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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Radio Free Whatever 6955 USB 2255 UTC 23 JULY 2023

« on: July 23, 2023, 2326 UTC »

Big signal this evening into the mountains of Virginia.
S9+20
Happy to catch RFW tonight!

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SDR - Software Defined Radio / Re: Which SDR for RX?

« on: June 03, 2023, 0035 UTC »

I ordered an SDRplay DX from HRO when they were on sale, a Red Pitaya and a Hermes 2 lite.
Now I need more antennas.

Still waiting on apache-labs to ship the G2.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Radio Free Whatever 6950 USB 2211 UTC 14 MAY 2023

« on: May 14, 2023, 2313 UTC »

S9+ into the cloudy mountains of Virginia.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Thunder Chicken Radio 6950 USB 2143 UTC 10 MAY 202

« on: May 10, 2023, 2333 UTC »

S9 just above the noise but very readable, SSTV signal with timestamp.

https://imgur.com/a/M4No6kk

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Radio Free Whatever 6950 USB 2232 UTC 9 MAY 2023

« on: May 09, 2023, 2320 UTC »

2319UTC

Solid S9 into the mountains of Virginia.

I look forward to RFW every week.

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SDR - Software Defined Radio / Re: Which SDR for RX?

« on: May 04, 2023, 2346 UTC »

I managed to get the HackRF to play nicely with SDRsharp but the lack of plugins for anything amateur radio is a downer.
On the plus side, I get ~20MHz easily.

If I could get SDRuno to work with it I'd be happy.

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SDR - Software Defined Radio / Re: Which SDR for RX?

« on: May 04, 2023, 1858 UTC »

Thanks for the suggestions!

I was leaning toward the Airspy+ I live way out in the boonies (NRQZ) with no neighbors for miles and no strong stations.
I like the diversity of the duo but it's getting on for double the cost of a single tuner.

Mainly looking for software compatibility and plugins, I'm guessing both of them are catered for equally?

Chris, the AFEDRI looks like a good choice but I'm kinda over having to get software to work with this HackRF and it looks like this would be an uphill struggle.

What I'd love to do is monitor and report all digi (FT4/8/JT/etc) from 0-30 in one go, the closest I've seen is the 20meg bandwidth of the HackRF with SparkSDR2 software.

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SDR - Software Defined Radio / Which SDR for RX?

« on: May 03, 2023, 2317 UTC »

I'm looking for a semi-decent receiver for my station, I have an Anan G2 on order but that'll be my main TX radio.
I also have a HackRF but compatibility isn't the best, Ideally looking for as large a slice of HF as possible with good performance and good compatibility.
Looking to keep the spend at $300USD or less.

Thanks all.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Radio Free Whatever 6950 USB 2301 UTC 16 APR 2023

« on: April 16, 2023, 2316 UTC »

Wonderful to hear RFW again!
20+ into the mountains of VA.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Thunder Chicken 6887 was 6885 USB 2325 UTC 10 Mar 2023

« on: March 11, 2023, 0033 UTC »

https://imgur.com/a/XgqD6TU

SSTV image.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID 6925 AM 0112 UTC 05 Mar 2023

« on: March 05, 2023, 0117 UTC »

20 over in the mountains of VA, some minor fading.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Yeah Man Radio 6925 USB 2325 UTC 3 MAR 2023

« on: March 03, 2023, 2355 UTC »

S9+10 here in the mountains of VA.
Nice audio.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID 6950 USB 2129 UTC 28 FEB 2023

« on: February 28, 2023, 2346 UTC »

Best I could grab in VA:

https://imgur.com/a/r0QYx1I

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Radio Free Whatever 6955 USB 2251 UTC 25 FEB 2022

« on: February 26, 2023, 0035 UTC »

Fun Fact: Learnt is a word used by mostly British people (such as myself) and is absolutely a word.

Still 20 over in NW VA

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Radio Free Whatever 6955 USB 2251 UTC 25 FEB 2022

« on: February 26, 2023, 0021 UTC »

Still +20 here in VA, some minor fading.