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Loggings => North American Shortwave Pirate => Topic started by: Ragnar on July 07, 2013, 2233 UTC
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Radio Free Whatever 6925 AM 22:30-20:27 7/7/13 SIO 353 Sign on by DJ Dickweed into music. good audio on the mic, just went to music and its significantly lower mod and a bit muddy. The Verve, Tom Petty, Hall and Oats, Deep Blue Something, Gin Blossoms. Signal bounced in and out of the noise but generally improved throughout the broadcast.
off air recording- http://gulchsource.shacknet.nu:6955/Off%20Air/070713RFW.mp3
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Just noticed them here as well, as I was unplugging the antenna again due to storms.
2226 sign on according to the SDR recording. S8 signal.
2248 OK, hopefully the storms are gone now, I've got the antenna reconnected. Petty "Learning To Fly".
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2237utc s9+10 signal- music audio seems too low.
2240utc sounds like the pescies are popping in and over the signal.
2248utc Tom Petty's Learning to Fly
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Assistant Steven is testing various audio settings. Please bear with us! Would appreciate comments to help adjust. We have low level mod. Transmitter so wont be super loud but we want wide and clean.
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Decent carrier into GA---S7 to S8. Can hear some audio, but not enough to say what it is.
2256
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Up to S9+5 here in MD now at 2302z. Sounds pretty good, although you still have your characteristic asymmetrical modulation.
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Stone Temple Pilots at 2300, signal S-5/7, audio low but modulation is good. :)
Audio much better and signal improving to S-9 + at 2350 UTC. Abuse Me:" by Silverchair
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Coming in S9, a bit drifty, bit of noise, very copyable
2310, tune
2312, ID, Dickweed gab, signal reports. "Tell us when we smell"!!
2315, Smashing Pumpkins - Tonight
2319, Nirvana - Rape Me
-- signal way down now -- coming back up @ 2325
2322, tune, Girl Like You (??)
2326, Hall & Oates - Maneater
2331, tune
-- signal briefly hit S+15, then took a nose dive, uncopyable @2334
2335, Human League - Human
-- signal on down slide @ 2338
2340, Dickweed gab
2341, tune, Lightning Crashes -- sounding great @ 2343, S+18!!
2347, J Geils - Love Stinks
-- back to drifty & S9 @ 2349
2350, tune, Overboard (??)
2355, tune
-- yikes! Down the pooper @ 2356!!
2359, tune -- signal not much better
0002, tune -- signal improving @ 0004 sounds cool
0006, 0010, 0013, tunes
-- uncopyable @ 0016
0021 - Signal back slightly, copy rough
0027 - Nothing but S7 noise floor... Guess that's it...
== Thanks for the k00l tunes Dickweed!! == Hope I was of help ==
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At S5-S6, signal looks like it is building here. I'll take the dog for a walk a check back...
2340 A bit better now. "...we make do with what we got...It's all about the antenna...and a good ground..."
0027 off after a dreamy piece of music; very heavy pesc activity towards the end of the show
Thanks RFW!
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S9 at 2317 UTC with the Smashing Pumpkins.
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2322 S9 big fading, hearing background modulation too....
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Audio is better now---at least here. Can make out the song now-----"Girl Like You".....Probably not the title, but I am an old f@rt.
2323 UTC. Listening on upper side to get away from the fish people on LSB
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Just a faint carrier heard here in NW Alabama.
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Okay maybe better now? I think thats all we can do without distorting. Assistant steven is vigorously cranking on many knobs and sliders while i chain smoke.
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At least here in GA, your audio went from "barely there" to audible.....Hard to judge quality due to noise bursts etc. 2337
Hearing Human League now.
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Doing nicely in NH this evening, S7-S8.
2339z I missed all the all the audio diddling - music audio sounds good, op audio a bit distorted but not bad.
2341z Radio Free Whatever ID
0018z ID, dickweeddj@gmail.com, Hello to Radio Comrades
0028z Off, thanks for the show...
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Really tough copy now at 0019z with the pescadores QRM.
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What is pesc? Steven and i are still learning the abbreviations for things sw. Ah, ok you mean those guys that never seem to stop talking on LSB. I get it.
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Yes, that's them - pescadores (portugese for fishermen) they like to hang on 6925 lsb these days.
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S8 signal into allegahney state park in ny. Camping and using a grundig portable. Thanks for the show.
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They must not catch too many fish if they spend all day talking about women and nightlife on LSB! HA! Well, comrades it has been my pleasure to play radio for you. We used modulation meter with transmitter to adjust compression and processing tonight. We had been getting "good but low" modulation reports almost every show and wanted to try to fix it. To us it sounds a little over cooked on our monitor but we are getting front end over-load. We pad down and sound little better but still can't tell how it sounds to you in the distance. Good to get many recording from you comrades. We keep working on it! Thanks for your support, we appreciate you all.
Dick Weed and Steven