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2656
Hearing an audio clip OM talking
0127 UTC Music and OM with ID "This is W???" in Seattle, into "Ballad of D.B.Cooper"-Miriam Stone
(Hmmm...might have said WDBC?) Signal is mostly above the noise here with some nice S5 peaks!
0133 UTC OM with news story about D.B.Cooper...mention of flight crew...flight 305...727...(fades into the noise making for tough copy)
0138 UTC Deep fade into the noise  :(
0145 UTC Signal fading in and out of the noise...OM talking...nada on the copy here
0150 UTC OFF?

2657
2230 UTC S5 peaks amidst the noise here with "Clink, Clink, Another Drink"-Spike Jones
2234 UTC "Sugartime"-The McGuire Sisters
2236 UTC "Swing Polka"-Rossano Mancini (A familiar voice with a talkover ID that I didn't copy...first in another language, then English  ;D ) ...also another ID later in the song
2240 UTC Johnny Cash tune (deep fade during the song but missed the ID again)
2243 UTC "A Fool For You"-Jan Keizer and Anny Schilder
2246 UTC JT giving an ID and a Gute Nacht in German of course...still can't copy the ID!
2250 UTC JT gave an ID at the end of the song and then OFF

What were you calling yourself this evening JT? :) ID per Ryver Chat...thanks!

2658
Unid music genre at S7 here..."Whirlwind"-Spol per Shazam (Nice audio!)
(Strong peaks and deep fades....)
0217 UTC UNID electronica instrumental tune
(0220 UTC Some blasts of OTHR) "Pokeman Psychic Remix"-Pokemaster (or perhaps "Psychic Type"-Victory Road?)
0223 UTC Some suspicious sounding CW.....followed by a big band jazzy  number
0230 UTC Signal deep in the noise now
0239 UTC Sound of airplanes dive bombing and other sound effects
Nothing heard since 0245 UTC  :(
0255 UTC Some faint CW heard

2659
2313 UTC Sounds like Dutch folk music
2314 UTC Different song (Signal is fading in and out with S4 peaks)
(Signal has pretty much faded into the noise with occasional short peaks above the threshold)

Thanks for the ID Dimbulb! Copy is a little rough on this now....

2660
2343 UTC Hearing music fading in and out of the noise
2349 UTC Per Shazam "Me and My Life"-The Tremeloes
2351 UTC OFF or faded out (I detect no carrier)

2661
"Third Stone From the Sun"-Jimi Hendrix
SSTV's at 0328 UTC and 0335 UTC

2662
Third Stone From the Sun-Jimi Hendrix again :)
0259 UTC CW....Skippy Radio again ???
0302 UTC "Star Spangled Banner"-Jimi Hendrix

2663
"Third Stone From the Sun"-Jimi Hendrix at S3 here and above the noise
0245 UTC CW that the CW folks say is Skippy Radio...hmmm ???

2664
QSLs Received / The Electric Circus eQSL
« on: November 13, 2016, 0201 UTC »
Thank you very much for the awesome QSL Captain Spaulding! Superb graphics! :)

2665
"Sign of the Gypsy Queen"-April Wine
0115 UTC OM with "Amphetamine Radio 3375.....", into "Heaven and Hell"-Black Sabbath
S4 peaks here in Western Massachusetts.... :)
0119 UTC IRC chat room "Beep Beep" :D
0122 UTC OM with ID and "3375 upper side band in the 90 meter band, into "Moving In Stereo"-Cars
0128 UTC "Kickstart My Heart"-Motley Crue (Mostly in the S3 to S5 range with some nice S7 peaks!)
0132 UTC "Living On Video"-Trans-X
0139 UTC Scottie1 SSTV
0148 UTC "Girls On Film"-Duran Duran

2666
2337 UTC UNID piano music at just above the noise floor
2338 UTC Different tune now but real low signal
2340 UTC Signal came up a bit...sounds like an old black blues tune
2345 UTC "Hellraiser"-Suicide Commando (per Shazam)
2351 UTC OFF?

2667
2230 UTC S4 carrier here with bits and pieces of audio fading in and out of the noise
2242 UTC "Dust In the Wind"-Kansas
2245 UTC OM speaking but nada on the copy
2252 UTC Nice fade up with "These Boots Are Made For Walking"-Nancy Sinatra
2253 UTC "Jump"-Van Halen
2258 UTC "Don't Fear the Reaper"-Blue Oyster Cult
2308 UTC Nice fade up during "I Want You To Want Me"-Cheap Trick
2315 UTC "Long Cool Woman"-Hollies

Thanks for the show and the shoutout zender akenzo! Nice to hear you again from across the big pond! :)

2668
Signal buried in the noise at 0049 UTC tune in, but signal came up above the noise a bit at 0051 UTC with "A Change Is Gonna Come"-Bonnie Bramlett
0055 UTC "Need Your Love So Bad"-Bonnie Tyler

2669
2127 UTC CW followed by SSTV at 2128 UTC
2130 UTC OFF? (Signal was a solid S7 here)
2132 UTC CW again
2133 UTC "Circus Band"-Zirkus Band (per Shazam)
2135 UTC "Built with Springs(Sounds of the Circus)-The Big Top (per Shazam)
2136 UTC CW

Any chance of an email addy? :)

2670
Huh? / Robert Vaughn "The Man From U.N.C.L.E" Dies at 83
« on: November 11, 2016, 2014 UTC »
Robert Vaughn, who starred as Napoleon Solo on “The Man From U.N.C.L.E.” from 1964-68, died on Friday of acute leukemia, his manager Matthew Sullivan told Variety. He was 83.

The James Bond-influenced “The Man From U.N.C.L.E.,” in which Vaughn’s Solo and David McCallum’s Illya Kuryakin battled the evil forces of T.H.R.U.S.H. around the globe (thanks to the glories of stock footage), was quite the pop-culture phenomenon in the mid-1960s, even as the show’s tone wavered from fairly serious to cartoonish and back again over its four seasons. It spawned a spinoff, “The Girl From U.N.C.L.E.,” starring Stefanie Powers, as well as a few feature adaptations during the run of the TV series, “One Spy Too Many,” “One of Our Spies Is Missing” and “The Karate Killers,” that starred Vaughn and McCallum. Vaughn also guested as Napoleon Solo on sitcom “Please Don’t Eat the Daisies” and made an uncredited appearance as Solo in the 1966 Doris Day feature “The Glass Bottomed Boat”; he reprised the role in 1983 for TV movie “The Return of the Man from U.N.C.L.E.: The Fifteen Years Later Affair.”

A Guy Ritchie-directed feature adaptation of “The Man From U.N.C.L.E.” was released in August 2015 with Henry Cavill and Armie Hammer starring as Solo and Kuryakin, respectively.

Vaughn vaulted into the public eye with his vaunted performance in the soapy 1959 Paul Newman feature “The Young Philadelphians,” for which Vaughn was deservedly Oscar nominated for best supporting actor.

In the film, Newman’s character is pursuing his Machiavellian way to the top of Philadelphia’s upper crust when he sees his friend, played by Vaughn, manipulated by said upper crust into alcoholism and an unjust murder charge. The New York Times said, “Robert Vaughn, as Newman’s sick and ill-used friend, adds a striking bit in incoherently explaining his dire predicament.”

The next year he was one of the stars of John Sturges’ “The Magnificent Seven,” a remake of Akira Kurosawa’s “Seven Samurai,” along with Yul Brynner, Steve McQueen and Charles Bronson. The success of the Western certainly boosted the actor’s profile, but his brand of sophisticated urbanite did not mesh well with a career in Westerns. (Though when the enduringly popular film was adapted into a TV series in 1998, Vaughn returned in the recurring role of Judge Oren Travis, and when the material was contemporized and turned into the story of a British soccer team in a 2013 film called “The Magnificent Eleven,” the actor duly starred as the villain, a gangster named American Bob.)

In 1968, after appearing in the movie spinoffs from “The Man From UNCLE,” Vaughn appeared in Steve McQueen vehicle “Bullitt” as the politician who’s out for the head of McQueen’s cop while pressure mounts from other directions as well (and a lot of nifty car chases around San Francisco are offered up).

He did several films in a row at this point: comedy “If It’s Tuesday, This Must Be Belgium” (1969); WWII drama “The Bridge at Remagen,” in which he played the Nazi commander (the New York Times said: “Mr. Vaughn, as the tense commander across the water, is excellent”); a feature adaptation of “Julius Caesar” that starred John Gielgud, Charlton Heston and Jason Robards and in which Vaughn played Servilius Casca; the interesting sci-fi drama “The Mind of Mr. Soames,” in which Terence Stamp played a man, in a coma since birth, who’s brought to consciousness by an American doctor played by Vaughn, who soon spars with the British team supervising him over his care; and 1971’s “The Statue and “Clay Pigeon.”

From 1972-74 he did his third stint as the star of a TV series with “The Protectors,” playing Harry Rule, one of three freelance troubleshooters who run an international crime-fighting agency based in London.

In 1974, as the show ended, he did two feature films: “The Man From Independence,” in which Vaughn played Harry S Truman, and disaster movie “The Towering Inferno,” in which he played Senator Parker, who helps out once the blaze starts. © Silver Screen Collection/Getty Images Robert Vaughn circa 1965

During the 1970s Vaughn capitalized on the era of the miniseries, appearing in NBC’s highly regarded 1976 entry “Captains and the Kings”; ABC’s “Washington: Behind Closed Doors” (1977), for which he received his first Emmy nomination; NBC’s “Backstairs at the White House,” in which the actor played President Woodrow Wilson, for which he was also Emmy nominated; NBC’s “Centennial,” in which he played the wealthy, opportunistic Morgan Wendell; ABC’s “Inside the Third Reich” (1982); and CBS’ “The Blue and the Gray” (1982).

Having played Woodrow Wilson, he now played Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the 1982 HBO adaptation of the Dore Schary one-man play “FDR: That Man in the White House” (a role he reprised in the 1986 telepic “Murrow,” starring Daniel J. Travanti as Edward R. Murrow) and Gen. Douglas MacArthur in the Australian-made, PBS-aired miniseries “The Last Bastion” in 1984.

The actor was now regularly playing senators and other powerful men who were often given to scheming and nefarious motives: Vaughn played one such fellow as the villain in 1983’s “Superman III.”

He recurred on the series “Emerald Point N.A.S.,” starring Dennis Weaver, in 1983-84.

Vaughn was brought aboard the sagging NBC series “The A-Team” in its final season in 1986-87 as the network changed the flavor of the show. The actor played General Hunt Stockwell, a mysterious operative for the CIA for whom the team would now work, often abroad, in “Mission: Impossible”-like scenarios. (One episode was entitled “The Say U.N.C.L.E. Affair”); some blamed Vaughn for the demise of the show, as many fans disliked the new scenario in which the team worked for, rather than fleeing from, the military.

He was still working in features, if not always of the best quality; Vaughn starred as Adolf Hitler in the obscure 1989 comedy “That’s Adequate” and as Lord Byron Orlock in the comedy “Transylvania Twist” the same year. He kept busy, too, with guest appearances on “Murder, She Wrote,” “Walker, Texas Ranger” and “The Nanny.”

While “Law & Order” afforded many an actor with an opportunity to demonstrate his or her own skills, Vaughn was particularly memorable in his three-episode 1997-98 arc as Carl Anderton, a man as powerful as he is  certifiably crazy and stubborn. What begins as Anderton’s refusal to acknowledge that mental illness excused his grandson’s otherwise criminal behavior — and that a propensity for paranoia may have been passed down genetically from him — escalates into a campaign to remove D.A. Adam Schiff from office.

More recently he was memorable in two unrelated performances on “Law & Order: SVU”; in 2015 episode “December Solstice,” he played a celebrity author who becomes the object of a legal battle over his welfare between his new wife and his daughters from a previous marriage.

Vaughn brought his trademark brand of villainy to the David Zucker comedy “BASEketball” in 1998 and to Louis C.K.’s comedy “Pootie Tang” in 2001.

From 2004-12 Vaughn starred in the BBC-AMC co-production “Hustle,” a stylish if derivative dramedy series about a group of London con artists who pull off elaborate stings.

In 2012 he did a 13-episode arc on the U.K. soap“Coronation Street,” in which he played Milton Fanshaw, an American restaurant owner who proves a love interest for one of the main characters, tempting her to come back with him to the U.S.

Robert Francis Vaughn was born in New York City to parents in show business, his father a radio actor and his mother an actress on the stage.

He went to high school in Minneapolis and attended the University of Minnesota, where he majored in journalism, but quit after a year. Moving to Los Angeles, he studied drama at Los Angeles City College, then transferred to Cal State L.A. and completed his Master’s degree. Subsequently — and while having already started a busy acting career in the 1960s and into the 1970s —  he completed a Ph.D. in communications at USC. The subject of his thesis was the blacklisting of Hollywood entertainers during the McCarthy era, and it was published in 1972 as “Only Victims.”

He made his small-screen debut way before the days of “U.N.C.L.E.,” guesting on NBC’s Richard Boone vehicle “Medic” in 1955 and was soon busy guesting on shows ranging from “Father Knows Best” to “Gunsmoke” and “The Rifleman” to “Dragnet” and “Mike Hammer.”

Meanwhile, he made his bigscreen debut in an uncredited role in Cecil B. DeMille’s 1956 epic “The Ten Commandments” and there soon followed roles in Western “Hell’s Crossroads” and “No Time to Be Young,” a juvenile crime drama in which he starred. But his performance in “The Young Philadelphians” and the acclaim he received for it changed everything.

 

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