Borderhunter Radio: December 27, 2013

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Many thanks to SRAA contributor, Andy Robins, who shares the following recording and notes:

A recording of European pirate station Borderhunter Radio as heard in Kalamazoo, Michigan, on 21.455 MHz from 1617 UTC on 27 December 2013. The station is located on the border of the Netherlands and Belgium. This was a special "Global Pirate Weekend" test transmission for the benefit of shortwave radio listeners in North America. The station's operator varied the transmitter power from a high of 300 watts to a low of one-half watt (500 milliwatts). Audio was detectable even at that extremely low power.

Receiver and antenna: Icom R-75 with a PA0RDT active "miniwhip" antenna

Radio Borderhunter

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I tuned in Europirate Radio Borderhunter on 15,500 kHz AM, starting around 21:50 UTC on September, 21 2013. For an AM signal out of Europe to make it to the east coast of the US, I was most impressed with Radio Borderhunter's strong signal.

I recorded about forty minutes of the pirate's broadcast before propagation shifted.  He then moved down to 6,210 kHz in the 48 meter band, a prime Europirate hangout, to continue his show.

Click here to download the recording as an MP3, or simply listen via the embedded player below: