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

« on: July 15, 2023, 1817 UTC »

Weird, but I just mentioned the band Symarip probably 5 min. before tuning in to "Skinhead Moonstomp" Then into IDs. Fair signal with deep fades

The first time I heard it was via a Specials cover in 1979 or 1980. Symarip recorded the original in what 1970-71 at the end of the Rocksteady era? The skinheads in Jamaica that took up playing reggae, smoking ganja, and talking about Jah soon after that were called "Baldhead Rasta's" Someone recorded a song in that era about them, it might have been the Wailers called "Crazy Baldheads". Toots and The Maytals were Baldheads. No dreadlocks for them.

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Shortwave Broadcast / Re: China National Radio 1 7035 AM 2210 UTC 13 JULY 2023

« on: July 14, 2023, 1500 UTC »

There are low powered Chinese regional broadcasters all over the HF spectrum and that country. Before the age of online SDR's you had little chance of hearing them except on the West Coast of NA, Alaska, and Hawaii. For everyone else they were literally on the other side of the world.

There used to be a slew of them in the funny band listed in "The Guide To World Band Radio".

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

« on: July 14, 2023, 1445 UTC »

I wonder what made them drop down so far?

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Peskies / Re: UNID 6885 AM 0220 UTC 05 JULY 2023

« on: July 11, 2023, 0916 UTC »

This used to be the frequency the Israeli Defense Forces used to entertain the troops, but they haven't been on the air for years. I used it a few times since they went dark. A few Stateside pirates used to wander down there when things on 6925 and up got busy.

However, the IDF folks did use Ladino from time to time. It's the language of the Spanish Jewish Diaspora.

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General Radio Discussion / Re: BBC Singapore quits 7/23?

« on: July 10, 2023, 0228 UTC »

I'd go with Harold. He was one of Bram Stoker's favorite acknowledged "QSL whores" which is practically the "DX Seal of Approval". Harold knows his stuff.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID 6869.92 AM 0406 UTC 9 JUL 2023

« on: July 09, 2023, 0416 UTC »

It was a solid S-7 carrier around midnight, I checked back around 4:07 utc. and there was music. Some type of announcement at 4:12 and back to the music.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Wasteland Radio 6950 USB 0307 UTC 09 JULY 2023

« on: July 09, 2023, 0356 UTC »

Zeeky's mushrooms have taken over Outhouse's rig! Get that privy fumigated!

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID 6950 USB 0307 UTC 09 JULY 2023

« on: July 09, 2023, 0339 UTC »

I've got blues in AM there now. About an S-7. It was mixing with the USB station a little earlier, but has the frequency all to itself now.

Are their any Euro's that play around on that frequency?

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: WDOG RADIO 6955 USB 0156 UTC 09 JULY 2023

« on: July 09, 2023, 0317 UTC »

I hadn't heard The Only Ones in decades. Arf!

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: All Azteca Relay Service 6935 AM 0151 UTC 9 JUL 2023

« on: July 09, 2023, 0244 UTC »

Ah, "The Station That Lifts And Separates." Bram liked the breasticles.

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Equipment / Re: Grounding receiver ??

« on: July 08, 2023, 0731 UTC »

I once used a 500 ft. reel of 16 gauge wire from a second floor shack as a common ground for all my radios. I sat it under my radio table, connected it to a copper strip screwed to the bottom of the table, and used ring connectors and screws to connect my radios via short lengths of wire to the strip. It seemed to take care of ground loops and unwanted racket.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: WDQR - Dairy Queen Radio 6935 USB 2305 UTC 7 JUL 2023

« on: July 08, 2023, 0645 UTC »

I wonder if this had anything to do with Trump being stumped the other day on what a "Blizzard" was? And he calls himself a fast food man.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID 6870 AM 0546 UTC 06 JUL 2023

« on: July 07, 2023, 0547 UTC »

There's a genre called "Country Rap". I wonder if that's what you were hearing?

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: 77LJS 6925 USB 0023 UTC 7 JUL 2023

« on: July 07, 2023, 0502 UTC »

And Tommy Boy wondered why it was so tough recruiting for the IRA in the USA? I guess he didn't know about the vast numbers of Protestant Americans descended from the Scots-Irish who haven't forgot the depredations of the Catholics back in Ulster in the 17th century? Dear old Reverend Ian Paisley used to stump the countryside yearly, filling arenas in support of the Orange cause, raising money yearly for "Marching Season". Paisley beat Fahy to the punch by a decade. Why he would import Kennedy's from Hyannis Port for the throng to rock for a dollar.

I was just a boy of 10 when I beaned Teddy with a hunk of granite from the 15th row. Why do you think his head was so lumpy? He didn't fall down drunk that often.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Radio Vostochnaya Zvezda 7400 AM 0410 UTC 5 JUL 2023

« on: July 05, 2023, 0417 UTC »

I've got them on the San Diego Kiwi at roughly S-7. It seems their transmitter repairs did the job.