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Loggings => North American Shortwave Pirate => Topic started by: WWBR on September 03, 2019, 1831 UTC
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Signal was weak at first, but as of 1825 or so, up to S9 on Chris' kiwi. Audio is loud and clear. SIO 444.
Playing some blues rock like Fabulous Thunderbirds and some liners for Pirate Radio in Cali.
1835 - OM on mic "testing the audio", Sounds like PJ Sparx.
1910 UTC -ID'ed as WREC
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1849 SIO 333
1909 ID
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Frequency: 6925
Mode: AM
Date: 3 Sept 2019
Time: 1821 to
SINPO: 44444 via Uniontown PA sdr
Signal strength: S7 to S9 variable
Thanks for the broadcast. Amazing sound.
73's and PSE e-QSL
Big Badfish AL (bad_fish@hotmail.com)
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Got a tip that WREC is on at 18:45UTC. If that is them, super, super, weak. I had to go to USB mode just to DET the carrier. Closer to 19:00UTC, I can now just make out guitar licks.
19:50UTC: Can make out the artist being Hupastank. Listening in USB 6924.940kHz. Can make out the song lyrics that's just above the noise level here. Noise about S3 here, and station is just above that.
UPDATE 20:32UTC: 6925USB, (Right on FREQ.), mode only now. Signal now an S4 playing what sounds like show tunage. Audio just narrow voice FREQ. (Gotta' go to work now. Blaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa....)
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As you know, Dood, Labor Day weekend is only the end of summer for kids going back to school, for low to medium powered HF pirates it happens some time towards the end of October/early November.
Hmm... it just struck me that pirate season is the opposite of hurricane season. Stay away from Al's place at Shady Acres and you're as golden as Trump's Flush o' Matic throne.
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I had weak music (and some talking) coming in around 1845 UTC via both AM and USB modes here but could only hear it in USB after 1900 UTC. Again, weak but audible.
It faded in and out the rest of the past hour or more, both with just my Eton's whip and later with the short indoor wire I have, culminating with strains of Alice in Chain's "Rooster" just before the station signed off a little while after 2000 UTC.
It's not easy hearing pirates this time of day way out West, but PJ was doing something right at times!
2058 UTC: Still a trace of music here.
2128 UTC: Music's still surfacing above the noise pretty regularly here.
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on 6925 USB (my RX in USB !) direct
2044 trace of audio, deep in the noise, 2048 talking ?, yes, talking and music,
2053 music, barely at noise level, 2057 talking, 2058 music, 2100
2142 talking?, then QRM?, 2144 W voice, then off ?
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WREC on 6925 usb, and signal is S8...a bit above the noise levels. Sounds like a great show.
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Very nice S7 signal , just caught the end.