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Messages - Pigmeat

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They need to hear some of the airchecks of the original WHYP and it's late owner, James Brownyard, if they want weird.

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I always enjoyed their English news service. In 2014 when the Russians started their incursions into Eastern Ukraine and then grabbed Crimea, their news on the situation was nightly, up to date, and reliable.

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Equipment / Re: I bought a shortwave and can't hear sh*t
« on: June 21, 2025, 0655 UTC »
You can make a BOG, beverage on the ground antenna, out of that stuff but leave the insulation on it. They're quiet, somewhat directional and most importantly, cheap. Roll it out listen, then roll it back up. Takes a under 5 minutes to deploy and less to roll back up.

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Equipment / Re: Ideal thickness of wire for longwire antenna
« on: June 21, 2025, 0642 UTC »
I use whatever is the cheapest, but I like 16 gauge insulated doorbell wire for permanent listening antennas. It's cheap and you can buy at any hardware store. W/ the insulation left on it holds up well.

When I was pirating, a lot of these old guys on this forum heard me when I was using nothing more than a dipole made from 100 ft. of speaker wire split into 33 ft. legs through a PVC pipe cap. The rest was the feedline. It fed into a small tuner and I powered w/ one of the Radio Animal's Grenade transmitters. A mighty 14 watts of AM carrier heard from Canada to Florida! I hit Europe a couple of times with it. Launched into trees in the sticks w/ a wrist rocket slingshot via a one oz. egg shaped fishing sinker connected to 60 lb. test mono fishing line from an old bait casting reel and powered by a 12 volt gel-cell battery. I may hold some sort of record for being the cheapest long running pirate station ever to take the air? Rarely QSL'ed as stamps cost money, damn it! The Dood's buddy, Fearless Fred and I used to call Wal-Mart, "The One Stop Pirate Shop." Those split speaker wire dipoles lasted about 10-12 Tx's in the field, until the feedline got too twisted to use. Spend a buck for another 100 ft. build another and do it again.

I used the balls of used speaker wire antennas for BOG's and homemade loops for listening up and down the radio spectrum. Made makeshift TV antenna's of it. Never throw wire away. It's the radio listeners, ham, and pirates bread and butter and boon companion. Good luck!

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I thought Rebbe Schneerson might have finally resurrected? He gave me 5 bucks in the 1980's.

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I'm sorry I missed this one. You folks do know that the song "China Girl" isn't about a woman, don't you? Iggy and his pal Bowie had a little problem with the China Girl in that era. ;)

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Mac Wiseman? I knew him when I was a kid. He was a cousin. I used to call him Uncle Mac.
 
RA, you ought look up the works of one Elmer Bird. Another one of my kinfolks. The man who preserved the old time "Drop Thumb Banjo" style. Of course he invented it, too. Elmer was hoot. I used to do broadcasts from the bottom across the creek from his birthplace and up on the hill above where he and his wife are buried.

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I thought I heard a Satan's Sidebander sneaking around there.

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Much better on the 900 foot loop at Old Man Smolinski's Ranch, but still a lot of noise on the band.

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What the N2MLP said above, low audio plus a lot of noise at Smolinski's wire ranch in northern MD.

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A tad weak but bell clear on the N.W. Coast of Ireland. About an S-5. Where will I go next?

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Big signal on the N. Utah SDR.

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Good to see you, Andy. Heard from our Dog in Pittsburgh?

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