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General Radio Discussion / The World's "Largest" Radio Station

« on: September 29, 2017, 1216 UTC »

Interesting article taken from reddit...
Hope the link works...

https://www.hep.wisc.edu/~prepost/ELF.pdf

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North American Shortwave Pirate / UNID 6925 1454 UTC 17 SEP 2017

« on: September 17, 2017, 1455 UTC »

S4 with some light QSB

1454 - All My Lovin' - Beatles snippet, not a complete song

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Wolverine Radio 6935 USB 0101 UTC 17 Sep 2017

« on: September 17, 2017, 0101 UTC »

S9+

Looks like "think" is the theme for this Show...

0101 - Interval Signal - "Testing 1, 2, 3... Can anybody hear me?"
0102 - Positive ID by OM as: "Wolverine Radio"
0102 - Thinking of You (?)
0106 - Better Think Twice
0119 - Think
0120 - ID by OM
0120 - Think It Over
0122 - ID by OM
0123 - Think a Little Sugar (?)
0130 - I Think Were Alone Now - Tommy James & the Shondells
0138 - How Do You Think It Feels (?)
0140 - Do Ya Think I'm Sexy ? - Rod Stewart
0143 - ID by OM
0148 - You Might Think - The Cars
0151 - ID by OM
0158 - Echo ID by OM
0158 - SSTV

Thanks for the Show and SSTV!

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Cool AM Relay 6940 USB 2136 UTC 02 SEP 2017

« on: September 02, 2017, 2145 UTC »

S5

2136 - music snippets on frequency
2139 - heard CoolAM and "someone elses" ID...
          
Possibly a combination Show, made by CoolAM in conjunction
with another Pirate...

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Radio Free Whatever 6950 USB 2050 UTC 26 AUG 2017

« on: August 26, 2017, 2050 UTC »

S3 - on the weak side initially

2050 - Music on frequency by YL
2059 - Soviet Anthem
2100 - DJ DickWeed had his share of tech. difficulties
           destroyed his antenna...
2101 - Positive ID by DJ DickWeed as: "Radio Free Whatever"
2103 - audio cutting on and off...
2104 - back on
2106 - ID by OM - into more music

Thank You For The Show Comrade DickWeed!

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Radio Free Do Whatever 6935 USB 2250 UTC 20 AUG 2017

« on: August 20, 2017, 2250 UTC »

S5 with QRN, some QSB locally

2250 - Soviet National Anthem
2251 - Hearing the Grand Illustrious Comrade DJ Dick Weed - Positive ID
2252 - into a song with whistling I should know...

Oops on the ID. Thanks for the correction. Fillet me later.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / UNID SSTV 6935 0200 UTC 13 AUG 2017

« on: August 13, 2017, 0203 UTC »

0200 - These were broadcast after Wolverines SSTV was finished
           Not as strong as Wolverine
           Just a few...

0200 - Dog with watermelon (?)
           what's the punchline ? a dog with a watermelon it's head ? don't get it ?
           please explain... lol
0207 - Image of a soldier
0209 - Wolverine Picture

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North American Shortwave Pirate / UNID 6925 AM 0038 UTC 13 AUG 2017

« on: August 13, 2017, 0041 UTC »

A intermittent carrier was noted earlier...

0038 - Dixieland music heard - S6
0040 - QRT - S/Off ?

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Peskies / 6930 USB 1150 UTC 18 JUN 2017

« on: June 18, 2017, 1156 UTC »

S7

1150 - A pair of OM's in SS. Surprised they are in USB.
          mentions of "dinero", "tiempo", "banda", "verga", "rock and roll"
          Peskies ? SS outbanders shooting skip ?
         

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Wolverine Radio 6955 USB 0053 UTC 26 FEB 2017

« on: February 26, 2017, 0053 UTC »

S9+40 at start of programme

"Never" is the the musical theme for tonight

0052 - Interval signal - "Testing 1, 2, 3. Can anybody hear me?"
0056 - I Never Should Have Told You
0059 - Never Let Your Left Hand Know What Your Right Hand Is Doing
0102 - Positive ID as: "Wolverine Radio"
0102 - Now Baby or Never
0105 - I'll Never Be Free
0107 - I'll Never Slip Around Again - Margaret Whiting and Jimmy Wakely
0110 - ID by OM
0110 - You'll Never Know
0113 - Now or Never - Elvis Parsley
0115 - Never Trust A Woman - BB King
0118 - ID by OM
0118 - Never My Love - The Association
0121 - Never Loved A Man - Aretha Franklin
...... - signal still S9+20 - slight fading
0127 - ID by OM
0127 - You Never Give Me Your Money - Beatles
0131 - What Is and What Should Never Be - Led Zeppelin
0136 - Never Can Say Goodbye - Jackson 5
0139 - Someday Never Comes - CCR
0142 - Never Going Back Again - Fleetwood Mac
0145 - ID by OM
0145 - Never Do That - Chrissie Hynde & The Pretenders
0148 - Rock and Roll Will Never Die
0153 - Echo ID
0153 - SSTV
0157 - S/Off - QRT

After 2 SSTV Heard another Pirate Operator thank Wolverine for the Show...
Another station started right after Wolverine Sign off...

Thanks for the Show !!!

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Huh? / Trump Promises Greatest Propagation Ever

« on: February 15, 2017, 1841 UTC »

NEWINGSTEAD, VT –  Newly inaugurated President Trump wasted no time reaching out to members of the amateur radio community. On Monday, President Trump was the keynote speaker at a banquet co-sponsored by radio equipment manufacturer Peanut Whistle Transmitters Inc. and the National Radio Retransmission Legion (NRRL). Trump was a surprise late addition to the speaker lineup for the annual two-day “Radio in America” gathering at the NRRL’s headquarters.

“We invited him as a courtesy, but honestly didn’t expect he’d show up. I assume he’s a very busy man,” said NRRL president Bob Gilligan. “But then I received a call yesterday from the Trump administration who informed us that the President would most certainly meet with such great communicators. We were shocked! To fit in the President we had to cancel Wiley Roger’s planned panel discussion on his hypothesis that blue-colored wire has increased his DX performance.”

President Trump’s speech to the 27 attendees lasted a little over three hours and ranged in topics from installing antennas atop Trump Tower to the low sunspot cycle. When Peanut Whistle Transmitter Company’s Chief Counsel asked Trump if he had any plans to improve propagation as we approach a new low in the sunspot cycle, President Trump had no reservations in stating, “My administration will bring amazing propagation to all of you. To all American hams. It’ll be the best. The best propagation. So big. They’ll be so much DX, we’ll be exporting it to other counties. You’ve never seen propagation like the propagation we’ll have.”

Trump closed the banquet with the announcement that he’ll immediately sign an executive order to increase sunspot counts to 1000 within the next 100 days. Ham Hijinks inquired with NOAA Space Weather Scientist Ramish Pental about how the administration would go about this executive order. He quickly replied, “It literally makes zero sense. I have no idea whatsoever.”​

### HamHijinks.com

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Wolverine Radio 6940 USB 0029 UTC 12 FEB 2016

« on: February 12, 2017, 0029 UTC »

S9+

"One" seems to be the theme for tonight

0028 - Interval Signal - ..."Testing 1, 2, 3, can anybody hear me ?"...
0031 - OM with positive ID as: "Wolverine Radio"
0031 - The Only One For You (?)
0034 - No Other One (?)
0037 - Me and My Wonderful One - Cleo Brown
0040 - ID by OM
0040 - One Song (?)
0042 - One For My Baby and One More For The Road - Lena Horne
0046 - Take Me Back And Try Me One More Time - Ernest Tubb (thanks Skipmuck)
0048 - ID by OM
0048 - One Mint Julep
0050 - One Scotch, One Bourbon, One Beer - Amos Milburn
0055 - One Summer Night
0056 - ID by OM
0056 - Dedicated to the One I Love - The Shirelles
0100 - One Fine Day - The Chiffons
0102 - ID by OM
0102 - Wonderful One
0106 - One Toke Over The Line - Brewer & Shipley
0109 - Love the One You're With - Stephen Stills
0112 - ID by OM
0112 - One Way Out - The Allman Brothers Band
0117 - One of a Kind Love Affair - The Spinners
0120 - Ain't No Woman Like The One I Got - The Four Tops
0123 - ID by OM
0123 - Neither One Of Us - Gladys Knight and The Pips
0127 - Time Waits for No One - The Rolling Stones
0134 - One Love - Bob Marley
......
0136 - Strong carrier trying to key up on top of Wolverine
          gave up after a few tries (no luck eh, loser ?)
......
0137 - ID by OM
0137 - One Way Or Another - Blondie
0140 - One Thing Leads To Another - The FIXX
0143 - One World - Dire Straits
0147 - ID by OM
0147 - Life in One Day - Howard Jones
0150 - The One I Love - REM
0154 - Waiting for the One Day
0158 - ID by OM
0158 - Give Me One More Reason - Tracy Chapman
0208 - SSTV (hearing someone in the background talking)
0211 - S/Off - QRT

Thanks as always Wolverine ! Great Show !

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North American Shortwave Pirate / UNID 6930 USB 2044 UTC 21 JAN 2017

« on: January 21, 2017, 2051 UTC »

S8, faint peskies underneath

2044 - Hearing a Pirate dirge on frequency
          "Yo Ho Ho and a Bottle of Rum"
2047 - QRT
......
          2 Stations on now...
2058 - Now hearing dirge again and Stars & Stripes Forever
          mixing... Dirge finished and now hearing Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy clearly
2103 - BWBB done - QRT

No ID heard on either station

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Shortwave Broadcast / Vatican Radio via Talata/Volondry 12625 AM 1710 UTC 01 JAN 2017

« on: January 01, 2017, 1719 UTC »

S6 with noise on the longwire
French Service

1717 - Hearing locally OM in FF with news
           brief clips, brief organ music
1726 - some nice indigenous music
1727 - Vatican Radio Interval Signal once
1727 - S/Off - QRT

Supposedly after 1730 EE continues from Europe on a different beam heading,
only a slight intermittent carrier detected on that site after 1730 UTC.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / RELAY STATION 5150 AM 1405 UTC 23 DEC 2016

« on: December 23, 2016, 1420 UTC »

via AB1KW KiwiSDR Remote - Concord, NH
S5 to S7 - wide signal

1405 - People are People - Depeche Mode
......
1426 - mashup of Enter Sandman by Metallica and Run to You - Bryan Adams
1429 - mashup of Word Up by Cameo and another like tune            

Unfortunately, I can't pick up this station locally.
Glad to hear it on a remote.