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General Radio Discussion / Re: Pirates on 8mHz band?

« on: September 15, 2013, 0008 UTC »

There was a pirate back in the 1980s called KBFA "Broadcaster's of Free America" that used 8.000 Mhz many times.  I don't know if there have been others in recent times, but this oldie stands out in my mind.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Breakfast With Boombox Radio 6925 AM 1143- 09-14-13

« on: September 14, 2013, 1148 UTC »

BBR S4-S6, thanks for the heads-up!

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MW Loggings / 760 KTKR San Antonio 1120 UTC 9/2/13

« on: September 10, 2013, 1554 UTC »

An old log, from Labor Day morning, but here's another from the SDR recording that was logged about an hour after KMTL was heard as mentioned in a previous thread.  This one is new here:

760 KTKR San Antonio, TX. 1120 UTC 9/2/2013 - Weak but clear under phased WJR, presumed on day pattern with a string of ads for some San Antonio businesses including Red McCombs Toyota on I-10 and others.  No official ID, but this is good enough for the log book.  I'm surprised any signal makes it up this way after looking at their pattern:

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QSLs Received / Re: Metro Radio International eQSL

« on: September 09, 2013, 1438 UTC »

Same here.  Thanks MRI!

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: 6925 USB unID 0103z 9/9/13

« on: September 09, 2013, 0124 UTC »

Anyone remember the lunatic rantings of "The Crooked Man" from the late 80s?  This is very similar, except the Crooked Man interjected music between rants.  Excellent S9+ signal here.

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

« on: September 09, 2013, 0108 UTC »

Good copy here, TCS relay, S7-S8

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID 02:14 6960 AM September 8 2013

« on: September 08, 2013, 0221 UTC »

S7 over heavy static tonight:

0221z: B52s "Roam"
0223z: X-FM ID!
0224z: some light CW interference on 6962.7
0226z: live time check by op
0326z: Peter Murphy "Cuts you up"
0338z: Big Country "In a big country"

Nice selection of music tonight, great to hear X-FM again!

Off-air stereo recording with the bandwidth opened up to 20 kHz during the music: 6960 kHz X-FM C-QUAM STEREO 0234-0342 UTC 08SE13.mp3

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Shortwave Broadcast / 3260 Radio Madang 1115 UTC 9/7/2013

« on: September 07, 2013, 1126 UTC »

Great copy of Radio Madang right now on 3260 with local talk and local flavored music.  S6, fairly solid with little fade.  Nothing else notable from PNG coming in on 90 meters, which is a bit odd. 

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID 6925 USB, Sep 7, 2013, 0250 UTC

« on: September 07, 2013, 0311 UTC »

Very weak here and just above the noise floor.  I heard "The Good, The Bad, and the Ugly" theme also.

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General Radio Discussion / Re: 6925 6940 and 6945 trashed tonight

« on: September 07, 2013, 0130 UTC »

No pescadores or RTTY on 1710 :-)

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Boom Box Radio 6925 AM 2243 UTC 6 Sep 2013

« on: September 06, 2013, 2248 UTC »

You just reached Michigan with no problem :-)  S5-S7.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Metro Radio International 6950AM 0021 6Sep13

« on: September 06, 2013, 0106 UTC »

S6 or so here but I experienced a big signal boost during the Depeche Mode song as it spiked to S9+ for a few minutes, then back down again.

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MW Loggings / Re: 783 Mauretania (TENT) 0238z 8/30/2013

« on: September 06, 2013, 0103 UTC »

I was able to confirm that I was hearing Mauretania last night by comparing audio to their webstream.  Though gone from shortwave, you can catch their live audio stream here: http://www.radiomauritanie.mr/rm/

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MW Loggings / Re: 1566 TWR Benin, Africa 0340z 8/31/2013

« on: September 05, 2013, 0153 UTC »

jFarley, I'm using the DX Tools Quantum phaser.

WBBM (along with the other Chicago blowtorches) are very difficult to null at my location, maybe because I'm battling groundwave+skywave, I don't really know.  WBBM normally reads S9+35 on the Perseus but I'm able to get it down to S9 and that's good enough to hear some weak audio sneak through on 783, as I'm hearing again right now as I type this.  These are really the only stations that I have trouble with phase-nulling.  Other big guns like 1030 WBZ Boston, which throw a S9+30 signal my way, are no match for the phaser.  I can usually phase them right down into the dust.  Here's a nice example of this, when I caught Oregon on 1030 while phasing-nulling WBZ:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rea6p96rVTI

One more example of phasing:  I have a strong S9+45 local on 850 that I was able to phase down in order to catch Spain on 855.  This clip shows my local before and after phasing to reveal the weak signal on 855: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GtllxHT1v6E

It's a great tool for medium wave!

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MW Loggings / Re: 1566 TWR Benin, Africa 0340z 8/31/2013

« on: September 04, 2013, 0155 UTC »

I assembled the best clips from that night and posted them here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yp8SMYk_Kuc

If you're into BCB DX then check it out.  There's nothing like hearing exotic stuff like this on the AM dial!  I still get a rush when I replay it.

I'm glad some other listeners including refmo and BDM were able to catch this too.