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Finally found a good place in my abode where I'm getting good signal,
and tuned in all the heavy hitters last night, including Radio China,
Radio Taiwan and Radio Havana--and of course Radio Nederlands.

And now that I'm feeling flush with success, I'm curious about finding
pirate stations. I've read a fair amount about them in books, but I
haven't seen anything that explains exactly how to find these stations
(actually, I want to read Andy Yoder's book on pirate radio, but my
library does not loan out its copy :( ). I know sometimes they
broadcast their frequencies on WWV, but I haven't heard anything
yet.

Are there some good pirate signals out there right now?

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On Feb 18, 5:58 pm, "Brian Hill" wrote:
"cadillac_eldorado" wrote in message

...

Finally found a good place in my abode where I'm getting good signal,
and tuned in all the heavy hitters last night, including Radio China,
Radio Taiwan and Radio Havana--and of course Radio Nederlands.

And now that I'm feeling flush with success, I'm curious about finding
pirate stations. I've read a fair amount about them in books, but I
haven't seen anything that explains exactly how to find these stations
(actually, I want to read Andy Yoder's book on pirate radio, but my
library does not loan out its copy :( ). I know sometimes they
broadcast their frequencies on WWV, but I haven't heard anything
yet.

http://www.frn.net/

Are there some good pirate signals out there right now?

Ah, thanks for the link--that should really help!

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On Feb 18, 3:02 pm, Billy Burpelson wrote:

Well, we have no way of knowing what you read, but, although -anything-
is possible, it seems unlikely for the following two reasons.

First, why would they (the pirates) transmit on a frequency that is
already occupied by multi-kilowatt transmitters 24/7 (WWV)?

Finally, the government takes a dim view of pirates already; why would
the pirates -really- try to incur the wrath of the government by jamming
a government service?

But again, anything is possible, I suppose...

What you say is certainly logical. I'm sure I just imagined this,
really--I've read a lot of different things lately and probably just
got mixed up.

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cadillac_eldorado wrote:
Finally found a good place in my abode where I'm getting good signal,
and tuned in all the heavy hitters last night, including Radio China,
Radio Taiwan and Radio Havana--and of course Radio Nederlands.

And now that I'm feeling flush with success, I'm curious about finding
pirate stations. I've read a fair amount about them in books, but I
haven't seen anything that explains exactly how to find these stations
(actually, I want to read Andy Yoder's book on pirate radio, but my
library does not loan out its copy :( ). I know sometimes they
broadcast their frequencies on WWV, but I haven't heard anything
yet.

Are there some good pirate signals out there right now?

Are you with the FCC?

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"cadillac_eldorado" wrote in message
...

What you say is certainly logical. I'm sure I just imagined this,
really--I've read a lot of different things lately and probably just
got mixed up.

A few years ago, there were reports of somebody who would periodically shout
"Hola!Hola!Hola!" over one of the WWV frequencies. I never heard Hola Man
but I never tried searching him out, either.

And, if Hola Man was transmitting outside the US, he didn't have to worry
about the FCC.

Frank Dresser

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Billy Burpelson wrote:
cadillac_eldorado wrote:

I know sometimes they
broadcast their frequencies on WWV
Pirates broadcasting on WWV?

Sorry, should have been more clear--they're not broadcasting *on* WWV,
but *over* WWV's frequency. :D

Is that not true? I think I read that somewhere, but perhaps I just
imagined that.

Well, we have no way of knowing what you read, but, although -anything-
is possible, it seems unlikely for the following two reasons.

First, why would they (the pirates) transmit on a frequency that is
already occupied by multi-kilowatt transmitters 24/7 (WWV)?

Finally, the government takes a dim view of pirates already; why would
the pirates -really- try to incur the wrath of the government by jamming
a government service?

But again, anything is possible, I suppose...

Well, if I wanted to annoy said government, and had some funny ideas
about how to go about doing that, and was pretty sure I wouldn't be
caught in this lifetime, I might do something like this.
--
clvrmnky

Direct replies to this address will be blacklisted. Replace "spamtrap"
with my name to contact me directly.

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On Feb 19, 5:30 am, dave wrote:
cadillac_eldorado wrote:
Finally found a good place in my abode where I'm getting good signal,
and tuned in all the heavy hitters last night, including Radio China,
Radio Taiwan and Radio Havana--and of course Radio Nederlands.

And now that I'm feeling flush with success, I'm curious about finding
pirate stations. I've read a fair amount about them in books, but I
haven't seen anything that explains exactly how to find these stations
(actually, I want to read Andy Yoder's book on pirate radio, but my
library does not loan out its copy :( ). I know sometimes they
broadcast their frequencies on WWV, but I haven't heard anything
yet.

Are there some good pirate signals out there right now?

Are you with the FCC?

Yes. It's a new tactic.

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On Feb 19, 7:46*am, "Frank Dresser"
wrote:
"cadillac_eldorado" wrote in message

...



What you say is certainly logical. *I'm sure I just imagined this,
really--I've read a lot of different things lately and probably just
got mixed up.

- A few years ago, there were reports of somebody
- who would periodically shout "Hola!Hola!Hola!"
- over one of the WWV frequencies.
-*I never heard Hola Man
- but I never tried searching him out, either.
-
- And, if Hola Man was transmitting outside the US,
- he didn't have to worry about the FCC.
-
- Frank Dresser
-

FD,

Maybe it was a new International Welcoming Service of WWV
to Help people crossing the Southern US Border Illegaly :o)
S5-1329 - http://tf.nist.gov/survey/S5c.htm

~ RHF

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"Drifter" wrote in message
...

Frank, if i remember, that was at 15mg. there were a few post on a few
of pirate web sites on this a few years back. also, when the gov did the
weather and wave thing a few years ago, i remember a few people freaked.
i believe that was 10mg. and that didn't last long either. so, as the
saying goes, when it sounds a little different, just blame a pirate.

GOOD DX!
Drifter...



Or you could blame radio. On a couple of occasions, I've heard what sounds
like chatter under WWV. Maybe it was an image or crossmod or something like
that. Maybe it was a transmitter spur. It's always been unintelligible and
I couldn't be sure if it was English or not.

I suppose the WWV frequencies might be usable in parts of the world where
time station signals are weak, but there must be hundreds of better
frequencies.

Frank Dresser

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Frank Dresser wrote:


On a couple of occasions, I've heard what sounds
like chatter under WWV.

snip

Last summer, here in No. MN, often WWVH would overlay WWV on
10 MHz; the WWVH time announcements precede those on WWV and
use a female voice, but propagation and other announcements
are often just recorded voices (male and female) that can
sound like chatter.

Was you chatter at all intelligible?

Michael

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Frank Dresser wrote:
"Drifter" wrote in message
...
Frank, if i remember, that was at 15mg. there were a few post on a few
of pirate web sites on this a few years back. also, when the gov did the
weather and wave thing a few years ago, i remember a few people freaked.
i believe that was 10mg. and that didn't last long either. so, as the
saying goes, when it sounds a little different, just blame a pirate.

GOOD DX!
Drifter...



Or you could blame radio. On a couple of occasions, I've heard what sounds
like chatter under WWV. Maybe it was an image or crossmod or something like
that. Maybe it was a transmitter spur. It's always been unintelligible and
I couldn't be sure if it was English or not.

I suppose the WWV frequencies might be usable in parts of the world where
time station signals are weak, but there must be hundreds of better
frequencies.

Frank Dresser


Mexican fishing boats can use any frequency they perceive as being
underutilized. I've heard them on USAF, USCG, etc. freqs, so they must
be really important fisherpersons.

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On Feb 20, 8:36 am, msg wrote:
Frank Dresser wrote:


Was you chatter at all intelligible?

Michael

Barely, I could make out a few words here and there but nothing
substantial. I assumed it wasn't an official message because I could
hear the time announcer just fine.

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msg wrote:
cadillac_eldorado wrote:

On Feb 20, 8:36 am, msg wrote:

Frank Dresser wrote:

Was your chatter at all intelligible?

Michael


Barely, I could make out a few words here and there but nothing
substantial. I assumed it wasn't an official message because I could
hear the time announcer just fine.

Even with good reception, often the voice reports on WWV (geomagnetic,
weather, etc.) are unintelligible, as if the speaker has no on-air
experience. It was so bad last year that I had intended to complain
to NIST but I never did.

Michael

That's wack. The weather (space and at sea) announcements are done over
a restricted bandwidth voice channel and sound every bit as
unintelligible as a landline phone call using a telephone. In other
words, they sound OK.