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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: BallSmacker Radio 6960 AM 0056 UTC 22 JUL 2023

« on: July 22, 2023, 0155 UTC »

Hitting close to a S-20 on peaks on kiwi w/ the 120 ft. T2FD in Westminster, MD. with the Rev. MC Hammer and "Can't Touch This" "Hammah time" LOL! I wonder if he wears those parachute pants while he's preaching these days?

Belly rubbin' song I can't remember, I always thought it was cat's fighting? "We May Never Pass This Way Again." Good, this song was bad enough the first time around. Play The Jam's "This The Modern World". Same time period as that last tune with a lot more piss to it.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: BallSmacker Radio 6960 AM 0056 UTC 22 JUL 2023

« on: July 22, 2023, 0129 UTC »

I think I see a pattern with THIS show?

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: 77LJS 6925 USB 0215 UTC 21 JUL 2023

« on: July 21, 2023, 0737 UTC »

At least he's not praising Commies again. Whittaker Chambers, who's next Kim Philby?

The Everly Brother's did a great cover of "Susie Q" on their album "The Everly Brothers Play Rock n' Roll". He need's to go to Beaver Dam, KY. , their home town, stop at the BBQ joint off the Western KY Parkway there, have a heaping bowl of bergoo, with extra beaver, and drive straight to Graceland to beg forgiveness at the supposed grave of Special Agent Elvis. If he begs humbly and enough, Elvis will appear in his Burger King Crown and take him out in one of his many pink Cadillacs for a Whopper, a pop, and some Chicken Fry's. No ketchup on the upholstery, Comsymp! 

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: 77LJS 6925 USB 0225 UTC 17 JUL 2023

« on: July 18, 2023, 0246 UTC »

Whittaker Chambers? He's gone Commie again!

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Radio Ronin Shortwave 6930 AM 2306 UTC 16 JUL 2023

« on: July 17, 2023, 2254 UTC »

I would think so. I haven't seen them logged in years. It was always an interesting station.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: All Azteca Relay Service 6935 AM 0043 UTC 17 JUL 2023

« on: July 17, 2023, 2246 UTC »

That's why you throw an empty carrier 24/7 so the listener's aren't confused. Some people call it frequency hogging, but it's actually a listener service. It's the Pirate Way.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Radio Diana Int. 6930 AM 1131 UTC 15 July 2023

« on: July 17, 2023, 2231 UTC »

There were a lot of those represses in that era. Bands got their names changed, it could get kind of funny when you heard the exact same tune, but it would be credited to two different bands. The Pioneers were the Pioneers sometimes, other times they were the Ethiopians. Same songs, same guys.

If I remember correctly, The Specials did their cover of "Skinhead Moonstomp" as commentary on right-wing skins coming into the clubs, breaking the place up, and beating up the Two-Tone fans and the left-wing skins that followed the scene? It's what the song "Ghost Town" was about, too.

There was record store in DC I can't remember the name of that carried a lot of Jamaican music in the late 60's, early 70s before reggae really hit in the US in '73/'74,they had a fairly large mail-order business I'm sure with the West Indian communities on the East Coast, it was being marketed in NYC and South Florida. Bob Marley was working in a factory in Wilmington, DE. in I believe 1967 or 1969, so likely the Philly area, too. A lot of early rap in NYC was by guys of West Indian descent. Jamaican records had a regular and a dub side for the DJ to do his thing over. Rap came out of a lot of those mixed African-American/West Indian neighborhoods in and around NYC where West Indians showed what could be done by talking over those 33 rpm. 12 inch club singles on the instrumental B side.

Reggae was the choice of Punks on both sides of the Atlantic for relaxing and having sex, or as the Rasta's called it, "Dubbing your daughter", the perverts!
 

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Pirate Radio History / Re: Radio Newyork International (RNI)

« on: July 15, 2023, 2120 UTC »

Those were some fun times, when RNI was on and Johnny Lightning was doing his thing. There was a whole movement of radio and TVRO satellite nerds, including myself, who were followers of the shows on shortwave and unencrypted subcarrier downlinks. This was big before the Web.

That was back in the days when you could tell who had the Playboy Channel by the direction their dish was pointing and it's tilt in relation to the horizon.

A friend's Dad sold satellite dishes locally. I worked for him part-time after I got out of college. He'd rent them out to bars and lodges for big sports events. That guy sold more of those dishes that way than you would believe. We'd bring a box of pamphlets with his business cards stapled to them. He was a former car salesman, he called those rentals his "puppy dog close". Once they had one they didn't want to give them up. A nice chunk of the people who came in wanted one, too. His info was at the end of the bar just waiting to be picked up.

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The RF Workbench / Re: QRP Labs ProgRock2 Synthesizer

« on: July 15, 2023, 2006 UTC »

I recently saw a pic of Peter Gabriel fronting Genesis circa 1974, he was dressed as Britannia and wearing platform boots. His forehead was shaved about an inch back from his normal hairline.

There were way too many psychedelics floating around then at bargain basement prices.

BTW, Putin has been bringing platform shoes back. There have been several pics of him sporting them. Moscow rules, you know?

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: WAVE Radio 6925 USB 0005 UTC 15 JUL 2023

« on: July 15, 2023, 1944 UTC »

What is it about the name "Sarah" and radio pirates? Al Weiner's radio ship was the Sarah. Then there was a "Sarah Tonin" of Radio Xanax and a "Sarah Bellum" of a station I can't recall, but she went on to work for the Mayor of Townsville on the "Power Puff Girls" cartoon series. Intellman would know, he's Johnny Bravo, his show followed there's on the "Cartoon Network".

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: THUNDER CHICKEN RADIO 6950 USB 2130 UTC 12 JULY 2023

« on: July 15, 2023, 1914 UTC »

"And they all took a stand, ... Tonight in Jungleland"
 

I saw that tour and saw the future Mojo Nixon get knocked into the cheap seats by The Big Man with a saxophone to the chin for jumping up on the runway when Bruce and the Big Man were strolling out to the end to do a little duet. The knucklehead.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: PRN relay Radio Baghdad Modulation ?? 6930 AM 1834 UTC 15 July 2023

« on: July 15, 2023, 1900 UTC »

That would be Waterford, Ireland. I used to relay a couple of things for Jolly Joe. He sent me a voice program that was a kids toy that you could do all sorts of stuff with. He's a good guy, I haven't heard from him in over 20 years.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: BallSmacker Radio 6960 AM 0056 UTC 15 JUL 2023

« on: July 15, 2023, 1853 UTC »

The video for "She Was Hot" featured the smoking hot redhead Anita Morris dancing around a hotel room in a pair of high heels and lingerie. Ah, the mammaries!

That was the era when MTV could show a video by Bow Wow Wow featuring their overdeveloped and very underage lead singer, Annabel Lwin, rolling around in the surf in nothing but a soaking wet, white t-shirt and a bikini bottom. MTV would've never got off the ground in today's social climate. She was either 13 or 14.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID 6870 AM 0435 UTC 15 JUL 2023

« on: July 15, 2023, 1826 UTC »

That's the stuff, don't ID and keep 'em guessin'.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Radio Vostochnaya Zvezda 6200 AM 0335 UTC 14 JUL 2023

« on: July 15, 2023, 1823 UTC »

That's not a bad spot and they can move a bit if one of the International Broadcasters takes up residence in the 6195 spot as they often do.