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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Glen Campbell Radio 6925 USB 2232 UTC 27 MAR 2023

« on: March 28, 2023, 0120 UTC »

Their first go around was the summer of 1975. She was born in October of 1958. That makes her 16. It was reported in "Rolling Stone" in June or July of '75 and they never lie. I spent a week at the beach with nothing but that copy of Rolling Stone to read.

It was the week after "Jaws" opened, the restaurants and stores were practically giving stuff away because they had no customers, just characters like me hanging out on the piers trying to spot penguins going at with great white sharks. I met a student from CalTech doing the same. I told him about this thing called shortwave radio, and then we got on the subject of whaling. Probably the most interesting individual I ever met.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID 6974.9 AM 0020 UTC 27 Mar 23

« on: March 28, 2023, 0047 UTC »

Ministry? I wonder if they've got that old camp meeting standard, "Jesus Built My Hot Rod"?

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Glen Campbell Radio 6925 USB 2232 UTC 27 MAR 2023

« on: March 28, 2023, 0038 UTC »

Thanks for a change of pace! Don't hear much of Glen on pirate radio...he was quite an accomplished guitar player!

And chaser of jailbait. He was shacking up with Tanya Tucker when she was 16 and he was old enough to be her Dad.

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General Radio Discussion / Re: Season's Greetings - 2023 MLB Broadcasts on Class A 50K watt stations

« on: March 27, 2023, 0207 UTC »

Bob Huggins had a near fatal heart attack on the floor of a game when he was at Cincy he got so wound up over a call. He took the job at West Virginia and dropped to his knees before his pacemaker from his Cincy day's kicked in during a Big East game early in his tenure at WVU. He was lucky the Med School was under a mile up the road.

I'm surprised the Creighton coach didn't keel over dead after the the call at the end of their game with SDSU today? Any ref knows you swallow the whistle in the last few seconds of the game. Creighton plays in the Big East these days, no blood, no foul in that league. It used to be if you made the tourney, they let you play, not anymore.

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Latin American Pirate / Re: AD149 Radio 6934.9 AM 0020 UTC 27 MAR 2023

« on: March 27, 2023, 0130 UTC »

And I thought Bud Bigly was warming up his transmitting machine on the "Low" setting?

I wonder where he's got off to?

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Insane Radio 6950 AM 0003 UTC 27 MAR 2023

« on: March 27, 2023, 0109 UTC »

I remember Tony Adams and his hunger strike in that H-Block prison. The Brits thought he would eat when he got hungry enough. They were wrong. It's men like Tony that brought Derry to where it is today, nearly free of the English.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Insane Radio 6950 AM 0003 UTC 27 MAR 2023

« on: March 27, 2023, 0025 UTC »

Same here on a PA. Kiwi w/ an active antenna. Nice audio. Playing Talking Heads from way back when. 0:23 into "Smack My Bitch Up".

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Mystery Science Radio 6925 USB 2330 UTCC 26 MAR 2023

« on: March 27, 2023, 0010 UTC »

Listening to a Kiwi in Dayton, OH while the Deal twins peel me grapes w/ their toes. S-7 to S-9 signal, but the static is horrible. The Miami tribe always said the area around what's now Dayton, especially Xenia, was cursed and told settlers not to build there.

Xenia has been flattened by tornado's twice in my lifetime. I'd move to Indiana.

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General Radio Discussion / Re: Season's Greetings - 2023 MLB Broadcasts on Class A 50K watt stations

« on: March 26, 2023, 2134 UTC »

St. John's has always scheduled teams they thought they'd have trouble with in that shoebox sized on-campus arena. I would expect that tradition to continue with Little Ricky.

One of my favorite memories of the Big East Tournament was Pitino bringing his Louisville team to town the year he got caught doing the nasty on a table his girlfriend after hours at his Lexington, KY. restaurant. The fans chanted her name for most of the game.

Never leave UK, take the Louisville job a few years later, then head back to Lexington to boink your mistress on the side. Most of his employee's were die-hard UK fans. Did he think he was so beloved in Lexington the media wasn't going to hear about it? All that gel and dye he put on his hair must have ate most of his brain cells? The Louisville-UK rivalry is a bitter one, especially in basketball. Even that old Louisville alum, Mitch McConnell, couldn't keep Pitino's misdeeds out of the news. 

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Outhouse Radio 6955 USB 0027 UTC 26 MAR 2023

« on: March 26, 2023, 1933 UTC »

Uh-oh. Now they're going to be pestering you for qsl's all the time, Outhouse. Better keep the makings of the "Purple Drank" close at hand, you're going to need it.

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General Radio Discussion / Re: Season's Greetings - 2023 MLB Broadcasts on Class A 50K watt stations

« on: March 26, 2023, 0608 UTC »

I was watching the UConn-Gonzaga basketball game last night and listening to the play-by-play on WFAN. Gonzaga got thumped, but the WFAN announcers weren't cutting them a bit of slack on calls that could have gone both ways. I'm guessing WFAN was carrying the UConn crew since NYC and CT. are rock throwing distance apart?

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General Radio Discussion / Re: YHWH - 1/25 update

« on: March 26, 2023, 0550 UTC »

It looks like some pics You Know Who sent me of his earthly abode before he moved to Shady Acres. You Know Who used to spend a lot of time in the Mojave as a boy. It makes me wonder if they're related?

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: RADIO FREE WHATEVER 6950 USB 2051 25 MAR 2023

« on: March 26, 2023, 0533 UTC »

S9@ My QTH
2111 My Cosmos in Mine - Depeche Mode


2114 ID as Radio Free

A beagle! Better than any alarm system you can buy. They'll bark loudly at anyone or anything that comes around. You and your neighbors can sleep soundly with the bellow of a beagle to alert you to danger, or just rain hitting the roof of the doghouse in the middle of the night. You and that dog must be the talk of the neighborhood this time of year when the possums, the infernal nocturnal beasts, are emerging after a long winter nap.

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European Pirates and Private Stations / Re: Indy Radio 6931 AM 0203 UTC 26 MAR 2023

« on: March 26, 2023, 0257 UTC »

There is a Kiwi SDR on the island of Sardinia, the only one on the island, that you can hear Indy well on. Go to the Kiwi site in the HFU Wiki and check out the map. It's an easy way to confirm what you're hearing.

BTW, remote SDR's are great method to find out where your signal is getting to. With a long tx you can track it as it progresses. Indy runs 15 watts. If remote SDR's would've been common place when I was carpeting the planet with 14 watts, I wouldn't have wrote the people in Europe and on the West Coast off as being full of it.

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European Pirates and Private Stations / Re: Indy Radio 6931 AM 0003 UTC 25 MAR 2023

« on: March 25, 2023, 0012 UTC »

15 mighty watts of hi-fi AM. Nice catch.