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Loggings => North American Shortwave Pirate => Topic started by: ChrisSmolinski on December 24, 2018, 1555 UTC

Title: ION Radio 6930.4 AM 1554 UTC 24 Dec 2018
Post by: ChrisSmolinski on December 24, 2018, 1555 UTC

1554 Carrier, no modulation, but it is fairly strong, S8.
1600 "It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas"
1622 SSTV

Title: Re: ION Radio 6930.4 AM 1554 UTC 24 Dec 2018
Post by: aurora on December 24, 2018, 1601 UTC

good signal but very light audio 444

1557 - bells jingling with someone mentioning HFU
1559 - om "Happy Holidays from (I think Rave-On) Radio"
1559 - It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas / Perry Como
1601 - Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer
1604 - cw id,  caught the tail end - heard "...e on radio"
1604 - Jingle Bells
1607 - Blue Christmas
1609 - I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa CLaus (signal starting to fade a lot)
1611 - Grandpa Got Run Over by a Beer Truck (very weak now)
1614 - jingle type ID - too weak to understand
1614 - All I Want For Christmas Is You
1618 - O Holy Night
1623 - cw id, "de ION Radio" in the clear this time
1623 - 2000 Miles
1626 - ID (one of those studio recorded types)
1627 - Little Drummer Boy (deep fades on signal)
1630 - Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer
1634 - Christmas Eve
1637 - ID (om), "ION Radio" followed by email address (signal & audio very good now)
1637 - Rock and Roll Christmas
1654 - SSTV Scottie 1, ID

(https://i.imgur.com/UGSq2F0.jpg)

1656 - SSTV Scottie 1, ID

(https://i.imgur.com/t9s65Ht.jpg)

1702 - SSTV Scottie 1, ID

(https://i.imgur.com/iQovXKR.jpg)

1706 - SSTV Scottie 1, ID

(https://i.imgur.com/Fymwh5i.jpg)

1708 - Off Air


Thanks for the show ION Radio. Merry Christmas !

Title: Re: UNID 6930.4 AM 1554 UTC 24 Dec 2018
Post by: R4002 on December 24, 2018, 1601 UTC

6930 AM 6930.43 kHz or 6930.4 kHz AM December 24th 2018

1559 UTC - "It's beginning to look at lot like Christmas" with S8 carrier, good modulation
1600 UTC - peaking at S9+10db on the COMMSIGMA SDR

Title: Re: UNID 6930.4 AM 1554 UTC 24 Dec 2018
Post by: Ct Yankee on December 24, 2018, 1601 UTC

Very good reception

1559 "It's beginning to Look a lot like Christmas" Perry Como
1602 "Rudolph the Red Noise Reindeer" - Perry Como
1605 "Jingle Bells" Perry Como
1607 "Blue Christmas" Porky Pig
1610 "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus"
1612 "Grandma Got Run Over by a ?"  reception fading, don't think it's "reindeer"
1614 "All I Want for Christmas" Mariah Carey

****If you take requests "Merry Christmas from the Family" Robert Earl Keene


Thank you for the Holiday Broadcast!

Title: Re: UNID 6930.4 AM 1554 UTC 24 Dec 2018
Post by: digitalmod on December 24, 2018, 1628 UTC

 ;)  Weak, but readable here at 1628 Z

Title: Re: UNID 6930.4 AM 1554 UTC 24 Dec 2018
Post by: dxace1 on December 24, 2018, 1645 UTC

Ion Radio heard with 'Partridge in a Peartree" (at least one version of it) at 1644 UTC, signal fighting rising noise level close to noon EST.
Before that, pre-recorded ID "Ion Radio"
1646 Alice Cooper version of Santa Claws Coming to Town

Title: Re: UNID 6930.4 AM 1554 UTC 24 Dec 2018
Post by: slowtrain on December 24, 2018, 1655 UTC

Hearing a SSTV signal at 16:54UTC weak here!!

Title: Re: UNID 6930.4 AM 1554 UTC 24 Dec 2018
Post by: ION Radio on December 24, 2018, 1711 UTC

Thanks for listening, Happy Holidays!!

ionradioshortwave@gmail.com for a Christmas QSL