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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Boombox Radio 6872.6 AM 0150 UTC 10 MAY 2025

« on: May 10, 2025, 0156 UTC »

0149 UTC DJ Liquid Todd with "Boombox Radio" ID (S9 peaks with light fading), followed by an unid song
0200 UTC OM with ID again, followed by unid dance music
0301 UTC OFF

Thanks BBR!

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Latin American Pirate / Re: AD149 Radio tentative 6934.9 AM 0057 UTC 10 MAY 2025

« on: May 10, 2025, 0101 UTC »

0100 UTC Unid song buried in the S7 wall of noise
0103 UTC OM with DJ chat (no chance of copy)

I have the frequency as 6934.9, so this is probably AD149 Radio

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Space Junk Radio 6960 USB 0003 UTC 10 MAY 2025

« on: May 10, 2025, 0034 UTC »

0033 UTC "On the Border"-Al Stewart live (S8 peaks with light fading and moderate noise)
0036 UTC "Year of the Cat"-Al Stewart
0042 UTC "Time Passages"-Al Stewart
0050 UTC OM with spoken word skit, then OFF

Thanks SJR!

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: V-Sky Radio 6950 USB 2359 UTC 09 May 2025

« on: May 10, 2025, 0032 UTC »

0025 UTC "We Built This City"-Starship (in progress...S8 with light noise & moderate noise)

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID 6950 USB 0015 UTC 8 May 2025

« on: May 08, 2025, 0020 UTC »

0017 UTC "Locomotive Breath"-Jethro Tull in progress. (S7 peaks with light fading and moderate noise)
0019 UTC "Born To Be Wild"-Steppenwolf
0022 UTC "American Woman"-Guess Who
0026 UTC "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida"-Iron Butterfly (Long version!)
0043 UTC "Brown Sugar"-Rolling Stones
0047 UTC "Long Distance Runaround"-Yes
0050 UTC "Feelin Alright"-Joe Cocker live

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Wolverine Radio 6950 USB 2357 UTC 3 MAY 2025

« on: May 03, 2025, 2357 UTC »

2357 UTC Testing one, two, three...(Some OM came on over the IS with "Yeah I can hear ya")
(S9+ amidst lots of snap, crackle, and pop)
0000 UTC OM with ID, followed by "My Special Friend is Back in Town"-Ethel Waters
0014 UTC "I'm Sorry For You My Friend"-Hank Williams
0019 UTC "My Best Friend"-Jefferson Airplane
0022 UTC "A Little Help From My Friends"-Joe Cocker
0027 UTC "Friend of the Devil"-Grateful Dead
0030 UTC "You've Got a Friend"-James Taylor
0034 UTC "Red Neck Friend"-Jackson Browne
0039 UTC "Why Can't We Be Friends"-War
0042 UTC "My Best Friends Girl"-The Cars
0052 UTC "Waiting On a Friend"-Rolling Stones
0100 UTC "Playing With My Friends"-B.B. King
0105 UTC Scottie 1 SSTV



Thanks Wolverine!

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Space Junk Radio 6960 USB 2334 UTC 30 APR 2025

« on: April 30, 2025, 2335 UTC »

2334 UTC "Walk the Dinosaur"-Was (Not Was) S8 peaks with light fading and solid above the noise
2337 UTC "Then She Kissed Me"-unid cover version of The Crystals tune
2340 UTC "Spirits In the Material World"-Police
2357 UTC "(I Just) Died In Your Arms"-Cutting Crew
0001 UTC OM with a quick "Space Junk Radio" ID, followed by an unid Van Halen tune
0006 UTC "Girl, You'll Be a Woman Soon"-cover?
0013 UTC "Home By the Sea"-Genesis
0026 UTC OM said something but I missed it
0031 UTC "China Girl"-David Bowie
0040 UTC "In the Ghetto"-Elvis Presley
0043 UTC "White Rabbit"-Jefferson Airplane
0059 UTC "Heartbreak Hotel"-Elvis Presley, segue into "Mystery Train"-Elvis Presley
0103 UTC OM with "For an eQSL send your report to spacejunkradio@proton.me , then OFF

Thanks for the show SJR!

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: WDEF 6907 AM was 6905 AM 0033 UTC 28 APR 2025

« on: April 28, 2025, 0052 UTC »

0050 UTC Tuned in to "You're So Vain"-Carly Simon (in progress and fading in and out of the high noise level)
{S7 peaks with moderate fading and high noise...I have this on 6907 AM}
0053 UTC ID by OM..."WDEF", followed by "Sister Golden Hair"-America
0057 UTC "Allentown"-Billy Joel
0101 UTC "One Way or Another"-Blondie
0104 UTC "Suzie Q"-CCR
0109 UTC Unid spoken word skit, followed by unid pop song

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North American Shortwave Pirate / RE: Unid 6925 USB was LSB 2222 UTC 22 Apr 2025

« on: April 22, 2025, 2226 UTC »

2225 UTC "Just the Two of Us"-Bill Withers & Grover Washington Jr (S8 peaks with light fading and light noise. Nice USB audio!)
2228 UTC OM with indistinct ID, followed by "Radio Gaga"-Queen {I thought it might have been "Good Times Radio", but just guessing!}
2234 UTC "Hold My Hand"-Hootie & the Blowfish
2238 UTC I forgot the name of this one
2242 UTC "I Can Hear Music"-Beach Boys
2253 UTC "Wild Honey"-Beach Boys
2256 UTC "Ain't No Sunshine"-Bill Withers
2259 UTC A Hootie & the Blowfish song I don't recognize
2301 UTC "Do It Again"-Beach Boys (Some peskie talk on USB noted between songs)
2304 UTC "Kokomo"-Beach Boys
2308 UTC "Good Vibrations"-Beach Boys ( Annoying peskie QRM heard during the music now...peskie on 6927 USB? Another peskie on 6925 also)
2315 UTC "I Can Hear Music"-Beach Boys
2318 UTC "I'm Going Home"-Hootie & the Blowfish
2322 UTC Sounds like "In My Life" by the Beatles, only with muted vocals
DINNER TIME! I'll be listening...caught the echo ID at 2334 UTC...speeded up the pitch 50% and here's what it sounds like: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1D8J_8phNLOrA_KxBQZ4vXCuEmmqHJk9y/view?usp=sharing
It sounds something like W E are pirate radio...?
2353 UTC "What a Wonderful World"-Louis Armstrong
2355 UTC "I'm On Fire"-Bruce Springsteen
2358 UTC "Time"-Hootie & the Blowfish
0010 UTC "Crashed"-Daughtry (I know the name of this song now! 3rd time this show...cool!)
0014 UTC Echo ID again, but did not have recorder running...followed by "Piano Man"-Billy Joel
0018 UTC OM with echo voice ID...repeated (Something like "Nothing but music all the time pirate radio"?)
0026 UTC Another ID
0033 UTC "Air That I Breathe"-Hollies
0051 UTC "Lean On Me"-Bill Withers (Still solid above the noise with S7 peaks)
0057 UTC "Wild Honey"-Beach Boys
0100 UTC "I Can Hear Music"-Beach Boys
0103 UTC OM with electronically altered voice, followed by "She's Always a Woman"-Billy Joel
(ID was different this time...W something...too much distortion!)
0113 UTC Noise level has gone up quite a bit
0119 UTC Back up to S8...

Thank you for the musical entertainment this evening! Didn't quite catch the name... 

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North American Shortwave Pirate / KSKO via ? 6955 AM 2058 UTC 21 APR 2025

« on: April 21, 2025, 2059 UTC »

2058 UTC "Dance With Me"-Orleans (S9 with light fades and excellent audio)
2100 UTC YL chatting about a volcano in Alaska and other news items (I missed the ID!)
2104 UTC Singing jingle, followed by "Black Friday"-Steely Dan
2108 UTC OM DJ talk, followed by "Fashion"-David Bowie
2116 UTC "Love Her Madly"-The Doors
2119 UTC "KSKO" ID by Paul Walker, followed by "Whammer Jammer"-J Geils Band
2122 UTC "Margaritaville"-Jimmy Buffett
2127 UTC "Why Can't This Be Love"-Van Halen
2131 UTC Weather report by OM
2133 UTC "Livin' On the Edge"-Aerosmith
2139 UTC "KSKO is hiring"
2140 UTC "867-5309"-Tommy Tutone
2144 UTC "I'm A Believer"-Monkees
2148 UTC Paul Walker with ID and upcoming local events, followed by "Play That Funky Music"-Wild Cherry
Dinner time music provided by KSKO relayer!
2158 UTC OFF? Carrier still up!
2159 UTC Carrier off

Thanks for the relay of KSKO!

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QSLs Received / Re: Radio 48 via Mix Radio International eQSL 6930 USB 1952 UTC 12 APR 2025

« on: April 20, 2025, 0243 UTC »

Thank you for the always appreciated eQSL! Tip of the hat to Radio 48 and MRI!

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Wolverine Radio 6960 USB 2357 UTC 19 Apr 2025

« on: April 20, 2025, 0000 UTC »

2358 UTC IS and ID (S9+10!)
0000 UTC 1920's sounding tune
0012 UTC "I Lost My Sugar In Salt Lake City"-Johnny Mercer
0017 UTC "Kansas City"-Wilbert Harrison
0022 UTC "Boy From New York City"-(I forgot who does this...cognitive decline!)
0025 UTC "Born In Chicago"-Paul Butterfield
0028 UTC "Last Train to Clarksville"-Monkees
0032 UTC "Look Out Cleveland"-The Band
0034 UTC "Shanghai Noodle Factory"-Traffic
0039 UTC "Coming Into Los Angeles"-Arlo Guthrie
0042 UTC "Woodstock"-Crosby Stills Nash & Young
0046 UTC "Tupelo Honey"-Van Morrison
0053 UTC "China Grove"-Doobie Brothers
0056 UTC "Free Man In Paris"-Joni Mitchell
0104 UTC "Angel From Montgomery"-Bonnie Raitt
0107 UTC "Oh Atlanta"-Little Feat
0111 UTC A song by Elvis Costello that I forgot the name of...
0114 UTC "Werewolves of London"-Warren Zevon
0122 UTC "Harlem Shuffle"-Rolling Stones



Thanks again for the Saturday evening entertainment!

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: V-Sky Radio 6950 USB was 6975 USB was LSB 0000 UTC 19 Apr 2025

« on: April 19, 2025, 0018 UTC »

0017 UTC "The End of the World"-Skeeter Davis
(S8 peaks and solid above the noise with light fading and annoying radar ute QRM)
0023 UTC "Apache"-The Shadows?
0026 UTC "I Am a Rock"-Simon & Garfunkel...pause, then OM saying QSY to 6950 Upper Side Band
0027 UTC Much better here without the wideband radar ute! Nice USB audio!
0029 UTC OM with ID, followed by "Gloria"-Shadows of Knight
0032 UTC OM DJ chat, followed by "I Wonder What She's Doing Tonight"-Tommy Boyce & Bobby Hart
0035 UTC "Dead Mans Curve"-Jan & Dean
0041 UTC "San Francisco"-Scott Mackenzie



Thanks for the songs from my youth...most of which I still remember!

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North American Shortwave Pirate / UNID 6960 USB 0115 UTC 18 APR 2025

« on: April 18, 2025, 0116 UTC »

0115 UTC  Unid song (S7 with light fades into the high noise...excellent audio)
0120 UTC "Red Red Wine"-UB40
0133 UTC "I Go to Extremes"-Billy Joel
0137 UTC "The Stuff Dreams Are Made Of"-Carly Simon
0143 UTC "LA Woman"-The Doors 
0151 UTC OFF

Thanks for the tunes!

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QSLs Received / Re: The Cosmonaut System eQSL 6959.3 AM 0343 UTC 14 APR 2025

« on: April 17, 2025, 1632 UTC »

Also received here! Thank you Cosmonaut System...It is appreciated!