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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Unknown Name Radio 6900->6895->6900->6895... USB 0300 UTC (+/-) 13 Jan 2022

« on: January 13, 2022, 0323 UTC »

6900USB
0322Z: Vanilla ice for a second...
0323Z: Virus, Deltron 3030
0324Z: shift to 6895U.  Good S4 signal
0328Z:  Fairly local, twenty one pilots.  bouncing between 6985U and 6900U a few times; settles on 6900U
0334Z:  multiple IDs "unknown Maine? Main? radio network" -> "unknown name radio" per discord

0407Z: OTA.  Great show.   Hot mike afterwards?

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Shortwave Broadcast / Re: UNID 9265 AM 0050 UTC 07 JAN 2022

« on: January 07, 2022, 1809 UTC »

Token, you da man!  Are the radiograms encrypted? 

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Shortwave Broadcast / UNID 9265 AM 0050 UTC 07 JAN 2022

« on: January 07, 2022, 0054 UTC »

Schedule shows WINB, but no idea what data format this is (if there is data in this mess!).  Pretty constant S4 signal.  Not a (local) noise signal as I was also able to monitor it from one of the MD kiwis......

0102Z update:  hearing some roughly modulated audio now on the kiwi, and audio is improving. Those LSB spikes are gone from the kiwi now but i'm still getting them at my location.

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Shortwave Broadcast / All India Radio? 15030 AM 1435 UTC 03 Jan 2022

« on: January 03, 2022, 1441 UTC »

ID presumptive based on short-wave.info schedule.  Great signal into MD this AM.  At least SIO 444....bouncing around between S3 and 4. 

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Outhouse Radio 6935 USB 2257 UTC 18 DEC 2021

« on: December 18, 2021, 2258 UTC »

Sounds like techno music of some sort.  background to S3.  lots of static, unfortunately. Occasional CW....maybe "FLZ"?   Hope to hear more of this station, liked the tunes.
2325Z:  getting stronger, marginally.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: ION Radio 6955 was 6870 AM 1943 UTC 18 DEC 2021

« on: December 18, 2021, 2114 UTC »

2114 UTC:  S2-3 here.  Some deep fades.

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HF Mystery Signals / 43m broadband oddity

« on: December 18, 2021, 0040 UTC »

Take a look at THIS thing....the blob, not the 6895kHz signal.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / UNID 6940.7 AM 2151 UTC 17 Dec 2021

« on: December 17, 2021, 2151 UTC »

One song, S5+ then OTA

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: WHIZ 6925 USB 2030 UTC 17 DEC 2021

« on: December 17, 2021, 2050 UTC »

S5 here, great signal and audio.

2217 UTC update:  faded down to S1; in and out.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID 6925 USB 2107 UTC 8 DEC 2021

« on: December 08, 2021, 2127 UTC »

Awww it faded out at exactly the worst time

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North American Shortwave Pirate / WFDR 6925 USB 2107 UTC 8 DEC 2021

« on: December 08, 2021, 2108 UTC »

Rebroadcast of news coverage of the 08 December 1941 joint session of Congress.  Good signal (S4+) and audio but faded to noise at 2110Z

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North American Shortwave Pirate / UNID 6925 AM 1919 UTC 7 DEC 2021

« on: December 07, 2021, 1922 UTC »

Xmas music.  S3 with some static and fades

1919Z: It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas
1921Z: Christmas is just around the corner
1927Z: Its the most wonderful time of the year
1929Z: Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow
1939Z-ish:  OTA

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Equipment / Re: bigger LOG.....

« on: December 05, 2021, 2108 UTC »

OK, I give up.  Apparently any antenna that runs in my backyard picks up a hell of a lot of QRM from somewhere.  Probably something in my office, but who knows. 

Back to the LOG in the front yard and it's very long coax run. 

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Equipment / Re: bigger LOG.....

« on: December 05, 2021, 1605 UTC »

going to try one more thing....at the moment my antenna feeds into a balun probably 80 feet from my shack, so there's a pretty significant run of coax between there and my radio.  Since the antenna now goes all the way around the house, i can tap into it probably 6 feet away now.  Will do that, drop the gain, and see what happens. 

At the moment I can run the gain all the way up on 20m, but anything lower and i have to drop it by half and pretty much lose any useful signal. 

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Shortwave Broadcast / WBCQ? 6160 AM 0430 UTC 05 Dec 2021

« on: December 05, 2021, 0436 UTC »

Schedule says WBCQ or Pyongyang...neither seems right. S3 signal.

0432Z-"Shake your ass" by Blowfly
0435Z-"Portable Radio" by Clout
0438Z-female talking about speaking on the radio w/ male.
0446Z-some odd music mix

Maybe it is WBCQ....the program guide at http://wbcq.com/schedule/ has a more diverse set than I expected...