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Loggings => North American Shortwave Pirate => Topic started by: Bali_Frank on October 12, 2022, 0101 UTC

Title: Ball Smacker 6960 USB 0058 UTC 12 Oct 2022
Post by: Bali_Frank on October 12, 2022, 0101 UTC
signal S8-9 on the SDR in Fair Hill, Maryland / 5 KHz wide
00.58 piano
01.00 ID
01.00 song "No Reply At All"
01.04 song "The Letter"
01.06 ID
01.06 song "Message In A Bottle"
01.11 song "Please Mr. Postman"
01.13 ID
01.13 song "P.S. I Love You"
01.15 song "No Reply"
Title: Re: Ball Smacker 6960 USB 0058 UTC 12 Oct
Post by: dxbill on October 12, 2022, 0104 UTC
Signal is very good here in Mosinee, Wisconsin, Clear audio! Your signal strength is lower on USB but your audio is clearer on USB than it has been for weeks on AM. Your signal is strong enough to clear the band noise here. When I use a wider bandwidth on USB, the quality of your audio on USB is as good as AM. USB is the way to go.
Title: Re: Ball Smacker 6960 USB 0058 UTC 12 Oct
Post by: myteaquinn on October 12, 2022, 0106 UTC
0104 UTC: Give Me A Ticket To An Aeroplane. Good S9+ signal.

(https://i.postimg.cc/YqQ01yJT/Ball-Smacker-Radio-6960-USB-10-12-2022.jpg) (https://postimages.org/)
Title: Re: Ball Smacker 6960 USB 0058 UTC 12 Oct 2022
Post by: IrvingtonVFD43 on October 12, 2022, 0108 UTC
0107-Message in a bottle-The Police...
0111-Please Mr. Postman-The Marvelettes....
0113-P.S. I love you-Beatles
0115-? Unknown Beatles song....Lightning crashes burying the audio.

S5, good audio, but rough copy here in Norfolk, Ne. Cold front blasted through with thunderstorms flaring up east of me.
Title: Re: Ball Smacker 6960 USB 0058 UTC 12 Oct 2022
Post by: hsmith77 on October 12, 2022, 0111 UTC
0111"Please Mr Postman"
Title: Re: BallSmacker Radio 6960 eSSB 0058 UTC 12 OCT 2022
Post by: ~SIGINT~ on October 12, 2022, 0114 UTC
01:13 UTC - Loud and clear in eSSB (USB), 5 kHz wide with Please Mr. Postman;
02:30 UTC - SSTV (in eSSB);
02:32 UTC - End of broadcast.

(http://www.milspec.ca/board/img/202210120230-ts.jpg)

Image of Teensy 4.1 courtesy BallSmacker Radio
(http://www.milspec.ca/board/img/BallSmacker_Teensy_41_eSSB.jpg)


RSPduo | End-fed longwire antenna
Title: Re: Ball Smacker 6960 USB 0058 UTC 12 Oct 2022
Post by: blw on October 12, 2022, 0121 UTC
Big signal tonight- thanks Ball Smacker Radio. Signal is S7 but sounds bigger. Very clear conditions tonight. Thanks for the broadcast.
Title: Re: Ball Smacker 6960 USB 0058 UTC 12 Oct 2022
Post by: BallSmacker on October 12, 2022, 0141 UTC
Thanks for your reports on our first go at wideband eSSB. 

For those curious...we are using a Teensy 4.1 to generate the 12KHz IF and DSP shelf it as well (using a Hilbert transform)... that is fed to the 9600 baud input of the Kenwood TS-2000.  We still have some more work to do on the bass response (need very sharp DSP filters).  Source is a SD card recording of the analog show (as would normally go to the AM transmitter).

https://postimg.cc/D4f84XLk (https://postimg.cc/D4f84XLk)

https://postimg.cc/XGkrv8Zk (https://postimg.cc/XGkrv8Zk)
Title: Re: Ball Smacker 6960 USB 0058 UTC 12 Oct 2022
Post by: ChrisLobdell on October 12, 2022, 0143 UTC
0141 Take A Letter Maria - R.B. Greaves  S8 ..... was stronger earlier, signal getting watery as the band goes long.
0144 ID ...
        Sweet City Woman - Stampeders
0147 Box For Of Letters - Wilco

Title: Re: Ball Smacker 6960 USB 0058 UTC 12 Oct 2022
Post by: Molvania Poacher on October 12, 2022, 0144 UTC
SINPO=22222, noisy with ute QRM here.

142- "Take A Letter Maria" by R.B. Greaves.
144- Recorded YL ID.
144- "Sweet City Woman" by The Stampeders.
Title: Re: Ball Smacker 6960 USB 0058 UTC 12 Oct 2022
Post by: corq on October 12, 2022, 0155 UTC
Clear signal into Winter Park, FL tonight on 6960


0150 -  "Think I'm going out of my head"
0154 - Traveling Wilburys - Handle  with care

Thanks for the tunes, BS!
Title: Re: Ball Smacker 6960 USB 0058 UTC 12 Oct 2022
Post by: Markokpik on October 12, 2022, 0209 UTC
0142 "Take a letter Maria", ID, "Sweet City Woman", UnID song, ID, "I think I'm going outta my head", "Handle with care"

S6 here.  Found it hard to tune for fidelity.
Title: Re: Ball Smacker 6960 USB 0058 UTC 12 Oct 2022
Post by: Pigmeat on October 12, 2022, 0215 UTC
Hey! This is last weekend's show!

Satan's Sideband, repeating shows, may the Lord Al Fansome have mercy on your soul!

You can't tune for fidelity, Marko, it's in sideband.

Corq, BS stands for Bram Stoker of Radio Azteca. Now you'll never get a coveted rejection card.
Title: Re: Ball Smacker 6960 USB 0058 UTC 12 Oct 2022
Post by: rpjjpr on October 12, 2022, 0220 UTC
45343

0219z Rock and Roll Love Letter-Bay City Rollers
Title: Re: Ball Smacker 6960 USB 0058 UTC 12 Oct 2022
Post by: Pigmeat on October 12, 2022, 0234 UTC
"Love Letters in The Sand". Even in SSB that brings out the crooner in me. Slim Whitman did a bang up version of it.
Title: Re: Ball Smacker 6960 USB 0058 UTC 12 Oct 2022
Post by: WPE0ERM on October 12, 2022, 0241 UTC
S9 signal into west central FL 0230Z signoff partial SSTV image,

(https://i.ibb.co/GsFQt5R/6960-image.jpg)