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Huh? / Please delete this thread MODERATORS....
« on: July 05, 2025, 0737 UTC »
Tried to do it myself, but the instructions were lacking

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0253... Hearing a familiar video game midi from many years ago, although I can't recall the game---
into clear "Liquid Radio" ID



Good signal on Traverse City SDR tonight-- S-9 to 10 over, audio doing pretty good over the noise

Better STN ratio on Lincoln Nebraska SDR  http://k0idt-kiwi.ddns.net:8073/



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0401  Sounds like 1940's music....



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0223  "Hell is for children" ~ Pat Benatar
0228  VOICE OF THE SKY positive ID
0229 "On the other side" ~ Kansas
0239  "Outlaw Women" ~ Hank Williams Jr.
0255 "Gone Shootin' " ~ AC/DC
0258 "Sirius/Eye In The Sky" ~ The Alan Parsons Project
0306 "Find another fool" ~ Quarterflash  (kudos, I had forgotten that song...)

0420  "Don't Look Back" ~ Boston, still listening to you all this time while chatting on the HFU discord.
Reception much the same, sounds good!

0426  "Big Balls" ~ AC-DC---- possibly last heard by me on 8-track tape in my car, while delivering pizzas in the early 1980's!
0429 "My own worst enemy" ~  Lit   (Yeah, that might be me.  I have some strange recollection of waking up laying halfway onto my bed, with my jacket and shoes still on, sometime in the mid 1980's... was interesting that my mother did not remark upon it, but perhaps she never checked up on me that night, LOL)

0433 "Crutch" ~ Matchbox Twenty
0435  "We're an American Band"  ~  Grand Funk Railroad


S-7 with big audio on HFU skyloop SDR at 0223.  About the same at 0444, so I didn't bother searching out any other SDRs tonight.

Thanks for the later-primetime show!
KUDOS to the station for the wide range of music in this show tonight--- I have enjoyed it!

If you're still watching the logs, I'd request your favorite song by The Doors--
(as long as it is not 'The Crystal Ship'!   jajajaja   Keep getting hit with that song after I post loggings--
I appreciate the gesture,
but that song was chosen as our station name for the name of the song alone--
was never one of my favorite Doors tunes)

0455  "Tell All The People" ~ The Doors--- from 'The Soft Parade', I suspect--
THANKS AMIGO!!!

0457 "Down to the waterline" ~ Dire Straits
(just occurred to me how much that lead singer sounds like Bob Dylan...)

0515  "Happy Jack"  ~ The Who   ("who?" you know...)
0517 "Dreamweaver"  (was a prom song during my Junior High School years.... 77? 78?)













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North American Shortwave Pirate / TCS 6955 AM 2103 22 APR 2025
« on: April 22, 2025, 2105 UTC »
2103  National Anthem, introduction by the Radical of the TCS 'Baseball Extravaganza'
2105 "Take me out to the ball game"
2109 James Earl Jones baseball talk from 'Field of Dreams', into Mickey Mantle song
2115 'Casey at the bat' poem
2120 "Glory Days" ~ Bruce Springsteen
2124 Abbot & Costello "Who's on first" bit
2129 "Ty Cobb" by local artist Wally Pleasant
2130 Joe DiMaggio ad for Mr. Coffee, into "Joltin' Joe DiMaggio"
2135 Baseball essay by Ernie Harwell, who called the Detroit Tigers games for many years on WJR Detroit
2142 "Meet the Mets" promo song
2145 "Go Get 'Em Tiger" song from 1967-68
2148 "Go Pilots" song, Seattle team which later became the Milwaukee Brewers
2155 "Paradise by the dashboard Light" ~ Meatloaf

Some kind of very wideband signal interference started up before 2200, wiping out a lot of the signal..
visible on the SDR from 6700 to 7100 khz...  Mostly reducing itself by 2205.

OTA at 2212.


S-8 on Maryland Skyloop SDR

Thanks to my relayer!  Sounds good!




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https://www.lightningmaps.org/


As the "electrical storm season" begins, I am reminded that I used to use this site, or one like it, to try to make an assessment of how noisy the shortwave bands were likely to be, and whether I thought it would be worth the effort to make a pirate radio broadcast.  Looks pretty noisy tonight.... but I've seen worse.

As 'Doc Brown' might have said, every one of those lightning bolts is like a "1.21 Gigawatt transmitter" keying up on you!   LOL

Proximity to the storms makes some difference, of course--- last night that storm band going across northern Wisconsin and Michigan wrought havoc with my favorite SDRs located up there, but as a result I investigated quite a few others across North America where the noise was a little lower.

Just a thought for the ops out there--- being able to "see it" rather than just hear it can be enlightening---
also may show you where your listeners are likely to be disconnecting their antennas....   :)






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(ID as read by logs further down.  I didn't hear it but recognize the Wildfire theme well)


Strong signal on 6925 USB, after WDOG had signed off, but sounding a lot like the same announcer at 0156---

maybe those logging this as the same station on the other thread are correct,
or maybe not.  Again huge signal into Chris's SDR,
and not very many IDs, and no clear one that I have heard yet

0159  "Good Times" by Chic, after DJ asking if we could identify the 'theme' of this show...

0203   48 Crash by Suzi Quatro...  lots of DJ talk in this whole log, but No ID that I could copy....

GREAT signal!

OK, 0210,  piano theme and into "Wildfire", and they outed themselves with that


0222   "SKY PILOT" !!!!!!!!!  love ya for that, bro!  Still listening... peaking S-9 into Maryland now.
0243   "The Crystal Ship" ~ The Doors!    Yeah, thanks for that, amigo   8)

0248 The Soviet National Anthem---
( which I totally disavow since the Russian invasion of Ukraine.... :(   )









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0338  Fly Away- Lenny Kravitz
0339-  ID which I couldn't copy because it mixed with the end of the tune...
during the beginning of the next tune, thought I heard a female saying "Captain Morgan",
but that doesn't seem right to me with this program...

0341  "Daft Punk is playing" ~ LCD Soundsystem
0344 "Are you gonna go my way" - Lenny Kravitz
0346  Recognizing a cover of "Brown-eyed Girl".... ok, Everclear, thank you shazam
0354- Another ID during a song which I could not copy, partly due to fading... sorry amigos.
Signal getting tougher with noise and fading out now. signal gone on SDR by 0358....
then some music came up strong for a moment at 0359-- can't tell if it was the same or a different station,
via the SDR graph, thought they definitely threw the switch off...  but that signal faded away quickly.

0417--  OK, DEFINITE Captain Morgan Shortwave female ID, repeated three times during the music so poor John Poet could be certain of his own ears...
and coming in with very strong audio now, compared with its S-5 signal, on the Chetek WI kiwi  http://22303.proxy.kiwisdr.com:8073/


Great reception at 0341 peaking nearly 20 over S-9 on Traverse City kiwiSDR
in the early part of this logging... fading down to nothing by 0357
http://kiwi.k8bmz.net:8073/

Captain Morgan, last time I emailed you at captainmorganshortwave@gmail.com,
I received a machine reply that said it was not deliverable---
but later received an email from you that seemed to reply to my original message...

I am confused, but sent you another email tonight anyway, and received the same initial gmail message.
0438   "Better Luck" by Floyd Lee, according to shazam....  nice peaks still!


off at 0448---  Thanks for the show tonight, oh captain, my captain!

(Captain Morgan was one of the first other pirate broadcasters I was able to hear in 2004,
when I returned to the scene after a 20-year absence-- and that was also 20 years ago, what??)


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Sounds like them.... thumping beat

0127  "A song for us" Quasar

Peaking 10/S-9 on the Traverse City SDR http://kiwi.k8bmz.net:8073/
but audio sometimes weak, thus far, and noisy

Better in Chetek, Wisconsin http://22303.proxy.kiwisdr.com:8073/
Peaking S-7 with stronger audio


0134 Positive ID "Liquid Radio" into
"The Dream"  Deep Dish presents Prana

0202 Terminator clips ID, into "Burning in the Third Degree" by Tahnee Cain & Tryanglz
(from 'The Terminator' movie bar scene)  by personal request--- Thanks LIQUID!!!!!
0206   "Photoplay"  by Tahnee Cain & Tryanglz
(also from 'The Terminator' movie bar scene)

0219 "Lover come back to me" by Dead Or Alive

"Touch and go" and "Who's gonna drive you home" by The Cars
(not sure of the time, busy chatting with Liquid in the chatroom)

"Obsession"
0252 "Touch Me (I wanna feel your body)" ~ Samantha Fox, in that 80s dance groove
0257 "Naughty girls need love too" ~ Samantha Fox
0300 by chatroom request,  "Never say never" - Romeo Void
("I might like you better if we slept together, I might like you better if we slept together,
but there's something in your eyes that says 'never'--- NEVER say never!"

0305  Cindy Lauper "She Bop"
0309   Pat Benatar "invincible"

0314  "Control" ~ Puddle of Mudd
"I love the way you chain me to the bed... I need to feel you, you need to feel me...
I love the way you smack my *ss, I love the dirty things you do, I have control of you!"
(by my last request)

Into Rolling Stones, and "Josie"~ Steely Dan at 0323.  Still a good signal.
"Aja" ~ Steely Dan at 0329
0335-  "Do it again" ~ Steely Dan  (my eventual response to the NOUO, hi!)

0351 "Cruel to be kind" rolling into the Wisconsin SDR with great reception!

0400  "Twighlight" Electric Light Orchestra 

OFF at 0404 UTC.


(sorry folks, I initially screwed up my UTC time conversion... now corrected)

THANK YOU, Liquid Radio, for a most enjoyable show tonight--
and your most gracious accomocations to my several requests!   ;D


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Shortwave Broadcast / Chinese Jammer 6865 AM 2330 UTC 31 JAN 2025
« on: January 31, 2025, 2333 UTC »
Really not sure what I got here, the audio is so weak-- but there is some music creaping up out of the noise at times, and what may be announcer voices-- maybe someone else can get a better read on it. At first I thought it was just peskies fooling around...

Signal about S-8 on Traverse City SDR, but hardly any audio

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The Association of Clandestine Enthusiasts pirate radio listeners club, was founded by Darren Leno  in 1982, partly in response to various other North American shortwave clubs who were reluctant or just outright refused to publish shortwave loggings of pirate radio stations.  Starting from scratch, the club soon became the "go-to" place for pirate radio loggings and news in North America, and later was granted membership in the ANARC Association of North American Radio Clubs.  The ACE had a strong membership for a niche radio club through the 1980's and 1990's (I believe their membership peaked somewhere over 1,000 members), until the growth of the internet and "instant posting" of logs there led to a steep decline of ACE membership, and finally the demise of the club in 2005.  A fairly complete history of the A.C.E. appears here: https://sites.google.com/site/napiratehof/a-c-e-history?authuser=0

I had these newsletters available from my now-defunct Free Radio Cafe website, but luckily they were hosted on Dropbox so are still available.
Thought I might as well post the folder link here, as they are rather important 'pirate radio artifacts' for North  American shortwave pirate radio.
They are kind of fun to read....  :)  Also, our HFU host Chris Smolinski was a contributor and sometime columnist/editor therein over the years.


This collection includes all ACE newsletters from 1989 to 2005, by year.  Start here:
https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/k44e143ecmeva21d1g4vo/AF6tUG-XCMI5t1-8IYTv5TI?rlkey=51wn9uwuba2gq68ouhurnc50y&st=f4qbre5p&dl=0



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General Radio Discussion / New Year's Eve Pirate Radio 2024-2025--
« on: January 01, 2025, 0444 UTC »
OUTSTANDING!!!!   And THANK YOU ALL TONIGHT!


In my late involvement in pirate radio, quite a few years ago now,
I was mostly working on New Year's Eve--- the best night of the year in my profession at that time--

so unable to front my own station, let alone listen to others---

Seems I missed quite a bit--- but not tonight!

Best 'New Year's Eve' I have experienced in many years....

73s and FIGHT For FREE RADIO!!!!!!


(PS  you people are a bad influence on me!!!   LMAO)


tcsshortwave@gmail.com
or better yet
jackwarriner72@gmail.com


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Can see the signal on the SDR, and hear some music popping up through the noise at some points, but that's about it.

Trying to listen on the Maryland big loop SDR, which says about S-7 signal, but audio is rare.   Pity.


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Peskies / UNID 6925 LSB, 2317 UTC, 12-25-2024
« on: December 25, 2024, 2320 UTC »
Just because I am parked on THE pirate frequency waiting for a pirate to start up, hearing faint conversation in unidentified language among several operators.  Language unidentified but sounds rather slavic to me, could be Russian...  strength seems to be gaining as we get further past local sunset.

Listening on the Maryland big loop SDR.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / WFDR 6925 USB 0055 UTC 25 DEC 2024
« on: December 25, 2024, 0101 UTC »
AGAIN strong signal and great audio on the Maryland 900-foot sky-loop SDR.

World War II type audio clearly identifies this as another WFDR broadcast,
although the exact programming may be a little different yet again.
Not sure who the current speaker is, but not FDR or Churchill... 0101

Mostly S-9 to S-10+

OK, this is a little later than December 1941--- talking about Eisenhower's successes in Africa,
and his pending promotion to command of the European Allied forces---

"Germany must be stripped of her military might,
and given no opportunity in the .... future to regain that might!"   0105

Later identified by speaker as another Christmas broadcast, but the year wasn't given-- suspect Christmas 1942 or 1943.

0120 announcement identified the foregoing speaker as 'the President of the United States',
but in this broadcast it didn't sound like FDR to me at all.  Ok, whatever.
Immediately followed by station ID WFDR and off at 0121 UTC.


My salute to "WFDR"---  my kind of programming
when I wanted to vary from classic rock or modern poliltics!

LOVE IT!

Several very brief audio drop-outs around 0100.


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