Friday, January 10, 2020

No problem with sdr.hu KiwiSDR list going members only!

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Some people got pretty upset about this.  The fact is, however, that sdr.hu was only peripherally involved with KiwiSDR. The receivers incor...
Monday, October 07, 2019

Noble Skywave exercise is this month

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Noble Skywave is an interesting global military exercise, which is run in the manner of a ham radio contest. Teams get points for each HF co...
Saturday, September 07, 2019

WRC-19 will not consider reassigning 2 meters

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IARU : The CEPT Conference Preparatory Group met this week in Ankara, Turkey. Items of interest to the amateur service which were final...
Monday, September 02, 2019

Hurricane Watch Net is on 7268 LSB

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20 meters has been wretched today due to a persistent geomagnetic storm. Instead of the usual daytime 14325 kHz USB, they are using 7268 kHz...
Friday, August 30, 2019

Dorian hurricane aircraft was heard on HF today

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You can still hear them. A UDXF member reports hearing NOAA 42 on 8918.00 kHz, working New York oceanic ATC on the Caribbean (CAR) MWARA n...
Thursday, July 11, 2019

Revised frequency list for Night of Nights XX

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The heroic True Believers of KPH have made some more transmitting antennas active after the damage last winter. Here is the revised frequenc...
Tuesday, July 02, 2019

Will hams lose two meters?

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That is the question, and the answer will come at this year's WARC-19 and the future WARC-23. The re-allocation of the entire two meter ...
Friday, February 01, 2019

No more weather warnings on WWV/WWVH

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ARRL Letter : The National Weather Service (NWS) is discontinuing its high seas and storm warnings transmitted via National Institute...
Thursday, January 31, 2019

KPH/KFS/K6KPH resume partial operation on Saturday

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With the government shutdown over, the National Park Service has re-opened the KPH receive building to normal use. All call signs should be ...
Saturday, January 26, 2019

Reception of NOJ Kodiak AK FAX on 26 Jan 19

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Here's a screen shot from about 15 minutes ago, on the 12 MHz frequency via the SDR at KPH using the big TCI antenna in a low-noise loca...
Thursday, January 24, 2019

Will they ever fix Kodiak FAX?

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For several weeks now, all NOJ radiofax transmissions from USCG in Kodiak, AK have been off-frequency and severely distorted. It's possi...
Saturday, January 19, 2019

Russian Military "Squeaky Wheel" (S32) Now Even Squeakier

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The Russian "Squeaky Wheel" marker has been around for many years.  It's a channel marker for a military network. It used to b...
Thursday, January 17, 2019

San Francisco HFDL is using System Table 51

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I sent my column in this morning, so it was time for something important to happen. It always does after I don't have time to put it i...
Wednesday, November 21, 2018

Kerkyra (Greece) taking Sellia Marina (Italy) NAVTEX skeds UFN

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This affects both 490 and 518 kHz. Kerkya is using the same letters and time slots. The only differences are the transmitter location and go...
Monday, August 27, 2018

Freak magnetic storm causes wretched band conditions

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Your radio isn't busted.  A variety of events affecting the Earth's magnetic field have caused one of the longest geomagnetic storms...
Thursday, August 23, 2018

Concern Rising within Amateur Radio Community over WWV Shutdown Proposal

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From ARRL Letter : ARRL members and Amateur Radio clubs are expressing increased concern over the inclusion of WWV and WWVH on a list of ...
Thursday, August 16, 2018

Proposed NIST budget eliminates WWV/WWVH

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Shit. That's all I can say.  This may be the first time anything to do with radio has made me ruin my vocabulary in public. As our h...
Tuesday, July 17, 2018

My first decent fix with KiwiSDR TDoA mode

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I finally got a good fix on a station with the KiwiSDR TDoA extension.  It's tricky, but for a system available to the public, it works ...
Friday, July 13, 2018

KiwiSDR introduces record and TDoA functions

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You've probably been playing around with the huge KiwiSDR network which can be reached from http://sdr.hu/ . Just this week, too late t...
Tuesday, July 10, 2018

More Night of Nights XIX

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RD passes along the following: The correct station phone number is: +1 415-669-9646 . The number is answered only when the station is on...