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European Pirates and Private Stations / UNID 15060 KHZ AM 1333 UTC OCT 4, 2014

« on: October 04, 2014, 1336 UTC »

I'm getting a bit of dance music at 1333 UTC fading in and out of the band noise here....
I finished posting the above comment, and then it was gone

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European Pirates and Private Stations / Re: Sluwe Vos 21455 AM 1232 UTC 04OC14

« on: October 04, 2014, 1247 UTC »

Music rising in and out of the noise here at 1231 UTC tune in, with S3 peaks here in Western MA. Nice to hear you today Sluwe!
1248 UTC Man announcer with ID's, frequency, mention that he will be closing down shortly, and thanks to listeners in the United States.
1250 UTC "Born To Be Wild"-Steppenwolf
1253 UTC Man announcer with ID and "closing down", into "Beat It"-Michael Jackson
1256 UTC   Man announcer with "Bye, Bye, then UNID Rock tune
1300 UTC "Land Down Under"-Men at Work (during song op said he'll be playing a few more records!
Signal is really peaking nicely between fades Sluwe! Nice audio too
1304 UTC Familiar rock tune I forget the name of....(during song mentioned something about sending recording by email)
1308 UTC   "Born In the USA"-Bruce Springsteen  
1312 UTC Jingle, 6 time pips, then Arnold Schwarzenegger "I'll Be Back"
(Thanks for the Saturday morning show Sluwe!!! Much appreciated and signal was awesome today

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Huh? / Re: The Great Lightbulb Conspiracy

« on: October 04, 2014, 0124 UTC »

Light bulbs are just a filament of our imagination

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: XLR8 6925U 0011 4 October 2014

« on: October 04, 2014, 0026 UTC »

S7 here at 0020 UTC tune in with a long sustained note until UNID tune with man singer at 0022 UTC. Signal still above the moderate noise level and audio sounds great here!

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European Pirates and Private Stations / Re: Radio Magic International 6200 AM 2132 UTC 2 Oct 2014

« on: October 03, 2014, 2347 UTC »

Fair signal here in Western MA tonight with European pop tunes and announcer between songs since 2320 UTC. Some band noise and rapid fading tonight, but otherwise sounds good here through the stereo system.

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Huh? / Re: The Great Lightbulb Conspiracy

« on: October 02, 2014, 2255 UTC »

Seriously Al, it doesn't surprise me in the slightest that something like this would happen in the corporate world. I doubt that the Phoebus Cartel were the first to come up with the bright idea of "planned obsolescense". They certainly won't be the last. Now all we need is DimBulb to weigh in on the subject and further enlighten us....

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European Pirates and Private Stations / Re: Radio Magic International 6200 AM 2132 UTC 2 Oct 2014

« on: October 02, 2014, 2247 UTC »

Nice steady S5 signal here at 2232 UTC with "I Won't Back Down"-Tom Petty. No contact address given yet, at least not that I've heard. Still, it's nice to have a regular Euro audible here in the USA!
Hey, whoever you are, how about an email, Magic op?

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Huh? / Re: The Great Lightbulb Conspiracy

« on: October 02, 2014, 2158 UTC »

Thanks for providing an illuminating link that sheds light on an interesting subject, despite detractors who attempt to make light of the situation....

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European Pirates and Private Stations / Re: Laser Hot Hits 4026 0115z 10/2/14

« on: October 02, 2014, 0038 UTC »

I'm getting a weak carrier here in Western MA with threshold audio at 0031 UTC check. The static is just too much here for decent copy. I've never been able to get a clear logging of LHH on this frequency.

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FM Free Radio / Re: 87.7 MHz FM, Monday 09/29, Livonia, Michigan

« on: October 02, 2014, 0011 UTC »

Jordan, if you're going to make a decision to report or not report a station to the FCC based on your personal musical tastes, then for the sake of argument, I should be able to do the same. So let me play devil's advocate and say that I'm parked in my driveway and I hear a bluegrass station on 87.7.  I'm going to report them to the FCC(if I had the time). I sincerely hope it's not you deciding to start up a harmless operation based on your musical tastes. In the real world though, I happen to like bluegrass music....so you would be safe. I don't particularly care for rap music either....so I simply tune away. The FCC's decision to bust an unlicensed station is generally in response to a complaint, which atrainradio has pointed out in a very polite manner. Local AM and FM broadcasting is a very competitive market, with stations often going for millions of dollars. They don't like some little nickel and dime operation taking away their potential audience (that means advertising dollars). So they have legal routes to take care of the problem. You are not telling the FCC anything they aren't already aware of. I doubt that your distaste of rap or hip/hop music is going to rally an expensive direction finding search out of some local FCC office hell bent on busting up some harmless 10 watt operation on an FM channel that nobody ever tunes to, unless they're looking for pirates or perhaps some E-skip FM DXing. You seem to be straddling the fence on whether or not it's ok to listen to pirate radio. I don't see that you have posted any loggings yet....hopefully you get it straight in your mind that it is legal to listen and illegal to operate. This is irrespective of whether they play bluegrass music or rap...

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European Pirates and Private Stations / Re: RADIO MAGIC INTERNATIONAL 6200 KHZ AM 2234 UTC SEPT 30, 2014

« on: October 01, 2014, 2136 UTC »

Again today at 2130 UTC tune in at S3 level amid some static, but in the clear. Yesterday there was no contact address given and a quick check of Iann's chat today reveals that there is no further info on this station. The signal reminds me somewhat of my Horizen FM receptions from earlier this year.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: XLR8 6925 USB 0015 UTC 01 Oct 2014

« on: October 01, 2014, 0038 UTC »

0035 UTC tune in with S7 peaks and nice clear audio amid static bursts....sounds like a kid singing a song about a freight train.
0042 UTC Man announcer with ID..."X-L-R-8"
Some pesky QRM on LSB

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European Pirates and Private Stations / RADIO MAGIC INTERNATIONAL 6200 KHZ AM 2234 UTC SEPT 30, 2014

« on: September 30, 2014, 2312 UTC »

Fairly strong signal here playing mostly European pop tunes with ID's since 2234 UTC. Still going at 2312 UTC. No email address given yet
2319 UTC "Message In A Bottle"-Police
2322 UTC "Stuck On You"-Lionel Ritchie
2340 UTC The static is getting rather heavy here....must be a storm brewing somewhere. Signal not quite as good as earlier.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID 6925 AM 2242 UTC 28 Sep 2014

« on: September 28, 2014, 2310 UTC »

Strong open carrier at 2253 UTC with pesky QRM, then I think I heard someone say "Put on the program", just before "Born To Be Wild"-Steppenwolf. "Don't let them see us....", into "Frankenstein"-Edgar Winters Group.
2305 UTC "Walk This Way"-Aerosmith
2308 UTC Undercover Radio ID with email address  
2309 UTC "Baba O'Reilly"-Who
2314 UTC Dr. Benway story about having a flashback.
2319 UTC Undercover Radio ID's, into "Radar Love"-Golden Earring
2326 UTC Dr. Benway live! "...been awhile...get the cobwebs off the radio...hope you had a good summer", followed by shoutouts to all the posters here!!! Thanks Dr. Benway!!
2328 UTC Dr. Benway reminisces about his pirate radio career
2336 UTC Undercover Radio ID's and email address, followed by Rush and one really annoying pesky.
2341 UTC Dr. Benway switching over to USB....2342 UTC USB! (Sounds great, and that pesky is gone)
2342 UTC ID-You are tuned to Undercover Radio, pirate radio broadcasting from the middle of nowhere, then Dr. Benway live mentioning he's doing some testing...Ultra Side Band then shoutouts to ByteBORG, Rafman, and Dick Weed.
2345 UTC Reminisces about the Kenmore TS-430 and going mobile, stopping at the phone booth...
(Details, details, details) OFF at 0001 UTC after some more shoutouts....Thanks for the show tonight Dr. Benway! Aways a good thing!

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European Pirates and Private Stations / Re: Black Bandit Radio 6300 AM 2226 UTC 19 Sep 2014

« on: September 27, 2014, 2352 UTC »

Been listening on and off for almost 2 hours with a super signal here into Western MA. Thanks for the shoutouts and the fun tonight Black Bandit....enjoyed the World Service...and you're still going strong at 2352 UTC!  
(Polkas, folk music, country tunes, and what have you....get it all at the Black Bandit World Service )
Off around 0115 or so UTC. Betcha you could fry a steak on that xmtr
Thanks for the marathon from across the big pond BBR!