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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: BallSmacker Radio 6960 AM 0157 UTC 09 MAR 2024

« on: March 09, 2024, 0213 UTC »

0159  'Wildfire' IS, 0200 s/on ID w/ freq. "from somewhere in the Northeast", bowling pin strike sfx, 'Burn Rubber on Me' - The Gap Band, … 0207 'I Wonder Why' - Dion and the Belmonts, 'Why Can't We Be Friends' - War, 'I Guess That's Why They Call It The Blues' - Elton John,

S7 Mostly good signal with some fading.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: WHIZ 6950 USB 0141 UTC 09 MAR 2024

« on: March 09, 2024, 0206 UTC »

0157  'Rikki Don't Loose That Number', "WHIZ.  The wiz."  'Reelin' in the Years',  'Kid Charlemagne' - Steely Dan,

S5.  Fair amount of noise, but listenable.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Re: UNID 6960 USB 0100 UTC 01 MAR 2024

« on: March 09, 2024, 0204 UTC »

0140  'After listening for a while, 'Suzi Q' - CCR came up, 'Spill The Wine' - Eric Burdon & War, 'Please Send Me Someone to Love' - Dr. John, Aaron Neville, & Charles Neville, 'Lets Go Get Stoned' - Billy Prestion, Radio Canada Internal IS, off 0155.

S6 here, somewhat noisy.
Thanks for the show.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Bork Bork Radio 6930 USB 0011 UTC 09 MAR 2024

« on: March 09, 2024, 0119 UTC »

0112 'Dogs' - Pink Floyd, - 0114 "Bork … Bork.  Bork, Bork, Bork" over song, Bork, (dog) woof woof, Bork woof, Bork bork bork, bark bark bark."  'When the Music's Over' - The Doors - periodic "borks" over music.

S7 - good signal.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID 6925 AM 2222 UTC 08 MAR 2024

« on: March 08, 2024, 2224 UTC »

2221 S/on with 'Lotta Love' - Nicolette Larson, 'That Lady' Isley Brothers

S6 and noisy.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Yeah Man 6925 USB 0155 UTC 3 MAR 2024

« on: March 03, 2024, 0236 UTC »

0217 Yeah Man playing oldies with talk, shout outs to folks here, and IDs.

S6 here.

Thanks for the show.

Appreciate the shout out!

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Thunder Chicken Radio 6945 USB 2228 UTC 2 MAR 2024

« on: March 02, 2024, 2247 UTC »

2235  'Lady Luck', ' Heaven's Trail (No Way Out)', 'Be a Man', 'Crazy Days, Crazy Nights' all Tesla - segued.

S7 here, a bit noisy.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Radio Free Whateve 6950 2915 UTC MAR 01 24

« on: March 02, 2024, 0056 UTC »

0040  'Heaven's Got Nothing on You' - The Struts, DJDW announced last song, next song, ID, 'What Love Is' - Zimmer90, 'I Fall in Love Too Easily (Stripped)' - Emily Brinlow, 'Can I Call You Rose' - The Sacred Souls, DJDW announces last songs, shout out to HFU, announces next song, ID, 'End of Beginning' - Djo,

S4 in quiet conditions.

Thanks for the mellow love songs.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Sternradio 6961.3 AM 0307 UTC 1 MAR 2024

« on: March 01, 2024, 0309 UTC »

YL & OM alt. in German, pause, large increase in signal strength (S6 - S9) with same pair, 'We are Millions and Millions are One' - Laibach, OM (in German), 'Lightspeed' - Pharallx, maybe another piece (or part of the last?), 'Enjoy the Abuse' - Combichrist, 'What's Fair'  - Razed in Black, 0327 music low w/ signal the same strength, 0331 ID sequence w/ synth Male giving it several times then synth YL once, ... (out of room for a while).

'Mars (on River Drina)', 2 IDs then email address each from synth OM & YL, 'Nsk' - both songs by Laibach, off 0359.

S9

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Thunder Chicken Radio 6955 USB 2232 UTC 27 FEB 2024

« on: February 28, 2024, 0116 UTC »

0050 'He's Calling' - Frank Marino, SSTV (B&W astronaut meditating w/ planets around them), 'Always Look on the Bright Side of Life' - Monty Python, "From the barnyard.  Bouncing off the ionosphere.  This is Thunder Chicken Radio."  Thunder sfx. 0112 off.

S8 here.  Generally good.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: WTF Radio Worldwide 6950 USB 0133 UTC 26 FEB 2024

« on: February 26, 2024, 0136 UTC »

0133  After a short pause after RFW ended, 'Lead a Normal Life' - Peter Gabriel, ID, 'Good Times Bad Times' - Led Zepplin,

S7 here.

Flawless change of program.

Thanks for the program.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Radio Free Whatever 6950 USB 2215 UTC 25 FEB 2024

« on: February 26, 2024, 0106 UTC »

0037   DJDW complaining about music service he uses which didn't cue right, 'Menace' - Hot Water Music, 'Tokyo' - The Terrys, ID, 'My Dead Wife' - Screaming Females, DJDW talking about music, computer algoism giving him irrelevant information, Go Fund Me page for RFW, ID into 'Mercinary' - Laura Jane Grace, ID, 'Lost in a Dream' - Elephant Stone ... 0103 DJDW talking about last several songs, winding down to end of program.  Asked for some logs to see if the propagation is holding up.  It is!

S6 here.  Good signal.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Damn Skippy 6950 USB 0420 25 February 2024

« on: February 25, 2024, 0421 UTC »

'Brandy (You're a Fine Girl)' - Looking Glass, 'Domino' - Van Morrison, 'Go All the Way' - Rasberries, 0430 sudden drop in signal - Jim Croce - Bad Bad Leroy Brown (Party Bangaz)' - Party Bangaz, SSTV (Damn Skippy), 'In the Summertime' - Mongo Jerry, 0440 signal drops to S4 - right at static floor here.

S7 here.  Sudden drop in signal to S5 (not much above noise floor) at 0430. 0440 signal barely audible - right at static floor.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Wolverine Radio 6965 USB 0058 UTC 25 FEB 2024

« on: February 25, 2024, 0214 UTC »

0124  'Tell Him' - The Exciters, ID, 'You Never Can Tell' - Chuck Berry, 'Tell Her No' - The Zombies, 'I Want to Tell You' - Beatles, ID, 'Tell Me Why' - Neil Young into a program of "tell" themed songs, 0158 "Echo" ID, SSTV (Young woman  whispering to a shocked looking young man with "Wolverine Radio"), off 0201

S8.  Great Signal.

Thanks for the show.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID 6969 USB 0205 UTC 25 FEB 2024

« on: February 25, 2024, 0212 UTC »

0205  "Attention all planets of the Solar Federation.  Attention all planets of the Solar Federation.  We have assumed control.  We have assumed control." repeated several times, 'Xandau (Live in London, 1980)', OM - repeat "... We have assumed control." Brief synth YL (unintelligible), "A Passage to Bangkok (Live in Manchester, 1980)', OM - repeat x2, 'The Trees', OM - repeat X2,  UnId song - signal deteriorated about 0230, OM - repeat X2, start of another song, QRM from digital signal and  lost it at 0238.  Moved to 6980 USB due to QRM.  Tuned in 0245 to 'Freewill', OM - repeat X2, pause, 'God Save the Queen' - Queen, OM - repeat, 'La Villa Strangiato (Live at Pinkpop Festival, Netherlands, 1979)', 0300 digital signal for about 30 seconds just above, (signal jumped to S7 - antenna change?) "West coast, this is for you", 'Xandau', "West coast give me some IDs, some signal reports.  2500 miles away." then back to song, 'Goodnight Sweetheart (digitally remastered)' - The Spaniels,   All songs by Rush except where noted.

S8.  Great signal on both frequencies.