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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Barnyard Radio

« on: May 24, 2010, 0256 UTC »

Barnyard on 6925 USB, just occasionally audible here since 2326z.
2358z: Can hear Chuck talking, can't copy yet, but signal improving here.
0001z: Via Evil Elvis' Disgraceland web stream, excellent, clear signal. Chuck commentary on immigration, jobs.
0026z: Clear Barnyard Radio ID on my own receiver
0027z: Chuck talking about band "I saw them live..." the rest obscured by fade into local noise. Signal still improving here tho'.
0137z: War "Why Can't We Be Friends", good signal punching through usual local noise.

Signal picked up nicely by 0130z with some very good peaks 'til 0230z when it faded again.

1652

Shortwave Broadcast / William Cooper/Hour of the Time on 5110 WBCQ

« on: May 24, 2010, 0206 UTC »

5/23/10, 0200 UTC, 5110 AM
Rebroadcast of William Cooper's "Hour of the Time", presumably from the 1990s.  Better than average signal for 5110 to my area.

Switched to relay of Ragnar's Pirates Week show around 0210z.  Sounds like an old show from 2008, maybe 2009, mention of a question I asked back then about ESD protection with an outdoor magnet wire antenna.  I've since switched to an indoor passive loop.  Still good signal.
0230z: Seems to have switched from old Pirates Week show to most recent version of podcast, hearing audio clips and logs for most recent May 2010 shows.

I caught Allan Weiner's show the other night mentioning these HOTT shows might be relayed on the Area 51 segment.  Good to hear.  I was a regular listener of Cooper's show, even subscribed to his newspaper Veritas, bought and read Behold a Pale Horse.  He could be irascible and uncompromising but he had a certain genius for synthesizing seemingly disparate, complex issues - ranging from politics to spirituality - in a way that few others can.  Alex Jones tries but just can't quite match Cooper's genius for synthesis.

1653

Other / UNID carrier 6961

« on: May 23, 2010, 2021 UTC »

5/23/10
6961.2 AM
2015z: Fairly steady, stable carrier since 2005z, no audible modulation.

(N. Central TX)

1654

North American Shortwave Pirate / WLDJ 6925U

« on: May 15, 2010, 1414 UTC »

5/15/10, 6925 USB, 1254 UTC
Only SSTV at 1254z was audible here on 6925 USB.  Noisy copy but could make out WLDJ logo.

1307z: Music barely audible, not sure if WLDJ, woman singer, can't ID.

SINPO=22311, only occasionally audible, lotta QRM from Spanish pesque jibber jabber on 6925.5U

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Psycho Killer 6925U

« on: May 15, 2010, 1412 UTC »

5/15/10
6925 USB
0512-0530z: Hearing what sounded like several versions of "Psycho Killer", including original Talking Heads version. Just barely audible through heavy local t-storm crashes and RFI.
Note regarding erratic propagation conditions: An AM carrier appeared around 6925.4 a few minutes after the 6925 USB station started with "Psycho Killer".  But there was no deliberate QRM.  I chatted with both ops via IRC and e-mail - both had checked the frequency and neither heard the other.  DeltaCharlie, in NC, heard the AM station while I heard only the USB station here in Texas.  As far as I can tell, DeltaCharlie didn't hear the USB station.  Neither did EvilElvis in Disgraceland, and he usually gets much better reception than I do.  In terms of shortwave propagation theory, we're not that far apart, but are experiencing very different conditions in reality.

Just wanted to note this as an example of why folks shouldn't jump to erroneous conclusions about QRM and accuse other ops of deliberately interfering.  With propagation conditions being so unpredictable now, it's almost always unintentional.  And in this case, when the USB op saw DeltaCharlie's log for the AM station, he went QRT even tho' he'd been on frequency first by a few minutes.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Wolverine Radio 6950U

« on: May 15, 2010, 1400 UTC »

5/15/10
6950 USB
0320z: Just barely audible, gal rocker, still buried in regional t-storm crashes.
0335z: Wolverine Radio ID, fairly clear through noise
0354z: Grateful Dead?  Still just barely audible through t-storm crashes, sounds like "Dire Wolf"
0400z: Talking Heads "Psycho Killer"
0405z: Some kind of comedy sketch with an operator, but can't pull it out here.
0407z: SSTV - noisy copy, looks like chalk outline of a body on pavement

1657

General Radio Discussion / Re: Zombie Satellite Causes Astronomical Buzz

« on: May 14, 2010, 0224 UTC »

Sounds like a pain in the neck... tasty, tasty neck.

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General Radio Discussion / Re: How a Dead Man and a Bizarre Plan Fooled the Nazis and Assured an Allied Vi

« on: May 14, 2010, 0219 UTC »

Sounds like my kinda novel.  I was about to re-read le Carré's Our Game, but this sounds better.

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Other / UNID 6305 AM

« on: May 13, 2010, 1124 UTC »

5/13/10
6305 kHz AM
1105z: Fairly steady carrier, moderate strength, no audio heard.
1110z: Off.
Same noted by DXer in WA (per wunclub).  Saharaoui used to be here, haven't heard them on this freq since late 2008 or early 2009 tho'.  Various European pirates have been logged here, but I rarely here any Euros other than Mystery Radio here in Texas.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Unid 6925u

« on: May 11, 2010, 0842 UTC »

5/11/10
6925 USB
0255-0300z: Sounded like relay of talk radio show about the Illuminati, Trilateral Commission, New Whirled Hors D'oeuvres, etc.
Off with loop about Illuminati.

SINPO=34232, fair signal but very crashy here.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / UNID 6925 USB

« on: May 04, 2010, 0405 UTC »

5/4/10
6925 USB
0315-0340z (approx): Rod Stewart, Mamas & Papas, Troggs "Wild Thing"

SINPO=23311, only occasionally audible every few minutes, just enough to ID familiar songs.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / WLDJ 6925U

« on: April 30, 2010, 0454 UTC »

4/30/10
6925 USB
0400-0412z: Queen "Radio Ga Ga", another song I couldn't ID, and WLDJ "Voice of the Last DJ" ID, Genesis "Abacab"
0424z: SSTV, no copy here.

Fair signal peaks, mostly buried in heavy local noise.

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General Radio Discussion / Re: pre-orders for 2010 Pirate Radio Annual

« on: April 27, 2010, 0619 UTC »

...the potty dance...

LOL'd!  Reminds me, I need to order a copy, unless it's too late.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: WLDJ/Wolverine Radio 6925U

« on: April 27, 2010, 0431 UTC »

4/27/10
6925 USB

Thought I was hearing WLDJ, but after this one song I thought I heard a Wolverine Radio ID?
0340z: Scorps version of Who's "Can't Explain"
0343z: Wolverine Radio ID. Nothing audible after.

Not sure if Wolverine immediately followed WLDJ or what.  Didn't catch clear WLDJ ID here in Texas.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Captain Morgan 6924.8 am

« on: April 27, 2010, 0226 UTC »

0224z: Hendrix guitar riff from "All Along the Watchtower" just barely audible here on 6925 AM.  Lotsa local RFI, but heard the cap'n briefly on the portable indoors.
0226z: ELO "Evil Woman"
0231z: Rare Earth "Get Ready"
0235z: "Two Pina Coladas".  Party on, Garth.

SINPO=23311, lots of fading to inaudible, heavy local RFI.  Listening on Magnavox D2935 portable indoors with just the whip.