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North American Shortwave Pirate / UNID 4030 USB 0128 UTC 17 DEC 2022

« on: December 17, 2022, 0131 UTC »

"My Favorite Things" - Julie Andrews - Medley of music from "Mary Poppins", "Fiddler on the roof", other musical movie soundtracks, 0145 ID (missed it - distracted) and off.

S6 - Noisy

0148 bit of talk - "Live radio is better.", having trouble w/ transmitter, some talk, "I think I love you" - xmtr off and on, talk incl. … "Radio", "Good morning starshine". 

Sounds like the same transmitter as before.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / UNID 6952.5 USB 0241 UTC 7 DEC 2022

« on: December 07, 2022, 0245 UTC »

Atmospheric music (almost ute like).  Pause, more percussion and instrumental music.
0251 "Heart of Gold" with something else under it, then in and out with many ute bursts. off or on a break at 0300.

S4 - just above static floor here.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Channel 94 4030 USB 0419 UTC 3 DEC 2022

« on: December 03, 2022, 0423 UTC »

Music.  Just above the static floor here.

Overlapped with Ballsmacker's open carrier for a minute or so before the AM carrier went off.

Signal slowly came up.  0510, "Thank you for listening to Channel 94.  Good night", off.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Thunder Chicken 4185 USB 2335 30 November 2022

« on: November 30, 2022, 2342 UTC »

Blues

S7 here.  Maybe a little lower than 4185 .. 4184.87 or so.

All music so far by John Bonnamassa - "Around the bend" now (2328)

about 0028: waterfall image of Thunder Chicken with "Thunder Chicken". SSTV of 4 chickens with jockys on their backs, "Chicken race."

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North American Shortwave Pirate / UnId 6935 AM 0129 30 November 2022

« on: November 30, 2022, 0134 UTC »

Jazz - initially piano then joined by trombone.

S4 just above the noise - and dipping into the noise floor periodically

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Ballsmacker Radio 6960 AM 0203 UTC 19 NOV 2022

« on: November 19, 2022, 0212 UTC »

rock / pop, 0206 "I fought the law and the law won", ID w/ bowling pin strike sfx, familiar pop song (can't think of the name & poor enough that Shazam can't ID)

S4 in noisy conditions.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Sycko Radio 6930 USB 0137 UTC 06 Oct 2022

« on: October 06, 2022, 0142 UTC »

Chaotic music with "Sycko radio" periodically.

S6 here.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / UNID 6950.1 USB 0034 UTC 22 SEP 2022

« on: September 22, 2022, 0102 UTC »

Mistuned initially ... 0039 distorted music, then very slow, distorted IDs repeated (didn't get it), then mellow atmospheric music, another ID set - slow, distorted, more similar music with "radio" repeated numerous times.  Distorted atmospheric music, distorted, slow voiced IDs repeated for about a minute over music.  off 0112.

S6 in quiet conditions.

I never could understand the ?? "Radio" ID although it was repeated many times.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / UNID 6920 USB 0202 UTC 21 SEP 2022

« on: September 21, 2022, 0210 UTC »

Atmospheric music

S6 here.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Sycko Radio 6955 USB 0033 UTC 9 SEP 2022

« on: September 09, 2022, 0045 UTC »

End of song, Several ID's, YL w/ talk, "Long cool Woman" - The Hollies, "Barracuda" - Heart, ID over song, greeting, ID, AC/DC

S9+some here

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North American Shortwave Pirate / WWWW 6925 USB 0208 UTC 2 SEP 2022

« on: September 02, 2022, 0221 UTC »

Lively song, few words from JD, "Hayloft" - Mother Mother, indistinct talk, "Black Dog" - Led Zepplin, Indistince (much lower than music), "Magic Man" - Heart, 0208

S7.  The DJ's voice is much softer than the music making him quite difficult to hear.

Was out of the room for quite a while.  Returned at 0301 to unfamiliar guitar rock, ID, "Don't just listen to the track ... think", "Never gonna give you up" - Rick Astley, Talk about the last 2 tracks ...

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North American Shortwave Pirate / WWWW 6925 USB 0151 UTC 01 Sept. 2022

« on: September 01, 2022, 0202 UTC »

"Sports song" "Party in the CIA" - Weird Al Yankovich, off 0159 part way through "Party". Pause.  Whiskey, whiskey, whiskey, whiskey … " "Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!" - ABBA

S8 here.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Uncle Bob 6930 USB 0134 UTC 16 AUG 2022

« on: August 16, 2022, 0139 UTC »

Talk and brief music, 0134 music, OM talk, YL singing a capella OM few sentences ending with "Hey, hey hey", bits of music, brass band, OM

Just Barely Audible.  Maybe a radio play, but I'm not at all sure.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / UnId 6930 USB 0414 14 August 2022

« on: August 14, 2022, 0438 UTC »

Started after Sycko signed off.  YL synth voiced with ID ... maybe Clever Name R. ID, SSTV ("United States of Fucked figure with US outline and "2024 Election"), another ID again, SSTV (brown figure - not clear - Roman numerals for 2025?). Immediately after SSTV ended.  "Yea, yea, yea, ?? Radio" - nice contemplative flute piece, another ID over piece, SSTV - poor decode (3 figures with "MMR" - maybe more letters), hard rock, SSTV - poor decode (Alien head ?), 0435 off.

S6 and noisy here.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Sycko Radio 5058 USB 0149 4 August 2022

« on: August 04, 2022, 0152 UTC »

On with hard rock, ID.


S7 here