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European Pirates and Private Stations / Radio Eldorado 14460 USB 0037 UTC 10 JUN 2025

« on: June 10, 2025, 0042 UTC »

0037 UTC "Even Flow"-Pearl Jam in progress at tune in (Not moving the S-meter but mostly at or just above the low noise floor with moderate fading)
0040 UTC Unid grunge rock song-OM singer
0045 UTC "Hush"-Deep Purple
0049 UTC "I Ain't Superstitious"-Jeff Back Group (Signal jumped up a bit to S3 peaks!)
(0052 UTC Now it's up to S6 peaks! Nice!)
0054 UTC "All Day and All of the Night"-The Kinks
0056 UTC Unid song
0100 UTC A 90's grunge rock song I forgot the name of
0103 UTC "At the Hop"-Danny & The Juniors
0106 UTC Unid song (Strong ute QRM came up for less than a minute)
0110 UTC "Chantilly Lace"-The Big Bopper
0112 UTC "My Baby Left Me"-Elvis Presley
0115 UTC Unid rockabilly song
0117 UTC "Eyes Without a Face"-Billy Idol
0122 UTC "Radio Ga-Ga"-Queen
0131 UTC "Money For Nothing"-Dire Straits
0136 UTC "The Magic Friend-2Unlimited
0140 UTC "Jailhouse Rock"-Elvis Presley
0143 UTC "Basket Case"-Green Day
0146 UTC "Workaholic"-2Unlimited? (Ute QRM for less than a minute during the song)
0150 UTC OM with ID! "Please stand by for the SSTV transmission...thanks for tuning in"


Thanks once again for a great playlist!  And thank you very much for the awesome personalized SSTVs!
Here's my recording of direct reception (The minutes after the ID at 0150 UTC glitched in Audacity):
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1aMKSWkWEyegTUWdwqcgenak10u4jLPSZ/view?usp=sharing

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European Pirates and Private Stations / Radio Eldorado 14470 USB 2335 UTC 8 JUN 2025

« on: June 08, 2025, 2338 UTC »

2335 UTC "My Generation"-The Who in progress at tune in (S4 peaks with light fading and moderate noise)
2337 UTC "Rock and Roll Is Here to Stay"-Danny & The Juniors
2339 UTC Unid rock music with OM talking over the song about 400 horsepower
2343 UTC "Loser"-Beck
2347 UTC "Billy Jean"-Michael Jackson
2352 UTC A Chuck Berry song I forgot the name of
2355 UTC Unid pop song-OM singer
2358 UTC "Here Comes the Rain Again"-Eurythmics
0002 UTC "I Want to Break Free"-Queen
0006 UTC A 50's/60's song I forgot the name of
0009 UTC "Another Brick In the Wall"-Pink Floyd
0013 UTC Unid song-Bad Company? (Signal starting to drop out a bit)
0017 UTC "Tattoo"-The Who
0031 UTC "Knocking on Heavens Door"-Guns N Roses (Signal seems to be breaking up/distorting)
0042 UTC "Simple Kind of Man"-Lynyrd Skynrd (Right at the noise floor...still distorting a bit)
0050 UTC Possibly a distorted SSTV signal? No decode...
0053 UTC Another badly distorted SSTV signal...no decode(Started decoding a Martin 1 SSTV near the end and just caught the tail end with the "Radio Eldorado ID"!
0055 UTC Another distorted SSTV, then OFF at 0057 UTC


I'm hearing this directly across the pond...thanks for the cool playlist!
Thanks for the broadcast Radio Eldorado!

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North American Shortwave Pirate / UNID 6960 USB 0112 UTC 11 MAY 2025

« on: May 11, 2025, 0113 UTC »

0112 UTC "That's All"-Genesis (S7 peaks with light fading and high noise level...nice audio at peaks)
0116 UTC A Genesis/Phil Collins song I forgot the name of...
0125 UTC "No Reply At All"-Genesis
0136 UTC "Misunderstanding"-Genesis
0140 UTC "Follow You Follow Me"-Genesis
0145 UTC "ABACAB"-Genesis

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Space Junk Radio 6960 USB 2334 UTC 30 APR 2025

« on: April 30, 2025, 2335 UTC »

2334 UTC "Walk the Dinosaur"-Was (Not Was) S8 peaks with light fading and solid above the noise
2337 UTC "Then She Kissed Me"-unid cover version of The Crystals tune
2340 UTC "Spirits In the Material World"-Police
2357 UTC "(I Just) Died In Your Arms"-Cutting Crew
0001 UTC OM with a quick "Space Junk Radio" ID, followed by an unid Van Halen tune
0006 UTC "Girl, You'll Be a Woman Soon"-cover?
0013 UTC "Home By the Sea"-Genesis
0026 UTC OM said something but I missed it
0031 UTC "China Girl"-David Bowie
0040 UTC "In the Ghetto"-Elvis Presley
0043 UTC "White Rabbit"-Jefferson Airplane
0059 UTC "Heartbreak Hotel"-Elvis Presley, segue into "Mystery Train"-Elvis Presley
0103 UTC OM with "For an eQSL send your report to spacejunkradio@proton.me , then OFF

Thanks for the show SJR!

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North American Shortwave Pirate / UNID 6960 USB 0115 UTC 18 APR 2025

« on: April 18, 2025, 0116 UTC »

0115 UTC  Unid song (S7 with light fades into the high noise...excellent audio)
0120 UTC "Red Red Wine"-UB40
0133 UTC "I Go to Extremes"-Billy Joel
0137 UTC "The Stuff Dreams Are Made Of"-Carly Simon
0143 UTC "LA Woman"-The Doors 
0151 UTC OFF

Thanks for the tunes!

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Sycko Radio 6950 AM 0106 UTC 14 APR 2025

« on: April 14, 2025, 0108 UTC »

0106 UTC "Aqualung"-Jethro Tull (S8 peaks with moderate fading and high noise level)
0108 UTC OM talking over the music
0111 UTC OM talking but rough copy here
0112 UTC "Karnevil 9"-Emerson, Lake, and Palmer
0117 UTC Mr Sycko mentioned ..."all kind of weird things", followed by a rock song I don't recognize
0125 UTC Sadly, the noise level is killing the chatting between songs 

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Space Junk Radio 6960 USB 0025 UTC 9 APR 2025

« on: April 09, 2025, 0026 UTC »

0025 UTC "Whole Lotta Love" Led Zeppelin (S7 peaks with moderate fading and mostly above the noise)
0027 UTC "Ain't Seen Nothing Yet"-Bachman-Turner Overdrive
0031 UTC "All Shook Up"-Elvis Presley
0033 UTC "Black Friday"-Steely Dan
0036 UTC "I Don't Care Anymore"-Phil Collins
0041 UTC "Fly Me to the Moon"-Frank Sinatra (Deep fade near the end of the song)
0045 UTC Signal back up with unid dance music
0047 UTC "Return to Sender"-Elvis Presley
0049 UTC OM DJ said "Shoutouts to everyone...?" (If there was an ID, I missed it!), followed by "I Ran"-Flock of Seagulls
0053 UTC "Bad Sneakers"-Steely Dan (Followed by a Billy Joel song I forgot the name of)
0100 UTC "Girl, You'll Be a Woman Soon"-Neil Diamond (From other postings, I guess this was a cover version)
0103 UTC "Goodbye Again"-John Denver
0106 UTC "You Belong to Me"-Carly Simon
0110 UTC "Blue Bayou"-Linda Ronstadt
0114 UTC OM with ID "Space Junk Radio", followed by "Owner of a Lonely Heart"-Yes
0119 UTC "China Girl"-David Bowie
0124 UTC "Leaving On a Jet Plane"-John Denver
0128 UTC "You Shook Me"-Led Zeppelin
0133 UTC "We Didn't Start the Fire"-Billy Joel
0137 UTC Unid reggae tune-OM singer
0141 UTC "Le Freak"-Chic
0146 UTC OM with email address spacejunkradio@proton.me followed by a Robot 72 SSTV



Thank you for the great playlist SJR! 

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North American Shortwave Pirate / WDEF 6915 AM 0201 UTC 7 APR 2025

« on: April 07, 2025, 0201 UTC »

0201 UTC Orchestral music (S6 peaks with light fading and mostly solid above the noise)
0204 UTC Different orchestral song now (Nice audio!)
0210 UTC 50's sounding night club music...
0214 UTC Nice S7 peak, then signal dropped down to S5 at 0216
0224 UTC S8 now!
0233 UTC WDEF ID
0235 UTC "The Look of Love"-?
0245 UTC Signal at noise level now 

Thanks for the easy listening tunes...reminds me of my early childhood and listening to WTYM-1600 AM Springfield, Massachusetts! They played the post WWII "Oldies" and similar....

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Sycko Radio 4185 USB 0215 UTC 6 APR 2025

« on: April 06, 2025, 0216 UTC »

0215 UTC I am getting some threshold music now, but the noise level is heavy duty!
0217 UTC Signal picked up a little bit...sounds like electronica
0220 UTC I have no audio now...just band noise

Thanks Sycko!

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North American Shortwave Pirate / WTF Worldwide 6925 USB 2326 UTC 3 APR 2025

« on: April 03, 2025, 2328 UTC »

2326 UTC Animal noises? Sounds like demon voices on a loop  (S8 peaks with light noise)
2338 UTC Still going strong! Whatever they are, they sound hungry.....
2342 UTC Short pause followed by a familiar musical bell/xylophone tune
2346 UTC OM with ID..."WTF Worldwide", followed by "Wah Wah"-George Harrison
2352 UC Kenneth "broadcasting live from Molvania Cafe", followed by "If Not For You"-George Harrison-alternate take
2356 UTC OM with mention again of "Molvania Cafe", followed by "What Is Life"-George Harrison alternate take
0001 UTC Mention of "downtown Molvania"
0005 UTC "My Sweet Lord"-George Harrison-alternate take
0019 UTC "Apple Scruffs"-George Harrison -alternate take (Solid S9+ now!)
0022 UTC "All Things Must Pass"-George Harrison-alternate take
0046 UTC Bell/Xylophone music
0048 UTC OFF

Thanks WTF! First time hearing those early George Harrison demo/alternate takes! 

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Nuttin On Shortwave 6925 USB 2326 UTC 26 MAR 2025

« on: March 26, 2025, 2327 UTC »

2326 UTC Jazz music with ID "Nuttin On Shortwave" by OM, then back to the music (S8 peaks and sounding good!)
2330 UTC OM with "Hey Skipmuck you bum!" followed by the Radio Botswana IS (Great to hear Da Crusher again!)
I'm going to just kick back and enjoy the show! 
2335 UTC "Hells Bells"-AC/DC
2345 UTC Da Crusher with shoutouts to the posters...Thanks!
0000 UTC "Back In Black"-AC/DC
0025 UTC "Radio Song"-R.E.M.
0030 UTC "Losing My Religion"-R.E.M.
0035 UTC Da Crusher with shoutouts to recent posts..."Crusher Says Hello"
0039 UTC "Do the Hammerlock" Internal Signal

Thanks for the entertainment this evening!

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North American Shortwave Pirate / UNID 6930 AM 0132 UTC 26 MAR 2025

« on: March 26, 2025, 0135 UTC »

0132 UTC Unid rock music-OM singers (Mostly solid above the noise floor...light fading-excellent audio)
0142 UTC A Nirvana song I forgot the name of (Signal has dropped a bit into the noise)
0144 UTC "Run Like Hell"-Pink Floyd
0149 UTC OM with an ID I didn't catch...will have to check the recording later
0155 UTC OFF
Thanks for the broadcast!

I saved the recording to my Google Drive and used the Shazam Browser extension on it and this is what it came up with for the playlist:
"Sifting"-Nirvana
"Heartbreaker"-Dionne Warwick
"Big Cheese"-Nirvana
"About a Girl"-Nirvana
"Run Like Hell"-Pink Floyd
"KRS-One"-Sublime
"Little Guitars"-Van Halen

Listened several times to the ID at 0149 UTC, but reception was rough at that time.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Sternradio 6960.4 AM 1810 UTC 25 MAR 2025

« on: March 25, 2025, 1811 UTC »

1810 UTC Unid pop tune (S8 peaks with moderate fading and noise...excellent audio)
1812 UTC YL with ID, followed by an unid rap/pop tune-OM singer
1817 UTC "Long Distance Runaround"-Yes (Nice S9 peak here!)
1822 UTC OM and YL speaking..."Technical difficulties...transmitter is smoking...smoking will kill you", into "I Can See For Miles"-The Who
1830 UTC "Under the Milky Way"-The Church

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Sternradio 6962.4 AM 1926 UTC 24 MAR 2024

« on: March 24, 2025, 1927 UTC »

1926 UTC Unid punk rock tune-OM singers (S8 peaks with light noise and light fades...excellent audio)
1928 UTC YL with ID, followed by hard rock tune

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Outhouse 6955 was 6952 was 6952.3 USB 0035 UTC 24 MAR 2025

« on: March 24, 2025, 0036 UTC »

0035 UTC Tuned into some electronica dance music just above the noise floor...can't quite tune this one in, so frequency is approximate...seems to be speeded up with music and a Donald Duck voice
0043 UTC Fast speaking OM DJ (another OM with regular speed voice said something over the DJ)
0045 UTC Pop song now
0046 UTC Just noticed there is also an AM station on 6950! A little bit of it is splattering over onto the USB station on 6952
0048 UTC Signal cleared up nicely...unid dance tune
0050 UTC OFF
It seems I was mistuned until 0048 UTC...oops
0123 UTC Scottie2 SSTV on 6955 USB
0124 UTC Scottie2 SSTV on 6955 USB


0147 UTC "Happy Trails"-Van Halen