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AM Frequency of the week - 1710 kHz

I heard a very faint signal last night in Vermilion, OH. It was a male voice talking but couldn't make out anything else before I lost the signal. I'll be checking 1710 more and see if I can hear more of it.
 
Another pirate you guys should be looking for is "The Big Q" 1710. It's been heard all over the East Coast at night, it's an oldies pirate.

-crainbebo
 
I heard a very faint, drifty heterodyne on 1710 through both the F1HDs and the Yacht Boy last night. Not sure if it actually was something or just an image of another station. 1710's never really been much of a big "pirate" frequency around here.....

[size=8pt](1500 posts! 50 more and I'll be KKAD... ;o)
 
I've been getting a weak KWO35 the NOAA Weather station for New York City. Turns out it is WQFG689 which is a license for five 10 watt TIS stations on 1710 in the area. If you are in the northeast and hear the NOAA weather voice on 1710, its probably this.
 
spunker88 said:
I've been getting a weak KWO35 the NOAA Weather station for New York City. Turns out it is WQFG689 which is a license for five 10 watt TIS stations on 1710 in the area. If you are in the northeast and hear the NOAA weather voice on 1710, its probably this.
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It's surprising how well that TIS gets out. I've ID'ed it from here a few times. It's either fairly new or it's been upgraded since I only started hearing it about a month or two ago. I spend a lot of time on 1710 listening for unusual things to crop up. The TIS is definitely new here, but also now interfering with the other 1710 oddities :)

Speaking of 1710, I just received a paper QSL card in the mail from pirate station "Undercover Radio" for a 15 watt broadcast heard on Thanksgiving, 2011! You never know what you might hear on 1710...
 
spunker88 said:
If you are in the northeast and hear the NOAA weather voice on 1710, its probably this.
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I'm nowhere near the Northeast, but I found this interesting. This link shows the locations of the TIS stations, all in New Jersey:

http://wireless2.fcc.gov/UlsApp/UlsSearch/licenseLocSum.jsp?licKey=2826342

Here's a letter granting a waiver for operation outside of the usual 530-1700 kHz:

https://wireless2.fcc.gov/UlsEntry/...ttachmentKey=18531005&attachmentInd=licAttach
 
1710 is now dead here on the Alabama Gulf Coast as far as I know. But years ago, there was a strong data "feed" of some sort, and I think it was bleed over from 1.715 MHz or similar. I'd heard it as far north as Tennessee at night and finally traced it down to a US Navy transmitter facility in the Coden community in far south Mobile County, Alabama.

I never did figure out what those transmissions were for.
 
A Navtex rebroadcast/simulcast, perhaps?

Not that many years ago there were a couple Chevron petrol stations in the Portland area with mysterious "packet bursts" on 1710; sounded like the SAME data packets that precede the composite alert tone on EAS messages. I think it was a telemetry system for something or another at the stations. (Haven't heard anything like that in Fargo!)

I certaily remember reading Chevron had a fixed-service licence for 1710 in Portland, through the FCC (had a WXYZ123-type call.)
 
spunker88 said:
I've been getting a weak KWO35 the NOAA Weather station for New York City. Turns out it is WQFG689 which is a license for five 10 watt TIS stations on 1710 in the area. If you are in the northeast and hear the NOAA weather voice on 1710, its probably this.
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I ID'ed that one a few weeks ago but don't know which one of the 5 transmitters, I also receive several SS pirates here at night with one dominant one, I don't usually listen during the day time but so far nothing this afternoon at local 1:20 pm EST time.
 
Figure I'd pull this one back up. The Big Q has been on quite a bit this year. It's on currently at 07:33 and fairly strong right now. Good hunting gents ;D
 
Only weak wideband spillover from KKOV at this location. They're like the plague, those two stations.
 
If several people using loopstick or loop antennas could accurately measure and post the direction of the null for this station in degrees from true north, its physical location could be estimated by triangulation.
 
Make your null out direction measurements outside. You might want to use a compass and correct for true north. For tracking down transmitters, an S meter or other tuning indicator is helpful. Before computer databases and google maps, I found AM arrays that way. Towers tend to be on dirt roads. Rural FM transmitters tend to be on two tracks.

Be careful with pirates. Pirates can be nasty when cornered. They'll be like that Zarnecki guy in Carlsbad that stole Sheldon Cooper's software in an episode of "The Big Bang Theory" when confronted.
 
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