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North American Shortwave Pirate / unid 6925 USB 0504 UTC 2 SEP 2024

« on: September 02, 2024, 0511 UTC »

fair signal with maybe 10 seconds of looping audio of male & female voices saying something in a weird sing-songy cadence

After I typed that, a new looping message came on "Hello, Hello, this is a radio test. If you can hear me, put your finger in your mouth"

Great stuff to be hearing after 1 AM! 

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North American Shortwave Pirate / unid 6955 USB 0418 UTC 28 JUL 2024

« on: July 28, 2024, 0422 UTC »

VG signal, funkish song, weird-sounding utility popped up on freq, disappeared, then the pirate disappeared about a min later

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Dick Bulger Party Line 6950 USB 2038 UTC 6 JUL 2024

« on: July 06, 2024, 2101 UTC »

Hearing a tiny bit of audio

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North American Shortwave Pirate / unid 4110 USB 0220 UTC 24 DEC 2023

« on: December 25, 2023, 0222 UTC »

A couple of newish country songs. VG/excellent signal

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Latin American Pirate / AD149 Radio 6934.9 AM 0025 UTC 24 DEC 2023

« on: December 24, 2023, 0036 UTC »

Pretty good signal around 0025. Best I've heard AD149 in a while

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North American Shortwave Pirate / unid 6959 USB 0136 UTC 9 DEC 2023

« on: December 10, 2023, 0140 UTC »

Station with good signal playing instrumental EDM

Ha!

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Radio Esoterica via NAPRS 6935 1233+ UTC 14 OCT 2023

« on: October 14, 2023, 1239 UTC »

Heard carrier come on, punk song. Male announcer talking a bit, think he mentioned this is a test. Said program will be ending with a couple of songs. Bassy/muffled mic audio. I think he said next song is from Africa & it does sound like it.

Radio Esoterica IDs & old Stoneham address

Charlie Loudenboomer of NAPRS on afterward mentioning that RE was a pirate from the mid-90s & that he'll QSL logs on HFU. Nice to hear R. Esoterica again--I don't think I've heard it in about 26 years

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General Radio Discussion / Logbooks

« on: September 06, 2023, 1146 UTC »

One topic that I haven't heard anyone talk about in a long time is logbooks. Are most people using logging software? Just using the posts on HFU to serve as their logs, using ARRL ham books to list log, or maybe just enjoying the listening experience and not logging anything? It seems like some of the DXers from decades ago used to be serious about their logbooks, but I think it's been two decades or so since I've heard anyone discuss the topic.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Doghouse Radio 6935 USB 0200 UTC 30 APR 2023

« on: April 30, 2023, 0205 UTC »

Buzzwords from newscasts spliced together. Pretty cool. VG signal in a lot of noise

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General Radio Discussion / HB Radio #5 on 5130 4/20 EDT?

« on: April 20, 2023, 2203 UTC »

I know that the 5130 transmitter had some problems and I'm not sure if HB Radio #5 will be on the air tonight or not. It's scheduled for 11 PM EDT/10 PM Central, which is 0300 UTC on 4/21. I'm playing it by ear right now & if I hear anything, I'll post on this thread. Otherwise, there's always a chance that the show could pop up at a later date on 5130 or somewhere else on the radio bands.

This program is about half DX show, with about a dozen audio clips from stations reported around Easter. There's a brief interview with Ion Radio, and some chatting with Chris Smolinski about the daily wideband waterfall images he's been creating & posting on here. If you're interested in following along with what he's talking about, check out the images between 4/5 and 4/10.

Whenever it is that you hear it, hope you like the show.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / YHWH 7475 AM 0252 UTC 13 APR 2023

« on: April 13, 2023, 0356 UTC »

Consistently weak signal, but could hear talk from announcer that sounded like that of YHWH. No ID, makes sense based on time & freq. I think it went off around 0350

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General Radio Discussion / Pirate listeners younger than 30

« on: March 19, 2023, 2051 UTC »

I know this topic was brought up a few years ago, but I wondered if we have any shortwave pirate listeners who are younger than 30 right now who are active on the HFU?

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General Radio Discussion / HB Radio #4 on 5130 3/16 EDT

« on: March 13, 2023, 2107 UTC »

Hi,
Just wanted to let you know that HB Radio #4 is on the air Thursday night on the 5130 kHz transmitter of WBCQ at March 16 at 11 PM EDT/10 Central (UTC 0400 3/17). This one's a change of pace, in some ways from the last: about 9 minutes of brief shortwave news & audio clips into a long interview with Tha Dood, who has run Part-15 and carrier-current stations for 40 years and is active on HFU.

If you don't typically stay up 'til 0500 or are out of the signal range of WBCQ, it's possible that it could be relayed by other outlets at a later date. Also, I can send out some MP3 copies. I'll eventually post the shows on one of the platforms, but I'm trying to catch up with things here . . . and I tend to procrastinate with jumping into new technologies.

BTW, I've finished most of the part 2 episode with Chris Smolinski & plan to finish it soon. Then I'll make it available . . . maybe in about two weeks, but we'll see.

Thanks for your interest, patience, and/or support and hope you like the show!
Andrew

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North American Shortwave Pirate / UNID 6950 1253 UTC 18 FEB 2023

« on: February 18, 2023, 1323 UTC »

Weak with music, synch detector had problems locking. Went outside to check that the horizontal loop was OK after a day of wind & falling limbs. The antenna's OK, but the station was gone

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Outhouse Radio 6935 USB 0207 UTC 28 JAN 2023

« on: January 29, 2023, 0209 UTC »

Weak with some fade ups. Sounds like Jethro Tull