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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: CLEVER NAME RADIO 6903 USB 2317 UTC 26 Aug 2019

« on: August 27, 2019, 0055 UTC »

Big signal in GA tonight.  SIO 444

0053 Motley Crue - Girls, Girls, Girls
0055 Off-air... Must have just caught the end of the show.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Yeah Man Radio ? 6925 AM 1423 UTC 25 Aug 2019

« on: August 25, 2019, 1432 UTC »

1430 Can hear music at the noise floor, but it's too low for me (or Google Assistant) to identify.  Sounds like Motown

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Ion Radio 6869.77 AM 1408 UTC 25 Aug 2019

« on: August 25, 2019, 1414 UTC »

 Listening on the Westminster, MD KiwiSDR while I walk the dog.
 SIO 344
1410 - Instrumental hard rock
1415 beginning to fade in and out
1416 ID
1416 Buckethead - Asylum of Glass
1420 ID
1420 Buckethead - Hills of Eternity
1427 off air or faded so badly I can't even see the carrier

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Peskies / English Speaking Maritime 6212 USB 1203 23AUG2019

« on: August 23, 2019, 1214 UTC »

Hearing one half of a conversation.  This frequency is allocated for simplex use on the Mississippi River, but with that small an area, I would expect to hear both sides.

1203 OM - "Yeah, I didn't realize I left mine at home."
1204 OM "No big deal.  I found another one."

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Mix Radio Int'l 5900 USB 2307 UTC 19 Aug 2019

« on: August 20, 2019, 0036 UTC »

I'm late to the party.  Sounds great though.  SIO 444.

0032 B52s - Rock Lobster
0037 ID into 80's rock tune
0040 Paul Young - Come back and Stay
Stepped out and missed at least one song
0048 Tom Tom Club - The Genius of Love
0054 dance tune I should recognize, but I don't..
0059 Starting to fade below the noise off and on
Thanks for the show..

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Mix Radio International 6100 USB 1744 UTC 13 Aug 2019

« on: August 13, 2019, 1810 UTC »

Listening via the Westminster, MD KiwiSDR.  Nice wide USB signal at S7 with very little noise.  Unfortunately, I don't have any signal at all for them locally.  Using Shazam to identify the songs, since I'm not familiar with any of them.

1804 Fourplay - Sunnymoon
1807 Concorde - Shadowland
1810 ID - Thank you for tuning in to mix
1810 Atlantis Music Project - Timo&Soia
1814 Google Assistant says: Sorry, I wasn't able to recognize this song.  No prob, Google lady, neither was I.
1817 Dario Carli - New Landscapes (with fades to around S3)
1819 funky synth bass, still can't identify it... Google says it's Menny Fasano - Susan (Love Mix)
1826 Jjos - Fantasy (Terrace Mix)

1830-ish Had to step away from the computer, but it still sounds great playing around the office.  I really enjoyed some of the more upbeat stuff.

1858 ID - Mix - Still going strong.  Signal up to S9 now on the Westminster, MD KiwiSDR.
1858 Night Flyte - Square Root
1901 Chris Standrig - Static in the Attic
1907 ID - Mix Radio International
1907 Chuck Loeb - Happy Hour

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Utility / Red Thunder calling First Sealord 4028 USB

« on: August 12, 2019, 1250 UTC »

1240 Red Thunder calling First Sealord several times with nothing heard.
1243 Sealord answers.  Red Thunder acknowledges and out.

The frequency doesn't match up with any of the MARS nets I've heard, and both Red Thunder (male) and First Sealord (female) sounded much younger than the typical MARS op, so I assume it's active or reserve military.

Edit: I found this doc that lists First Sealord as USS Winston S. Churchill (DDG 81) and Red Thunder as possibly USS Ramage (DDG 61)
http://nato.radioscanner.ru/files/article145/mcl_201609.pdf

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID 6930 USB 2047 UTC 10 Aug 2019

« on: August 10, 2019, 2051 UTC »

S6 into GA with lots of static crashes from a nearby storm

2049 Tuned in to find The Motels - Only the Lonely
2050 The Go-Go's - Get Up and Go
2053 ID - Lukewarm Radio w/ email
2054 The Go-Go's - Our Lips are Sealed
2058 Adam Ant - Goody Two Shoes
2102 ID - Lukewarm Radio w/email
2102 deep fading now, can hear music, but can't make it out
2104 Wall of Voodoo - Mexican Radio
2106 The Go-Go's Vacation - still fading pretty badly
2109 sounds like the music is still going, but can't hear it over atmospheric noise
2110 ID - Lukewarm Radio w/ email
2112 Til Tuesday - Voices Carry

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Utility / 9940.5 kHz USB ALE Soundings

« on: July 30, 2019, 1845 UTC »

At about 1700 hearing strong ALE soundings.  By the time I managed to start up the computer, I was only able to catch:
[Sounding THIS WAS] [from HCM] [his BER=30 + SINAD=03]
[Sounding THIS WAS] [from HSM] [his BER=27 + SINAD=05]

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID 6950 USB 0306 20 July 2019

« on: July 20, 2019, 0316 UTC »

S7 into GA

0315 The Archie's - Sugar, Sugar (remixed)
0317 Johnboy and Billy - Carl Childers sketch
0320 Crazy Train
0325 SSTV ID
0327 Gnarled Barkley - Crazy
0330 SSTV

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Radio Halfwise 6930 USB 0327 UTC 18 July 2019

« on: July 18, 2019, 0356 UTC »

0322 Music below the noise
0324 Sounds like Johnny Cash
0327 SSTV stronger than the music
0329 Music fading.  Too weak to make out.

Didn't catch the other SSTVs, too slow to start the decode.  Will post the SSTV image if I can figure out how to attach it to the post.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: KDOG 6925 USB 0110 UTC 15 July 2019

« on: July 15, 2019, 0202 UTC »

Was driving for most of it so couldn't log the songs, but got a solid S6 on my FT-857 with 102 inch whip while vacationing in Florida.

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Utility / Re: 4.022 usb 01:30 utc

« on: April 24, 2019, 0447 UTC »

This sounds like it could be US Army MARS.  The data mode would have been MIL-STD-188-110 serial waveform.  I often hear MARS ops on the 4 MHZ simplex maritime mobile frequencies in the morning.

In general, operating in a controlled net suggests military or other organized users, but informally chatting in SSB voice prior passing data traffic has MARS written all over it.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Relay Station 6880 AM 1554 UTC 11 Sep 2018

« on: September 11, 2018, 1648 UTC »

Wish I had more time to listen, but I have to run. This is all via:
http://kiwisdr.dlinkddns.com:8073/

1634 The Beatles - Norwegian Wood
1636 Credence Clearwater Revival - Bad Moon Rising
1638 Elvis Presley - If I Can Dream
1642 Several seconds of unmodulated carrier ... sounded like the opening to Ray Charles - Georgia on My Mind - Cut Off
1642 Elton John - Bennie and the Jets
1647 Bob Seger - Old Time Rock and Roll

Now S6-S8 but propagation must be getting worse, because the overall sound quality is worse than when I started listening.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Relay Station 6880 AM 1554 UTC 11 Sep 2018

« on: September 11, 2018, 1632 UTC »

Can't pick it up locally, but getting a nice low-noise S6 on a KiwiSDR in PA.
http://kiwisdr.dlinkddns.com:8073/

1628 Rolling Stones - You Can't Always Get What You Want, SIO 343