pirate radio

Hello today on 6.925 USB was two pirates..Radio hell and Artifical radio! They both played music and ran spoof ads ect.Time was 9am cst.Keep a close watch on 6.925 as many pirates in USB LSB AM come and go , good luck Angelo

I've found in the VLF band several stations broadcasting in Spanish. I dont know if they are legal or not. When I make a multi turn loop ant I'll triangulate them and Knock on their door and see what happens. OT.

Are you sure they aren't spurs from something else? Wouldn't make much sense to broadcast where nobody is listening

Well, I dont know. They arent sub or multi freqs. However the sig strength meter reads very low. So the ant is distant or xmitter is QRP. I'll find them! OT

Hi they are pirates.They come in here S-7 to s9 or above.In Maryland i qsled 39 of them from all over the place.Weekends are the best time to listen.Friday thru sundaynight. They dont rum much power 100 to 200 watts some way less a good ant helps good luck, they are in english and will give either emaill address or post office box to qsl to. Sprman

VLF, sprman? I don't have any VLF gear here but I can go down to 100 kcs on a couple of radios.

Hi like my first post said try around 6.925 and 6.955mhz.Never have heard anything onVLF at all.Sprman

Thanks for the tips, guys. I'll see if I can fetch 'em in.

Mike

hHi last night RadioWolverine was active on 6.925 USB around 6pm cst was coming in very good with fades and noise on iy from local storms. It was gone by 6:30pm cst ,had a few good ids. Sprman : )

@sprman wrote:Hi like my first post said try around 6.925 and 6.955mhz.Never have heard anything onVLF at all.Sprman

Me neither. Thats why I was was wondering about your reply to 'oldtimer' .

Hi oppss made mistake.VLF there are broadcasters down there but as far as i know NO pirates.. I once did qsl a pirate on 1620 AM years ago. Ihave such a high noise level here below 400KC its hard to hear much of anything .During winter its a bit more quite. Ithink around 180kc are some cw beacons low power part 15 if i remember right.Check google on that.Sprman : )

Hi right now is a pirate on 6.935 mhz it sounds very muffeled.Cant make out if its AM or SSB! Lots of static here its 5:45pm cst. Another pirate on 6.925mhz in AM with music.. Weak and just above my noise level its fading in and out ..Iwill try later maybe static will not be as bad.Sprman

Hi 2 nites ago i got Black Wolf radio on 6.926mhz SSB.They said they were on 6.925mhz ,but they were off freq and had bad audio..Had some noise on them from near by storms here.Sprman

Nows the time to watch for Pirates.Holidays seem to bring them out.Look around 6.925 to 6.955 mhz after dark.NewYears eve a good time too.Sprman : )

Pirate activity has been a bit slow of late .Have heard a few on AMor SSB on 6.925 and 6.955mhz.Cheack during late afternoon to.Sprman : )

I will see if I can hear them

Lee

I heard "The DX Pirate" they were talking about AM DX and played a few odd songs. They gave an e mail address for signal reports. I wrote a note to tell them I could hear then here at about S-8.
They sent me a pretty cool " E Mail QSL card."

Cool way to go keep at it.Iam not hearing much here right now but i check every day good luck.Sprman : )

Hi sprman,
Whats the status on that stretch below 7000? I heard once that it was going to be given to amateur radio and again that it was going to SWBC? Do you know?

Adios,
Bill

Have not heard anything of yet.60meter ham band does have some activity on it.Below 7mhz not heard a thing as of yet.Takes a good while for them to get around to doing anything.ITU meetings ect ect. Have to google and see what comes up.A side note FCC has not done anything on new 700mhz band plan yet.Google that and you see .Sprman : )

Hi not heard any broadcasters in the 41 meter band as of yet .6.890mhz -6.990mhz tho i do hear pirates and cariers at times some very weak.Maybe when sunspots pick back up i will heard stuff there.New sunspot cycle has begun!Sprman : )

Last weekend pirate activity was on 6.925 AM.Several were heard here.Sprman : )

Thanks for the tip sprman, I'll fire-up the radios tonight and see if I hear anything here in the Poconos.

Keep a watch out now till after new years.Many pirates are active now.Sprman : )

I heard one a few nights ago. It was just below 40 meters (6.9??) I should have written down the frequency because every year older I become, my memory looses a few Kb.
It was on USB and playing George Carlin and ID as "Really Ridiculous Radio." The male announcer spoke a bit about the evolution of comedy and proceeded to play old Abbott and Costello. The signal wasn't very good here with a lot of fading and was about 50-60% copy on my 160 meter dipole (run north and south) I could not receive them on my 225 ft. random wire (run east and west).