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Shortwave Pirate Radio In North America And Around The World, And Other Signals That Go Bump In The Night
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Bacon, BBQ, Beef, And More / Re: Effects of Intermittent Fasting on Health, Aging, and Disease
« on: January 04, 2020, 2337 UTC »
Yer.... not too hip on surviving to become a centennial by starvation method, doesn't sound like fun at all when eating is one of the few real joys of life.
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General Radio Discussion / Re: TDoA Questions & maybe an article?
« on: January 04, 2020, 2327 UTC »
Perhaps the description "nut" was a bit harsh and judgemental in my previous post, a less pejorative term might be "unexpected guests".
Also, with the tech they (they meaning gov agencies) use today, you key up and they have you because they record the entire spectrum and save it all as if they were a multitrilliondollar smolinksi with 24/7/365 hard drive space. The question isn't does the fcc know it's me and where I am, the question of import is; is the fcc interested enough to pursue me.
Also, with the tech they (they meaning gov agencies) use today, you key up and they have you because they record the entire spectrum and save it all as if they were a multitrilliondollar smolinksi with 24/7/365 hard drive space. The question isn't does the fcc know it's me and where I am, the question of import is; is the fcc interested enough to pursue me.
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Utility / Re: 11175 USB
« on: January 02, 2020, 1800 UTC »
FISH FACE with test count 1755Z 02JAN19
IRON WORKS checking out of the net in the blind 1802Z 02JAN19
IRON WORKS checking out of the net in the blind 1802Z 02JAN19
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QSLs Received / Re: Radio Slovakia International Competition Prize
« on: January 02, 2020, 1721 UTC »
So cool!
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VHF/UHF Logs, including satellites and radiosondes / Re: UHF mil air
« on: January 02, 2020, 1713 UTC »
TACAMO flight burning mux on 338.950MHz 1530Z 92JAN19
KG-84C fed FSK Modem and ssb voice on orderwire.
KG-84C fed FSK Modem and ssb voice on orderwire.
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VHF/UHF Logs, including satellites and radiosondes / Re: UHF mil air
« on: January 02, 2020, 0059 UTC »
Nice, you're in great shape to catch some cool transmissions.
We used to be treated to F14s and so on overhead in mock dogfights till one of them crashed, they nixed the show from then on, sadly.
Go here and put in your zip to see what freqs have been submitted for your area;
http://www.milradiocomms.com/mil_freq_database.html
We used to be treated to F14s and so on overhead in mock dogfights till one of them crashed, they nixed the show from then on, sadly.
Go here and put in your zip to see what freqs have been submitted for your area;
http://www.milradiocomms.com/mil_freq_database.html
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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID 4075 USB 0025 UTC 02 Jan 2020
« on: January 02, 2020, 0053 UTC »
We Built This City 0050Z0 2JAN20
S0 in the clear on IC-756ProII
Thanks for the 80s tracks!
S0 in the clear on IC-756ProII
Thanks for the 80s tracks!
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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID 6930 USB 2235 UTC 31 December 2019
« on: December 31, 2019, 2313 UTC »
nil here if he's still ota
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Equipment / Re: SW/MW radio recommendation?
« on: December 31, 2019, 2302 UTC »
I'd be all over this fine piece of teutonic overengineering if I didn't have multiple project radios in the fire all at the same time;
https://swap.qth.com/view_ad.php?counter=1470772
https://swap.qth.com/view_ad.php?counter=1470772
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Huh? / Re: Red Ukrainian Borscht
« on: December 31, 2019, 2259 UTC »
Ohhh I get it, it's "red" as in colour and not "red" as in commanismses.
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General Radio Discussion / Re: WGCH (Greenwich, CT) Off AM Signal
« on: December 31, 2019, 2256 UTC »
In the words of the great fishface I mean Rahm Emmanuel, never let a good crisis go to waste! Hook up to that abandoned stick and get brocastin!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pb-YuhFWCr4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pb-YuhFWCr4
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General Radio Discussion / Re: Radio to the rescue!!
« on: December 31, 2019, 2254 UTC »
That may be so, I'm more concerned with what they can buy from their sponsors China and Russia, who have invested fortunes in super emp research and have sold it. As Pyongpyang doesn't fart without Peking telling them to, it's not far(t) fetched for China (or Russia) to provide NK (or Iran) an emp weapon and let the Lee Harvey McVeigh (patsy) take the blame for the attack while China (and/or Russia) profits from the aftermath.
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General Radio Discussion / Re: TDoA Questions & maybe an article?
« on: December 31, 2019, 2246 UTC »
I'd be more worried about some nut showing up at the door than the fcc.
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Equipment / Re: What Radio Did you start your listening hobby with?
« on: December 31, 2019, 2225 UTC »
First exposure to sw was when as a wee lad, we had a big black dial Zenith console in the garage and it worked! BBC story time with Winnie the Poop and etc! This would be around 1974 or so.
Been sw/radio crazy ever since.
Next foray was a few years later, pa let me borrow his portable, dunno if it was a black plastic Sony or Zenith but it had a fold out tray/map thingy and I think a round time calculator thingy too you could turn to see what time it was wherever.
I listened to Radio Moscow preaching about "the evil imperialist capitalists and all their running dogs", with similar porpaganda coming from Radio Tirana, Bejing, Habana, and elsewhere, the hfbc bands where packed cheek and jowl.
The one thing that amazed me was there was even some guy whose job was to read the time every minute, with ticks every second in between reads, couldn't imagine being able to not fall asleep at a job like that.
Needless to say, even though I turned them on and tuned around and listened to lots of stuff, I did not really understand radio whatsoever.
My HAM uncle gave me a pair of wonky tonkys (walkies) for xmas, we put batteries in them, powered them on, and they had me run to the far side of the yard when I heard my uncle's voice come out of the thing clear as day.
I was flabbergasted! I mean, this is my dork uncle on the other side of the house whose gigantor HAM antenna tower we were forbidden to climb, not some radio station like WHO or whatever!
I kept turning it over and looking in the battery compartment for the tape recorder that my uncle must have used to trick me, but no it was live radio, even had a morse button and morse chart on the face so you could send mcw, not that I had a clue what mcw was then. MCW means Modulated Continuous Wave, the talkies had an audio oscillator to input a 1kc tone into the tx chain if you pressed the cw button.
Later on at about age 12, another great xmas gift from HAM uncle, the rat shack 160 in 1 electronics kit, that got me started in electronics projects on a grand scale and was the basis for my understanding of solid state electronics and radio waves. Later on would have to relearn everything to figure out how tubes worked.
Then many (many) years later, I was reminded of the existence of sw by a high quality boombox that had several sw bands, I'd tune in to some sw station and the missus would turn it right back to some crap fm stereo pop station. She would have to go.
Then, years later, at the same time as a foray into an exciting career in law enforcement, a Halli SX110 for sale was noted in the local paper and I wanted to see what that meant. So I end up carting it home with the original manual, this thing was in great shape and I couldn't wait to get it home and fired up.
Got it home and it worked fb! Simple wire antennas produced sigs on every band! The best part for me was the vertical s meter, way cool. I went to rat shack and found they could get me new tubes so I retubed it and had an even better time with increased sensitivity and so on. The only downside was when the furnace or ac came on the temp change would make it drift a bit so you had to ride the dial to keep those Aussies on 20m ssb tuned in. That began my pastime of preferring to listen to dx work other dx stations.
Then a few months later in a local (Counciltucky IA or Omaha club) HAM club monthly, was an ad for an Icom R-70 for a few paltry hundreds. I had to have it after seeing one in a HAM magazine. Payments were accepted and I can still recall making that last payment, picking it up in a law enforcement vehicle and driving home with it. The gf was def jelly of this new toy.
What a revelation.
Digital readout, absolute stability under most any conditions, selectable filtering, selectable demodulation modes, pre amp and attenuator, reference oscillator adjust right on the top!
It looked and worked like new. Holy crap you could listen to USAF bombers and hq on 6761 and 11176 ssb! Russian volmet on 11297! later on like a fool I traded it to Surplus Sales of Nebraska for a new AEA AT300 pi section antenna tuner cuz the cb bug had hit. Happily enough after the regret set in, saw Universal Radio had a R-70 for sale in an issue of Monitoring Times and called Fred, proposing a swap for a as new AEA AT300 tuner for the R70, and made the deal.
This R-70 was in as good or better shape than the one I had before, and it came with several professionally done mods such as a better AM filter and the legendary FL-44A 2.4kc xtal filter. AM passband tuning as well as preamp on AMBC were other mods, shoulda kept that one but it went somewhere else in trade as I was by then quite trade crazy.
Only thing impressed me as much as going from a halli to an Icom was getting a rig with dsp and a fish finder. And of those I've had many and still do, ate up with radios.
Been sw/radio crazy ever since.
Next foray was a few years later, pa let me borrow his portable, dunno if it was a black plastic Sony or Zenith but it had a fold out tray/map thingy and I think a round time calculator thingy too you could turn to see what time it was wherever.
I listened to Radio Moscow preaching about "the evil imperialist capitalists and all their running dogs", with similar porpaganda coming from Radio Tirana, Bejing, Habana, and elsewhere, the hfbc bands where packed cheek and jowl.
The one thing that amazed me was there was even some guy whose job was to read the time every minute, with ticks every second in between reads, couldn't imagine being able to not fall asleep at a job like that.
Needless to say, even though I turned them on and tuned around and listened to lots of stuff, I did not really understand radio whatsoever.
My HAM uncle gave me a pair of wonky tonkys (walkies) for xmas, we put batteries in them, powered them on, and they had me run to the far side of the yard when I heard my uncle's voice come out of the thing clear as day.
I was flabbergasted! I mean, this is my dork uncle on the other side of the house whose gigantor HAM antenna tower we were forbidden to climb, not some radio station like WHO or whatever!
I kept turning it over and looking in the battery compartment for the tape recorder that my uncle must have used to trick me, but no it was live radio, even had a morse button and morse chart on the face so you could send mcw, not that I had a clue what mcw was then. MCW means Modulated Continuous Wave, the talkies had an audio oscillator to input a 1kc tone into the tx chain if you pressed the cw button.
Later on at about age 12, another great xmas gift from HAM uncle, the rat shack 160 in 1 electronics kit, that got me started in electronics projects on a grand scale and was the basis for my understanding of solid state electronics and radio waves. Later on would have to relearn everything to figure out how tubes worked.
Then many (many) years later, I was reminded of the existence of sw by a high quality boombox that had several sw bands, I'd tune in to some sw station and the missus would turn it right back to some crap fm stereo pop station. She would have to go.
Then, years later, at the same time as a foray into an exciting career in law enforcement, a Halli SX110 for sale was noted in the local paper and I wanted to see what that meant. So I end up carting it home with the original manual, this thing was in great shape and I couldn't wait to get it home and fired up.
Got it home and it worked fb! Simple wire antennas produced sigs on every band! The best part for me was the vertical s meter, way cool. I went to rat shack and found they could get me new tubes so I retubed it and had an even better time with increased sensitivity and so on. The only downside was when the furnace or ac came on the temp change would make it drift a bit so you had to ride the dial to keep those Aussies on 20m ssb tuned in. That began my pastime of preferring to listen to dx work other dx stations.
Then a few months later in a local (Counciltucky IA or Omaha club) HAM club monthly, was an ad for an Icom R-70 for a few paltry hundreds. I had to have it after seeing one in a HAM magazine. Payments were accepted and I can still recall making that last payment, picking it up in a law enforcement vehicle and driving home with it. The gf was def jelly of this new toy.
What a revelation.
Digital readout, absolute stability under most any conditions, selectable filtering, selectable demodulation modes, pre amp and attenuator, reference oscillator adjust right on the top!
It looked and worked like new. Holy crap you could listen to USAF bombers and hq on 6761 and 11176 ssb! Russian volmet on 11297! later on like a fool I traded it to Surplus Sales of Nebraska for a new AEA AT300 pi section antenna tuner cuz the cb bug had hit. Happily enough after the regret set in, saw Universal Radio had a R-70 for sale in an issue of Monitoring Times and called Fred, proposing a swap for a as new AEA AT300 tuner for the R70, and made the deal.
This R-70 was in as good or better shape than the one I had before, and it came with several professionally done mods such as a better AM filter and the legendary FL-44A 2.4kc xtal filter. AM passband tuning as well as preamp on AMBC were other mods, shoulda kept that one but it went somewhere else in trade as I was by then quite trade crazy.
Only thing impressed me as much as going from a halli to an Icom was getting a rig with dsp and a fish finder. And of those I've had many and still do, ate up with radios.
