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General Radio Discussion / Captain Morgan SW QSL

« on: January 25, 2012, 2158 UTC »

Received this cool QSL for last night's (25Jan12) show.  Thanks Captain!

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Radio Ken 6925.13 AM 0236

« on: January 25, 2012, 0242 UTC »

25 Jan 12
Hard to pick off Captain Morgan's audio.

Ments "AM and FM", "...96.9", "...this is like free  radio"  over dance music
"Hey, hey, hey...stop with the lawnmower; I'm on the radio!"
Sirens & raid, doorbell, the knock "We have the building surrounded"
"...where's the baseball bat?"
"This is the FCC.  Never f#ck with us; you'll always lose."
Off abruptly at 0247

Good signal at S9, but sharing the channel with CM SW.

At one point, I think an ID was given.  This was probably the op in the story and not the op in RL.  It was very hard to hear, but sounded somewhat like "Cool Dice Slice Radio".

IDed by Chris L as Radio Ken.

Thanks...very interesting!

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Captain Morgan Shortwave 6924.35AM *0212

« on: January 25, 2012, 0216 UTC »

Just starting up with ID, addy, and into music.  "Work Together", "Because the Night", "LA Woman"

Good here at SINPO 35333; nice audio on peaks.

Thanks Captain!

0236 Another op came on 6925.15USB (?)  no AM

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North American Shortwave Pirate / TurtleHead Radio 6925L *0145

« on: January 24, 2012, 0200 UTC »

On at 0145 with unid song, and into a rap.  Some OM tx at 0153 and into more music.
Suspecting TurtleHead Radio, but no ID yet.
Seemed to go off at 0158, but returned 0200 w/ unid music
Still going at 0219 with music I can't ID, occasionally 2nd carrier QRMing it.
0220 TurtleHead Radio ID, Human League - "Don't You Want Me"

In at S3, but being clobbered by occasional QRM and high noise levels.

After RFE 0332 s/off, THR now being heard well again with music, ID, of at 0338

Thanks THR!

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Northern Relay Service 6925AM *0145

« on: January 20, 2012, 0151 UTC »

0145 Came on w/out ID and into a discussion of Igloo construction.
0150 Short mx interlude, sounds of wind blowing, more music: weak, fading

Poor to fair in the noise.
Big growly QRM ball sitting on 6925 for the last ten minutes

Thank you NRS!

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North American Shortwave Pirate / WEMP 6930U 0103+

« on: January 20, 2012, 0109 UTC »

Fair to good here.  Some QRM from unid source.  

0103 A couple of unid songs.
0105 WEMP ID, "Electromagnetic Pirate Radio". "Whiskey Echo Mike Papa"
0110 IDs, addy (wempshortwave at gmail dot com), more music "... Will Come Down Somewhere"
0115 IDs, addy, more music
0118 Losing it to deep fading, and a traveling het is passing thru...
0120 Big fade up to IDs, addy, unid song (like it - thanks!)
0125 Seems off after last song

Seems to be a repeat of Saturday's show.
Good to hear you again.  Thanks WEMP!

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Channel Z 11428.3AM 2138

« on: January 14, 2012, 2144 UTC »

2138 Tuned in to B52s "Channel Z"
2140 Off abruptly
2142 Back on w/ "Channel Z"
2146 ID, ment 16W of AM power, addy, Bowie - "Rebel Rebel"
2152 Alice C - "Elected"
2155 ID, addy, "Fox on the Run"  --  there was a big gob of ute QRM during this
2158 Gary Glitter - R&R2
2202 ID, "MWFT" and "Highway Star" live - Deep Purple
2211 ID, addy, U2 - "I Will Follow", G&R - "Sweet Child" (again ute QRM during this)
2221 ID "Channel Z, the last channel you'll ever need". CZ in CW a few times, Doors - "Touch Me", EWG - "Frankenstein", "R Love"
        
S5 to S7 here on peaks, some fading, good audio

Thanks for the entertaining show, Channel Z!

Checking back at 2253, CZ still there but now with  stronger S7-9 signal.
Off at 2310 during a repeat of the show.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / WEMP 15460U 1921z

« on: January 14, 2012, 1935 UTC »

Nice signal with many IDs, rock I can't ID.
IDs in robo voice as "WEMP Electromagnetic Pirate Radio" and "Echo Mike Papa"
addy given as wempshortwave at gmail dot com

1947 Sounds like a mike bouncing around, or other poss tech difficulty.  He went off after this.

SINPO 44323 with some very deep fades from time to time.  S7 on peaks


Thanks for the show, WEMP!

Audio Link:  http://www.mediafire.com/?3gtjvyajwsah5eq

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North American Shortwave Pirate / BorderHunter Radio 15480AM 1618z

« on: January 14, 2012, 1623 UTC »

SINPO 35343 at 1618z witn multiple IDs, rock

1627 Elvis - "Blue Suede Shoes"
1633 ID, ACDC - "Hells Bells"
1639 Deep P - SOTW
1642 IDs, shoutouts, Dire Straits - "Sultans"  ---  start some deep fading here
1650 signal pretty much faded away


Thanks BHR!



Hey Zane; If you want I could bring a chainsaw over and fix 'em for you!

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North American Shortwave Pirate / UNID 15460AM/USB 1600z

« on: January 14, 2012, 1618 UTC »

1600 "Masquerade"
1604 Song "Im a bird in the sky thinking of you..." break during song and went from AM to USB I think
1608 Buffalo Springfield - "Georgia Girl"
1611 off abruptly

Not sure who this is; no ID or spoken word heard. (poss Wolverine Radio)
SINPO 25323

Thanks!

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Radio True North 15520AM 1540z

« on: January 14, 2012, 1545 UTC »

Weak here at S2, occasional fades up to decent audio.
1540 Dance music
1542 RTN ID, addy, back to music
1547 Starting to hear a weaker het abt 15202kHz
1550 RTN down to het only

Thanks RTN!

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Shortwave Broadcast / Radio Educacion (Ciudad de Mexico) 6185kHz 0200+

« on: January 10, 2012, 0218 UTC »

Very nice program of great music, far superior to the crap on Hispanic programming here on MW or FM.
Nice ID in SS/EE by YL at 0205 with call (XEPPM) and power (10kW).  Great signal!

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Offshore History Radio 6924.1AM 0123+

« on: January 03, 2012, 0138 UTC »

Hearing somebody pop up and down in the noise

0132 OM tx over "A Summer Place"
0134 OM tx over "I Said Yeah Yeah"
0137 OM tx over unid song - ment Radio Powerliner
0139 Billy J Kramer "Bad To Me" - ment R Caroline
0144 S&C - "I Got You Babe"
0145 ment "Isle of Man", J&D "Surf City", ment R London, Gerry &TPM "Ferry Across the Mersey"
0155 No good audio here for the last 10 minutes
0156 Ment KLIF Dallas and R Caroline in the same sentence...
0200 signal barely audible here now; traces of PH "Whiter Shade of Pale"...R London...8.1 million listeners
0210 E Prunes - "Too Much to Dream"
0223 An ID was given as "You are listening to Radio ?, Radio ?" ... I am not sure if this was part of the Euro history program, or if it was an ID by an op; far too noisy here
0231 Moody Blues "Go Now", Spencer Davis "So Glad We Made It"
0237 a URL was given as "WWW point something..."...I'll see if I can dig it out of the tape later
(I can't seem to hear the URL, but I did hear 2 definite "Offshore History Radio: IDs)
0238 end of audio; still a het there
0309 still a het on 6924.05...

Thanks for the ID, Ron!!  We never heard it here the first time around...
weak, fady, slightly muffled audio; OM has Brit accent

Thanks, whoever you are; what could be heard was interesting!
Your QSL very much appreciated!

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Utility / Olympia R (Greece) 8424 0113z

« on: January 03, 2012, 0116 UTC »

Very strong here at S9 with "DE SVO" marker at 0113z

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North American Shortwave Pirate / UNID 6950USB 0347-0408? (Late Log)

« on: January 01, 2012, 1824 UTC »

After Wolverine went off and QSOs were finished, a weak station remained here; possibly there were two stations.  At the very least, one of them was apparently re-broadcasting a KIPM program.  I heard ments of "Attention: if you can understand this, please come out and meet us.  You will not be harmed; repeat, you will not be harmed."  Plenty of scary sci-fi music.  I think, on listening to the archived show, that this might be the KIPM "Traffic Report Obscura" show.  Disappeared or faded sometime around 0408.

Oops; this is on New Year's Eve, 1 Jan 12 UTC