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North American Shortwave Pirate / UNID 6930 USB 0016 UTC Apr 26, 2016

« on: April 26, 2016, 0017 UTC »

S9 here at 0016 UTC abrupt sign on with "Love Me Two Times"-Doors
0019 UTC "Love Her Madly"-Doors
(Excellent USB audio only marred by the approaching storm static)
0023 UTC "Five To One"-Doors
0027 UTC "Fortunate Son"-CCR
0029 UTC "Twistin' The Night Away"-Sam Cooke
0031 UTC OFF abruptly

Come back and play!

2882

European Pirates and Private Stations / UNID 6205 AM 0200 UTC Apr 24, 2016

« on: April 24, 2016, 0201 UTC »

0200 UTC "Cambodia"-Kim Wilde just above the noise floor with choppy fades
Presumably the EnergyFM or AtlantisFM relay
0216 UTC Tuned back in to "City Streets"-Carole King followed by "Rockstar"-Nickelback
0222 UTC "Give Me the Night"-George Benson
0226 UTC "Listen to the Music"-Doobie Brothers
(Checked online and playlist doesn't seem to match what's on EnergyFM or AtlantisFM)
0230 UTC "Only the Lonely"-T'Pau
(Signal has faded into the noise...carrier and bits and pieces of audio now)
0238 UTC Perhaps "Veronica"-Elvis Costello?
0239 UTC "Baby I Love You"-? (Peskie QRM) Sounds like the Andy Kim versionThanks refmo!
0250 UTC "Heartbeat"-Don Johnson
0254 UTC "Time(Clock of the Heart)"-Culture Club

2883

North American Shortwave Pirate / Network 51 6935 USB 0143 UTC Apr 24, 2016

« on: April 24, 2016, 0144 UTC »

Just signing on at 0143 UTC with music and OM with ID
0145 UTC "Let's Get It Started"-Black Eyed Peas
0147 UTC Signal went from S8 down to S4
0150 UTC What started out as a great signal is now buried in the noise  
0153 UTC Threshold signal at best now...some peskies too

2884

North American Shortwave Pirate / "Old Time Classic Radio Plays" 6850.3 AM 2307 UTC Apr 23, 2016

« on: April 23, 2016, 2309 UTC »

S7 open carrier at 2307 UTC
2314 UTC OM with ID...Radio ?, into big band/swing music
2318 UTC Another old swing tune...great audio here and well above the noise! Shazam struck out on the first two songs
2322 UTC UNID swing tune
2326 UTC OM with "You are listening to "Old Time Classic Radio Plays", into more jazzy swing music
2329 UTC OM with ID, into "Charleston"-Paul Whiteman
2333 UTC "Let's Misbehave"-Irene Bordoni ***
2336 UTC "The Varsity Drag"-Cass Hagan and his Park Central Orchestra ***
2338 UTC "I Wanna Be Loved By You"-Helen Kane
2341 UTC "Constantinople"-Johnny Hamps Kentucky Serenaders ***
2343 UTC OM with ID, into "Three O'Clock In the Morning"-Paul Whiteman ***
2347 UTC "Good News"-George Olsen and His Music ***
2350 UTC "Sonny Boy"-Al Jolson
2354 UTC "If I Had a Talking Picture of You"-Earl Burtnett ***
2356 UTC "I'm A Dreamer, Aren't We All?"-Paul Whiteman ***
2359 UTC "It Had to be You"-Isham Jones ***
0002 UTC "Sweet Georgia Brown"-Ben Bernie
0005 UTC OM with ID "....Old Time Classic Radio Plays...Roaring Twenties..."
0006 UTC OFF

Thanks for the trip through the Roaring Twenties OTCRP! Only thing missing was a bottle of bathtub gin and a flapper!

***Shazam'd

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Cold Country Canada 6925 LSB 0116 UTC Apr 23, 2016

« on: April 23, 2016, 0132 UTC »

S7 here with "Bohemian Rhapsody"-Queen giving the peskies a run for their money
Hmmm...I have "Darling Nikki"-Prince on USB also! Interesting...a flip of the switch and both are dead on frequency

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QSLs Received / Radio Casablanca eQSL

« on: April 23, 2016, 0040 UTC »

Thank you Richard Blaine, for the excellent show and the new QSL too!

2887

North American Shortwave Pirate / Radio Illuminati 6150 AM 2349 UTC Apr 22, 2016

« on: April 22, 2016, 2351 UTC »

Nice S8 signal here with "Girls On Film"-Duran Duran
2353 UTC "Feel It Again"-Honeymoon Suite
2357 UTC "Closer Than This"-St. Lucia (Shazam)
0027 UTC "Never Want to Know"-Caveman (Solid S9 now!)
0030 UTC "Let's Go Crazy"-Prince
0034 UTC OM with "Radio Illuminati International" ID
0038 UTC "Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting"-Elton John
0042 UTC "Second Hand News"-Fleetwood Mac
(I'm getting some adjacent channel QRM bleeding over onto 6150 now)
0045 UTC "Another Tricky Day"-Who
0050 UTC "Only the Good Die Young"-Billy Joel
0054 UTC RI theme music and close down ID
(Interesting...I'm getting 2 stations on 6150 now...Illuminati is dominant)
0101 UTC I'm getting the other station now that Illuminati closed down...hmmm
Cyndi Lauper with "All Through the Night"...this is Europe 24 per chat room.. a new one for me
0110 UTC pretty much faded into the noise now...

Thanks for the Friday night tunes AC! You were hitting S9+10 here at times

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QSLs Received / Channel Z eQSL April 19th Show

« on: April 21, 2016, 2255 UTC »

Thank you very much Z! Great show and the QSL matches the program very nicely!

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Captain Morgan 6924.7 AM 0105 UTC Apr 18, 2016

« on: April 18, 2016, 0106 UTC »

I'm hearing some weak music at 0105 UTC...at threshold with peskies on LSB bleeding over
0107 UTC Retuned and I'm hearing blues music now
0130 UTC "Big Boss Man" BB King (signal cleared up a bit
0132 UTC "You Upset Me Baby"-BB King
0136 UTC "Get Out Blues"-Mojo Blues Band (Shazam)
0139 UTC "How Do You Want Your Rollin' Done"-Zuzu Bollin (Shazam)
(Signal fades in and out of the noise floor...S4 at peaks)
0145 UTC One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer? (Signal pretty much gone now )
0149 UTC "I Ain't Drunk"-Albert Collins
0152 UTC "Twilight Zone" theme, OM with ID..."Captain Morgan Shortwave"
(Signal back up a bit now
0153 UTC "Gimme A Pigfoot (And a Bottle of Beer)"-Lavern Baker (Shazam)
0159 UTC "I Ain't Drunk"-Albert Collins (Hey Captain...you like that tune I guess! )
0201 UTC OFF
0204 UTC Back up again! "Baby Please Don't Go"-John Lee Hooker
0207 UTC I'm getting nothing now....

Thanks for the Sunday night blues tunes Captain!

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QSLs Received / Radio Illuminati eQSL for 4/15 and 4/17

« on: April 18, 2016, 0008 UTC »

Thanks RI! "Mirror Mirror, on the Wall"  

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Captain Morgan 6924.4 AM 0056 UTC Apr 17, 2016

« on: April 17, 2016, 0102 UTC »

I'm hearing some weak music at 0058 UTC

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North American Shortwave Pirate / UNID 6930 USB 0146 UTC Apr 16, 2016

« on: April 16, 2016, 0147 UTC »

S9 with techno music.."We're All Living In America" "Amerika"-Rammstein

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Radio Illuminati 6150 AM 2207 UTC Apr 15, 2016

« on: April 15, 2016, 2209 UTC »

S5 here with light fading at 2207 UTC with "On Your Radio"-Joe Jackson
2210 UTC "Somebody That I Used To Know"-Gotye (feat Kimbra) ***
2214 UTC "Girls On Film"-Duran Duran
2219 UTC "Feel It Again"-Honeymoon Suite ***
2223 UTC "Closer Than This"-St. Lucia ***
2226 UTC "Shut Up and Dance"-Walk the Moon ***
2230 UTC RI theme and OM with ID, into "Pull My Heart Away"-Jack Peņate ***
2234 UTC "Sagres"-The Tallest Man On Earth ***
2240 UTC "All Mixed Up"-Cars
2244 UTC "Pulling Mussels(From the Shell)"-The Squeeze ***
2248 UTC "Something About You"-Level 42
2252 UTC "Greek Tragedy"-The Wombats ***
2256 UTC "State of the Nation"-Industry
2301 UTC "Dreamers"-Savoir Adore ***
2305 UTC "Antiphon"-Midlake ***
2308 UTC RI theme and OM with ID, frequency..., into "How Can You Really"-Foxygen ***
2312 UTC "I Got You"-Split Enz
2315 UTC "Unkinder(A Tougher Love)"-Thumpers ***
2319 UTC "Starry Eyes"-The Records
2324 UTC RI theme and OM with ID and "special shoutout to the HF Underground", into "Romance"-Wild Flag ***
2328 UTC "Complete Surrender"-Slow Club ***
2331 UTC "Lifeline"-Spandau Ballet
2335 UTC "Little Games"-The Colourist ***
2337 UTC "Shame"-The Motels
2341 UTC "Don't Move"-Phantogram ***
2346 UTC "Drivers Seat"-Sniff & the Tears
2352 UTC "Can't Deny My Love"-Brandon Flowers ***
2355 UTC "Pleasure and Pain"-Divinyls
2359 UTC RI theme and OM, into "The People of the Sticks"-The Besnard Lakes ***
0005 UTC "Lessons In Love"-Level 42 ***
***Shazam'd

Thanks for the early Friday evening show AC! Lots of tunes I never heard before...Nice!

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QSLs Received / Shortwave Ghost Show 18 eQSL

« on: April 12, 2016, 2118 UTC »

Much appreciated Mr. Ghost! As usual superb graphics!

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Captain Morgan 6375 AM 2353 UTC Apr 10, 2016

« on: April 10, 2016, 2356 UTC »

Mostly a carrier here because of a loud blob of white noise on 6377ish. Best using LSB
Dance tune by YL singer
2359 UTC Sounds like a live C&W tune with OM singer
0003 UTC OFF?