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Messages - Andrew Yoder

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I've been recording via the Drake R8, but listening on the Magnavox D8443 boombox with the whip down & no external antenna. Sounds good! A few of the songs that I've heard & know are Guess Who "No Sugar Tonight, Def Leppard "Pour Some Sugar on Me," Stones "Brown Sugar," Archies "Sugar, Sugar." Crazy how good it sounds just on the boombox.

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VG signal with Ozzy "Crazy Train," Jimi Hendrix "Foxy Lady," etc.

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Heard Tom Petty "Don't Come around Here No More" & off at about 0057. Same station? Good signal

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Kinda hard to believe, but I'm hearing Ballsmacker with a nice signal on an old Magnavox 8443 boombox. I don't even have an external antenna or the whip antenna extended. I was switching back'n'forth between SW1 & SW2 bands to see if I could get the dirty contacts clear for SW2 (not yet). Switched back to SW1, & the band went out again, so I was tuning up through the band and I heard a station with '60s rock (evidently the Beatles' song) coming in with a really nice signal. Waited a bit & had 100% clear copy on the ID with info on the Ballsmacker website.

Back when I started listening for pirates, I heard KPRC, WDX, and maybe another station or two above the AM band on a GE boombox, but this is the 1st SW pirate that I've heard on one.

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Nice to see that the thread has finally hit page 2. As everyone's noted, loud static crashes tonight. I think the signal's been mostly around S9 or higher, but the t-storm crashes have been rough. They passed through this area a couple of hours ago, so I'm not surprised that they're so loud here. Rush, Foo Fighters, Good Charlotte, & a lot more.

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Good signal with narrow audio. I've been to Mitchell and I think I tuned in to KORN when I was there, but I can't remember anything in particular

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Brief music fade-ups in peskie QRM

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Lots of t-storm noise tonight, but still sounding pretty good.

I think it would've been kinda funny if you'd've bought a CB echo power mic instead, but I'm probably a lot happier with the end result this way

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Good signal; just tuned in to a drum solo

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Excellent signal with ID & into Bowie "Young Americans"

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General Radio Discussion / Re: Radio Aquarius
« on: July 04, 2022, 1843 UTC »
Thanks for posting this! In the '90s, I read a long, multi-part story about the station history from one of the Radio Aquarius ops. I wrote to the author at the time & he'd hoped to write & publish a book about it. I thought it was really amazing stuff (and still do)

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I had it as WBNO(?) Strong signal with a lot of reverb, so DJ talking slowly & deliberately. "Notice the perfect sine wave . . . beauteeful" mentioned mathematically perfect music

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Original subject : Re: Comreg Raids against SW stations in Ireland

Best wishes to everyone involved. I've enjoyed hearing a number of Ireland-based stations over the past few decades.

Now that the SW broadcast bands aren't as densely packed, would it be safer to operate in the middle of, for example, 30 or 60 meters?

edit by Ray :
I split the thread and change the subject

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If the pirates can't be separated from the privates (I think a joke might be in there somewhere), could at least a current list of private stations be pinned to the top of the group? I think it's confusing right now what's a pirate & what isn't in Europe. I can remember when Piepzender and Delta were pirates. I just looked at Piepzender's Twitter, FB, & website and nothing makes me think it's not. On the other hand, activity levels from stations like Zenith Classic Rock, Charleston Radio International, The Vault, Laser Hot Hits, & others would make me think that they might be licensed, but they aren't.

For some of the other stations that are relayed via licensed stations in Europe, it would be very similar to having separate shows on WBCQ being logged daily in the North American pirates section. It wouldn't render the logs useless, but would make it harder to sift through everything to find the information you're looking for.

BTW, here's a regular list of shortwave Europrivates: https://www.radioheritage.com/european-private-shortwave-stations/ 

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Wow! Nice job getting out with such low power!

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