. "I never put anything in an e-mail or posts that I would not want a jury to see."

(Above excerpts from Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 4/24/12)

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Utility / Re: Aviation weather on 6950 USB?

« on: April 26, 2012, 0132 UTC »

Hmm... you had it on the SDR-14, Lex? Curious that I didn't have it on the netSDR. I do wonder if i was some sort of mixing product or image, as cmradio suggested?

I notice a spur/image/whatever from WWCR in the evenings on 6970, but I get it on both the netSDR and the NRD 545, so it seems to be "real" vs just heard on one radio.

Yup, via the SDR-14.  Didn't seem to be an image - that SDR seems bulletproof.  I did wonder whether it was a spur.  Haven't heard it on 6950 since that log the other day.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Captain Morgan Shortwave 6925AM *0059

« on: April 26, 2012, 0128 UTC »

Same heard via east coast web tuner, good AM signal with blues, Captain Morgan ID.  Not a peep at home.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Red Mercury Labs - Radiohead 6935

« on: April 23, 2012, 0404 UTC »

4/23/12, 6935 USB, 0350z: Sounds like all Radiohead songs so far.  Good signal and audio.  No ID heard yet.
0413z: Red Mercury Labs ID
0434z: More Radiohead, which is just fine by me.  Coming in surprisingly well in the kitchen on a portable atop the fridge.  Maybe if I rearrange those fridge magnet QSLs jussst right... oh, wait, I don't have any of those.  
0522z: Sign off

Thanks for the show!  Good signal throughout, mostly listening on portable in the kitchen.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Undercover Radio 0220z 6925

« on: April 23, 2012, 0227 UTC »

4/23/12, 6925 AM, 0225z: Just tuned in via east coast SDR, booming signal with Hendrix "Three Little Bears", one of those great cuts off War Heroes.
0230z: William S. Burroughs audio bit
0232z: Dr Benway mentioned signal report from Montreal.  Into Massive Attack "Dissolved Girl"
0255z: "Life can only be understood when lived backward..." musings over music.
0310z: Sudden fade out to barely audible.
0318z: Band must have shifted - barely audible now on east coast tuner, a little stronger here at home now

Just a carrier here at home on indoor antenna, might try outdoors with portable later.  Sony 2010 seems to snag these AM shows better.

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Utility / Aviation weather on 6950 USB?

« on: April 23, 2012, 0222 UTC »

4/23/12, 6950 USB, 0215z: Aviation weather, Trenton military, seems identical to 6604 and 6754 aviation weather reports.  Fair via east coast remote SDR, inaudible here at home.

First time I've heard this on 6950.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Unid music 6925 USB 4/23/12 0138z

« on: April 23, 2012, 0149 UTC »

After phonetics broadcast heard earlier:
4/23/12, 6925 USB, 0138z: Nirvana "About A Girl", "Come As You Are", Stones "Sweet Virginia", The Who "Substitute"
0200z: Sounds like Velvet Underground "Heroin"?
0212z: Off or dead air, no ID heard

Not sure if same station broadcasting phonetics awhile ago.  Freq center seems about 10 Hz different.

SINPO=33242, fair steady signal but fierce QRN crashes and Spanish language QRM from 6930 LSB.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: 6925 USB

« on: April 23, 2012, 0121 UTC »

4/23/12, 6925 USB, 0105z: Something about a tribute show, some mention of Pat Murphy and FRN comments, get a radio and big effin antenna, Depeche Mode "Everything Counts".

Very tough copy due to heavy static crashes.

Rather than try to interpret anything I'll just post my quick notes as I tried to copy the alpha phonetics I heard:
a g t f l y o u a l l n e e   t o u nders a nd  that n e y a m e i s f a w n i n g a n w d a h a s c o m t a n d i f w e d n t d o s o m h n l l c t   v e  w e a r e d o o m e d  a s e o u n t t
w e n w  h  u  s

e b e e n t e s t i n g o n t h   f r e  q  e n c y  s o m   m e n w b r o a s t o f f e n d o u t

dew epr s e o u t h a t t h  t i m e h a s c  ef e c i s i - e m e a n - n g f u l l a c - i - i f y o u - -- e n t t o h e l p - s s f - e o u r c o - r r y t h e n s - a y t u - e - - t h i s - r e - u - c y f - - u r t - r d - - a i r s a n - n - - o r - m f t - o n
I recorded this too, so I'll attach the mp3 link later.