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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: WRKO 6948 AM 2032 UTC 25 Jan 2014

« on: January 25, 2014, 2040 UTC »

Rock solid S8 here at 2036 UTC with "He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother"-Hollies followed by WRKO ID into "Rainy Night In Georgia"...
2041 "Bobby Mitchell Show" into Schlitz Malt Liquor ad.
2042 WRKO jingle followed by "Do You Believe In Magic"-Loving Spoonful
2044 "The Rapper"-Jaggerz
2048 Who'll Stop the Rain-CCR
{Some serious time travel here! I feel like I'm back in high school listening to the local AM top 40 outlet. Nice to hear this blast from the past!}
2052 "Easy Come Easy Go"-Bobby Sherman{oh well, every apple has it's worms}
2117 ID..."Hit Parade Radio" repeated with email address for reports
2133 ID repeated with email for reports and QSL requests...off abrupt 2134
{Thanks for an enjoyable show! Felt like I was reliving my teenage years for a spell. I measured the frequency at about 6948.1. Great signal throughout with minor selective fading. Nice to hear those songs again (except for Bobby Sherman and the T-Squares!) If you QSL from the site logs, I would be happy to receive one. I have another half hour of details if necessary.}
PS. I don't recall being able to hear WRKO here in Western Mass...we listened to WHYN AM and WTXL AM...in the early part of the 1970's, WAQY FM(ex-WTYM?) and WHVY FM(ex WMAS) switched to MOR and AOR format.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: WBNY 6913.5 AM 1922 UTC 25 Jan 2014

« on: January 25, 2014, 2034 UTC »

Tuned in here at 1925 UTC with music with man talkover? 1928 Monkey screeching repeated followed by Brylcreem ad. 1929 man with talk about losing the freedoms of our founding fathers into some kind of rap tune. This was followed by what sounded like a preacher of sorts.
1941 old radio ad {followed by my trip to the local CVS so I missed rest of the broadcast}
Signal was variable, peaking at S8, but with deep fades and noise. At peak strength, some signal distortion.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Radio Free Whatever 6948 AM 1535- 01/25/14

« on: January 25, 2014, 1606 UTC »

Solid S8 signal with great modulation here at 1557 UTC tune-in on apx 6948.2 KHZ. Rock song into ID at 1558 then a techno-rock tune. Canned ID at 1602 with woman and English accented announcer...email address. More techno-pop.
1606 Dick Weed ID'd the previous songs and the next one...humorous banter about the names of the songs, into pop tune.
1616 "Heaven Beside You"-Alice In Chains, canned ID into grunge tune {Still S6-S7, but noise creeping in}
1625 Dick Weed and the other guy with T-Shirt plug and comments, into canned ID by woman/man at 1627...off abrupt at 1628.

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General Radio Discussion / Re: Hudson County TIS 1710 Going to 100 Watts

« on: January 23, 2014, 0135 UTC »

The TIS on 1710 here in Springfield, MA is a solid S9+ all day and all night long. I can hear Celestial weakly under it sometimes at night. What surprises me is the strength of the TIS during daylight hours. Rock sold and are they going to keep broadcasting the same test message forever? Doing some internet searching turned up that the authorization for Hudson County to use this frequency was for the eventuality of having to evacuate New York City. Really? If standard AM radios can't tune up this high, then who is going to hear the evacuation message? Something doesn't make sense here...

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: WRR 6930U 0017UTC 23 January 2014

« on: January 23, 2014, 0042 UTC »

Fair to Good Signal here on 6930 KHZ from tune-in at 0015 UTC with C&W tune in progress. 0018 ID by man "WRR...Whiskey Radio Radio". Into metal tunes at 0019 and 0023. 0029 UTC Song "Hobo Bill". 0032 Man announcer..."That was Hobo Bill by Grandpa Jones...This is WRR-Whiskey Radio Radio"...Whiskey Redneck Radio...play Hobo Bill again...if you don't like that song, you don't have no balls"
0033 Hobo Bill (again!)-Grandpa Jones
0038 Metal Tune? Signal at 0015 was maybe an S3 bouncing around up to S7 here. Some fades...this station operator is allright in my book...from corncob to metal! Interesting show!
0046 Rap tune {Signal strength here still S3 and up, pretty good copy}
0055 Frequency about 6930.1 KHZ
0056 Man announcer with slight Southern accent..."WRR...Whiskey Radio Radio...signing off...".Off at 0057

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Stupid huge UNID S9+40 carrier 6925 KHz AM 0102 UTC 1/22/2014

« on: January 22, 2014, 0112 UTC »

Here with S9+ signal at 0106 UTC tune-in with instrumental music and then Dick Weed with ID, mention of transmitter problems, and T-shirt plug "Can't get enough people to buy our !@#$%^ T-shirts!". Into hard rocking punk sounding tune at 0111 UTC
Signal well above the noise with ID at 0014, then right into 80's sounding garage rock song. Another Unid 80's tune at 0117 {Mr. Weed likes to play obscure tunes that are pleasing to the ear, but unrecognized by this 59 year old brain}
Signal strenth down now and the noise making copy difficult. T-shirt plug by Mr. Weed at 0123+. {Signal on 6872.6 was either gone or buried under the noise about 0102, so I switched to 6925 thanks to posting by Beerus Maximus.}
Signal picking up again here at 0134...S6 but mostly above the Rice Crispies propagation. Nothing at 0135 or so.....
I'm getting poor to fair audio again now at 0153 with Heavy Metal sounding tune.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Radio Free Whatever 6873 AM, 0042- 01/22/14

« on: January 22, 2014, 0048 UTC »

Fair signal here at 0042 tune in on about 6872.6 KHZ with instrumental music and ID and talk at 0043. Lots of atmospheric noise tonight!
After 40's tune lady singer, ID at 0050 into 40's big band/swing tune. Good signal, but noisy here.
0057 UTC 4th of July WW2 news broadcast.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: MLK Dream Speech 6947.5 USB 2349 UTC 20Jan14

« on: January 21, 2014, 0000 UTC »

Tuned in at 2348 UTC with threshold signal just above the noise. Wouldn't have known what it was without the previous postings! Little bits of copyable audio here and there. Nothing at 2359 UTC.

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QSLs Received / Re: Indira Calling

« on: January 20, 2014, 2236 UTC »

Received here also with slightly different wording! Thanks Vijay! My first North American pirate QSL since WENJ in December of 1988. I just returned to shortwave listening a few months back after 23 years. My first pirate QSL was Radio Clandestine in October of 1982. Again, greatly appreciated!  
{I too had the AFC game on in the other room, and was greatly displeased by the performance of the New India Patriots}

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: RML 6925 USB 20 Jan 2014

« on: January 20, 2014, 0103 UTC »

Caught the tail end of the broadcast at tune-in 0057 UTC with shout outs and mentioning he was going to close down as their were other pirates out their waiting to get on. Off at 0100 with "Red Mercury Labs and 73's". Signal about S3 with almost no fading, but some band noise.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Indira Calling 6875 AM 2210 UTC 19 Jan 2014

« on: January 19, 2014, 2224 UTC »

Tune in at 220 UTC on about 6874.8 KHZ with what I guess is a version of "Wendy" by the Beach Boys augmented with a little subcontinental sitar! Different for sure. Good signal...
2224 UTC man announcer with Indian accent gave his name and ID as India(or Indira) Calling and faux address..."Calcutta, 02098". Into hilarious pastiche of Beach Boys tunes mixed with Indian music. Bizarre and a welcome break after the mixture of Heavy Metal and Classic Rock heard this weekend.
2232 UTC {VeeJay I guess} with ID and faux address and long string of numbers by woman announcer I assume is a overseas fake phone number(?). More mangled Beach Boys!
2238+ UTC with some kind of mantra by Veejay followed by what I thought was an IS...not sure, but it was repeated several times. 2241 UTC with address (I live in Massachusetts but have never been to Calcutta, Rhode Island). Followed by "a request from ? in Cleveland, Ohio".
{subcontinental asian techno pop} and then address at 2250.
Off at 2301 after address and phone #(well a long string of numbers anyway).
Great show! Veejay must be very adept at Audacity to put this together.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: PBS Underground 6925 AM 2000 UTC 19 Jan 2014

« on: January 19, 2014, 2059 UTC »

Good copy here at 2042 tune-in with solid S3+ signal with "Run Like Hell"-Pink Floyd already in progress. 2043 with man announcer ID'ing last song and ID as PBS Underground...next song by Disturbed...Dr. Rock's favorite song.
Next up at 2047 is "Lithium"-Nirvana, then man announcer again, into "Revival" by the Allman Brothers Band. Man announcer again at 2059..."wrap up the show tonight", into "Who Are You"-The Who.
Close down after long mostly instrumental tune at 2124 UTC. Thanks for the show John!

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Radio Free Whatever 6875 AM, 1801- 01/19/14

« on: January 19, 2014, 1821 UTC »

Solid S8 signal here with awesome AM audio on 6872.7 KHZ at 1807 tune-in. Song "Jukebox Saturday Night" 1940's swing/big band, followed by more 1940's tunes, into CBS World War 2 recording. Very little fading and well above noise floor. Nice Mr. Weed!!!
1838 UTC Still rock solid at S8 during 4th of July WW2 radio broadcast.
1841 UTC 40's tunes...Flirty eyes...If I had a million dollars or more...coming in on a wing and a prayer.{I used to have about 150 78's about 35 years ago and a crank phono to play 'em....times have changed! Fox Trot's anyone?}

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: WHYP 6875 AM 1539 19 Jan 2014

« on: January 19, 2014, 1625 UTC »

Fair here above the noise on 6824.8 KHZ more or less at tune in 1606 UTC. Hard to categorize what I'm hearing here! I guess some kind of a bingo game or something. "G48" followed by a bunch of G**Damn You's, then a faux Beatles-#9,#9,#9. "B-I-N-G-O" song and finally some instrumental music at 1616. 1623 an 80's sounding tune. Excellent audio peaking at S7, some fading and usual daytime band noise.
1627 UTC some kind of skit about car accident and cops.
Off at 1634

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North American Shortwave Pirate / RML 6925 KHZ 0448 UTC JAN 19, 2014

« on: January 19, 2014, 1207 UTC »

UNID with Hard Rock tune at 0453 UTC with poor to fair signal above the noise. Couldn't stay awake, so I called it a day. Lots of activity today, with half a dozen broadcasts logged!