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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Moonlight Radio 6950 USB @ 2255 APR 12

« on: April 12, 2016, 2323 UTC »

Mostly under the noise floor here, but I'm picking up bits and pieces. I'd probably not know there was anything here if I wasn't searching thanks to this thread.

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Huh? / Re: The sugar conspiracy

« on: April 12, 2016, 1648 UTC »

You guys are making me feel bad for the vegetarians. (Not bad enough to skip the bacon this morning, but still.) So behold my new avatar. Behold!

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QSLs Received / Re: All Azteca Relay Service eQSL

« on: April 12, 2016, 0110 UTC »

Cool. Are you going to mail in a report too? I'd love to see a rejection card! 

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Shortwave Broadcast / Re: UNID 6160 2245z 4/11/16

« on: April 11, 2016, 2259 UTC »

Nothing audible where I am, with what I'm using.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID 7610 AM 1738 UTC 10 Apr 2016

« on: April 11, 2016, 0058 UTC »

0058 Just at the noise floor in Colorado.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: RFW 6950 USB 2314 UTC Apr 10, 2016

« on: April 11, 2016, 0005 UTC »

Took a while to wade through the comments and see that it's on 6960 now. I was worried for a minute there! Getting it at about 343 right now. Lotsa QRM. 0004

Sorry I missed that you played a song by Failure. I got to see them at Riot Fest 2014 and they were terrific.

Getting good reception on the 750 without the external antenna. But better with.

0014 Yay for GBV!
0016 Tame Impala "Let It Happen"
0024 RFW ID, into Days of the New, "Shelf in the Room"
0028 DJ Dickweed on the mic. HFU shoutouts.
0032 QRM making it hard to follow what's happening here.
0033 email (djdickweed at gmail)
0034 OFF

Thanks for the show!

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Shortwave Broadcast / Re: Voice of Korea 9435 kHz AM 10 April 2016 1530Z

« on: April 10, 2016, 1827 UTC »

You can listen to the individual stories and editorials at their website and they're still hard to understand.

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Shortwave Broadcast / Re: The Mighty KBC 6040 kHz AM 10 April 2016 0000Z

« on: April 10, 2016, 1702 UTC »

Thanks for that Skeezix. (True story - my sister had a cat named Skeezix in the 90s.)

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Shortwave Broadcast / Re: Voice of Korea 9435 kHz AM 10 April 2016 1530Z

« on: April 10, 2016, 1654 UTC »

I give this broadcast a regular listen just to see how much the signal varies from day to day. This one is specifically a transmission for North America, and most days it's as you describe. But even when the signal is clear, that male announcer is hard to understand. His accent is pretty heavy, and my need to use the narrow BW setting to reduce noise (and lately, QRM from 9430 and 9440) usually means nothing is intelligible.

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Shortwave Broadcast / Re: The Mighty KBC 6040 kHz AM 10 April 2016 0000Z

« on: April 10, 2016, 1430 UTC »

I heard some of this. I forgot to log any details though. They were listed on short-wave (dot) info as "Media Broadcast" and it said it transmits from Nauen, Germany. (Their database has been weird since the recent spring schedule change - Radio Australia and Voice of Korea both seem to be completely absent, for example.) I haven't heard this station before but look forward to hearing more.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Radio Zed 6935 USB 0204 UTC 10 APR 2016

« on: April 10, 2016, 0204 UTC »

SIO 333 with fades.

0204 Minnie The Moocher, Cab Calloway
0207 St. James Infirmary, Cab Calloway
0210 You Rascal You, Cab Calloway
0213 Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea, Cab Calloway
0215 I've Got the World on a String, Cab Calloway
0218 Old Kent cigarettes ad
0219 Geechy Joe, Cab Calloway
0222 I Want to Rock, Cab Calloway and Larry Clinton
0225 Honey Dripper, Cab Calloway
0228 email address given (radiozed (at) hushmail (dot) com), then The Calloway Boogie
0231 Everybody Eats When They Come to My House
0234 Jumpin' Jive
0236 The Man From Harlem
0239 Jitterbug
0243 Sign off

Thanks for the Cab Calloway special!

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Equipment / Re: AM Audio Quality on Shortwave

« on: April 09, 2016, 1520 UTC »

I'm an absolute noob and probably shouldn't be the one answering the question, but having heard some pirate broadcasts in recent weeks my guess is that it will sound good to listeners near you and not so much as the distance grows, although propagation obviously is a tricky variable.

Are you planning on trying to transmit during daylight hours? I'm unaware of pirates doing so at that higher frequency, but as I said I'm very new to this. Seems like most use that 43m band just after sunset locally.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Radio Zed 6925 kHz USB 0325 UTC April 9 2016

« on: April 09, 2016, 0336 UTC »

0334 Decent copy here. Love big band music.
0345 OM speaking. I think he identified one of the songs as a Count Basie tune. Seems to be off all of a sudden.

Thanks for the show! I was getting it on the Tecsun with the external antenna with an SIO of 444.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / XLR8 6955 USB 0047 UTC 09APR2016

« on: April 09, 2016, 0048 UTC »

Music at 0047. Trying to zero in the BFO...

0056 "Get Out of the Bathroom" Oil Tasters.
   side note - I can actually detect this signal without any sort of external antenna on the Satellit 750.
0101 "Gastronomic Meal" Yellow Dogs
0104 XLR8 station ID

Gotta go pick up my daughter from dance class. Thanks for the show!

0210 I'm back and holy CRAP, they played Frantix? Darn these parental responsibilities!
0221 XLR8 ID
0222 "Death Valley 69" Sonic Youth
0226 XLR8 ID into "Alex Chilton" Replacements
     I'm loving this set list. My unqualified SINPO is 33423.
Since last post through 0309, numerous XLR8 ID's and songs, but copy is getting harder here, although there are some really nice peaks.
0328 signal improved, not so much noise as before. Sounds like the Big Boys but I'm not 100% sure.
0347 still on three hours later. Nice show!
0359 XLR8 station ID. Signal pretty weak now, but not much noise or interference.
0417 signal has been gradually losing strength is now just right there on the verge of disappearing for good.
0427 XLR8 ID
0445 seems to be off

Thanks again XLR8!

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Shortwave Ghost 6875.6 AM 2345 UTC 4/7/16

« on: April 08, 2016, 0006 UTC »

0002-0005 fading in and out of audibility. Sunset not happening unti 0130z, so it's unlikely I'll get to hear much of anything.