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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Sycko 6170 AM 0141 UTC 12 JUL 2025

« on: July 13, 2025, 0152 UTC »

Fair into Free Union VA SDR, overmodulated, "Wish You Were Here" by Pink Floyd, I would love to know how they got on the air on the 49 meter band since I assume most of the 6900+ pirates are using ham equipment. Conversation is like 80m AM After some earlier variations they're now dead-on 6170 (0209 UTC 13 JUL) and I think the audio has improved, both music and speech....not sure who is talking to who. 0218 Psycho Radio which it turns out is a song.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Ballsmacker Radio 6960 AM 0058 UTC 12 July 2025

« on: July 12, 2025, 0201 UTC »

If you're going to be a pirate, do it this way-- AM and excellent audio! Making it into Europe by the way, poor but better-than-trace signal on Arvika, Sweden SDR.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID 6950 USB 0158 UTC 12 July 2025

« on: July 12, 2025, 0159 UTC »

Just came on 0158, very loud into NEPA SDR, Slow Down by Larry Williams. Decent audio for sideband.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Liquid Radio 6925 AM 0155 UTC 12 JUL 2025

« on: July 12, 2025, 0158 UTC »

Something with a beat but not strong enough to identify, weak into NEPA SDR. Might be getting stronger though. (Nah, if anything getting weaker.)

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Radio Marlene 6915 USB 0128 UTC 12 July 2025

« on: July 12, 2025, 0151 UTC »

"You're so Vain" 0150, good into NEPA SDR but audio not that great. When I was a kid and this song was new, I thought it said "wife of a clothespin."

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: WDEF 6935 USB 0105 UTC 12 July 2025

« on: July 12, 2025, 0143 UTC »

You can't Shazam 20th-century operas, that's what I have learned from this.  I'm going to guess it's by Olivier Messiaen, but my music appreciation class was a long time ago. Some overloading in the loud parts. ID 0148, then after a pause something in English but unintelligible.

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Shortwave Broadcast / Re: Radio Brasil Central 11815 AM 1648 UTC 8 July 2025

« on: July 11, 2025, 2149 UTC »

Well, bad news about that but I was glad to see that Rich D'Angelo is still active

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Shortwave Broadcast / Re: R. Cultural Amauta (Peru) 4955 AM 0050 UTC 03 JUL 2025

« on: July 10, 2025, 2259 UTC »

Currently on (2255 UTC 10 JUL 2025) in Quechua, strong into Lima but not as strong as Tarma 4775. Nothing heard in Europe.

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General Radio Discussion / Re: Overcomer Ministry says it's ending Brother Stair radio broadcasts

« on: July 09, 2025, 2138 UTC »

Given what he admitted to I'd say he was the worst of the worst, but the sermons themselves were not the craziest by the prevailing super-crazy standard. 

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID 6955 AM 0150 UTC 09 JUL 2025

« on: July 09, 2025, 0153 UTC »

Yep, same on MA SDR, very weak and getting weaker, stronger in TN, "Machines" by Emmon 0155.

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Shortwave Broadcast / Re: Radio Brasil Central 11815 AM 1648 UTC 8 July 2025

« on: July 08, 2025, 2100 UTC »

On what basis do you think it's R. Brasil Central? 4985 disappeared a while ago and at least one person thinks both frequencies are down for good: https://mt-shortwave.blogspot.com/2025/05/active-brazilian-list-on-shortwave.html.  But their FB page (unlike their web page) still lists both SW frequencies so it's certainly possible.

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General Radio Discussion / Re: Journalists & watchdog groups scramble to watch police after scanners go silent

« on: July 08, 2025, 0158 UTC »

Ironically the story is behind a paywall.

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European Pirates and Private Stations / Markies 6237.4 AM 1730 UTC 06 JUL 2025

« on: July 06, 2025, 1732 UTC »

Strong into Dutch SDR, Dutch drinking music. 6237.38 to be precise. Remarkably clear for how weak the trace looks on-screen. I guess Markies from past logs.

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Other / Re: 7000.0 kHz carrier

« on: July 06, 2025, 1716 UTC »

Over the last few weeks the two weird things on 7000 besides this have been the anti-vax USB station with an endless loop in English and Italian, fortunately not heard for the last several days, and something I have heard several times but haven't seen any other reports of: Sound of Hope, apparently European rebroadcast rather than Korea-area since I've heard it in E. Asian daylight on European SDRs but nothing on E. Asian ones. I know it was SOH because it was //6865 which is strong enough to be heard in daylight on Japan/Korea SDRs.

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Other / 9A3ZI WSPR 7040.1 0320 UTC 06 JUL 2025

« on: July 06, 2025, 0324 UTC »

10 milliwatts from Croatia and decoded at K3FEF SDR in Milford PA, WSPR isn't good at conveying large amounts of information (it takes four minutes per cycle just to get basic info), but holy moly, 10 milliwatts covering 6954 km! It's always possible that the power isn't being self-reported properly (most are 200mw-5w, but I think the transmitter reports its own power so should be reliable) but if it is accurate that's pretty remarkable.