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North American Shortwave Pirate / Amphetamine Radio 6925 USB 2152 UTC AUG 2, 2015

« on: August 02, 2015, 2153 UTC »

Time pips....not WWV either...no voice announcements at the top of the minute.
2156 UTC pips were getting a bit erratic
2157 UTC Erratic keying now
2203 UTC OFF?
2214 UTC ID by OM as "Amphetamine Radio sixty nine twenty five". Is this the same as earlier data broadcasting?
2217 UTC Program of some sorts now! OM chatting...
Everything works!
2226 UTC ID...then CW of sorts
2227 UTC Music from movie theme?
2230 UTC Crazy Frog song?
2232 UTC OM with ID
2242 UTC A folksy bluegrass tune
2257 UTC OM with live TC as 2357 Coordinated Universal Time, into "I Get Around"-Beach Boys
2303 UTC "Reach Out (I'll Be There)"-Four Tops ...take 2
2212 UTC OM with ID and "signing off", into Star Spangled Banner and OFF at 2214 UTC
 Now that turned out to be quite an interesting show! I was skeptical at the beginning Thanks AR!

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID 6925 US 2112 UTC 2 Aug 2015

« on: August 02, 2015, 2114 UTC »

Same here at 2112 UTC. I was parked on the frequency when it came up suddenly with a rap tune. S5 here with some static
2115 UTC OFF, 2117 UTC Back on again!

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID 6925 USB 1855 UTC 2 Aug 2015

« on: August 02, 2015, 1858 UTC »

1857 UTC and I'm hearing some fast CW here...unfortunately I'm severely CW challenged
1908 UTC Still going with some really good peaks here.
1936 UTC I'm hearing an OM along with the CW, but can't make out what is being said...

10939

Huh? / Re: My theory on "Old Time Radio 6770"

« on: August 02, 2015, 1336 UTC »

All joking aside, I've had some really excellent reception of OTR over the past year or so, particularly in the hours before and up to local sunset, and the programs are a bit of a time warp! I've zoned out on several occasions  while imagining myself sitting in front of an old stand up radio and catching "the latest" episodes of my favorite programs. The cigarette and toothpaste ads are a real hoot too! I for one treasure this mysterious denizen of the shortwaves and hope it continues to be the RF equivalent of a lighthouse beacon. In fact, I use OTR as an indicator of propagation conditions on 43-44 meters....I really don't care about the who, what, why, or where of OTR. It is there most of the time and that works for me! I just hope that in this era of continuing decline of shortwave broadcasting, that we are able to hear this in the future. I hope it becomes a franchise!

I think that old guy in the garage is too busy nodding off between projects to bother with QSL's....probably has a half pint of something in the toolbox to ease the creaky old bones

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QSLs Received / Re: Ringo Shortwave QSL

« on: August 02, 2015, 1304 UTC »

Thank you very much Ringo Shortwave!

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European Pirates and Private Stations / Radio Eldorado 14497 USB 0245 UTC AUGUST 2, 2015

« on: August 02, 2015, 0251 UTC »

Hearing some music at 0245 UTC just above threshold, but steady
0257 UTC Some electronica music now
0301 UTC Little Richard song

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: unID 6975.6 AM 0230z 8/2/15

« on: August 02, 2015, 0239 UTC »

Nope The carrier has been there since at least 0030 UTC....no audio noted though I have it 6974.6ish here

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Huh? / Re: Veggie Burger

« on: August 02, 2015, 0206 UTC »

Brooklyn artist Laura Ginn hosted a $100-per-head rat dinner at New York's Allegra LaViola Gallery last July, part of an exhibit called Tomorrow We Will Feast Again on What We Catch. Ginn, who was a vegetarian for 16 years prior to hosting the dinner, told us that rat meat "has a gamey flavor." The most edible part comes from the rat's stomach, and "it gets crispy when you cook it; it's actually quite tasty." Was it delicious enough that she'd eat rat again? "I wouldn't make it for Sunday dinner," she laughs. "But if somebody offered it to me, sure, I'd try it."

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European Pirates and Private Stations / Re: Akai Radio 6305 AM 0015- 08/02/15

« on: August 02, 2015, 0028 UTC »

Steady listenable signal above the noise here at 0025 UTC with "Old Man Down The Road"-John Fogerty
0028 UTC "Rock and Roll Girls"-John Fogerty
0032 UTC UNID song by JF
0035 UTC UNID song by JF
0038 UTC OFF (I'm not getting a carrier after last song)

Thanks for the tunes from across the pond! No ID heard here...

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID 6935 USB 0256 UTC 1Aug15

« on: August 01, 2015, 1015 UTC »

Ready to call it a night and heard this at 0252 UTC with "Highway to Hell"-AC-DC. S4/S5 signal at peaks amidst noise and static. Tough copy after that...

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Shortwave Ghost 6873 KHz AM 0146 UTC+ 8/1

« on: August 01, 2015, 0202 UTC »

S5/S6 here at 0159 UTC with UNID tune in progress (Tom Petty?)
0201 UTC "Heartful of Soul"-Yardbirds
0203 UTC OM with ID, into "Sundown"-Gordon Lightfooot
(Frequency is about 6873.5ish and mostly well above the noise 'cept during the fades)
0207 UTC Signal is heading towards the noise during UNID tune
0210 UTC Signal back up again around S4/S5
0215 UTC OM with email and mention of "Show #13"
0221 UTC "Pick Up the Pieces"-Average White Band
(Signal strength is varying widely... )
0230 UTC At threshold level now, but I can hear the Ocarina solo on "Wild Thing"-Troggs

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID 6924.5 AM 0050 UTC 1 Aug 2015

« on: August 01, 2015, 0130 UTC »

Been listening since 0110 UTC but mostly carrier and pesky yak.
0129 UTC   "Secret Agent Man"-Johnny Rivers popping up above the noise and peskies!
0131 UTC Must have signed off in the last minute or so as I am not even getting the carrier now

0137 UTC Back up again with S9 POWER! "Revolution"-Beatles Seems to be on 6924.2ish AM now.
0140 UTC Paul Harvey now
0144 UTC "Nowhere Man"-Beatles
0147 UTC "Secret Agent Man"-Johnny Rivers (Even with the strong signal now, the damn peskies are QRMing....fish or cut bait boys! )
0150 UTC "I Am the Walrus"-Beatles
0154 UTC "A Day In the Life"-Beatles (cut short, segueing into Secret Agent Man, then OFF at 0157 UTC

Hmmm...Captain Morgan I presume?

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Ringo Shortwave 6935 USB 0017 UTC 1 Aug 2015

« on: August 01, 2015, 0026 UTC »

Solid S8 here at 0023 UTC tune in with end of song, 0024 UTC OM with ID "Ringo Shortwave" repeated and email as ringoshortwave@gmail.com, into "Yellow Submarine"
0027 UTC OM with ID repeated twice, then email, into "It Don't Come Easy"-Richard Starkey
0030 UTC OM with ID and email as above, into "Touch and Go"-Ringo
0033 UTC OM with ID and email as above, into "The No-No Song"-Ringo
0037 UTC OM with ID and email as above, into "Bamboula"-The Fab 4 drummer
0040 UTC OM with ID and email as above, then OFF

Thanks for the Ringo Starr tuneage tonight!

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Huh? / Re: My theory on "Old Time Radio 6770"

« on: July 31, 2015, 2259 UTC »

That guy must spend a lot of time in the garage! Given the amount of hours OTR is on, I'd say that transmitter must be hot enough to fry up a couple veggie burgers by now...

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: XLR8 6955 USB 2355 utc 30 Jul 2015

« on: July 31, 2015, 0109 UTC »

Hey XLR8...not to break the mood of the program, but any chance of hearing "Lather"-Jefferson Airplane?

0120 UTC Thanks XLR8! Grace Slicks finest vocal
0123 UTC OM with "XLR8...Accelerate!", and OFF
Thanks for the usual entertaining show of eclectic tunage