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European Pirates and Private Stations / Radio Parade Int 6955 AM 2130 UTC 27 Jul 2019

« on: July 27, 2019, 2132 UTC »

SINPO 34233 

2130 Station ID and email
2130 It's raining Men - The Weathergirls
2134 Station ID
2134 Dr Beat - Gloria Estefan
2139 Holiday - Madonna

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European Pirates and Private Stations / KR1 6285 AM 1930 UTC 26 July 2019

« on: July 26, 2019, 1737 UTC »

SINPO  43444

1930 Usual DJ speaking, ID, talking about lots of sandy beaches in the Netherlands etc, clean kitchen with sea water from North Sea
1933 Instrumental "I'm coming home" Mel Tome
1937 Unid Instrumental
1938 Jingle - KR1 - DJ speaking: Pirates for Peace
1939 Guitar Boogie - Bill Justis
1942 Voulez Vous - Abba

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European Pirates and Private Stations / Re: European pirates heard in the U.S?

« on: July 26, 2019, 1708 UTC »

Usuals in North America:
- Laser Hot Hits/Coast FM/whatever might be the current relay from Ireland 6205
- Reflections Europe 6295
- Focus 6285
- Johnny Tobacco under various names
- Mustang Radio

Others are infrequent, mainly because Europeans close down too early from American point of view.

This is generally only an issue during the long summer days, and not in other seasons

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European Pirates and Private Stations / Re: Radio Merlin International raided?

« on: July 24, 2019, 2252 UTC »

No need for presuming the worst. They haven't said anything on FB to suggest a raid.

https://twitter.com/radiomerlin?lang=en

 
@radiomerlin Jul 11

"It appears that we are under surveillance .For security reason Radio Merlin will be off the air until we find out whats going on.Thanks for all of your emails .catch you soon."

"It seems that the strange surveillance van that keeps parking next to our TX  site has nothing to do with Radio Merlin.Will be back on soon"

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European Pirates and Private Stations / Radio Merlin International raided?

« on: July 24, 2019, 2140 UTC »

Both on twitter and HF Underground the night of 14 July is the last date that Radio Merlin has been active... furthermore, the last few tweets talk about a strange surveillance van that kept parking outside the TX site.

The radio and twitter silence since then, and those final twitter comments make me draw conclusions that Radio Merlin might have been raided? Anybody know anymore?

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European Pirates and Private Stations / Re: Zenith tent 5775 AM 1150 UTC 24 July 2019

« on: July 24, 2019, 1513 UTC »

Again? Nope all working just fine. Carrier was silent for a while while some maintenance was being done.

.. well, I'll let you off the hook this time ;-)

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European Pirates and Private Stations / Zenith 5775 AM 1150 UTC 24 July 2019

« on: July 24, 2019, 1156 UTC »

Silent carrier on 5775 khz after heavy thunder storm over British Isles last night - SINPO 33333

Could this be Zenith/Harmony with damaged/burnt out AM modulator again?

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European Pirates and Private Stations / Re: UNID 6245.2 AM 1500 UTC 6 July 2019

« on: July 06, 2019, 1509 UTC »

SINPO 23332

1507 Could not copy ID and email in German... something "FM"
1507 El Paso - Homer & Jethro

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European Pirates and Private Stations / Re: Unid 5810 AM 1315 utc 06 Jul 2019

« on: July 06, 2019, 1506 UTC »

Weak trace, some audio.

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European Pirates and Private Stations / Re: Radio Discovery 6300 AM 1354 utc 06 Jul 2019

« on: July 06, 2019, 1503 UTC »

SINPO 23222  Not too strong, some interference and static with noise

1501 Maralyn Monroe - Pharell Williams

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European Pirates and Private Stations / Radio Cuckoo 6240.2 AM 1505 UTC 3 Jul 2019

« on: July 03, 2019, 1510 UTC »

SINPO 33233 Fair signal with some fades, audio quality could be better imho

1505 Safety Dance - Men without Hats
1507 In Italian - ID Radio Cuckoo - and contact details
1507 True Faith - New Order
1513 Suburbia - Pet Shop Boys

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European Pirates and Private Stations / Re: Radio Parade Int. 6965 AM 2037 utc 29 Jun 2019

« on: June 29, 2019, 2127 UTC »

SINPO 33233 - signal strength slowly building up after dusk here

2127 Traditional Irish violin music

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European Pirates and Private Stations / Re: Scrambled and/or useless signals on 48m

« on: June 29, 2019, 1932 UTC »

1940 utc :

spur from 6145 KBS Wooferton : on 6205 approx.

spur from 6155 IRIB : on 6220 approx.

Both probably PDM filter faults.

Re the spitting jamming, I don't think this is deliberate jamming. An almost identical signal can be received on 6282ish.

On my Kenwood HF scanner, if a high power signal is received too strong, it can cause interference on other frequencies around the band, I have an attenuator switch I can use to lessen the signal overdrive... it has nothing to do with the transmitters though, simply a high power HF signal being received too strongly.  My attenuator switch allows me to attenuate reception by 10 to 40 db in 4 stages.

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European Pirates and Private Stations / Re: Scrambled and/or useless signals on 48m

« on: June 28, 2019, 1451 UTC »

Talking of out of band, what is this 'noise' around 6220 currently?. You can hear it on the Twente SDR. Its like SSB and could be speech but is garbled. I can't make it out at all on USB/LSB?

This is spurious product from Iranian transmitter in Zahedan on 6155 kHz broadcasting VOIRI Arabic service. Now it is audible every evening here too.

Ah so legal stations cause more interference than pirates do and run dirty rigs. Does Iran have their equivalent of the FCC or ofcom?

Those who rule over us are generally ABOVE the laws THEY make ... don't you know....

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European Pirates and Private Stations / Re: Scrambled and/or useless signals on 48m

« on: June 27, 2019, 2153 UTC »

Talking of out of band, what is this 'noise' around 6220 currently?. You can hear it on the Twente SDR. Its like SSB and could be speech but is garbled. I can't make it out at all on USB/LSB?

This is spurious product from Iranian transmitter in Zahedan on 6155 kHz broadcasting VOIRI Arabic service. Now it is audible every evening here too.

.... So Radio Havana, Cuba, is not the only "legal" station with badly serviced transmitters on 48 meters at the moment