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North American Shortwave Pirate / UNID 6950 USB 2101 UTC 23 APR 2023

« on: April 23, 2023, 2102 UTC »

2101 UTC Unid music genre...foreign language rock?
2103 UTC OFF
The music had a strange echo to it...

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North American Shortwave Pirate / 77LJS 6925 USB 1900 UTC 23 APR 2023

« on: April 23, 2023, 1901 UTC »

1900 UTC On sudden with OM giving ID "broadcasting from the elephant cage", followed by discussion on the Soviet and KGB in late 50's/early 60's.
1909 UTC Talk of perestroika and Vietnam syndrome
(Solid S8 signal with excellent copy here)
1921 UTC "Communism is not collapsible"
1925 UTC "You have been listing to 77 Lima Juliet Sierra"
1926 UTC OFF

Always good to hear these discussions!

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Fubar Radio 6925 USB 0107 UTC 23 APR 2023

« on: April 23, 2023, 0107 UTC »

0107 UTC "Jessica"-Allman Brothers Band (S8 peaks and mostly above the noise with light fades and excellent audio)
0114 UTC "I'm Into Something Good"-Herman's Hermits
0116 UTC OM DJ with ID "Fubar Radio"..mentioning "requests"...interwebs are down...can't catch a break
0117 UTC "The Way It Is"-Bruce Hornsby segue into "The Rain, the Park, and Other Things"-Cowsills (Cut off)
0121 UTC OM DJ chat, and "The Rain, the Park, and Other Things"-Cowsills (This time from the beginning!), segue into "Layla"-Derek & The Dominoes at 0123 UTC
0130 UTC Unid song-YL singer...where do all these dogs come from...see if I can get a phone line going...into "American Pie" (cut), followed by "House of the Rising Sun"-Animals (song restarted)
0137 UTC OM DJ...song started then ended..."Shoot that wasn't it...Iron Butterfly", followed by "Timothy"-The Buoys   
0140 UTC "Junk Food Junkie"-Larry Groce
0143 UTC "Afternoon Delight"-Starland Vocal Band segue into "In A Gadda Da Vida"-Iron Butterfly (Mixing with Afternoon Delight)...OM over the music with "I picked the wrong version....dammit"...gonna have to pull the plug....this looks like an audio
0147 UTC "Draggin the Line"-Tommy James & Shondells
0150 UTC "gmail.com...for a QSL card... ".com" 
0151 UTC "Spirit In the Sky"-Norman Greenbaum (mixing with House of the Rising Sun)
0154 UTC OM DJ with "Anyway, I'm going to get out of here", into "Born to Be Wild"-Steppenwolf
0157 UTC Snoring noises followed by "Lime in the Coconut"-Harry Nilsson (with snoring noises)
0201 UTC Snoring, then OM and back to snoring
0203 UTC OFF

Excellent show FUBAR! LMAO......
Here's my recording of the show for posterity:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1A1g4ElE6tWj78C5jkW6B6E9icP97vz0F/view?usp=sharing

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North American Shortwave Pirate / MOVED: INDY Radio 6931 AM 0025 UTC 22 APR 2023

« on: April 23, 2023, 0033 UTC »

This topic has been moved to European Pirates and Private Stations.

https://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php?topic=113016.0

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North American Shortwave Pirate / BBC Radio 4 "Voyage" via Cloudsplitter 6935 USB 2314 UTC 22 APR 2023

« on: April 22, 2023, 2314 UTC »

2314 UTC Spoken word skit over music (Solid S9 here and sounding great!)
2315 UTC Mention of "nuclear power plant in orbit"
2317 UTC Mention of Apollo and Houston
(Some kind of sci-fi drama but no clue yet)
I believe this is an episode of BBC Radio 4's "Voyage"..."1980 APOLLO N" (Episode 3)
2333 UTC OM with program ID and cast members
2334 UTC YL ID "For the best in classic science fiction...this is Cloudsplitter Radio", followed by Episode 4 "1981-1985 Approaches"
0001 UTC OM with program ID and credits
0002 UTC YL with Cloudsplitter ID then OFF

Thanks for the Saturday evening sci-fi CSR!

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Piss-Ant Radio 6930 USB 0329 UTC 22 APR 2023

« on: April 22, 2023, 0329 UTC »

0329 UTC Sounds like a song from a musical-YL singer...maybe an OM singer?
0338 UTC "Time"-Pink Floyd
0401 UTC "Breathe/Down By the River"-DoubleWide Kings 

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North American Shortwave Pirate / UNID 6925 USB 2341 UTC 21 APR 2023

« on: April 21, 2023, 2341 UTC »

2341 UTC Weak music in the noise...sounds like Pink Floyd...also a bit of the aerosol ute

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Radio Vostochnaya Zvezda 7400 AM 0343 UTC 21 APR 2023

« on: April 21, 2023, 0346 UTC »

0343 UTC At best a weak carrier since 0330 UTC, I'm now getting a fade up of unid music above the high noise level. Presumed to be Eastern Star and hearing this directly
0346 UTC Back into the noise 

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North American Shortwave Pirate / 77LJS 6925 USB 0156 UTC 21 APR 2023

« on: April 21, 2023, 0158 UTC »

0156 UTC Sign on by OM with todays date and ID, followed by discussion about "Inside Soviet Military Intelligence" by Victor Suvorov. Talk about Russian GRU officers behavior and methods. Interesting discussion of one time radio links!
0216 UTC OM with ID and date, and "remember, we are all behind enemy lines...good bye", then OFF

Very interesting program! Thank you 77LJS!

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North American Shortwave Pirate / UNID 6925 USB 0026 UTC 20 APR 2023

« on: April 20, 2023, 0027 UTC »

0026 UTC "Crazy"-Patsy Cline (Just above the noise here with excellent audio)
0028 UTC Pause
0030 UTC "Crazy Train"-Ozzy
0035 UTC Pause
0036 UTC Unid rock song-OM singer
0040 UTC Pause

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QSLs Received / WAIR (All Indie Radio) 20th Anniversary Show eQSL

« on: April 19, 2023, 2311 UTC »

Very much appreciated WAIR!  Now that is one cool looking celestial disc spinner on that eQSL! 

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QSLs Received / Grasscutter & Sunshine Radio Joint re-broadcast via NAPRS eQSL

« on: April 19, 2023, 1223 UTC »

Thank you very much NAPRS! Finally got to hear one of these shows!

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Crapola Radio 6905 USB 0100 UTC 19 APR 2023

« on: April 19, 2023, 0101 UTC »

0100 UTC "50 Ways To Leave Your Lover"-Paul Simon (S7 peaks with light fading amidst light noise and utility QRM)
0103 UTC YL with ID, followed by "Forever Young"-Rod Stewart
0107 UTC OM and YL DJ chat
0108 UTC "Just Dropped In"-Kenny Rogers & First Edition
0111 UTC OM and YL (behind 3 payments on the transmitter) followed by "I've fallen and I can't get up" Life Alert sponsor
0112 UTC "Time Won't Let Me"-Outsiders
0115 UTC OM and YL chat, into "Judy In Disguise"-John Fred & His Playboy Band
0119 UTC "Pied Piper"-Crispian St Peters
0121 UTC OM and YL chat...professor adjusted his friends dentures...decided to use the attorney degree instead
0123 UTC "I Only Want to Be With You"-Dusty Springfield
0125 UTC Scarlet says time to go..."and now a word from our sponsor"...sounds like a foreign language? "Please give me your credit card and your social security number"
0127 UTC ID and chat...HF Underground shoutout...we do not send out unsolicited emails...good night
0130 UTC Tone, then OFF

Thanks for the entertainment Crapola!

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North American Shortwave Pirate / WAIR All Indie Radio 6955 USB 2318 UTC 18 APR 2023

« on: April 18, 2023, 2318 UTC »

2318 UTC Unid ambient music (S9+ with very minor fading and excellent audio)
2320 UTC OM with ID "WAIR...All Indie Radio", followed by a song with lyrics "Delivery Driver"-OM singer
2323 UTC Spoken word over sound effects, followed by an unid indie song-OM singer (eerie sounding keyboards!)
2326 UTC OM DJ mentioned "Spectrum Is Green" as the last song, then "WAIR, All Indie Radio...our 20th anniversary broadcast on the shortwave spectrum" The OM DJ gave his name but I missed it
2327 UTC Unid song-OM vocals
2332 UTC OM DJ mentioned the last song was "They Said Tomorrow" and ID, then another OM said "Do it yourself", followed by an unid indie song-OM singers segue into another unid indie song-OM singers
2341 UTC Unid song-OM singer
2344 UTC OM mentioned last couple of songs "Ghosts of American Astronauts" and one by "Yo La Tengo"...Here on All Indie Radio
2345 UTC OM with "Let's crank up another tune here on All Indie Radio, followed by "Time After Time"-Cyndi Lauper(cut short by DJ..."That was All Cyndi Radio"..."This is WAIR All Indie Radio"...followed by another unid song-YL singers?
2351 UTC OM DJ mentioned "West coast band"..."Tracy Had A Hard Day Sunday"...I'm ??...WAIR, followed by an unid song-OM singers
2357 UTC OM with Robert K ? then "you can send your email reports to shortwavemaildrop@gmail.com ...this has been a transmission by WAIR", then OFF

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North American Shortwave Pirate / B-Side Radio 6925 AM 0132 UTC 18 APR 2023

« on: April 18, 2023, 0132 UTC »

0132 UTC Hearing music fading in and out of the S5 noise level. Not strong enough to ID the song
0139 UTC Signal picked up a bit...jazz piano music now