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European Pirates and Private Stations / Technical Man 6325.8 AM 1801 UTC 27 October 2018

« on: October 27, 2018, 1806 UTC »

Dance music. Weak but listenable on SDRs in eastern Europe.

1819 SINPO 34334 on SDR in Germany.
1826 gave out SMS number in NL. I missed part of it so I assume that I missed the ID.
1838 "Listeners this is still the Technical Man on 6325 kilocycles."
1844 "This is Technical Man from the east part of the Netherlands."
1853 "Announcement in EN and DT. "Technical Man Heireveld? Nederland", into "Dancing In the Dark"
1857 "This is Romeo Tango Mike" then in Morse repeated 2x.
1924 ID and SMS given out in English, Spanish, French, in that order. Digital QRM on their USB. Signal is fading in Germany as the band goes "long".

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Piss Ant Radio 6954.978 USB 0110 UTC 13 October 2018

« on: October 13, 2018, 0112 UTC »

0110: George Thoroughgood, "I Drink Alone". SINPO 24333 in Ontario.
0115: Judas Priest, "You Got Another Thing Coming"
Others have noted the songs.
0129: signal has been fading and is barely readable now. SINPO 14311 most of the time.
0135: gone here

Edits: I have updated the station name, frequency and the date since I first posted.

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European Pirates and Private Stations / R. Sovereign 6315 AM 0700 UTC 28 September 2018

« on: September 28, 2018, 0709 UTC »

I'm generally not listening this early in the morning.

Very weak on Twente and Belgian SDRs. Occasionally fades up enough to hear dance music but that happens only 5% of the time.

0712 UTC - Clearly heard bits of a Meatloaf song.
0742 UTC - "Life In The Fast Lane"

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North American Shortwave Pirate / UNID 6954.97 AM-> 6955 USB 2344 UTC 22 September 2019

« on: September 22, 2018, 2345 UTC »

Overmodulated rock music. SINPO 22221 into an SDR in Virginia.

2355 - caught bits of what I think is George Thorogood and The Destroyers, "I Drink Alone".
0010 - music stopped mid-song then some sort of computerized announcement and then TX off.
0013 - back on in USB and very strong now.
0014 - George Thorogood and The Destroyers, "I Drink Alone"
0041 - SSTV

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North American Shortwave Pirate / UNID 6932.06 AM 2328 UTC 22 September 2018

« on: September 22, 2018, 2329 UTC »

Reasonable carrier but weak modulation. I hear music with male vocalist at 2329 UTC.

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Shortwave Broadcast / WRMI 7570 KHz 0325 UTC 22 September 2018

« on: September 22, 2018, 0336 UTC »

In Spanish but crappy computer-generated text-to-speech (with terrible pronunciation) and in a very heavy American accent on top of that. This is really bad. I'm not a Spanish speaker but I can tell that this sounds like shit.

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Propagation / Your Radio Isn't Broken

« on: August 28, 2018, 0257 UTC »

We had a moderate geomagnetic storm on 27 August: https://www.swpc.noaa.gov/news/g2-moderate-geomagnetic-storm-observed

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European Pirates and Private Stations / LaserHotHits 6205 AM 1900 UTC 25 August 2018

« on: August 25, 2018, 2123 UTC »

Usual programming.

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European Pirates and Private Stations / Radio 319 5780 AM 2000 UTC 25 August 2018

« on: August 25, 2018, 2034 UTC »

Listening by SDR today since I am not in Europe these days. Signal is better in northern Europe than in southern Europe.
Periodic adverts for a Dutch jingle company.

2035 UTC - "Three-One-Nine. The legend goes on."
2045 UTC - "Three-One-Nine" repeated several times then into a song with French male vocalist

2138 UTC - Checked here again and transmitter is gone.

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European Pirates and Private Stations / Zenith Classic Rock 5780 AM 1830 UTC 24 August 2018

« on: August 24, 2018, 1856 UTC »

I have a carrier on 5780 KHz (the usual Zenith Classic Rock frequency recently) with a continuous 500 Hz test tone. No ID. Let's see what develops.




ID added by Ray at 1924

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European MW Pirate Radio / Technical Man 1611.14 AM 1835 UTC 18 August 2018

« on: August 18, 2018, 1846 UTC »

Dutch MW pirate.

ID in English at 1842 UTC
Programming is mostly Dutch and German schlager music.

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European Pirates and Private Stations / UNID 6289.98 AM 1958 UTC 15 August 2018

« on: August 15, 2018, 1958 UTC »

1958 - Tina Turner song?
2000 - Song about "amore" in Peruvian Huayno style.
2012 - Announcement in English. Hello to a listener over a song.
2013 - Fade out. Not sure if transmitter is off the air.

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Other / CPN9 5838 CW 1925 UTC 15 August 2018

« on: August 15, 2018, 1946 UTC »

Heard in Italy.

"CPN9" looking to establish contact before 1930 UTC. Seemingly established it at 1930 UTC then proceeded to send mixed letters and numbers (no firm group size, I I think) but I missed the ID of the station they were calling. After a long message at ~1931-1934 UTC, pretty quiet with occasional transmissions to reply to whoever they were in communication with.

CW was certainly sent "live" - the operator made mistakes and s/he would correct themselves with the universal repeated 5 or 6 dit symbol of "I goofed". Speed was ~10 WPM, which is just a little too fast for me to copy manually right now so missed large chunks of what was sent.

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European Pirates and Private Stations / Laser Hot Hits 6285 AM 1825 UTC 15 August 2018

« on: August 15, 2018, 1830 UTC »

EDIT: Corrected the subject. It's not Coast FM. Ray - Feel free to combine with your thread.

Usual stuff. SINPO 23322 at 1825 UTC.

1829 - Bryan Adams.

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European Pirates and Private Stations / UNID 3940 AM 2100 UTC 30 July 2018

« on: July 30, 2018, 2102 UTC »

Johnny Cash doing U2's "One", but TX has been on and off intermittently from 2102 onward.

Pretty sure it was off the air permanently by 2120.