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Ct Yankee

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ION Radio 6925 AM 1958 UTC 26 AUG 2025
« on: August 26, 2025, 1958 UTC »
Good reception, occasionally drops below noise floor
1958 "Right in Time" Lucinda Williams
2002 "Car Wheels on a Gravel Road" LW
2008 "2 Kool 2 Be 4 Gotten" LW
2016 "It Never Rains in Southern California" Albert Hammond
2030 Op repeating numbers/letters mentioned below, sounds like ION op
2031 "Seasons in the Sun" Terry Jacks
2054 "Love Is All Around" The The Troggs
2103 Shout outs - thanks  8)
Time for dinner prep, will be listening while cooking for grandson.  Really nice music - thanks!
« Last Edit: August 26, 2025, 2103 UTC by Ct Yankee »
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Re: ION Radio 6925 AM 1958 UTC 26 AUG 2025
« Reply #1 on: August 26, 2025, 2000 UTC »
S9+ signal with good, solid audio but some fading and relatively low static/hiss levels heard via the Fair Hill, Maryland, SDR ...

1959 UTC: "Right in Time" by Lucinda Williams.
2002 UTC: "Car Wheels on a Gravel Road" by Lucinda Williams.
2007 UTC: "2 Cool 2 to 4-Gotten" by Lucinda Williams. Some deeper fading now at times.
2011 UTC: "Drunken Angel" by Lucinda Williams. The signal's now back to peaking above S10 at times.
2015 UTC: Man on mic said (I think I got this correct): "49 4F 4E," followed by "It Never Rains in Southern California" by Albert Hammond.
2017 UTC: So, Google tells me this: "49 4F 4E in hexadecimal represents the string 'ION' in ASCII characters."
2019 UTC: "Fire on the Mountain" by The Marshall Tucker Band.
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2034 UTC: The signal's still holding strong, now playing "Tullamore Dew" by Dan Fogelberg.
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2043 UTC: "Gypsy Wind" by Dan Fogelberg's playing as I check back on this station.

Thanks for the music this afternoon!
« Last Edit: August 26, 2025, 2044 UTC by Treehouse SWL »
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Re: ION Radio 6925 AM 1958 UTC 26 AUG 2025
« Reply #2 on: August 26, 2025, 2010 UTC »
s2-s3 in Hamilton.

2008 "2 Kool 2 Be 4-Gotten" by Lucinda Williams.
2012 "Drunken Angel" by Lucinda Williams.
2015 "It Never Rains In Southern California" by Albert Hammond.
« Last Edit: August 26, 2025, 2059 UTC by Radiouser »
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Re: Unid 6925 AM 1958 UTC 26 AUG 2025
« Reply #3 on: August 26, 2025, 2017 UTC »
2010 2 Kool 2 Be 4 Gotten - Lucinda Williams
2011 Drunken Angel
2015 unclear announcement, perhaps during an adjustment, into It Never Rains in Southern California
2019 a false start and then Fire on the Mountain.
sounds like these two songs are a description of climate change.
2023 Searchin for a Rainbow. 
2027 Walkin and Talkin Away My Blues
2030 "49 4F 4E 52 61 64 69 6F" - shoe sizes? lottery numbers? into Seasons in the Sun
2034 Tullamore Dew
code for ION RADIO, so they tell me


Receiver:  ATS25 SDR
Antenna:   loop atop a 25-foot mast
My location:  southern Maine
SINPO:    45444 a surprisingly clean audio signal
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« Last Edit: August 26, 2025, 2038 UTC by jackroberts »
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Re: Unid 6925 AM 1958 UTC 26 AUG 2025
« Reply #4 on: August 26, 2025, 2029 UTC »
2028 A very nice SIO 444 signal, good audio quality.
2030 YL with numbers? Then back to the music. Aha - "49 4F 4E 52 61 64 69 6F" ASCII codes for IONRADIO  ;D
2121 B-52's "Private Idaho"
2130 Off - thanks for the broadcast!
« Last Edit: August 26, 2025, 2133 UTC by ChrisSmolinski »
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Re: ION Radio 6925 AM 1958 UTC 26 AUG 2025
« Reply #5 on: August 26, 2025, 2042 UTC »
2040 UTC - Signal is S7 in WNY, audio is good
2051 UTC - Paper Lace -The Night Chicago Died
2055 UTC - The Troggs - Love is All Around
2103 UTC - Thanks for the shout outs.
« Last Edit: August 26, 2025, 2104 UTC by Traveling Wave »
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