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North American Shortwave Pirate / Outhouse Radio 6955 USB was 6950 USB 2248 UTC 31 DEC 2022

« on: December 31, 2022, 2256 UTC »

2248 UTC Rock music...I started this post in the chance that it is not RFW. The music and the audio don't sound like his
2258 UTC OM speaking now with ID "Outhouse Radio" Mentioned he'll be moving to 6955
2300 UTC Much better here without all the peskie QRM!
2317 UTC "Running With the Devil"-Van Halen
2330 UTC "Kryptonite"-3 Doors Down
2338 UTC "War Pigs"-Black Sabbath
2346 UTC "Paranoid"-Black Sabbath
2349 UTC "Planet Caravan"-Black Sabbath

497

Peskies / UNID 6935 USB 2243 UTC 31 DEC 2022

« on: December 31, 2022, 2245 UTC »

2243 UTC Hearing some weak music under the loud peskie here. Possibly another peskie just playing music

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Pelee Island Broadcasting System 6921 USB 0136 UTC 31 DEC 2022

« on: December 31, 2022, 0141 UTC »

0136 UTC OM said something about "pirate broadcast system...we are here on Beauty? Pelee Island.....all sorts of stuff", then OFF
0139 UTC OM with ID, into unid C&W tune OM singer
0143 UTC OM with possible mention of "stupid Skipmuck" followed by possible ID of "Three Pelee Island Broadcasting System with phonetic spelling "P as in Papa Tango Lima Papa Echo Lima Echo Echo" then faded out or OFF again
(Signal is fading in and out of the noise....I'll listen back on my recording later)

Here's my recording from 0136-0144 UTC:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_-NJHX2xMzuZZAo6vHeswbTCYPrsvDEv/view?usp=sharing

I messed around with noise filtering and the graphic equalizer on the recording and the only thing I can make out for certain was "stupid Skipmuck"
(I was definitely way off on the ID, which was Pelee Island! My apologies to the op!)

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Radio Morania relay via WBOG 6849.6 AM 2140 UTC 28 DEC 2022

« on: December 28, 2022, 2141 UTC »

2140 UTC Interval Signal, then OM with ID
2142 UTC OM with ID then "Radio Morania Hit Parade", followed by "I Fell In Love With a Green Neck Turtle Fly"
2145 UTC "Hazy Shade of Winter"-Simon & Garfunkel
2146 UTC OM with "RME" Radio Morania External Service, followed by unid music
2147 UTC "Now we take you to the weather bureau", followed by YL? with weather report
2149 UTC "This is Morania Calling", into "Time of the Season"-Zombies
2150 UTC "This is the Golden Sounds of Radio Morania"...followed by the "6,000 pound spaghetti harvest...from the spaghetti capital of Morania, Spaghetti City"
(The sun shines here 26 hours a day) 
2157 UTC OM with ID and frequencies...we'll be closing our transmission on the 37 meter band...next is "Moranian Mailbag"..letter from Sudbury Ontario....talk about the ice cube factory...GMT -53 seconds...from Minneapolis, Minnesota...music is the best part of your program
2203 UTC "Morania is a free country"...no profession is allowed...no doctors or lawyers...part of the Moranian free concept"
2206 UTC (Bit of a fade here plus some noise blob QRM)
2208 UTC "The National Anthem of the free republic of Morania", into an unid "folk" song
2211 UTC "Now it's time for Moranian Ham Shack"
2218 UTC "CW By Radio"
2220 UTC Damn....the band is going long here...
2223 UTC Signal back up!
2229 UTC "The Chocolate Mine of Chocolate City" 
2237 UTC "Good Night", followed by the National Anthem of Morania
I haven't heard this in a long time! I used to have a cassette tape of the program, but it's gone missing over the years!
2239 UTC WBOG IS and phonetic ID, then OFF

Thank you for keeping this one alive WBOG! A true classic!

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North American Shortwave Pirate / UNID 6925 USB 2240 UTC 27 DEC 2022

« on: December 27, 2022, 2243 UTC »

2240 UTC Hearing music deep in the noise...no clue as to what's playing
2250 UTC Signal picking up a bit now....don't recognize the song-OM singer

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Radio Free Whatever 6955 USB 2100 UTC 25 DEC 2022

« on: December 25, 2022, 2106 UTC »

2100 UTC Threshold audio here....
2105 UTC I hear DJDW but tough on the copy
2107 UTC Signal up a bit now! Unid indie rock tune
Since 2020ish UTC, the signal had faded deep into the noise

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North American Shortwave Pirate / WOW 6925 AM 2010 UTC 25 DEC 2022

« on: December 25, 2022, 2012 UTC »

2010 UTC Tuned in to an unid pop song, then off at 2011 UTC
2012 UTC Carrier back up with same pop song
2013 UTC OFF
2014 UTC Back on with R&B pop tune...this time with solid modulation and an S9 signal
2019 UTC "Sympathy For the Devil"-Rolling Stones live (Get Your Ya Ya's Out?)
2020 UTC OFF again
2023 UTC ON suddenly with the Stones, then into "I Feel Love"-Donna Summer
(Sounding really good!)
2031 UTC Unid dance tune-OM singer
2036 UTC Unid pop tune-OM singer
2041 UTC OM with "A test transmission from W-O-W...post it on the HFU....see ya later"
2042 UTC Unid ambient music....sudden strong local? QRN...signal down to S7 peaks. Same station or different?

Thanks for the Christmas Day broadcast WOW!

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Rock 165 6285 AM 0633 UTC 25 DEC 2022

« on: December 25, 2022, 0634 UTC »

0633 UTC Unid music fading in and out of the noise here...European or North American? Sounds like ambient instrumental music
0636 UTC Different song....indie rock? with OM singer
0641 UTC Different song....rock song with OM singer
(Propagation suggests this is North American..signal is at most S5 here)
0645 UTC A familiar instrumental song I forgot the name of!
(Bit of a fade into the noise at 0648)
0650 UTC Signal back up....unid genre song
0656 UTC "Hey Nineteen"-Steely Dan (There...ID'd a song finally!)
0700 UTC Different song...OM singer
(Time to hit the sack...Merry Christmas to whoever!)

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QSLs Received / Cloudsplitter Radio Christmas show eQSL 23 DEC 2022

« on: December 24, 2022, 0016 UTC »

Thank you and a Merry Christmas to you and yours! I was almost 2 years old when that magazine issue was current! LOL

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North American Shortwave Pirate / UNID 6955 USB 2331 UTC 22 DEC 2022

« on: December 22, 2022, 2332 UTC »

2331 UTC OM with spoken word...maybe 2 OM's....tough copy in the noise
2339 UTC Music now...big band?
2341 UTC Spoken word back now

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North American Shortwave Pirate / UNID 6955 USB 0201 UTC 22 DEC 2022

« on: December 22, 2022, 0202 UTC »

0201 UTC "Silent Night"-unid version OM singer fading in and out of the noise
0206 UTC Pause, then "Silent Night" again...choral singers-orchestral version
(0209 UTC Signal jumped up to S7!)
0211 UTC "Silent Night"-men choral singers
0214 UTC OM with spoken word, but signal fade making for tough copy
0216 UTC "Silent Night"-OM opera singer with orchestra version
0222 UTC "Silent Night"-choral singers
0226 UTC "Silent Night"-piano version
0235 UTC Scottie 1 SSTV, followed by "Silent Night"-Joe Satriani

0244 UTC OFF

Thanks for the "Silent Night"!

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North American Shortwave Pirate / UNID 6925 USB 0200 UTC 21 DEC 2022

« on: December 21, 2022, 0201 UTC »

0200 UTC "Don't Fear the Reaper"-Blue Oyster Cult (Just above the high noise level here)
0203 UTC Now right at the noise floor
0205 UTC Different song but I can't make it out with all the band noise
0208 UTC Signal up enough to recognize "Black Betty"-Ram Jam
0210 UTC Unid pop song
0214 UTC "Don't Bring Me Down"-ELO (Some solid S6 peaks amidst the noisy band)
0218 UTC "Smoke On the Water"-Deep Purple
0224 UTC "Hooked On a Feeling"-Blue Suede
0227 UTC "Signs"-Five Man Electrical Band
0231 UTC Unid pop song
0235 UTC OFF? Or in a deep fade?
0237 UTC Back up with "Wish You Were Here"-Pink Floyd (Deep fade into the noise at 0238 UTC)

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General Radio Discussion / New Technology Converts Radio Frequency Signals into DC Electricity

« on: December 20, 2022, 2358 UTC »

https://www.sci.news/technologies/rf-dc-conversion-11492.html

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Cloudsplitter Radio 6924.64 AM 2024 UTC 20 DEC 2022

« on: December 20, 2022, 2026 UTC »

2024 UTC Horn fanfare briefly, then Unid orchestral folk music? Signal peaks to S8 with light fades. Excellent AM audio!
2028 UTC Silence now
2030 UTC Unid Christmas folk song
2031 UTC "Little Drummer Boy"-choral singers
2035 UTC "Oh Holy Night"-choral singers
2038 UTC "We Three Kings"-choral singers
2040 UTC "Deck the Halls"
2042 UTC Silence
2043 UTC OM with "Merry Christmas from Cloudsplitter Radio", into "Here We Come A-Caroling"
2046 UTC "Silent Night, Holy Night" (Last 2 songs from the Ray Conniff's 1965 Album"Here We Come A-Caroling")
2049 UTC "God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen"
Perhaps somebody pulled out the Ray Conniff Complete Columbia Christmas Recording 2 CD set? 
2052 UTC "Away In A Manger" then "Joy to the World"
2058 UTC OM with "Merry Christmas from Cloudsplitter Radio
2105 UTC OM with "Merry Christmas from Cloudsplitter Radio, then OFF

Thank you for the Christmas tunes Cloud guy! I remember back in the 60's that my parents had one of the Ray Conniff Christmas LP's!

Here's my recording of the show:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1n15vn_WTiil66W0JG09pHkpdQ1LupKzI/view?usp=sharing

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Prime Number Radio 6950 USB 1946 UTC 20 DEC 2022

« on: December 20, 2022, 1952 UTC »

1946 UTC Sounds like a slow somber version of the Lincolnshire Poacher music, followed by a possible ID...? Radio. Then English 5 digit numbers by a YL
1955 UTC YL with "End of message" followed by the musical IS on flute
1958 UTC ID by YL then "Control ?....back to 0", followed by more 5 digit numbers in English
2004 UTC "End of Message"