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Author Topic: Ballsmacker Radio 6960 AM 0058 UTC 24 May 2025  (Read 2064 times)

Offline DangerKitty

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Ballsmacker Radio 6960 AM 0058 UTC 24 May 2025
« on: May 24, 2025, 0058 UTC »
0058: sign on, "Wildfire" IS
0100: Greetings and ID by YL, "Bridge Over Troubled Water" - Simon and Garfunkel
4545[4-5]
0233: SSTV - missed first part


0235: ID, info for QSL, EOT

Thank you for the show!

« Last Edit: May 24, 2025, 0236 UTC by DangerKitty »
QSL to umst777@yahoo.com would be greatly appreciated!
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Offline Sarge94

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Re: Ballsmacker Radio 6960 AM 0058 UTC 24 May 2025
« Reply #1 on: May 24, 2025, 0059 UTC »
0059 - Wild Fire                 S9+
0100 - Bridge Over Troubled Water - Simon & Garfunkel
« Last Edit: May 24, 2025, 0101 UTC by Sarge94 »

Offline intellman

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Re: Ballsmacker Radio 6960 AM 0058 UTC 24 May 2025
« Reply #2 on: May 24, 2025, 0100 UTC »
0058 - Ballsmacker Radio is on the air! Signal is 444 into my NYC shack.

Thanks for the show!!
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Offline Molvania Poacher

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Re: Ballsmacker Radio 6960 AM 0058 UTC 24 May 2025
« Reply #3 on: May 24, 2025, 0101 UTC »
SINPO=45444

059- "Wildfire" interval signal, repeating.
100- YL recorded ID (Good evening Ham Samwiches!) over first tune.
100- "Bridge Over Troubled Water" by Simon and Garfunkle.
104- "Forget Me Nots" by Patrice Rushen.
« Last Edit: May 24, 2025, 0105 UTC by Molvania Poacher »
All reception direct-- From my location, radio and antenna.
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Re: Ballsmacker Radio 6960 AM 0058 UTC 24 May 2025
« Reply #4 on: May 24, 2025, 0101 UTC »
0100utc SIO444
Bridge over troubled water
Forget me nots
Nobody knows the trouble I've seen
Thanks for the memory
Crossfire
Don't you forget about me
Trouble
Just remember I love you
Trouble me
Unforgettable
A girl in trouble


Thanks for show!!
« Last Edit: May 24, 2025, 0142 UTC by dxwingr »
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Re: Ballsmacker Radio 6960 AM 0058 UTC 24 May 2025
« Reply #5 on: May 24, 2025, 0101 UTC »
0100: Bridge Over Troubled Water by Simon & Garfunkel. S9 signal.
0114: The Big Broadcast: Thanks for the Memory by Leo Robin.

« Last Edit: May 24, 2025, 0237 UTC by myteaquinn »
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Offline Quasar

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Re: Ballsmacker Radio 6960 AM 0058 UTC 24 May 2025
« Reply #6 on: May 24, 2025, 0103 UTC »
0103 Big signal tonight 20 over S9 with usual excellent audio. Tnx for the broadcast.
All reports given are direct from my station in NYC.
Main toys are a Flex 3000 SDR, Icom 756 Pro II and other assorted odds & ends. They may be older, but work very well for me.
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Offline William Hassig

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Re: Ballsmacker Radio 6960 AM 0058 UTC 24 May 2025
« Reply #7 on: May 24, 2025, 0104 UTC »
0102 on Barrington Hills IL sdr with weak S7-S9 signal, "bridge over troubled water" by (?),
Drake R8, Kenwood R-2000, Panasonic RF-4900, Sony 2010, Realistic DX440, Grundig Satellit 500, CB antenna, Mt Prospect, IL 20miles (32km) NW of downtown Chicago. I have been using online receivers because my 7mhz dipole came down in a storm and after my stroke on 3 June 2024 I can no longer get up on a ladder to fix it. Also too much neighborhood noise. williamhassig@yahoo.com

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Re: Ballsmacker Radio 6960 AM 0058 UTC 24 May 2025
« Reply #8 on: May 24, 2025, 0105 UTC »
0104 Music ?
Harry L. Smith
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Offline Dr. Strangelove

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Re: Ballsmacker Radio 6960 AM 0058 UTC 24 May 2025
« Reply #9 on: May 24, 2025, 0106 UTC »
Down in the static tonight
R-390a, WJ-8718, Rohde & Schwarz EK07 and EK56, Siemens E311, 51-J4, R8, IC-7610. All reports are from my radios and antennas at my QTH.  Please QSL to morrisgarage770@msn.com   Northwest AL EM64

Offline TRI International

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Re: Ballsmacker Radio 6960 AM 0058 UTC 24 May 2025
« Reply #10 on: May 24, 2025, 0108 UTC »
0107 UTC song "Forget me nots"

S 5 to 7 direct.
We use Shazam app. to ID songs, listening direct Airspray RTL SDR , Ham It UP Plus connected to 2 V shape long wires  40ft. high with a MFJ 941C Antenna tuner
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Offline hflstnr

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Re: Ballsmacker Radio 6960 AM 0058 UTC 24 May 2025
« Reply #11 on: May 24, 2025, 0108 UTC »
0108 - Forget me nots- Patrice Rushen
Drake R8, Realistic DX-160
RTL SDR v3, AIRSPY Discovery HF+
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Offline Radiouser

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Re: Ballsmacker Radio 6960 AM 0058 UTC 24 May 2025
« Reply #12 on: May 24, 2025, 0116 UTC »
0118 "Crossfire" by Stevie Ray Vaughn & Double Trouble.
0121 "Don't You (Forget About Me) by Simple Minds.
0125 YL with Email.
0126 "Trouble" by Coldplay.
0130 "Just Remember I Love You" by Firefall.
0133 "Trouble Me" by 10,000 Maniacs.
0137 ID by YL into "Unforgettable" by Natalie Cole & Nat "King" Cole.
0140 "A Girl In Trouble (Is a Temporary Thing)" by Romeo Void.
0144 "Memory" by Barbara Streisand.

Thanks for tonight's show!


« Last Edit: May 24, 2025, 0144 UTC by Radiouser »
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Re: Ballsmacker Radio 6960 AM 0058 UTC 24 May 2025
« Reply #13 on: May 24, 2025, 0119 UTC »
S9+15 with QRN

0119 Crossfire - SRV
50mi west of Chicago, IL.  SDRPlay, Kenwood R-1000, Icom IC-R71A, AOR AR8200, Racal RA17 (being restored) with dual 100' inverted V's into MFJ-1026.  eQSL please to elburndx@gmail.com

Offline Gloria Z

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Re: Ballsmacker Radio 6960 AM 0058 UTC 24 May 2025
« Reply #14 on: May 24, 2025, 0119 UTC »
Coming in pretty well on my Tecsun PL-680. 

Right now during 'Thanks for the Memories' SINPO is 55444, it is fading in and out.

I will email report to the Station.

Thanks for the show!
e-QSLs will be gratefully received at gloria.zee@protonmail.com

Thank you from a novice!

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