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6925 AM
0135-0139 UTC
Groove is in the Heart, Dee Lite
Liquid Radio ID
Big Love, Fleetwood Mac

Good signal but nearly drowned in heavy local RFI.
Backyard with Sony ICF 2010 portable and snek in grass antenna.

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Bread - Diary, Carpenters - For All We Know, Herb Alpert "Rise." It's a dad rock evening
0042 UTC Liquid Radio ID, Beatles "Strawberry Fields"
0046 UTC Rolling Stones, Street Fighting Man
0049 UTC Liquid Radio ID, Incense and Peppermints – Strawberry Alarm Clock
0100 UTC Diesel, Sausalito Summernight
0117 UTC ZZ Top, Sleeping Bag

Good signal and audio with strong peaks. By 0050 UTC can hear stronger static crashes from t-storms coming from west Texas and Oklahoma, more fading

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0115 UTC Liquid Radio ID after Bestie Boys "So What'cha Want", Dope Stars "Beatcrusher"
0230 UTC Liquid Radio ID and music

Good signal, some slight fades


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6850 AM
2210-2230 UTC, music and ID for Wax Radio with reference to FM station stream, presumably relay.
Alice in Chains, It Ain't Like That
Big Black, The Model
Prodigy, Music Reach
Electronic Behavior Control System, Emergency Broadcast Network
2247 UTC Wax Radio ID
Gila Copter, Revolting Cocks
2300 UTC Wax Radio ID
Counting the Rosaries, Book of Love
2318 UTC Wax Radio ID, Filter, Trip Like I Do
2330 UTC, ID, Thompson Twins, Sugar Daddy
2338 UTC Flashback Friday Wax Radio ID, Kalifornia, Fatboy Slim
2355 UTC Wax Radio off after medley of songs, ID

Good signal peaks, some fades and regional t-storm crashes. By 2237 UTC, SINPO 44333, good peaks and audio, some deep fades. Improved to 44334

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6850 AM
2115-2135 UTC: After Zoom Team, by EbE404
Suspense, Horror, Piano and Music Box, by Takaya
Replay, by X-Ray Connection . Wax Radio ID
2140 UTC Umo Detic, Fahrenheit
2141 UTC audio clip from original Battlestar Galactica series
2144 UTC John Wayne Was a Nazi by MDC
2146 UTC Stealing People's Mail, by Dead Kennedys
2150 UTC After Forever, Black Sabbath
2152 Oh Shit, Buzzcocks
2155 UTC Digital Love, Daft Punk
2203 UTC Wax Radio IDs, references to FM frequency and website
2220 UTC Wood Beez (Pray Like Aretha Franklin) by Scritti Politti
2223 UTC Peter Godwin, Images of Heaven
2230 UTC off mid-song, maybe tech glitch
2231 UTC back on, Wax Radio ID , Play to Win by Heaven 17
2242 UTC off, no carrier

SINPO 43434
Good audio and signal peaks, some fades to barely audible. Some static crashes from t-storms to the east.

Outdoors with portable and 20' of wire on the grass.

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6925 AM
0040 UTC Télépopmusik "Breathe"
0044 UTC Liquid Radio ID
0045 UTC Nothing but Black, Spetsnaz

Great signal, some static crashes, not much local RFI tonight. Outdoors with Sony ICF 2010 and sneak in grass antenna

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UNID music 6926.7 USB 0230 UTC 27 Aug 2023
Folk-ish music, couldn't copy clearly enough to ID anything, followed by SSTV -- no copy via outdoor portable. Off after SSTV

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The BBC have made freely available their archive of tens of thousands of sound effects, categorized and searchable. Many lengths, playable onsite and downloadable. Top audio quality.

If you've ever tried to build your own library of sound effects, Foley sounds, background and ambient sounds and noises from a hodge podge of online sources, including stripping audio from YouTube, you'll appreciate how convenient this is.

https://sound-effects.bbcrewind.co.uk/

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North American Shortwave Pirate / WJAN 6935 USB 0110 UTC 27 DEC 2022
« on: December 27, 2022, 0116 UTC »
Tuned in just in time to catch Righteous Bros, Unchained Melody, op chatter (couldn't copy most of it), Small Faces Itchykoo Park, WJAN sign-off ID.

Fair signal, just enough to copy familiar music.

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4185 USB
1000 UTC rock guitar instrumental
1007z shout out from op, could only copy a word or two
1014z more rock guitar with vocals, maybe Joe Bonamassa, not sure.
1022z tech issues? Frequency seems to be shifting a bit, audio stopping/restarting
1040z back, seems back on freq center, sounds like Bonamassa live again

Fair signal via home receiver with indoor antenna.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Unid 4185 USB 0200 UTC 21 Dec 2022
« on: December 21, 2022, 0222 UTC »
0200-0205 UTC sounded like Billy Squier "Lonely is the Night," faded out, no ID
0231z hanging in there, not quite punching through enough to copy songs or ID
0232z James Gang "Walk Away"

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North American Shortwave Pirate / XFM 4185 AM 0104 UTC 18 DEC 2022
« on: December 18, 2022, 0122 UTC »
4185 AM
Caught show opening just after I got home from errands. This was supposed to be my rest day from running workouts (prepping for half marathon), so a good excuse to put up my feet and listen.

0104 UTC Op chatter about new battery for broadcast, Sevendust "Xmas Day"
0128z op checking HFU logs, shout-out to loggers, Smooshing Pimpkins "Beguiled"
0128z RHCP "Dani California", able to Shazam that from across the room. Shazam usually struggles on my phone with music in sideband, but better in AM
0150z Redhat chatter about challenges of playing radio outside or via mobile in cold weather.
0157z op chatter, checking logs, "Some Velvet Morning" by Lee Hazelwood and Nancy Sinatra, possibly the weirdest pop song of that era to actually become a minor hit. More popular now than it was then (yeah, I'm old enough to remember).
0205z Same song, Some Velvet Morning, this time Primal Scream with Kate Moss.

SINPO 44323, S3-7 rapid fluttering peaks and fades, better than usual to my indoor antenna setup. Great audio, as usual. Kinda makes me wish the Palstar had the kind of adjustable AGC as some better SDR setups.

By 0205z signal improving, SINPO 44333, S9 peaks, somewhat less crazy fluttering fades.

0218z Redhat chatter, peaking S9+ now. Reading logs: "'Rock song by woman'. I'm guessing that's Garbage." (I laughed harder than I should have over how that sounded. )
0224z "Chinese High" Gang Gang Dance
0227z Spoon "On the Radio" , SINPO 44444 now
0234z Redhat talking about challenges of playing radio in cold mobile unit without gloves, tech issues with antenna and fiber optic cable. Reading logs from email.
0240z my recording will include a loud sneeze because I'm recording off the speaker using my backup phone ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
0241z "Ballad of Chasey Lain" Bloodhound Gang. Never heard this one before ;)
0248z Kraftwerk "Radioactivity" remaster
0300z mic doesn't have frost on it yet but getting almost cold enough. Chris Cornell "Long Gone"
0319z Fifi "Criminal", strong peaks, a bit more fading again, SINPO 54334
0332z Dido "Don't Believe in Love" conditions back to beginning of broadcast, S5-9, rapid fluttering peaks and fades.
0354z Chromatics "Time Rider" , signal hanging in there but conditions fading, SINPO 44323
0358z 3EB "I Want You"
0408z sign off ID and chatter, Flunk "Blue Monday"

Palstar R30C with indoor RF Systems EMF antenna strung along the ceiling, beer can end transformer dangling across the curtain rod. Works a little better than bare random wire, especially after guesstimating number of coils in feed line and ferrite chokes to control local noise.

Six off-air recordings, five of which are a few minutes long throughout broadcast, one was two hours long. Audio quality of my recording is pretty mediocore due to the open mic on my old phone picking up room noise. I kept fiddling with distance between the phone and speaker, recorder AGC and levels, wav vs mp3, but none of it really helped. Too bad because my previous off air recordings using this method outdoors were fine, probably because there was no room noise and reverb messing with phasing.

The actual broadcast audio quality and signal were very good. For about an hour it was near broadcast quality signal, comparable to how I usually receive Radio New Zealand and Australia here at night.

https://archive.org/details/xfm-4185-am-2022-12-17-20-05-10

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Michael Jackson "Billie Jean," remix
0135z Sycko Radio ID
0136z Depeche mode, variation of Personal Jesus, sounds like Doors kinda remix beat. Same thing, into Tears for Fears
 "Shout"
0141z Bee Gees "Stayin' Alive" mixed to AC/DC "Back in Black" instrumentals
0144z Sycko Radio ID
0145z I got the eye of the tiger power remix
0148z Sycko Radio 4185 IDs, Smells Like The Final Countdown, Europe/Nirvana remix
0153z Big signal strength jump, Police "Every Breath You Take" remix with some country song I don't recognize
0157z Ozzy/Led Zep, "Whole Lotta War Pigs"
0209z Monty Python Gumby guys with brain pain, Sycko Radio IDs
0211z Purple Sun, Doomsday

Fair to good via eastern SDR, just barely audible at home

0235z switched to Penisylvania SDR, Kinks "Everybody's a Star", still strong via that rx, faded out via MD
0237z Van Der Graaf Generator, Door
0248z Reichmann, Wunderbar. Sycko on the mic-o.
0253z off after final ID and audio bits

QSL received, thanky kindly.
https://imgur.com/a/N8mheWw

Audio clips: two via this link. First half via MD SDR. Switched to PA SDR for second half as signal faded a bit.
https://archive.org/details/sycko-radio-remixes-mashups-12-dec-2022-0134-0225-utc-4185usb

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Broadcast in progress when I tuned in...
0405z Several rock guitar instrumental Christmas songs. Reminiscent of Eric Johnson's style. Very good signal via eastern SDR, barely audible at home.
0411z "Christmas Time is Here," from Vince Guaraldi's soundtrack for classic Peanut's Christmas cartoon, in style of Jeff Beck. Gonna guess these are a compilation of instrumentals from Beck, Eric Johnson, Steve Vai and others. Or one guitarist who's got an incredible knack for impressions of many guitar styles.
0414z op "And now for something completely different. "Blue Christmas" instrumental, sorta honky tonk guitar. Cut off mid-song, some whispering, can't make it out.
0417z sounds like Ry Cooder, don't recognize the song
0420z more whispering (sounded like bits from Zappa's "central scrutinizer" routine from Joe's Garage), "Now back to Christmas music," Blue Christmas again. This bit is just audible on my home receiver. Mostly using eastern SDR.
0431z sstv after Drummer Boy, Joy to the World guitar instrumentals.
0436z "From the studios of Thunder Chicken to yours, happy Thanksgiving."

Recording of final 23 minutes: https://archive.org/details/thunder-chicken-radio-thanksgiving-2022-hfunderground-com-25-nov-2022-0414-utc-4185-usb-trimmed

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Times approximate, not sure when Sycko Radio ended and Zoidberg Radio began.

6925 USB
Approx 0300-0350 UTC
Fun audio anarchy mix of music, sound fx, songs from Spongebob Squarepants, Lazytown, Katy Perry "ET" (that song fooled Shazam, which thought it was polka by some Icelandic group, but Katy's distinctive voice said nope), Smash Mouth "All Star", "Things That Go Bump in the Night" by The Allstars, Zoidberg Radio IDs.

No copy via home rx, alas. Fair to good via Penisylvania and Utah SDRs. Fluctuating conditions, so I had both SDRs running and recording.

Thanky kindly, radio stranger. I turned Medicare years old today. I planned to just mourn the occasion but that was a fun show.

Audio clips -- I uploaded eight clips from two or three different broadcasts and they all were lumped together on a single page, which defaulted to Sycko Radio rather than the individual file names for Automated Pirate Radio, Zoidberg Radio and Sycko Radio. Here's the link but each file is titled and separated well enough to find which clip goes with which broadcast: https://archive.org/details/sycko-radio-pa-sdr-21-nov-2022-0200-0230-utc-6925-usb

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