The Vault 6985 AM 0516 utc 18 Jul 2020

[Ray Lalleu]

on 6984.9
0516 rock; 0520 The Vault, "Baby it's a wild world",
0524 "Close to you", but very weak and noisy, 0527 ID, Kinks "Sunny afternoon"
0637 music, up and down, but general fading up, 0639 ID, 0640 music,
0720 pop oldies, "Rock your baby", 0724 ID, the Who "My generation",
0812 still good with careful ATU tuning, pop beat, 0815 ID, next
0832 ID, 'drop us a mail on .... memory' (?), "The joker"
0842 ID, Cream "Sunshine of your love", 0847 Beatles "I saw her standing there"

then very weak on middle of the day
1547 "I shot the sheriff"     1603 "San Francisco"    1607 the Shadows
1710 Monkees, 1714 deep fade      2016 music
2114 'This is The Vault', music, good signal, clear on both sides
2118 Lou Reed ?, drops, 2122 Booker T, 2125 Zombies "She's not there",
2127 ? and the Mysterians "96 tears", 2129 bad fade
2130 no signal, not the faintest carrier !

[Ray Lalleu]

Reception of The Vault on 6985 with European kiwiSDR's
on Saturday 18 july 2020, around 13:30 to 14:00 UTC.

- easy on NW Ireland SDRs
- impossible on England SDRs (at 500 km from NW Ireland)
- good again (or almost) at 1000 km on the continent

My guess : vertical antenna, good for direct signal (short range), good at night for long distances, bad choice for medium sky wave ranges (including all of England and Scotland in that particular case).

edit : maybe the vertical antenna is just on the shore, giving the best long range signal over the ocean.

[Skipmuck]

I have the carrier here directly at 2050 UTC, which is surprising for this early across the pond! No audio detectable yet. I am hearing some peskies yakking now on 6985 USB.
2302 UTC "Like A Rolling Stone"-Bob Dylan (Nice S5 peaks with light fading amidst moderate static crashes)
2307 UTC OM with "Your song is in the vault waiting to be unlocked", into "Foxy Lady"-Jimi Hendrix, followed by "Tin Man"-America