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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID 6955 USB 2318 UTC 29 NOV 2019

« on: November 29, 2019, 2326 UTC »

0323 UTC: Techno beat music. It's barely audible out here in my neck of the woods, but fair to good via SDR in Fort Collins, Colorado.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: WREC 6930 USB 2133 UTC 29 November 2019

« on: November 29, 2019, 2146 UTC »

Sounding nice via NA5B SDR in D.C. Not audible out here in Washington state.

2139 UTC: "A Pirate's Life for Me"
2141 UTC: Montage of email address, IDs, old mentions of the call letters
2143 UTC: "Click Click Boom" by Saliva; some fading creeping in
2147 UTC: PJ live on the mic with the ID, greetings and a few shoutouts
2148 UTC: "BYOB" by System of a Down
2152 UTC: ID into "Keep Away" by Godsmack; fading's increasing now

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QSLs Received / Re: Radio Waves International QSL

« on: November 28, 2019, 0218 UTC »

Got mine in the mail yesterday. Thanks RWI, and I appreciate the pen!

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID 6924.7 AM was 6924 USB 2339 UTC 25 Nov 2019

« on: November 26, 2019, 0009 UTC »

Heard Hendrix via Burke, Virginia, at 0005 UTC, then SSTV, now more music at 0008, but weak at best via the SDR.

0011 UTC: Seemed to move back to 6924.0 with Irish-sounding music, then "Celtic New Year" by Van Morrison at 0012 UTC.

0017 UTC: Announcer "Patrick" talking as Van Morrison's song ends about transmitter problems, wife calling him to bed and Thanksgiving. Says he'll be back on during Thanksgiving.

0019 UTC: Off.

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MW Loggings / Re: WHO 1040 AM 0418 UTC 23 Nov 2019

« on: November 25, 2019, 2245 UTC »

Right now, in our temporary rental while our house gets rebuilt from a plumbing disaster, I've just got my radio, its built-in ferrite bar, and the low-tech method of turning the radio this way and that.

I mostly started mediumwave DXing again earlier this fall because the shortwave reception at this rental, where I'm not allowed to string a big antenna, is so lousy. So, for now, my radio equipment budget is on hold while we buy stuff like replacement furniture.

With that in mind, I've already told my wife a loop antenna like the AN-100 can be my Christmas present. With luck, we'll also be in our regular house, with has lower RFI levels, by then.

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MW Loggings / Re: WHO 1040 AM 0418 UTC 23 Nov 2019

« on: November 25, 2019, 1959 UTC »

Thanks for the tip. I tried 1120 last night and found KANN -- a Christian music station in Roy, Utah, and listed as just 1,000 watts at night -- as the main signal under KPNW. But I'll keep trying.

Meanwhile, I shifted to 1110 and found KFAB audible at times under KBND. 

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MW Loggings / KFAB 1110 AM 0425 UTC 25 Nov 2019

« on: November 25, 2019, 1956 UTC »

Another Midwest catch by listening through the closer big signal: Heard KFAB out of Omaha on the car radio (2014 Kia Sedona factory radio) while waiting to pick up my kid in Marysville, Washington, just northwest of me. A male weather forecaster giving a winter storm warning and other forecast information for Omaha was briefly above and then audible below KBND from Bend, Oregon. Then Bill Cunningham’s radio show continued on KFAB.

Once I got back home, I tuned in just before 0700 UTC and in a moment of silence on KBND between ads and Fox news on the hour, I heard part of an Omahajobs.com ad, which I confirmed via KFAB’s livestream. I then heard, periodically, “Coast to Coast AM” on KFAB, which was running several seconds behind KBND’s broadcast of it. Distance from here to Omaha is approximately 1,400 miles.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID 6932 USB 0340 UTC 23 November 2019

« on: November 24, 2019, 0359 UTC »

Fair signal out here near Seattle as the Disturbed song plays at 0356 UTC.

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MW Loggings / WHO 1040 AM 0418 UTC 23 Nov 2019

« on: November 24, 2019, 0244 UTC »

I knew if I was patient enough, I could hear Des Moines, Iowa, despite the strong and annoying CKST out of nearby Vancouver, B.C., on the same frequency. As the “Our American Stories” program returned from ads, I heard part of Copland’s “Fanfare for the Common Man” cut through CKST’s talk, which matched the SDR audio of WHO from Kansas City.

The station’s audio continued to bubble up to audible levels at times to mix with CKST and KXPD (a low-power station near Portland, Oregon, that runs China Radio International programming). Distance from here to WHO is about 1,460 miles.

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QSLs Received / Re: Voice of Weird Al eQSL

« on: November 23, 2019, 1914 UTC »

Got the same one here, and the 13-year-old in me who was a big fan of Weird Al's "Eat It" in the 1980s, treasures this QSL card. Thanks, VOWA!

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID 6900 USB 0117 UTC 23 Nov 2019

« on: November 23, 2019, 0120 UTC »

0115 UTC: Instrumental music on a fair to good signal via Northern Utah SDR. One very loud peskie's doing his best to drown this station out, however.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: KDOG 6925 USB 2335 UTC 22 Nov 2019

« on: November 23, 2019, 0002 UTC »

Good enough reception of KDOG via the local SDR in Machias, Washington, that I was able to decode the SSTV just before 0000 UTC with no problem. Not as loud on my own radio here in Lake Stevens, but the music's audible, and the barks are VERY good at cutting through the noise.

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ID and Translation Requests / Sound of Hope or CNR on 9255 kHz AM (video)

« on: November 20, 2019, 2048 UTC »

This is a listed SOH frequency at short-wave.info, but given the signal strength, I'm thinking this is CNR being used as a jammer. Here's the video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=01yav6H8ELA

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Equipment / Re: MLA-30 Loop antenna

« on: November 19, 2019, 2133 UTC »

Based on Jasmine's results not too far away from where I listen, and the fact that I've seen other overall good reviews of the antenna, I'm getting an MLA-30 as soon as we can move back into our regular house and I can settle in again at my usual listening post there.

I go in with the expectation that it probably won't perform as well as the expensive loops, but for a technically challenged DXer like me who can't easily build his own loop and who also has to feed three kids and pay a Seattle-area-sized mortgage, it seems worth a shot!

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MW Loggings / Re: KRVN 880 AM 0605 UTC 17 Nov 2019

« on: November 18, 2019, 2244 UTC »

Good suggestions. If I get the antenna facing the right direction, I should be able to hear past KUGN in Eugene, Oregon, on 590 and KBND in Bend, Oregon, on 1110.