Ball Smacker Radio, 6960 AM, 0200 UTC, 14 NOV 2026

[Bowman1]

VERY light copy on a station playing Bowie's Space Oddity just above the noise floor.

Rare Earth(?) -  Get Ready
??
Chicago, Beginnings
??
The Carpenters, We've Only Just Begun
Europe, The Final Countdown
I Started a Joke by the Bee Gees
Ain't Nothin Gonna Break My Stride

The signal is there, but the noise is brutal tonight. Tough sledding. Signal is about an S5, Band seems to be improving as time goes along though. SIO 222,

Palstar R30cc w Sherwood SE-3, Pro-1B loop.

[Juan Valdez]

0158 - Wildfire IS
0200 - Ball Smacker Intro
0200 - Space Oddity
0207 - Get Ready
0209 - Start Me Up
0214 - Major Tom
--- Hearing it much better on 4032 kHz USB ---

[BallSmacker]

4032 USB up now, sorry for the delay...it's still provisional.

[Sky Waves]

0216 S9 good audio - SDR direct
0217 Beginnings by Chicago
0219 Ready to Take a Chance Again by Barry Manilow
0222 Ballsmacker ID
0222 We Didn't Start the Fire

[Quasar]

0218 on 4032 S5-S7 with usual good audio.

[Professor]

0228 No copy on 6960 but very good copy on 4032 USB at S9+

[flexoman61]

0232 Decent copy on 4032 usb, music then email info, S3-5.

[DJ Kraze]

Listening from the website with a 10 out of 10. Working on finding a good SDR to listen from.
0230 Noticed the 4032 USB frequency mentioned and found it very listenable at about an S10+ and higher from the KiwiSDR in Shelburne, VT


0157 [Carrier On]
0158 [Wildfire Interval Signal]
0200 [Ballsmacker Radio Program Begins]
0200 p1973-120 & & b1969-193b & m1973-019 & u1975-012 - David Bowie - Space Oddity
0207 p1970-045 &m1969-136 & r1970-161 - Rare Earth - Get Ready
0209 p1981-019 d1981-079 & m1981-001 - The Rolling Stones - Start Me Up
0211 [Check Out Our Website - Liner]
0211 p1984-103 &d1983-025 & m1983-071 - Peter Schilling - Major Tom (Coming Home)
0216 p1971-067 & m1969-034 - Chicago - Beginnings
0219 p1978_080 - Barry Manilow - Ready To Take A Chance Again
0222 [Wires In The Trees - Liner]
0222 p1989-007 & m1989-106 - Billy Joel - We Didn't Start The Fire
0227 p1970-022 & u1971-178 - Carpenters - We've Only Just Begun
0230 p1965-059 & r1965-018 - Barbara Mason - Yes, I'm Ready
0232 [Special Theme - Liner]
0232 p1987-094 & m1987-147 - Europe - The Final Countdown
0236 p1969-072 & oz1969-001- Bee Gees - I Started A Joke
0241 p1984-043 & d1984-161 & r1983-412 & u1984-057 - Matthew Wilder - Break My Stride
0243 [Station ID]
0243 u1984-064 - Bob Marley & The Wailers - One Love/People Get Ready
0246 p1983-044 & d1983-001.1 & r1983-048 - Michael Jackson - Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'
0252 p1972-242 & m1972-051 - Emerson, Lake and Palmer - From The Beginning
0256 [Most Friday Nights - Liner]
0256 p1983-196 & d1982-062 & m1983-046 - Billy Idol - White Wedding
0300 p1993-098 & m1993-083 - Stereo MC's - Connected
0306 p1976-032 & r1976-251 & u1975-124 - Maxine Nightingale - Right Back Where We Started From
0309 [Special Theme w/e-mail - Liner]
0309 p1997-113  m1997-162 - Prodigy - Firestarter
0313 p2004-086 - Black Eyed Peas - Let's Get It Started
0316 p2020-024 - Dua Lipa - Don't Start Now
0319 [Nothing but the hits - Liner]
0319 p1990-166 & m1989-242 - Mötley Crüe - Kickstart My Heart
0324 p1980-003 & m1980-092 - John Lennon - (Just Like) Starting Over
0328 p1980-205 & c1980-025 - Dolly Parton - Starting Over Again
0332 [Greatest Hits Of All Times - Liner]
0332 p1991-034 & m1991-035 - Bryan Adams - Can't Stop This Thing We Started
0336 m1991-092 - George Thorogood & The Destroyers - If You Don't Start Drinkin' (I'm Gonna Leave)
0340 [Check Out Our Website - Liner]
0340 p2001-029 - Pink - Get The Party Started
0343 [Bowling Ball - SFX]
0343 [SSTV]
0345 [Closing Message]
0345 [Wildfire Interval Signal]
0346 [Program End]
0346 [Transmission Ended]



Short form code list:
D= Disco/Dance Chart
M= Rock Singles chart
P= Pop Chart
oz= Ozburn chart
R= R&B Chart
U= UK Chart


Please send an eQSL to [email protected], and as always thanks for the show and the chance to give my memory a good workout.

[Markokpik]

0228   'We've Only Just Begun' - Carpenters, 'Yes, I'm Ready' - Barbara Mason, ID and eQSL for tonight's theme to [email protected], The Final Countdown' - Europe.

S7.  Good signal.

[Radiouser]

0243 "One Love / People Get Ready" - Bob Marley & The Wailers.

[BallSmacker]

4032 has its own compressor / limiter / EQ and drives its own TX with a DSP audio generated IF.  If you think that seems cool, it sucks.  Unwanted LSB emission is too high, lots of math in the DSP filters.  The EQ is set a bit "bright" because most SSB RX are designed for 300-3000Hz voice.  If you have an actual wideband receiver you will see we are about 70Hz - 7500Hz shelved.  120Hz still manages to work its way in there when we are quiet.  The whole station runs on DC so I don't know where the hum is from.  (The 1500W amp / TX is water cooled and runs on 240VAC but when off the hum is still there)

Do you know why the station hums during the music?

It doesn't know the words!

[myteaquinn]

0311: Firestarter by The Prodigy. Very weak.