Locomotive Radio 6925 AM 2313 UTC 8 SEP 2022

[Ct Yankee]

2313 Faint music, maybe Motown?
2315 Could be completely under noise floor or off now

[Skipmuck]

2313 UTC I have a weak carrier on 6925.4 AM, but no detectable audio heard yet
2323 UTC Carrier seems to have drifted down to below 6925.3 AM
2353 UTC Sounds like 2 carriers now....distorted, but there seems to be threshold music now
0004 UTC With the peskie on 6925 LSB mixing in....a real mess!
0019 UTC I hear what sounds like a train whistle!

Could this be our old friend "Locomotive Radio"? 

[hsmith77]

2353 "Dancing with Myself"  Billy Idol  Carrier distorted ?
2356 "Mony Mony "   Billy Idol
0002 off? Hard to tell
0005 "Stand or Fall" The Fixx
0009 "Red Skies "         "
0012 "Lost Planes          "    Op maybe you should change Freqs . peskie killing you .
0017 "God Save The Queen" National Anthem Band
0019 ID and Address which i missed
0024 ID AS Locomotive Radio
 

[Sky Waves]

2356 UTC SIO 333 in the noise level
2356 I can hear music but not able to ID as it's too far down in noise
0039 I still Haven't found What I'm Looking For" U2

[Charlie_Dont_Surf]

Using a kiwi in Ohio, I see two carriers: one on 6924.89 and another on 6925.3.

The 6924.89 one has modulation (maybe?) but with the carrier above it and the peskies below it, I can't get much out of it. As of 0013, it is either gone or it became one of the peskie signals I hear on LSB.

The 6925.3 is possibly unmodulated and comes and goes (on and off).
As of 0005 UTC, I see what may be FM on the carrier.
I have music ("Red Skies At Night") at 0009. I am listening in AM (with the PBT shifted) but there seems to be considerable FM component to it and maybe the music is only on the USB. Carrier is S6 or so but SINPO = 32221, the overall = one due to very low-level one-sided modulation.
0017 - God Save The Queen?
0018 - Announcements but I don't have headphones today so no copy. Into a choo-choo train sound. Very clear FM'ing in process, which won't help receiving.
0021 - Even with the FMing, the sync detector and USB only (kiwi SAU) is helpful. Some song with a shitload of screaming.
0023 - Robotic announcement of ID and email address. "(Something) Radio".
0024 - Carrier is all over the place.
0031 -  Two IDs but no joy.
0034 - Suddenly good copy in USB with U2, "Still Haven't Found...". Seems to be right on 6925.0 USB with no detectable FM'ing. Though there is now a carrier on 6925.3, which  maybe is the original station and I'm listening to somebody else. I hear Zeke's weird audio artifacts in the USB station so who the hell knows. I think that the clear USB signal is another station. It's completely obliterating the FMing station.

[myteaquinn]

0024 UTC: Weak and in the noise at tune with several ID's will have to work with the recording and try and figure it out. Possibly off now.
0032 UTC: Good ID as Locomotive Radio.

[Locomotiveradio]

Thanks for all who posted...
Please note that my transmit was in AM mode only (not USB). Yes I know it was over-modulated (trying to get the kinks out).
It ended around 0058, roughly, once Zeke started.
Rest assured, my transmitting this evening had no live voice / mc commentating or the like.
All material was from either an SD card recorder in playback mode or my widows laptop playing Spotify.
I'll have to tweak my horizontal dipole in order to get away from the 1:8 SWR, according to my MFJ meter.
Once again, thanks to all who posted + feedback.

[Pigmeat]

You'll get it worked out. The first few transmissions are an exercise in futility.

[Charlie_Dont_Surf]

Thanks for all who posted...
Please note that my transmit was in AM mode only (not USB). Yes I know it was over-modulated (trying to get the kinks out).
It ended around 0058, roughly, once Zeke started.
Rest assured, my transmitting this evening had no live voice / mc commentating or the like.
All material was from either an SD card recorder in playback mode or my widows laptop playing Spotify.
I'll have to tweak my horizontal dipole in order to get away from the 1:8 SWR, according to my MFJ meter.
Once again, thanks to all who posted + feedback.

Don't take my comments as being overly critical. Being completely honest is the only way that you're going to be aware of and fix those rough edges. (That goes for everyone who is at the receiving end of my critiques of their signal.)

Your FMing can likely be better addressed using a dummy load instead of having an antenna attached; stabilize your VFO (or crystal or whatever) off the air (with a dummy load) first. To be clear, I'm not saying a dummy load will fix your problem; I'm just noting that you can address issues better that way, with fewer potential complications. The SWR is a different matter and my suggestion is to resolve the FMing first.

Good luck.