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North American Shortwave Pirate / WHIZ 6950 USB 0141 UTC 09 MAR 2024

« on: March 09, 2024, 0142 UTC »

0141: sign-on, music "Hey Nineteen" - Steely Dan
35343 on one radio & antenna, [4-5]5454 on another
0147: "Do It Again" - Steely Dan
0152: OM with ID "W-H-I-Z, WHIZ" -> "Peg" - Steely Dan ("SD")
0156: "Rikki Don't Lose That Number" - SD
0200: OM w/ID -> "Reeling in the Years" - SD
~0225: ID, then EOT/OTA

Thank you for the show!

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Bork Bork Radio 6930 USB 0011 UTC 09 MAR 2024

« on: March 09, 2024, 0017 UTC »

0011: sounds like snoring, same as "Bork Bork Radio" on 6930  see https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,126623.0.html ("Bork Bork Radio 6930 USB 0106 UTC 05 MAR 2024")
- eventually, it turned into OM making "bork bork bork" sounds, then animal sounds
- the snoring sounds went on for quite a while before the more "interesting" parts began
- slight qrm from pescadores
0016: "barking" or "borking" by OM has begun
0021: "Time" - Pink Floyd, followed by borking
~0023: more "bork bork bork", some with echo over the music; is this 2 different stations?
3[3-5]343
0028: animal sounds -> "Riders on the Storm" - Doors
0036: "Smoke on the Water" - Deep Purple, then borking
0042: "Comfortably Numb" - Pink Floyd, then borking, then "Howling Aound My Happy Home" - Daniel Norgren
0057: borking, then "Dogs" - Pink Floyd, borking, then "When the Music's Over" - Doors with "bork" VO
0127: SSTV - missed the beginning, but ...


0130: OM " ... the dogs take over the radio", then OTA/EOT

Once again, thank you for the unique programming and great music!

Please give us an ID so you can get proper credit.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Worldwide Basement Radio 6925 AM 2222 UTC 08 MAR 2024

« on: March 08, 2024, 2222 UTC »

music

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Cloud Splitter Radio 6938 USB 2216 UTC 08 MAR 2024

« on: March 08, 2024, 2216 UTC »

2216: music "Run Away" - Real McCoy
35343, a bit noisy; noise floor at -105 dBm, S7.5
2217: think OM said "Cloudsplitter Radio" -> "I Love This Bar" - Toby Keith
...
2226: "Even In The Quietist Moments" -  Supertramp
2230: "Coin-Operated Boy" - The Dresden Dolls
2234: OM with several IDs -> "One of Us" - Joan Osborne
2240: "Hooked on a Feeling" - Blue Swede (per Soundhound) or BJ Thomas; "Breakfast in America" - Supertramp; "Whiskey Girl" - Toby Keith; "High Hopes" - Sinatra/Nelson Riddle; "Run Around" - Blues Traveler
2300: ID -> "Shiny Happy People" - R.E.M.
2357: EOT

Thank you for the show and the IDs!

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North American Shortwave Pirate / UNID 6955 AM 2212 UTC 08 MAR 2024

« on: March 08, 2024, 2212 UTC »

2212: OM: "audio test 1-1-1", "audio test 1-2-3-4" and more; intermittent speech
25333
2215: attempt at singing "hello my honey, hello my lady"; then silent
2253: noted again for a minute

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Bork Bork Radio 6930 USB 0106 UTC 05 MAR 2024

« on: March 05, 2024, 0107 UTC »

0106: Bark Bark bark bark bark bark bark bark bark bark bark
looped
33333 (qrm is from signal sounds like someone snoring)
Sorry if I hear it incorrectly - it might be "bawk bawk bawk ..."
0109: now other barnyard animal sounds
0109: quiet (snoring sound gone also)
0110: a few more barks or bawks


Thank you so much for the interesting show!

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Solar Federation 6979 was 6980 USB 2242 UTC 02 MAR 2024

« on: March 02, 2024, 2242 UTC »

2242: jazz music, then Pink Panther theme
35343
2243: Benny Hill theme song
2244: theme from Woody Woodpecker show 
2246: now at 6979, Flintstones theme, Mission Impossible theme, Star Trek theme, Twighlight Zone theme, Dragnet theme, Adams Family theme, Jetsons
2257: 45444, Munsters theme

Thank you for the show!

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Thunder Chicken Radio 6945 USB 2228 UTC 2 MAR 2024

« on: March 02, 2024, 2229 UTC »

2228: rock music "Hang Tough" - Tesla
35232
2232: "Lady Luck" - Tesla

Thank you for the show!

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Voice of Nelson 6955 USB 0101 UTC 02 MAR 2024

« on: March 02, 2024, 0101 UTC »

0101: crazy sound fx, YL with talking, snips of old radio skits
25242, noisy
nutty stories, "incident #1", "Incident #2", talking about a d-bag
"incident #4" about wet concrete sidewalk, etc.
0109: ID by YL with a d-bag song, "Mr. Douchebag" - Your Favorite Martian
35343
0112: continued talk of d-bag jammer and a dog
0115: YL: "This message will be repeated" -> drumming and animal sounds
0121: 45444

Thank you for the "unique" programming!

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Musical Soundtrack Radio 6935 AM 0102 UTC 01 MAR 2024

« on: March 01, 2024, 0103 UTC »

0102: music/singing "Age of Aquarius"
25242, quite noisy, relatively stable
0105: mx/singing "Hashish" - 'Hair' Tribe
0108: "Sodomy" - Bryce Ryness & 'Hair' Tribe

Thank you for the show!

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Radio 1700 via CloudSplitter Radio 6935 USB 2350 UTC 29 FEB 2024

« on: February 29, 2024, 2350 UTC »

2350: jazzy type music "My Reverie" - Hal Mooney
35333
2352: "Mountain Greenery" - Hal Mooney; another tune sounds like Hal Mooney
2356: OM w/ID -> more mx, can't ID
35343
0004: Another ID, mentions CloudSplitter Radio -> more instrumental mx
0012: "Radio 1700, the mellowest sound on shortwave, Radio 1700", then more mx
0018: ID "and good evening"; EOT

Thank you for the show!

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North American Shortwave Pirate / UNID 6960 USB 2309 UTC 29 FEB 2024

« on: February 29, 2024, 2310 UTC »

2309: OM: "This is a test ... [can't quite make out details] ... ?radio and telegraph? "
Wondering if this is WJD which was on several nights ago.
Announcement made about once or twice a minute, seems to be repeating same thing over and over. Can make out the word "tropical" some times.

15111
2316: has been silent for several minutes now; may be EOT

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North American Shortwave Pirate / WJD 6910 USB 0003 UTC 27 FEB 2024

« on: February 27, 2024, 0004 UTC »

Music for a few seconds, then OM talking "This is W[? ? ?]" then silent
25221
? maybe tuning up for later ?


WJD Radio: Hi - thank you for the eQSL!
I look forward to hearing a full program as soon as is practical.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / 77LJS 6950 USB 2302 UTC 22 FEB 2024

« on: February 22, 2024, 2302 UTC »

2302: BOT, music, sounds like Italian (?); like Chris, it sounds sort of like opera, with whistling
45444, S9+10
2305: old commercial for Chevrolet car -> "Do Ya Wanna Get Funky with Me?" - Peter Brown
2314: more singing, can't ID
2317: some distorted talking, then spoof of cleaning car engine
2318: "Absolument Hyde Park" - Johnny Hallyday, Giorgio Gomelsky, Blackbirds
2324: spoof gasoline commercial -> "Brass in Action" - Keith Mansfield
2327: ID, phonetic
-- for about 2 seconds every minute or two there is UTE QEM
2330: cereal commercial -> jazzy mx "Invisible Agent Skit" - Roughneck Jihad -> "Just One Good Woman" - The Mob
2335: old time radio announcement re: Jack Benny -> "Oui, Papa! (Everybody Loves My Girl" - Maurice Chevalier
2342: ID, car battery commercial -> more mx
-- noise increasing, now 35343
2354: shoutout to HFUers - THANKS!
0010: EOT, preceded by "Tous les garçons et les filles" - Francoise Hardy

Thank you for the show!

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North American Shortwave Pirate / UNID 6925.2 USB 0016 UTC 17 FEB 2024

« on: February 17, 2024, 0018 UTC »

0016: Emergency alert tone ala' civil defence warning. OM in EE, looping.
WTH?
another on/off/on station tonight.
0019: OM laughing; hard to pin down the exact freq., followed by sound fx
0024: OM talking, can't make out; audio seems distorted
0026:  YL or kid talking, some screaming, "warbling" sound fx
15231
0031: CW
0035: trance/new age music, abruptly -> sound fx, warbling
0044: YL speaking out letters phonetically followed by Chinese (?) sounding mx, more sfx
0046: OM singing "I Love the Midnight Rain, Dear (? or Reindeer)" - 'Stars of the Midnight Range" - Johnny Bond
0051: "Omana Penne" - A.R. Rahman, Benny Dayal and Kalyani Menon
0054: harmonica mx on/off/on
0056: OM singing with guitar, with overtones of Greensleeves -- "Holy Diver" - Puddles Pity Party
0059: OM singing bluesy tune, then silent
0103: "Setting Sun" - BLP Brian Lucas Project
35333, much better than around 0115

Thank you for the unique programming! I heartily welcome our new alien insect overlords. Eat the Canadians first!