The Crystal Ship on 6861.8 AM

[skeezix]

8/30/2010
0002Z SINPO 24322. Playing "Rock Around the Clock" by Bill Haley & The Comets.

0004Z After the song, station gone (or faded).

0031Z 24332 Back. Very weak,. "Rock Around the Clock" is playing again.

0045Z 24222 Now playing Elvis "Burning Love." Signal still poor.

0102Z ID'd, but hard to hear. Think it is The Crystal Ship.

0102Z More music. "Soldier Boy" by The Shirelles.

0110Z 45444 "Hold Me". 

0111Z Music abruptly ended.  They're having technical difficulties. ID'd as The Crystal Ship. tcsshortwave@gmail.com

0112Z Beatles "All My Loving"

0115Z Beatles "Please, Please Me"

0121Z 45444 Beatles "I Saw Her Standing there"

0229Z 35433 ID The Crystal Ship

0230Z The 5th Dimension "Aquarius"

0239Z 45344 The Amboy Dukes "Journey to the Center of the Mind"

0246Z 45334 Jefferson Airplane "White Rabbit"

0254Z 45334 ID The Crystal Ship.

0316Z 45334 Grass Roots "Let's Live for Today" 

0341Z 45323 Van Morrison "Moondance"

0345Z 45323 ID The Crystal Ship.

0350Z 25311 Deep fade. Signal now well into the noise.

0354Z 15211 Zagar & Evans "In the Year 2525" Signal still very poor. Completely fades out at times. At best, can hear the station, but a lot of noise on the signal.

0410Z 15211 ID "You are listening to the Crystal Ship".

0420Z 05000 Dropped out. Only static heard on AM. On SSB, could detect the carrier, but no audio heard.  At 0428Z, a little resurgence to 15111 for about 20 seconds, then back to nothing. Still noise only at 0431Z.


Guess that's it for the show into Mpls tonight. The ionosphere is saying its time for bed.


 

[Zoidberg]

8/30/10
6862 AM
Between 0150-0210z, approx: Byrds "Eight Miles High", Shocking Pink (Blue? who knows) "Venus", Ringo "It Don't Come Easy", Guess Who "No Time".  Never caught an ID, but there were lots of fades and I was tuning around the band.
SINPO=24322, just clear enough during peaks to copy familiar songs, good clear audio during those peaks.

(Gopher Stomp, TX - Outdoors w/ barefoot Sony ICF-2010)