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Messages - Zoidberg

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Mix Radio International 6935 USB 2246 UTC 9 OCT 2022
« on: October 10, 2022, 0402 UTC »
10 Oct 2022
6935 USB
0300z classical choral music. Good signal, not much fading, low atmospheric noise, moderate local RFI. Was S4 peaks over almost zero QRN.
0350z Faded to S2, still almost zero QRN so still clearly audible.
0405z Ave Maria, woman singer
0413z MIX Radio ID

In the backyard with the Sony portable, a bit of wire in the grass, classical music in one ear, usual neighborhood nightly gunfight down the street in the other ear. Joys of urban living.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Sycko Radio 6935 USB 0340 UTC 9 OCT 2022
« on: October 09, 2022, 0357 UTC »
9 Oct 2022
6935 USB
0350z Just got home, sitting in backyard with portable, just barely audible Halloweeny sounding stuff.
0433z Signal peaked above the mud just enough to copy a Sycko Radio ID.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID 6920 USB 0408 UTC 8 OCT 2022
« on: October 08, 2022, 0436 UTC »
Via PA SDR, 0410z, Two Dog Radio per op on 6920 USB. Same signal strength as Sycko on 6925 via PA SDR, no QRM, plenty of bandwidth between the two.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Sycko Radio 6925 USB 0331 UTC 8 OCT 2022
« on: October 08, 2022, 0411 UTC »
Very good signal via PA SDR, haven't checked via my home receiver.
0437z Sycko chatter, reading logs, shout-out to listeners, confirming spelling as "Sycko"

Still good signal to PA SDR, not quite punching through noise at MD SDR.

0447z Scorps "The Zoo", still good via GA SDR, faded via PA SDR

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: WWWW 6930 AM 0235 UTC 8 OCT 2022
« on: October 08, 2022, 0247 UTC »
8 Oct 2022
6930 AM
0233z Sunshine Lollipops
0235z op voice, no copy
0235z Black Sabbath, Paranoid
Just barely audible so far, enough to recognize familiar music but nothing else.
0238z I Shot the Sheriff, Bob Marley
0243z Springsteen, Blinded by the light, juiced up like a douche, another rumor in the blight. Probably.
Fair signal so far, no positive copy of ID
0254z Cream, White Room, still just barely audible

In the backyard, enjoying the weather, Sony portable with some wire in the grass.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: WJAN 6950 USB 0217 UTC 8 OCT 2022
« on: October 08, 2022, 0223 UTC »
WJAM? WJAN?
6950 USB
0220z Op ID previous song as Benjamin Calypso?
0222z Dirty Water, music audio much lower than op voice level
0224z Op voice loud and clear. Music lower. Small Faces, Itchycoo Park. Smol faces when Steve Marriott was just a cute lil thang.
0227z Op chatter. Horizontally polarized loop antenna
0230z was running about 100 watts, cut power a bit, still very good signal via op voice. WJAN closing ID, cu

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: BallSmacker Radio 6960 AM 0055 UTC 08 OCT 2022
« on: October 08, 2022, 0149 UTC »
Quote from: Pigmeat on October 08, 2022, 0146 UTC
XTC with "Dear God". This one used to get a lot of play on my old stations. It's too bad XTC had to quit touring due to Andy Partridge's agoraphobia. The guy was a genius.

I was fortunate to catch XTC opening for the Police in 1980 or 81 when they still toured. Great show. Oingo Boingo opened for both. Elfman is a madman.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: BallSmacker Radio 6960 AM 0055 UTC 08 OCT 2022
« on: October 08, 2022, 0147 UTC »
6960 AM
0110z music just barely audible. Good carrier, may improve tonight.
0142z Take a Letter, Maria, just barely audible
0144z Ball Smacker ID, just barely audible
0145z Sweet City Woman
0157z long Ball Smacker Radio ID with contact info, after set of oldies songs
0159z TV show theme music, some 70s cop show?
0200z Mother Mother, the crazy good Tracy Bonham

Enjoying beautiful night in the backyard with the Sony and some wire on the grass.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Outhouse Radio 6935 USB 0052 UTC 8 OCT 2022
« on: October 08, 2022, 0116 UTC »
8 Oct 2022
6935 USB
0104z Paul Anka, Diana
Fair signal, some fades
0108z Dream Lover
0111z Outhouse Radio ID, "A true dream lover would be a woman who creates no drama at all."
0112z Born to be Wild
0119z Outhouse Radio ID, Dire Straits, Sultans
0127z Hey Jude. Nah nah nah nah
0130z Outhouse Radio ID, started song, changed mind, SSTV instead. Signal fading here.
0132z Paul McCartney, Live and Let Die, last song
0135z shout-out from Outhouse op. Hiya, yup, been awhile since I dragged out the radios. It's still fun

Beautiful weather in the backyard with the Sony portable and about 20 feet of wire on the grass. If pointed jussst right it avoids the worst local RFI

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Peskies / Re: UNID QSO Italian dialect 3460 USB and 3516 USB
« on: October 03, 2022, 0311 UTC »
Quote from: Pigmeat on October 02, 2022, 1919 UTC
The craziest experience I ever had with language was at a party a couple of Nigerian friends were having in college. I didn't have a clue what anyone was saying until I heard the words "fuel pump" and it struck me they were speaking English, but emphasizing syllables in ways we and other English speakers normally don't, while talking really fast. It was an enlightening experience.

I've had the same experience listening to some Texans. And I'm from here.  :o

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Outhouse Radio 6950 USB 0053 UTC 3 Oct 2022
« on: October 03, 2022, 0114 UTC »
3 Oct 2022
6950 USB
0103 UTC Judas Priest, You Got Another Thing Coming
Good signal peaks with fades, conditions a bit more crashy now.
0107z Outhouse Radio ID
0116z Ramones, Airwaves
0130z Black Sabbath, Sex Pistols, Heart

Bicycled out to a In a pasture about 8 miles from home with portable and random wire. Blessedly low RFI.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Mushroom Head Radio (Zeke) 6933 USB 0032 UTC 3 OCT 2022
« on: October 03, 2022, 0053 UTC »
Bicycling today, brought a portable in the handlebar bag. Found a spot in a pasture about 8 miles from home with portable and random wire, near a McMansion development that used to be one of the largest ranches in Texas.

2 Oct 2022
6933 USB
0033z ominous music, strong signal, low local noise or atmospheric static
Maybe old Pink Floyd, suddenly off 0039z
0040z back on, funky techno
0044z YL computer voice describing music
0045z Mushroom Head Radio ID, chatter about heavy metal, album cover art, doing short show tonight
0048z Metallica, Enter Sandman
0056z AC/DC live Highway to Hell, off mid-song, Mushroom Head op chattering, shout-out to Dick Weed.
0119z op "Turn all your controls all the way to the right."
0139z still chugging along with a great signal, no fades here, well over the usual static crashes

Some zipper noise corresponding with op voice, but not music. Maybe reverb setting?


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Peskies / UNID 6300 USB Islamic call to prayer for fishermen 2 Oct 2022 0700 UTC
« on: October 02, 2022, 0721 UTC »
Via W3HFU SDR with 120' T2FD
2 Oct 2022
0700 UTC
6300 USB Islamic prayer chant. No official shortwave schedule. Per a recent Reddit thread on the same freq and transmission, this was identified by an Egyptian ham as Moroccan fishermen.
Ended 0737 UTC. Some chatter barely audible.

https://www.reddit.com/r/shortwave/comments/xlsf7w/6300_once_again_heard_with_islamic_chants/

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Utility / Re: JN53DV time station on 10MHz in Italy
« on: October 02, 2022, 0318 UTC »
I've been checking 10 MHz via various online receivers this week and audibility of the little 90 watt Italian time station varies considerably with propagation. My best luck via Twente and other European receivers has been around 0600-0700 UTC.

It also helps to set the receiver to AM sync upper, or use USB mode. That helps reduce QRM from the adjacent station just below 10 MHz.

The partner experimental time station on 15 MHz doesn't appear to use the same data burst IDs or musical interlude, so I'm not certain I'm hearing the same station. It's barely audible, sometimes just a carrier.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: KIPM Relay 6933.33 USB 0238 2 OCT 2022
« on: October 02, 2022, 0302 UTC »
2 Oct 2022
6933.33 USB
0300z Relay of classic KIPM show. Fair signal through crashy conditions, S5 via web SDR in MD. A little better via Pennsylvania web SDR, S7, less noisy. No copy at home in Texas via portable outdoors with random wire antenna.
0315z off after SSTV, which I wasn't set up to copy. But the exploding head emoji looks familiar ;)

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