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North American Shortwave Pirate / X-FM 6285 AM 0205 UTC 10 MAY 2020

« on: May 10, 2020, 0206 UTC »

0205 presumed based on inside info I got, but also a really big signal that's X-FM's signature. I think they play this music as an interval too.
0209 "X-FM is now on the air"
0210 "Everybody Knows" (sounds like it came from Pump Up the Volume)
0215 Redhat on the mic
0222 X-FM ID, then "Surfing on a Rocket" Air

Here's how your signal's coming in to Denver:


0225 X-FM ID
0226 "Dreams" Beck
0231 "Careless Whisper" Seether
0235 Redhat on the mic
      here's a bit of what it's like on my secondary rx: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GLigL8Jlngw
0239 "Prison Sex" Tool
    dang, signal looks to be around 25 kHz wide on the waterfall
0244 "Down When I'm Loaded" Oleander
0249 "Lovedrive" Scorpions
0253 Redhat on the mic
0302 "Homosapien" Pete Shelley
0306 X-FM ID into "Judith" A Perfect Circle
0311 X-FM ID, Redhat on the mic briefly, into "Tranquilize" The Killers feat. Lou Reed
0314 "Don't Know Yet" Silversun Pickups
       0318 - cut off for a couple of seconds
0319 Redhat on the mic, X-FM ID, into "Sweater Weather" The Neighbourhood
0323 X-FM ID into "Ordinary World" Rust
        0325 - reception's starting to slip a bit, still quite strong though. I'll probably stop logging tracks now though. Thanks for the show Redhat! Good to have you back on the air under your own steam.
...
0506 QRT

Great show, sir. Thank you!

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North American Shortwave Pirate / UNID 6970 USB to AM 0238 UTC 02 MAY 2020

« on: May 02, 2020, 0238 UTC »

0238 Music, SIO 222
0240 AM mode now, but only getting a carrier.
0241 back in USB, OM speaking with sound effects

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Ball Smacker Radio 6960 AM 0100 UTC 02 MAY 2020

« on: May 02, 2020, 0101 UTC »

0100 "Cars" Gary Numan
0104 "Mercedes Benz" Janis Joplin
0105 "Radar Love" Golden Earring
   signal's rough this week

394

Spy Numbers / V07 12218 USB 26 APR 2020 0300 UTC

« on: April 26, 2020, 0303 UTC »

Weak but copyable, QRM from CODAR and a very strong OTHR (presumed), however still my best copy of this numbers station at my home QTH is a very long time.

0320 edit: copyable but quite weaker on 11518 USB.

395

North American Shortwave Pirate / Captain Morgan 6950.23 AM 0200 UTC 26 APR 2020

« on: April 26, 2020, 0203 UTC »

Briefly on with some bluesy music, then gone at 0202z.

396

North American Shortwave Pirate / Wolverine Radio 6950 USB 0055 UTC 26 APR 2020

« on: April 26, 2020, 0056 UTC »

0055 Testing 1 2 3
0057 Wolverine Radio ID into "Fever" Little Willie John
0100 "Sick and Tired" Chris Kenner
0102 "Satellite Fever" Lonnie Miley
0104 Wolverine ID into "Chills and Fever" Ronnie Love
0107 "I'm Sick Y'all" Otis Redding
0110 "Cold Sweat" James Brown
0112 Wolverine ID
0113 "Funky Fever" Clarence Carter
0115 "Rockin' Pneumonia and the Boogie Woogie Flu" Johnny Rivers
0119 "You Sound Like Your Sick" Ramones
0121 Wolverine ID
0122 "Industrial Disease" Dire Straits
0127 "Cold Fever" Models
0132 "Fever" Joe Cocker
0134 Wolverine ID into "Every Generation Got Its Own Disease" Fury in the Slaughterhouse
0140 "Don't Let Us Get Sick" Warren Zevon
0143 "Disease" Matchbox Twenty
0146 Wolverine ID into "Sick Sick Sick" Lisa Loeb
0149 "Fever" The Black Keys
0154 echoey ID into SSTV


Thanks for the show!

397

North American Shortwave Pirate / Pee Wee 6930 USB 2049 UTC 25 APR 2020

« on: April 25, 2020, 2050 UTC »

2049 music, fair to good signal at Elida OH kiwi SDR.
2051 SSTV but I wasn't set up to receive it
2053 getting weak audio at the home QTH
2055 retuned to Northern Kentucky kiwi SDR, good signal there, "Pigs (Three Different Ones)" Pink Floyd
2103 signal cut out, not sure if QRT or on a break
2104 back on
2110 jumped back after some RFW, sounds like "Us and Them" Pink Floyd right now
2112 SSTV going out but not enough to get a decode at home
2114 "Riders on the Storm" The Doors
2122 "The Final Countdown" Europe
2126 SSTV - this was the best I could copy:


2127 "Setting Sun" Blucas
2132 next song
2135 "Riders on the Storm" starting up again
2205 SSTV


2206 QRT

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Radio Free Whatever 6950 USB 2029 UTC 25 APR 2020

« on: April 25, 2020, 2029 UTC »

2029 music, big signal on Elida Ohio kiwi SDR
2034 DJ Dick Weed on the mic with RFW ID, comments about Trump's bleach remarks
2035 music (signal took a deep fade but recovered)
2039 next song
2042 next song. Nice selections Comrade!
2047 DJDW on the mic
       (FWIW, propagation has been up and down at Elida but at least I can always hear the show)
2048 next song
2056 I moved to Northern Kentucky kiwi SDR, superior signal there
2100 this is a tasty track, DW...
2102 DJDW on the mic
2103 Announcement to stay the f--- at home (Samuel L. Jackson)
2105 HFU shoutouts, next tune will be a cover but that's all he's going to say about it
2105 song begins, it's Nirvana's Heart Shaped Box done kind of techno/low key
2108 next song
2111 signal took a big fade but recovered, RFW ID
2131 still going strong at northern Kentucky kiwi SDR
2142 DJDW on the mic, is going to end the show and get dinner
2143 Do whatever... and QRT

Thanks for the show!

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Zeeky's Attic 6964 USB 2238 UTC 13 APR 2020

« on: April 13, 2020, 2238 UTC »

2238 faint music, about SIO 111
2319 hearing a live OM DJ, but not well enough to make out what he's saying.
2333 signal's getting better now. SIO 222
2348 OM talking about people being on his shit list but they're conspicuous by their absence from the reporting boards.
2350 Hard rock song
2357 apparently QRT

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North American Shortwave Pirate / UNID 6935 USB 1333 UTC 11 APR 2020

« on: April 11, 2020, 1334 UTC »

Something's just there under the noise, occasionally coming up with enough audio to let me know it's not my imagination.
1337 The bits that are coming up sound like an old radio drama.
1343 more audio now, old time music

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Clandestine Stations / Furusato No Kaze, 9470 kHz, 06 APR 2020, 1614 UTC

« on: April 06, 2020, 1615 UTC »

Weak signal but copyable, YL singing in Japanese.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / WBLU 6930 USB 0157 UTC 05 APR 2020

« on: April 05, 2020, 0200 UTC »

SSTV sent right after Wolverine's. Based on various comments of strength on the HFU chat, it's a different pirate.


0159 "I'm on Fire" Dwight Twilley Band
0202 "The Loner" Gary Moore
0203 suddenly QRT
0204 OM voice, into "The Loner" again

There were reports on the HFU chat of two signals on this frequency following Wolverine. I could only hear one, which I presume was Skippy, who vacated this frequency after a bit and left this one.

0241 still a fairly good signal here, some fades though. May not have much of a copy before too long.
0257 signal has recovered somewhat. OM on mic with song titles and WBLU ID

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Wolverine Radio 6930 USB 0056 UTC 05 APR 2020

« on: April 05, 2020, 0056 UTC »

0056 Testing 1 2 3
0056 Wolverine ID
0057 "Call The Fire Wagon" Memphis Minnie
0059 "I Don't Want To Set The World On Fire" Amy Arnell & Tommy Tucker
0102 "My Old Flame" Billie Holiday
0105 Wolverine ID into "Kiss of Fire" Georgia Gibbs
0108 "Settin' the Woods on Fire" Hank Williams
0110 "Fire" Louis Jordan
0112 Wolverine ID
0113 "Great Balls of Fire" Jerry Lee Lewis
0115 "Ring of Fire" Johnny Cash
0118 "Play With Fire" The Rolling Stones
0120 Wolverine ID into "Fire" Jimi Hendrix Experience
0123 "Light My Fire" The Doors
0126 "This Wheel's On Fire" The Byrds
0130 Wolverine ID into "Fire and Rain" James Taylor
0133 "Cold Blue Steel and Sweet Fire" Joni Mitchell
0138 "London's Burning" The Clash
0140 Wolverine ID into "Burning Down the House" Talking Heads
0144 "I'm On Fire" Bruce Springsteen
0146 Wolverine ID into "Bushfire" The B-52's
0151 "Into the Fire" Sarah McLachlan
0154 echoey Wolverine ID into SSTV


Thanks for the show Wolverine! You're helping chase them COVID-19 blues away

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North American Shortwave Pirate / WTF Radio 6950 USB 0040 UTC 05 APR 2020

« on: April 05, 2020, 0041 UTC »

0040 "Hello Hooray" Alice Cooper, strong signal here
0043 ID into the Cars, seems to be a repeat of the earlier program

405

North American Shortwave Pirate / Ball Smacker Radio 6960 AM 0058 UTC 28 MAR 2020

« on: March 28, 2020, 0059 UTC »

0058 Piano music, I think Ball Smacker uses this for an interval.
0100 Ball Smacker ID into "Dancing Queen" ABBA
0104 "Weekend in New England" Barry Manilow
0107 Ball Smacker ID into "Piano Man" Billy Joel (signal's a bit weaker now, poor/fair with occasional good peaks)
0112 "I Gotta Feeling" The Black Eyed Peas
0117 Ball Smacker ID into Blondie song (don't know what the title is, Shazam not working)