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Amateur Radio / Re: A 6M rivival here locally? Maybe.

« on: April 27, 2020, 0148 UTC »

I'll start parking my beam in ~NE direction and
listen around some when I see activity pick up
on 50.313 FT8.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID 6925 AM 2341 UTC 21 Mar 2020

« on: March 22, 2020, 0120 UTC »

0057 - CYOT ID and e-mail address by YL
0100 - SSTV ID
Sig was up and down; almost in the noise when down but
59 and easy listening when up.
Thanks for the programme. I started an SDR recording
when the Grand Ol' Opry started, with no live audience,
on the local NBC affiliate (WSMV) and later replayed the recording.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Radio GaGa 6925 USB 0112 UTC 18 March 2020

« on: March 18, 2020, 0247 UTC »

Elephantcage,
"Do wacka..." by late, great, homeboy Roger Miller

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General Radio Discussion / Re: FCC To Hire ‘Substantial Number’ Of New Agents To Capture Radio Pirates

« on: March 14, 2020, 2353 UTC »

"Your tax dollars at work!"

65

Amateur Radio / Re: Digital modes on HF... love it or hate it.

« on: January 25, 2020, 0542 UTC »

...home stations were parked on the FT8 frequency and had stopped scanning the bands.

My observation in the past few VHF / UHF contests, including the one a couple of weekends ago,
is just like what NJQA said above. I could hear a lot of stations on 50.313 but little, if any,
activity in the phone and cw portions of the band. Monitoring 50.313 for FT8 is a good propagation
tool but, personally, I don't care for the automated contacts.

JS8Call might be an improvement but I haven't played with it beyond installing the s/w. I understand that
it is more keyboard to keyboard, like the good ol' days of RTTY!

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: XFM 4185 AM 0429 UTC 01 Jan 2020

« on: January 01, 2020, 0500 UTC »

0457 - Unkn mx, Michael Jackson?, good sig in here
            but some deep fades. Will send you a screenshot.
            Good to hear you again. Happy New Year - NOW! (EST)

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Channel Z 6925 AM 2158 UTC 23 Dec 2019

« on: December 23, 2019, 2202 UTC »

2201 - Just above the noise here but seems to be improving ~S2 - 4

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Other / Re: UNID 6977 USB ~2240 08dec 2019 UTC

« on: December 09, 2019, 0307 UTC »

Thanks, refmo. My first thought was MARS but the
calls weren't right.

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Other / UNID 6977 USB ~2240 08dec 2019 UTC

« on: December 09, 2019, 0109 UTC »

ABOUT 2240 - A net with call signs of CWnnn. NCS seemed to be
                              CW321 who sometimes asked for relays from other
                              stations. Additional calls: CW705 and others. NCS
                              would ask for check-ins by hundreds groups - "Are
                               there any 400 stations wishing to check in", "Any
                               500 stations...", etc. All seemed to be native English
                               speakers.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Bad Boy Radio 6925 AM 2032 UTC 2 Dec 2019

« on: December 02, 2019, 2134 UTC »

2125 - "Tuesday" - Moody Blues
2132 - Bad Boy ID

Weak but mostly readable.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID 6927 AM 1851 21 November 2019

« on: November 21, 2019, 2038 UTC »

1925 - SSTV "Argyle Radio"

On a separate note... Did anyone else copy a SSB sig on 6870 kHz,
probably 21nov19, time not noted UTC? Maybe ~0100 - 0300 or so?
The sig started, when I first noticed it, in LSB, then switched back
and forth between LSB & USB several times. I copied it by using
SAM mode and then it didn't matter which sideband was in use.

I was tied up doing some other things and didn't get "A Round Tuit"
to note the exact time. Also, figured someone else would note and
report the sig but I haven't seen any other report of this. The sig
was up and down and on and off several times but generally good
as I recall.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID 6925 USB 0116 UTC 12 Aug 2019

« on: August 12, 2019, 0121 UTC »

0115 s/on with Lincolnshire Poacher
0116 numbers with Brit accent
0120 Lincolnshire Poacher again, then into rock mx

0125 - corrected time!

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WEFAX and SSTV / Re: New Zealand SSTV

« on: August 11, 2019, 1543 UTC »

14230 ?

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Amateur Radio / Re: Huntsville Hamfest 2019

« on: August 11, 2019, 1540 UTC »

Ooopps, thanks, RH. I meant on Saturday. That's what I get for "assume"-ing!
BTW: I don't think the hamfest is open at 1130 on Friday.

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SDR - Software Defined Radio / Re: KiWiSDR fan problem

« on: August 11, 2019, 0056 UTC »

Sorry, PM, I missed seeing the knob option when I ordered mine!
I still miss my faithful old Drake 2-B from back in the 60s
(not that I really remember that time period ) - 70s.

Chris, I have played with the board vibration you mentioned and
it does help. I have some high density closed cell foam that I jammed
between the antenna connectors and the case and that has made it
a little quieter but I still think the main problem is the #$@*^% fan.

If I have to, I'll try disconnecting the fan as bagmouse7 did.