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Equipment / 11 meter rig
« on: April 30, 2017, 2229 UTC »
OK, I have to admit I have a soft spot for 11m (CB).   Any recommendations for an 11m base rig?  I don't need a modifiable 10m with 400 watts inside, just really clean signal out of the box and SSB.  I.e., no splatterboxes.

If I accidentally forget to flip the antenna switch and it goes through my linear amp, well, mistakes happen.

The Galaxy DX-2547 looks interesting, though I see some complaints about quality control.  https://www.amazon.com/Galaxy-DX-2547-Station-Counter-Talkback/dp/B002LMIQQU

I'm not against a mobile that I run off a power supply, though.  Having a "base" radio is mainly for aesthetics.

Any recommendations?

Edit:  Also looking at the Bearcat 980  https://www.amazon.com/Uniden-BEARCAT-Sideband-WeatherBand-980SSB/dp/B007B5ZAES


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North American Shortwave Pirate / Unknown Name Radio Network 6880 AM 0500 UTC April 30, 2017
« on: April 30, 2017, 0502 UTC »
I'm guessing it's Unknown Name Radio Network, but someone with reception will have to check it out.  Not readable from my QTH

SINPO: 15411

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Spy Numbers / 9330 AM Spanish 07:09 UTC 26 Apr 2017
« on: April 26, 2017, 0712 UTC »
Digits in Spanish read by YL, data burst, repeat.

Sounds exactly like the last time I heard numbers, and in my thread MDK2 said it was HM01

IC-R75, SINPO: 25523

Transmission ended approx 07:22 UTC

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Other / Dasher 5170 USB 03:27 UTC 26 April 2017
« on: April 26, 2017, 0330 UTC »
Strange, almost like a time signal.  19 dits then a dah.  Repeat.  Faster than 1/second though.

SINPO 25422 on my IC-R75

FWIW, Taiwan SSB meteorological broadcasting is theoretically scheduled now on this frequency.

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Spy Numbers / 16180 AM Spanish 21:15 UTC 20 Apr 2017
« on: April 20, 2017, 2117 UTC »
Digits spoken in spanish followed by a data burst, repeat.

SINPO 55333

Transmission ended 21:23 UTC

*I should note this was off my RTL-SDR so hopefully the frequency is correct.  I have a multicoupler and AFERDI on order so I can use the RTL-SDR as a waterfall for the R-75 and the AFERDI directly.  :)

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North American Shortwave Pirate / UNID 6950 AM 0834 UTC 20 Apr 2017
« on: April 20, 2017, 0900 UTC »
SINPO 45323

08:57 UTC now, and has been playing music since I tuned in.  I don't recognize any of the songs; they're in (I think) Spanish; some of them have a Latin dance beat.  Haven't heard an ID or anything except music so far.

Hmm, I'm not even sure it's a pirate, but I don't know of any scheduled broadcasts in this band at this time, and there's been no ID.  If I hear one, I'll update the post.

Edit:  09:34 UTC  faded out; still didn't get an ID

Took a quick video https://youtu.be/YphXCqkHnC0

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Other / Malicious Interference 3840 LSB 0625 UTC 16 Apr 2017
« on: April 16, 2017, 0629 UTC »
Guy interrupting QSOs with a soundboard.  Vulgarity, racist comments, etc. on loops.

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Equipment / What's a good upgrade from an R75?
« on: April 14, 2017, 0515 UTC »
Life got in the way, and I put my radios away for a while.  Last month I dug them out of mothballs and started up the hobby again.  I'm enjoying it and was thinking of investing in a new (or higher capability used) receiver.

Right now I'm using my 10+ year old Icom IC-R75 which works great, but was thinking of upgrading.  What's a good upper-mid range HF receiver?  Used is definitely an option because looking around I haven't seen many new radios :-(   I mostly listen to ham and SW, but I poke around the frequencies and will log utilities, decode RTTY, etc. Also, I've gotten spoiled with the DSP in the R75.  It would be difficult for me to bring myself to get a radio without it.  There are a lot of phone signals that would be unintelligible to me except for the DSP noise reduction.

I was looking at used JRC NDR-545s.  I'm also thinking of waiting for the new Icom receiver.  I'm open to SDRs, but don't know much about them.  I have a $20 USB SDR that I've been playing with, but I don't know much about the Airspy / SDRPlay and up level receivers.

Any suggestions?

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Peskies / UNID Spanish Language 6905 kHz LSB 0239 UTC 14 April 2017
« on: April 14, 2017, 0241 UTC »
Two men speaking in Spanish.  One side nice and loud RST of 57  Other side I can barely make out RST 11

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MW Loggings / KOHI 1600 khz 0348z Apr 12, 2017
« on: April 12, 2017, 0425 UTC »
KOHI  St. Helens, OR  SINPO: 32323   They were playing Old Time Radio (The Whistler).  Nighttime power is 12 watts, and I was receiving pretty clearly 130+ miles away.  It would have almost sounded local except they were getting stepped on by other stations during fade.

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Other / Malicious Interference 3908 LSB 0429 UTC 10 Apr 2017
« on: April 10, 2017, 0444 UTC »
Someone is clogging up 3908 LSB in the ham bands with audio bite loops, profanity, music, etc.

Came across this at 0429 and it's still going on.  Pulling S9 here in the Seattle area

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