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North American Shortwave Pirate / ION Radio 6955 AM 2330 UTC 7 MAY 2023

« on: May 07, 2023, 2330 UTC »

2330 UTC Music box melody (S9+ with excellent audio)
2332 UTC OM with "This is ION Radio", followed by unid India sounding tune
2338 UTC OM with ID, then a live OM with "Here's a song called Plush", followed by "Plush"-Stone Temple Pilots, then "Down By the Seaside"-Led Zeppelin
2347 UTC "Ship of Fools"-Robert Plant
2352 UTC YL with ID over "Who Are You", followed by an unid song with a bass drum beat-OM singer
0000 UTC "I Wish"-Stevie Wonder
0004 UTC I forgot the name of this one and also who did it
0011 UTC Ditto on this one 
0013 UTC YL with ID and email address...signing off
0014 UTC OFF

Thanks for the great playlist ION! Great signal here too! 

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North American Shortwave Pirate / LeeRoy's House of Blues 6955 USB 0237 UTC 7 MAY 2023

« on: May 07, 2023, 0239 UTC »

0237 UTC Blues song-OM singer...sounds familiar
0243 UTC Leeroy on the microphone...."lets get on with this", into another slow blues tune

0256 UTC "Cold Shot"-Stevie Ray Vaughan
0325 UTC OM with "LeeRoy's House of Blues", followed by Scottie 2 SSTV

0337 UTC The static crashes are getting really bad now 
0349 UTC Signal up to S7 peaks now and well above the noise 
0352 UTC OM with ID and "you don't catch it, you don't see it", followed by Scottie 2 SSTV

0401 UTC "I'm A Man"-Bo Diddly? Request by Pigmeat

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QSLs Received / WKFC eQSL 5 MAY 2023

« on: May 07, 2023, 0212 UTC »

Thank you very much WKFC! Great show and a finger licking good eQSL!

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North American Shortwave Pirate / UNID 6956 USB 2127 UTC 6 MAY 2023

« on: May 06, 2023, 2128 UTC »

2127 UTC Sounds like Leonard Nimoy narrating a story about Bigfoot. Signal is just above the noise but solid with S5 peaks
2133 UTC Off or faded out?

I recall this episode of "In Search Of" TV show from the late 1970's.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / WYMN re-broadcast via NAPRS 6872.8 AM 0013 UTC 6 MAY 2023

« on: May 06, 2023, 0015 UTC »

0013 UTC YL with comedy and audience applause
0016 UTC Pirate Jenny with ID and Wellsville postal address

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QSLs Received / Radio Vixen International eQSL

« on: May 05, 2023, 2358 UTC »

Thank you very much RVI! A fine show and tip of the old pirate hat to Al Fansome!

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QSLs Received / WYMN re-broadcast via NAPRS eQSL 5 MAY 2023

« on: May 05, 2023, 0327 UTC »

Thank you again for the re-broadcast of the older show NAPRS! It is greatly appreciated, as is the eQSL!

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North American Shortwave Pirate / WYMN re-broadcast via NAPRS 6935 AM 0113 UTC 5 MAY 2023

« on: May 05, 2023, 0113 UTC »

0113 UTC YL speaking..."pirate Jenny?", followed by the YL talking in front of an audience (Screams and laughter). Mention of the President
0120 UTC "Put your legs on my shoulder"
0121 UTC YL with ID "WYMN" and postal address, followed by punk rock tune
0125 UTC Comedy folk song-OM singers...lyrics "It's my business but has never been yours"
0127 UTC YL IDing the last comedy skit "My breasts are out of control"
0128 UTC Pirate Jenny with spoken word rap about the FCC
0131 UTC Pirate Jenny with "Making you feel good about saying the F-word again...Feminist Radio"
0132 UTC Child comedy skit with children songs..."Frere Jacques" and "Children on the Bus"
0136 UTC Different skit now with rap to the tune of "Row Row Your Boat"
0142 UTC Pirate Jenny with ID followed by NAPRS ID and email address and ScottieDX SSTV

0147 UTC OFF

Thanks for the old one NAPRS! Heard WYMN once in the early 90's before I lost interest in the hobby in 1992!
Here's a link to my recording for those who didn't hear the show well because of the noise:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1hMKIsRNLHFbqdaYtoy3heKTmdcFoGEWD/view?usp=sharing

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Thunder Chicken Radio 6285 USB 2341 UTC 4 MAY 2023

« on: May 04, 2023, 2342 UTC »

2341 UTC Rock tune-OM singer (Fading in and out of the noise...mostly above the noise)
2343 UTC Easypal pic mode (App not turned on)
2344 UTC Rock tune-OM singer (Sounds like Rammstein or similar)


0000 UTC OM DJ chat "Cluck Cluck Cluck"  followed by "The Grand Illusion"-Styx
0005 UTC "Fooling Yourself"-Styx

0027 UTC "Come Sail Away"-Styx

0040 UTC "Blue Collar Man"-Styx
0049 UTC "Renegade"-Styx

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QSLs Received / Crapola Radio "Professor Plum Birthday Show" eQSL

« on: April 28, 2023, 0210 UTC »

I very much appreciate your shows and your awesome eQSLs! Thank you Crapola Radio!

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Crapola Radio 6905 USB 0100 UTC 28 APR 2023

« on: April 28, 2023, 0100 UTC »

0100 UTC OM with ID, followed by "Rock Around the Clock"-Bill Haley & Comets
(S7 signal solid above the moderate noise with light fading and excellent audio)
0102 UTC "See You Later Alligator"-Bill Haley
0105 UTC OM with "You are listening to the Brain Brothers Pirate Radio Network", followed by "Do the Twist"-Chubby Checker
0107 UTC Miss Scarlett wishing Professor Plum a Happy Birthday...new sponsor?
0110 UTC "Your Man"-Josh Turner
0114 UTC DJ chat...open book exam...book from 1948
0115 UTC "Ode to Billy Joe"-Bobbie Gentry
(The whooshing noise from the utility station is getting louder, but Crapola is still above it)
0119 UTC "I'll Take You There"-Staple Singers (Signal is dropping into the noise and QRM, but still fairly solid)
0123 UTC Phone call by India accented YL and OM, then spoken word skit
0125 UTC "Still the Same"-Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band
0128 UTC "I've fallen and I can't get up" then ID "Coast to coast, all free all the time", followed by "Uptown Girl"-Billy Joel
0131 UTC Phone call "Thank you for calling Crapola Radio"...phone call between a bill collector and Professor Plum..."we should be up to 20 listeners by the end of the month"
0133 UTC Unid song-YL singer/old advertising jingle?
0134 UTC Professor Plum thanking everybody for the surprise birthday, then Email address (Thanks for the shoutout Professor Plum!)
0136 UTC Closing announcement, ID, tone, then OFF

Thanks for another installment of the Crapola Radio Odyssey! Things are looking promising! 

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QSLs Received / WORK (Workers Operating Radio Knobs) re-broadcast via NAPRS eQSL

« on: April 28, 2023, 0033 UTC »

Thank you NAPRS! I love the graphics on this gem of an eQSL!

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North American Shortwave Pirate / WORK re-broadcast via NAPRS 6935 AM 0106 UTC 27 APR 2023

« on: April 27, 2023, 0107 UTC »

0106 UTC 2 OM talking about the Boston Marathon, followed by OM announcing a Boston Bruins game
(Audio is a bit muffled and now transmission breaks)
0109 UTC Music, but very distorted...fixed!
0116 UTC OM talking now, followed by looped Spanish numbers
0117 UTC YL phone call with numbers and OM hangs up....WORK ID by OM
0119 UTC "It's time to get back to work"..."WORK"
0120 UTC Unid song-YL singer
Kicking back and enjoying the show...now that I'm retired!   
0150 UTC OM with ID and postal address, followed by music
0154 UTC OM with NAPRS ID, then OFF

Thanks NAPRS! Another old one I've always wanted to hear! 
Here's a link to my recording from carrier at 0103-0154 UTC QRT:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/15xc0Ul-9CKRhaEhGJvizIltMKE1Gvidj/view?usp=sharing

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Radio Eastern Star (Vostochnaya Zvezda) 7400 AM 0242 UTC 26 APR 2023

« on: April 26, 2023, 0246 UTC »

0242 UTC Hearing music directly with a mostly threshold signal. Some audible but brief fade-ups above the noise floor
0246 UTC Announcer now

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Thunder Chicken Radio 6950 USB 2315 UTC 25 APR 2023

« on: April 25, 2023, 2317 UTC »

2315 UTC Dark metal music solid above the noise floor with some light fading
2324 UTC Different German metal song-OM growler 
2328 UTC Another metal song-same OM
2332 UTC Easypal mode (app is off here), followed by a ballad with OM singer in German