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Reception reports.
I haven't attempted much listening on longwave, but Europe's transmissions are interesting, and how it's used to cover large areas. I haven't gotten a sense of how much range they really have, but it seems to be better than anything on mediumwave, covering Britain from Ireland.
My first thought was that someone who cares about being professional on the air should fire the team that seems to p
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Radio Animal
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That does look nice, Tha Dood, I wouldn't want the DRM though, it sounds too much like Digital Rights Management!
The portable SDR concept seems to be a good idea though, and a Droid tablet could work.. I thought of it too, with a Raspberry PI as the SDR.
Boomer
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Radio Animal
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The Workshop
An outlet is a good system to put power into, and it would probably be hard to track what room it's coming from, so that's a cool idea. Another idea for inside might be a loop of wire around the room, and a tuner to feed that.
That tuner you used is pretty much the same thing it takes for carrier current on mediumwave, a series capacitor to tune out the big inductance long AC lines usually hav
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Yes, I thought that even before reading your addendum, KQV has been running old time radio shows for years, The Shadow, Jack Benny and other classics. Awhile ago they even produced new radio plays with local theater and personalities in the Pittsburgh area, writing scripts for original stories that they then aired.
Cool that you heard them, they have a tight beam to the Southeast. You heard a
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Radio Animal
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Medium Wave Logs
Hey Foxy, you know what Dogs like.. :) I still have Radio Vixen's card from the old FRN site when it was posted there.
It's cool how you had such good results from carrier current on shortwave, since some have said it wouldn't work above the AM broadcast band, and even at that it should be used on the lower section, around 500 khz, to be most effective. True, you'll probably get more of the el
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A friend of mine was at a blues festival in Mont Tremblant Quebec a few weeks ago and had FM broadcast radio skip from as far South as Alabama one night! He said every frequency had 2-3 stations on it.
I used to bark with AJ Michaels on his analog cell phone, and we would sometimes get interference through skip.
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I was really glad they covered carrier current, this obscure and cool form of radio. I'll agree with KDX Radio that they were vague in the technical area and how this type of broadcasting does its job, but I don't think they have an electronics person on staff and seem to be more oriented toward programming issues. I thought the info they shared was pretty solid though, above the average intellig
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I see that, looking at Radio-Locator, and in my direction the WHP signal seems to crap out by Johnstown, still a good distance and over the mountains from me. I see at night they beam hard towards Lancaster, which might be one case where a station's night signal is better than the day at least if you're in Lancaster. I guess the hard beam is to protect 580 Windsor/Detroit, which I regularly hear
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I thought about that too, and just tried to DX 580 now, and was hearing at least two stations in there, UFO talk was one one, so I guess it's George, since it's after midnight. I'm just outside of their blue circle on Radio-Locator, and if they were in circular pattern it would seem I'd have them as the dominant signal here.
580 has always been an empty frequency here by day, and I wonder if I
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I wonder if that's a real radio network? I wouldn't be surprised, it could be a scout radio camp with other scouts listening.
I want to thank you for posting your logs here, posting's kind of slow with low sunspots I guess, but you're rockin' it!
Boomer
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Free Radio Logs
Oh yeah, I was surprised to see that they were doing a whole piece on carrier current, mainly historical, starting with the gas pipe networks, where college students broadcast AM radio into gas pipes in their school in the 1930s. Somehow the method for carrier current broadcasting got changed to a building's electrical wiring and the practice spread and became popular enough by the 1970s and '80
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That's great, seems like they're really thinking of broadcast service to the people! It seems the one rule there is that stations are no closer than 1km to each other, hundred watt class. I'm sure they don't mean that close on the same frequency, but it sounds like a way to keep the density down.
I don't think a whole lot of people in the US are looking for LPAM really, I've seen a couple of A
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It must be that Software Defined Radios are cutting in, it's real tempting when they say you can get big rig performance for a fraction of the price, receive and transmit.
Boomer
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Radio Animal
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The Workshop
I like the audio quality on 1620, I think it's Iowa City? One night they had a strong signal and I heard them on a good tuner, good bass and highs that weren't all smashed up on the music, it was nice.
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Radio Animal
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Medium Wave Logs
Hi guys, my local TIS stations are run by Penn DOT, and they follow the pattern of Cosmik's, has to be at least 15 years of test messages, National Weather Service relays in their early days, but I've heard very few real traffic advisory messages, and lately of the ones I can hear are just giving their ID and saying 'This isa test' with an electronic voice, endlessly with no signoff. That despite
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Radio Animal
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Medium Wave Logs
I hear them regularly here in Pittsburgh, not strong all the time, but when they are it's a good listenable signal many times.
They were really pro AM stereo for a while, with airchecks on a Meduci tuner, playing stereo rock shows and even trying quadraphonic recordings, which I think was on host Buzz Burbank's show. I think they gave up AM stereo though, I don't remember why, but there was a
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Radio Animal
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Medium Wave Logs
I've long thought it was a good idea, and my dream station as a teen was 5 watts into a longwire, I thought every kid should be able to do that and reach their friends in the neighborhood using a CB final.
We need to do something to revitalize the USA AM band, and small neighborhood stations for different groups might help. We could have immigrant stations, municipal and city council info for
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Radio Animal
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I'm surprised about a 'bubble' on three letter domains happening now, but there are trends on everything I guess. I remember short domains being a real big deal like 15 years ago, and different shenanigans were happening as people tried to pry and even steal them from their sites.
In that time, scores of other top level domains, like .info were created to ease the burden on desirable names, an
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Well, at a similar time the same day, I was getting WIGN 1550 from Bristol VA by TN, just tuned in on the good signal and caught the ID, and Canada wasn't even there.
Web site is 1550bluegrass com, which has a page about getting the best reception by turning your radio broadside of their signal, so it's like a baseball bat swinging at a ball. I liked the analogy.
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Medium Wave Logs
What I've heard that dark stations do when they're searching for buyers is go on for one day a year to keep their licenses.
Could some of those dark AMs be hoping to get FM translators? They might be thinking that will work to revitalize them, running the AM station but selling the FM.
I agree about Part-15 on AM, as far as space to broadcast, and range, AM has it, at least in my city. Here
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Radio Animal
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Ahh, glad that you finally had success Dood, and that they helped out and replaced your wrong board. You'll have to see how it holds out for the long term.
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I don't know if I'd rely on the public's knowledge of what a pirate station is, it seems that the vast majority of average listeners I've known have no clue of what a pirate station is. I think broadcasters can forget that radio isn't the center of most people's attention.
The best exchange I had was with a visitor who stayed with me for a while. He asked what hobbies I was into, and I was bar
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Now I haven't heard it to be sure, but the current crop of receiver chips is supposed to have greatly reduced platform motion. I've heard platform motion, it's a pretty funky effect, where with even slight fading or beats from other carriers can cause the stereo image to pan back and forth between channels on a stereo AM signal, like a psychedelic tremolo effect. I've heard it on a truck radio in
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I recently got the Meduci AM stereo detector card, haven't tried it yet, but I'd like to make some kind of super duper AM tuner with it. Even without stereo, I want to hear the low distortion of the sync detector on that card. I wanted it to replace the stereo AM detector in an MCS tuner I have, but I don't like the bandwidth in that tuner very much.
I'd have to get some wide ceramic filters,
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I should have looked at BC Map II.. :) I looked all over their site, and didn't see anything about the actual radio facility. They seem to be pretty active on their site though, posting a constant stream of news items to their feeds.
They should have tried to get KNBS, just like the shortwave pirate. Seriously though, to think that an actual marijuana station is on the commercial airwaves is p
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Radio Animal
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It says 1580 and the site talks a lot about Colorado, but what city can this be heard in, is it commercial, Part-15?
Boomer
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I've always thought that longwave was cool, never heard much of it, just on my neighbor's radio long ago, a portable with LW analog tuner in it, and I heard some CW code on it.
A LW pirate sounds like a good idea for someone with the tech to try. I think that longwave would have made a good band for carrier current use in the early days of radio. In the early 1920s, anyone with a transmitter c
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Medium Wave Logs
Ah, here's your post. I was going to suggest that maybe the board only takes a certain kind of file. Usually they take mp3 if sound is allowed, but who knows.
I've heard signals, like marker generators, and one of my laptop power bricks does that to nearby radios, if you tune across the dial there are infinite signal carriers, evenly spaced. I think when you turn the laptop off it warbles too.
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The Workshop
I'll take a listen when you get it up, but I couldn't find it in the Workshop. You never know when a noise might be unusual DX.
Remember when someone came up with the Garage Door Opener DX Association? It might have been someone foolin', but I heard about that in a few places.
Boomer
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Good one JTA, I'd like everything to be Dog-eared.. :)
Good cover scans though, nice and clear, looks like you have a decent scanner.
Boomer
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The Swap Shop