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North American Shortwave Pirate / "London Calling" 6935 USB 0006 UTC JUNE 9, 2015

« on: June 09, 2015, 0008 UTC »

Sounds like War of the Worlds. Possibly World War 2 newsreel? S6 here amidst the band noise. 30's or 40's tune lady singer at 0008 UTC, email address I didn't catch, then what sounds like Winston Churchill..."This Is London Calling"...hmmm
0014 UTC Patriotic opera style tune
0018 UTC OM with "This is London Calling" repeated, then email address by different OM... londoncalling6930@gmail.com
0019 UTC Patriotic marching music
0024 UTC OM with "This is London Calling" repeated, then CLEAR email as londoncalling6930@gmail.com

ID and email cryptically confirmed by a timely email from londoncalling6930@gmail.com 

Thanks for the Monday night entertainment....cool!

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Boom Box Radio 6929.4 AM 1102 UTC JUNE 7, 2015

« on: June 07, 2015, 1110 UTC »

Nice S8 here with a techno dance tune to start off the Sunday morning!
1112 UTC PSA....something about teachers and 25,000 classrooms (coffee just kicking in here), into OM with "You're listening to Boom Box Radio....DJ LT, the man with the light touch" followed by electronic voiced YL with ID and email address for reports
1114 UTC Dance tune with YL singer
1125 UTC YL singing now and the first cup of coffee is almost done....hmmm, now what do we have for breakfast?
1133 UTC Another PSA....Boombox is a full service station this morning!
Now it's time to open up that homemade jar of Quince jelly and slather it on a toasted English muffin
Don't post the frequency until the coffee has started taking effect! Corrected...sorry
Neighbors solar power microinverter noise just started up and is making minor intrusions into an otherwise solid signal, but only during the fades...the kinks in the back are worked out and the knee stopped clicking....time to boogie!

1206 UTC PSA for checking your smoke detectors! Yep...they're working fine!
1207 UTC OFF?

Thanks for the Sunday morning show DJ LT! I guess it's time to head out to the backyard and do some work now....

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Radio Free Whatever 6950USB 0108 UTC JUNE 7, 2015

« on: June 07, 2015, 0109 UTC »

Anthem
0109 UTC DJ Dickweed without Assistant Stavin tonight...working on a new QRM show, into request by Chris Lobdell for a song called "Hurricane"
0126 UTC Shoutouts to the posters here Thanks DJ Dickweed!
0127 UTC Song "An Ocean In Between"-The War On Drugs
0152 UTC Ramones
0208 UTC Reads Skip-mucks email

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Radio Casablanca 6940 AM 0032 UTC JUNE 5, 2015

« on: June 05, 2015, 0034 UTC »

0032 UTC La Marseillaise IS, into full anthem
0037 UTC OM with "You are listening to Radio Casablanca", into old time ragtime tune with OM singer
(Nice S8 signal here well above the weak ute on 6940U  
Smoke Gets In You're Eyes and time for me to hit the sack! Thanks for a great evening of entertainment Mr. Richard Blaine Nice to just kick back, shoot the breeze in the chat and listen rather than post sometimes

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Radio Gallifrey Intergalactic 6935 USB 0140 UTC JUNE 4, 2015

« on: June 04, 2015, 0146 UTC »

Some kind of long sustained musical composition...hmmm Kinda psychedelic or perhaps of an extraterrestrial ambient genre hitherto unheard in these parts...cool!
S8 here with almost no fading...
0155 UTC Some kind of data transmission?
0158 UTC OFF

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North American Shortwave Pirate / TCS Relay Network 6876 AM 0057 UTC JUNE 4, 2015

« on: June 04, 2015, 0059 UTC »

Strong Open Carrier at 0057 UTC
0100 UTC UNID rock tune
(S7 here with some moderate fading)
0104 UTC ID with Tarzan call
"The Sex-Rock Show"
0150 UTC Signal bouncing between S5 and S8...best on USB here to minimize selective fading....
Thanks for provoking our prurient interest this evening JP!

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Radio True North 6925 AM 0350 UTC MAY 30, 2015

« on: May 30, 2015, 0352 UTC »

I'm hearing some music now just above the noise floor here...RTN perhaps?
Can't stay awake, so I will leave the recorder running and pick up the pieces tomorrow morning!
One more post 0354 UTC OM with ID and short message, then more music!

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North American Shortwave Pirate / UNID 6949.5ish AM 0149 UTC MAY 29, 2015

« on: May 29, 2015, 0154 UTC »

Hearing music here now very low but above the noise floor
There was a carrier on 6951 also, but 6949.6 seems to be off sometime before 0200 UTC. Oh well...thanks whoever you were!

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North American Shortwave Pirate / "Voice of Pearl Harbor" 6935 USB 0254 UTC MAY 24, 2015

« on: May 24, 2015, 0255 UTC »

0254 UTC "In the Mood"-Andrews Sisters
0258 UTC OM with..."You're listening to the Voice of Pearl Harbor", into newsreel

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QSLs Received / Over 60 Degrees Radio eQSL

« on: May 23, 2015, 2136 UTC »

Just found this treasure in my inbox Thank you very much MiCk! Greatly appreciated!

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North American Shortwave Pirate / UNID 6919.6ish AM 1702-1704 UTC MAY 23, 2015

« on: May 23, 2015, 1709 UTC »

Heard some music for a couple of minutes through the local inverter noise here...couldn't ID the tune, but seems to be gone at 1705 UTC.

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European Pirates and Private Stations / Abu Dhabi 6282 KHZ AM 0000 UTC MAY 22, 2015

« on: May 22, 2015, 0010 UTC »

Abu making it through the noise here at 0000 UTC with C&W tune and talking en Espanol for the listeners and assorted banditos in Abu Dhabi land. Moderate fading with fair copy.
0030 UTC Now at S7 here with solid audio and more C&W tunes...good copy!
0037 UTC Shoutout to "Smolsie" and mention of the "Underground"
OFF at 0119 UTC after playing "I Walk the Line" twice, "I Won't Back Down", and a couple of shoutouts to "Skipmuckie"

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North American Shortwave Pirate / The Ghost 6925.4 AM 2303 UTC MAY 16, 2015

« on: May 16, 2015, 2309 UTC »

"Running Down a Dream"-Tom Petty ending at 2303 UTC, into "Friend of the Devil"-Grateful Dead
2313 UTC email address shortwaveghost@outlook.com then Stevie Ray Vaughn tune
Solid S7 AM signal here with excellent audio...much better than my last logging
2319 UTC ID "Ghost Shortwave", then "You Shook Me"-Muddy Waters perhaps?
2337 UTC I'm measuring frequency as 6925.3 at the moment

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North American Shortwave Pirate / RFW 6935U 0005 UTC MAY 11, 2015

« on: May 11, 2015, 0006 UTC »

Soviet Anthem at 0005 UTC
0007 UTC DJ Dickweed with MILF Day....testing new hardware tonight so it might blow up
Just after the end of Blue Skies Mine-Midnight Oil, DJ Dickweed ID'd tunes, and the a couple of UH-OH's....then said to stand by....hope it didn't blow up dude!
0024 UTC Yep, we still hear ya!
0136 UTC Despite all the problems, you are still S7 here Dickweed! Don't burn down the bunker with that new hardware....

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European Pirates and Private Stations / Radio Spaceshuttle 13800 AM 2000 UTC MAY 10, 2015

« on: May 10, 2015, 2011 UTC »

Signal is at or just above noise floor here with occasional S2 peaks since tune in at 2000 UTC. Mostly man announcer chatting, mostly poor copy.
2008 UTC "Ghostbusters"-Ray Parker Jr.
2041 UTC Signal still just above the noise here with occasional S3 peaks. Erratic fading...
2049 UTC Man giving frequencies...maybe Hobart op?
2050 UTC Barbara Streisand tune
2058 UTC Clear "Radio Spaceshuttle" ID by OM
2100 UTC OFF

Better reception today than the other 2 times I've logged this