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Author Topic: Ion Radio 6880 AM 2302 UTC 2 SEP 2022  (Read 1057 times)

Offline ChrisSmolinski

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Ion Radio 6880 AM 2302 UTC 2 SEP 2022
« on: September 02, 2022, 2302 UTC »
2302 Signing on now with interval signal, sounds like a Jack In The Box? SIO 555
2303 ID

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ION RADIO 6880 AM 2300 UTC 2 Sep 2022
« Reply #1 on: September 02, 2022, 2303 UTC »
2300 - "Pop, goes the weasel" - repeated
2303 - ION Radio ID
2304 - "Hills Of Eternity" - Buckethead
2308 – YL w/ID, into: “Asylum of Glass” - Buckethead
2313 – “Jordan” - Buckethead
2327 - "Wynona's Big Brown Beaver" - Primus
« Last Edit: September 02, 2022, 2328 UTC by Radio Star »
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Re: ION Radio 6880 AM 2302 UTC 2 SEP 2022
« Reply #2 on: September 02, 2022, 2303 UTC »
2303 UTC "Pop Goes the Weasel" IS, into OM with ID
2304 UTC Unid music
2309 UTC YL with ID, into another unid instrumental tune sounding like the band on the last song
From the other postings, this is Buckethead. An artist I am unfamiliar with. Nice music!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckethead Well worth reading about this guy!
2321 UTC Spoken word advertisement for "$3.98 albums for only 99 cents available at City Service Stations
2338 UTC "Happy Boy"-Beat Farmers  ;D (Signal has been S9+ since the start!)
2340 UTC "Lakeside Trailer Park"-Beat Farmers
Nice blues harp tunes!
0011 UTC YL with sign off announcement
Thanks for the awesome Friday night show ION!  8)
« Last Edit: September 03, 2022, 0012 UTC by Skipmuck »
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Re: Ion Radio 6880 AM 2302 UTC 2 SEP 2022
« Reply #3 on: September 02, 2022, 2306 UTC »
SINPO=34333 (and seemingly even improving a bit as the sun sets)

2305- "Hills of Eternity" by Buckethead (mellow instrumental rock with great electric guitar).
2308- Recorded ID over music.
2308- "Asylum of Glass" by Buckethead.
2313- "Jordan" by Buckethead.
« Last Edit: September 02, 2022, 2313 UTC by Molvania Poacher »
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Re: Ion Radio 6880 AM 2302 UTC 2 SEP 2022
« Reply #4 on: September 02, 2022, 2312 UTC »
2312 " Asylum of Glass " Buckethead    S7
2315 "Jordan "                     "
« Last Edit: September 02, 2022, 2315 UTC by hsmith77 »
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Re: Ion Radio 6880 AM 2302 UTC 2 SEP 2022
« Reply #5 on: September 02, 2022, 2314 UTC »
2313 UTC SIO 334, S4 - S5
2314 Instrumental music but too much noise to ID right now.
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Re: Ion Radio 6880 AM 2302 UTC 2 SEP 2022
« Reply #6 on: September 02, 2022, 2318 UTC »
S6 to S7 @ 2317 with ID, playing Buckethead tunes.
2333 - S6 with "Brain Stew" Green Day
« Last Edit: September 02, 2022, 2334 UTC by refmo »
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Re: Ion Radio 6880 AM 2302 UTC 2 SEP 2022
« Reply #7 on: September 02, 2022, 2319 UTC »
signal S9+ on the SDR in Fair Hill, Maryland
23.15 instrumental music "Jordan"
23.17 ID "his is ION Radio" (a woman)
23.17 instrumental music "King James"
23.21 ID
23.21 advertising
23.22 song (a man)
23.28 song "Wynona's Big Brown Beaver"
23.32 ID
253.32 song "Brain Stew"

« Last Edit: September 02, 2022, 2333 UTC by Bali_Frank »
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Re: Ion Radio 6880 AM 2302 UTC 2 SEP 2022
« Reply #8 on: September 02, 2022, 2323 UTC »
s9+20 hr in cny  strong am signal with professional between songs programming... nice!

23:35 UTC Beat farmers california kid

23:42 UTC starting to get varying qsb as much as 5 s units.. atmospheric anomaly going on
« Last Edit: September 02, 2022, 2345 UTC by mount intermod »
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Re: Ion Radio 6880 AM 2302 UTC 2 SEP 2022
« Reply #9 on: September 02, 2022, 2329 UTC »
I have it with an excellent signal.  Nice Primus song.  Thanks for the show.
2343 Starting to fade here, down to good.
« Last Edit: September 02, 2022, 2344 UTC by JustGreg »
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Re: Ion Radio 6880 AM 2302 UTC 2 SEP 2022
« Reply #10 on: September 02, 2022, 2335 UTC »
on 6880.0 -         direct
2333 music, weak, noisy, bad fading
very hard to hear
2347 music
« Last Edit: September 02, 2022, 2347 UTC by Ray Lalleu »
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Re: Ion Radio 6880 AM 2302 UTC 2 SEP 2022
« Reply #11 on: September 02, 2022, 2339 UTC »
2338 utc  sinpo 44334

Nice songs
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Re: Ion Radio 6880 AM 2302 UTC 2 SEP 2022
« Reply #12 on: September 02, 2022, 2342 UTC »
Very good reception, thanks for the first musical broadcast of holiday weekend, ION  8)

2338 "Happy Boy" Beat Farmers, Song was a long time favorite played by Bob Steele on WTIC 1080 Hartford.
2344 ID
2348 Unid OM singer
2353 Fading under noise floor now
« Last Edit: September 02, 2022, 2352 UTC by Ct Yankee »
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Re: Ion Radio 6880 AM 2302 UTC 02 SEP 2022
« Reply #13 on: September 02, 2022, 2350 UTC »
23:48 UTC - Weak unreadable. Decent carrier at approx S8 but low on modulation. Propagation is currently not very good.


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Re: Ion Radio 6880 AM 2302 UTC 2 SEP 2022
« Reply #14 on: September 03, 2022, 0009 UTC »
0007 utc. S7. Instramental blues with harmonica. Not sure who. Fair signal, some static. In south/central NY.
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