Free radio pirates on medium and short wave messageboard of alfa lima

Friday Nov. 04th
3927 2130 55433 Spaceman,

Saturday Nov. 05th
3905 2300 25332 Sierra Mike? ID not 100% clear
3940 1840 25332 Underground, mentioned Spaceman, Pandora, Zodiac,
Likedeeler, Victoria, Forever, IRF510, Oscar the engineer
3940 2105 25332 Underground
3940 2145 45444 Underground

Sunday Nov. 06th
3925 1919 35333 UNID, Caroline Int. tunes in tel. quality
6209 0955 12331 Bogusman? talking
6239 0957 35333 LHH, not // to other freq.
6252 1213 34333 Radio Heitje, ID, playing Heintje
6265 0953 35333 Rainbow, with LA and nature talk
6270 1153 55544 UNID, only music, sorry but +-35khz
6275 0956 31331 Unid, spherical sounds, Promenade?
6276 1215 45433 Robbi, nearly 100 per cent sober
6278v 1140 45433 Saturnus, +-20khz
6280 1025 34333 Fr. Mijnwerker
6290 1020 44433 De Markies Amateur
6295 1021 54544 Optimod, +-20khz again, eliminated Magic AM
6300 0821 35333 Magic with show, not really loud but partly +-30khz
6300 1136 45444 Westcoast
6300 1217 35333 Promenade, Britain’s only QSO station
6310 1638 45444 Malaisi ID
6311 0951 32333 Underground, sorry to say but victim of splatter
6325 0948 44433 Blackbird, 25Watts, kermis music
6325 1151 34333 Brigitte, still hold on the free radio flag
6380 1022 25332 Laser, ID, not //to other freq.
6400 1030 45433 UNID Brian Adams

Hello Freebird,sorry for causing the splatter.I dont understand because i always modulate at the same way and i never had complains before.I did played some songs from cds,maybe to much high tones?Usaly i play from vinyl.

saturnus wrote:Hello Freebird,sorry for causing the splatter.I dont understand because i always modulate at the same way and i never had complains before.I did played some songs from cds,maybe to much high tones?Usaly i play from vinyl.

Hello Saturnus, Of course we pirates don´t like that and it could be the cd´s, but I guess sometimes it is in the air. In the past I had the same problem sometimes and I also didn´t change anything in fact I cut off all audio freq. above 6kc.
Looking at other Legal stations they are often much wider. Good luck.

I listened the same morning and the only station that was excessively wide was Magic. Optimod and Saturnus hade very strong signals but not much splatter.

Saturnus wrote:

> I dont understand because always modulate at the same way and
> i never had complains before.I did played some songs from cds,maybe
> to much high tones?Usaly i play from vinyl.

I hate to make complaints, but there was one station that especially caught my attention that sunday, because of the extremely bad modulation. When examining your signal on both a normal and a vector oscilloscope I noticed that you overmodulated far too much. Furthermore there was some audio feedback to the oscillator, resulting in some FM on the signal. I would suggest to increase you transmitter power (without increasing modulation power) or to lower the modulation power.

I hope this will support you in creating a nice and strong signal,
R.Optimod.

When re-reading my reply, I think I was a bit to negative. So forget the words 'extermely bad'. Compared to the other stations that morning the audio signal was not of equal quality. However my suggestion still stands.

R.Optimod.

Furtermore notice that Saturnus was not the only station causing splatter !

Hello Saturnus, thank you for your answer. I hope to hear you soon. Freebird

Hello you all,thanks for all the comments.@Orion,yes very strange so now and then on SW.@Optimod,i work with the sk 010 and only 25 watts output and with a simple limiter maybe do some adjustments on that.I use it for some time now and no one ever complained about the modulation being to loud.@Freebird,thanks for the reports and stay tuned.Greetings Martin,Radio Saturnus.

@Gert,forgot to mention you! Sorry,keep up the good work!