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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Radio Paisano 6925 AM 1855 UTC 7 Oct 2018
« on: October 07, 2018, 1926 UTC »
Going strong on the BOG. Solid S4 signal, SIO 455!!
1925: Station ID?
1925: Station ID?
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Shortwave Broadcast / MWV African Pathways Radio 17640 AM 1810 UTC 07 OCT 2018
« on: October 07, 2018, 1811 UTC »
Booming signal. S4-6. SIO 444
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Equipment / Re: Cat6 wire for RX antenna
« on: October 07, 2018, 1600 UTC »
Pretty much any wire will work for receiving. The tricks are 1) location, 2) geometry, and 3) getting a reasonable impedance match to your feedline and/or radio (doesn’t have to be exact...but you don’t want a high Z antenna trying to feed a low Z input or vice versa.
I had decent (eg better than the included whip) results with some plain old enameled wrapping wire connected to my Sony portable. In fact, my old grinding came with an external antenna that was just a spool of 28-ish GA wire with a plug on the end.
Play around with it and have fun. Plastic thumbtacks are useful for temporary installations inside....
I had decent (eg better than the included whip) results with some plain old enameled wrapping wire connected to my Sony portable. In fact, my old grinding came with an external antenna that was just a spool of 28-ish GA wire with a plug on the end.
Play around with it and have fun. Plastic thumbtacks are useful for temporary installations inside....
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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID 6925 USB 0006 UTC 7 Oct 2018
« on: October 07, 2018, 0014 UTC »
Solid S2-S3 here.
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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID 6930 USB 0006 UTC 7 Oct 2018
« on: October 07, 2018, 0009 UTC »
0008: Still Winger. God help us. Sounds slightly off freq...maybe 6930.05U? Weak (S1-ish)
0010: Whitesnake "still of the night"
0016: Slaughter "Up all night"
0020: Warrant "Cherry Pie". Knew that was going to show up. Poison has to be in this setlist at some point....
0023: Skid Row "Youth Gone Wild". Signal up to S3 now
0026: Sammy Hagar "Heavy Metal"
0030: Station ID and Poison "Talk Dirty To Me". Fading out (and of course faded during the station ID)
0031: Faded below QRN
WHew it's my college days all over again. Didn't even have to use Siri for these
0010: Whitesnake "still of the night"
0016: Slaughter "Up all night"
0020: Warrant "Cherry Pie". Knew that was going to show up. Poison has to be in this setlist at some point....
0023: Skid Row "Youth Gone Wild". Signal up to S3 now
0026: Sammy Hagar "Heavy Metal"
0030: Station ID and Poison "Talk Dirty To Me". Fading out (and of course faded during the station ID)
0031: Faded below QRN
WHew it's my college days all over again. Didn't even have to use Siri for these
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Shortwave Broadcast / Voice of Korea 9435AM 1341 UTC 06 OCT 2018
« on: October 06, 2018, 1343 UTC »
Carrier and unintelligible audio. S1 at best, way down in the QRN. SIO 111....
1341: female talking
1342: Music with some lady singing. Probably highly entertaining if the lyrics could be made out.
1341: female talking
1342: Music with some lady singing. Probably highly entertaining if the lyrics could be made out.
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Shortwave Broadcast / IRIB VO IRAN 7425 AM 2204 UTC 05 OCT 2018
« on: October 05, 2018, 2208 UTC »
S3-4, SIO 333. Chanting, but sounds like something else (man talking) trying to cut in. Can't tell if it's another station or not
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Shortwave Broadcast / MWV The Light of Life 11610 AM 2146 UTC 05 OCT 2018
« on: October 05, 2018, 2147 UTC »
Coming in strong (S4-5) and clear. SIO 444.
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North American Shortwave Pirate / Relay station? 6880 AM 1453 UTC 05 OCT 2018
« on: October 05, 2018, 1455 UTC »
1453: Pink Floyd "Shine on..." S1-2 with deep fades. SIO 222 ish
1457: Pink Floyd "Fat old sun" (according to Siri). Signal pumping up ....S3-5, SIO 344
1503: Continuing w/ Pink Floyd! "What do you want from me". Signal trying to settle down to a stable S3.
1508: Pink Floyd "Time".
1509: Big time (lol) fade. Still have the carrier at S4 but no audio.
1511: Back on the air. Must have been changing carts or turntables. LOL! (Siri ID) "Charity" by someone.
Thanks for the workday show!
1457: Pink Floyd "Fat old sun" (according to Siri). Signal pumping up ....S3-5, SIO 344
1503: Continuing w/ Pink Floyd! "What do you want from me". Signal trying to settle down to a stable S3.
1508: Pink Floyd "Time".
1509: Big time (lol) fade. Still have the carrier at S4 but no audio.
1511: Back on the air. Must have been changing carts or turntables. LOL! (Siri ID) "Charity" by someone.
Thanks for the workday show!
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Shortwave Broadcast / MWV African Pathways Radio 17640 AM 1845 UTC 30 Sept 2018
« on: September 30, 2018, 1851 UTC »
Surprisingly clear transmission; S2-3; SIO 444. According to the db the tx site is Madagascar...if that's correct maybe we have a nice duct across at least part of E Africa on 16m?
1845: Preachy stuff
1848: Station contact info
1851: Station ID
1851: Music
1845: Preachy stuff
1848: Station contact info
1851: Station ID
1851: Music
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Shortwave Broadcast / WRNO? 7505 AM 1835 UTC 30 SEPT 2018
« on: September 30, 2018, 1840 UTC »
Think this is WRNO but off-schedule.
1836: Great Wall by Da' TRUTH etc.
1838: preachy stuff
S4-5, SIO 444
1836: Great Wall by Da' TRUTH etc.
1838: preachy stuff
S4-5, SIO 444
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Shortwave Broadcast / VO oromo liberation 15420 AM 1725 UTC 30 Sept 2018
« on: September 30, 2018, 1726 UTC »
1725: Pretty agitated guy preaching something or another.
1726: Music, fades starting to come and go.
SIO 233; weak signal at just above S1 but low noise and moderate fades.
1726: Music, fades starting to come and go.
SIO 233; weak signal at just above S1 but low noise and moderate fades.
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Shortwave Broadcast / NHK Radio Japan 6105 AM 0204 UTC 29 SEPT 2018
« on: September 30, 2018, 0205 UTC »
Burning it up at a solid S7 here. According to the db it's the transmitter in France....
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Propagation / solar minimum thermosphere...
« on: September 29, 2018, 2252 UTC »
Since i HAVEN'T read the tutorial yet, i can't interpret what this means in terms of the ionosphere (if anything), but....
https://spaceweatherarchive.com/2018/09/27/the-chill-of-solar-minimum/
https://spaceweatherarchive.com/2018/09/27/the-chill-of-solar-minimum/
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Equipment / Antenna graffiti
« on: September 23, 2018, 1246 UTC »
If strange graffiti starts showing up on neighborhood houses, I know nothing about it.
https://phys.org/news/2018-09-spray-on-antennas-potential-smart-technology.html
https://phys.org/news/2018-09-spray-on-antennas-potential-smart-technology.html
