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Shortwave Pirate / Re: Radio GaGa 6925U 0017 2-2-13

« on: February 02, 2013, 0044 UTC »

Tuned in during "Radio GaGa." VG sig here.
Thanks for the show!
Andrew

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Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID 6925 AM 0101 UTC 27 Jan 2013

« on: January 28, 2013, 0439 UTC »

Into the new Pirates Week at 0430...started it, heard a Windows "ding" then into it again. Fading down now, but for a while this was coming in with a perfect signal & I had to look to see that it was 6925 and not 7490 or some other 50-kW station.
Thanks for the show!
Andrew

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Shortwave Pirate / Re: WMFT Family Radio 6.924.6 @1801 Jan 27

« on: January 27, 2013, 1934 UTC »

BIG S9+10 signal here with great audio. Lots of messing around with playback speed of the program. Last time, I heard what I thought was multipath echo on the broadcast, but now I think it was probably just the op fading echo on & off different parts of the program. Ha!
Thanks!
Andrew

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General Radio Discussion / 2013 PRA prelim thanks

« on: January 27, 2013, 1929 UTC »

Hi all,
First of all, I thought I'd thank Pirate Radio Boston & Mysterious Mystic Radio for writing and sending programs so that I can do better entries and have studio-quality audio for the 2013 PRA CD. If any other stations want to do the same, that would be great. If not, I'll soon be e-mailing stations with entry info, etc. The station e-mails will probably start going out in the next week or two (but I've still got a lot of entries to finish, so it'll be a while until they're all out).

I've been writing a lot over the past month, getting audio files together, and trying to reduce my learning curves on InDesign & a newer edition of Photoshop. We'll see when I'm closer to having it ready for the printer...

Thanks!
Andrew

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European Pirates and Private Stations / Re: Border Hunter Radio 15.500 @1725 Jan 27

« on: January 27, 2013, 1903 UTC »

Country song right now. Still VG on fade ups, but sig is now more out than in

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European Pirates and Private Stations / Re: Border Hunter Radio 15.500 @1725 Jan 27

« on: January 27, 2013, 1749 UTC »

Wow, really good signal here today! Better than I get from a lot of North Americans in AM mode.
Signal doesn't seem to be all that wide, so I'm keeping it on 4 kHz.
Thanks for the test!
Andrew

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Shortwave Pirate / Re: Red Mercury Labs 6925u 0159Z Jan 27, 2013

« on: January 27, 2013, 0318 UTC »

Just tuned in at the very end & caught about the last minute off the sign off announcement. Then, someone else said hi & RML came back on briefly. Really nice signal here.
Thanks for the show!
Andrew

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Shortwave Pirate / Re: Radio Ga Ga 6925 USB 2331 UTC 25 Jan 2013

« on: January 25, 2013, 2349 UTC »

Tuned in to Thomas Dolby "She Blinded Me with Science" & heard a "live from Zipper Lake" ID. Like Chris said, better than normal signals here.
Thanks for the show!
Andrew

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Shortwave Pirate / Re: 7025 USB UNID 2147 - UTC 22 Jan 2013

« on: January 22, 2013, 2319 UTC »

Obliterated here by strong CW. Could occasionally hear some audio. If he moved out of the 40m band, I'd probably have good copy.

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Shortwave Pirate / Re: Southern Relay Service 6925 AM 2352 UTC 21 Jan 2013

« on: January 22, 2013, 0012 UTC »

Best sig I've had from SRS, mostly hanging around S7, but starting to have longer, deeper fades. A couple of clear computer YL IDs, a rap song by Dirt Nasty, a masturbation hotline segment, etc. I think it's going into a Pirates Week show now.
Thanks for the show,
Andrew

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Shortwave Pirate / Unid: 6925, 1/19/13, 1736+

« on: January 19, 2013, 1742 UTC »

Station on & off with test counts & trying to eliminate distortion in audio. Nice signal, but some "rippling" distortion. Not sure if it's RF feedback or something else. Am recording it if op's interested in how it sounds here.

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European Pirates and Private Stations / Re: R Spaceshutle 15880 USB 1213 Jan 19

« on: January 19, 2013, 1339 UTC »

Hearing flute music at 1337 on freq. Long, slow fade ups. Haven't heard any IDs yet

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SDR - Software Defined Radio / Re: What's a decent mid priced SDR for LW/MW/HF?

« on: January 18, 2013, 1349 UTC »

Chris & Token: Thanks for the comments! That helps a lot. I was looking at reviews last night & saw a lot of positives on the SDR-IQ, but also saw a number of people who said that it was much noisier than the typical receiver. Do many of these receivers stack up well against the older contingent of top-end hobby-level radios (e.g., R-8, R-5000, ICR-71, NRD-525)?
Thanks again!

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SDR - Software Defined Radio / Re: What's a decent mid priced SDR for LW/MW/HF?

« on: January 17, 2013, 1415 UTC »

Can the SDR-IQ record chunks of spectrum like the Perseus? When I get an SDR, I want it for recording ranges overnight or when I'm away from home...oh and I think it'd be really handy for hearing the Irish church pirates on the CB band.

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General Radio Discussion / 3220 kHz

« on: January 15, 2013, 0451 UTC »

Working on the Pirate Radio Annual tonight & I came across some loggings of stations on 3220 kHz (presumably all harmonics of 1610 pirates or Part-15 stations, such as logs by Joe Farley, N8Hensley, and Kilocat7. Just wondered if anyone was still hearing these or actively tuning 3200-3420 kHz looking for these harmonics?

Interesting stuff.

Have a great night!
Andrew