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Shortwave Broadcast / VOA English 6080 khz 343 UTC 22 OCT 17

« on: October 23, 2017, 0351 UTC »

Very good reception from the Botswana Tx 3z to 4z , hitting S9+ with very little noise or fading.
International edition program /Topics include politics in Zimbabwe, questions about Niger unanswered, discussion of  Iran ,report concerning pollution and how it affects people, presidential use of Twitter, Snapchat use among teens.

Switch to Sao Tome @4z  with a much weaker and noisy signal , although listenable.

1907

North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID 6925.6 AM 2103 UTC 20 Oct 2017

« on: October 20, 2017, 2229 UTC »

2228 Jazz music

S1

1908

North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID 6935 From 6940 USB 2020 UTC 19 Oct 2017

« on: October 19, 2017, 2037 UTC »

2037 Nice signal -  Walking on the moon
2043 QRM blocking most of signal now
2046 Pink Floyd
2050 Pink Floyd / us and them
2058 Shout out _ thanks
2101 Rush Tom Sawyer
2113 Traffic/ dear Mr fantasy
S5

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID 6949.3 AM 219 UTC 18 Oct 2017

« on: October 18, 2017, 2148 UTC »

2148 Weezer/ Buddy Holly then off

S7

1910

North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID 6925.4 AM 2104 UTC 18 Oct 2017

« on: October 18, 2017, 2122 UTC »

Difficult copy but heard Skipmuck's name mentioned
2127 Jazz 

1911

North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Unid 6.940 USB, 0100 utc, 16 Oct 17

« on: October 17, 2017, 0105 UTC »

104 heavy rock
106 Black Sabbath / war pigs
116 Black Sabbath/ hole in the sky
120 Clever Name id
124 Doors/ soul kitchen
132 Hendrix / purple haze
136 Jethro Tull/ teacher
141 Van Halen
147 Everyday regular normal guy
149 Alice in Chains/ again
150 Relay of ? Radio
157 Off or n/s

S7 moderate fading

Thanks Clever Name Radio

1912

North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID 6880 kHz AM 1507 UTC 16 Oct. 2017

« on: October 16, 2017, 2102 UTC »

2102 WKND id
2106 Radio Azteca maildrop and reading mail
2138 Simon and Garfunkel/ Mrs Robinson
2149 Brian Hyland /teenie weenie yellow polka dot bikini
2151 Dusty Springfield / son of a preacher man
2154 Connie Francis / many tears ago
2159 WWV
2200 off

1913

North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID 6955 USB 0127 UTC 16 Oct 2017

« on: October 16, 2017, 0133 UTC »

133 Doors / LA woman
136 Frank Zappa
143 more Zappa
150 off
S3

1914

Shortwave Broadcast / Clube Do Para 4885 khz 302 UTC 15 OCT 2017

« on: October 15, 2017, 0314 UTC »

Reception has been very good lately. Tonight booming in clear enough to hear the id loop in Portuguese give the station name and frequency @ 302z . The same loop was played at 336z.

They are playing the usual regional music , but I heard some reworked tunes of North American origin.
@351 Fauzi Beydoun and Tribo De Nah/ world in  a Transition, which is straight out Reggae.
Solid audio despite ugly atmospherics and radar swishing.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID 6955 USB 0007 UTC 15 OCT 2017

« on: October 15, 2017, 0026 UTC »

Very nice signal at 0025 wilh a blues tune

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID 6940 USB 2338 UTC 14 Oct 2017

« on: October 14, 2017, 2348 UTC »

2347 The Who   
2349 Van Halen / atomic punk
0008 Motley Crue/ girls girls girls. Mick Mars!
Big signal

1917

North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID 6950 USB 2246 UTC 14 Oct 2017

« on: October 14, 2017, 2315 UTC »

2315 The Seeds / pushing too hard
2316 XLR8 Id
2316 Tom Petty/ I need to know
2319 Tom Petty / refugee
2322 I need to know
2323 Tom Petty / you wreck me
2326 Steely Dan / Peg
2332 The Police/ invisible sun  haven't heard in a long time
0003 Signal faded 

Great to hear you again !

1918

North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID 6930 USB 2250 UTC 14 Oct 2017

« on: October 14, 2017, 2300 UTC »

 2259 Ozzy  I can tell it's ozzy even if the radio isn't tuned correctly

S3

1919

North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID 6955 LSB 2233 UTC 14 Oct 2017

« on: October 14, 2017, 2239 UTC »

Caught the last few seconds S2

1920

General Radio Discussion / Re: Anyone know what’s going on at sstran?

« on: October 13, 2017, 1340 UTC »

There are numerous complaint threads over at Antique Radio Forum. The answers are always 3 months plus if you are lucky. The guy doesn't answer email or reassure anyone, so there are many like yourself . They say you will eventually get it, but there's no set time. Many people have become upset by this business model, so you're not alone.
I built a kit from Antique Electronic supply using a 12 SA7 vac tube . It stays on just about 24_7 , I am quite happy with it , it does fine, but doesn't have the extra features of the SSTran.  I can direct you to threads using a 386 chip that they say is just as good, although it DIY.
I can't say what's involved in getting your money back, I think you'll have to wait it out.