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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Relay station? 6880 AM 1453 UTC 05 OCT 2018

« on: October 05, 2018, 2133 UTC »

Quote by Relay Station

" i can certainly help you with win 10 to reduce running services among other things but the OS is designed to be dependent on certain services to boot up and operate because of its configuration build type, you may lose some core OS functionality with win10 if certain services at set to manual (never set them to disable, OS will crash on certain ones being disabled since the OS cannot "call" them if they are critically dependent and disabled)"

We will talk further. Thanks

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Relay station? 6880 AM 1453 UTC 05 OCT 2018

« on: October 05, 2018, 1852 UTC »

yes, i agree about XP, i had some serious un-correctable issues with windows 7 ultimate on the first disk drive, so i switched to the second disk drive (laptop has dual disk drives) that had windows xp pro on it as a backup in case i needed to repair the hive for windows 7 which unfortunately, could not be corrected, the backup hive in CONFIG was also non-usable.
i discovered that ST operates at 17% CPU on XP versus 34% CPU on windows 7 with the same settings (average CPU on a ten year old modified laptop used for the station).
i had to change the registry key to enable "POS" in order to get the windows updates (continuous through 2019) and "modify" firefox config settings as well as install the Adobe DRM content DLL's in order to play DRM protected content and H.264/AVC content.
it looks like i got all the issues and bugs corrected including the sample rate and bit depth for the sound card and sound control settings on XP to match for ST as well as buffer-underrun issues for those settings, windows XP does not have any GUI properties method to change the sample rate and bit depth for the sound settings as opposed to win 7 and win 10 which do.
XP actually operates much better on this ten year old laptop anyway, its perfect for this operation, CPU is much less and it stays much cooler.

1840. Yes that's what I liked about XP. It uses less CPU. As far as the sample rate with the correct sound card driver the app should be able to select the rate. I run 192 kHz M Audio card and a 4 channel behringer 192 KHz USB with no problem with SDR and sound editing. I like windows 10 but it has more background services running. When win 10 calms down it is very close to the low CPU as XP. To help this I sometimes stop some of the services. I still need to tweak Win 10 more. Cool on the updates on XP. You may want to look and see if anyone has written a GUI for XP.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Relay station? 6880 AM 1453 UTC 05 OCT 2018

« on: October 05, 2018, 1712 UTC »

1650.   Good signal S7 on a online SDR no problem with the playlist of songs it is nice to hear good songs again. No need to apologize. That's what good radio is all about. I still run XP hear it was a really good operating system. Also running windows 10. Very nice audio response also with the lows and highs EQ' ed nicely. 

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Squirrel Radio 6930 USB 0024 UTC 1 Oct 2018

« on: October 01, 2018, 0059 UTC »

0053 Good S9 signal

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID 6955 USB 2330 28 SEPT 2018

« on: September 28, 2018, 2255 UTC »

2252 S5

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Unid 6940 AM 2156 UTC 28 Sept 2018

« on: September 28, 2018, 2220 UTC »

2215 Very week. Just carrier.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Relay Station 6880 AM 1250 UTC 27 September 2018

« on: September 27, 2018, 1336 UTC »

1334 Good morning Relay Station. I have you just at the noise floor.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Relay Station 6880 AM 1645 UTC 24 September 2018

« on: September 24, 2018, 1939 UTC »

1920 Hello Relay. I got at one point a S7 listening on USB. Could not decern the song. Running multi antenna phase noise cancellation which helps.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID Waterfall Images 6925 USB 0140 UTC 23 Sep 2018

« on: September 23, 2018, 1710 UTC »

That's a nice way to get a message out.

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

« on: September 23, 2018, 0045 UTC »

0041 signal 9 to + good signal

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID 6880 AM 1224 UTC 20 SEPT 2018

« on: September 20, 2018, 1450 UTC »

1440 listening on USB mode. The signal is mostly in the noise floor. Sometimes just enough to hear some music deep in the noise. May need to run a little more power for week daytime conditions.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Mix Radio Int. 6870 USB 0046 UTC 16 Sep 2018

« on: September 17, 2018, 1719 UTC »

Report
0540UTC 17SEP2018

6870 kHz USB, "Mix Radio International", excellent audio quality, transmitting 20~12500 Hz response, smooth jazz/new age music, S5 to S7, some lightning static in background, occasional HF radar interference.

Best sounding SSB music station heard, by far.
Received on the coast of northern California.

Recorded in I/Q mode stereo, 7000 Hz bandpass, with 6000 Hz of USB and about 1000Hz of LSB passband included:

1710. Thank you Exo for putting up the I/Q stereo clips of Mix Radio. It sounds cool in Stereo as it fades. This is the closest you get to Stereo SSB. I wonder how it would have sounded at 13 Kc. It sounded great at 6 Kc with nice low end. The sound is EQ' ed nicely for any audio bandwidth. Nice capture on your SDR.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Radio Humperdoo 6955 USB 2342 UTC 16 Sep 2018

« on: September 17, 2018, 0001 UTC »

2355 Very low. Listening on SSB. Signal to low for SYNC AM to stay locked.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Radio Gaga 6925 USB 2240 UTC 16 Sept 2018

« on: September 16, 2018, 2321 UTC »

2310. S9  clear audio.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Mix Radio 6904 to 6900 USB 0137 UTC 15 SEP 2018

« on: September 15, 2018, 0206 UTC »

0200 Nice S9 + nice audio