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General Radio Discussion / Happy Mothers' Day - The "gift" for you Mothers is...

« on: May 08, 2016, 1852 UTC »

Look for Northern Lights tonight...
G3 level storm has struck & radio is DEAD!!!
SpaceWeather says "Poor" conditions on ANY band, Day or Night

http://us11.campaign-archive2.com/?u=0c5fce34d5ca05f64a13d085d&id=5bbe8d18bf

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European Pirates and Private Stations / unID 6295 AM 0014z 5/8/16

« on: May 08, 2016, 0019 UTC »

0015z conversation w/accents
0018z music

s4-5 [moderate static]

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European Pirates and Private Stations / Orion 2000 6954.9 AM 2327z 5/7/16

« on: May 07, 2016, 2337 UTC »

Light hints of music, carrier present w/fades
2336z vocal
2356z poss ID by male /off?

s4-5 mod-hvy static

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European Pirates and Private Stations / TRX Radio 6935 AM 2233z 5/7/16

« on: May 07, 2016, 2236 UTC »

2233z hearing music
2237z "Walking After Midnight" Patsy Cline
2258z poss ID?

s4-5 Carrier is weak but clearly there!  Audio in moderate-heavy static levels w/UTE QRM on Upper side

Thanks for ID Gino!!!

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European Pirates and Private Stations / R Abu Dhabi 6295 2318z 5/4/16

« on: May 04, 2016, 2320 UTC »

2318z the melodious tones of Johnny Tobacco heard here through the static
2319z C&W tune
2329z "Friends in Low Places" Garth Brooks
2339z "We Meet in the Middle"
2342z Johnny Tobacco ID said he was signing off [tends to "linger" though ]
2349z s/off

https://youtu.be/MTtWfrFqp40

s4-7+ Good to here you again my friend! Been a long time!!!

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North American Shortwave Pirate / unID 6925 AM 0503z 5/1/16

« on: May 01, 2016, 0507 UTC »

0503z AM signal popped up playing a familiar song about love [forget title/female artist]
0516z "December" Collective Soul

Signal bounced up loud 3 times, back in the NF @0507z

peaked at s5

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North American Shortwave Pirate / unID 6925 USB 0400z 5/1/16

« on: May 01, 2016, 0402 UTC »

0400z Loud signal playing flute music
0403z /off abruptly

s7-8 here

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North American Shortwave Pirate / unID 6950.4 AM 0135z 5/1/16

« on: May 01, 2016, 0136 UTC »

0135z "See What Condition My Condition Is In"
0149z bluesy guitar tune [starting to battle rising noise from storms 200+ miles away]
0153z C&W vocal
0155z /off abruptly in mid song

s6 w/co-channel carrier [audio seems somewhat distorted at times, ducking the carrier below using ECSS Upper]

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North American Shortwave Pirate / unID 6925 AM 0017z 5/1/16

« on: May 01, 2016, 0023 UTC »

0017z many sound effects, tank, plane, etc
a little trumpet music mixed in
0026z "Top 10 Classic Cartoon Sound Effects" from Hanna Barbara Sound Effects Library
0028z more random sound effects
0034z "Pencil Neck Geek" Freddy Blassey [heard this on Dr. Demento Show a loong time ago]
0037z "They're Coming to Take Me Away" Jerry Samuels
0040z "Hello Mudda, Hello Fadda" Allen Sherman
0056z /off

s6-7

Thanks for the show! Brought back memories of watching cartoons as a kid & listening to Dr. Demento as a teen!!!

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Red Beacon R 7610 AM 1648z 4/25/16

« on: April 25, 2016, 1650 UTC »

1648z "Staying Alive" BeeGees
1700z "Tin Man"
1708z "Candle in the Wind" Elton John
1715z "Laughter in the Rain"
1717z "Sister Golden Hair"
1721z "Tiny Dancer" Elton John
1726z "Brandy"
1803z "Levon" Elton John [peaked s8+]
1807 "Ventura Highway"
1816z "Rocket Man" Elton John
1820z "Dancing in the Moonlight"
1824z "Lady" Styx
1827z "Make It with You" Bread
1830z "On the Road Again" Bob Seger
1835z "Lonesome Loser" Little River Band

s5-8+ on my "Accidental Array"

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Red Beacon R 7610 AM 1920z 4/24/16

« on: April 24, 2016, 1925 UTC »

1920z unknown acoustic song
1929z ID w/mention of HFu
1930z another ID, back into music
1938z Op "my SWR is very good today" heard during heavy fades
1939z ID "5 watts"
1944z "30-35 watts today"
1949-53z MAJOR Peak here, ment programming, control station from laptop/wifi... sipping coffee, back to work tomorrow [s8+]
1957z comment to JohnS
1959z checking for R Illuminati, really likes RI & will shut down to listen [!NOooo! LOL]
2008z mentioned MUF being "on the edge", NVIS & fact he can't move just anywhere. Condx are lousy...
2035z mentioned my email to him about Diversity Reception experiments I've been doing [don't need much land at all]
2045z ID, back down to 5w so he can run some errands...

s3-7+ w/deep but infrequent fades

Thanks for the show RBR!!!

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General Radio Discussion / Inside an FCC DF van

« on: April 23, 2016, 1810 UTC »

So many questions but watch this & how many of us stare at the same 8MHz SDR slices he is!!!
I would have liked to inquire how they handle below 30MHz but this is a rare view in any case...

The joke of it is [having worked in radio most of my life] Percon has to update the FCC ULS database because it is too "complex" for the FCC to do, as the license originator? Percon has done this for the last 20 or so years! Great gig if you can get it 

https://youtu.be/QIGAOLJh-XE

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Red Beacon R 7610 AM 1700z 4/23/16

« on: April 23, 2016, 1713 UTC »

1700z Hearing booms boom & raps tunes
2103z "Hey Man, Nice Shot" 9 Inch Nails  

s5-7+ on loop [in between thunderous cells/unplugs!]

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European Pirates and Private Stations / unID 6260 2320z 4/22/16

« on: April 22, 2016, 2334 UTC »

2320z in between horrendous static levels, I am hearing a station
2325z ann w/mild echo
2331z ann again...

Can see carrier but not much audio to work with...

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Red Beacon R 7610 AM 1800z 4/22/16

« on: April 22, 2016, 1817 UTC »

1815z show tunes
2008z shoutout, continue "Italian electronica swing music"
Caught my attention LOL

s2-5 between 2 setups...