UNID pirate station 6770 kHz AM UNID station 6.770 MHz AM pirate radio August 11th, 2017
Not Old Time Radio or OTR, the station "usually" heard on this frequency....playing "Alone" by Heart at 1845 UTC. Lots of fading. No ID or anything heard until around 2000 UTC, then an OM started reading off names, likely listeners, and their locations. Discussion of playlists, etc. Maybe this is some sort of relay of an Internet broadcast or pre-recorded show?
Apparently this is a relay of a Giles Live Shortwave Radio Show (a YouTube live show)
1849 UTC - Dead carrier is all I'm getting on 6770 kHz AM now. Maybe somebody doing some testing. Haven't heard any audio since "Alone" stopped playing. Strong S5-S6 carrier on the Rochester, NY remote SDR receiver.
1853 UTC - "Never Gonna Give You Up" - Rick Astley now up to S7 with some noise
1904 UTC - "Photograph" - Def Leppard, signal jumped up for a few moments, then back down to S5 or so with lots of static crashes
1906 UTC - "Under Pressure" - Queen/David Bowie with some SSB QRM from 6765 kHz USB / 6.765 kHz USB (SHARES frequency, among other users)
1908 UTC - more minor SSB QRM from 6765 kHz USB
1911 UTC - another track being played, music audio level is too low to ID
1920 UTC - "Need You Tonight" - INXS - signal still sitting right between S6 and S7 with minor fades (not as bad as before)
1922 UTC - a few seconds of dead air, then "What About Love?"
1924 UTC - signal jumped up to S9 for a second or two, then dropped back down to previous levels
1924 UTC - adjusted passband from 5 kHz (narrow AM passband) down to 4 kHz and that helped a lot with extra noise
1925 UTC - just for fun, cranked passband back up to regular AM (10 kHz wide passband) just in time for....
1926 UTC - "Pour Some Sugar On Me" - Def Leppard, sounding good now! Sitting right at S7
1927 UTC - must be really close to critical frequency, as I typed "right at S7", signal jumped up another S-unit to S8, then dropped down to S5
1928 UTC - rapid fading now, peaking at S9, dropping down to just above the noise floor, then right back to up S6-S7
1931 UTC - switched from Warrenton, VA and Luray, VA SDRs to Rochester, NY SDR [much improvement]
1932 UTC - signal is same (fluctuting between S6 and S8) on both VA SDRs and the NY SDR, however the NY SDR has less noise
1933 UTC - Phil Collins now with some fades down to S4
1935 UTC - "Caught Up In You" - .38 Special [S7 in VA, S5 in NY, with much better copy in NY due to lower noise]
1936 UTC - BIG signal increase for a few seconds signal was just over S9
1937 UTC - now back down to S7 on the Rochester, NY remote. Crazy propagation right now!
1938 UTC - signal dropped down into the noise for 1-2 seconds, then faded back up to readable levels (S3, peaking to S4)
1939 UTC - back up to S7 with good signal at .38 Special's track ends
1940 UTC - another deep fade
1941 UTC - and...right back to S8-S9
1942 UTC - audio cutting out, some sort of technical difficulties
1949 UTC - "Enjoy The Silence" - Depeche Mode
1957 UTC - "Shook Me All Night Long" - AC/DC - SIO 333 signal due to fading and minor noise, S6-S7 signal level
2002 UTC - "Hey everyone welcome aboard" - OM talking but unable to make very much out.
2003 UTC - OM still talking but signal has dropped down considerably...not sure if this is an ID or not
2004 UTC - talking about a chat room, mentioning usernames in a chat room (shoutouts!)
2005 UTC - continuing to talk about "man cave", "it all came together", OM chatting, laughing, mention of K3SF or K3SWF and "other stations"
2006 UTC - mention of "playlist"
2009 UTC - OM continuing to talk, lots of fading and QRN making copy even harder than it was before. SIO 312 maybe
2010 UTC - mention of repeater
2011 UTC - "The 8500 is the best shortwave radio I've ever had"
Topic: UNID Giles Live Shortwave Radio Show Relay 6770 AM 1845 UTC 11 Aug 2017 (Read 1391 times)