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Loggings => North American Shortwave Pirate => Topic started by: The Web on December 25, 2009, 0102 UTC
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0100z WTCR signing on.
Good signal at start but has gotten noisy and some fading toward the end of Louie Prima.
0101z Bing Crosby "Here Comes Santa Clause"
0105z Leon Redbone "Let It Snow"
0108z Louie Prima "Shake Hands With Santa Clause"
Big fade at end of Prima, can hear music cant make it out now. Gone briefly.
0112z Fading back up, sounds like Louie Armstrong now.
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12/25/09
6925 USB
0100z: WTCR intro, great selection of Christmas tunes including Leon Redbone's version of "Let It Snow". That's "Noel" backwards for you kids watching at home.
0115z: "Happy Holidays from WTCR, Twentieth Century Radio", OM voice
SINPO - 44323, great audio as usual, S9+ peaks but lots of rapid fades to S1.
0130z: "Merry Christmas from WTCR, Twentieth Century Radio", YL voice
0135z: Otis Redding singing Christmas song
0148z: "Santa Claus Wants Some Lovin'"... umm... how 'bout NOOOO!!!
Don't worry, Dr. Morbius, we love you too... just not down my chimney after midnight, 'm'kay?
0200z: Pretty much gone now, right in noise level. Great while it lasted tho', thanks, doc!
0236z: Sign-off ID after another version of "Let It Snow", just barely audible.
Continuously audible but more fading into increasing local RFI noise level here since 0115z.
<Lex> just the song every kid wants to hear in the middle of the night...
<Lex> "Santa Claus wants some lovin'"
<DimBulb> stop it hon, you'll wake the kids
<textim> eeew
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0100z WTCR fanfare
0102 ID, Here Comes Santa Claus - Bing Crosby & Andrews Sisters
0105 Let It Snow - Leon Redbone
0108 Shake Hands With Santa Claus - Louis Prima
0110 Last Night I Went Out with Santa Claus
0114 "Happy Holidays from WTCR, Twentieth Century Radio"
0115 Cool Yule - Louis Armstrong
SIO 555. S9+20 signal, no noticeable fade, great audio!
Merry Christmas, Dr. Morbius!
Faded down to S9 on peaks by 0140z but still very solid.
Audible all the way to 0235z sign off, just above the noise.
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0115 WTCR ID
0116 Louis Armstrong
0122 Its Christmas
0125 some saxy Christmas song, Happy Days style
0129 Merry Christmas from WTCR...20th Century Radio (female op)
0130 unk country Christmas song
0133 Merry Christmas Baby
0135 nother unk country style xmas song
0138 bluesy xmas song
0143 Have yourself a merry little christmas (female vocalist, a 1940's version?)
0145 Merry Christmas from WTCR...20th Century Radio (male op)
0146 bluesy xmas song
0149 soulsy xmas song...Aretha Franklin?
0153 piano xmas song
0157 1940's big band style unk xmas song
0200 female vocalist xmas song
0203 'Happy Holidays from WTCR'
0204 bluesy sax xmas song, female vocalist
0207 Merry christmas baby, bluesy saxy - female vocalist
0214 BB King ?
0217 unk xmas song
0221 unk bluesy
0224 unk bluesy
0226 'Happy holidays from WTCR'
0227 Have a holly jolly christmas, bebop style
0230 Boogie woogie santa claus, big band
0233 Let is snow, female vocalist & big band
0235 'WTCR signing off, have a pleasant tomorrow' male voice...gave a NY P.O. box for signal reports
began @SIO 444, avg SIO 343, mostly steady & good signal throughout, but slightly weaker after 0215...
[ATTN + 4.0 filter]