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Author Topic: Relay Station 6880 AM 1638 UTC 25 Oct 2018  (Read 2294 times)

Offline R4002

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Relay Station 6880 AM 1638 UTC 25 Oct 2018
« on: October 25, 2018, 1640 UTC »
The Relay Station - Relay Station 6880 kHz 6.880 MHz tuned in via Westminster, MD KiwiSDR - the usual killer 20 kHz wide bandwidth AM broadcast quality wide AM signal SIO 555 S7-S9 with peaks at S9+10db around tune in time. 

Beautiful AM signal on the waterfall, exactly 20 kHz wide with carrier right on 6880.0 kHz - top notch work as usual, Relay Station!

1638 UTC - Cage The Elephant - Come A Little Closer
1641 UTC - Arctic Monkeys - Do I Wanna Know?
1643 UTC - Unfortunately I'm home for lunch and won't be able to listen for much longer
1645 UTC - a few seconds of unmodulated carrier - S9 carrier without any modulation
« Last Edit: October 25, 2018, 1645 UTC by R4002 »
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Re: Relay Station 6880 AM 1438 UTC 25 Oct 2018
« Reply #1 on: October 25, 2018, 1649 UTC »
The Relay Station - Relay Station 6880 kHz 6.880 MHz tuned in via Westminster, MD KiwiSDR - the usual killer 20 kHz wide bandwidth AM broadcast quality wide AM signal SIO 555 S7-S9 with peaks at S9+10db around tune in time. 

Beautiful AM signal on the waterfall, exactly 20 kHz wide with carrier right on 6880.0 kHz - top notch work as usual, Relay Station!

1438 UTC - Cage The Elephant - Come A Little Closer
1441 UTC - Arctic Monkeys - Do I Wanna Know?
1443 UTC - Unfortunately I'm home for lunch and won't be able to listen for much longer
1445 UTC - a few seconds of unmodulated carrier - S9 carrier without any modulation
thanks R4002, this is just my usual random daytime broadcast at 50W playing some good tunes and listening to them from Chris' excellent Kiwi SDR while i work.
this coming Halloween though, i am 95% sure i wont be broadcasting as i will be listening instead, i expect activity to be pretty busy at around 0000z.
enjoy your lunch and the rest of the work day R4002 ;) - friday is almost here.
« Last Edit: October 25, 2018, 1651 UTC by TheRelayStation »
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Re: Relay Station 6880 AM 1638 UTC 25 Oct 2018
« Reply #2 on: October 25, 2018, 1728 UTC »
1720 Good afternoon   :) S9 from a Virginia SDR.  Nice music source. Good hearing you again with your great sounding AM station. Halloween night should be a interesting one to listen to.
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Re: Relay Station 6880 AM 1638 UTC 25 Oct 2018
« Reply #3 on: October 25, 2018, 1737 UTC »
Relay Station 6880 AM S9+10 dB in NY

1735: Two Door Cinema Club “Someday”
1738: Two Door Cinema Club “Come Back Home”
1742: TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES 😱
1743: Blur “Coffee And TV”
« Last Edit: October 25, 2018, 1743 UTC by PirateSWL »
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Re: Relay Station 6880 AM 1638 UTC 25 Oct 2018
« Reply #4 on: October 25, 2018, 1740 UTC »
1740  3-5  2 door Cinema Club/ come back home  . Audio is good
1754 Coldplay/ clocks
1845 Mazy Star/ fade into you
1847 RHCP/ under the bridge.   Sounding great  S7 at the top

2146 Pink Floyd/ shine on you crazy diamond
2159 Benny and the Jets     S9 
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Enjoyed the playlist today TRS
« Last Edit: October 25, 2018, 2202 UTC by Davep »
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Re: Relay Station 6880 AM 1638 UTC 25 Oct 2018
« Reply #5 on: October 25, 2018, 1800 UTC »
1742: TECHNICAL DIFFICULTIES 😱
yup - this is because of windows XP which has no built in, up/down resampler like win7/10 does, if you set your win7/10 soundcard to 48Khz, all sources inputting to it with sample rates above/below 48Khz are automatically resampled to 48Khz.
its currently an issue that i should consider using a software resampler for tracks that are sampled differently than the current setting of 48Khz, the only problem is the introduction of additional latency and CPU use.
99% of the tracks i have are at 48Khz so its not a serious issue at the moment.
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Re: Relay Station 6880 AM 1638 UTC 25 Oct 2018
« Reply #6 on: October 25, 2018, 1815 UTC »
45454 in Wyomissing @ 1814.


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Re: Relay Station 6880 AM 1638 UTC 25 Oct 2018
« Reply #7 on: October 25, 2018, 1841 UTC »
1840 HAVE A  S3 CARRUER AND LIGHT AUDIO.
1850 SIGNAL UP TO S4 AND FULL AUDIO.
« Last Edit: October 25, 2018, 1857 UTC by ranco »
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Re: Relay Station 6880 AM 1638 UTC 25 Oct 2018
« Reply #8 on: October 25, 2018, 1841 UTC »
1720 Good afternoon   :) S9 from a Virginia SDR.  Nice music source. Good hearing you again with your great sounding AM station. Halloween night should be a interesting one to listen to.
good afternoon to you too.
yes, Halloween evening should be very interesting - i plan on listening, not broadcasting.
im looking forward to hearing all of the OP's broadcasting their shows but hopefully leaving 6880Khz "open" for a special one.
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Re: Relay Station 6880 AM 1638 UTC 25 Oct 2018
« Reply #9 on: October 25, 2018, 1936 UTC »
Another great S9+10 broadcast at 1935 UTC. Enjoying the program, thank you!
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Re: Relay Station 6880 AM 1638 UTC 25 Oct 2018
« Reply #10 on: October 25, 2018, 1940 UTC »
1935 already a weak carrier on 6880,0 but also another one on 6880,3
1947 only 6880,3 and occasional OHR
« Last Edit: October 25, 2018, 1950 UTC by Ray Lalleu »
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Re: Relay Station 6880 AM 1638 UTC 25 Oct 2018
« Reply #11 on: October 25, 2018, 1947 UTC »
1947 Very solid signal. SIO 444
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Re: Relay Station 6880 AM 1638 UTC 25 Oct 2018
« Reply #12 on: October 25, 2018, 2001 UTC »
1720 Good afternoon   :) S9 from a Virginia SDR.  Nice music source. Good hearing you again with your great sounding AM station. Halloween night should be a interesting one to listen to.
good afternoon to you too.
yes, Halloween evening should be very interesting - i plan on listening, not broadcasting.
im looking forward to hearing all of the OP's broadcasting their shows but hopefully leaving 6880Khz "open" for a special one.

I agree. I have checked out past halloween shows from Utube and found them creative.
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Re: Relay Station 6880 AM 1638 UTC 25 Oct 2018
« Reply #13 on: October 25, 2018, 2103 UTC »
2102 UTC "War Pigs"-Black Sabbath (Fading in and out of the noise floor here with some light OTHR)
2110 UTC "Baba O'Reilly"-The Who (getting some S3 peaks now....usual superb audio!)
2115 UTC "Tom Sawyer"-Rush
2120 UTC "Psycho Killer"-Talking Heads
2125 UTC "Piece of My Heart"-Big Brother & Holding Company
2130 UTC "Summertime"-Big Brother & Holding Company
2135 UTC "Paranoid Android"-Radiohead
2142 UTC "Shine On You Crazy Diamond"-Pink Floyd
2155 UTC "Benny and the Jets"-Elton John
2200 UTC OFF

Thanks for the tunes Relay Station!  :)
« Last Edit: October 25, 2018, 2201 UTC by Skipmuck »
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Re: Relay Station 6880 AM 1638 UTC 25 Oct 2018
« Reply #14 on: October 25, 2018, 2124 UTC »
S6 peaks @ 2122 with "Psycho Killer"
2125 - "Piece Of My Heart" Big Brother & The Holding Company
« Last Edit: October 25, 2018, 2125 UTC by refmo »
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