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MW Loggings / DXing Baseball tonight 6 August 2016

« on: August 06, 2016, 0057 UTC »

On a beautiful clear night from my front porch, no station closer than 75 miles away

0005z WFAN 660 AM (New York) Yanks/Indians 2-2 count to Carlos Santana
0007z WOR 710 AM  (New York) Tigers/Mets 2 outs, bottom of the third,Tyler Collins flies out to end inning
0010z WFED 1500AM (Washington, DC) Nationals/Giants Anthony Redon takes ball three.
0013z WTAM 1100AM (Cleveland)  Yanks/Indians Napoli at bat, grounds out to shortstop.  6-0 Yankees.  
to be continued....
0122z WLW 700AM (Cincinnati) Reds/Pirates 2-1 Pirates  Lead off batter walks for Pirates in 7th.
0140z  WCAP 980AM (Worcester, MA) Clubhouse Insider Red Sox Pre-game show (WTIC 1080 Hartford is far stronger but  
           under 75 miles away)
0202z WSCR 670AM (Chicago) Cubs/A's OM giving Cubs starting line up
0220z CKGM 690AM (Montreal) In English - Jays/Royals Strikeout, middle of 8th 3-3, to commercials
0230z WVMT 620AM (Burlington, VT) Yanks/Indians Castro batting, bottom of 8th

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North American Shortwave Pirate / OTR 6770AM 2356 UTC 5 AUGUST 2016

« on: August 05, 2016, 2356 UTC »

Fair reception

2356z 2 OM's in comedy skit
0000z Amos and Andy, far better reception

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Shortwave Broadcast / RN da Amazonia 11780AM 2230 UTC 5 August 2016 "No-lympics"

« on: August 05, 2016, 2233 UTC »

Excellent reception, in Portuguese.

Well, right now, despite the NBC delay, the Opening Ceremony of the Rio Olympics is happening.  I had thought RN would offer some coverage of the Ceremony, especially since a month ago they afforded Copa America live coverage as it was contested on a different continent - not so.

2230z OM and YL discussing news items including olympics (but not live coverage)
0205z Coverage of the speech welcoming everyone to Olympic games (NBC is showing teams still marching in)  In english "Rio is ready to make history" - IOC President?

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Shortwave Broadcast / Radio Marti Live Baseball 6030 & 7365am 0017 UTC 3 August 2016

« on: August 03, 2016, 0029 UTC »

Excellent reception, in Spanish

0017z 2 OM's doing play by play and color analysis of Whitesox/Tigers game (1-0 Chicago)
0021z Tomorrow's game on Radio Marti is Yankees/Mets (in Spanish)
0024z news update

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Shortwave Broadcast / Voice of Greece 9420am 2136 UTC 30 July 2016

« on: July 30, 2016, 2137 UTC »

Excellent reception

2136z Greek music

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Shortwave Broadcast / Re: Radio Northern Irelaand 15770 AM/SSTV 2100z 7/30/2016

« on: July 30, 2016, 2111 UTC »

Good reception
 
2106z  electronic music
2108z OM "Stand by interference from another station"..playing HM01, OM "I will see you at the rally point"   
2109z email...."Cats in the Cradle"  Harry Chapin

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Spy Numbers / HM01 16180am 2100 UTC 30 July 2016

« on: July 30, 2016, 2104 UTC »

Poor reception but we are on the verge of serious rain

2100z Standard YL in Spanish in five number series and tones

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Shortwave Broadcast / Radio Havana Cuba 15140AM 1940 UTC 30 July 2016

« on: July 30, 2016, 1946 UTC »

Very good reception

1940z A series of songs, OM in between, ("Music that matters" set?)
1945z Third straight YL singer unid song

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North American Shortwave Pirate / OTR 6770AM 0002 UTC 30 JULY 2016

« on: July 30, 2016, 0008 UTC »

Poor reception

0002z OM talking, laugh track
0005z Music

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Huh? / Re: Psychic "Miss Cleo" dies at 53.....

« on: July 29, 2016, 2346 UTC »

and then there's the dwarf psychic who robbed a bank and got away, which was radio-ed in as "Bank robbery...Small Medium at Large"   

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Spy Numbers / HM01 16180am 2135 UTC 28 July 2016

« on: July 28, 2016, 2138 UTC »

Excellent reception


2135z Spanish series of five numbers by YL into electronic tones

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Shortwave Broadcast / WBCQ broadcasts their 94.7 FM country station on 7490 AM 2230 UTC 25 July 2016

« on: July 25, 2016, 2239 UTC »

Excellent reception - sounds like local am/fm station in Maine, WBCQ schedule calls for the Overcomer

2230z Three minutes of Presque Isle, ME local business commercials
2233z OM gives local time (6:33) into country/religious song
2236z Another country song
2240z OM "94.7 KX (kicks) - FM"
2241z Back to local commercials
2255z YL cover of "Daytripper"
2300z Allan "This is WBCQ"

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Spy Numbers / HM01 11635am 2130 UTC 24 July 2016

« on: July 24, 2016, 2132 UTC »

Once again, not very good reception - very noisy

2130z YL is usual 5 number sequence in Spanish, followed by tones

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Shortwave Broadcast / Mighty KBC 9925 AM 0055 UTC 24 July 2016

« on: July 24, 2016, 0056 UTC »

Excellent Reception - Booming on the '36 Zenith Console 8S154

0055z Eric Van Willegan talking about KBC into ELO "When I Was A Boy"

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European Pirates and Private Stations / Re: Coast FM 6205 AM 0013 UTC July 23, 2016

« on: July 23, 2016, 0045 UTC »

Noise, poor reception

I'm thinking this is European due to frequency.

0015z Music coming through storm noise