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5881
North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: XFM, 6915 USB
« on: November 01, 2011, 0302 UTC »
The signal's mean and the audio's clean!

Thanks XFM!

5882
Shortwave Broadcast / Re: 4964.99 UNID 0146+
« on: October 31, 2011, 2123 UTC »
I will confess that I am a recovering QSL whore.  With Candip, I may have possibly...ahem...intimated in my report that I was a man of the cloth...

5883
Shortwave Broadcast / Re: 4964.99 UNID 0146+
« on: October 31, 2011, 2052 UTC »
Alex; I agree with you 100% that this is CVC.  It looks like a duck, and quacks like a duck, but without an ID it remains an UNID waterfowl.  Have heard this many times since the post, but noise levels are still to high to get the ID.  But it looks might it serve well (as well as Madigasikara 5010) as a prop guidepost for the deep winter African DX season.

Don't know if you're into African DX, but would appreciate any loggings here of anything of note.  I would especially like to know if you ever hear a peep out of 5066.3 out there in the East.  Candip is a station I'd like to hear again.  Not only is it a tough catch, but I think that their QSL remains my favorite of all time. 

5884
North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Family Radio 6924.70
« on: October 29, 2011, 0048 UTC »
Had this on in the background with S9 and steady.
After 0040, the reception here is falling apart with deep freq fades down to noise.

5885
North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Very weak AM signal at 6928.4
« on: October 28, 2011, 1223 UTC »
Yup.  Was noting something on 6928.46 around 0015.  Very weak, music at the imagination level.  Pretty certain I imagined hearing LZ "Trampled Underfoot" @ 0026, but that's pretty thin.

5886
North American Shortwave Pirate / TCS via NRS Relay 6930AM 0210+
« on: October 27, 2011, 0219 UTC »
0210 Lite orchestral music
0212 NRS ID and into TCS relay

At S3 but far less noise than recent nites, less fading also
The cruddy synchro on the R8 able to lock on for some of this
Some occ OTH (?) QRM
 
SIO 233

Thanks TCS, NRS

5887
North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Feed back 6942khz
« on: October 27, 2011, 0108 UTC »
I got it at 112 Janskys.  The source......Vega

5888
North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: XFM Shortwave, 6925u
« on: October 24, 2011, 0125 UTC »
0105 s/on and count down to show start
0109 "XFM is now on the air...", talk abt access to the airwaves, B52s "Channel Z"
0115 ID: "What does this mean to you?  It means there's something to listen to!"
0119 Into new music segment - music from the Suburbs
0128 ID, shout to the guy two replies up, taking requests
0131 music from Lincoln Park, the Smiths
0143 ID, music from Peter Murphy, the Pixies (a request), "Sunset in July"
0207 Shouts, ID, addy, "6 Underground"
0213 Stereo teaser
0218 ID, addy, request for requests, "Under the Milky Way", "Strange Love", "I Will Possess Your Heart", "Eminence Front"
0244 Thanks to audience, "Perpetual"
0254 ID, s/off, QSO

S7 and rock steady here, some QRN
after 0200 sig starting to tail off just a bit, but still very good

Awesome show.  Thank you, XFM!

5889
North American Shortwave Pirate / UNID 6925 unid Mode
« on: October 24, 2011, 0052 UTC »
On and off intermittently, cannot tell if AM or otherwise.
Very weak amid static w/ OM talk and music
Freq varied 6924.52 to 6924.69
*2350 - 2353*
*0011 - 0015*
*0027 - 0036*

5890
Equipment / Re: Software Defined receivers (radios)
« on: October 22, 2011, 1413 UTC »
I've decided that I'd like to try an SDR, and I am looking seriously at the Lazy Dog Engineering LD-1B kit which for a couple hundred bucks might be a cost effective way to try one out before plunking down some serious cash.  Has anyone tried this?

Chris, I'm fascinated by the fact that one can record a given band segment unattended; incredible power there.  I'm still a bit mystified by the process.  I'm guessing that the host software records a stream of I and Q data which is seen by the soundcard, and that this can be reviewed in a playback mode.  Is this correct?  How does one convert a particular frequency bin to an audio file?

5891
One showed up here, also.  Thank you!

5892
Tues 19 Oct 11

Hearing TCS via  presumed NRS (haven't heard the ID yet)

Better than last night, but still only abt S2 here, and has a nasty fluttery fade.

0243 Doors Crystal Ship, intro poetry, and other Doors titles
0253 Solid TCS ID with host John Poet, QSL info
0300 "Psycho Therapy" over classical music.
0317 NRS verbal and CW ID

Thanks!

A thousand girls, a thousand thrills, A million ways to spend your time...

5893
North American Shortwave Pirate / Northern Relay Service 6930.3 AM?
« on: October 18, 2011, 0133 UTC »
0122 Mission Impossible theme, ?RS CW ID
0129 solid NRS CW ID twice
right at the noise, but hanging in there
0145 pretty much gone in the noise
we tried...
0156 popped back up with Doors "Crystal Ship" and others
0207 OM talk, could not read it
0208 Parody commercial?
0220 Sounds like a couple of old show tunes?
0230 NRS CW ID, and back to apparent show tune

gotta go, NRS...Thanks!

5894
Heard here in Chicago last evening also; at about S3 with the same signoff time.  
I never got audio captured; good to hear yours.
I can't make out what he's saying after "escuchas" @ 7:17; anybody fluent?

5895
Fishing Drift Net Beacons / Re: Fishing Beacon 1730 kHz
« on: October 11, 2011, 2203 UTC »
I've played around extensively in the past using small air loops and ferrite bar loops to DF at HF.  Both will work very well at these freqs with a couple caveats.  You will get the best results if the loop is outdoors; there's seems to be too much obfuscation of the null bearing when the loop in inside, possibly from re-radiation from metallic house structures and wiring.  If you are using an air loop, it is best that it has a balanced architecture with a balanced amp to get the deepest nulls.

The ferrite bar is the easiest way to go for a quick hack.  Throw 30 to 50 turns on it, find a variable cap that resonates it at the freq of interest.  Throw a second winding on the bar which has maybe 5 - 10 turns, and connect this to your receiver.  It's cheap and quick, and you can always optimize the turns in each coil by testing it against top-end MW stations.

I don't see sig strength as being an issue; you're going to hear it or not.  As I understand it, these beacons are pretty intermittent in nature.  It's probably going to take some patience to find the null.

If you're really serious about DF'ing these freqs, the amplified air loop is the way to go.  It will give generally reliable results up to around 2.5 MHz.  In fact, the only time I logged the Falkland Islands (2380kHz) was with a small air loop.  I had a rotor on it at the time.  I only got about twenty seconds of audio, but I was able to DF it to within about ten degrees.  They QSL'd it!  Not a brag; I just got damn lucky that night.  Rather, I think this is indicative of the enormous potential of small loops.

There are quite a few published articles about amplified air loops around.  Might I suggest looking at some of the impressive work that Mark Connelly has out there.  Most of it is geared towards MW, but should be easily modified to work just above the MW band.

Have fun!

BTW, what are the typical signal strengths you're seeing with your current antennas?

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