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Loggings => North American Shortwave Pirate => Topic started by: ~SIGINT~ on October 29, 2022, 0057 UTC
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BallSmacker Radio 6960.0 kHz AM 00:57 UTC 29 OCT 2022
00:57 UTC - Carrier is up; S8 ~ S9 with some fading; TX antenna unknown for tonight but it is not doing so well to my location, lots of deep fades; audio sounds narrow;
00:58 UTC - Interval signal;
01:00 UTC - Broadcast begins;
01:14 UTC - Station ID; conditions have improved over the past 15 minutes;
01:48 UTC - Unreadable, just went into a deep fade;
02:06 UTC - Still has not returned, signal is buried in the noise;
02:35 UTC - Station ID; starting to fade back in but still very weak;
02:39 UTC - Faded out again;
02:42 UTC - SSTV;
02:45 UTC - End of broadcast.
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RSPduo | End-fed longwire antenna
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SINPO=24232, with significant QRN tonight
057- Carrier here too.
058- Wildfire IS, repeating.
100- Recorded YL ID.
100- "Saturday Night's Allright (For Fighting)" by Elton John.
(102- Another carrier just wiped out the signal here for about 20 seconds, and then gone).
Much improved signal, SINPO=44433, nice!
116- "Sunday Bloody Sunday" by U2.
119- "Another Saturday Night" by Sam Cooke.
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signal S9+5-10 on the SDR in Fair Hill, Maryland
00.58 oiano
01.00 ID
01.00 song "Saturday Night's Alright (For Fighting)"
01.05 song "Wednesday Morning, 3 A.M"
01.07 ID
01.07 song "The Afternoon"
01.12 song "Thursday"
01.14 ID
01.14 song "Sunday Bloody Sunday"
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0101 Elton John S5
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0100 utc sinpo 44444
Saturday nights are allright
0105 utc Wednesday morning
0108 utc Tuesday afternoon
0116 utc Sundays
0119 utc Saturday nights ain't got no body
0123utc id
0126 utc just lost good signal noisy now
0130 utc leaving on Sunday morning
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Good signal northeast, Connecticut.
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Nice clear, solid signal (S9+25) with no fading - SINFO 55455. Moody Blues' "Tuesday Afternoon"
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0111 UTC SIO 544 with some fading
0113 Thursday by Jim Croce
0115 YL ID Ballsmacker Radio
0115 Sunday Bloody Sunday by U2
Thanks for the program!
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s-9+ 10 to 15 here in CNY, noisy hr tonite but near full quieting signal, good quality
at this moment, s9+20 signal....condx improvement
01:21 s-9+20
i'm an radio amateur but no contester..
take note sw listeners.. cq ww ssb contest this weekend, all HF bands will be swamped with contesters
this area of radio is the only refuge from the madness..
01:42 radical change in condtions.. signal faded into noise
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Tuned in at 0116 utc on Brookfield WI sdr with fair/poor S7 to S9+ signal, song "Sunday bloody Sunday", song "another Saturday night and I got nobody",
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Down in the noise tonight.
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Moderate to low AM carrier sometimes copyable but often not. Disappointing Ballsmacker! Signal slight improvement into consistently copyable range with medium to high AM carrier during latter part of the broadcast.
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S9 + tonight
2124 - "Sunday Morning" - No Doubt
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0138 UTC Unid disco tune with lyrics "Friday (Thank God It's)"...signal is up to S9 now....was much weaker before.
0140 UTC "Saturday Night"-Bay City Rollers
0143 UTC "Saturday In the Park"-Chicago
0155 UTC Signal deteriorated badly.... :(
0200 UTC A weak carrier only now....it was great while the signal lasted!
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0140 Now coming in S9+, could barely hear them before ... weird, band going from long to short!
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Listening to ball Smacker radio 6960 a.m. decent signal here in Cincinnati. Pretty standard music. Standard identification. Maybe the goal is to sound like a legitimate licensed station? I don't know back in the day when we did Pirate Radio, sorry to go down memory lane, and I'm an old guy on top of that, we were wild and crazy drunk stoned and did whatever the hell we wanted to because we didn't have a license anyway. Just my opinion I thought it was exciting and we had a pretty good audience. In other words we were different than the legitimate stations. Just my opinion
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Listening conditions were terrible by the end of your broadcast. Thank you for the Friday night broadcast they are appreciated.
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Pretty good, steady carrier throughout the broadcast via my home receiver with a bit of wire strung along the ceiling toward a window. But no audio ever quite punched through the fairly heavy local RFI. I checked a couple of web SDRs and conditions didn't seem very good Friday evening, although the 40m ham band went long later.