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North American Shortwave Pirate / Unid 6924.1 AM, 0152utc, Jan. 27 2015

« on: January 27, 2016, 0156 UTC »

0152utc  Thar blows some pirate on 6924.1 am.  I'm pretty sure I made out a bit of Hendrix. It fades up now and then.  Sun just went down. There was some crazy meandering interference too, it lingered right around the area of interest.
0156utc  Getting some definite Hendrix now. S6 with S4 noise floor.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Channel Z Radio 6925khz AM Mode at 02:58UTC

« on: January 23, 2016, 0328 UTC »

0327utc, a carrier. Much stronger than 6770am.  Fades a bit now and then.
0335utc some short bits of audio will fade in, sounds like music

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Undercover Radio 6960 USB at 0138 UTC, 1/23/16

« on: January 23, 2016, 0229 UTC »

0228 UTC, Made out the name "Benway"
S4 with an S3 noise level. The music is good quality despite the low signal. I hear the treble and bass well

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: XLR8 6950 USB 2318 UTC 1/22/16

« on: January 23, 2016, 0049 UTC »

0046utc XLR8 ID heard. Reception getting a little better as sun goes down. 447pm here. 

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID 6956 USB 0253 UTC Jan 16, 2016

« on: January 16, 2016, 0312 UTC »

LOL, I got an SSTV after hearing some guitar. It was difficult to tune in.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: KCPR 6950 USB 0108 UTC 16 Jan 2016

« on: January 16, 2016, 0133 UTC »

S5 here with an S3 noise floor. Not good reception, I can tell there's music and then some talk. Usually I get KCPR better than this. I thikn there's some reggae playing now.

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Equipment / Re: An Overview of the Underestimated Magnetic Loop HF Antenna

« on: January 13, 2016, 0317 UTC »

Hey, I just found this web page this week. It has a wonderfully simple capacitor.
It uses pex pipe with aluminum sandwiched inside for the radiator. And for the capacitor a bit of coax cable stuffed inside. You slide it in and out to adjust the capacitance.

http://draaggolf.blogspot.com/2014/04/finally-pexalpex-loop.html

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General Radio Discussion / Re: What do you think hfunderground's "threat score" is?

« on: January 12, 2016, 1903 UTC »

Wow, thanks for expounding on the details, I learned a lot.  But what I'm talking about is something that the officer's use to help them do a quick judgement of a person to see how likely it is that they will hurt the officer or others.  Its not evidence used in the courts. Its like the cop is asking a robot, "Hey Robey, I just pulled over this car, what threat level is the owner to me." 

Similarly, I figure the FBI could consult robots to do the same with the likely hood of committing a crime with radio.  Say there's a terrorism crime where somebody uses radio transmissions.  I can see that just being a SW listening member like myself would make my "radio-using-terrorist threat score" go up.  And if I'm in the same neighborhood of the terrorist act, I think it would go way up.

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General Radio Discussion / Re: Norway radio enthusiast tunes into CBC Saskatchewan 5,800 km away

« on: January 11, 2016, 2146 UTC »

Cool QSL, Jari, it took me a while to figure out what your post meant!

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General Radio Discussion / Re: 3824 khz Maritime activity

« on: January 11, 2016, 2138 UTC »

CoooOOOOooool, I'll monitor this frequency and let it be known what I hear.

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General Radio Discussion / What do you think hfunderground's "threat score" is?

« on: January 11, 2016, 2135 UTC »

Here's an article of a police station that uses software to help them determine how much of a threat somebody is:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/the-new-way-police-are-surveilling-you-calculating-your-threat-score/2016/01/10/e42bccac-8e15-11e5-baf4-bdf37355da0c_story.html

Basically the software digs into online public data including social media and come up with a threat score.  Its like a credit score but for the police so they can know how much of their finger needs to be on the trigger of their weapon when they respond to a call. 

Does anybody think being a member of hfunderground would make them more "threatening" to the FCC or FBI? 

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Huh? / Re: Rumor.......

« on: January 04, 2016, 0236 UTC »

KFC taking in the small mammals with short, meaty legs? Thats like letting the fox guard the hen house.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Radio True North 6940/4070 AM 2330Z, Jan. 01, 2016

« on: January 03, 2016, 0438 UTC »

Last night on 4070 the signal came up to an S7-S9, then went down to around S6..
A little after that, I caught this SSTV. It was around s6 and then the signal came up a bit in the middle as you can see but it went back down again
Thanks RTN-man. 

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General Radio Discussion / A talented 70's rock band, kind of rare

« on: December 19, 2015, 0107 UTC »

Hey, my neighbor pointed out a talented rock band called the Stuart Little band. There's a youtube link with some songs. Pretty catchy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zR63ugeP7l4&list=PLVMHVNOfOHe2pQQluJG46qvd357JYjkhn

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North American Shortwave Pirate / weird carrier, 6950am 0335utc Dec. 18, 2015

« on: December 18, 2015, 0344 UTC »

Hey, I would recognize that warbly carrier anywhere. That xmtr wouldn't happen to be an ebay-special, would it?