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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID 6950 USB 2323 UTC 4 SEP 2022

« on: September 04, 2022, 2329 UTC »

2329 folk music YL vox, SIO 222 (EDIT, it could be country/gospel)
2332 deep fade
2337 SIO 111
0002 SSTV

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Ballsmacker Radio 6960 AM 0001 UTC 4 September 2022

« on: September 04, 2022, 0148 UTC »

Not sure if this is Ballsmacker's, but I believe it is. Copied at 0145 UTC

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID 6960 USB 0100 UTC 04 Sep 2022

« on: September 04, 2022, 0120 UTC »

0120 Strong signal here. Thanks for the show! (edit, if this is jamming Ballsmacker, well, that's not nice. I do see a carrier but can't hear anything in either sideband save for this station.)
0142 tuned into the middle of "Where Is My Mind" The Pixies
0145 SSTV (ballsmacker?)

0146 "F**k Off" Tierra Whack (which began during the SSTV, so I think the SSTV definitely was Ballsmacker's

709

North American Shortwave Pirate / Wolverine Radio 6950 was 6960 USB 2359 UTC 03 SEP 2022

« on: September 03, 2022, 2359 UTC »

2359 Testing 1 2 3 (was 6960 USB at this time)
0000 Wolverine ID into "If You Knew Susie (Like I Know Susie)" Eddie Cantor, not very strong here
0003 "Sweet Georgia Brown" Ethel Waters
0006 "Minnie The Moocher" Cab Calloway
0009 Wolverine ID into "Lulu's Back in Town" Fats Waller
0012 "Linda" Paul Weston Orchestra & Matt Dennis
0015 "Who Put the Devil in Evelyn's Eyes" The Mills Brothers
0016 suddenly cut out, then the song resumed
0017 Wolverine ID, DDJ on the mic. Sounds like he's changing frequencies?
0018 now on 6950 USB, the same song as last.
0019 Wolverine ID into "Carol" Chuck Berry
0022 "My Gal Josephine" Fats Domino
0024 "Hard Hearted Hannah" Ray Charles
0027 Wolverine ID into "Help Me, Rhonda" The Beach Boys
0030 "Gloria" Them
0032 "Along Comes Mary" The Association
0035 Wolverine ID into "Walk Away Renee" The Left Banke
0038 "Mustang Sally" Wilson Pickett
0041 "Carrie Anne" The Hollies
0044 Wolverine ID into "Pictures of Lily" The Who
0047 "Bernadette" The Four Tops
0050 "The Wind Cries Mary" The Jimi Hendrix Experience
0053 Wolverine ID into "Elenore" The Turtles
0056 "Maggie M'gill" The Doors
0100 "Melissa" The Allman Brothers Band
0103 Wolverine ID
0104 "Juliette" Little Feat
0107 "Loose Lucy" Grateful Dead
0111 "Ophelia" The Band
0114 Wolverine ID into "Alison" Elvis Costello
0117 "Josie" Steely Dan
0122 "Peggy's Kitchen Wall" Bruce Cockburn
0125 Wolverine ID into "Sunny Came Home" Shawn Colvin
      wow, this show's quite a bit longer than usual. Digging it.
0130 "Jane's Getting Serious" Jon Astley
0134 "Mary Jane's Last Dance" Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers
0138 echoey Wolverine ID into SSTV


Thanks for the show! Signal was poor to fair, but every song could be shazam'd as you can see.

710

North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Clever Name Radio 6920 USB 2242 UTC 3 Sep 2022

« on: September 03, 2022, 2327 UTC »

2327 SIO 222 out west, thanks for the show.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID 6932 USB 2229 UTC 3 SEP 2022

« on: September 03, 2022, 2235 UTC »

2235 very low under a strong noise floor but I can hear audio.

712

Shortwave Broadcast / Re: WWCR off the air - any idea why?

« on: August 29, 2022, 1630 UTC »

All that hot air from fire and brimstone preaching finally wore a hole in the atmosphere?

Wasn't HAARP supposed to do that? Maybe this is a more efficient way to heat the ionosphere.

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Shortwave Broadcast / Re: BBC WS, 21630 kHz, 28 AUG 2022, 1628 UTC, via EA8BFK kiwi SDR in Canary Islands

« on: August 28, 2022, 1728 UTC »

At 1659 this broadcast went QRT, but it was very strong at this same Canary Island QTH on 17780 so I switched to that frequency. (Also copyable on 17830 but not as well, SIO 444 or so.) Match ended at 1726 UTC, Nottingham Forest 0 - 2 Tottenham Hotspur, both goals from Harry Kane (who was also denied on a penalty shot for only the fourth time in his Premier League career - respect to Forest's goalie because Kane's one of those guys you might as well tally the goal upon his being awarded the shot).

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Shortwave Broadcast / Re: BBC WS, Nottingham Forest vs Tottenham Hotspur, 12025 kHz, 28 AUG 2022, 1534 UTC

« on: August 28, 2022, 1702 UTC »

I tried but nothing here today including the very dependable 21630. 

I told my son, I'm buying his son a Haaland jersey......he's blond, moves around alot, and 2 1/2 feet tall   .

Excellent idea.

The sun's been giving us a continuous M-class solar flare since 1556 so it's no wonder that frequency isn't coming through. It went QRT at 1659 anyway, and I'm now on 17780 at that Canary Island SDR. Great SIO 555 signal there now (1702z)

715

Shortwave Broadcast / BBC WS, 21630 kHz, 28 AUG 2022, 1628 UTC, via EA8BFK kiwi SDR in Canary Islands

« on: August 28, 2022, 1628 UTC »

With the current radio blackout occurring, I found an SDR copying this relay from Ascension is coming in well to this QTH. Right now there's some other football (soccer) reporting in between periods at the Nottingham Forest - Tottenham Hotspur match.

http://ea8bfk.ddns.net:8075/

1632 match resumes

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Shortwave Broadcast / BBC WS, Nottingham Forest vs Tottenham Hotspur, 12025 kHz, 28 AUG 2022, 1534 UTC

« on: August 28, 2022, 1535 UTC »

Signal is rather low and hard to copy at my home QTH, but it's very good at Token's kiwi SDR in the Mojave, and Harry Kane just scored to make it Forest 0 - 1 Spurs at 1535 (also the fifth minute of the match).

http://tokenradio.proxy.kiwisdr.com:8073/

1547 Signal is now decent, a bit low but copyable, at my QTH. But I'll probably stick with the kiwi SDR for now since it's SIO 555 there.
1605 An M-class solar flare is in effect, signal is noticeably weaker (SIO 222 or so) at Token's SDR and it's just a carrier for me now.
1609 signal is at the noise level now at Token's QTH.
1616 below the noise now. I can still tell the match is happening so there's a bit of stoppage time playing out for the first half.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Bad Dog 6925 USB 2332 UTC 27 AUG 2022

« on: August 27, 2022, 2351 UTC »

2351 music at the noise floor

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Shortwave Broadcast / Re: Radio New Zealand 7245 am 1052 utc 21 Aug 2022

« on: August 27, 2022, 1525 UTC »

The hamsters aren't going to be happy about this development. There's a 40 meter net on 7245 lsb.

RNZ has been sitting on 7245 since their frequency change off 9700 about mid-June.  RNZ has made some scheduling adjustments this week as we roll past the peak of the A22 season https://www.rnz.co.nz/international/listen, but 7245 remains a constant. 5980 hasn't been received here yet, maybe this weekend?

One advantage of being out west is that those low frequency broadcasts from RNZI are copyable here, at least for the first hour or so. (Currently replaying my SDR recording of RNZ Saturday Night Requests, since 7pm-12 midnight there is 1-6 am here, at least while we're on DST and they're on standard time.)

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Shortwave Broadcast / Re: Radio New Zealand 7245 am 1052 utc 21 Aug 2022

« on: August 24, 2022, 1606 UTC »

The hamsters aren't going to be happy about this development. There's a 40 meter net on 7245 lsb.

Hopefully the people who manage nets in that range where 40 and 41m overlap have backup frequencies planned. It can happen anywhere in that range. Mornings here in the west, that part of the band fills up mostly with Chinese (but also a few other east Asian) AM signals. I don't think it's as intense for eastern listeners, though it may be in winter when sunset in the west Pacific precedes dawn in eastern North America.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: MRI 6872 USB 2200 UTC 20 AUG 2022

« on: August 21, 2022, 1300 UTC »

The signal was good here all evening. Seemed to be gone by around 0500 - I was monitoring loosely. Thanks for the show.