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0256 Jane's getting serious... I thought I was the only person who really remembered this tune...

Great signal into Central FL 444 on the R75 and the Pixel loop!

Thanks Wolverine!

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: 6923 AM Captain Morgan
« on: July 11, 2015, 0151 UTC »
Our Captain is a generous Captain, I suspect he realized the other OP was there, and yielded the band. Because he's Captain Morgan, and thusly, awesome.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / 6923 AM Captain Morgan
« on: July 11, 2015, 0144 UTC »
Wide Signal into Orlando, FL, slightly overdriven. Blues tunes and great sounds. ID @ - 01:39 CaptainMorganShortwave@gmail.com

SIO 555, Great to hear you again, Captain!

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Good signal into Central FL ... ID at 0102, eclectic electronic/funk music? Good levels just the same! A little Static crashy here as storms pass over us. Good to hear you XLR8!

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SIO 111 here, have adjacent RFI we've been troubleshooting locally, but heard so far between noise bursts:

One more for my baby, one more for the road
Road House Blues


Thanks Wolverine!

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Faint under the noise floor here in Melbourne, FL with the Cowsills the Flower Girl...SIO 111 but melody discernable.

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SIO 434 but rock solid stable sig into Melbourne, Florida! My first catch for RFW! https://corq.co/?p=2145 Thanks  for the great music!

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Booming into Melbourne Florida with Wall of Voodoo few minutes ago: https://corq.co/?p=2141

Thanks RedHat!

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Hearing "Too Many Rivers" by Brenda Lee @ 0129 UTC SIO 434 ... sounds like a "Rivers" theme ;-)

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Heard warm up of Wolverine with Ella Fitzgerald and Billie Holiday "My Old Flame" bit ago; right now booming Steely Dan via the Icom R75.

SIO 555 into Eau Gallie, Florida. Thanks again Wolverine!



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http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jul/28/north-korea-defector-radio

North Korean pirate radio: homemade devices deliver banned broadcasts

Foreign programmes aim to spread information inside the secretive state. But listening is considered a 'crime against the state' and can carry the death penalty.

JH Ahn for NK News, part of the North Korea network
Monday 28 July 2014 00.00 EDT

“This is the living proof that North Koreans are strongly intent on learning about the outside world,” says Kim Seung-chul of North Korea Reform Radio, which produces daily broadcasts for North Koreans to "encourage the development of independent public opinion inside the country."

“Those who live near China may buy Chinese radio, but those who don’t have to contact the local ‘underground radio-maker,’” said Kim, a former engineer who now heads the small radio operation from Seoul, which broadcasts news and commentary. As he speaks, he holds a basic North Korean radio made from wood.

“There are some people who make a living out of making the homemade radio like this one,” he says.

This particular radio reached Kim through North Korean defectors who brought it over when they came to South Korea in 2013, having purchased it from an underground radio merchant five years ago. The name and identity of the radio maker is unknown.

Plated with woodblocks on six sides, the radio weighs about 1.5kg. Despite its outdated appearance, the radio had most of the functions common to radios available in other countries.

One of the defectors who had used the radio is Park, who escaped North Korea last November.

“I have been listening to North Korea Reform Radio and other outside radio stations since 13 years ago,” said Park, who uses an alias because he wishes to remain anonymous.

“Frankly, the ideological education in North Korea is so strong that many people including myself could not believe the content of the outside world radio,” he said of his first experience listening with the device. “I was once certain that this radio signal was sent by someone who was trying to deceive us.

“But this radio played a strong role in motivating me to escape North Korea. My friends and I used to regularly listened to NKRR and other radio programmes inside [an] underground hideout.

“Many told me to quit listening to those radio signals and start making money for myself. But with the help of this radio, I finally decided to escape the North.”

Radios are permitted in North Korea as long as they are tuned to only receive transmissions from government radio stations. Foreign journalists are usually portrayed as liars seeking to destabilise the regime.

Those who listen to foreign broadcasts take a significant risk. Under North Korean law, "listening to unauthorised foreign broadcasts and possessing dissident publications are considered 'crimes against the state' that carry serious punishments, including hard labour, prison sentences, and the death penalty," according to Freedom House.

Trying it out, NK News staff could easily connect the power to the radio, adjust the volume and change the frequency by turning the module attached to the radio. Though the functions were easy enough for anyone to learn in five minutes, the hardest part in operating this radio was finding the right frequency.


Unlike most modern radios, which can easily find frequencies with the assistance of digitally projected numbers on a screen, this handmade radio provides no visual aid. The radio, therefore, leaves users to depend totally on delicate hand skills to turn the manual module in tiny movements. Kim said once the defectors found the correct signal, they would keep the frequency module in place and not touch it, as it was far too tedious to find the same signal again.

The second difficulty was extending the internal antenna to catch a strong signal. As the radio only has a short internal antenna, North Koreans are required to wire the antenna to an external signal amplifier in order to catch a strong signal. This means that this radio is not a portable device, as it always requires a connection to an external device to make it audible. Once the connection to the external antenna is made, though, listeners may catch strong radio signals coming from all over Asia. NK News staff could listen to many Korean radio shows and even a radio signal from Japan.

The third problem was its low volume; it was hard to listen to the radio using the original speaker attached to the radio. In order to make it loud enough to be audible, we had to detach the original speaker and connect with the external amplifier. But for the defectors who owned the radio, the low volume had not been much of a problem, as they were forced to hide and listen to it extremely quietly only during the night (usually from about 11pm to 1am).

Information is very carefully controlled in North Korea, but foreign radio broadcasts are not the only medium delivering outside information to North Koreans. South Korean TV dramas smuggled in on USB sticks and DVDs are very popular, as are the laptops many use to play them. Mobile phones are also allowing some North Koreans to make illicit phone calls to people outside of the country.

A version of this article first appeared on NK News – a North Korea focused specialist news site

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID 6.950 USB
« on: February 15, 2015, 0155 UTC »
Weak in Mebourne, FL but 'have you seen her' and Doors music audible after, almost gone now
 SIO 212 at peaks.

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hearing strains of music best around 6929.50 usb on the R75 pretty weak but audible in Melbourne, FL

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Audible in C. Florida SIO 212 Chili-pepper style vocal now guitar hooks rising above noise levels.
 According to Soundhound, Current song is Diseno Rolas by Molotov, No ID heard yet.

Dear OP: I cannot remember the name of the band, but there was a group that did a complete cover album of 'Nevermind the Bollocks here's the Sex Pistols", entirely in spanish, and it was awesome. That would be great to hear again.

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FCC: Blocking Wi-Fi in hotels is prohibited
Marriott asked the FCC to please let it block Wi-Fi. The hotel gets a firm answer.

by Megan Geuss - Jan 27 2015, 4:10pm EST
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/01/fcc-blocking-wi-fi-in-hotels-is-prohibited

On Tuesday, the Federal Communications Commission issued an “Enforcement Advisory” stating that blocking W-Fi in hotels is unequivocally “prohibited."

MARRIOTT TENTATIVELY BACKS OFF WI-FI BLOCKING PLANS
But still really, really wants to force guests to pay for in-room Wi-Fi.
"Persons or businesses causing intentional interference to Wi-Fi hotspots are subject to enforcement action,” the FCC bluntly stated, referencing a dispute between Marriott and its customers who said the hotel chain had blocked their personal hotspots to force them to pay for Marriott’s Wi-Fi services.
"The Enforcement Bureau has seen a disturbing trend in which hotels and other commercial establishments block wireless consumers from using their own personal Wi-Fi hot spots on the commercial establishment’s premises,” the FCC wrote. "As a result, the Bureau is protecting consumers by aggressively investigating and acting against such unlawful intentional interference.”

The statement is a definitive one. The FCC fined Marriott $600,000 in October for blocking customers’ personal Wi-Fi hotspots at a Nashville, Tennessee, branch. Although Marriott paid the fine, it remained defiant and filed a request for rulemaking with the commission, asking that Wi-Fi blocking be permitted. Marriott’s reasoning was that it could better manage the security of its own network if it blocked unauthorized Wi-Fi broadcasts. But critics like Microsoft and Google filed petitions countering that logic. In January, Marriott promised that it wouldn’t block its customers’ Wi-Fi, but the company also would not rescind its request for rulemaking from the FCC, perhaps hoping that a favorable decision could legitimate its practice again.

The FCC’s notice today settles the issue, at least in the short term. "No hotel, convention center, or other commercial establishment or the network operator providing services at such establishments may intentionally block or disrupt personal Wi-Fi hot spots on such premises, including as part of an effort to force consumers to purchase access to the property owner’s Wi-Fi network,” the FCC wrote today. "Such action is illegal and violations could lead to the assessment of substantial monetary penalties.” The FCC has the authority to regulate airwaves, and it has maintained that Wi-Fi goes out over an unlicensed band of spectrum that does not belong to any particular company.

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