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European Pirates and Private Stations / Coast FM 6235 AM 1520 UTC 31 Dec 2017

« on: December 31, 2017, 1531 UTC »

I'm bored while I take care of paperwork and dialed up Coast FM. They are having lots of audio problems this afternoon - audio keeps cutting in and out, like there is a loose connection somewhere. Pretty annoying. I checked 4005 (+/- 30) to see if they had the problem there but not heard.

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Latin American Pirate / Lupo Radio 6973 AM 0014 UTC 28 Dec 2017

« on: December 28, 2017, 0038 UTC »

Weak carrier heard in the US. Checked an SDR in Brazil and SIO 242 there. Seem to be playing tango-type music - my vision of it anyway.

Carrier frequency is actually 6972.95, as far as I can tell.

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Latin American Pirate / Radio Dontri 6955 KHz USB 0307 UTC Dec 24 2017

« on: December 24, 2017, 0330 UTC »

Rock music and frequent announcements with ID and frequency between songs. Email address as well. Heard on an SDR in Argentina Brazil. Actually on 6954.97 KHz, for what it's worth. Believed to be in Argentina.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / UNID 6928 USB 1850 UTC 17 Dec 2017

« on: December 17, 2017, 1851 UTC »

1850 Tune in. Country music.
1853 Cutesy, Shirley Temple-like song.
1856 Off

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North American Shortwave Pirate / UNID 6930 LSB 2330 UTC Dec 16, 2017

« on: December 16, 2017, 2331 UTC »

Faint on OH SDR. Music and speech but just above minimum discernible. Sounded like they were testing at 2329 then commenced transmission at 2330.

Edit: this is on LSB

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Longwave Loggings / KaySeeks' NDB Loggings

« on: December 05, 2017, 1000 UTC »

My first time ever trying NDB DX. Used the NH6XO SDR (Kaneohe, Oahu, Hawaii). Well over 20 beacons heard, mostly Hawaii and USA/Canadian west coast. Not going write it all here, but since I don't have a lot of experience, these were notable to me due to their distance from the RX:

2017-12-05 0845 365.0 AA Fargo, ND USA 6140 km
2017-12-05 0849 390.0 HBT Sand Point, AK USA 3814 km
2017-12-05 0850 390.0 EHM Cape Newenham, AK USA 4191 km
2017-12-05 0840 413.0 YHD Dryden, ON CAN 6457 km

AA and YHD have been widely reported so these aren't apparently too crazy.

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General Radio Discussion / Pirate Radio is a Costly, Overlooked Problem—and It’s Thriving

« on: November 21, 2017, 1125 UTC »

Partially old news but with more depth here:

http://www.insideradio.com/pirate-radio-is-a-costly-overlooked-problem-and-it-s/article_73e73a12-3ecc-11e7-aecd-77c4ad3cfba2.html

Yeah, yeah, OK. They have been saying that the FCC are going to crack down more. Whatever.

Some of the links in the story are interesting to me. Like this: http://diymedia.net/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2016/07/Pirate-2016-study-final-pdf.pdf
I like the photo of the pirate station antenna that is in the building next to the East Orange, NJ police station. (Location J, p. 86-87.)

Also of note:
"While getting Congress to pass legislation is always a lengthy process, Florida and New Jersey have already made operating a pirate station a felony under state law, while it’s a criminal misdemeanor in New York."

and
"Between Jan. 2003 and March 2017, the FCC issued 1,561 official warning notices to alleged pirates across 46 states with Arkansas, South Carolina, Vermont and West Virginia the only states untouched by the problem. Just one in ten of those warnings were escalated to the next step. The FCC says it proposed $2.15 million in fines against 168 alleged pirates. Yet of that number the Commission ultimately ordered just 93 pirates to pay up a combined $1.04 million. In order words, just 6% of the warning letters ultimately translated to formal fines. Also of note nearly half of the fines were to pirates in one state: Florida."

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European Pirates and Private Stations / UNID 6919.96 AM 1925 UTC 14 Oct 2017

« on: October 14, 2017, 1944 UTC »

1925: Tune in on UTwente SDR. Difficult copy. Continuous AfroPop music.
1930: switch to SDR in Germany. Good signal but much electrical power line QRM.
1940: ID in English but missed it due to SDR cutting out.
2000: ID "Jamasee Radio" ?
2013: Announcements about "....music.."
Continues with Afropop music and IDs every ~10 minutes.
ID and announcements at 2102. Fading a little too difficult to understand. Best reception in NL, DK, Sweden and northern Germany but starting to fade ~2100 UTC.
2105: tuned out.

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European Pirates and Private Stations / UNID 6255.38 AM 1830 UTC 14 Oct 2017

« on: October 14, 2017, 1909 UTC »

1829: Just caught tail end of rock song at tune in.
1830: Into computerized male voice in unfamiliar language, then computerized female voice ID in English, "This is Radio Leadbone (?), Cheltenham (?). Send reports to Radioleadbone (??) AT gmx (??) DOT net. "
Then off the air or faded out immediately after.

SIO 213 on the UTwente SDR in the Netherlands. I have attached a recording of the ID. Unfortunately I turned on the sync detector just as they were giving the email address.

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European Pirates and Private Stations / Delta Radio 6259.8 AM 1858 UTC 07 Oct 2017

« on: October 07, 2017, 1913 UTC »

English ID at 1902 UTC, "Non-stop music".
Announcement in Dutch and ID in English at 1907 UTC, into AC/DC "Highway to Hell".
English ID 1910, into Neil Young "Rocking in the Free World".

Heard on UTwente SDR, very pleasant to to listen to in synchronous AM. SIO 414.

Faded out by 1929.