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Loggings => North American Shortwave Pirate => Topic started by: Radiouser on September 09, 2026, 0232 UTC
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s4 here.
0231 "Surrender" - Cheap Trick.
0234 "Train In Vain" - The Clash.
0237 "All Day and All of the Night" - The Kinks.
0240 "Just What I Needed" - The Cars.
0244 Bandaid Radio ID and eQSL email info into "Dark Horse" - Katy Perry.
0246 "Electric Funeral" - Black Sabbath.
0250 ID.
0251 "Turning Japanese" - The Vapors.
0255 "To the Bar" - Cooper Alan.
0257 "Ode to a Superhero (Parody of "Piano Man" by Billy Joel)" - "Weird Al" Yankovic.
0302 ID and eQSL email info.
0303 "RedneckWhskey Wobble" - SwampAssMusic.
0306 "Lucille" - Kenny Rogers.
0310 "Our Lips Are Sealed" - The Go-Go's.
0317 "Mr. Roboto" - Styx.
0322 "Lola" - The Kinks.
0327 "Lake of Fire" - Nirvana.
0330 ID into "Row Row Your Boat" - Evil Kids.
0336 "Surrender" - Cheap Trick. Starting the program over.
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S6-8 with good audio
0232 Surrender by Cheap Trick
0234 Train In Vain by The Clash
0237 All Day and All of the Night by The Kinks
0240 Just What I Needed by The Cars
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0244 Dark Horse (Johnson Somerset Radio Edit) [feat. Juicy J] by Katy Perry
0246 Electric Funeral by Black Sabbath
0251 Turning Japanese by The Vapors
0254 To the Bar by Cooper Alan
0257 Ode to a Superhero (Parody of "Piano Man" By Billy Joel) by "Weird Al" Yankovic
** Heard op talking about microphone **
0303 RedneckWhiskeyWobble by SwampAssMusic
** gotta step away for a couple minutes... **
0316... taking about mic gain... ** I used to have a home studio and some of the $100-150 studio mics were great... mine was from Audio Technica**
0317 Mr. Roboto by Styx
0322 I hear you. Sounds good!
0322 Lola (Instrumental) byThe Kinks
0327 Lake of Fire (Live Acoustic) by Nirvana
0329 op talking about mic... gave email address...
0330 creepy kid song
0335 gonna check audio more... mic check
0336 Surrender by Cheap Trick (I absolutely love this song and was pleased they featured it on the movie "Pixels")
0340 1 to 2 inches FROM the mic. Sounds good! (I hate autocorrect.... changed the word FROM to HAVE... had to fix it)
0340 Train In Vain by The Clash
0343 test 4... I still hear you. It was slightly weaker
0344 All Day and All of the Night by The Kinks
0347 Signing off.
Thanks for the show! I could understand you a lot more tonight!
Listening on my (tr)uSDX with an inverted L antenna.
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0242 on Empire MI sdr2 with fair S5-S7 signal, some static, rock music, "just what I needed" The Cars, 0251 "turning Japanese" The Vapors,
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0243 S8 The Cars - Just what I needed
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0244 S5; Bandaid Radio ID
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0255 S-7/9 here. Very good copy.
0300 Hey, I know the name of a song..Piano Man..maybe LOL
0303 OM request... Program audio (music) sounds good 2.9K wide. Audio from your Mic is distorted/raspy, perhaps hot?
0313 Microphone audio much worse 100% not intelligible. Music audio still good.
0317 Getting better I could understand some words. Try bring the gain down further. I'll hang out a bit to assist in fine tuning. 73
0320 Band going long S-5/7
0322 Mic audio getting better, best so far tonight but there is still room for improvement. BTW I spent hours testing OTA while listening via headphones from another quality radio with a paperclip antenna. It really helped me dial everything in. Processer off, adjust mic gain to tickle the very bottom of ALC. Then- Processor on, adjust compression to top edge of ALC red line. Search for microphone gain adjustment on a Kenwood ts_590. Excellent procedure explained, works for all radios. 73
0335 A lot better. Let me hear you with your mouth 1 to 2 inches from the mic.
03?4 With the band going long and signal dropping and noise intruding it is becoming to difficult for critical listening. Anyhow it was a pleasure to help a fellow pirate tonight. Try the headphone trick with a second quality receiver. When doing it, use a daytime band, ie 15 meters at night so there is no QRM ing. A big thank you for being on the air. My age is getting up there so I mostly listen now. I look forward to many more shows from you and your friend in the future. A very big 73 to you!
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S7 with the UTE on 45 lower messing the show up
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BTW I spent hours testing OTA while listening via headphones from another quality radio with a paperclip antenna.
A paperclip antenna is a very BAD and DANGEROUS idea if you're running any kind of power... unless you want to burn out your final transistors or tubes... or start a fire. Much better to properly use a dummy load rated for the power you're running.
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SDR recording catch
0230 Signed on with Cheap Trick "Surrender", a great signal. Thanks for the broadcast!
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BTW I spent hours testing OTA while listening via headphones from another quality radio with a paperclip antenna.
A paperclip antenna is a very BAD and DANGEROUS idea if you're running any kind of power... unless you want to burn out your final transistors or tubes... or start a fire. Much better to properly use a dummy load rated for the power you're running.
That is for the receive radio while listening to your full station. Read carefully.