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4681

North American Shortwave Pirate / Wolverine Radio 6950 USB 15 Sept 2013 0118Z

« on: September 15, 2013, 0119 UTC »

0118Z 34433 S7 IS + ID   (I=4: local QRM)
0118Z 34433 S8 Coon-Sanders "Is She My Girl Friend?"
0121Z 34433 S8 Benny Goodman "It Happens To The Best Of Friends"
0124Z 34433 S8 Lil Green "Let's Be Friends'
0127Z 34433 S8 ID "Wolverine Radio"
0127Z 44444 S9  "A Man's Best Friend Is A Bed"
0130Z 44444 S9 Sarah Vaughn "Gentlemen Friend"
0133Z 55445 S9+ The Dixie Doodlers "Best Of Friends"
0136Z 55445 S9+ ID" Wolverine Radio"
0136Z 55445 S9+ Hank Williams "I'm Sorry For You My Friend"
0138Z 45444 S7 Johnny Cash "He'll Be A Friend"
0140Z 45444 S8 Dee Clark "Your Friends"
0142Z 45444 S8 ID "Wolverine Radio"
0142Z 45444 S8 Jefferson Airplane "My Best Friend"
0146Z 45444 S8 Joe Cocker "With A Little Help From My Friends"
0150Z 45444 S8 Grateful Dead "Friend Of The Devil"
0154Z 45444 S8 ID "Wolverine Radio"
0154Z 45444 S8 Jackson Browne "Red Neck Friend"
0158Z 45444 S8 War "Why Can't We Friends"
0201Z 45444 S9 Joan Armatrading "Friends"
0204Z 45444 S8 ID "Wolverine Radio"
0204Z 45444 S8 The Cars "My Best Friend's Girl"
0208Z 45444 S8 The Rolling Stones "Waiting On A Friend"
0212Z 45444 S8 Oingo Boingo "Where Do All My Friends Go"
0217Z 45444 S8 ID "Wolverine Radio"
0217Z 45444 S8 Concrete Bonde "I Wanna Be Your Friend Again"
0223Z 45444 S8 B.B. King & Robert Cray "Playin' With My Friends"
0228Z 45444 S8 ID "Wolverine Radio"
0228Z 45444 SSTV
0230Z Off air.


Thanks Wolverine!!!!!!  





_{Perseus SDR with Wellbrook ALA-1530S+ loop}

4682

North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Black Cat Radio 6925 USB 0014 UTC 15 Sep 2013

« on: September 15, 2013, 0040 UTC »

@0040Z  Somewhat above the noise & can hear music, but local QRM is interfering.

0043Z 23341 S6 ID
0043Z 23341 S6 Municipal Waste "Sadistic Magician"
0048Z 23342 S6 Op signing off
0048Z 23342 S6 Testament "Powerslave"
0055Z Off air.




_{Yaesu FT-840 with 102' G5RV @ 25'}

4683

Shortwave Broadcast / The Mighty KBC 7375 kHz Sept 14, 2013 0000Z

« on: September 15, 2013, 0000 UTC »

0000Z 55444 S9+10 On Air   BAM! Killer signal tonight.
0000Z 55444 S9+10 Night Ranger "Rock In America"
0004Z 55444 S9+10 ID "You are listening to the Giant Jukebox with Eric Van Willegen"
0004Z 55444 S9+10 The Police "De Do Do Do Do, De Da Da Da"
0008Z 55444 S9+10 DJ - Uncle Eric "125,000 Watts of power"
0009Z 55444 S9+20 Alvin Stardust "Pretend"
001043Z Off air abruptly


Why the station went off the air (from KBC's FaceBook page):
"Some alert cables were stolen out of the ground. Those open cable connectors received many electrical impulses which caused the shut-down of the transmitters on an irregular basis."




_{Yaesu FT-840 with 102' G5RV @ 25'}

4684

Shortwave Broadcast / Re: a new dog walking frequency 3:00 utc 9/13/2013

« on: September 14, 2013, 2334 UTC »

Found the KCMO municipal regs. Looked through the likely sections and didn't see it. However- That doesn't mean that its not buried in some irrelevant section, or its covered by county or state law. Or the cop could've made it up. And I'm not going to go looking through every KCMO code for it. If the cops bring it up again, simply ask for the number. Surely that isn't being disharmonious. Isn't that why they write these things down?
http://library.municode.com/index.aspx?clientId=10156

However, cmradio, I did find something a little odd that you may consider for your blog. Not as good as the fishing pole, but stupid (and might I say very dangerous for wheelbarrows, tricycles, and handcarts).  Not to pick on KCMO with this, I live near Minneapolis and I think you could find a lot of "good" material in Mpls' code.   



Sec. 64-248. Pushing wheelbarrow or handcart on sidewalk.
No person shall trundle or cause to be trundled any wheelbarrow or handcart in or upon any sidewalk

http://library.municode.com/HTML/10156/level3/PTIICOOR_CH50OFMIPR_ARTIVOFAGPR.html#PTIICOOR_CH50OFMIPR_ARTIVOFAGPR_S50-123PLBIWHOTVEPABO
Sec. 50-123. Placing bicycle, wheelbarrow or other vehicle on parks or boulevards.

No velocipede, bicycle, tricycle, wheelbarrow, handcart or other vehicle shall be placed by the owner or any other person in charge or control thereof, or be permitted by such person, upon sidewalks, curbstones, grass plots or planting space of any park, boulevard, parkway, avenue, street or park road.

4685

Other / Re: Pescadores 6933 LSB 2140 UTC 14 Sep 2013

« on: September 14, 2013, 2151 UTC »

Absolutely nothing here.




_{Perseus with Wellbrook ALA1530S+ loop}

4686

General Radio Discussion / Re: We seem to be past solar max

« on: September 14, 2013, 1821 UTC »

The early 90's was a ton of fun. The past few years have been b-o-r-i-n-g.

Looks like finally 24 has reached it max. 24 needs to give up & go away and let 25 take over and show us how its really done.

4687

Shortwave Broadcast / Re: Voice of Greece 9420 khz 1:12 ut 11 Sept '13

« on: September 14, 2013, 1331 UTC »

They also like to play Barry White.

4688

Shortwave Broadcast / Re: a new dog walking frequency 3:00 utc 9/13/2013

« on: September 14, 2013, 1331 UTC »

I didn't realize there was an ordinance against walking with a fishing rod, but what the hell do I know?

Seriously? So the only way to go fishing is to drive/bike to the water? Your cops seem to be rather unstable. Could run a wire down the leash to the dog. Or, carry a helium filled balloon with #26 wire going up the string (unless walking with a balloon is illegal too). Or continue as you are as a free citizen.

In case that free citizen thing doesn't pan out, tune into The Voice of Korea for their English service (0400-0500Z) on 15180, 13760, and 11710. Thoughts & music from Dear Leader are certainly inspiring.

4689

HF Mystery Signals / Re: Mystery signal question

« on: September 13, 2013, 0418 UTC »

In the beginning of the recording, it sounds like my old APC UPS on 15 MHz (until I pulled it out of service on Tues as got sick of that). However, the later noises don't sound like it.

Like cmradio said, could be just about anything.

4690

North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Polka night on Chamberpot Radio

« on: September 12, 2013, 0256 UTC »

0256Z 15331 Barely audible. Can tell its music, but not much more than that. Lots of static crashes as well.



_{Perseus SDR with Wellbrook ALA-1530S+}

4691

Shortwave Broadcast / Firedrake 15605 kHz Sept 10, 2013 0326Z

« on: September 10, 2013, 0330 UTC »

0326Z 35433 S6 Music

No others found 10-19 MHz.



_{Perseus SDR with Wellbrook ALA-1530S+ loop}

4692

General Radio Discussion / Want to buy a 100 kilowatt shortwave transmitter?

« on: September 10, 2013, 0222 UTC »

I believe this is the one that Glas Hrvatske used on 3985 & 7370 to Europe. Have heard them on 3985.  



http://swling.com/blog/2013/09/want-to-buy-a-100-kilowatt-shortwave-transmitter/


    To Whom It May Concern:

    We are contacting you as we are selling our 100 kW SHORTWAVE TRANSMITTER and accompanying equipment and thought that you may be interested. The equipment is fully functional and was in use until recently.

    Below is a list of the items that we are selling:

        100 kW SW Transmitter RIZ OR 100-K-02/A (built acc. to german ARD Standards)
        Compressor-Limiter w/ DCC transmitter control
        Balun transformer 50 Ohm asym. to 300 Ohm symetric
        Artificial antenna for testing 100 kW transmitter
        Coax pipe, 4 1/8″, 20 meters
        Elbow EIA, 4 1/8″, 5 pcs.
        Connector, 4 1/8″ for HF 5″, 2 pcs.
        Coaxial switch, 1 pc.
        Remote control panel

    If you are interested or know someone who may be interested please let us know and we will send more details. The equipment is currently located in Deanovec, Croatia.

    For further information feel free to contact me, I look forward to hearing from you.

    Kind regards,

    Ante Beljo, Director
    Croatian Information Center
    Meduliceva 13
    10000 Zagreb, Croatia

4693

General Radio Discussion / Re: A Quest to Save AM Before It’s Lost in the Static

« on: September 09, 2013, 2342 UTC »

In the longer term, Mr. Pai said, the F.C.C. could mandate that all AM stations convert to digital transmission to reduce interference. Such a conversion, however, would cost consumers, who would have to replace the hundreds of millions of AM radios that do not capture digital transmissions.

I'm ecstatic he wants to save AM. But with his quest for digital, not only would it cost us, it would also cost the broadcasters, some of which could not afford the new transmitters. Some are lucky to keep their stick lit as it is.

What the FCC should focus on are all the electronic devices pumping out the RFI causing the problems. They admit the devices are causing problems, there is existing law on the books, so enforce it!

Further, who says that the IBOC signal would be better? What happens at night?  I have a Sony receiver with IBOC and have found its quite hit or miss. At least with analog, if there's a disruption, the station will come back right away. If the digital loses its lock, it will be a bunch of seconds of dead silence until it locks again (assuming it does). When it does lock on a local 50kW sta, it sounds like a low bit-rate Internet stream. No thanks.

Leave AM alone. If they want IBOC that bad, shove all IBOC in a new band, say 76-87 now that TV is mostly(not completely) gone. (87-88 for low power FM stations   )

A few things to make AM/MW better:
- Enforce Part 15 emissions on these devices. And I mean hardcore.
- Bring back C-QUAM!  This will give wide bandwidth for good audio quality for stations that have it, and for talk stations, they don't need C-QUAM and can keep the narrower bandwidth. Radios can detect the C-QUAM signal and adjust their bandwidth accordingly (e.g. Sony SRF-42). Most importantly, make this optional, not required.
- Us listeners & the broadcasters need to encourage the radio manufacturers to make their radios with a decent AM section.
- Broadcasters need take a more active interest in AM as well. Don't relegate the craptastic programming to their AM outlets.  Even recognize that their signal travels beyond their local listening area and could somehow leverage that, esp the high powered stations.

While that was easy to type, obviously putting any of that into practice is much harder.

4694

North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: TCS 6.950 0102 9-8-2013

« on: September 09, 2013, 0215 UTC »

0215Z 45344 S9+ Bruce Springsteen
0219Z 35433 S8 Jackson Browne "Running On Empty"




_{Perseus SDR with Wellbrook ALA-1530S+}

4695

North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID 6950 AM 0219 Sept 8, 2013

« on: September 08, 2013, 0231 UTC »

Weak @0230Z and hard to hear through static crashes.

Can hear "I Am the Walrus" (barely understand it)

0234Z 25121 Johnny Rivers "Secret Agent Man"
0235Z Off mid song. No carrier found.



_{Yaesu FT-847 with 100' wire}