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MW Loggings / 1620 WDHP U.S. Virgin Islands

« on: August 14, 2017, 0107 UTC »

I've been after this one for years, finally heard here tonight (with c/w music of all things).  Battling against Cuba, often both at equal levels and destroying anything else on the channel.  2,153 miles

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North American MW Pirate Radio / 1710 UNID oldies 0128 UTC 8/12/2017

« on: August 12, 2017, 0130 UTC »

Back on again right now, was preceded by a strong open carrier for an hour or so.  Playlist seems to be the same again.  Up to S8 at times but much summer static to contend with here tonight.  

0135z: back to open carrier

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North American MW Pirate Radio / 1710 UNID oldies 0100 UTC 8/2/2017

« on: August 02, 2017, 0107 UTC »

Up again tonight with oldies, no announcements, S6-S7 & great audio.

Playlist ended again with Chuck Berry's "Hail, Hail, Rock And Roll" followed by (and currently) S8 open carrier as noted on previous receptions.

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North American MW Pirate Radio / 1710 UNID oldies 0153 UTC 7/30/2017

« on: July 30, 2017, 0154 UTC »

S5-S7

0152z: Patsy Cline - Walkin' After Midnight
0154z: Gene Chandler - Duke of Earl
0228z: Audio cut during mid-song, open carrier now

Repeating the same set of songs as reported in previous logs.  Nice signal tonight!

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North American MW Pirate Radio / 1710 UNID oldies 0123 UTC 7/22/2017

« on: July 22, 2017, 0125 UTC »

S5-S6 with lots of summer static

0123z: The Danleers - One Summer Night
0131z: Question Mark and the Mysterians - 96 Tears
0135z: Creedence Clearwater Revival - Green River
0139z: Freddy Cannon - Palisades Park
0142z: Roy Orbison - Pretty Woman
0145z: Sue Thompson - Sad Movies
0148z: Tommy James and the Shondells - Hanky Panky
0151z: The Gories - Let Me Show You Where It's At
0156z: Smokey Robinson - I Second That Emotion
0159z: Faron Young - Hello Walls
0201z: Nancy Sinatra - These Boots Are Made for Walking
0206z: Burl Ives - Call Me Mr In-Between
0215z: Dion - The Wanderer
0219z: Chubby Checker - Let's Twist Again
0224z: Dave Edmunds - I Hear You Knocking
0226z: Sam the Sham and the Pharaohs - Wooly Bully
0229z: The Isley Brothers - It's Your Thing
0232z: Johnny Taylor - Who's Making Love
0241z: Beach Boys - Surfin USA
0244z: Otis Redding - Sittin' On The Dock Of The Bay
0246z: James Brown - Papa's Got A Brand New Bag
0252z: Elvis - Little Sister
0255z: Chuck Berry – Hail, Hail, Rock And Roll
0258z: S8 carrier with dead air

Bits of music also audible on the car radio while sitting in the driveway, I couldn't resist checking :-)

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North American MW Pirate Radio / 1710 Test Tone 2343 UTC 7/20/2017

« on: July 20, 2017, 2353 UTC »

A continuous 400 Hz test tone noted right now on 1710, exhibiting fading at the same rate as the carrier but up to S5 at times.  No doubt from the same source as my previous two logs.



0142 UTC: Still there and much stronger now at a near solid S7

Off at around 0200 UTC.

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North American MW Pirate Radio / 1710 UNID oldies 0136 UTC 7/17/2017

« on: July 18, 2017, 0137 UTC »

Back again tonight, same time as last night.  S6-S7 over the summer static:

0136z: Fats Domino - Ain't that a shame
0141z: Elvis - Heartbreak Hotel
0150z: Patsy Cline - Walkin' After Midnight
0153z: Gene Chandler - Duke of Earl
0208z: Percy Sledge - When a Man Loves a Woman
0211z: garbled and distorted audio
0212z: open carrier and back into the same music set
0306z: audio dropped to open carrier after an hour of solid audio, no announcements ever heard

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North American MW Pirate Radio / 1710 UNID oldies 0139 UTC 7/16/2017

« on: July 17, 2017, 0142 UTC »

Well, this is something different.  Definitely not W807:

S6-S7 over S5 noise floor with fading.

0139z: Percy Sledge - When a Man Loves a Woman
0140z: Patsy Cline - Crazy
0143z: Chubby Checker - The Twist
0146z: unid old c/w tune w/ mentions of Texas
0149z: Jim Dandy to the rescue
0151z: Elvis - Jailhouse rock
0154z: Mountain - Mississippi Queen

I tuned away at 0157z and returned back to 1710 at 0206z and it's gone.

Thanks, whoever you were, for making some noise on 1710!

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European Pirates and Private Stations / UNID 6320 AM 0002 UTC 7/2/2017

« on: July 02, 2017, 0005 UTC »

0002z: First found on 6320, then VFO drift down to 6323 and now settled on 6320 with Men at Work "Down Under".  S4 in the summer noise.
0006z: Off after song ended.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / UNID 6190 AM 0309 UTC 5/27/17

« on: May 27, 2017, 0324 UTC »

S7-S8 over the static with The Doors, AC/DC, Paul Simon, ZZ Top and others right now.  No ID yet since tuning in at 0309.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / YHWH 7615 am 0232 UTC 5/6/2017

« on: May 06, 2017, 0236 UTC »

Pretty good signal just came up at 0232 UTC with unusual musical interval signal.  Music similar but different from the old creepy sign-off song from past years.  At 0236, YHWH guy goes into the usual programming.  Good S7-S8 signal right now.  Been a while since I've logged YHWH, but this intro music is new to me.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / WREC 6950 USB *2237-2336* UTC 4/1/2017

« on: April 01, 2017, 2240 UTC »

S5-S6, came on at 2237 w/ Soul Asylum's Somebody To Shove

2247: Radio Free East Coast ID, up to S7 now.
2336: Off

Thanks for the entertaining show, PJ!

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ID and Translation Requests / [solved] 709.87 UNID Spanish 1200 UTC 3/4/2017

« on: March 04, 2017, 1404 UTC »

Here's an UNID I caught this morning at 1200 UTC, Spanish talk and romantic (?) music, and way off-frequency.  Heard on my south-west phased BOGs so maybe a Mexican station, but which one?  Faded out just after 1200 UTC TOH.  Hoping someone can translate the dialog to provide better clues:

710 kHz UNID SS 04MR17 1152 UTC.mp3
710 kHz UNID SS 04MR17 1156-1200 UTC.mp3

Thanks!

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European MW Pirate Radio / 1760 kHz UNID Trans-Atlantic pirate station

« on: February 27, 2017, 0004 UTC »

I'm hearing traces of this one again right now, 0000 UTC, and it's actually fading up to weak audio - actually thumping dance music.  First time actually logging a MW Euro pirate for me.  Wish I knew more about this station.  Again, he's strong on the Italian remotes, so maybe from that region but who knows!

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Pirate Radio History / The 1620 WJDI Story

« on: February 26, 2017, 2228 UTC »

I've posted this before, but I'll kick things off with this article I wrote a few years ago about Dave Schneider and 1620 WJDI:

http://blog.amdxer.com/wjdi/

I look forward to seeing this board grow.  Please share your history and stories here!