The Mighty KBC just announced a change in frequency and time for their next test transmission.
They are now testing on Sunday, October 21st from 00:00 – 02:00 UTC on 9,500 kHz.
Signal reports can be sent to: [email protected]
KBC Propagation Map (Source: The Mighty KBC)
Last night, I listened to and recorded The Mighty KBC‘s test transmission on 9.4 MHz. The broadcast lasted 2 hours and was quite successful.
They had a little distortion in the signal for the first half-hour or so, but once that issue was resolved, audio was excellent. This was, after all, a test transmission.
Mind you, I was using the WinRadio Excalibur receiver and a rather large horizontal sky loop antenna–not a portable radio. But based on their signal level as compared with the adjacent Voice of Greece transmission (9.42 MHz), I expect they could have been easily heard on a portable radio here in eastern North America.
If you missed the broadcast, click here to download a full recording or listen below.
Next week: another test broadcast scheduled
Update: Note that The Might KBC will broadcast another test transmission on Sunday 21 September from 00.00 – 02.00 UTC on 9,500 kHz.
See if you can catch this test transmission on Sunday, October 7 (oo:00-02:00UTC) from The Mighty KBC in the Netherlands:
(Source: The Mighty KBC)
The Mighty KBC is testing on 9400 kHz on Sunday, October 7th, 2012 between 00.00 – 02.00 UTC with 100kW beamed to the USA, South America and Canada.
Propagation Map (Source: The Mighty KBC)
I just received the following QSL card from the shortwave pirate radio station, X-FM:
Click to enlarge
To hear the full X-FM broadcast associated with this QSL, check out our previous post with recorded audio.
See if you can catch this test transmission on Sunday, October 7 (oo:00-02:00UTC) from The Mighty KBC in the Netherlands:
(Source: The Mighty KBC)
The Mighty KBC is testing on 9400 kHz on Sunday, October 7th, 2012 between 00.00 – 02.00 UTC with 100kW beamed to the USA, South America and Canada.
Propagation Map (Source: The Mighty KBC)
Wolverine Radio sent this SSTV image at the end of the broadcast. This one was decoded with the PC freeware, RX-SSTV.
Wolverine Radio was yet another pirate station I recorded last Saturday night (along with Radio Ronin and Radio Appalachia).
Wolverine Radio was broadcasting on 6.95 MHz in the upper side band. Their signal was very good and fidelity excellent for SSB. Lots of variety and a common “radio” theme throughout WR’s music mix.
Wolverine Radio–at least each time I’ve heard them–sends an SSTV image at the end of the broadcast. I decoded the one in their Satuday night broadcast (see image on right) using RX-SSTV, a very intuitive and simple freeware PC application. Make sure you use the “Scottie 1” mode.
Click here to download an MP3 of the broadcast, or stream from the embedded player below:
The Microtelecom Perseus SDR
I just received the notification below from Microtelecom. I find it very encouraging that they are still tweaking and working on the Perseus software (which is quite mature at this point). No major upgrades here, but they’re worthy updates.
Note that this is a BETA release for the client and server versions:
(Source: Microtelecom)
A new Perseus release is now in the BETA phase.
Here is the download link:http://microtelecom.it/perseus/Perseusv40c_beta.zip
There are quite a few changes in both client and server.
Client
-The servers map is no longer integrated in the Perseus software (when clicking on the “Show Map” button, a default browser window will open).
The link between the map and the Perseus software is done by a tool (included in the package) called mttps.exe. During the first run, administrative privileges are required to properly register the MTTP protocol.
-Buttons font rendering was modified to address some users that reported “blocky” or hardly readable labels on some buttons.
-Audio Delay: this new feature inserts a configurable delay in the DSP chain, please refer to the release notes (included in the package) for more information about it.
Server
-Support for the delay feature
-Restarting the server is no longer needed after a DNS change
-Blacklist support: using a text file (as explained in the release notes) it is possible to reject connections from an IP address or family of IP addresses (server software settings has a new section).
Enjoy this new release!
The Microtelecom Development Team