UNID 6925 AM 1459 UTC 29 Aug 2017

[ChrisSmolinski]

Just signed on. SIO 444. Bob Seger "Hollywood Nights"

One interesting propagation effect. About an hour or so, the signal almost completely faded out, just a weak carrier, no audio. Then, a few minutes ago, the signal shot up to S9 in about 1 second, where it has remained since.

[R4002]

UNID pirate station 6925 AM August 29 2017
daytime pirate music station 6925 kHz AM 6.925 MHz AM
6.925 MHz AM
6925 kHz AM


A couple carriers dropped just shy of 1500 UTC, likely tuning up/testing transmitter, followed by a strong AM carrier nice locally and visible on several remote receivers at 1500 UTC.  Our daytime 6925 AM station is back with super marathon broadcast!

1500 UTC - starting the show with "Hollywood Nights" S5-S6 signal with nice strong modulation
1504 UTC - after a minor signal dip, hearing a song with YL singer, great audio now
1513 UTC - "You're Still The One" S4-S5
1514 UTC - Brownsville Station - Smokin' In The Boy's Room (classic!)
1517 UTC - abruptly off the air

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1534 UTC - appears to be back on the air
1543 UTC - The Flirtations - Nothing But A Heartache (S3-S4 signal with nice audio, especially on peaks)
1557 UTC - Toto - Hold The Line
1633 UTC - Soft Cell - Tainted Love/Where Did Our Love Go?
1636 UTC - checked Rochester, NY remote SDR, signal there is a solid S5 with really wide audio and little noise
1642 UTC - Cyndi Lauper - Time After Time
1655 UTC - Prince - Little Red Corvette, now pushing S7 on the Rochester, NY remote 8-9 kHz wide audio
1700 UTC - Journey - Faithfully
1724 UTC - down to S5
1726 UTC - The Temptations - My Girl
1729 UTC - John Lennon - Imagine
1730 UTC - deep fade down into the noise during "Imagine", signal came back up a bit, still noisier than it was earlier
1815 UTC - still going, hanging around S4-S5 with fair noise and more pronounced fading than 1-2 hours ago
1952 UTC - tuned back in after ~75 minutes away from the radio/computer to hear Red Hot Chili Peppers
1953 UTC - signal still hovering around the S4-S5 area with more noise than at 1730 UTC log
1954 UTC - Everlast - What It's Like
1959 UTC - pleasant increase in signal strength up to S7-S8 and almost no noise
2000 UTC - Green Day - Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)
2006 UTC - Beck - Loser kill the headlights and put it neutral
2010 UTC - Bush - Little Things
2012 UTC - during "Little Things" strong utility data burst on 6925 kHz USB or 6926 kHz USB
2020 UTC - REO Speedwagon - Keep On Loving You
2024 UTC - Berlin - Take My Breath Away
2032 UTC - The Proclaimers - 500 Miles
2045 UTC - low level talking (unintelligible) into:
2046 UTC - Beach Boys - Don't Worry Baby
2049 UTC - Petula Clark - Downtown (YES!)  
2051 UTC - big signal jump, back up to S7 with big modulation on the waterfall!
2056 UTC - PirateSWL gets his request played with Pat Benatar - Invincible
2106 UTC - The Tubes - She's a Beauty
2118 UTC - Kansas - Carry On My Wayward Son (false start), then another few seconds of a song, then dead air, another false start
2119 UTC - New track with YL singer
2126 UTC - The Police - Every Breath You Take (remixed version)
2128 UTC - signal strength now up to S9 with very little noise...really loving the wide AM audio
2134 UTC - electronic sounding track, now a solid 10 kHz wide - thanks for the show and the great music picks!
2140 UTC - fading down to S5, then back up to S9, then back down to S5 rapidly
2200 UTC - off the air

[Tuco]

1517z Tuned in from a remote VA SDR to hear the last 10 seconds of the broadcast and then off the air abruptly.

[Davep]

1925 Oasis/ champagne supernova
1929Blink 182/ all the small things
1933 Smashing Pumpkins/ disarm
1936 Lit/ my own worst enemy
1939 Incubus/ drive
1950 Red Hot Chilli Peppers/ soul to squeeze
2004 Foo Fighters / hero
2008 Beck / loser
2033 Proclaimers/ 500 miles



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[PirateSWL]

UNID 6925 AM S5 in NY

2020: REO Speedwagon "Keep On Loving You"
2024: Berlin "Take My Breath Away"
2028: Tom Petty "Free Fallin'"
2032: The Proclaimers "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)"
2036: Cyndi Lauper "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun"
2040: Roxette "Listen To Your Heart"
2042: The Zombies "Time Of The Season"
2046: The Beach Boys "Don't Worry Baby"
2049: Petula Clarke "Downtown"
2052: Billy Joel "It's Still Rock And Roll To Me"
2056: Pat Benatar "Invincible" (Thank you !)
2100: Scandal ft. Patty Smyth "The Warrior"
2104: The Tubes "She's A Beauty"
2200: Off the air