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General Radio Discussion / The 1620 WJDI Story

« on: February 04, 2014, 0241 UTC »

I connected with Dave Schneider a year ago after posting some old WJDI audio clips on my blog.  After exchanging some emails, we thought it would be nice to properly document the history of WJDI with facts provided by the person behind the operation, Dave Schneider.  This story documents Dave's interest in DXing at an early age and how this interest evolved into the first WJDI in 1970 using only 7-1/2 watts.  WJDI would later be recognized as running one of the most powerful hand-crafted pirate transmitters on the AM dial on 1620 kHz during the late 1980s through the mid 1990s.  If anyone has any memories of hearing WJDI then I would encourage you to leave a comment at the bottom of the page this story appears on so Dave will see it:

http://midx.wordpress.com/wjdi/

Enjoy!

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North American MW Pirate Radio / Re: Radio Free Whatever 1720 AM 0349 UTC 02 Feb 2014

« on: February 02, 2014, 1343 UTC »

Carrier noted coming up at 0248z and into RFW opening fanfare at 0250z.  Programming started at 0300z with the QRM Show.  S4-S5 signal over the S3 noise floor with hard rockin heavy metal.  Fanfare again at 0400z and into a different RFW program.  Off at 0422z.  Great show.  Great music.  Great frequency.  Thanks!

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QSLs Received / Re: X-FM eQSL

« on: February 02, 2014, 1148 UTC »

Same here, thank you X-FM!

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: TCS 6875-ish AM 0012 2 Feb 2014

« on: February 02, 2014, 0021 UTC »

S8-S9 with very wide audio, sounding great here with Tom Petty.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Radio Ronin 6925 AM 2311 UTC 1 Feb 2014

« on: February 02, 2014, 0013 UTC »

Huge massive signal here!  S9+10.  Sounding great.  Thank you Radio Ronin!

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Longwave Loggings / 177 kHz Deutschlandradio Kultur good @ 0231z 2/1/2014

« on: February 01, 2014, 0233 UTC »

It's rare for me to catch any decent audio from 177, but it's coming in well tonight and probably the best I've ever heard it.  Playing classical music at the moment.  Oddly, the other LW broadcast channels are relatively dead here.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: X-FM 6925 AM *0118 UTC 31Jan14

« on: January 31, 2014, 0318 UTC »

X-FM reaching Italy right now at 0315z via Perseus remote SDR located in Botticino, Italy.  S4 signal and music recognizable.  Antenna is listed as a 200 meter beverage directed towards Central America.  Nice going Redhat!

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: X-FM 6925 AM *0118 UTC 31Jan14

« on: January 31, 2014, 0141 UTC »

Fired up the SDR to listen to X-FM and discovered one of my BOGs must be disconnected out back at the feedpoint.  Too much cold, snow and darkness to fix right now, so X-FM only S5-S6 here tonight on the single BOG.  Would surely be a better signal report if I were combining the two wires.  Nice to hear Redhat and X-FM again!

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Radio Ga-Ga 6925u 2225z Jan 25, 2014

« on: January 25, 2014, 2303 UTC »

S7 and probably the strongest I've heard you Gaga.  Thanks for the tunes tonight!

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MW Loggings / 1050x2 WEPN harmonic on 2100 khz 0157 UTC 1/23/2014

« on: January 23, 2014, 0201 UTC »

WEPN "ESPN Deportes Radio" noted on 2100 khz with Spanish sports talk.  I'm assuming this is WEPN as I see no other Spanish ESPN outlets listed on 1050.  Strong at times, then fading down to nothing, and rising back up again.

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MW Loggings / Re: Mixing Product? 1760 AM 2343 UTC 22 Jan 2014

« on: January 23, 2014, 0123 UTC »

I've got it here too, but very weak.  I can tell there's audio there at times, but it's much too weak to understand any of it.  Sounds like a harmonic or mixing product.  Check for parallels on 880 if you have good enough audio.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Radio Free Whatever 6925 KHz AM 0102 UTC 1/22/2014

« on: January 22, 2014, 0258 UTC »

Must have sold a lot of T-shirts, massive signal here, sounding excellent, great music selection as always.  Thanks!

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QSLs Received / Re: 1620 WJDI pirate QSL received after 25 years!

« on: January 22, 2014, 0137 UTC »

Thanks guys.  Dave has provided me with all the history on WJDI which I am currently compiling into an article.  More to follow in coming weeks...

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QSLs Received / 1620 WJDI pirate QSL received after 25 years!

« on: January 20, 2014, 1216 UTC »

This came in the mail last week from pirate WJDI after sending the operator a report last year for a broadcast that took place in 1989.  This came beautifully framed as shown, 8-1/2" x 11" card with hand written note explaining it would be the last WJDI QSL issued:




For those that don't know or remember, WJDI operated on 1620 kHz during the late 80s-early 90s before the AM expanded band existed.  WJDI was famous for running very high powered homebrew transmitters ranging from 2.5 to 15kw.

Many thanks to Dave for this great QSL, first class all the way!

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: WMPR 6925 AM 2248 UTC 18 Jan 2014

« on: January 18, 2014, 2317 UTC »

Solid S8 with crash & bang electronic music.  Thanks for the tunes