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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Mix Radio International 5115 LSB 1827 UTC 26 Jul 2019

« on: July 26, 2019, 1948 UTC »

weak but readable - 222

1947 - Culture Club's Do You Really Want To Hurt Me

617

QSLs Received / Re: WREC eQSL

« on: July 24, 2019, 0001 UTC »

Thanks again PJ for another great eQSL!

618

QSLs Received / Re: WREC eQSL

« on: July 24, 2019, 0000 UTC »

Thanks P.J. for the great eQSL - received mine too!

619

QSLs Received / Re: Lukewarm Radio eQSL

« on: July 23, 2019, 2346 UTC »

Thanks - received mine too!

620

QSLs Received / Mix Radio Int'l eQSL for June 25, 2019

« on: July 23, 2019, 2341 UTC »

Thanks MIX for the nice eQSL!

621

North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID 6955 USB 0410 UTC 20 July 2019

« on: July 20, 2019, 0433 UTC »

Very weak here in northern North Carolina. Though I’m only using a handheld County Comm GP-5 and a short longwire. 111-222

0424 - hearing someone talking
0428 - music playing

622

QSLs Received / Re: WGAY eQSL

« on: July 18, 2019, 1821 UTC »

Thanks Mr.Peaches - received mine too! happy-happy

623

North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: WREC 6955 USB 2035 UTC 16 Jul 2019

« on: July 16, 2019, 2046 UTC »

Nice signal 44344

2043 - ID
2044 - old time radio audio snippets with WREC IDs
2045 - Seether's Broken
2049 - ID / shoutouts to HFU listeners (thanks) / PJ Sparx
2050 - ad for powdered toast
2052 - Brick House
2055 - Goober comedy skit
2102 - gun owners parody ad
2108 - Nickelodeon parody ads (love these parody skits)

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Mix Radio Int'l 6177 USB 2008 UTC 16 July 2019

« on: July 16, 2019, 2010 UTC »

Good signal 333

2008 - The Fixx's Saved By Zero
2010 - Madonna's Material Girl
2014 - Leaving With The Summer
2018 - I Can't Dream About You
2021 - signal now 444
2025 - Van Halen's Jump (ur signal quality is better than CFRX on 6070 AM)
2030 - Dino's I Like It

625

North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Lukewarm Radio 6933.5 USB 1738 UTC 16 July 2019

« on: July 16, 2019, 1853 UTC »

Weak to good signal, 222-333 & fading

1846 - announcer having fun with DaDaDa...Aha Aha Aha song
1849 - several IDs
1850 - email address followed by Tom Petty's Yer So Bad
1858 - ID / email address / Stephen Still's Love The One You're With (signal improving now)
1922 - ID then gone

Thanks for the show!

626

North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Mix Radio International 6170 USB 1917 UTC 15 Jul 2019

« on: July 15, 2019, 1954 UTC »

Good signal 34333 - some fading up/down

1951 - Nothing Can Come Between Us /Sade
1958 - signal came up - now 444
2000 - computerized yl voice said "Thank you for your signal report of our station" (you're welcome)
2002 - ID, computerized yl
2003 - Like A Tattoo /Sade
2022 - Stop Your Sobbing /The Pretenders (fading up & down, 333/444)
2035 - gone / another weaker station underneath possibly R. Romania Int'l)

Thanks for the show MRI

627

North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Relay Station 5100 AM 1151 UTC 15 Jul 2019

« on: July 15, 2019, 1446 UTC »

Still going here, 333-444 - minor fading

1445 - Anyone Bites The Dust

628

For Sale / Wanted / Barter / Re: RS PRO-2006 illumination

« on: July 14, 2019, 2054 UTC »

BTW, the 2manytoyz URL keeps reporting Not Found... But the other one works fine.

Not sure why it would not open. I tried it again and it opened quickly in both Chrome and IE 11 browsers. When I tried to open it in Firefox it took forever but it eventually did open. It is a nice web page with many step-by-step photo instructions.

http://www.2manytoyz.com/newel

(Yes, I feel the Pro3 is the best receiver I ever owned - but it is amazing what others are doing with these AirSpy  / SDR systems.)

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: KDOG 6925 USB 1841 UTC 14 Jul 2019

« on: July 14, 2019, 1910 UTC »

Good signal - 34333

1903 - discussion about service dogs and dog companionship
1905 - SSTV Scottie 1 image - ID - KDOG



1908 - gone

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For Sale / Wanted / Barter / Re: RS PRO-2006 illumination

« on: July 14, 2019, 1749 UTC »

jta, I successfully changed my backlight strip and it has ran beautifully for 5 years now.

Here are links to a couple backlight replacement instructions that I used for reference:
http://www.2manytoyz.com/newel
http://www.webaugur.com/ham-radio/51-realistic-pro-2006-hardware-modifications.html

All Electronics (https://www.allelectronics.com/category/213/electroluminescent-strips/1.html) did not have the correct size back then but you might check with them anyways since the prices are right. I ended up purchasing a kit from Miller Engineering (https://www.microstru.com/Experimenter-Kits.html) and cutting the strip to size. It wasn't that difficult to do and the results are fantastic.

Good luck.