XFM Shortwave 6940 AM *0208 UTC 3Nov14

[jFarley]

0208 Just starting up the program rollout with IDs and C-QUAM info over music
0216 Program start;  "My God...this is coming through the air!"
0221 Talk about disaster recovery, this is "The Great Vinyl Show", shoutous (TY!)
0229 Message In a Bottle, ID: "XFM...as if you had a choice"
0251 "The music sounds best!", "Mexican Radio", "Red Skies at Night"
0305 "West End Girls"
0334 Dire Straits - "Money For Nothing"

SIO 554 here (a little QSB)
Thanks for the show guys!

[Rafman]

s/on w/s9 signal
0214z Encouraging listeners with C-Quam capability to use the mode [You can use SoDiRa software for this]
"Broadcast will begin in 1 minute..."
0215z "X-FM is now On The Air"
0217z "What's the Freq Kenneth" REM
0225z shoutout to HFu loggers incl. !ME! LOL Thanks, I was frustrated on Halloween too!
0226z "Found Out About You" Gin Blossoms
0229z "Message in a Bottle" Police
0234z ID "The Power of X"
0246z ID "XFM, as if you had a choice"
0251z "Mexican Radio" Wall Of Voodoo
0255z "Red Skies at Night" Fixx
0259z LIVE Time Check "40 seconds till 3 o'clock"
0301z ID w/XFMshortwave@gmail.com for reports
0313z ID
0314z "Talking in Your Sleep" Romantics  

0546z /off

At least I can hear you tonight!!!! Thanks very much for the great show & playlist!!!

[Zane]

Nice big S9+10 signal and usual smooth audio. ID and live chat at 0224z. Some fast fades down to S8.

0226z - Gin Blossoms - Found Out About You.
0233z - Police - Message In A Bottle
0249z - Incubus - The Warmth (Nice)
0305z - Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls.
0422z - B52's - Roam
0428z - Boston - More Thank A Feeling. Getting tougher to hear you. Still S9, but my noise level has been very high lately. Thanks for the show!

DB - I'm hearing the choppiness to the audio also. The audio seems to be deteriorating on this end. 0355z - audio is improving.

0408z - thanks for the shout


Zane

[thechoat]

got them here always good to hear xfm
s9-10+
great audio as always
i love the way his voice announcements sound
great music lots of 90s stuff
thanks for the show!!!

[jFarley]

0214z Encouraging listeners with C-Quam capability to use the mode [SoDiRa software]

Not tonight...Friday night I pulled out an old TS-140S (which had the Meduci C-QUAM decoder board installed in it) during XFM's show.  On power up an electrolytic blowed up and spewed capacitor guts all over.  Clean up/repair still in process.

[Andrew Yoder]

The Police "Message in a Bottle" Really nice signal & audio--I need to get an SDR so that I can receive it in stereo! Pro-sounding IDs, as always: "The power of X"

[oly1959]

Getting X-FM here with a big S15-20 and excellent audio. Sounding a whole heck of alot better now than the Halloween show.
0213 Talking about C-Quam and telling listeners with the capabilities to use it.
0214 ID standby for broadcast-"Aquarobics" by Nooncat playing in background
0215 X-FM on the air
0216 Clips about radio access to radio airwaves
0217 REM "Whats the Frequency Kenneth"
0221 ID, talking about the "Vinyl Show" using the Technics turntables and the bad broadcast on Halloween night
0224 HFU shoutouts and into the Gin Blossoms
Going to be a GREAT VINYL SHOW! Thanks Redhat!!!!!!!!!!

[Antennae]

I'm enjoying the show tonight. I'm glad XFM came back for another show this weekend.
SINPO
35434
Some slow fades that aren't very deep.

[Dr. Strangelove]

S9+ here.  Sounding great!  Thanks for the show!

[Markokpik]

X FM, 6940AM, 0257, 11.3.14.  The Fix, "Red Skies", ID.

Great signal.

Thanks for the show.

[DimBulb]

XFM doing a fair job in NH tonight, S5-S7.  My first sucess with SoDiRa - finally got it to work after about a dozen failures on previous attempts.  Sounds good - the QSB causes the stereo to drop out about 20-50% of the time.

Tuned in to "Mexican Radio", "Red Skies at Night", "West End Girls"

Thanks for the show, nice playlist...

The signal sounds choppy (listening with or w/o sodira), like the signal was dropping out on peaks?  Anyone else getting this effect?

OK Zane and Redhat (yes it seems worse now)

0352z Chop gone! Sounds good, and.... the signal has come up enough to keep sodira c-quam much happier (not losing sync nearly as much)

Audio clip on the way soon...

0438z Bedtime... Thanks for the show

[redhat]

I've got a RFI problem with one of the audio codecs that may be causing this.  I am asking a lot of pro-sumer electronics...

+-RH

[ChrisSmolinski]

SDR recording catch. Good here at sign on, SIO 333, down to 222 by sign off around 0546.

[ByteBORG]

Late SDR Recording Catch

SINPO: 54434 at start of program - nice signal with occasional fading
Listening in AM mode

0206 - First noticed carrier on freq - a tone for about 15 seconds
0209 - S/On
0223 - mentioned new equipment - hopes we are hearing them better than last time
           Positive ID as XFM - Music to the Power of X - Email addy given: xfmshortwave@gmail.com

Details similar as reported by others.

0546 - S/Off - QRT

Show sounded better towards the beginning of the program. Signal faded almost down to nothing
by the end.

SINPO: 24411 at end of program

Thanks for the Show.