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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Moonshine Radio 6935 USB 2326 UTC 5 Apr 2025

« on: April 05, 2025, 2333 UTC »

2330 UTC Tuned in to "Long Cool Woman"-Hollies (S9 and solid above the noise)
2332 UTC YL with ID..."Moonshine Radio", followed by "I Hear You Knocking"-Dave Edmunds
2335 UTC YL with "You're listening to Moonshine Radio", followed by "Heart of Glass"-Blondie (longer mix)
2340 UTC YL with ID repeated...mention of Carpenters and Black Sabbath, followed by "Ride Captain Ride"-Blues Image
2344 UTC OM with "This is Lawnmower Man broadcasting from the f**king ionosphere, followed by "Radar Love"-Golden Earring"

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID 6960 AM 2353 UTC 3 APR 2025

« on: April 04, 2025, 0122 UTC »

0120 UTC Hearing "Cold Shot"-Stevie Ray Vaughan at the noise floor
0123 UTC Scottie 1 SSTV (Only got the last part-noisy decode)

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North American Shortwave Pirate / WTF Worldwide 6925 USB 2326 UTC 3 APR 2025

« on: April 03, 2025, 2328 UTC »

2326 UTC Animal noises? Sounds like demon voices on a loop  (S8 peaks with light noise)
2338 UTC Still going strong! Whatever they are, they sound hungry.....
2342 UTC Short pause followed by a familiar musical bell/xylophone tune
2346 UTC OM with ID..."WTF Worldwide", followed by "Wah Wah"-George Harrison
2352 UC Kenneth "broadcasting live from Molvania Cafe", followed by "If Not For You"-George Harrison-alternate take
2356 UTC OM with mention again of "Molvania Cafe", followed by "What Is Life"-George Harrison alternate take
0001 UTC Mention of "downtown Molvania"
0005 UTC "My Sweet Lord"-George Harrison-alternate take
0019 UTC "Apple Scruffs"-George Harrison -alternate take (Solid S9+ now!)
0022 UTC "All Things Must Pass"-George Harrison-alternate take
0046 UTC Bell/Xylophone music
0048 UTC OFF

Thanks WTF! First time hearing those early George Harrison demo/alternate takes! 

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Unid 6960 AM 2340 UTC 29 Mar 2025

« on: March 29, 2025, 2345 UTC »

2343 UTC "Killing Moon"-Echo & the Bunnymen (S7 peaks with light fading...mostly solid above the high noise level...excellent audio)
2345 UTC A John Denver song I forgot the name of (Some deep but brief fades into the noise)
2349 UTC "Stay With Me"-Rod Stewart & Faces
2354 UTC "At the Hop"-Unid cover of the Danny & Juniors version
0002 UTC Noise level has increased quite a bit
0005 UTC "See You In September"-Not sure which version..."The Tempos"?
0012 UTC "Spirits in the Material World"-The Police
0015 UTC "Pride and Joy"-Stevie Ray Vaughan live version segue into "Cold Shot"-Stevie Ray Vaughan
0027 UTC "Can't Buy Me Love"-unid cover version (Peskie QRM on LSB now)
0029 UTC Unid Van Halen tune
0033 UTC "Smokin"-Boston
0040 UTC "Goin Mobile"-The Who
0043 UTC OM with ID that I couldn't dig out of the noise, followed by a Robot 36 SSTV



Thank you for the nice playlist whoever!

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European Pirates and Private Stations / Re: ABC Fifties 6290 AM 2151 UTC 28 MAR 2025

« on: March 28, 2025, 2210 UTC »

2208 UTC Hearing music fading in and out of the noise directly across the pond. Still a bit low in the noise to ID the song. Local QRM on the low side, so best in USB here. A bit of flutter to the signal
2216 UTC Unid song just started
2220 UTC "Mack the Knife"-Louis Armstrong
2231 UTC "Kisses Sweeter Than Wine"-Jimmie Rodgers? (Signal has picked up a bit!)
2236 UTC A piano and band pop instrumental I forgot the name of
2255 UTC OFF

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Nuttin On Shortwave 6925 USB 2326 UTC 26 MAR 2025

« on: March 26, 2025, 2327 UTC »

2326 UTC Jazz music with ID "Nuttin On Shortwave" by OM, then back to the music (S8 peaks and sounding good!)
2330 UTC OM with "Hey Skipmuck you bum!" followed by the Radio Botswana IS (Great to hear Da Crusher again!)
I'm going to just kick back and enjoy the show! 
2335 UTC "Hells Bells"-AC/DC
2345 UTC Da Crusher with shoutouts to the posters...Thanks!
0000 UTC "Back In Black"-AC/DC
0025 UTC "Radio Song"-R.E.M.
0030 UTC "Losing My Religion"-R.E.M.
0035 UTC Da Crusher with shoutouts to recent posts..."Crusher Says Hello"
0039 UTC "Do the Hammerlock" Internal Signal

Thanks for the entertainment this evening!

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QSLs Received / Re: WDEF eQSL 6925 AM 0109 UTC 18 MAR 2025

« on: March 26, 2025, 2308 UTC »

Also received the same awesome full data eQSL here...THANKS Captain Mitchell!

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North American Shortwave Pirate / UNID 6930 AM 0132 UTC 26 MAR 2025

« on: March 26, 2025, 0135 UTC »

0132 UTC Unid rock music-OM singers (Mostly solid above the noise floor...light fading-excellent audio)
0142 UTC A Nirvana song I forgot the name of (Signal has dropped a bit into the noise)
0144 UTC "Run Like Hell"-Pink Floyd
0149 UTC OM with an ID I didn't catch...will have to check the recording later
0155 UTC OFF
Thanks for the broadcast!

I saved the recording to my Google Drive and used the Shazam Browser extension on it and this is what it came up with for the playlist:
"Sifting"-Nirvana
"Heartbreaker"-Dionne Warwick
"Big Cheese"-Nirvana
"About a Girl"-Nirvana
"Run Like Hell"-Pink Floyd
"KRS-One"-Sublime
"Little Guitars"-Van Halen

Listened several times to the ID at 0149 UTC, but reception was rough at that time.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID 6950 USB 2153 UTC 25 MAR 2025

« on: March 25, 2025, 2203 UTC »

2158 UTC Orchestral/Classical music live (S8 peaks with light noise and excellent USB audio)
2205 UTC Another musical composition

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Sternradio 6960.4 AM 1810 UTC 25 MAR 2025

« on: March 25, 2025, 1811 UTC »

1810 UTC Unid pop tune (S8 peaks with moderate fading and noise...excellent audio)
1812 UTC YL with ID, followed by an unid rap/pop tune-OM singer
1817 UTC "Long Distance Runaround"-Yes (Nice S9 peak here!)
1822 UTC OM and YL speaking..."Technical difficulties...transmitter is smoking...smoking will kill you", into "I Can See For Miles"-The Who
1830 UTC "Under the Milky Way"-The Church

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Sternradio 6962.4 AM 1926 UTC 24 MAR 2024

« on: March 24, 2025, 1927 UTC »

1926 UTC Unid punk rock tune-OM singers (S8 peaks with light noise and light fades...excellent audio)
1928 UTC YL with ID, followed by hard rock tune

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Outhouse 6955 was 6952 was 6952.3 USB 0035 UTC 24 MAR 2025

« on: March 24, 2025, 0036 UTC »

0035 UTC Tuned into some electronica dance music just above the noise floor...can't quite tune this one in, so frequency is approximate...seems to be speeded up with music and a Donald Duck voice
0043 UTC Fast speaking OM DJ (another OM with regular speed voice said something over the DJ)
0045 UTC Pop song now
0046 UTC Just noticed there is also an AM station on 6950! A little bit of it is splattering over onto the USB station on 6952
0048 UTC Signal cleared up nicely...unid dance tune
0050 UTC OFF
It seems I was mistuned until 0048 UTC...oops
0123 UTC Scottie2 SSTV on 6955 USB
0124 UTC Scottie2 SSTV on 6955 USB


0147 UTC "Happy Trails"-Van Halen

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: SternRadio 6960 was 6957 was 6953 AM 1812 UTC 23 MAR 2025

« on: March 23, 2025, 2001 UTC »

2001 UTC "Long Distance Runaround"-Yes (S8 peaks with light fading and mostly solid above the noise...excellent audio)
2011 UTC OM and then YL with ID, followed by "Deacon Blues"-Steely Dan

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Wolverine Radio 6965 USB 2358 UTC 22 Mar 2025

« on: March 23, 2025, 0002 UTC »

0001 UTC 1930's sounding tune with lyrics "I May Be Crazy But I Ain't No Fool"-OM singer
0003 UTC Song with lyrics "I Got a Feeling Your Fooling"-OM singer
0014 UTC "I've Been a Fool About You"-Hank Williams?
0015 UTC "Why Do Fools Fall in Love"-Frankie Lymon & The Teenagers
0020 UTC "Chain of Fools"-Aretha Franklin
0022 UTC "Ship of Fools"-The Doors
0028 UTC "Only a Fool Would Say That"-Steely Dan
0031 UTC "Everybody Plays the Fool"-Main Ingredient
0038 UTC "Ship of Fools"-Grateful Dead
0043 UTC "Fool to Cry"-Rolling Stones
0048 UTC "What a Fool Believes"-Doobie Brothers
0101 UTC Scottie 1 SSTV



Thanks Wolverine!

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Other / Re: Unid 6911 USB 0022 UTC 22 Mar 2025

« on: March 22, 2025, 0026 UTC »

0024 UTC Tuned in the Russian song by Lube I forget the name of...S7 peaks with a bit of flutter fading, but well above the noise
0026 UTC Song repeating now
0029 UTC Repeating song
0033 UTC And again

Interesting...please eQSL!