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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: X-FM via Two Dog Radio 6950 USB 2340 UTC 31 OCT 2023

« on: November 01, 2023, 0111 UTC »

Was scanning the pirate band and found "Chase" by Georgio Moroder playing on a very strong signal here near Seattle as of 0107 UTC.

Very nice to see X-FM and Redhat getting out on this signal, too. I was listening earlier on the 6850 USB relay via MRI.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: KIPM Flying Dutchman via Undercover Radio 6918 USB 0004 UTC 1 NOV 2023

« on: November 01, 2023, 0040 UTC »

I caught the first Undercover Radio broadcast of this earlier this afternoon, but I had to listen then via an East Coast SDR.

Now that it's later, even though it's still light out here near Seattle, I can hear this broadcast weakly but directly here with a signal that's slowly fading in.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: X-FM via MRI 6850 USB 2300 UTC 31 OCT 2023

« on: October 31, 2023, 2316 UTC »

Listening via the K1RA SDR in Virginia. Nice signal here on 6850 USB/SINPO 45444
Listening as of 2350 UTC via the Northern Utah SDR, which has a very good signal/SINPO 35443

2315 UTC: "She-Wolf" by Megadeth.
2317 UTC: Canned X-FM ID into "Beguiled" by The Smashing Pumpkins.
2321 UTC: Canned ID into "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)" cover by Marilyn Manson.
2326 UTC: Redhat on the mic going over just-played songs and doing HFU shout-outs.
2334 UTC: "Conciousness" by Jonojono.
2336 UTC: "Head Like a Haunted House" by Queens of the Stone Age.
2340 UTC: "Cracker Island" by Gorillaz and Thundercat.
2343 UTC: Redhat taking a live phone call from Jason in Iowa, reviewing the previously played songs, and giving the email address.
2350 UTC: "Dead Man's Party" by Oingo Boingo (a great tune from my teen years!), with a female-voiced MRI ID over the introduction.
2357 UTC: Redhat with ID and email address into "Every Day is Halloween" remix by Ministry.
2359 UTC: OK, the signal is just barely audible directly on my own radio, but I am indeed hearing traces of the music here near Seattle, where it's still broad daylight outside.
0003 UTC: Male-voiced MRI ID, then "Is That You Mo-Dean" by The B-52s.

Thanks for the Halloween music and broadcast, Redhat!

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID 6950 AM 2235 UTC 31 Oct 2023

« on: October 31, 2023, 2238 UTC »

Listening via K1RA SDR in Virginia. Weak signal with fading heard/SINPO 25322 ...

2235 UTC: Blues song playing.
2244 UTC: "Hands of Jack the Ripper" by Screaming Lord Sutch.
2245 UTC: Old radio report about Halloween.
2248 UTC: Unidentified song.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Witch City Radio 6935 AM 2113 UTC 31 OCT 2023

« on: October 31, 2023, 2216 UTC »

Listening via the K1RA SDR in Virginia ...

2212 UTC: Halloween sound effects.
2214 UTC: OM on mic with ID that I didn't catch (Witch Radio?), mentioning he's broadcasting from Salem, Massachusetts.
2215 UTC: "Dracula" reggae song.
2220 UTC: Bubbling cauldron noises as OM gets back on the mic. Noise level is mostly covering what he's saying, however.
2221 UTC: Dracula-type voice telling a story amid music and sound effects. Interfering noises are settling a little, but it's still a little hard to make it out.
2226 UTC: OM back on the mic with Witch City Radio ID, then Alice Cooper's "Welcome to My Nightmare."
2232 UTC: More witch cackle noises and OM back on mic with ID, gives mailing address in Wellsville, NY. Then starts a recorded version of "The Fall of The House of Usher" by Edgar Allen Poe.

The QRM noises are back, so I'm having trouble catching all this.

Thanks for the program, Witch City Radio!

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Undercover Radio 6940 AM 2102 UTC 31 Oct 2023

« on: October 31, 2023, 2110 UTC »

Listening via the K1RA SDR in Virginia. A HUGE signal heard/SINPO 55555 ...

2109 UTC: After a bit of music, sound bites ("Your channel is centered ... I would like to take you on a strange journey") over scary-ish music. Then Alan Maxwell with introduction to "Flying Dutchman" show.
2112 UTC: Alan talking about diving into Illuminati material, followed by screaming sound effects.
2115 UTC: Alan comparing himself to a flying Dutchman as he journeys into "dark, uncharted waters."
2119 UTC: Alan telling story of men gathering in a bar, a sea captain listening nearby, and the men boarding his doomed ship from hell. Great music and sound effects on this old KIPM program.
2128 UTC: "Protoplasmic Reversion" song by Lustmord incorporated into this story.
2130 UTC: The story continues with sailors dealing with demons.
2134 UTC: "The trouble with unimaginable horrors is they're only too easy to imagine," Alan says amid more hellish sound effects and the song "Field and Void" by Between Interval.
2137 UTC: Alan back with narration of the sinking ship.
2147 UTC: Alan brings it back around to "I'm a flying Dutchman."
2204 UTC: The story's wrapping up with more scary sound effects mixed with Vera Lynn's "We'll Meet Again."
2208 UTC: Alan with final words, mentioning KIPM, this episode's name, etc.
2211 UTC: OM with Undercover Radio ID and giving email of UndercoverRadio@gmail.com to receive QSL card, then off at 2213 UTC.

Thanks for the great program!

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: ION Radio 6950 AM 2054 UTC 31 OCT 2023

« on: October 31, 2023, 2106 UTC »

Listening via the K1RA SDR in Virginia ...

2102 UTC: Female voice with ION Radio ID over slow music.
2105 UTC: Another female-voiced ID, a scary noise or two, then "After Dark" by Tarantino Rodrigues.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / WREC 6925 USB 2022 UTC 31 Oct. 2023

« on: October 31, 2023, 2028 UTC »

Listening via the NA5B SDR near Washington, D.C. Good signal, though a bit quiet at times/SINPO 35333.

2009 UTC: Right after Voice of Smoke ended on this frequency, there was an old radio skit playing.
2014 UTC: ID given amid the noise, then "Zombie Zoo" by Tom Petty.
2017 UTC: More noises, then female voice saying "Howdy, DXers, this is Pat ..." Then some noises and other talking I couldn't totally hear.
2023 UTC: I think the OM host said WREC; he was a little quiet on the mic. But he gave a shout-out by name to those posting on HFUnderground and said he was playing a repeat of a 1990s Halloween special broadcast.
2027 UTC: After long silence, a "Happy Halloween" song started playing.
2030 UTC: "This is Halloween" by Marilyn Manson.
2033 UTC: "She Was a Teenage Zombie" by Murderdolls.
2036 UTC: OM on mic mentioning the just-played songs, shouting out HFU posters, and mentioning again this is a 1995 Halloween broadcast he's repeating.
2038 UTC: "Bark at the Moon" by Ozzy Osbourne.
2042 UTC: "Die, Die My Darling" by The Misfits.
2045 UTC: "October 31st" by Acid Witch.
2047 UTC: "Night of the Vampire" by Roky Erickson.
2051 UTC: "Zombie" by The Cranberries.
2056 UTC: OM back on mic, saying there's more of the old broadcast to come, if it works. The start of the broadcast I heard ~40 minutes ago then repeated.

Thanks for the vintage Halloween broadcast, WREC!

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North American Shortwave Pirate / UNID Tones 6920 USB/AM 2016 UTC 31 Oct 2023

« on: October 31, 2023, 2021 UTC »

Heard these very loud and clear via the NA5B SDR near Washington, D.C.

2016 UTC: Tones on, then silence.
2020 UTC: Two transmissions of tones with silence in between.
2022 UTC: Another transmission tone -- it's a very wide signal.

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: 6YVOS Voice of Smoke rebroadcast via WREC 6925 USB 1936 UTC 31 OCT 2023

« on: October 31, 2023, 2006 UTC »

Listening via the NA5B SDR near Washington, D.C. -- fair to good reception/SINPO 35433

2000 UTC: "Bush Doctor (Long Version)" by Peter Tosh.
2003 UTC: OM host got on the mic, gave Voice of Smoke ID, said the station is not "just another pro-pot station. We're pro-barbecue." Gave address of P.O. Box 452, Wellsville, NY 14895.
2005 UTC: "Mexicali Blues" by Grateful Dead.
2007 UTC: Muffled OM host talking about Jamaica, gave ID, and repeated the mailing address. "Good night from beautiful Jamaica, and I'll be back sooner or later."

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID 6930 USB 1859 UTC 31 OCT 2023

« on: October 31, 2023, 1924 UTC »

Tuned in via the NA5B SDR near Washington, D.C. -- good signal heard/SINPO 45444. No trace of a signal out west here where I am.

1923 UTC: OM talking about Halloween, Marxism, and God, then "Halloween Man" by Tele Music.
1928 UTC: "Exciting Mrs. Brown" by April Orchestra.
1931 UTC: "Tracking" by Jack Arel & Pierre Dutour.
1934 UTC: "Coming and Going" by Paul Piot. Enjoying the funky vibe for Halloween!
1937 UTC: Well, this is an instrumental song that even Shazam can't help me with. Like some of the others, this has a vague 1960s or '70s soundtrack feel to it.
1939 UTC: Another unidentifiable song in the same vein as the previous tunes.
1941 UTC: Another unidentifiable instrumental song.
1945 UTC: "Le Sifflet du Baron" by Tele Music.
1949 UTC: Another song I can't identify. This one's giving me flashbacks of the jazzy instrumental music they played in 1970s department stores when I was a very young kid.
1951 UTC: Sounded like a synthetic YL voice with a joke setup, then "Tatou Strip Tease" by Michel Audiard.
1954 UTC: Up-tempo jazzy instrumental song.
1959 UTC: "Nues Dans L'eau" by Georges Garvarentz.

Thanks for the broadcast and happy Halloween!

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: Radio 48 via MRI 6868 USB 2312 UTC 22 OCT 2023

« on: October 23, 2023, 0140 UTC »

Weak but audible here near Seattle ...

0134 UTC: "You Really Got Me" by The Kinks.
0136 UTC: Female-voiced Radio 48 via Mix Radio International ID.
0137 UTC: Remix of "Tiny Dancer" by Elton John.
0139 UTC: After another ID, "Black Velvet" by Alannah Myles.
0142 UTC: Another ID, then "Blue Monday" cover or remix (didn't sound like the '90s cover by Orgy).
0145 UTC: Radio 48 ID, then RMI ID, followed by "Fly Me to the Moon" remix.
0152 UTC: "Smalltown Boy" cover/remix by unknown artist (I had to feed our dog upstairs, so I missed a song or two).
0155 UTC: Female-voiced MRI ID, then Radio 48 ID, then "Green Onions" by Booker T. and The M.G.s. The signal's still audible here, but still weak.
0158 UTC: "You're listening to Radio 48, the station that dares to be different." That was followed by "Speedy Gonzales" by Van Edelsteyn and Pat Boone.
0200 UTC: Radio 48 and MRI IDs again, followed by "Mony Mony" cover by Billy Idol. The audio's down to nearly nothing now here, unfortunately.
0206 UTC: "Mony Mony" rose up again a bit (this song's too long!), but still very weak. Could hear just a bit of the female-voiced MRI ID around 0207 UTC.
0210 UTC: "The Hardest Time" by The Sunset Radio as the signal rose up again.

Thanks for the music, Radio 48 and MRI!

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QSLs Received / Re: BBC Woofferton at 80 eQSL

« on: October 23, 2023, 0038 UTC »

Received the same eQSL here - a rare opportunity to get a real verification from a BBC site!

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North American Shortwave Pirate / Re: UNID 7300v AM 0300 UTC 24 SEP 2023

« on: September 24, 2023, 0425 UTC »

Very good reception via the k9dxi SDR in Wisconsin at 0425 UTC. Tried SDRs on East Coast and in Northern Utah first, but the signal there is very weak. Man reading chapters of the Bible over background music; sounds like the Old Testament so far.

Update: I think he's jumping around a bit, because he's definitely reading from the New Testament now.

Signal signed off suddenly without any ID at 0504 UTC.

Well, now there's a guy preaching on this frequency when I checked back around 0555 UTC. Different guy than the guy who was reading the Bible over music earlier. Also, this signal is much stronger on the East Coast than the earlier signal. So, I'm wondering if this is the same station. Like earlier, the signal is slowly drifting upward over time.

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MW Loggings / New loggings: KMZQ, KOAL, and KATL

« on: September 09, 2023, 2312 UTC »

This past summer, I acquired a CCRadio 2 and inherited a GE Superadio 3, so I've been trying them out to get used to their reception quirks, etc. Last night/early this morning, I used the CCRadio 2 with my AN-100 indoor loop and ended up logging three new ones from my location north of Seattle:

    KMZQ 670 in Las Vegas (870 miles). I matched its talk programming with the station's online stream. This was the first time I was able to clearly hear something behind KBOI, which dominates. This supposedly runs just 600 watts at night, but I suspect it was using its daytime power.
    KOAL 750 in Price, Utah (806 miles). This was lurking behind Portland's KXTG with "Coast to Coast AM"; it runs at 6.8 kW at night.
    KATL 770 in Miles City, Montana (768 miles). I could hear this one mixing with Saskatchewan's CKJH behind Seattle's KTTH with adult contemporary songs (including Taylor Swift) that matched the station's online stream. It runs 1 kW at night.