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majoco · #**1581** (**permalink**) 09-22-2012, 9:43 PM

Doubled. Blast them phat phingers!

majoco · #**1582** (**permalink**) 09-22-2012, 9:45 PM

DX Atlas is a great programme, John, I could sit and play for hours!

Interesting to put my home QTH in and then switch to Azimuthal projection - Spain and Portugal are all around the outside rim!

bmlure · #**1583** (**permalink**) 10-16-2012, 3:54 PM

Radio New Zealand on 11725 @ 2055. S3 low noise.

k9rzz · #**1584** (**permalink**) 10-17-2012, 3:39 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by majoco

DX Atlas is a great programme, John, I could sit and play for hours!

Interesting to put my home QTH in and then switch to Azimuthal projection - Spain and Portugal are all around the outside rim!

Yeah, isn't it?

Glad I could share.

kilokat7 · #**1585** (**permalink**) 10-21-2012, 10:57 AM

15060 KHz Undercover Radio (pirate) on right now at 1556 UTC trying to reach Europe. Good signal, S8 but deep fades.

kilokat7 · #**1586** (**permalink**) 10-21-2012, 2:48 PM

15120 KHz Voice of Nigeria right now at 1943 UTC broadcasting in DRM with a near perfect decode, but sadly terrible audio quality (not the fault of DRM). Why broadcast in DRM if you're going to use telephone grade audio (it actually sounds worse)? Seems like a big waste of bandwidth. When I saw the signal I was hoping for some nice local music with nice vibrant audio :-(

newhavencomrade · #**1587** (**permalink**) 10-31-2012, 9:43 AM

Hey, so I'm new to SWLing and this forum. I just picked up the Grundig 450DLX at Radio Shack last night to try out this whole shortwave thing. At first I couldn't pick up anything but static, but after a while I began to hear a whole bunch of stuff on the airwaves.

Coolest thing I received was the English broadcast of Radio Havana Cuba at 6000 kHz, from about 0200-0300 UTC. I'm a Marxist-Leninist, so that was pretty enjoyable.

Just wish I could get Voice of Korea, too, but all I got was static. Guess that one is too distant to hear.

majoco · #**1588** (**permalink**) 10-31-2012, 10:38 PM

Radio Croatia 7375kHz 0330z S5 on my realigned Kenwood R2000 - going well!

Voice of Greece romping in on 7475kHz 0400z S9+ on the R2000, loud and clear on the 1953 Pye PE80 and listening out on the verandah on the Sony CRF 230 to some cool jazz with a cool brown sparkling health drink.

kilokat7 · #**1589** (**permalink**) 11-10-2012, 6:41 AM

Well, this is a new one for me: Presumed North Korea currently coming in well on 2850 KHz at 1230 UTC with dramatic instrumental music. Whenever I check this frequency in the morning, it's usually just a weak carrier. Unfortunately t-storm crashes are ruining the DX this morning :-(

k9rzz · #**1590** (**permalink**) 11-10-2012, 9:09 PM

Kind of a double logging here.

Was tuning around and heard what sounded like a Cuban on 600khz over WMT Cedar Rapids, IA. Thinking it might be Radio Rebelde, Havana, Cuba ... I swung up to 5,025khz to see if the programming was the same (Cuban techno at the time). Yup, sure enough ... *BUT* ...

Rebelde on 5,025khz has a HORRIBLE heterodyne on their signal, seems to be 580hz, so the offending carrier is on 5025.58khz. The het fades in and out, so I don't think it's from the same transmitter. Who the heck else would put out such a loud signal on this band? I mean S9 +30 to 40db up here.

Check 'em out.

k9rzz · #**1591** (**permalink**) 11-13-2012, 9:21 PM

Here we go again with Rebelde on 5025khz. I always flip between them on that frequency and what I'm hearing on the AM BC band to help ident the medium wave outlets, and tonight there is a HUGE RTTY signal on 5025khz. WHo the heck is that and why? Certainly the receiving end isn't in the eastern USA because Rebelde's signal is 40/9! Military I suppose, or jamming? Weird.

jpferguson3 · #**1592** (**permalink**) 11-13-2012, 10:21 PM

ok i dont know the proper language but im picking up cuba talking about our (usa) recent election, in english but i can only pick up the errant "obama" or a few other things to let me know thats what its about. cuba is another word i heard frequently. cool. using a sony sw7600gr with a wire strung in my southern facing window here in lovely las vegas. radio is nice but i have overhead power lines close by and vegas is so full of freq that it is just unnatural. still waiting on a refurb bc996xt and also refurb laptop bought on amazon plus antennacraft st2 also amazon to start listening. yee haw. very excited, cmon fed x get r done! oh !@#$ i forgot im getting cuba on 6166 and they are still babbling to this minute. its english but accented and very fast and lotsa static for me. sometimes no extra antenna is better, especially early like now. later, extra antenna bettr for shortwave here in 89107 las vegas nv. ok back to radio, just was excited to get something

jpferguson3 · #**1593** (**permalink**) 11-13-2012, 11:01 PM

cuba still talking 9:00 now in spanish/with some english + music. 21:00 pacific time. lots of static for me, cant adjust. i hear havana repeated so im pretty sure its cuba. ive tried tuning as much as possible but still pretty shaky. this is this best ive done besides china which was not coming in too good. this is still on 6166 on my sony 7600 and now im losing it fast gotta tune. so cool

jpferguson3 · #**1594** (**permalink**) 11-13-2012, 11:14 PM

ok now im gettin all spanish on am 6196 kHz on my icf sw7600gr. is that enough letters and numbers to qualify? ha just kidding. so far i just love this radio stuff. man talking and then woman who talks real fast. hafta brush up on spanish. 21:13 pacific. ill figure out the utc or otc and get that down soon. killer