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North American Shortwave Pirate / PeeWee Radio 6954 USB 0333 UTC Nov 28, 2015

« on: November 28, 2015, 0337 UTC »

S7 here with "Analog Man"-Joe Walsh
0335 UTC Jimi Hendrix tune
0338 UTC Guitar instrumental then metal tune
0340 UTC "Rainy Night In Georgia"
0342 UTC "Twilight Time"-Platters
0344 UTC Amadeus-Falco
(So far it's only partial tunes...)
0350 UTC Flute music of uncertain origin
0352 UTC Sounds like the Reverend Horton Heat!
0354 UTC Wolf howls and flute music
0359 UTC Yo Ho Ho & Bottle of Rum
0401 UTC SSTV
0403 UTC OFF

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Old Time Radio 6770 AM 1202 UTC Nov 26, 2015

« on: November 26, 2015, 1206 UTC »

Putting in a fair signal here this Thanksgiving morning! Haven't heard it in awhile and was wondering if it was off or possibly due to bad prop lately. Nice to have you back here in the Skipmuck radio room OTR!

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European Pirates and Private Stations / Laser Hot Hits? 4026 AM 0151 UTC Nov 26, 2015

« on: November 26, 2015, 0154 UTC »

I'm getting a fairly listenable signal at 0151 UTC fading in and out of the noise with OM and music...
0154 UTC Heard the Laser sound, soooo
0155 UTC UNID song YL singer-ballad
(Noticed the DJ talks between and during the tunes)
0157 UTC Hmmm...some kind of jingle
0159 UTC Mostly threshold now....rock tune?

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North American Shortwave Pirate / XLR8 6950 USB 0031 UTC Nov 24, 2015

« on: November 24, 2015, 0037 UTC »

Spanish tunage
0034 UTC XLR8 ID, into punk rock tune
Signal jumped up quite a bit around 0040 UTC!
0045 UTC "XLR8" ID

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North American Shortwave Pirate / WMID 3442 AM 2355 UTC Nov 22, 2015

« on: November 22, 2015, 2357 UTC »

S9 Carrier, into "I Will Survive"-OM cover version
0000 UTC OM with "WMID", into unid tune by a familiar voice
0003 UTC "WMID...John T Arthurs second favorite radio station"
0008 UTC "WMID...all music and ID's all the time"
0012 UTC "WMID"
(Frequency closer to 3442.1)
0017 UTC Same as 0008 UTC
Enjoying the show this evening WMID! Some selective fading, but still S8 here
Drivers Seat by Sniff & the Tears...just don't hear that song on the classic rock stations anymore! Thanks!
0033 UTC Major signal drop...rapid flutter fading...still S4 though
0037 UTC Getting a couple of strong tones over the signal...
0049 UTC Signal jumped back up to S8!
0100 UTC OFF after ID and some brief unintelligble talk

Thanks for the Sunday evening entertainment WMID! Some great tunes

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Muffin Man 6935 USB 0153 UTC Nov 22, 2015

« on: November 22, 2015, 0156 UTC »

0153 UTC Skip To My Lou, The Muffin Man, Frere Jacques (au Francais!), unid tune, then "Good Morning"....Awesome!
0159 UTC "This is the way we brush our teeth", into "Rise and Shine" (or whatever that song is called)
OFF at 0201 UTC
0204 UTC Dixie Land
0206 UTC Brief "Muffin Man" reprise...repeated! Followed by a tune I don't know...hmmm..thought I knew them all!
0209 UTC Some CW, but it didn't spell Muffin Man...confusion on 43 meters!

Thanks for letting me relive my childhood...awesome show! Please QSL  

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North American Shortwave Pirate / UNID 6955 USB 0115 UTC Nov 22, 2015

« on: November 22, 2015, 0117 UTC »

0115 UTC "Riders On the Storm"-Doors at S8 here
0119 UTC "Mexican Radio"-Wall of Voodoo
0122 UTC "Who Do You Love"-?
0125 UTC "Silent Night"-Jeff Beck?
0128 UTC UNID percussive electronica rap techno kinda song
0130 UTC "White Rabbit"-Jefferson Airplane
0133 UTC UNID Ballad OM singer segueing into "Hair of the Dog"-Nazerath...abrupt off....

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Radio Illuminati Int'l 6150 AM 2207 UTC Nov 21, 2015

« on: November 21, 2015, 2209 UTC »

2207 UTC Nice audio at S6 peaks here with "Too Late To Turn Back Now"-Cornelius Bros & Sister Rose
2210 UTC Intro music, OM with ID, into "I Want You Back"-Jackson Five
2213 UTC UNID tune
(Yes, the ID had "International" suffixed to the name ...I'm getting around the QRM using LSB)
2218 UTC "Dream Weaver"-Gary Wright
2221 UTC "Rich Girl"-Hall & Oates
(Signal starting to fade into the adjacent channel QRM..switched to USB at 2225 UTC)
2235 UTC Signal is pretty much just above the noise and QRM floor now
2244 UTC OM with ID same as at 2210 UTC...signal holding up but weak above the local QRM...S3 peaks here now
2248 UTC "Spirits In the Material World"-Police
2251 UTC OFF?

Thanks for the early Saturday evening show RII! You got in before the MUF bottomed out

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North American Shortwave Pirate / UNID 6924.7ish USB 0059 UTC Nov 20, 2015

« on: November 20, 2015, 0102 UTC »

OM with test xmsn but didn't catch the ID..Also hearing clips of "All Along the Watchtower", "Crazy Train", Pink Floyd.. and now the PW morse code is back again at 0108 UTC. Hmmm we have chaos here

0203 UTC "We Used To Know"-Jethro Tull (Remarkable how that song sounds like Hotel California...hmmm...)

Listening back on the recording for all of this was an OM at 0059 UTC with voice ID as "This is Kilo Victor Romeo...testing...sixty nine twenty five kilohertz". ID was repeated a few minutes later.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / CW fest on 6925 0045-0055 UTC Nov 20, 2015

« on: November 20, 2015, 0056 UTC »

CW heard at 0040 UTC..."PW" repeated at intervals here with solid S7 signal. Somebody else with some rapid CW joined in at 1949 UTC with VVV

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North American Shortwave Pirate / XLR8 6955 USB 2351 UTC Nov 18, 2015

« on: November 18, 2015, 2354 UTC »

S4 here above the noise with unid tunage
2253 UTC OM with "XLR8", into more unid tunage
2257 UTC "XLR8", into a kind of modern sounding rockabilly tune
Nice to hear ya tonight! Been awhile since I've had a decent signal here!
0004 UTC A deep voiced "XLR8", into an eerie but pleasant electronica vocal tune
0007 UTC "XLR8",into "I Melt With You"-Modern English
0011 UTC Song with intro sounding like Hang On Sloopy, but with lyrics about a Party...Warren Zevon? Now I'm hearing Hang On Sloopy lyrics!
0016 UTC Another slowed down "XLR8", into a familiar tune by a familiar group I forgot the name of...being old is a task sometimes!
(Got it..."Blood and Roses"-Smithereens
0019 UTC UNID tune
0024 UTC Punk rock tune sounding like the Ramones
0028 UTC "XLR8" into rock tune
0033 UTC "XLR8...XLR8", into an unid rock tune
0036 UTC "Sussudio"-Phil Collins (XLR8 ID near end of song)
0041 UTC "XLR8", into a very nice sounding ambient vocal tune with pretty piano
0045 UTC Punk rock tunage (Signal holding up here at S4/S5 with minor fades
0048 UTC 80's mainstream punk rock tunage
0050 UTC "A Higher Place"-Tom Petty (Thanks XLR8! His best tune IMHO!)
0054 UTC "XLR8", into metal rap tune
0102 UTC "XLR8" during thumping drum beat intro to girl group punk tune
(Signal is starting to head into the noise.... )
0114 UTC Tough copy now but I heard an "XLR8" ID...alt rock vocal girl group electronica tune
0129 UTC Signal back up here..S6 with a Lou Reed sounding psychedelic rock and roll tune
0135 UTC An Iggy Pop sounding rock tune and OFF

Hey XLR8....how about "A Higher Place" by Tom Petty?

Thanks for the usual interesting eclectic show XLR8!

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North American Shortwave Pirate / UNID 6950 AM 2219 UTC Nov 18, 2015

« on: November 18, 2015, 2221 UTC »

2219 UTC "Double Vision"-Foreigner
2222 UTC "Head Games"-Foreigner
(Signal is about S4 here, above the noise but with some transmission breaks or dropouts...audio sounds ok though!)
2229 UTC "Hotel California"-Eagles
(During HC, there was a drop out, then signal came back up distorted. Switched to USB and now very clear! LSB seemingly missing, sooo...USB now I think!)
2235 UTC "Cold As Ice"-Foreigner
2237 UTC Silence
2238 UTC "Double Vision"-Foreigner (signal started off threshold and jumped up to S4 at 2241 UTC, but song had dropouts)
2241 UTC Something started, but transmission break, signal dropout or fadeout?
2244 UTC Back on again in AM with "Hotel California", but at the local noise floor here
2248 UTC OFF?

Thank you for the test xmsn whoever you be!

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QSLs Received / Breakfast With Boombox Radio eqSL

« on: November 16, 2015, 0901 UTC »

Thanks DJ LT! Grealy appreciated! The only thing missing on the QSL is a couple of slices of Fried Spam

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Boombox Radio 6850.2 AM 1217 UTC Nov 15, 2015

« on: November 15, 2015, 1218 UTC »

1217 UTC Sounds like a dance tune here at S7 this Sunday morning...hmmm, maybe Boombox? Different genre than Liquid Radio...alternative thumpage?
Getting some deep fades but signal keeps coming back!
Ahhh....ID by OM at 1232 UTC...Now, what to have for breakfast
Nothing like a little electronica on a Sunday morning for a spiritual pick up! Pick up your feet and dance that is The leaf pickup scheduled for today can wait...
1247 UTC OM presumably Liquid Todd, into a 80s sounding dance tune
1258 UTC Just got an S9 peak here for a minute but mostly S6 with lots of fading
Hmmm...last nights leftover chicken burritos with another cup of coffee sound just about right for a day of backyard leaf pickup The singer on the song playing now is saying something about "Put Your Head Down"
1300 UTC OM with mention of Liquid Todd, Sirius FM, and ID as Boombox Radio, into another "contemporary dance tune"
1312 UTC DJ Liquid Todd with name of song just played, ID, and a "Happy Memorial Day" Ahhh, but this music is timeless...
Signal is starting to flutter fade now during the dance tune with the saxaphone
1316 UTC Dance tune by OM singer with autotune vocals
1319 UTC A song with autotune vocals but no thumpage!
Chicken burritos with sour cream and a Maple glaze donut with my second cup of coffee....
1325 UTC DJ Liquid Todd with ID, into a rap dance track...OM singer "You Better Brace Yourself"
1329 UTC Contemporary Dance Tune
1332 UTC "Can't Get Enough"-OM singer...kinda 80's sounding
1336 UTC DJ Liquid Todd with ID...into a funky rap tune..."I was there..I'm losing my edge" Signal is starting to fade in and out of the noise floor, but peaking well above....
1343 UTC Electronica wah wah intro to hard rocking dance tune with deep voice OM singer...nice descending guitar riff!
1347 UTC YL with Boombox Radio ID, into funky electronica dance tune OM singer "Feel It"....
1351 UTC Liquid Todd on Facebook....into backwards sounding intro to spacey vocal electronica thumpage

(Have to head out to the yard, do the gutters and remove the rest of the leaves...I'll leave the recorder running to catch the rest of the show later!)

Thanks for the Sunday morning pick me up BBR! Put me in the mood to face the workload for the day Nice signal overall and great audio!

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North American Shortwave Pirate / UNID 6925U 0236 UTC Nov 15, 2015

« on: November 15, 2015, 0238 UTC »

Rock music at S7 here! "Burn In Hell"-Twisted Sister per chat room
OM said something at the end of the song, then OFF at 0239 UTC
0244 UTC Back on again with some scary sounding hell music
0255 UTC Folk tune at S7 here now
0257 UTC C&W song with OM singer
0301 UTC Fast guitar picking song with fiddle and OM...dark sounding tunes tonight! Something about Midnight Rain?
0305 UTC Gospel tinged song with YL singer..."God have mercy on your soul"
0307 UTC Heavy Folk rock ballad...religious theme tonight
0310 UTC "Behind Blue Eyes"-Cover version "Limp Bizkit"?
0316 UTC Reggae tinged folk ballad
0320 UTC OM spoken word intro to a religious blues rock tune "Lord Have Mercy On My Soul"-Black Oak Arkansas
0325 UTC Gospel tinged bluegrass tune that sounds familiar
0328 UTC Finger picking intro to gospel tune...?

Thank you for the change of pace from the usual Saturday night in the pirate zone whoever! Very interesting track list tonight!