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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID 6925 USB 04:56z-05:00z 07-27-12

« on: July 27, 2012, 1422 UTC »

Recorder catch

Same times as Sealord noted.  I was severely off-tuned, and I can't ID the song.  It kind of sounds like Joe Walsh singing, but a lot of vocalists sound like Joe Walsh when your tuning is off...

Good level here, and thanks!

5252

North American Shortwave Pirate / Eccentric Shortwave 6925USB *0913 - 0954*

« on: July 27, 2012, 1411 UTC »

27 July 2012

Recorder Catch initially, but I woke up and corrected the tuning at 0921...

0913 "Can't Find My Way Home", "In the Presence of the Lord"; still way off-tuned and not sure if this was BF
0921 OM ID: "You are listening to Eccentric Shortwave", bluesy song by OM with lyric "When I told you about Louise and what she did to
        please me..."
0929 OM ID with speed processed audio, Glenn Campbell - "Wichita Lineman"  --  Jimmy Webb wrote some amazingly beautiful songs, and
        this is one of his finest;  Thanks!
0932 Unid song with lyric "Not one more word tonight"
0935 OM ID as at 0921, Beatles - "Hey Jude"
0939 Two unid songs, a doo-wop and a blue-eyed soul
0946 ID and addy as eccentricsw@yahoo.com
0946 Song or soundtrack I could not ID and I hope someone can.  Had monotonic lyrics "The neighbor's dog will be up all night...It's
        getting hard to pay the bills...Mary's trying to get me to paint the house...Mary's always got a headache"
0948 Zappa/Beefheart - "Muffin Man"
0954 YL ID and off

Pretty good signal here, and a very interesting show.

Thanks Eccentric SW!

Audio:    http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?i38vue1obnu12bd

5253

North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID 6925 05:18z-05:22z 07-26-12

« on: July 26, 2012, 2109 UTC »

Same here on a recorder catch with good signal level.

Thanks!

5254

North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID 6925 (mode?) 01:18z-02:02z 07-26-12

« on: July 26, 2012, 2108 UTC »

Heard this from about 0120 to 0203 off.  Definitely an AM, it was close to 6923.8 kHz the entire show.
This was very weak here, and there was a lot of storm QRN.

I got the impression that at least towards the beginning of the show that there were musical clips alternating with undecipherable OM talk.
The OM possibly had an accent.  Could this have been a relay of a Euro-pirate?

No ID heard.

5255

North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID 6925 AM

« on: July 26, 2012, 0232 UTC »

BOR  --  It's Captain Morgan Shortwave.

5256

North American Shortwave Pirate / WPON The Weapon 6925USB *0000 - 0058*

« on: July 26, 2012, 0004 UTC »

26 July 2012

0000 Gun sounds, ID by YL, F-Mac - "Tell Me Lies"
0004 Piece about FOX news
0010 Unid music
0016 ID by YL, talk about banking practices and collapse
0023 unid rap
0027 Obama excerpt on health care
0030 Spinal Tap(?) - "Gimme Some Money"
0032 OM ID, gun shots, talk following was hard to hear in fading and storm QRN
0037 SMB - "Take the Money and Run"
0040 YL ID: "Don;t get mad.  Get a weapon.  WPON.  The Weapon."
0041 Dialogue about a circle-jerk of broke economies, followed by unid song.
0045 OM ID, gun shots, interview with a doctor whose name I did not catch, and whose voice sounds a lot like Rick Moranis
        (Doubt it was him!)
0052 Unid sx
0057 YL ID, addy
0058 off

About S8 here tonight, kinda fady, lots of storm noise

Thanks WPON!

5257

North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: 6945 KHz XFM Shortwave C-QUAM AM Stereo test

« on: July 25, 2012, 0048 UTC »

Thanks for the video, kilokat7!  Very nice presentation.

5258

North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: 6945 KHz XFM Shortwave C-QUAM AM Stereo test

« on: July 23, 2012, 0213 UTC »

This extra LED on my receiver keeps flashing on and off...

With the hardware decoder on a TS-140S, I have pilot about 50% of the time .  Thought there was separation during the Cars piece when you got above S9.  Kind of eerie listening and just getting a feel for this.  It's noisy tonight with choppy fades.

The Meduci decoder in the TS-140S seems to lose pilot easily in a fade.  I am in and out of lock with fading, and it is sometimes a pronounced difference, sometimes it is more subtle.  But it is stereo!

Reception here was around S8-S9, and that would have been enough to keep pilot lock here, I feel.  Problem was the very choppy fades down to S5.  I also noted some unlocking due to noise.

Congrats redhat!  small steps...

Complete Show Audio:    http://www.mediafire.com/?213cuh1fuh6cxcc

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID 6925 AM 1106 UTC

« on: July 22, 2012, 1546 UTC »

22 July 2012

Recorder catch on 6925.0USB, but it was definitely AM

1106 Carrier on
1107 Block of 2 or 3 songs; one may have a lyric like "Nobody feels like you feel tonight:
1115 off

Big S9+10 here.

5260

QSLs Received / Mike Radio QSL

« on: July 22, 2012, 1332 UTC »

For last night's show:


Thanks Mike Radio; this is really appreciated!

5261

North American Shortwave Pirate / Radio Mike - 6950 AM 0150 UTC

« on: July 22, 2012, 0157 UTC »

Been hearing a weak unid playing rock here for the last 5 minutes.  Some OM talk, but can't ID it.

0206 GFR - "Some Kind of Wonderful" followed by clear "Mike Radio" ID.
0214 s/off

Thanks DimBulb for cluing me in!
Thanks Radio Mike!

5262

North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: 6925 USB UNID

« on: July 22, 2012, 0122 UTC »

A bunch of 2 minute long songs, none of which I could ID.  Gut-slamming audio here!  S8 and solid.

Thanks for the show; really enjoyed it.

Another op following commented "Great signal"; poss this was Dr. Benway?

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID 6900 AM 1705 UTC

« on: July 21, 2012, 1718 UTC »

Noting this at 1715 weakly with electronic dance music.

1722 Dance track with a YL vocal.
1732 Haven't gotten any audio for the last 10 minutes, tho I still see the carrier weakly.
1747 Popped up with some OM talk over ethereal music.  Cud not understand it.
1819 Can still hear music weakly, at least the bass line.  Carrier still very visible in a waterfall.
1824 Brilliant short signal peak during a nice song with a YL vocal; I cud see the sidebands rendered in the H20Fall
1924 OM tx while in a fade here and back to the music; this guy's really hanging in here.

FWIW, the music seems to parallel what was being aired on Radio Whatever! last night.

Thanks for the show Radio Whatever!

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North American Shortwave Pirate / UNID Noises 6925USB *0512 - 0537*

« on: July 21, 2012, 1407 UTC »

21 July 2012

Recorder Catch

0512 XM-like noises
0516 The noise changed to the slowed-down bird call noise
0518 Another variant, possibly a bird call slowed to different rate(s)?
0519 The classic slowed-down bird call noise
0537 stopped

Recording is available if you have nothing better to do.  Unless there is some startling change in the noises, no further reports on this from me.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / UNID 10YA Station 6925USB *0348 - 0353*

« on: July 21, 2012, 1341 UTC »

21 July 2012

Recorder Catch on 6925.0USB but I believe this to be an AM

0348 3 noises followed by Ten Years After "Change the World"
0353 3 noises and off

Strong here.