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Shortwave Broadcast / WMR-Denmark 2339 UTC 17 April 2018

« on: April 17, 2018, 2341 UTC »

Fading up to just above the noise floor at 2339 UTC with "Mi Obsesion"-Los Telez

2132

European Pirates and Private Stations / Johnny Tobacco 6322 AM 2249 UTC 16 April 2018

« on: April 16, 2018, 2252 UTC »

2249 UTC "Sultans of Swing"-Dire Straits
2251 UTC "Long Cool Woman"-Hollies
2254 UTC "A Horse With No Name"-America (ended midsong)
2255 UTC "Livin' On Love"-Alan Jackson

2133

North American Shortwave Pirate / Radio Tango America 6930 USB 2157 UTC 16 April 2018

« on: April 16, 2018, 2159 UTC »

2157 UTC Hearing music right at or just above the noise floor...sounds like a clarinet or other woodwind instrumental tune
2214 UTC ID "Radio Tango America"

2134

European Pirates and Private Stations / Radio Abu Dhabi 6303 AM 2227 UTC 15 April 2018

« on: April 15, 2018, 2227 UTC »

2227 UTC Hawaiian music (S5 peaks with fades and noise and peskie QRM)
2230 UTC More Hawaiian pedal steel guitar music (This one is more upbeat!)
2232 UTC YL and OM....possibly intro to the next song?...unid kinda folk song with chorus of singers
2236 UTC I hear the voice of Johnny Tobacco! A clear ID as Radio Abu Dhabi! Then "There's a Tear In My Beer"
2240 UTC JT talking now but too much storm static for good copy
2258 UTC "Home of the Blues"-Johnny Cash
(Lots of storm noise and fading here....some nice S7 peaks though!)
2300 UTC "Never Do A Tango With an Eskimo"-Alma Cogan
2302 UTC "Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien"-Edith Pilaf
2305 UTC "It's Now or Never"-Elvis Presley

Great to hear you again JT! It's been a long time!

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Titanic tribute 6935.7ish AM 0000 UTC 15 April 2018

« on: April 15, 2018, 0000 UTC »

0000 UTC UNID instrumental music
0003 UTC OM talking
Good signal in AM...hard to tune in sidebands
Sounds like a ship in distress (Mention by accented OM of Titanic)
Yes! The Titanic sunk on April 15, 1912...
Music then OM calling CQ Titanic....has struck an iceberg
0015 UTC OFF

Thanks for the reminder whoever!

2136

European Pirates and Private Stations / Radio Merlin 6305 AM 2245 UTC 14 April 2018

« on: April 14, 2018, 2246 UTC »

2245 UTC Hearing AC/DC now just above the noise level with "Back In Black"
(2249 UTC S5 peaks now!)
2250 UTC "Buck Rogers"-Feeder (Mostly just above the noise with some nice fade ups)
2253 UTC OM said something briefly, then "Not An Addict"-K's Choice
2257 UTC "Take Me Home Tonight"-Eddie Money (OM talking over the song at 2259 UTC)
2301 UTC "Hells Bells"-AC/DC (Nice S5 peak at 2304 UTC!)
2308 UTC "Sonne"-Ramstein
2320 UTC OFF


Thanks for the ID on this Daniel! Good to hear Radio Merlin again!

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North American Shortwave Pirate / UNID 6950 USB 2147 UTC 12 April 2018

« on: April 12, 2018, 2147 UTC »

2147 UTC Asian music? Hmmm...sounds like the kind of music you'd hear on Radio Nepal in the 1980's (Some nice S4 peaks but mostly fadey signal just above or at the noise floor)
2155 UTC Deep in the noise now
2215 UTC Seems to be a weak carrier also on 6950 along with some weak Asian music in USB...hmmm
Interesting! It does sound like Firedrake....wasn't there a Firedrake pirate some years back?
2222 UTC "Innocent"-Hundred Waters per Shazam.....(Shazam'd it 3 times but when I checked out that actual song on Youtube, it didn't match)

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Seven Trees Radio? 6905 AM 2116 UTC 12 April 2018

« on: April 12, 2018, 2116 UTC »

2116 UTC "Soft Parade"-Doors (S7 peaks at tune in with lots of choppy fading today....very nice audio...and of course...it's The Doors!)
2123 UTC "Thank You"-Led Zeppelin live version
2128 UTC OFF
2136 UTC "Sweet Home Alabama"-Lynyrd Skynryd
2140 UTC Metallica tune
(Propagation is kinda funky today....lots of fading)

2139

North American Shortwave Pirate / Peace Radio 6920 USB 2329 UTC 11 April 2018

« on: April 11, 2018, 2329 UTC »

2329 UTC "Lola"-Kinks (S7 peaks here)
2331 UTC OM talking now...."my processor is set up for rock music"..."this is DJ KOOT....Peace Radio from now on" 
2333 UTC "I Am the Walrus"-Beatles
2339 UTC "The Weight"-The Band
2343 UTC DJ KOOT chatting...This is KOOT Freedom Radio, into "Night Moves"-Bob Seger
2348 UTC DJ KOOT chatting...appreciate your reports for Freedom Radio...
2349 UTC "Midnight Special"-CCR
2353 UTC OFF

So....is it Peace Radio from now? 

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North American Shortwave Pirate / UNID 6924.7ish AM 2316 UTC 11 April 2018

« on: April 11, 2018, 2318 UTC »

2316 UTC Carrier and some audio under the peskie QRM
2317 UTC OFF
2319 UTC Back up again with unid music...hmmm..."Shazam says "Himalaya FM"-Coen Oscar Polack
2320 UTC OFF again?

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QSLs Received / Quadzilla Radio eQSL

« on: April 11, 2018, 2059 UTC »

Thank you very much Johnny Quadzilla! Very pleased to be among the first reports from across the big pond! Awesome graphics on the QSL! 

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European Pirates and Private Stations / Coast FM 6285 AM 2233 UTC 8 April 2018

« on: April 08, 2018, 2235 UTC »

2233 UTC "Water"-Little Hours (Solid S7+ here with slight fades and lots of static crashes
2234 UTC OM with Coast FM ID, then "Kiss From A Rose"-Seal

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European Pirates and Private Stations / UNID 6325.2 AM 2138 UTC 8 April 2018

« on: April 08, 2018, 2139 UTC »

Weak music fading in and out of the noise floor

2144

QSLs Received / Burn It Down Radio eQSL

« on: April 08, 2018, 1818 UTC »

Thanks for the classic QSL for the Easter Sunday program BID Radio! 

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North American Shortwave Pirate / UNID 6300 AM 2302 UTC 6 April 2018

« on: April 06, 2018, 2303 UTC »

2302 UTC Interval signal of some sort (A bit of a musical ditty I don't recognize)
Shazam isn't hitting on any of these songs but the one at 2319 UTC is probably named "Julianna"