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North American Shortwave Pirate / Wolverine Radio 6950 USB 0053 UTC July 3, 2016

« on: July 03, 2016, 0053 UTC »

0053 UTC Signing on now
0055 UTC "When You Wore A Tulip"-The American Quartet
0058 UTC "I'll Be With You In Apple Blossom Time"-Charles Harrison
0100 UTC "Telling It To the Daisies"-Annette Hanshaw
0103 UTC "Wolverine Radio", into "Honeysuckle Rose"-Fats Waller & His Rhythm
0106 UTC "Blue Orchids"-Glenn Miller
0109 UTC "The Fable of the Rose"-Benny Goodman
0113 UTC "Wolverine Radio", into "Tiptoe Through the Tulips"-?
0115 UTC "Flower Garden Blues"-Arnett Cobb
0118 UTC "What's Your Story, Morning Glory"-Ella Fitzgerald
0121 UTC "San Antonio Rose"-Patsy Cline
0123 UTC "Pictures of Lily"-Who
0126 UTC "Dead Flowers"-Rolling Stones
0130 UTC "Sugar Magnolia"-Grateful Dead
0133 UTC "China Cat Sunflower"-Grateful Dead
0138 UTC "Scarlet Begonias"-Grateful Dead
0143 UTC "Nothing But Flowers"-Talking Heads
0148 UTC "Blood and Roses"-Smithereens
0152 UTC "Gardenia"-Iggy Pop
0155 UTC SSTV

2792

European Pirates and Private Stations / UNID 6285 AM 0015 UTC July 2, 2016

« on: July 02, 2016, 0017 UTC »

I'm hearing music at threshold level here...would be fair copy if not for the heavy T-storm static
0024 UTC OM talking now, but nada on the copy
(Frequency is closer to 6284.9)

2793

European Pirates and Private Stations / Johnny Tobacco 6305 AM 2315 UTC June 26, 2016

« on: June 26, 2016, 2318 UTC »

Hearing a good signal marred by some kind of QRM at 2315 UTC
2317 UTC JT with a "Good Morning"...rockabilly tune with JT talkover. Deep fades
2321 UTC Polka!
2325 UTC Another polka (Shazam is sadly lacking...not much in the polka database!)
2331 UTC "This is Johnny Tobacco"
2337 UTC "Low Down"-Hank Williams III
2340 UTC "My Drinkin Problem"-Hank Williams III
2343 UTC "Whiskey If You Were a Woman"-Heidi Hauge
2350 UTC "120 Varkens Naar Beiroet"-Henk Wijngaard
2353 UTC "Så kom våren till Tarina"-Inger Jacobsen
2357 UTC "Jag Är Fri"-Jon Henrik Fjällgren
0000 UTC "Iditguovssu - Dawn Light"-Máddji
0003 UTC Signal starting to fade into the noise now...
0007 UTC "Home of the Blues"-Johnny Cash

2794

QSLs Received / Radio New Zealand Int'l QSL

« on: June 26, 2016, 2156 UTC »

Received a full data QSL via an email link in 8 days for a report filed on the RNZI website. My favorite Saturday morning shortwave broadcaster! Also my first non-pirate verie here since 1988. Still have the old postal QSL card and paper pennant from the 1980's. Times have changed!

2795

North American Shortwave Pirate / UNID 6925 AM 1155 UTC June 26, 2016

« on: June 26, 2016, 1159 UTC »

Carrier noted here with bits of audio at 1157 UTC...buried in the noise
Signal must have came up while I was making breakfast...S8 at 1233 UTC with "Nakanaide"-Ljones
1235 UTC Unshazamable easy listening repetitive jazz riff.....
1242 UTC "Glaubensfrage"-Slowy & FloFilz & 12Vince
1245 UTC Unshazamable easy listening repetitive jazz riff...
1248 UTC "Fellows"-Nujabes
(Signal level has dropped quite a bit...deep fades into the noise)
1250 UTC "What I Stand For"-Yokas.B & The ILLTrip
(Mostly in the noise now)

Time to head out and do some yardwork before it gets too damned hot to work....thanks for the ear candy this Sunday morning UNID funky jazz op

Oh...superb audio with really great bottom end!

2796

North American Shortwave Pirate / Pirate Radio Boston 6925.6 AM 0211 UTC June 26, 2016

« on: June 26, 2016, 0212 UTC »

Hearing an OM talking but the signal is under the static

2797

North American Shortwave Pirate / Insane Radio 6949.7 AM 0049 UTC June 26, 2016

« on: June 26, 2016, 0050 UTC »

Music at S6 here "Dashboard"-Modest Mouse
0051 UTC "Insane Radio" loop ID, into unid soundbyte
0054 UTC "Missed the Boat"-Modest Mouse

2798

QSLs Received / Girl Scout Radio QSL

« on: June 26, 2016, 0022 UTC »

Just received this through the HFU message board Thanks Girl Scout Radio! Hmmm...Of Mice and Men
Thanks for your message. I'm pleased to confirm your reception of Girl Scout Radio on 6925 USB.  Your report was correct in all respects.

Chief Operator
George Milton

Assistant Operator
Lennie Small

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Girl Scout Radio 6925 USB 2305 UTC June 25, 2016

« on: June 25, 2016, 2306 UTC »

Hearing some talk and music at 2326 UTC "Girls Just Want To Have Fun"-Cyndi Lauper
(Signal is just at or above the noise floor here, but getting some S3 peaks
2310 UTC Unid tune at threshold...
2313 UTC OM with "This is Girl Scout Radio", into "Barracuda"-Heart
2318 UTC YL? then unid tune/rap? Perhaps "Blazin"-Nicki Minaj & Kanye West?
2323 UTC YL said something....tough copy with the static crashes , into "Angel of the Morning"-uncertain of original or cover version...shazam says Juice Newton
2327 UTC Talk now by YL...copy is intermittent
2329 UTC OM said something followed by "Dancing Queen"-Abba
(Signal just jumped up to S6 here at 2332 UTC )
2333 UTC PSA for something.org, into "Whip My Hair"-Willow
2337 UTC YL with ID..."Girl Scout Radio", into "Breakfast in America"
2339 UTC OM with countdown...."5-4-3-2-1", YL with ID....Girl Scout Radio...OM with "The following program is for the thinking impaired", into "Bye Bye Cherry"-Gene Autry
2341 UTC OM with "Girl Scout Radio", into "Jeanny"-Falco
2348 UTC OM with "Girl Scout Radio", into PSA for Girl Scouts, YL with "This is Girl Scout Radio", into "Mama, I'm Coming Home"-Ozzy Osbourne
2352 UTC OM with "A pretty good signal for a girl...Girl Scout Radio", into "Cross Eyed Mary"-Jethro Tull
(Signal is hitting S9 here at peaks now
2357 UTC YL with ID, into spoken word skit YL and OM....into "Itty Bitty Piggy"-Nicki Minaj
0001 UTC YL ...."This is Girl Scout Radio", then OFF


Thanks for the entertainment this early Saturday evening GSR! Unfortunately, no Girl Scout Cookies handy here....

Did I earn a Merit Badge?

Thanks GSR!

2800

North American Shortwave Pirate / OTR 6770 AM 0132 UTC June 25, 2016

« on: June 25, 2016, 0135 UTC »

Just came up here with UNID old time radio program....just above the noise at S3 but getting better

2801

European Pirates and Private Stations / Coast FM 6205.1 AM 0055 UTC June 25, 2016

« on: June 25, 2016, 0057 UTC »

"Sweet Home Alabama"-Lynyrd Skynrd just above the noise here
0103 UTC "Raging"-Kygo
0113 UTC "If You Ever"-East 17
0117 UTC "Drag Me Down"-One Direction
0120 UTC ID, then "Poison"-Alice Cooper
0127 UTC "Clown"-Emile Sande

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North American Shortwave Pirate / UNID 6930 USB 2235 UTC June 19, 2016

« on: June 19, 2016, 2235 UTC »

Hearing music in and out of the noise floor at 2235 UTC
2237 UTC Yep...faded up enough to ID as "I Heard It Through the Grapevine"-Marvin Gaye?
2239 UTC "Uptown Funk"-Mark Ronson with Bruno Mars?
Pretty much buried in the noise with bits and pieces fading up for a few seconds
2253 UTC "Bad Romance"-Lady Gaga

2803

North American Shortwave Pirate / X-FM 6880 AM 0300 UTC June 19, 2016

« on: June 19, 2016, 0302 UTC »

Hearing some unid audio here..talking and music?
0303 UTC "Channel Z"-B-52's
0304 UTC OM with X-FM ID, into chat
(Signal is about S4 here with some fading....)

After the final RFW bunker show, I put the NRD on timer and drifted off to sleep to the Power of X The S-meter was the only light in the room and I noticed it was wavering around S7...

2804

North American Shortwave Pirate / Insane Radio 6949.7 AM 0236 UTC June 19, 2016

« on: June 19, 2016, 0236 UTC »

Hearing music just above the noise "The Ground Walks, With Time In A Box"-Modest Mouse

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North American Shortwave Pirate / RFW 6935 USB 0031 UTC June 19, 2016

« on: June 19, 2016, 0031 UTC »

Signing on now with Soviet Anthem, then Dickweed and Stavin chatting about the empty bunker
(Sounding pretty good here...well above the high noise level comrades!)
Only $10,000 for the whole radio station! Chatting about putting on an "Extravaganza"....but just can't do it...looking for relay stations!
0039 UTC "Right Hand On My Heart"-The Whigs
0043 UTC "Trying To Be Cool"-Phoenix
0047 UTC "Hella"-Cayucas
0050 UTC "Feel It All Around"-Washed Out
0053 UTC "Kids"-MGMT
0058 UTC Dickweed and Stavin playing some of their favorites..."hipster" music....thanking the listeners trying to listen to them...tried to heat up the ionosphere...shoutouts to the posters...thanks comrades!
0102 UTC "Sweater Weather"-The Neighbourhood
0106 UTC ID..."Radio Free Whatever", into "Midnight City"-M83
0111 UTC "Pumped Up Kicks"-Foster The People
0115 UTC Comrades ID'ing tunes played..."typical unpolished edition"...more shoutouts...done with live shows ...request for MDK2....Assistant Stavin is a soda jerk"
0118 UTC "Sodajerk"-Buffalo Tom
0123 UTC Prerecorded RFW ID, into "Started Right"-Hot Chip
(Signal is a solid S9 here now!)
0128 UTC "Wasted and Ready"-Ben Kweller
0131 UTC Comrades ID'ing tunes played...."just been informed we are omnipresent tonight"...on 6925, somehow someway...a couple of MF bombs
0135 UTC "Help I'm Alive"-Metric
0139 UTC RFW prerecorded ID, into ?I Don't Want To Know"?-Live tune(Radiohead per comrades)
0143 UTC "Fuck You"-Lily Allen
0147 UTC Comrades joking about the last tune...relays...great to have a couple of women ...not good at religion... may have some Mormon listeners...didn't mean to offend anyone...
0150 UTC "Big Dumb Sex"-Soundgarden
0156 UTC Prerecorded RFW ID, into "Let It Happen"-Tame Impala
0204 UTC Prerecorded RFW ID, into "Out Of My League"-Fitz and the Tantrums
0207 UTC Comrades IDing tunes played...somebody else on 6875 relaying us there...tribute...holding up their cigarettes in the air....Dickweed gonna have to be admitted to the funny farm..."spend all my money on hookers"...
0211 UTC "Shadowplay"-Joy Division
0215 UTC "Your Decision"-Alice In Chains
0219 UTC RFW ID...."shortwave ambassadors to the world", into "Return To The Moon"-EL VY
0224 UTC Dickweed and Stavin on whether we got past the Van Allen belt to the moon....documentary on how the Chinese are going to do it first...IDing tunes played...still have some listeners...listener sent a picture of their lighter...
0227 UTC "Trying"-Bully
0232 UTC "Duel"-Swervedriver
0237 UTC "Walk In The Park"-Beach House
0241 UTC Dickweed sitting there with a box of kleenex..."he's losing it people"..."losing the bunker"...chatting about the movie "Duel"
0245 UTC "Ride The Flume"-Jello Biafra with Nomeansno
0249 UTC "Novocaine For the Soul"-Eels
0251 UTC RFW jingle, into "Wonderboy"-Tenacious D
0256 UTC "Heavy Metal"-Sammy Hagar
0300 UTC "Take Me To The River"-Talking Heads
0305 UTC Comrades chatting...email from Dr. Benway.... ...no food left in the bunker....request from Stavin
0307 UTC "Three Little Pigs"-Green Jelly
0313 UTC RFW ID, into "Monkey Man"-The Specials
0316 UTC "Smoke another cigarette and have another shot of vodka
"Shut Your Eyes"-Snow Patrol Thanks for the request DJ Dickweed and Assistant Stavin!
0319 UTC Comrades chatting...."popped another pirate shortwave cherry"..."no vaseline either"..."megamonster paper cut"...request for Dr. Benway
0322 UTC "Bloody Mary"-Silversun Pickups
0328 UTC Audio clip with lots of "bleeps", into "Photograph"-The Verve Pipe
0332 UTC "Wow"-Beck
0336 UTC "Into The Earth"-Bloc Party
0340 UTC Comrades chatting...ID'd tunes played..."supermegaexpealidocious show"..."definitely an endurance run"...very sad to be signing off from this location...one last song...all time favorites...
0346 UTC "Hate To Say I Told You So"-The Hives (signal dropped into the noise about half way through the song)
0350 UTC I can hear the comrades talking but can't copy...
0354 UTC Heard the email addy... dickweeddj@gmail.com
0356 UTC "Do Whatever"..still hearing the comrades at 0359 UTC....one more song I guess....can't tell what's playing though...
0403 UTC Chatting again..."I guess that's it"...
0408 UTC Talk is buried in the noise, but still going after over 3-1/2 hours!
0410 UTC "Time"-Pink Floyd
0416 UTC Chatting but no copy here...

Comrades...that was Dennis Weaver in Duel! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duel_(1971_film)

Thanks for the marathon show DJ Dickweed and Assistant Stavin! Hope we haven't heard the last of Radio Free Whatever!
LONG LIVE THE BUNKER!