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Shortwave Broadcast / Radio Romania Int'l, 13650 kHz, 2030-2100 UTC, 29 MAR 2021

« on: March 29, 2021, 2107 UTC »

Too weak to understand the audio but that's partly conditions (as I'm typing this I'm tuned to Radio Prague via WRMI 15770 and that's pretty weak today). Still, RRI has tended to be easier for me to copy on this time and frequency than its Western North America broadcasts on 41 and 31m at 0300 UTC. (In the summer only - they QSY this to 49m in winter IIRC, no chance to hear it here when that's the case.) Fortunately in a few weeks this should rise to the level of daily copy, or very nearly so.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / WEAK Radio 6950 USB 2336 UTC 27 MAR 2021

« on: March 27, 2021, 2338 UTC »

Mix of radio sketches and rock music. SIO 222 here.
2338 Jumping up to SIO 333

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Shortwave Broadcast / IRIB Vo. of I.R. Iran, possible last broadcast?

« on: March 21, 2021, 1931 UTC »

Tuned in to 6040 kHz via uTwente SDR since all I've ever gotten at home is this station in Spanish, and the last time was before Solar Cycle 24 bottomed out. Rumors are making the rounds that they're leaving SW, but so far the broadcast I've tuned into, which is EE for Europe 1920-2020, has given a rundown of their schedule times and availability for online streaming but no indication that this is it. As of 1930 the program has consisted mostly of music but it sounds like a news/discussion portion of the broadcast is beginning, YL announcer.

EDIT 2020 - signed off per schedule although some story was in progress and got cut off as it did so. I have my doubts that that's the last of IRIB on SW but I'll try to remember to check again tomorrow and see if it's still there.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Two Dog Radio 5165 USB 0206 UTC 21 MAR 2021

« on: March 21, 2021, 0210 UTC »

0206 modern hard rock, SIO 333, thanks for the show!

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Shortwave Broadcast / NHK Japan via Issoudun tx, 11945 kHz, 12 MAR 2021, 1705 UTC

« on: March 12, 2021, 1714 UTC »

Quite faint copy but much more than I typically get, which is nada, nichts, niente. Playing a famous macabre waltz but I forget its title and composer. (Too weak to attempt Shazam or Soundhound.) I still miss when this was simulcast from Yamata on 13720 (I think? It's been a couple of years - it was 22m anyway) which came in much better more routinely. The 1700-1800 hour is always dedicated to western music, and can be anything from the works of a classical composer, rock band, or even songs from various Disney soundtracks on one memorable occasion. Those of you more in range of this broadcast ought to check it out routinely.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Wolverine Radio 4045 USB (was 6950 USB) 0106 UTC 7 MAR 2021

« on: March 07, 2021, 0106 UTC »

0106 Testing 1 2 3
0107 DDJ on the mic, QSYing to 4045
0108 Testing 1 2 3 on 4045 USB
0109 Wolverine ID into "Born Under a Bad Sign" Cream
0112 "Good Shepherd" Jefferson Airplane
0116 Wolverine ID
0117 "Little Wing" Jimi Hendrix Experience
0119 "Big Yellow Taxi" Joni Mitchell
0121 Wolverine ID into "Cinnamon Girl" Neil Young
0124 "Excitable Boy" Warren Zevon
0127 Wolverine ID into "Kansas City" Wilbert Harrison
0130 "Country Roads Take Me Home" Toots and the Maytals
0132 Wolverine ID into "Cold Sweat" James Brown
0135 "Hot Fun in the Summertime" Sly and the Family Stone
0138 Wolverine ID into "Come to Me" Bonnie Raitt
0142 "Go Back Home" Stephen Stills
0146 Wolverine ID into "Laugh" The Velvets
0148 "You Don't Have to Cry" Crosby Stills & Nash
0151 Wolverine ID into "Freddie's Dead" Curtis Mayfield
0155 "Don't Take Me Alive" Steely Dan
0159 Wolverine ID into "Nothing is Easy" Jethro Tull
0204 "Hard to Explain" Cowboy Junkies
0208 Wolverine ID into "Burning Down the House" Talking Heads
0212 "Back It Up" Nils Lofgren
0214 Wolverine ID into "Friend of the Devil" Grateful Dead
0217 "Angel Spread Your Wings" Danny O'Keefe
0221 Wolverine ID into SSTV


Signal was never much better than SIO 222.... maybe you can rebroadcast on 43m?

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QSLs Received / Voice of Pancho Villa eQSL

« on: February 28, 2021, 2031 UTC »

Thanks Pancho! Hope to hear you ride again next year! 

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Voice of Pancho Villa 4060 USB 0429 UTC 28 FEB 2021

« on: February 28, 2021, 0430 UTC »

0429 music, no ID yet but guessing based on announce
0431 Voice of Pancho Villa ID
0432 "Pancho does not like COVID, Pancho will find a time machine and go back in time"
0433 mess of OM and YL voices
0434 ID
0435 dialog, speaking about a party, laughter
0437 mention of first Winter SWLfest
0439 "Happy Birthday to You" followed by ID
0440 Pancho has erectile dysfunction, will see Glenn Hauser about that, getting Viagra
0441 ID, broadcasting from pink and purple room at a motel in PA
0444 music, QSL to voiceofpanchovilla@yahoo.com, QRT

Listening primarily on Sigma SDR (located at MA/CT border) but signal is fair at my home QTH

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QSLs Received / WTF Radio, 21 FEB 4045 kHz eQSL

« on: February 24, 2021, 1759 UTC »

Thank you! 

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Robin Hood Radio 6930 USB 0308 UTC 21 FEB 2021

« on: February 21, 2021, 0308 UTC »

0308 OM announcing song called "No Children," into song. I just found this on Sigma SDR in CT/MA. No signal in CO.
0309 suddenly cut off mid-song
0310 back on
0316 OM with song ID, about to play Archers of Loaf.
0317 "Backwash" Archers of Loaf
0320 next song
     hey op, if you're reading this, how about some Tugboat Annie? I can tell by what you've played so far that you know about Tugboat Annie.
0342 hearing that a Tugboat Annie song is queued up. Woot!
0344 "Posterboy" Tugboat Annie (thanks!)
0351 sudden SSTV, I had to change settings to catch most of it. I could hear that under the noise here in CO.


0406 still on, OM on the mic
0451 still on, dub has been the music of choice for a while now. Thanks for the show!

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North American Shortwave Pirate / UNID 6925 USB 0230 UTC 21 FEB 2021

« on: February 21, 2021, 0230 UTC »

0230 OM speaking, signal up and down, sounds like a radio skit of some sort, with electronic music
0232 SSTV (MP175 mode)


0235 OM: "Let's talk about the word 'subgenius' "
0250 can hear SSTV but signal has faded almost completely away

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Damn Skippy 6955 USB 0049 UTC 21 FEB 2021

« on: February 21, 2021, 0050 UTC »

0049 piano music
0050 "Run Through the Jungle" CCR
0057 SSTV (Scottie DX)

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Wolverine Radio 4045 USB (was 6950 USB) 0046 UTC 21 FEB 2021

« on: February 21, 2021, 0046 UTC »

0046 testing
0047 DDJ on the mic, saying he's moving down. Boo! 4015 USB in a minute
0051 found it at 4045 USB on a kiwi SDR back east.
0054 Got it here in Denver.
0059 Wolverine ID
0114 Wolverine ID, "lonely" theme tonight

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Huh? / Ancient Trees Show When The Earth's Magnetic Field Last Flipped Out

« on: February 20, 2021, 2105 UTC »

https://www.npr.org/2021/02/18/969063568/ancient-trees-show-when-the-earths-magnetic-field-last-flipped-out

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Wolverine Radio 4015 USB was 6950 USB 0057 UTC 7 FEB 2021

« on: February 07, 2021, 0058 UTC »

0057 Testing 1 2 3 (on 6950)
0059 Wolverine moving to 4015
0103 now on 4015, Testing 1 2 3 into "Sweet Georgia Brown" Ethel Waters
0106 "Goodnight, Sweet Dreams" Isham Jones and His Orchestra
0109 "Sweet Home Chicago" Robert Johnson
0112 Wolverine ID into "Sweet Man" Miss Rhapsody & Slam Stewart
0115 "Hey Sweet Potato" Buddy Johnson & His Orchestra
0118 "Sweet Baby of Mine" Ruth
0120 Wolverine ID
0121 "Sweet Little Sixteen" Chuck Berry
0123 "Sweets For My Sweet" The Drifters
0126 "How Sweet It Is (To Be Loved By You)" Marvin Gaye
0129 Wolverine ID into "Sweet Soul Music" Arthur Conley
0131 "Not So Sweet Martha Lorraine" Country Joe & The Fish
0135 "Sweet Blindness" Laura Nyro
0138 Wolverine ID into "Sweet Baby James" James Taylor
0141 "My Sweet Lord" George Harrison
0145 "Sweet Seasons" Carole King
0149 Wolverine ID into "Cold Blue Steel And Sweet Fire" Joni Mitchell
0153 "Sweet Jane" Lou Reed
0158 "Roll in My Sweet Arms Baby" Leon Russell
0202 Wolverine ID into "A Sweet Little Bullet From a Pretty Blue Gun" Tom Waits
0207 "Sweet Surrender" Sarah McLachlan
0211 "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)" Eurythmics
0215 Echoey Wolverine ID into SSTV


About SIO 222 on average. Thanks for the show!