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Bacon, BBQ, Beef, And More / Re: The quadfecta of pork products for breakfast
« on: November 11, 2019, 1832 UTC »
Had that for breakfast the other morning as a sandwich!
Shortwave Pirate Radio In North America And Around The World, And Other Signals That Go Bump In The Night
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And UPS ended up not even using the band after all.
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Bacon, BBQ, Beef, And More / Re: The quadfecta of pork products for breakfast
« on: November 07, 2019, 1145 UTC »
Nice! My mouth is watering... haven't had my breakfast yet. No pork rolls up here though.
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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Argyle Radio 6954 USB 2019 UTC 31 October 2019
« on: October 31, 2019, 2058 UTC »
Started off S7 but now holding S9 pretty well. Great signal here.
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General Radio Discussion / Re: Having a radio station and lacking interest
« on: October 26, 2019, 1140 UTC »
As a listener I appreciate any operator that takes the time and risk to put a show on the air. Since I rarely/almost never listen to standard AM/FM broadcasting I don't mind if you play what they play because it is commercial free (of legitimate ones anyway 
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Part of the thrill for me is in the hunt for a pirate station, part is the content - listening to someone else's playlist, unusual or B-side songs thrown into a playlist or genres I don't normally listen to - and part is the camaraderie of the HFU chat while these stations are broadcasting.
Despite the lack of conditions I am amazed at how many stations are regularly on the air. During the day on a weekday? Yup, no longer a rarity. Four or five at night? No longer an unusual occurrence. Mix Radio International often is played while I am in my office at work because they are on during the day on a weekday. I get disappointed when they aren't on the air!
My listening habit is fairly passive and I don't end up logging or QSL'ing a station. The majority of the time, thanks to a very busy lifestyle, I am usually actively engaged in something else (working on a project in my workshop, spending time with family with the radio on in the background, etc.) while listening. As a result I do end up listening to the content so when someone is playing standard stuff, I am good with that. When someone plays something unusual, I am good with that, too.
So, thank you to all the operators who do take to the air. It makes the hobby fun and I am glad I can share my KiwiSDR receiver with others who also find it interesting as well.
). Part of the thrill for me is in the hunt for a pirate station, part is the content - listening to someone else's playlist, unusual or B-side songs thrown into a playlist or genres I don't normally listen to - and part is the camaraderie of the HFU chat while these stations are broadcasting.
Despite the lack of conditions I am amazed at how many stations are regularly on the air. During the day on a weekday? Yup, no longer a rarity. Four or five at night? No longer an unusual occurrence. Mix Radio International often is played while I am in my office at work because they are on during the day on a weekday. I get disappointed when they aren't on the air!
My listening habit is fairly passive and I don't end up logging or QSL'ing a station. The majority of the time, thanks to a very busy lifestyle, I am usually actively engaged in something else (working on a project in my workshop, spending time with family with the radio on in the background, etc.) while listening. As a result I do end up listening to the content so when someone is playing standard stuff, I am good with that. When someone plays something unusual, I am good with that, too.
So, thank you to all the operators who do take to the air. It makes the hobby fun and I am glad I can share my KiwiSDR receiver with others who also find it interesting as well.
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Huh? / Re: What have you found behind your TV?
« on: October 19, 2019, 2244 UTC »
Your inventory appears to be typical. Mine would also include numerous cat toys as Josh mentioned as well as several Lego blocks.
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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID 6925 USB 2250 UTC 16 Oct 2019
« on: October 16, 2019, 2305 UTC »
WGRR testing, very nice signal here S8+
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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID 6926 AM 1948 UTC 14 Oct 2019
« on: October 14, 2019, 1955 UTC »
S3 here, deep fades, sounded like some 1960s instrumental tune
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General Radio Discussion / Re: 49 MHz Range Testing Part 15 Experimentation
« on: October 10, 2019, 2011 UTC »
Quite a few of those low end walkie talkies had regenerative receivers in them and were probably the major factor in limiting the range. Even the ones that had superhets were of low quality. Back in the CB days it wasn't uncommon to hear the walkie talkies better on a mobile CB than they could hear you.
Try adding a few more inches to the telescoping antenna to make it closer to resonant and add a tiger tail counterpoise. Anything that can improve the radiated signal will help especially at those low levels.
There are a lot of the 33 MHz fire radios coming off line now so those are a bargain in disguise. Lots of range on them (I know that's not your goal) but good for lots of things. You can get a land mobile license very easily now.
Try adding a few more inches to the telescoping antenna to make it closer to resonant and add a tiger tail counterpoise. Anything that can improve the radiated signal will help especially at those low levels.
There are a lot of the 33 MHz fire radios coming off line now so those are a bargain in disguise. Lots of range on them (I know that's not your goal) but good for lots of things. You can get a land mobile license very easily now.
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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Skunkhole Radio 6939 USB 1357 UTC 6 Oct 2019
« on: October 06, 2019, 1411 UTC »
Nice S8 signal here... sounds good!
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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID 6925 LSB 2009 UTC 2 OCT 2019
« on: October 02, 2019, 2027 UTC »
Can just make out the song Yellow Submarine here, just a bit above the noise.
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General Radio Discussion / Re: 49 MHz Range Testing Part 15 Experimentation
« on: September 30, 2019, 2215 UTC »
Doing the exact thing for the local ham I am elmering. He is just a little noisy into his favorite repeater with his HT. Next time he is over the house we are attaching a tiger tail to it to see if it improves things a little. The old RS HTX-202/404 HTs had a metal belt clip that would couple to your hand to create the counterpoise. It certainly won't hurt to try it on 49 MHz since it only costs you a piece of wire.
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Amateur Radio / Re: 220 Mhz
« on: September 30, 2019, 2212 UTC »UPS (the brown truck folks) and the FCC is what happened to 220.
And UPS ended up not even using the band after all.
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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Mix Radio International 5125 USB 1830 UTC 30 September 2019
« on: September 30, 2019, 2210 UTC »
Nice copy atm... S9+ here
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General Radio Discussion / Re: 49 MHz Range Testing Part 15 Experimentation
« on: September 29, 2019, 2213 UTC »
An old trick that was done in the past was to monitor your "special" unlicensed frequency with PL turned on while you waited for a call. Then when you received a call you'd turn off the receive PL so you can hear all channel activity to make sure you weren't interfering with a legit user. Most older portables had this feature right on the top of the radio.
Actually FCC rules requires you monitor a freq before transmitting to avoid just that. When you picked up a mobile microphone in the old days it would no longer be grounded to the metal car dashboard where your mic hang up clip was mounted. More recently, most land mobile radios had mic hang up clips with a wire attached to sense the mic off hook since vehicle interiors are plastic now. This would open the receiver so that you no longer had receive PL. This made sure you weren't interfering with a co-channel user. Base stations had a monitor key on the mic that you pressed first to listen to channel activity before calling. This was necessary when many licensees shared one freq but had different PL tones.
I have rarely seen this in the last decade or two. Frequencies are coordinated now and fewer are shared with nearby co-channel users.
The MT1000 can be made into a nice little base station with a vehicular Converta-Com that will bring the antenna out to a UHF connector as well as power the radio off 12 volts. Might be good to have the base station connected to a big antenna to increase its range if needed. Handy if the 49 MHz portables get out of range of each other.
Actually FCC rules requires you monitor a freq before transmitting to avoid just that. When you picked up a mobile microphone in the old days it would no longer be grounded to the metal car dashboard where your mic hang up clip was mounted. More recently, most land mobile radios had mic hang up clips with a wire attached to sense the mic off hook since vehicle interiors are plastic now. This would open the receiver so that you no longer had receive PL. This made sure you weren't interfering with a co-channel user. Base stations had a monitor key on the mic that you pressed first to listen to channel activity before calling. This was necessary when many licensees shared one freq but had different PL tones.
I have rarely seen this in the last decade or two. Frequencies are coordinated now and fewer are shared with nearby co-channel users.
The MT1000 can be made into a nice little base station with a vehicular Converta-Com that will bring the antenna out to a UHF connector as well as power the radio off 12 volts. Might be good to have the base station connected to a big antenna to increase its range if needed. Handy if the 49 MHz portables get out of range of each other.
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General Radio Discussion / Re: 49 MHz Range Testing Part 15 Experimentation
« on: September 29, 2019, 1902 UTC »
I've been on the Yahoo group for years... not much activity unfortunately.