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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: WDOG 6955 USB was AM 0101 UTC 28 APR 2023

« on: April 28, 2023, 0214 UTC »

How about the Dead Boy's "Son Of Sam"? It's got the dog that gave David Berkowitz his marching orders barking in the background. Stiv Bators and Rat Scabies had to sneak through the police line around Berkowitz's building with a tape deck to record the hell hound baying away.

There was something special about the summer of 1977, I still had hair, Punk Rock was in full bloom on both sides of the Atlantic, and Elvis died trying to take a dump. It was a magical time.

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General Radio Discussion / Re: DaveP passes

« on: April 27, 2023, 2038 UTC »

I concur w/ Redhat's post, though I never knew about the AM thing, the rapscallion! I liked the pic, the man had great taste in shirts.

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Shortwave Broadcast / Re: How bad does Radio Cairo sound?

« on: April 27, 2023, 2018 UTC »

Pretty damned bad for at least 30 years.

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European Pirates and Private Stations / Indy Radio 6931 AM comments 26 APR 2023

« on: April 27, 2023, 2007 UTC »

I don't know why, but this station runs a supposed 15 watts of power and is better heard in Eastern North America than in most of Western Europe? It hits the SDR's in the Eastern Mediterranean well though. Puzzling. 

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Radio Eastern Star (Vostochnaya Zvezda) 7400 AM 0242 UTC 26 APR 2023

« on: April 26, 2023, 0306 UTC »

Try the Half Moon Bay CA. Kiwi SDR, they normally boom in there, GG.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Thunder Chicken Radio 6950 USB 2315 UTC 25 APR 2023

« on: April 26, 2023, 0257 UTC »

Hooking a musky like that will get you the nickname "Lefty" before you get it in the boat. Better stick to grappling with catfish. A flathead or a blue can drown you, but you'll resurrect whole on the Day of Judgement. 

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Other / Re: Russia/Ukraine Radio War 7050 LSB 2116 UTC 25 Apr 2023

« on: April 26, 2023, 0243 UTC »

About what? The reports that the Russian Army and the Wagner Group went at it with each other in a town in Luhansk yesterday? That more Russian troops are dying from "friendly fire" than by Ukrainian arms lately? That's likely due to Putin putting political enforcers ala Stalin on the front to promote the old Soviet "Fight or Die" fear into the troops. You've got to have a motivated populace to justify tactics like that, and Putin doesn't have it. This is starting to look more and more like 1917, when the Russian Army left their posts, threw down their arms and literally walked home to start a revolution. Vlad needs to catch the next plane to China before it's too late for him.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: 77LJS 6925 USB 2330 UTC 25 APR 2023

« on: April 26, 2023, 0216 UTC »

Ah, the Commie Station. Everything you transmit is going directly to the Great Trumpkin, beware.

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MW Loggings / Re: Aurora brings a bunch of fun MW TIS station loggings

« on: April 25, 2023, 1942 UTC »

You're getting as bad as Andy Yoder, dx'ing TIS stations.

That does explain why Sycko was barely getting heard in the State's while he was booming into a Kiwi SDR on the prairies of Manitoba?

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID 6935 USB 0356 UTC 25 APR 2023

« on: April 25, 2023, 1913 UTC »

Oh yeah. And the 21 y.o. drinking age, malls, and banks. His main complaint about the drinking age was you were free to do all sorts of things to screw up your life at 18, but you couldn't buy a beer. He followed it up about a half decade later with "Beer Ain't Drinking" based on a line from "High Noon". The town drunk rolls into the saloon about a half hour before noon, is told he can't drink there before noon, and say's "Give me a beer then, beer ain't drinkin'."

Film classic metamorphosizing into a classic song. I bet you didn't think I knew a ten dollar word like that? 

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID 6935 USB 0356 UTC 25 APR 2023

« on: April 25, 2023, 1727 UTC »

As the great poet and philosopher, Mojo Nixon, once sang, "Machines ain't music and they're sure not Rock and Roll."

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Sycko Radio 6950 AM 0208 UTC 25 APR 2023

« on: April 25, 2023, 0328 UTC »

Big signal, S-10 plus in Lamont, Alberta on a Kiwi w/ a 250 ft. Wellbrook loop 125 ft. up. Fred, Lamont ain't no dummy.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Sycko Radio 6950 AM 0208 UTC 25 APR 2023

« on: April 25, 2023, 0315 UTC »

Got him on the big loop in Westminster, MD. but the noise is shredding the signal.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Sycko Radio 6950 AM 0208 UTC 25 APR 2023

« on: April 25, 2023, 0305 UTC »

I've got headbanging music and a political speech on a Kiwi SDR in Forney, TX. S-7 signal. Noise levels are high, but it sounds like something is still in there.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID 6950 AM 0208 UTC 25 APR 2023

« on: April 25, 2023, 0230 UTC »

S5 with the Northern Utah KiwiSDR. Very weak on KiwiSDRs on both the east and west coast.

0208 UTC-Weak music
0211 UTC-Confusion (Dub) by The Pump Panel
0213 UTC-Someone else keyed up on the frequency briefly twice with a huge carrier and a bit of noise from an open mic
0216 UTC-Monster (Dotexe Remix) by Meg & Dia

There are always idiots trying to spoil the fun, SL.