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Loggings => North American Shortwave Pirate => Topic started by: Kilokat7 on August 24, 2013, 0253 UTC

Title: Red Mercury Labs 6940am 0250z 8/24/2013
Post by: Kilokat7 on August 24, 2013, 0253 UTC

Just noticed this, seems to be playing Rage Against The Machine's "Battle of Los Angeles" album.  About S5 or so and even with the noise tonight:

0252z: RATM "Testify"
0256z: Carrier still decent, but audio nearly gone now.
0259z: Audio back up with RATM "Calm like a bomb"
0302z: RATM "Mic check"
0306z: Brief carrier drop and back with RATM "Sleep now in the fire"
0309z: Carrier drop between songs again, RATM "Born of a broken man"
0314z: RML ID
0317z: RATM "Born as ghosts"
0321z: RATM "Maria"
0324z: Strong RML ID
0327z: RATM "Voice of the voiceless"

Thanks RML, been a while since I've listened to this album.

Title: Re: 6940am 0250z 8/24/2013
Post by: Danoman on August 24, 2013, 0258 UTC

Strong carrier on the waterfall here but the audio is very low.

Not much making it thru.

0300 audio picked way up.

Title: Re: 6940am 0250z 8/24/2013
Post by: MrHellion on August 24, 2013, 0300 UTC

Also being heard on the West Coast.

SIO = 323 Noisy band with QSB. Audio here is ok.

0256 Still playing some Rage. Don't know the title of the song.

0259 Seem to have gotten quite stronger SIO = 423 now with either QSB or audio drop out.

Title: Re: Red Mercury Labs 6940am 0250z 8/24/2013
Post by: refmo on August 24, 2013, 0317 UTC

Sounds like still RAtM @ 0310z.  Just above the noise here with occasional deep fades (or audio off?)
Announcer laughing @ 0315,  RML ID, weaker than normal here.   Audio up some @ 0317 with email address.
Signal gradually getting better, but still occasional deep fades.
Shoutout to me @ 0325z.  Thanks!

Title: Re: Red Mercury Labs 6940am 0250z 8/24/2013
Post by: Token on August 24, 2013, 0323 UTC

S8 signal into the High Desert.  Audio has been good after the initial up and down.

Mrs Token IDed the station as RML before the ID, and asked "why is RML in AM, isn't he normally sideband?" when she brought a drink over to my listening desk.  Possibly I have subjected her to too much Pirate Radio.  ;)

T!

Title: Re: Red Mercury Labs 6940am 0250z 8/24/2013
Post by: glimmer twin on August 24, 2013, 0357 UTC

Heard on portable while walking the dog from 3:19 to 3:45. fair signal on barefoot ATS909x pretty good on peaks but gone completely on fades. The signal never did register on the funky s meter (the thing I hate about that radio is the weird bar graph s meter...useless) but was quite strong at times.

Title: Re: Red Mercury Labs 6940am 0250z 8/24/2013
Post by: ChrisSmolinski on August 24, 2013, 1305 UTC

SDR recording catch, 0250 sign on with an S9 signal. Still quite a bit of static from t-storms.

Title: Re: Red Mercury Labs 6940am 0250z 8/24/2013
Post by: Sealord on August 24, 2013, 1631 UTC

6940 AM

Tuned in during Rage Against The Machine crankin away - fair signal with some fading; was listening in USB, but switched to AM ~03:44z to better enjoy the audio.

03:33z RATM
03:38z ID
03:51z Off

Audio (03:33z-03:51z): http://archive.org/download/ShortwavePirateRadioCont/RedMercuryLabs6940Am0333z-0351z08-24-13.mp3

Thanks RML! :)