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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: WAVE Radio 6935 USB 0157 UTC 14 APR 2025

« on: April 14, 2025, 0244 UTC »

Sensual sounding female with phonetic Whiskey Alpha Victor Echo WAVE Radio ID approx 0240Z.

HUGE signal into south of Tampa Bay on 40m 1/4WL elevated vertical and IC-7300 in USB-D wide passband.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID 6959 USB 0226 UTC 14 APR 2025

« on: April 14, 2025, 0236 UTC »

S9+ into Tampa Bay on the 40m 1/4wl elevated vertical on my IC-7300.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Mystery Science Radio 6938 USB 0000 UTC 6 DEC 2025

« on: January 06, 2025, 0031 UTC »

It may be my rig or ear but sure sounds better just a bit lower in freq from stated, on 6937.990 - 980 or more.

Right now S8 just south of Tampa Bay on IC-7300 and 1/4WL vertical.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Thunder Chicken Radio 6950 USB 2242 UTC 15 SEP 2024

« on: September 16, 2024, 0012 UTC »

Yes, the Law & Order theme. Quite loud here in west central Gulf coast of FL, S9+10 peaks and clear, only slight QRN.

BUT it seems to me the xmsn frequency is very slightly off, HIGH, about 10 Hz, or 6950.01 on my IC-7300, full size 1/4 WL vertical base 10ft AGL.

Shout out now ... Miami Vice theme.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: BallSmacker Radio 6960 AM 0058 UTC 13 JUL 2024

« on: July 13, 2024, 0207 UTC »

QSB and QRN detracting from the experience tonight down in west central FL.

Also awhile back there was a QRM'er, sounded like zero-beat SSB (did not check which side) first with "Hola"''s then some low growly voiced blabber. He went away.

An ID clip,

https://vocaroo.com/1nXRLkClPmIs

IC-7300, 1/4w wire vertical.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: BALLSMACKER RADIO 6960 AM 0101 UTC MAY 4 2024

« on: May 04, 2024, 0147 UTC »

Good signal into west central FL south of Tampa Bay. Quarter wave vertical wire, IC-7300. Nice musical selection. Got one ID on the record. Short clip.

https://voca.ro/17VWL7lPLgIk

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: KIPM relay by ? 6930 USB 0005 UTC 24 JAN 2024

« on: January 24, 2024, 0207 UTC »

Weird rambling deep metaphysical cult-like stuff, meditative chanting. OK signal into West Central FL on IC-7300 & 0.25WL vertical wire.

Clip starts about 5-10 minutes past the top of the hour,

https://voca.ro/12bU67f37yeG

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Brain Brothers Pirate Radio Network 6905 USB 0000 UTC 20 JAN 2024

« on: January 20, 2024, 0256 UTC »

Who was singing the National Anthem?

Based on your recording Shazam says: Lisa Del Bo & Golden Symphonic Orchestra & Helmut Lotti & Walschaerts & Andre

Thanks for the answer!

Also thanks for pointing out how to find out.

Helmut Motti, a Belgian singer, good work on a tough tune.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_iPZk3Ocggw

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Brain Brothers Pirate Radio Network 6905 USB 0000 UTC 20 JAN 2024

« on: January 20, 2024, 0041 UTC »

Great signal into west central FL. I came late, right at the end. Who was singing the National Anthem? I much enjoyed that rendition. And the JFK quip after that was a very nice touch !!!

https://voca.ro/1b36gxlYKMF4

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Shortwave Broadcast / Re: Voice of Turkey 7265 & 7280 kHz 0159z 23 Jan 21

« on: January 05, 2024, 0226 UTC »

Hearing same in FL, the 7265 is MUCH louder than 7280 kHz, but the 7265 xmsn has a bad audio artifact, sounds like a high pitched tone that is FM'ed on high amplitude modulation peaks.

https://voca.ro/14eXGJItsgyZ

The 7280 xmsn is totally clean. Listen to it hear, with ID at end.

https://voca.ro/1ldtdBEaR0DD

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Wolverine Radio 6950 USB 2357 UTC 15 OCT 2022

« on: October 16, 2022, 0143 UTC »

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Ball Smacker 6960 USB 0058 UTC 12 Oct 2022

« on: October 12, 2022, 0241 UTC »

S9 signal into west central FL 0230Z signoff partial SSTV image,

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HF Mystery Signals / Re: 7058 +/- kHz WB digital or jammer 2134Z 072922

« on: August 05, 2022, 0341 UTC »

Its there again tonight almost as loud here in FL. Took the time to run a TDoA on KiwiSDR's and it pointed to it being French Navy station 6WW near Dakar Senegal. Google search on that call sign brought up some You Tube posts with digi signals that sound similar.

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HF Mystery Signals / 7058 +/- kHz WB digital or jammer 2134Z 072922

« on: July 30, 2022, 1604 UTC »

Tuned across this monster buzzsaw last night after seeing it on my IC-7300 waterfall down the band from the FT8 watering hole.

It was S9+ here in West Central FL. It looked to be about 3 kHz wide, composed of many individual carriers a few tens of Hz apart. This can be seen on a baseband audio waterfall such as in the WSJT-X monitor. Possibly a digi-fone mode?

First thought it was on 7058, a whole kHz raster, but careful tuning made it seem perhaps more centered in passband on USB Data dial setting of 7058.5 kHz. 

First audio clip starts with a 7058 setting, then I tuned around a bit.

https://voca.ro/1nGgscFjPzsi

Second audio clip is from dial set only 7058.5 kHz USB.

https://voca.ro/1bt1vMC9q6eq

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Mix Radio International 6865 USB 0322 03 APR 2022

« on: April 03, 2022, 0426 UTC »

Went quiet now 0425Z in Florida south of Tampa Bay, last 30 minutes S9+ nice signal on the IC7300 in USB-DATA mode (full 9 kHz BW) using 40m 1/4wl vertical.