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North American Shortwave Pirate / UNID 6935 USB 2329 UTC 29 JUN 2020

« on: June 29, 2020, 2329 UTC »

2329 Music, fair signal.
2335 OM speaking but I couldn't make it out. Back to music
2337 off

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Damn Skippy 6955 USB 0155 UTC 28 JUN 2020

« on: June 28, 2020, 0155 UTC »

0155 "How Long" Ace, good SIO 343 signal here
0200 "Sniffin' Around" Ace
0204 SSTV


0206 "Go Insane" Lindsey Buckingham
0209 "Trouble" Lindsey Buckingham
0215 SSTV


0216 "The Cisco Kid" War
0220 SSTV


0221 "Lowrider" War
0224 "Sigue Al Sol" YESCA
0227 unshazamable instrumental tune - a kind of rock-meets-Latin-jazz thing reminiscent of Santana, but with speaking samples on top
0230 SSTV sent in the middle of the song, which resumed afterward


0230 after last song ended, "Get Together" The Youngbloods

I have to go do spend some quality time with the family. Thanks for the show!

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Wolverine Radio 6935 USB 029 UTC 28 JUN 2020

« on: June 28, 2020, 0030 UTC »

0029 Testing 1 2 3
0031 Wolverine Radio ID into "You and the Night and the Music" Dan Donovan
0034 "Let's Face the Music and Dance" Fred Astaire
0036 "Music, Maestro, Please" Tommy Dorsey
0039 Wolverine ID into "Don't Let That Music Die" The Big Three Trio
0042 "I Can't Face the Music" Billie Holiday
0045 "Music Makin' Mama From Memphis" Hank Snow
0047 Wolverine ID into "Rock and Roll Music" Chuck Berry
0050 "Sweet Music" Major Lance
0052 "I Can Hear Music" The Ronettes
0055 Wolverine ID into "Sweet Soul Music" Arthur Conley

Have to run to dinner but recording the show, will catch the rest later. Thanks Wolverine!

The morning-after SSTV copy:

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North American Shortwave Pirate / UNID 6955 USB 0027 UTC 28 JUN 2020

« on: June 28, 2020, 0027 UTC »

Not very strong, sounds maybe bluesy
0028 gone

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Ball Smacker Radio 6960 AM 0055 UTC 27 JUN 2020

« on: June 27, 2020, 0102 UTC »

I have to say "presumed" because I only have a carrier, no audio.
0108 over on Smolinski SDR I hear "Locomotive Breath" Jethro Tull
0015 "Crazy Train" Ozzy Osbourne
0025 getting modulation in Colorado, but it's just barely above the noise

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North American Shortwave Pirate / UNID 6955 USB 0055 UTC 27 JUN 2020

« on: June 27, 2020, 0056 UTC »

Ambient kind of music, fair signal here.
0058 off, or on a break

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Damn Skippy 6932 USB 0047 UTC 27 JUN 2020

« on: June 27, 2020, 0047 UTC »

Nice big signal here, playing "Eyes Without a Face" Billy Idol
0049 SSTV (I was a little late starting MMSSTV)


0051 on a break
0059 back with more Billy Idol, fair to weak now. (0101, better now, SIO 232, song is "Rebel Yell")
0103 SSTV


0105 on a break
0108 "White Wedding" Billy Idol
0111 SSTV


0113 on a break
0115 back with "Mony Mony" Billy Idol
0120 SSTV


0122 SSTV


0122 "Flesh for Fantasy" Billy Idol
0126 SSTV


0128 SSTV


0129 sound of SSTV starting up, but cut off. Silence

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Radio Randy Rush 6925 USB 2030 UTC 25 JUN 2020

« on: June 25, 2020, 2031 UTC »

2030 country song
2031 "Passage to Bangkok" Rush (live)
2035 Radio Randy Rush testing (OM speaking) into "Anthem" Rush (live) (Synthesized OM voice said "wow, very cool my friends" at 2038)
2039 OM voice "Wow, very cool my friends. Thanks for listening to Radio Randy Rush."
2040 "Hard Rock Bottom of Your Heart" Randy Travis
2044 station ID and HFU shoutouts into "It's Just a Matter of Time" Randy Travis
2049 ID and back into music, "Clockwork Angels" Rush
2055 ID and thanks for listening into "Forever and Ever, Amen" Randy Travis
2059 ID, saying something new but can't catch it because of fades.
2100 "I Told You So" Randy Travis
2103 ID, was able to make out the new chat: I'm not a studio pirate.
2105 "Working Man" Rush
2112 (dang, you should have played a pretty obvious track at this time, LOL) another Randy Travis tune.

I have to stop logging now, but thanks for the show!

Listening to Smolinski SDR, good signal (SIO 444 with fades and static crashes)
     SIO 555 peaks as of 2048 but still getting fades and static crashes

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Ball Smacker (encore), 6960 AM, 0309 UTC, 19 JUN 2020

« on: June 20, 2020, 0310 UTC »

Good signal here. I assume that it started at 0300z.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Wolverine Radio 6965 USB 0025 UTC 14 JUN 2020

« on: June 14, 2020, 0026 UTC »

0025 Testing 1 2 3
0026 Wolverine ID into "My Blue Heaven" Don Voorhees & His Orchestra
0030 "Little White Lies" Annette Hanshaw
0032 "Deep Purple" Artie Shaw
0036 Wolverine ID into "That Old Black Magic" Margaret Whiting
0038 "Red Light" Roy Milton
0041 "Blue Bayou" Roy Orbison
0043 Wolverine ID into "Purple Haze" Jimi Hendrix Experience
0046 "White Room" Cream
0051 "Green River" CCR
0053 Wolverine ID into "Peace Frog/Blue Sunday" The Doors
0056 "Big Yellow Taxi" Joni Mitchell
0058 "Brown Sugar" Rolling Stones
0102 Wolverine ID into "Black Magic Woman" Santana
0105 "Blue Money" Van Morrison
0109 "Behind Blue Eyes" The Who
0112 Wolverine ID into "Ride a White Swan" T. Rex
0114 "White Lies" Nils Lofgren & Grin
0118 "Long Cool Woman (In a Black Dress)" The Hollies
0121 Wolverine ID into "Black Water" The Doobie Brothers
0125 "Red Shoes" Elvis Costello
0128 "Black Cow" Steely Dan
0133 Wolverine ID into "Red Streamliner" Little Feat.
0138 "Black & White" Sarah McLachlan
0143 Wolverine ID into "Orange Crush" REM
0147 "Red Red Wine" UB40
0152 echoey Wolverine ID into SSTV


Thanks for the show!

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Ball Smacker Radio 6960 AM 0058 UTC 13 JUN 2020

« on: June 13, 2020, 0058 UTC »

0058 piano interval
0100 Ball Smacker ID into "Learn to Fly" Foo Fighters
0104 "I Believe I Can Fly" R. Kelly
0109 next song, signal's fairly weak and noisy here unfortunately

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North American Shortwave Pirate / X-FM 6285 AM 0225 UTC 31 MAY 2020

« on: May 31, 2020, 0225 UTC »

Big signal here, ambient bits of audio about radio
0230 "Russian Radio" Red Flag
0233 Redhat on the mic, X-FM ID at 0234
0241 "Synthetica" Metric
0245 "Welcome to Paradise" Green Day
0253 Redhat on the mic. I forgot to shazam the song that followed Green Day.
0257 "Godzilla" Blue Oyster Cult
0301 brief Redhat announcing next song which is "Judith" A Perfect Circle
0305 "Good Times, Bad Times" Led Zeppelin
0308 "Factory of Faith" RHCP
0312 X-FM ID into "Lame Claim to Fame" Weird Al Yankovic
0316 "8 Piece Box" Southern Culture on the Skids
0320 Redhat on the mic
0326 "Might Be Right" White Reaper
0331 "Let's Dance" David Bowie
0343 signals starting to fade here, still SIO 333-343 or so but no longer strong enough to beat out the noise on the band. I'm going to stop logging here and try to enjoy the rest of the show. Thanks Redhat!
.....
0410 just checking in. Signal's better, SIO 444 at least, with someone covering "Running Up That Hill."
.....
0431 Redhat's been on the mic for a few minutes. Turns out it was Meg Myers I heard at 0410. Signal's full strength and 25 kHz wide. Amazing!
.....
0503 show still on, Redhat on the mic with song titles, signal's taking deep fades now.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / YHWH 7470 AM 0257 UTC 29 MAY 2020

« on: May 29, 2020, 0258 UTC »

The usual spiel. Fair signal.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Wolverine Radio / WDDR 6950 USB 0030 UTC 24 MAY 2020

« on: May 24, 2020, 0031 UTC »

0030 Testing 1 2 3
0031 Wolverine ID into "You're Gonna Lose Your Girl" Barbara Gale and the Larks
0034 "Born to Lose" Ray Charles
0037 "I'm Losing You (I Know)" The Temptations
0039 Wolverine ID into "Loser" Jerry Garcia
0043 "Rikki Don't Lose That Number" Steely Dan
0048 "Even The Losers" Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers
0052 Wolverine ID into "Losing My Religion" REM
0056 "If I Ever Lose My Faith In You" Sting
0101 "Three Time Loser" Bonnie Raitt
0104 echoey Wolverine ID into SSTV


0106 DDJ on the mic, sounds like WDDR will be on
0107 "Song of Love" Stephen Stills
0111 "Goodbye to You" Scandal
0114 DDJ on the mic
0115 "Song of the Wind" Santana
0121 DDJ on the mic
0122 "Pop Song 89" REM
0125 "Gimme Some Lovin'" The Spencer Davis Group

will stop logging tunes now and just listen.

0133 SSTV:


0204 SSTV:


0234 SSTV:


0250 SSTV:


Is it request time? I'd like to hear "You Can't Get What You Want (Till You Know What You Want)" by Joe Jackson please (well, Steppin' Out is a good tune too. I liked the video when it was new.)
Here we go. Thanks!

0436 still on, "Life's Been Good" Joe Walsh starting up. But I'm heading to bed. Thanks for the epic show. First time you've outlasted me, DDJ. Take care and good night.

Happened to still be up in time to hear DDJ sign off at 0538. GN

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North American Shortwave Pirate / UNID 6900 USB 0049 UTC 23 MAY 2020

« on: May 23, 2020, 0050 UTC »

Music, with peskies on the LSB side.
0101 tuned back, can hear the violin ending part of "Baba O'Reilley" The Who