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General Radio Discussion / Re: Pescadores - What do they talk about?

« on: April 14, 2013, 1807 UTC »

LOL!  The last time I heard that bunch they were complaining about the hockey strike and discussing the butt of a young lady that worked at a convenience store.

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Equipment / Re: Massive mediumwave interference problem at Beerus HQ.

« on: April 14, 2013, 1759 UTC »

Have they erected any new towers near/at the transmitter site, broadcast or other? The reason I'm asking is I had a similar problem with a local AM station when it reactivated a few years back. The problem turned out to be a cell tower erected in the years the station was dark.

The broadcaster near the top of the old MW band. The cell tower was the right height and distance away to act as a reflector. Anything to the WNW of the station's stick was getting hammered. I had the luck to be in that sweet spot.

Luckily they were still testing and discovered to their amazement that the cellphone tower reflector combined with their mighty 500 watts was interfering with both MW and ham traffic hundreds of miles to the west of them after dark. They tried an auxillary transmitter/antenna site a few miles away and the problem went away.

I switched to BOG antennas during that period. Oddly there was a kicker to that. In this case you couldn't just roll the wire onto the lawn. If the runs of wire were more than 4-6 inches above the soil itself, the noise levels shot up drastically.

I had some success with broomstick type antennas in the windows of my radio room then. You have to dick around with them when setting them up,so the polarity of the stick nulls out the noise as much as possible.

Good luck.

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General Radio Discussion / Al, you're an expert in all things penguin.........

« on: April 13, 2013, 2011 UTC »

can you tell me if the current reports of global warming benefiting worldwide penguin populations can possibly
be true? Will the little beasts be sunning themselves in the Bahamas by 2020? Will they understand your propagation reports?

Thanks in advance, your pal, Pigmeat.

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General Radio Discussion / Re: Propagation

« on: April 12, 2013, 1606 UTC »

With the massive amount of power I ran, I created my own propagation....... a cone of silence around Al Fansome's trailer.

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General Radio Discussion / Re: Propagation

« on: April 07, 2013, 0126 UTC »

He can't. He doesn't know what it means either.



I thought you fell into Puget Sound?

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General Radio Discussion / Re: FCC chairman announces resignation

« on: April 05, 2013, 0858 UTC »

Will they keep Pat Murphy on the informant payroll? I'd hate to see the old coot have to suffer through retirement without a little extra income.

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General Radio Discussion / Re: U.S. May Sell Airwaves That Help Broadway Sing

« on: March 31, 2013, 2357 UTC »

Watch it, Fansome, or I'll sic my stalker on you.

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General Radio Discussion / Re: FRN dysfunction

« on: March 22, 2013, 1354 UTC »

Word is that a mysterious group of investors is planning on buying the addy. They're going to use it for the Fansome Radio Network.

I understand the same group is considering buying up the Area 51 time slot on WBCQ.

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General Radio Discussion / Re: Buddy Holley 54 years a go

« on: February 04, 2013, 0107 UTC »

Did The Grim Fansome give you permission to post about dead musicians? That's his forte.

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General Radio Discussion / Re: Pirate Column To Return To Pop Comm? Voice Your Opinion!

« on: February 04, 2013, 0059 UTC »

Only if Fansome writes it.

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European Pirates and Private Stations / Re: 3920 AM UNID Euro Pirate ??? 0830+ UTC 27 JAN 13

« on: February 01, 2013, 1141 UTC »

Check the AM sister stations of those FM stations,Charley. There are still quite a few FM stations that simulcast on their AM outlets.

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General Radio Discussion / Re: High seas piracy question

« on: February 01, 2013, 1130 UTC »

The limits on territorial waters used to be set either at a 3 or 12 miles under international agreements.

In the 70's,Ecuador set a 200 mile limit for fishing rights. This set off the Tuna War,which took years to settle.

However one aspect of the Ecuadorian action is that other countries found it useful to protect against both smuggling and exploitation of their regions offshore resources by foreign powers. They began to adapt it.

In the years since, 200 miles offshore has become the defacto limit of international waters.

It's legal to do it out there,but do you want to go to the trouble?

I'd go land based with my sights on Panama,Belize or Honduras instead. None of those places are going to extradite you for some minor crap like playing radio. Hell, if you've got the bucks to do a sea-based op, it would be no problem to get a broadcast license by spreading a few bucks around in those places. A lot cheaper than going to sea.

BTW,just about every male who can afford one carries a pistol in Honduras. Plenty of cheap AK's/M-16's left over from the Contra wars,too.

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Equipment / Re: Antenna Tuner vs Preselector - Your Mileage May Vary... What do you use, if any?

« on: January 26, 2013, 1611 UTC »

I've got one of the MFJ 1045's that LCee has. They're great if you've got to run a compromise antenna into a portable radio. Cuts down on images and peaks signals.

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SDR - Software Defined Radio / Re: Listening in on weather balloons with RTL SDR

« on: January 26, 2013, 1548 UTC »

So that's what happened to the now extinct Mojave Jackrabbit.

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European Pirates and Private Stations / Re: 3920 AM Euro Pirate ?? +0500 - 1100+ UTC 1/17 and 1/18

« on: January 25, 2013, 1606 UTC »

Well,look who the cat drug in. How are you Charlie?

I used to hear a Irish based pirate on 3915, but that's been years ago. They do hang out in that 3900-3950 though. Sometimes I'll get a het or hear some music down there between the wall to wall blast of regional hams, but not enough to waste what's left of my hearing on them.

You're one of the few guys located where you don't have to worry about hams being east of you. Why don't you run a a couple-three BOG's (beverage on the ground antennas) pointed at Europe and see if that helps out?