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North American Shortwave Pirate / BallSmacker Radio 6960 AM 0027UTC 17 JULY 2020

« on: July 18, 2020, 0028 UTC »

0027 Music, a bit of CW. S9
0029 ID BallSmacker
0034 ID into more music. Nice sounding AM signal, some fading.
0037 "Dream On"
0041 ID into a Blondie tune.
0048 Cheap Trick playing into a Cranberries tune I think, ID. I saw Cheap Trick twice in the 70s at the old New Haven Coliseum in CT. 
0052 ID into a Gary Wright tune.
0100 ID into a Hall and Oats tune.

         The real BallSmacker on air now.
0109 Eric Clapton "My Father's Eyes" playing.
0113 Eagles

842

North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID 6925 AM 2249 UTC July 15, 2020

« on: July 15, 2020, 2315 UTC »

2309 Fade up from nothing to some good S9 peaks, music playing.
2311 OM talking, tough copy "...Broadcasting live....". Signal going from nothing to brief S9 peaks, very up and down.
2314 Song w/YL singer.
2316 OK, steady S9+ now. 
2317 OM on the mic into more music. Sounding good.

843

North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID 6880 AM 2242 UTC 9 Jul 2020

« on: July 09, 2020, 2308 UTC »

2307 A little audio coming through, music playing.

844

QSLs Received / Re: Mystery eQSL Not Delivered

« on: July 07, 2020, 0901 UTC »

I received one on July 1st as well.

845

North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Yeah Man Radio? 6925 AM 2216 UTC 2 July 2020

« on: July 02, 2020, 2232 UTC »

2229 Some music in the noise, maybe. LSB chatter also? Hard to tell.

846

North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID 6933 AM 2206 UTC 2 July 2020

« on: July 02, 2020, 2209 UTC »

2209 SSTV in progress.

847

North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Radio Free Whatever 4185 USB June 25, 2020

« on: June 25, 2020, 2313 UTC »

2312 Music playing. Not moving S meter much but good copy.
2317 DW on the mic into music.

848

North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Unid 6925 am 2305 utc 25 Jun 2020

« on: June 25, 2020, 2312 UTC »

2310 Music, OM on the mic. S9
2314 Guitar instrumental, nice sounding AM signal.
2318 Fading out now, just above noise.

849

North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID 6925 USB 2238 UTC 21 June 2020

« on: June 21, 2020, 2248 UTC »

2248 SSTV, Music. Not much above the noise.
2251 Urgent playing, SSTV. Van Halen.

850

North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID 6965 USB 2223 UTC 21 Jun 2020

« on: June 21, 2020, 2229 UTC »

2228 "Silent Night" into " Silver Bells". Good copy.
2232 Santa on the mic, poor copy at the moment. Another Christmas tune. Signal up and down.
2236 Santa on the mic, coughing and gagging, "I think I got the Corona". Hilarious!
2239 "Sleigh Ride"
2242 Santa again, no copy.
2246 "12 Days Of Christmas" playing.
2249 "The First Noel"
2253 "I'll Be Home For Christmas"

851

North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID 6960 AM 2200 UTC 21 June 2020

« on: June 21, 2020, 2227 UTC »

2227 Just hearing a MARS net on 6961 USB loud and clear.

852

Shortwave Broadcast / Re: BBC Mid Winter Antarctic Broadcast 5790/7360/9580 am 2130 utc 21 June 2020

« on: June 21, 2020, 2136 UTC »

9580 kHz
2130 Signing on, fair copy. Poor on the other freqs. 7360, 5790 kHz.
2133 Greetings from home.
2144 Not too good on 9580 now either, weak and noisy. Tuned into 5790 kHz, a little better. Hard to get any details.
2153 Wishing luck, saying goodbye etc. from several people.
2159 Music, signing off.
2200 OFF

Too bad reception wasn't better. 

853

North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Ballsmacker Radio 6960 AM 0059 UTC 20 June 2020

« on: June 20, 2020, 0102 UTC »

0059 Piano music, ID into music. S9
0004 "A Boy Named Sue"
0108 ID and email.
0117 ID into Neil Young. Steady S9+ with static crashes.

Thanks for the tunes

854

North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: X-FM (Mix relay?) 6880 USB 0003 UTC 20 June 2020

« on: June 20, 2020, 0055 UTC »

0054 Red Hat on the mic, ID and time check. S5 and noisy.
0106 Music, signal down some.
0107 ID

855

North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Lukewarm Radio 6930 LSB 2327 UTC 12 June 2020

« on: June 12, 2020, 2346 UTC »

2345 JBA here in CT, lots of storm noise.