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North American Shortwave Pirate / TCS 5385 AM

« on: February 02, 2010, 2352 UTC »

On at 2334 With Yo Ho Ho/Doors interval signal, into Soviet anthem.
Beach Boys tunes: Good Vibrations, Wouldn't It Be Nice, God Only Knows, I Get Around.

Signal S5 - S9, nice plate modulated audio.

Cool, Poet. Glad to see another Brian Wilson fan!

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North American Shortwave Pirate / WEAK 6950u

« on: January 23, 2010, 0812 UTC »

0740z Papa Was a Rolling Stone - Temptations
0745 WEAK ID, Don't Call Us, We'll Call You - Sugarloaf
0749 Lady - Styx
0752 Then Came You - Dionne Warwick/Spinners
0756 ID, Jet - Paul McCartney & Wings
0800 More motown stuff, maybe Eddie Kendricks?
0804 WEAK ID

This started out as a truly weak signal, mixing with the noise, but is improving as time goes by. S9 at peaks now. The great audio pulls you through the fades.

Still going at 0837z, playing Jackie Blue - Ozark Mountain Daredevils. Signal has been up and down, but very listenable overall.

Thanks WEAK, great tunes tonight!

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North American Shortwave Pirate / WEAK 6950u

« on: January 18, 2010, 2110 UTC »

2048z Black Friday - Steely Dan
2050 WEAK ID
2051 She Blinded Me With Science - Thomas Dolby
2055 I Got You - Split Enz
2057 Bye Bye Love - The Cars
2101 Blue Monday - New Order

Big S9+ signal, good audio, but occasional dropouts and hum. Got a short in that cable, WEAK?

259

North American Shortwave Pirate / UNID 6925 AM

« on: January 11, 2010, 0726 UTC »

0707z Nobody Loves You Like the Way I Do - Steve Miller
0709 Willin', done reggae style
0712 Led Zep tune, don't know the title
0717 Thirty Days In the Hole - Humble Pie
0721 Hush - Deep Purple

This is the third night in a row that I've been hearing music here in AM at about this time of night. Signal varies from under the noise to S9+, excellent audio. Horrid splatter from WYFR makes copy impossible some of the time. Haven't heard any IDs.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Outhouse Radio 6950 U

« on: January 11, 2010, 0640 UTC »

Since about 0620z I've been hearing someone playing Copperhead Road repeatedly, sometimes dubbed over itself, although it isn't in sync. Spacey instrumental song starting at 0638. Airline cabin announcements, with the pilot describing the weapons carried by the flight crew.

Sounds like off at 0643z with no ID.

Solid S9 signal with decent audio.

Thanks, Outhouse!

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North American Shortwave Pirate / 6925 AM WNKR relay

« on: January 08, 2010, 0708 UTC »

I'm hearing a relay of WNKR, just barely audible above the noise and splatter.

0702z Ebony Eyes - Bob Welch
0704 WNKR ID

SIO 222

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North American Shortwave Pirate / UNID 6950 AM

« on: December 30, 2009, 2328 UTC »

I've been hearing music here since about 2300z. Carrier is S7 on peaks but audio is very weak.

2315z I Want You to Show Me the Way - Peter Frampton
2317 Do You Believe In Magic - Lovin' Spoonful
2323 Matchbox 20
2326 Sounded like an ID, but I couldn't catch it between the low audio and the pescadores.
2330 Cut Flowers - The Smithereens

Might be a decent signal if you'd give the audio gain a bump!

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North American Shortwave Pirate / WMPR 6924.8 AM

« on: December 25, 2009, 2154 UTC »

WMPR playing Christmas tunes, about 2141z.

WMPR ID at 2150, into an instrumental version of Silent Night, the synthesized version.
2200z ID, Carol of the Bells
2204 ID, The Twelve Days of Christmas
2211 My Favorite Things

S9+10 signal, monster audio!

Thanks WMPR, Merry Christmas!

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North American Shortwave Pirate / WHYP 6952.6 AM

« on: December 25, 2009, 2149 UTC »

WHYP at it again starting at 2132z with the Brownyard family Christmas. Christmas song to the tune of Louie Louie, sounds like Mojo Nixon.

Big signal with nice audio.

Merry Christmas, JB!

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Outhouse Radio 6926.6 U

« on: December 25, 2009, 0503 UTC »

0445z Blue Christmas - Porky Pig
0447 "Outhouse Radio, no shit!"
0448 Long guitar solo
0451 Outhouse ID, Radioactivity - Kraftwerk?
0457 Outhouse discussing fixing his radio, only needed one part!
0458 Instrumental version of Blue Christmas
0500 ID, Bad Moon Rising - CCR

Sounding good Outhouse! SIO 333, some fade, good audio.

Merry Christmas, and welcome back!

266

North American Shortwave Pirate / Channel Z 6925 AM

« on: December 23, 2009, 1318 UTC »

1257z Channel Z - B-52's
1301 Reggae version of Mary's Boy Child
1305 Christmas rap tune from Run DMC
1308 Channel Z ID announcing Christmas special

SIO 444, nice signal and audio, very little fade.

Off at 1333z.

Merry Christmas, Channel Z!

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North American Shortwave Pirate / WEAK 6925U

« on: December 21, 2009, 0848 UTC »

Came on about 0820z, played the same punk song several times over, something about Attitude. Having some problems with hum and intermittent audio. Seems to have solved the problem by 0828z, launched into a bunch of punk tunes.
Nice signal tonight, S9+10 with some fade.

0845z WEAK ID

0922 Taxman - The Beatles
0925 The Right People - The Clash
0926 WEAK ID, Young Americans - David Bowie
0930 You - Candlebox
0932 unid punk tune
0935 What I Am - Edie Brickell
0939 Punk cover version of Sweet Home Alabama?
0945 Good Lovin' - The Rascals
0947 Ride Captain Ride - Blues Image
0951 Mr. Tambourine Man - The Byrds
0954 Fire - The Ohio Players
0957 WEAK ID, No Time - Guess Who Signal has faded down to about S7 on peaks but still very listenable.
1006 Convoy - CW McCall I'm getting lots of splatter from 6915 now.
1009 Louie Louie - The Kingsmen I'd bet there's a punk version of this somewhere...
1011 Spirit In the Sky - Norman Greenbaum
1015 My Sharona - The Knack
1020 Punk Louie! Thanks, WEAK!

1024 Man In The Box - Alice In Chains

I can just barely tell you're still there at 1038z.

1210z Thank You - Led Zep just faded up through the noise for a few seconds.
1213 WEAK ID, Cinnamon Girl - Neil Young

Nice to have you back on the late shift, WEAK!

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Other / Firedrake and unid 9000 khz 1058z

« on: December 16, 2009, 1110 UTC »

Firedrake with the usual Chinese music in AM, with unid Spanish or Italian QSO in USB at 1058z.

Audio clip:
http://www.mediafire.com/?2rzjdlymyne

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Coconut Shortwave and others, SSTV 6925 U

« on: December 16, 2009, 0519 UTC »

I received this series of images from Coconut and another op beginning at 0345z. There was a third station as well, but not enough signal to decode here.