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Author Topic: Ballsmacker Radio 6960 AM 0158 UTC 27 DEC 2025  (Read 450 times)

Offline DangerKitty

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Ballsmacker Radio 6960 AM 0158 UTC 27 DEC 2025
« on: December 27, 2025, 0158 UTC »
0157: carrier appears
0158: "Wildfire" IS
0200: YL w/ID and music "Wonderful Christmastime" - Paul McCartney
0203: "Do They Know It's Christmas?" - Band Aid

Thank you for the show!
« Last Edit: December 27, 2025, 0204 UTC by DangerKitty »
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Re: Ballsmacker Radio 6960 AM 0158 UTC 27 DEC 2025
« Reply #1 on: December 27, 2025, 0201 UTC »
0200 S7 Good Audio
0200 McCartney
0204 The Band Aid Singers
0210 Carrier Drop then back to music
0211 YL w/ID
0212 White Christmas....
0220 OM w/Email for reports and ID
0221 TSO
0225 Carey
0259 Peanuts Classic
0302 "Bought some gum with a penny slug"
0310 One of the Eagles
0324 OM w/Sign Off tune
0326 OTA

Thanks for the Show!!!
« Last Edit: December 27, 2025, 0326 UTC by Zenith.swl »
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Re: Ballsmacker Radio 6960 AM 0158 UTC 27 DEC 2025
« Reply #2 on: December 27, 2025, 0203 UTC »
0202: Wonderful Christmas Time by Paul McCartney. Weak and noisy signal.
0300: Christmastime Is Here by Vince Guaraldi Trio.
0302: Nuttin' for Christmas by Barry Gordon.
0312: Please Come Home For Christmas by Eagles.
« Last Edit: December 27, 2025, 0312 UTC by myteaquinn »
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Offline TRI International

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Re: Ballsmacker Radio 6960 AM 0158 UTC 27 DEC 2025
« Reply #3 on: December 27, 2025, 0204 UTC »
0202 UTC song "Wonderful Christmastime"
0203 UTC song "Do they know it's Christmas?"

S 5 to 7.
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Re: Ballsmacker Radio 6960 AM 0158 UTC 27 DEC 2025
« Reply #4 on: December 27, 2025, 0205 UTC »
0205 UTC

S-9 + 10

WE ARE THE WORLD
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Re: Ballsmacker Radio 6960 AM 0158 UTC 27 DEC 2025
« Reply #5 on: December 27, 2025, 0206 UTC »
0205 "Do They Know It's Christmas?" - Band Aid.
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Re: Ballsmacker Radio 6960 AM 0158 UTC 27 DEC 2025
« Reply #6 on: December 27, 2025, 0207 UTC »
S9 and sounding good tonight
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Re: Ballsmacker Radio 6960 AM 0158 UTC 27 DEC 2025
« Reply #7 on: December 27, 2025, 0212 UTC »
0207 "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas"
0210 ID into "White Christmas" Bing Crosby?
0213 "merry christmas everyone"
0217 "The Twelve Days of Christmas"
0220 OM ID/address into christmas music
0223 switched to 4032 USB strong S9 + 10 signal with somes fades also
0223 Mariah Carey "All I Want for Christmas is You"
0227 "All I Want for Christmas is My Two Front Teeth"
0230 ID into Wham song
0235 Carpenters "Merry Christmas, Darling" RIP Karen
0238 "dj play a christmas song"
0241 ID into Nat King Cole "A Christmas Song"
0244 John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band "Merry Xmas/War is Over"
0248 Stevie Wonder? "my world is filled with cheer"
0252 OM ask listerners to guess special theme/address into a christmas song
0255 Alvin and the Chipmunks "The Chipmunk Song"
0257 Elvis "Blue Christmas"
0259 Elvis has left the building into OM ID into Vince Guaraldi "Christmas Time is Here"
0302 "Nuttin for Christmas" signal faded to S8
0304 Brenda Lee "Rockin Around the Christmas Tree"
0306 ID into Burl Ives "Holly Jolly Christmas"
0319 Twisted Radio/Bob Rivers "The 12 Pains of Christmas"
0320 ID
0320 "I'll Be Home for Christmas"

S7 signal with somes fades
fair reception on 6960 AM
Thanks for the Christmas show :)
« Last Edit: December 27, 2025, 0321 UTC by Kenwood »
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Re: Ballsmacker Radio 6960 AM 0158 UTC 27 DEC 2025
« Reply #8 on: December 27, 2025, 0214 UTC »
Fair to good reception with Merry Christmas by Ed Sheeran at 02:14, following Bing Crosby's White Christmas.
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Re: Ballsmacker Radio 6960 AM 0158 UTC 27 DEC 2025
« Reply #9 on: December 27, 2025, 0215 UTC »
0213 on Barrington Hills IL sdr with weak noisy S5-S7 signal, seasonal music at noise level, comedy 12 days of xmas, 0228 "all I want for xmas is my two front teeth" Spike Jones,   
« Last Edit: December 27, 2025, 0229 UTC by William Hassig »
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Re: Ballsmacker Radio 6960 AM 0158 UTC 27 DEC 2025
« Reply #10 on: December 27, 2025, 0219 UTC »
4032 KHz USB got a late start but it is up now.
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Re: Ballsmacker Radio 6960 AM 0158 UTC 27 DEC 2025
« Reply #11 on: December 27, 2025, 0228 UTC »
0226 SIO 344 SDR direct
0226 All I Want For Christmas is You by Mariah Carey
0227 All I want for Christmas (Is My Two Front Teeth) by Spike Jones
0230 Last Christmas by Wham
« Last Edit: December 27, 2025, 0231 UTC by Sky Waves »
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Re: Ballsmacker Radio 6960 AM 0158 UTC 27 DEC 2025
« Reply #12 on: December 27, 2025, 0229 UTC »
0228 - All i want for Christmas is my two front teeth
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Re: Ballsmacker Radio 6960 AM 0158 UTC 27 DEC 2025
« Reply #13 on: December 27, 2025, 0243 UTC »
0201  'Wonderful Christmastime' - Paul McCartney, 'Do They Know It's Christmas (1984 Version)' - Band Aid, 'Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas' - Frank Sinatra, 'White Christmas', 'Merry Christmas' - Ed Sheeran & Elton John, '12 Days of Christmas' - Pentatonix, ID & eQSL offer for theme, 'Christmas / Sarajevo 12/24 (Instrumental) - Trans-Siberian Orchestra, 'All I want for Christmas is You' - Mariah Carey

Initially S6 - 7, however slowly deteriorated to S4 - 5 by 0244.
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