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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Boombox Radio 6925 AM 1210- 1/24/15 on Air

« on: January 24, 2015, 1257 UTC »

  Nice to hear you Boombox Radio! Tuned in at 1247 UTC on 6924.6 KHZ AM and there was this booming AM signal to go along with the snow that's starting to pile up outside here in Western MA! We have about 3-4 inches already and it doesn't look like it will let up anytime soon. Hmmm, I was going to do some shoveling just now, but I think I'll kick back and listen to Boombox and maybe get my feet limbered up
1250 UTC Man announcer with ID, into some contemporary pop/dance music
1254 UTC Interval signal, and repeated ID's and email address (My first time hearing your IS! Goes nicely with the snow outside!)
1256 UTC Music
1303 UTC Hey, your techno electronica is beeping
1320 UTC That is some really nice audio you got there BBR!
1345 UTC Not the usual Breakfast with Boombox, but I just finished up a couple of English muffins with peanut butter....time to head out to shovel the snow. I'll leave the cassette running and pick up on the rest of the show later. Thanks BBR! Love those morning shows!

EDIT Listened back on the last 45 minutes just now and signal held up nicely at S9 here. Slick ID's...Boombox Radio on....Sirius FM, On Demand, Facebook, etc
OFF around 1415 UTC with IS and sign on announcement!

11072

General Radio Discussion / Re: YHWH - 12/17 update

« on: January 24, 2015, 0357 UTC »

The musical composition played on the YHWH broadcasts was one of the eeriest sounding things I had ever heard in my life. It was kinda scary...a psychedelic raga played on an electric sitar if my ears serve me right. The op claimed the song was called "Days of Hard Life" by the Canadian band Lace. Only problem is the band LACE is a C&W group. The song by LACE is called "Life Is Hard". None of the lyrics match.
  

"Life Is Hard"-LACE

If I wanted it easy I'd a been gone by now
If I thought it was simple I'd have figured it out
But this thing called love takes everything that I've got
I'm not sure what it is but I'm sure what it's not
'Cause baby you and I got different ways of saying the same thing 'cause

Love is hard from start to finish
And if you love you gotta put your whole heart in it
And if it's right you'll know in a minute
Doin' things you never thought you could
Love is hard, but baby life is good

We can say things that cut to the bone
We want to be together but we want to be alone
Sometimes it seems we're on different tracks
We might walk away but we'll always come back
Baby you and me got different ways of saying the same thing
We both know

Love is hard from start to finish
And if you love you gotta put your whole heart in it
And if it's right you'll know in a minute
Doin' things you never thought you could
Love is hard, but baby life is good

Oh, so good

Love is hard from start to finish
And if you love you gotta put your whole heart in it
And if it's right you'll know in a minute
Doin' things you never thought you could
Love is hard, but baby life is good

Love is hard
Life's so good
Love is hard
Life's so good
Love is hard
Life's so good
Love is hard
Life's so good

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: unID 6930 AM 0130z 1/24/15

« on: January 24, 2015, 0206 UTC »

It's been there since at least 0015 UTC when I first noticed it with varying degrees of signal strength. No audio at any time, but it is still audible as a carrier only at 0205 UTC

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Radio GaGa 6940 DSB 0028 UTC 24 Jan 2015

« on: January 24, 2015, 0048 UTC »

Just tuned in at 0045 UTC to Dream Weaver-Gary Wright. Sounds like wind blowing and voices in the background!
0048 UTC "Someday Never Comes"-John Fogerty
0052 UTC UNID tune Radio GaGa-Queen
0057 UTC OP with "Radio GaGa, broadcasting live from Zipper Lake"..."Time for Northern Pike on a stick", then OFF

Thanks for the show tonight RGG! Good luck with the fishing!

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Rave On Radio 6925 usb at 2325 utc Jan 23, 2015

« on: January 23, 2015, 2344 UTC »

2338 UTC Tuned in to signal just above the static crashes with "Excitable Boy"-Warren Zevon
2341 UTC Man announcer with several distinctive "Rave On Radio" ID's
2343 UTC "Young American"-David Bowie
Signal mostly at noise level, but rising above to a few nice peaks!
2346 UTC Tones, then UNID song(too much noise and peskie on LSB)
2351 UTC Man announcer with ID, followed by ?, then "Lawyers, Guns, and Money"-Warren Zevon
2357 UTC Man announcer with ID, mention of Warren Zevon show
Signal either in the noise or gone now. Nothing but the damn peskie on LSB
0009 UTC Signal back up now Man announcer with shoutouts, ID, and email
0010 UTC Warren Zevon again
0019 UTC Man announcer....last words were "Studio in the woods", then OFF

Thanks for the show and the shoutouts tonight ROR! Must be cold out there in the woods...better hunker down with that storm coming!

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General Radio Discussion / Re: WW II antenna

« on: January 23, 2015, 1648 UTC »

Here's a couple of pics of some vintage WW2 direction finders made by Stewart Warner. The first one is the BC470D and the second one is the BC1003. I wonder if they could be retrofitted with SDR technology?

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European Pirates and Private Stations / Abu Dhabi Radio 6305 KHZ AM 2316 UTC JAN 22, 2015

« on: January 22, 2015, 2319 UTC »

S5 peaks here at 2316 UTC tune in on 6305 KHZ AM with a 50's Rockabilly tune
2318 UTC Instrumental tune-Dutch?
2322 UTC C&W tune-Lady Singer (Good signal but moderate noise and fading here)
2325 UTC Polka
2336 UTC Nice Steel Guitar tune!
2338 UTC Anushka, bring me another  

Abu Dhabi, are you watching the postings? Still a nice signal here while I eat my dinner!
0039 UTC "Abu Dhabi Radio"

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID 6924.3 AM 0001 UTC 22 Jan 2015

« on: January 22, 2015, 0026 UTC »

s3 peskie interf. "Have a peanutbutter sandwich " at 0011

Darn, I missed a good song!!!!

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID 6924.3 AM 0001 UTC 22 Jan 2015

« on: January 22, 2015, 0019 UTC »

Signal came up through the noise at 0014 UTC with UNID music. Peskie QRM and loud static crashes making for tough copy here...best on LSB and frequency seems to be closer to 6924.1 KHZ.
0029 UTC Nondescript music with a man voiceover, into a parody of "I've Just Seen A Face" at 0030 UTC
0036 UTC Man talking over music but I can't copy with the peskie QRM
0040 UTC Carrier gone abruptly

 Thanks whoever!

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: CoolAM 6945 KHZ LSB moved to 6950 USB 0144 UTC JAN 18, 2015

« on: January 21, 2015, 0034 UTC »

I will be sure not to underestimate you in the future Andre!

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QSLs Received / RE:Radio GaGa "the original pescadore" eQSL

« on: January 20, 2015, 2309 UTC »

Thanks GaGa!!! Nice catch too! 

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID 6955 AM 0106 UTC 20 Jan 2015

« on: January 20, 2015, 0114 UTC »

Just a carrier here since 0102 UTC but no detectable audio...carrier gone sometime around 0110 UTC.

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QSLs Received / Re: The Crystal Ship "Flower Power Show" eQSL

« on: January 20, 2015, 0100 UTC »

Received here also...thanks JP! Where have all the flowers gone?

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID 6925 USB 0036 UTC 20Jan15

« on: January 20, 2015, 0041 UTC »

Here also but very weak at 0039 UTC tune in. It does sound like Martin Luther King speaking!
The peskie on LSB is bleeding over into the USB here, but I can hear the crowd giving attestation during the speech. Kudos to the op on this whoever you are!
0049 UTC CW
0052 UTC OFF?

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: The Crystal Ship "Flower Power" 6850.5 AM 2340 UTC 18 Jan 2015

« on: January 18, 2015, 2347 UTC »

2345 UTC S9 here with "Let The Sunshine"-5th Dimension (In progress at tune in)
2346 UTC "Let's Live For Today"-Grassroots (My first rock concert-1970)
2350 UTC "If You're Going to San Francisco"-Scott McKenzie
2353 UTC JP with friendly statement about the FCC , ID with clip of "White Rabbit", into
"Itchycoo Park"-Small Faces
2356 UTC "Along Comes Mary"-Association
2359 UTC "Eight Miles High"-Byrds
0002 UTC "Journey to the Center of the Mind"-Amboy Dukes (Ted says he never did drugs...hmmm...the album cover depicts bongs )
0006 UTC JP mentions "JT Arthur...The Crystal Ship...TCS shortwave relay network, into
"White Rabbit"-Jefferson Airplane
0009 UTC "I Had Too Much to Dream Last Night"-Electric Prunes
0012 UTC "Incense and Peppermint"-Strawberry Alarm Clock (Does anybody remember the movie "Pysch-Out with a young Jack Nicholson and soundtrack by the SAC?)
0015 UTC "Venus"-Shocking Blue
0018 UTC Audio clip of some movie..."Turn on, Tune In, Drop Out"....TCS shortwave relay network"
0019 UTC "What Condition My Condition Is In"-First Edition (Starring Hippy Kenny )
0022 UTC "Pictures of Matchstick Men"-Status Quo
0026 UTC "Green Tambourine"-Lemon Pipers
0029 UTC "Hair"-Cowsills
0032 UTC PSA for "NORML", into "Time of the Season"-Zombies
0035 UTC "Happy Together"-Turtles
0039 UTC "For Your Love"-Yardbirds (I think Eric Clapton played on this track)
0041 UTC "Bus Stop"-Hollies
0044 UTC ID...PSA for "I'm A Democrat"...even John T Arthur can't resist listening to the Crystal Ship...Donner Pass Diner..."there's no sin in loving nature"
0048 UTC "All You Need Is Love"-Beatles
0051 UTC "Groovy Kind of Love"-Wayne Fontana & the Mindbenders
0054 UTC ID, then "Brown Eyed Girl"-Van Morrison
0057 UTC "Come On Down to My Boat Baby"-Every Mothers Son
0100 UTC ("For Pete's Sake"-Monkees.....thanks JP and Google!)
0102 UTC "Where Have All the Flowers Gone"-Peter, Paul, and Mary
0105 UTC ID..."You are tuned to the Crystal Ship on the TCS shortwave relay network"...email address for QSL... tcsshortwave@gmail.com ...(what is the name of that folksy pirate sounding ditty?)
0107 UTC "We Want the Airwaves"-Ramones
0110 UTC Dragnet clip, the OFF

Finally got the whole show without the band going long on me!!! Thanks JP....been trying to get this for awhile. Hmmm, what was the name of that song at 0100 UTC and who is the artist?