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10/11 meters / CH 38LSB alive with F2 today!

« on: October 10, 2021, 1831 UTC »

After bring back from the dead, a 1978 RCA SSB Co-Pilot CB, with a new VCO modual, bought from the same UK dude selling FM CB boards, (See the earlier post on that.), I went to bed with it on the 10M Ringo on CH 38LSB. This morning, I woke-up to a flurry of SSB activity from AZ, NM, TX, Mexico, and CA. In the mid-afternoon, WA, OR, N. CA, BC, and Alberta, all banging-in there at +9lbs. Went to 10M on the HF rig, and found no activity. Hmmmmmmmmmmm...

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Huh? / Re: Russian metal band mentions being back on WBCQ! Went very well!

« on: October 04, 2021, 0602 UTC »

I love it when propagation works. 7490kHz AM banged in at my QTH at S25/9, and that's with 1/2-leg of a Windom. The 9/23/2021 storm ripped the other leg out. Hope to do it again in a few weeks, but this time, on 3265kHz AM. Stay tuned!!!!!

UPDATE 11/18/2021: Master put up a Youtube VID of the show here,   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cQXbP5pdSBU

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Huh? / Russian metal band mentions being back on WBCQ! X2!! (And yes, I've translated.)

« on: October 03, 2021, 0608 UTC »

I bought time on WBCQ's 7490kHz AM for a review of the Russian Metal band, Master's, latest release, Sunday evening 9PM EST, Monday 01:00UTC. And, they've mentioned this on their main web site as their latest news,    http://master-rockgroup.com/



But, if your Russian really sucks, like mine, here's the translation by that big-ass WBCQ mic logo:

"Radio review of the album "Master of Time
Master,Yesterday 3:29 pm

This Sunday, The Underground JAM program on American Independent Radio will feature a review of the "Master of Time" album. Spanish-language songs will also be aired.
Detailed announcement: http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?13,9431,9431#msg-9431
You can listen live here: http://splatterbox.us/wbcq1
Time: 9 p.m. EST on October 3rd.
Moscow time will be 4:00 AM MONDAY, October 4th.

Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)"

Well, I think it's kind of neat. how many bands do you know that mention that they will be heard on shortwave radio?

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General Radio Discussion / Re: US CB to get FM? SWL'ing posts on it.

« on: October 02, 2021, 1932 UTC »

https://swling.com/blog/2021/10/fcc-approves-fm-for-cb-radio/#comment-674404

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Amateur Radio / Finally!!! Decent 75M propagation last night!

« on: September 25, 2021, 1806 UTC »

Coming home around 05:30UTC, that 1710kHz Hudson Valley TIS, (a.k.a. The Pest!), was just booming over the truck stereo. There was some lightning crashes in there, but not outrageous. So, when I got home, I kicked on the HF rig and found 3799kHz and 3795kHz very much alive with Spanish EA1 stations and several UK stations. The 'Big-Guns' were in there at S9!. However, the weaker, 100W on-a-wire dudes, were all heard from S1 to S3. And, this is RX'ed on a compromised Windom, where 1/2 of that blew-down during the 9/22 storms. COOL!!!! And, this was at 06:00UTC, while one Brit commented the the Sun was up for 10min, already. Let's hope for more. I did also check 60M, but just FT8 on CH3. 160M there was domestic stations at 1880kHz, all coming in from S9 to S10/9, and lower lightning crashes. Catch ya on the lower bands? Let's hope...

426

Equipment / Re: Titus II DRM? Should we even bother, at this point?

« on: September 20, 2021, 1850 UTC »

Apparently, they have some newer, yet sketchy, info on the Titus II.    https://www.rtl-sdr.com/is-the-titus-ii-portable-android-tablet-shortwave-sdr-close-to-release/      At this point, tech has marched-on to where there are better alternatives. I say, stop teasing us!

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Equipment / Re: Steps to set the internal clock on a Malachite SDR

« on: September 19, 2021, 2339 UTC »

Have you been to this dude's site?      https://www.qsl.net/n9ewo/malahit.html      This is a very tempting receiver, indeed.

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MW Loggings / Re: AM DX From Alaska? Anything from the local AFB?

« on: September 16, 2021, 0556 UTC »

Geez... Where you are would be a HAM's, even a Part #15 AM station op's, dream. Not to pirate, since the Anchorage FCC Office has a reputation of being really tough on that. Question is, does Tatalina Air Force Base, right near you, have a local AM / FM station? Why do I ask? When I was up in Eielson AFB in July 1985, I was told about an on-base 10W AM station that they had, and was shown the antenna, side-mounted, from ground up, on a 20-something ft wooden utility pole. I never did hear that station on-air in operation while I was there, though. So, that was disappointing. Still, interesting stations that you are catching up there. Just keep all of those mosquitoes.

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MW Loggings / 1630 KCJJ is propagating, again.

« on: September 14, 2021, 0526 UTC »

After a poor RX'ing of KCJJ in Iowa City, IA all summer, I heard them for a few minutes bangin' back in on the truck stereo around 04:35UTC. Interesting contrast of tunage, early Beyoncee Knowles to early 80's Sammy Hagar. https://www.1630kcjj.com/

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Huh? / Re: Yeah, 9/11, but remember the night of 9/10/2001 in radio? Here's more!!!

« on: September 13, 2021, 1851 UTC »

Awh yeah??? Well, if y'all liked that, then here are these:

https://archive.org/details/pat-murphy-roger-skinner-interview-on-art-bell-3-1998-edited


https://archive.org/details/art-bell-midnight-in-the-desert-rec-test-boadcast-via-wbcq-7490k-hz-off-air-7-19-2015-edited


And, if any station wants to air the following, please do:     https://archive.org/details/the-underground-jam-slate-no-tuj-09122021-review-of-master-master-of-time

And, while we're at it, here the expanding Archive.org page:   https://archive.org/details/@thadood

What else to put up there? How about several 1990's pirate ops' interviews? Thank you, and ENJOY!!!!

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Huh? / Re: Yeah, 9/11, but remember the night of 9/10/2001 in radio? Now, on Archive!

« on: September 12, 2021, 0727 UTC »

Want to download that interview for yourself? Looks like the upload to Archive.org worked. Goto    https://archive.org/details/andrew-yoder-on-art-bell-c-2-c-am-mon-9-10-2001-edited    Scroll down to VBR MP3, then Right-Click for option to download. Enjoy!!!!!!

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Amateur Radio / Re: Age of ham radio operators?

« on: September 11, 2021, 0620 UTC »

Awh yeah... I definitely fit the +46 category, but I was 22 when I was 1st licensed. Then again, it was just before the internet hit.

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Huh? / Yeah, 9/11, but remember the night of 9/10/2001 in radio, that then wasn't?

« on: September 11, 2021, 0612 UTC »

Oh yeah... I certainly remember the morning of 9/11/2001, since I was on the road to my Grandpa's funeral in Buffalo, NY. Needless to say, 930WBEN was exciting to listen too right then, as my family and I did. However, I was sleep deprived from staying up all night, 9/10/2001, for big night on the then Art Bell's Coast To Coast AM, when his guest was Andrew Yoder, on the subject of Pirate Radio, mainly the shortwave scene. I stayed up to record off-air the whole thing off of WHTK 1280AM. (I did the same with the Pat Murphy interview as well.) I thought that it all went well, Art got to tune-in to what may have been his 1st pirate station on shortwave, He Man Radio doing the broadcast for the occasion. Art actually aired several pirate ID's and actually aired a full skit from The Voice Of Laryngitis, as well as promote Hobby Broadcasting Zine. Also, a mention of Number Stations that Art has tuned-in to before. I was actually happy with the whole show, then the events of what happened a few hours later totally erased everything. Andrew's thunder was really sniff-out, for sure. Certainly glad that I did the off-air records, and they were on-line on a couple of sites. Are they still? So, even though the terrible events to the twin towers changed everything in America, and even the World, the night before, 9/10/2001, turned out to be the radio event that was, then all of a sudden, wasn't.   

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Amateur Radio / Re: Ops are talking on 160M already.

« on: September 09, 2021, 1941 UTC »

CW might be the best way to QSO on 160M with smaller antennas, and 100W, or less. That, and maybe FT8. My experience on 160M is, unless you pound them with at least an S20/9 signal, they don't seem to want to have much to do with you. They call it 'The Gentleman's band', but I see it more as a band of smugness. Just my take. One of the reasons that I like the newer 60M band. You are on par with everyone else at 100W, or less. That, and 60M is open 24/7 to somewhere.

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Amateur Radio / Ops are talking on 160M already.

« on: September 07, 2021, 1906 UTC »

Huh... Even with all those lightning crashes, even being heard up to 10MHz, last night at 06:30UTC, ops on 1880kHz LSB were back on rag chewin'. And, all were coming in from S5 to S9. I guess that's a sign of Fall. Saturday night, I also heard that Gateway News 160M AM at 1860kHz, WA0RCR, at S10/9 - S20/9 signal. http://www.wa0rcr.com/