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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID 6955 AM 0007 UTC

« on: April 09, 2012, 0109 UTC »

6955am huge signal to IN.  10-15 > 9.  Seems to be Amway based content.  Talk of becoming an expert at what you do to be happy, propaganda, Amway song ...No ID the last 10 minutes that I caught. Ah am only retaining 30% of what ah hear so there may have been 3 IDs already.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Undercover Radio 6925u 0140 UTC

« on: April 07, 2012, 0301 UTC »

Excellent signal 6925u to NE IN. ID 0255. "relics from WW2"  "waters of the Solomons"
Thanks for the broadcast Dr

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Equipment / Re: What Radio Did you start your listening hobby with?

« on: February 15, 2012, 0036 UTC »

I said DX-440 because it was the first real radio I had around late 80's.  It could be months between hearing and IDing a pirate on or around 7415. 
We had a piece of garbage Hallicrafters growing up in the 60's with a piece of wire out the back.  Tubes.  Did they work?  Well enough to fire up.  Yellowed mystery tuning dial.  Even more mysterious secondary horizontal tuning.  WWV if you were lucky.  A few knobs and switches that may or may not have functioned.  I couldn't tell.  It didn't catch on fire at least.  It wasn't enough to spark an interest until I was much older.  Got really interested once I got a Drake R8.

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Equipment / Re: Slinky Dipole?

« on: February 09, 2012, 0038 UTC »

I tried a slinky dipole 10 years back.  No more love than a dipole same dimensions.  Probably no more than a chunk of wire same overall length.  Your mileage may vary so if you have the slinkys and space, by all means experiment. I have had stranger things work out well during the solar minimum.  Stuff that defied the books and interwebs.

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General Radio Discussion / Re: Come on in, the water's fine!

« on: January 17, 2012, 2250 UTC »

Yep come on over.  I have been lurking for several years.  Keeping my mouth shut mostly this time around.  Wasn't sure about the original riff THIS side had with THAT side years ago, but having seen both for several years and last year becoming member on THIS side, well, grass is greener here.  Grass is actually dead on THAT side it appears having read general messages today.  Maybe no more.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Radio Ronin Shortwave 6925 AM 2123 UTC

« on: January 15, 2012, 2159 UTC »

most excellent signal 555
6925am pink floyd
moved to 6945am
rock lobster 2155
got you on portable with antenna down

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Radio Ronin Shortwave 6925 AM 2045 UTC

« on: January 14, 2012, 2145 UTC »

6925am awesome signal -very rare SIO 545 or 555 midday
2135 I Ran
2138 some electric instrumental maybe Yinyang Wingwang or Satriani
2142 Radio Ronin gut IDs with gmail address, Belfast maildrop (he likes snailmail)

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: The Crystal Ship (TCS Relay Network) 6928 USB 00:32z

« on: January 12, 2012, 0050 UTC »

6928.00USB nice signal to midwest
0044 Alice Cooper
0048 cartoon voice talking about cooking up some wabbit

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: 6951AM

« on: November 23, 2011, 2315 UTC »

Just above 6950am..interval signal over and over around 2310...nature sounds and "this is coyote radio, the voice of the coyotes."  Took 10 repeats or so before I could understand the first part..finally into music 2315

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Equipment / Re: How can i pirate radio on 11 Meters?

« on: September 29, 2011, 2253 UTC »

CB channels...like they say...drivers DFing you and yellin ITS THE GUY IN THE RED TRUCK BLOWIN 4 PILS AND A YELLIN AT US and such within minutes.  Plus there are a zillion low power CBs making for a noise filled band.  You won't do much without hundreds of watts and a big base antenna. 
10 meters though is much clearer and chance of covering hundreds of miles is good with just tens of watts.  Don't even try a CB channel.  You just won't get out unless you become one of those crazy channel 6 southern guys and that would cost a lot of money.