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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Balsmacker Radio 6960 AM 0058 UTC 29 Mar 2025

« on: March 29, 2025, 0229 UTC »

0226-  "Stand by Me"  Ben E King
0228-  "Help yourself" Tom Jones
"check out our website at ballsmacker.net"
0231 "I can't help falling in love with you" ~ Elvis P
0234 SSTV


Really fantastic signal at 0226 on HFU SDR, 10 to 20 over S-9
with very strong audio overwhelming all the T-storm noise,
sounds like local AM!  About as close to a 55555 signal
as I've ever heard from any pirate station!

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Sycko Radio 6935 AM 0149 UTC MAR 29 2025

« on: March 29, 2025, 0214 UTC »

0211  "Sycko Radio, Live on 35" ID
0220 7empest by Tool
0244 ID with Sycko "Live on 35", into Tool as anounced...
(Shazam has trouble IDing many of these 'Tool' tracks, for me)
0246--- song mentioning "sycko radio"-- HA, LOVE IT!
0302 "Control" by Puddle Of Mudd-- per my Discord request!   THANKS Sycko!!!!
("I need to feel you, you need to feel me"-- oh excuse me, not you Sycko. hahahaha)

0307  "S.O.S. (Sawed Off Shotgun)"  ~ The Glorious Sons
0310 Sycko live, talking about his transmitter...
0311 "Bodies" ~ Drowning Pool
0332  "Dangerous"  ~  Big Data and Joywave
0340 Noting all of us HFU posters... into "Forty six by two" ~ Tool

0421  "Radio Waves" by Roger Waters, slight ute interference briefly
0426  "...And Justice For All"   ~ Metallica
0446  "Let the good times roll"  ~ The Cars  (debut album?)
0451  "Sycko Radio" song again.... !
0454 Announced as 'last song',  "For Whom The Bell Tolls" ~ Metallica--
(possibly my favorite Ernest Hemingway novel, may be about time to read it again!)



BIG Signal on Traverse City SDR, mostly peaking over 20 over S-9,
but fighting with local T-storms noise static tonight.
Getting better by 0245 UTC

0300 or so, switched to an OHIO SDR which reduced the T-storm noise somewhat significantly...
0446 changed to Chetek WIS SDR, which became better than the rest...



Thanks for the "later night" show tonight, Sycko!

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: WDEF 6860 was 6880 AM 0144 UTC 29 MAR 2025

« on: March 29, 2025, 0210 UTC »

0207 UTC  Big signal on Traverse City MI SDR, peaking 20 over S-9

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: WDEF 6890 AM 0123 UTC 27 MAR 2025

« on: March 27, 2025, 0206 UTC »

0202  "All the things you are" David Rose & His Orchestra

S-9+ with good audio on Traverse City MI SDR

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UnId 6934.95 AM 0303 25 March 2025

« on: March 25, 2025, 0208 UTC »

0206   About S-6 to S-7 on the Chetek Wisconsin SDR, with some jazz... "Infinity" by Lee Morgan

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: LIQUID RADIO 6850 AM 0038 UTC 24 MAR 2025

« on: March 24, 2025, 0042 UTC »

0038 UTC with "All i need is a miracle"
followed by clear Liquid Radio ID   
0041 "When you close your eyes"  ~ Night Ranger
0045 "Strawberry Fields" ~ The Beatles

0048 "Modern Love" ~ David Bowie
audio clip I could not copy, and Liquid Radio ID
0053 "Rebel Yell" ~ Billy Idol

(Listening right along, but chatting with Liquid at the same time--- so my logging entries suffer)

0129 "The Dream Police" ~ Cheap Trick
0140 "Mr. Blue Sky" ~ E.L.O.
0147 "workin' for the weekend" ~ Loverboy


S-7 in Chetek WI, much stronger audio than last night.  Still noisy conditions.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Liquid Radio 6850 AM 0159 UTC 23 MAR 2025

« on: March 23, 2025, 0337 UTC »

0335  Fading in and out of the noise on the Traverse City kiwiSDR.  Oddly, no audio heard in Chetek WI...
Signal now peaking over S-9, but often weaker... nice fade-up at 0337.

0344 "Farout" by Heerhorst

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: WDEF 6750 AM 0303 UTC 23 MAR 2025

« on: March 23, 2025, 0326 UTC »

0324  Rodeo- Four Dance Episode   by Aaron Copeland

peaking about S-8 on Maryland SDR

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Ballsmacker Radio 6960 AM 0059 UTC 22 Mar 2025

« on: March 22, 2025, 0102 UTC »

0100 "Voices" ~ Russ Ballard---  MONSTER signal on the Maryland big loop SDR, steady more than 10 over S-9!  Great audio.
0109  "Don't speak" ~ No Doubt.  (hurt me, hurt me.... lol)   

0114 "check out our website at ballsmacker.net"  Been there previously...
into "Mothers Talk" ~ Tears for fears
0119  "My Generation" by The Who-- one of my most favorite songs of all time, don't need Shazam for that---
once I did a sing-along of it live on my favorite FM rock station "101 FM", back in the early 80's, on the "Burton and Ballard Show"--
they said they usually only allowed one verse and chorus, but I was so good they let me do the whole song!   LOL

0137 "Talking in your sleep".   Still great signal and audio, been listening right along and enjoying all the 80's music,
while chatting on HFU's discord

0142 "you can talk to me" ~ Stevie Nicks
Now notified by other chatters that propagation info says "band closed" across the shortwave spectrum,
but you are still absolutely BLASTING into Chris's bigloop SDR!   I'm ROCKIN" with you!!!!

Talk Talk "it's my life", into Van Halen "ain't talking bout love"  (had that one on 8-track tape way back when), at 0157 UTC

0225 "You talk too much", into 70s "talking in your sleep"--

yeah, ok, answering the question you asked earlier,
clearly the theme of this program is "TALK"...

no announced email heard.... my first guess would be "ballsmackerradio@gmail.com" but into
0231  "Talk Dirty To Me"  ~ Poison

Thanks for the show tonight, amigos!  Really most awesome signal i have heard in the past few weeks.



Tried to send an email to the address as I understood it,
ballsmackerradio@protonmail.com
but guess I got it wrong "because the address couldn't be found"....

Was a reception report based upon this log...

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: The Voice of the Sky 6975 USB 0000 UTC 22 MAR 2025

« on: March 22, 2025, 0050 UTC »

0048 "Icarus" by Kansas.  Signal peaks over S-9 on HFU skyloop SDR, strong audio.
0052 "Hush" ~ Deep Purple

Voice of the Sky ID, into
0057  "Natural Science" ~ Rush

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Shortwave Broadcast / Re: Voice Of America Being Shut Down By Trump Administration

« on: March 20, 2025, 0246 UTC »

Probably just as well--- unless they want to hook up to Donald's "Truth" feed...

he is doing enough to alienate every other country in the world without having "VOA" as a mouthpiece.

We can decide whether to restart VOA once there is an adult in charge again.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: WDEF 6930 AM 0101 UTC 20 Mar 2025

« on: March 20, 2025, 0137 UTC »

0135 UTC  "Rock This Town" ~ Stray Cats
Into Hendrix at 0138-- don't need Shazam to recognize that voice,
"Catfish Blues"

Noisy, signal stronger than audio, S-8 to S-9 peaks on Maryland big loop kiwi.
Wonderful fade-up of audio at 0154-- "Weird Fishes/Arpeggi" by Radiohead.

Ended with an SSTV and off shortly thereafter.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Liquid Radio 6850 AM 0000 UTC 20 MAR 2025

« on: March 20, 2025, 0134 UTC »

0133 Music and clear ID, although coming through poorer than usual...  mostly about S-5 to S-6 in Chetek WI


(Sorry folks, still sometimes converting time from EST instead of EDT... lol)

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: V-SKY Radio 6950 USB 0423 was AM 0423 was USB 0323 UTC 18 MAR 2025

« on: March 18, 2025, 0547 UTC »

0543 "The Girl from yesterday" ~ Eagles
0546 "Heartless"  ~  Heart

Peaking 10 over S-9 on Traverse City SDR

Thanks for the late-night show!

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Sycko Radio 6935 AM 0220 UTC 18 MAR 2025

« on: March 18, 2025, 0238 UTC »

0237 E.L.P.- "Lucky man"

Great signal on TC-MI SDR  20/S-9+