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General Radio Discussion / Re: Logging Pirate Radio
« on: August 14, 2018, 0142 UTC »
Etiquette question-

Is it OK to log from another's SDR? Until tonight I have only logged from my receiver. I might go to another SDR to listen to a show but not log it. The propagation normally peaks later here so we miss a lot on our QTH receivers.

I suspect its OK as long as its mentioned being logged from somewhere else. I imagine the transmitter would want to know their coverage area.

I do it all the time. Being out west at a time when low SFI is forcing eastern based pirates to transmit in the day, I'd hear very little if I didn't hop on some SDRs in their range. As Andrew says, make sure to say that that's where you're listening. I believed I've even gotten QSL's from a couple based on remote SDR loggings, although who and when aren't coming immediately to mind. (I don't submit reports based on remote SDR logs, but sometimes they QSL based on HFU posts.)

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: ???? 6870 am 03:41
« on: August 12, 2018, 0344 UTC »
I have this carrier. No usable audio though.

0357 hearing something now. Lots of noise unfortunately

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A failed state to the immediate south.

More failures further south.

Billionaires willing to fund “migrant marches”.

Sympathizers at all levels of American society.

And no-shit Communists throughout much of the hemisphere.

Tinder in search of a spark.

Remember, it takes some form of socialist government to industrialise mass murder.

The Nazis weren't socialist, and neither were we.

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REE is up on 15520 just ahead of their official sign on time of 1800 UTC. There is no interval. I've noticed in the past week or so that they've had no interval signal or announcement of broadcast times and frequencies lately. These are ordinarily heard 1755-1800 (start of transmission) and 2200-2205 (end). Instead it has just been unmodulated carrier.

Signal is fair today. Here in Colorado, I usually get this frequency well at first, but 17855 gets better as the afternoon progresses. (Mountain time is UTC -6 during DST.) Currently I see no transmission at all on 17855.

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I've been trying to VoK in English the past few days, without success, but I did catch a Korean transmission on 15180 at 1210 UTC yesterday, which I think might actually have been KCNA?

Eibi has it as "Voice of Korea KCBS." I'm not sure why that extra KCBS is added. Most transmission blocks of VOK include one hour of Korean, and they always call it this. I do know that there are some differences from other language broadcasts (they always finish with their national anthem, and I don't think they start with the same set of patriotic music as their other language hours.. also, it ends at :50 of the hour instead of :57) Also, the Korean language broadcast usually closes out a transmission. For example, 9435 and 11710 to North America starts at 1300 and ends at 1800, or more accurately 1750, with the last hour being the only one in Korean.

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Ha! You got me.

3487
What's a defrag?

Probably easier to link an article than try to explain in my own words.
https://www.laptopmag.com/articles/defragment-hard-drive-windows

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I can understand the jamming targets of the Cubans (Radio Marti, VOA and maybe some others?) and the theoretical targets of the Saudis, but I was unaware that Saudi Arabia actually engaged in shortwave jamming.

They target Iranian broadcasts that are in Arabic. I've heard it on a kiwi SDR that's in Qatar. It's a siren like whoop. As you know, there is no love lost between those two nations.

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spaceweather.com has a story about it on their homepage now, with an image of a fireball captured by a camera - nearly a full week before the peak. It ought to be an awesome show this year.

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A guy I was in MARS with coded for banks. When y2k was a thing he made a fortune going around the US fixing y2k bugs in ancient bank code, they lost millions due to the miniscule downtime, I imagine the hft guys are dealing with millions of dollars per transaction and the profit motive is too overwelming.

Did he have them do updates during banking hours? I worked for a large bank when that was happening, and all updates happened after midnight.

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Good post, MDK2.

China figured out that the Firedrake jammer was a lot easier to note as a jammer, whereas jamming with the CNR 1 audio gives them plausible deniability that they're "accidentally" "interfering" with whoever they're jamming, as opposed to outright jamming (which is what Firedrake obviously is). 

It would be interested to hear how much power the Chinese are pumping into the HF spectrum that's entirely jamming.  If RTI is transmitting with 100 kW and the Chinese are obliterating it with CNR1 audio they've gotta be doing 500 kW or more (probably with directional antennas too). 

Since the Russians are more interested in jamming GPS, mobile phone and two-way radio/military tactical radio systems, that leaves the Chinese and the North Koreans as the big jammers.

Thank you. I'll add that Cuba is no slouch on the jamming game. I understand that Saudi Arabia is as well, but I don't think most western SWL'ers ever really get to hear that very often. But really, nobody touches the Chinese.

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0031 present but only at the noise floor here.
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0123 checking back in, have much more of a signal, cool jazz playing. Thanks for the show

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2144 Weak copy on KD2OM SDR in Victor, NY, trumpets playing the same melody as the one on the song "Tom's Diner" by Suzanne Vega.
2146 either below the noise or there's no audio, just a carrier. Carrier looks very thin so I'm betting on the former.

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Solid copy into Denver this early afternoon, using Dream software to decode in conjunction with my RSP2pro and SDRuno. The audio is low on my posted video, so you may have to turn things up to hear it. Starting to hear little dropouts as of 1819z, so the signal is starting to fade.
https://youtu.be/X-tlDSeTxwk

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Perhaps they are.

What kind of license would the FCC grant for this? Is there anything that can be looked up at the ULS database?

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