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New Poll Listed over in General Equipment Board, stop by and vote!

http://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,6318.0.html




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Equipment / What Radio Did you start your listening hobby with?
« on: February 12, 2012, 2015 UTC »
We often get new visitors interested in the hobby, they'd love to participate but don't know where to start.

Note: Looks like you'll need to add a "reply" to comment on your choice of radios, I didn't realize this when creating the poll itself.

I thought this poll would be a great way of indexing our 'gateway drug' to this hobby.  :D

If your favorite starter radio had one outstanding feature that made you choose it, please mention this as well, and perhaps as later novice listeners come along, we can later point them to this list, for low-cost entry level radios to start the hobby in.

I left the poll open to 3 votes, for those of us who started out with a mix of radios until we found the one we really like. Feel free to wax fondly how/what you first heard, homebrew antenna tips, but keep in mind the shoestring budget most beginners start with.

Go crazy, kids!

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Radio Ronin 6.925am
« on: December 20, 2011, 0140 UTC »
0135utc  Ronin ID, then

Doors Five to One...
Wild Child

Capture posted to
http://corqswl.posterous.com/pirateradio-radio-ronin-shortwave (may still be rendering, give it a few minutes.)

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North American Shortwave Pirate / UNID 6.924.95 USB w/Iron Maiden
« on: December 19, 2011, 0316 UTC »
"Number of the Beast" and other Maiden tunes,  long set, maybe some Dio?

http://corqswl.posterous.com/unid-692495-usb-iron-maiden

Captured with the SDR-IQ and desktop capture.

There is an OM op and a low reverb verbal comment/possible ID but cannot make it out.

Thanks OP, will keep trying for ID \m/

SIO at time of capture 434, from New Smyrna Beach, FL


50
North American Shortwave Pirate / Black Bandit Radio 6300 am
« on: November 11, 2011, 0048 UTC »
Music, BBR OM voice; approximately 00:38utc heard Dire Straights "Money for Nothing"

Apparently running very strong for those on east coast, confirmed by Intertape in Iann's Pirate Radio Chat room. Thanks BBR, and thanks for the assist Intertape!

51
North American Shortwave Pirate / Cupid Radio 21460am
« on: November 06, 2011, 1722 UTC »
Fighting local qrm here in the shack but heard music and earlier sstv around 21459.4am @1640

52
General Radio Discussion / 2008 Documentary "Pirate Radio USA"
« on: October 20, 2011, 1807 UTC »
No idea if our usual scene players got any screen time on this: Achim posted the link over on Google Plus and I thought re-share. This appears to have been released in 2008; just posting for General interest.

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http://oxfordinternational.bside.com/2008/films/pirateradiousa_oxfordinternational

Quote
Pirate Radio USA is a feature length digital documentary about the underground world of illegal radio in America, where people play what they want and say what they want—unless the FCC catches them…
DJ’s Him and Her, from their live Pirate Radio USA Studio, take you on a rock –n-roll journey inside rogue radio stations across the country to see why Americans defy Federal Law to free the radio airwaves.

On the way see the rise of Big Media, the growth of Citizen Media to encounter it, and witness their showdown over the truth during the 1999 World Trade Organization meetings in Seattle.

Pirate Radio USA was broadcast-- or really microcast-- with a 4 watt transmitter live, as an uninterrupted radio program. The effect will be to ‘see’ a live pirate radio microcast about pirate radio: a first.

See the battle to free the airwaves live-- and find out the real price of freedom.

It’s not about Left vs. Right, it's about Big vs. Small.

Director Jeff Pearson and Producer Mary Jones will be in attendance for Q&A after the film.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Captain Morgan 6924.4 (off now)
« on: September 15, 2011, 0220 UTC »
Modest levels in AM from Central FL; however what I noticed tonight, strangely, was that I could hear him in AM from roughtly 6924.4 almost down to 6923.5. I'm not sure how to account for this, but SIO on 6924.4 was 212 here due to nearby utility chirping and local qrm.


Captain Morgan 6924.4am Capture here:  http://post.ly/3DgC6

In any case, GREAT TO HEAR YOU, Cap'n!

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General Radio Discussion / Renegade Radio eQSL!
« on: September 13, 2011, 2337 UTC »
 

My first actual Renegade Report, so this was a treat. Great to hear you, Renegade!

Thanks, Corq

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Radio Ronin 6925am
« on: September 04, 2011, 0259 UTC »
Born to be wild
You shook me all night long
0257 Radio Ronin ID

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Captain Morgan 6375am
« on: September 01, 2011, 0142 UTC »
SIO 222 from  New Smyrna amid noisy condx around 0130 "Brown Sugar" Rolling Stones started punching through..

Either a weak fade of off at 0140

Noisy capture at:
http://corqswl.posterous.com/63749-captain-morgan-pirateradio

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General Radio Discussion / Non-conspiracy Theory on the FRN
« on: August 30, 2011, 1635 UTC »
The "non-conspiracy, Occam's Razor" Scenarios:

Neither one of the listed nameservers for the FRN's current/cached whois listing appears to be "answering" queries.

This may be that those physical servers are offline and web queries to Joplin.com/JoplinGlobe.com are being forwarded; however since the Joplin Globe is now mirrored elsewhere, there may be no serious imperative to do much about the former hosting server FRN, or other non-essential sites.

Somehow, while it appears that Joplin Globe was reliably mirrored elsewhere, that the FRN did not receive the same courtesy.

Cached Google records (from when FRN was UP) point to the current server where 74.84.203.168 and 69.38.106.211 -- these appear to be proper mirrored servers for Joplin Globe. For whatever reason, perhaps the FRN didn't survive the move or doesn't have a solid hosting agreement with the current hosts of JoplinOnline.com or the newspaper group they're now part of. While I'm to Understand John Cruzan still works for the Joplin Globe group, they just don't seem to be sharing server space with them at present.

GeoIP Tools imply that the server for the Joplin Globe is now actually hosted or at least registered nowhere near Joplin (in light of recent tornado events this is a recommended strategy, why the FRN wasn't mirrored accordingly is unknown):

Host Name:   nsc69.38.106-211.newsouth.net
IP Address:   69.38.106.211
Country:    United States
Country code:   US (USA)
Region:   South Carolina
City:   Greenville
Postal code:   29615
Calling code:   +1
Longitude:   -82.2464
Latitude:   34.8601

AND:

Host Name:   203-168.baymountain.com
IP Address:   74.84.203.168
Country:    United States
Country code:   US (USA)
Region:   Virginia
City:   Fredericksburg
Postal code:   22401
Calling code:   +1
Longitude:   -77.4826
Latitude:   38.2981

Long and short of it appears to be that FRN.net has lost its home on the interwebs. If it were a simple backend database failure, you'd still get error pages when looking up FRN. Or an administrator chose to pull it down without putting any placeholder messages in its stead.

If intentional, this is kind of unusual practice, as it causes worldwide DNS caches to drop all records of FRN;  at present only domain ownership records remain current.

One other possibility exists: *.net domains are painfully tricky to move or transfer hosts; I learned this when attempting to move my own site, corqspy.org. Ideally you move a copy of your files to the new host, leaving the old files in place on the old server,until the forwarding kicks in - in my case it took over a week and a half.

When the domain forwarding from one host to the other finally kicks in, hopefully your files are already present on the new server - and no one's the wiser.

I suspect a hosting change might be the root of all this, and that as soon as the new home of the FRN pushes out its ip to worldwide DNS servers, life will resume as normal.

Normal, of course, being a relative term.


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North American Shortwave Pirate / UNID 6925am music
« on: June 17, 2011, 0116 UTC »
 AM, music but handily hammered at my noise floor, seems clearer on 6924.8

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North American Shortwave Pirate / 6925am Radio Free Mars
« on: April 27, 2011, 2334 UTC »
23:26 radio mars id
Techno interlude with op banter
 23:38 Rocket Man


Possible rebroadcast heavily featuring Elton John.

Crashy but decent condx in FL tonight.

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