{"id":12172,"date":"2015-02-04T17:35:56","date_gmt":"2015-02-04T21:35:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=12172"},"modified":"2015-02-05T07:19:25","modified_gmt":"2015-02-05T11:19:25","slug":"shortwave-radio-recordings-detecting-radio-guyanavoice-of-guyana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/02\/shortwave-radio-recordings-detecting-radio-guyanavoice-of-guyana\/","title":{"rendered":"Shortwave Radio Recordings: Detecting Radio Guyana\/Voice of Guyana"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"GuyanaMap-SAM\"<\/a>Yesterday I learned that\u00a0Voice of Guyana (a.k.a. Radio\u00a0Guyana) is back on the shortwaves<\/a> after being off-air for many years. Evidently,\u00a0the station repaired some of its transmitters and antennas with the assistance\u00a0of station supporter and technician Jamie Labadia. At this point the station is only capable of a 1,000 watt AM signal.<\/p>\n

To be clear, 1 kW AM is\u00a0not an easy catch for most of us in North America unless propagation is in our favor.<\/p>\n

Last night while testing a new military-grade SDR (the\u00a0Enablia TitanSDR)<\/a>\u00a0that\u00a0I’m reviewing, I\u00a0decided that Voice of Guyana might make for a good weak-signal test.<\/p>\n

And so, last night at 21:00 EST (02:00 UTC) I tuned the TitanSDR to 3,290 kHz; I could see a faint carrier on frequency, but the audio was lost in the noise. I could detect\u00a0talking and music, but I couldn’t base an ID from it. I set\u00a0the TitanSDR to record a wideband chunk of spectrum throughout the night. \u00a0This morning, I played the spectrum recording and found that the signal was at its best around 0945 UTC.<\/p>\n

\"TitanSDR-RadioGuyana-3290kHz\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Above you can see Radio Guyana’s AM signal on the TitanSDR narrowband spectrum display (click to enlarge<\/a>). While still quite weak, I could make out station IDs and music quite easily. It was wonderful\u00a0to hear Voice of Guyana on the air again!<\/p>\n

Note: the TitanSDR was\u00a0exceptional at pulling the audio out of the static. More about this SDR to come…<\/p>\n

Here’s a 27 minute recording I made with the TitanSDR, using its eUSB mode (ECSS), beginning around 0945 UTC<\/a>:<\/p>\nhttps:\/\/archive.org\/download\/RadioGuyana3290kHz20150204EUSB\/RadioGuyana-3290kHz-2015-02-04_EUSB-.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I learned that\u00a0Voice of Guyana (a.k.a. Radio\u00a0Guyana) is back on the shortwaves after being off-air for many years. Evidently,\u00a0the station repaired some of its transmitters and antennas with the assistance\u00a0of station supporter and technician Jamie Labadia. At this point the station is only capable of a 1,000 watt AM signal. To be clear, 1 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[836,3,746,43,1167],"tags":[3588,3587,3581,3583,3586,3582],"class_list":["post-12172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-products","category-news","category-recordings","category-shortwave-radio","category-whats-on-shortwave","tag-enablia","tag-enablia-titansdr","tag-guyana","tag-radio-guyana","tag-titansdr","tag-voice-of-guyana"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-3ak","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":18198,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/one-year-with-the-titansdr\/","url_meta":{"origin":12172,"position":0},"title":"One year with the TitanSDR","author":"Thomas","date":"April 11, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Last year, I reviewed the TitanSDR Pro by the Italian manufacturer, Enablia,. 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