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Author Topic: WDEF 6860 USB 0120 UTC 20 JUNE 2025  (Read 577 times)

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WDEF 6860 USB 0120 UTC 20 JUNE 2025
« on: June 20, 2025, 0120 UTC »
0120 - Waltzing Back- the cranberries] possible WDEF ID didnt hear it clear
0124 - Not Fade Away- Grateful Dead
0141 - Rapp Payback- James Brown
« Last Edit: June 20, 2025, 0141 UTC by hflstnr »
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Re: WDEF 6860 USB 0120 UTC 19 JUNE 2025
« Reply #1 on: June 20, 2025, 0123 UTC »
Noisy S7-S9 signal heard via the Fair Hill, Maryland, SDR ...

0123 UTC: "Baby, Let Me Follow You Down" by Bob Dylan.
0124 UTC: "Not Fade Away/Goin' Down the Road Feeling Bad (Live in 1971)" by Grateful Dead.
0133 UTC: Robotic-voiced WDEF ID, then "Backdrifts" by Radiohead.
0139 UTC: "Rapp Payback (Where Iz Moses)" by James Brown.
0143 UTC: "Back Porch" by The Presidents of the United States of America (a proud Seattle-based band).
« Last Edit: June 20, 2025, 0144 UTC by Treehouse SWL »
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Re: UNID 6860 USB 0120 UTC 20 JUNE 2025
« Reply #2 on: June 20, 2025, 0124 UTC »
0124 S8 with fading. Audio is rough at times due to heavy static crashes.
0222 Well over S9. Tnx to the band for improving.
« Last Edit: June 20, 2025, 0223 UTC by Quasar »
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Re: UNID 6860 USB 0120 UTC 20 JUNE 2025
« Reply #3 on: June 20, 2025, 0126 UTC »
SINPO=35333

122- "Baby, Let Me Follow You Down" by Bob Dylan.
124- "Not Fade Away" live by Grateful Dead.
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Re: WDEF 6860 USB 0120 UTC 20 JUNE 2025
« Reply #4 on: June 20, 2025, 0130 UTC »
0124 "Not Fade Away / Goin' Down the Road Feeling Bad" by Grateful Dead.
0134 "Backdrifts" by Radiohead.
« Last Edit: June 20, 2025, 0135 UTC by Radiouser »
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Re: UNID 6860 USB 0120 UTC 20 JUNE 2025
« Reply #5 on: June 20, 2025, 0133 UTC »
Not paying close attention, just listening while doing other things, but I heard at ID for WDEF five or ten minutes before 0133.

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Re: UNID 6860 USB 0120 UTC 20 JUNE 2025
« Reply #6 on: June 20, 2025, 0136 UTC »
0135 A bit over S9 on the vertical and well above the local static crashes. Audio seems a bit bassy, although it could be the particular song.
« Last Edit: June 20, 2025, 0138 UTC by Professor »
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Re: WDEF 6860 USB 0120 UTC 20 JUNE 2025
« Reply #7 on: June 20, 2025, 0211 UTC »
0209 - Down by the Seaside - Led Zeppelin               noisy S7

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Re: UNID 6860 USB 0120 UTC 20 JUNE 2025
« Reply #8 on: June 20, 2025, 0211 UTC »
Not paying close attention, just listening while doing other things

ARRR! Listening to the radio, getting things done, time well spent matey!! Do it ever day here on the ship.  :)
ARRR!2 Looking at some SDRs it does look noisy tonight.. Prop looks promising for DX tonight. :'(

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« Last Edit: June 20, 2025, 0218 UTC by CaptainMitchell »
ARR! How can a pirate travelling the globe stay freedom loving without Voice of America? ARR! All my Mateys hear now is CNR, arr...

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Re: WDEF 6860 USB 0120 UTC 20 JUNE 2025
« Reply #9 on: June 20, 2025, 0310 UTC »
Hearing you fairly well here in Jacksonville, NC. 43333 SINPO.
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Re: WDEF 6860 USB 0120 UTC 20 JUNE 2025
« Reply #10 on: June 20, 2025, 0320 UTC »
Doobie Bros Rockin Down the Highway at 0320 UTC
Good at Fairplay MD
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« Last Edit: June 20, 2025, 0322 UTC by dxace1 »
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Re: WDEF 6860 USB 0120 UTC 20 JUNE 2025
« Reply #11 on: June 20, 2025, 0323 UTC »
S9 into NE Illinois, noisy and some fading

0314 Morse code - couldn't catch it all, but I think there was an "ARRR"
0316 Devil Went Down to Georgia - Charlie Daniels
0319 Rockin' Down the Highway - The Doobie Brothers
0322 WDEF ID and OTA

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Re: WDEF 6860 USB 0120 UTC 20 JUNE 2025
« Reply #12 on: June 20, 2025, 0325 UTC »
0309  'Nobody Knows You When Your's Down and Out' - Sam Cooke, 'When It's Sleepy Time Down South' - Louis Armstrong, CW ID repeated, 'The Devil Went Down to Georgia' - The Charlie Daniels Band, 'Rockin' Down The Highway' - The Doobie Brothers, 0323 "W … D … E … F. Goin' Down The Highway." Off.

S7 here.  Good signal.
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