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Author Topic: Ball Smacker 6960 USB 0058 UTC 12 Oct 2022  (Read 1693 times)

Offline Bali_Frank

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Ball Smacker 6960 USB 0058 UTC 12 Oct 2022
« on: October 12, 2022, 0101 UTC »
signal S8-9 on the SDR in Fair Hill, Maryland / 5 KHz wide
00.58 piano
01.00 ID
01.00 song "No Reply At All"
01.04 song "The Letter"
01.06 ID
01.06 song "Message In A Bottle"
01.11 song "Please Mr. Postman"
01.13 ID
01.13 song "P.S. I Love You"
01.15 song "No Reply"
« Last Edit: October 12, 2022, 0116 UTC by Bali_Frank »
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Re: Ball Smacker 6960 USB 0058 UTC 12 Oct
« Reply #1 on: October 12, 2022, 0104 UTC »
Signal is very good here in Mosinee, Wisconsin, Clear audio! Your signal strength is lower on USB but your audio is clearer on USB than it has been for weeks on AM. Your signal is strong enough to clear the band noise here. When I use a wider bandwidth on USB, the quality of your audio on USB is as good as AM. USB is the way to go.
« Last Edit: October 12, 2022, 0130 UTC by dxbill »
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Re: Ball Smacker 6960 USB 0058 UTC 12 Oct
« Reply #2 on: October 12, 2022, 0106 UTC »
0104 UTC: Give Me A Ticket To An Aeroplane. Good S9+ signal.

« Last Edit: October 12, 2022, 0235 UTC by myteaquinn »
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Re: Ball Smacker 6960 USB 0058 UTC 12 Oct 2022
« Reply #3 on: October 12, 2022, 0108 UTC »
0107-Message in a bottle-The Police...
0111-Please Mr. Postman-The Marvelettes....
0113-P.S. I love you-Beatles
0115-? Unknown Beatles song....Lightning crashes burying the audio.

S5, good audio, but rough copy here in Norfolk, Ne. Cold front blasted through with thunderstorms flaring up east of me.
« Last Edit: October 12, 2022, 0118 UTC by bnsfrailrunner »
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Re: Ball Smacker 6960 USB 0058 UTC 12 Oct 2022
« Reply #4 on: October 12, 2022, 0111 UTC »
0111"Please Mr Postman"
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Re: BallSmacker Radio 6960 eSSB 0058 UTC 12 OCT 2022
« Reply #5 on: October 12, 2022, 0114 UTC »
01:13 UTC - Loud and clear in eSSB (USB), 5 kHz wide with Please Mr. Postman;
02:30 UTC - SSTV (in eSSB);
02:32 UTC - End of broadcast.



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« Last Edit: October 12, 2022, 0238 UTC by ~SIGINT~ »

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Re: Ball Smacker 6960 USB 0058 UTC 12 Oct 2022
« Reply #6 on: October 12, 2022, 0121 UTC »
Big signal tonight- thanks Ball Smacker Radio. Signal is S7 but sounds bigger. Very clear conditions tonight. Thanks for the broadcast.
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Re: Ball Smacker 6960 USB 0058 UTC 12 Oct 2022
« Reply #7 on: October 12, 2022, 0141 UTC »
Thanks for your reports on our first go at wideband eSSB. 

For those curious...we are using a Teensy 4.1 to generate the 12KHz IF and DSP shelf it as well (using a Hilbert transform)... that is fed to the 9600 baud input of the Kenwood TS-2000.  We still have some more work to do on the bass response (need very sharp DSP filters).  Source is a SD card recording of the analog show (as would normally go to the AM transmitter).

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« Last Edit: October 12, 2022, 0525 UTC by BallSmacker »

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Re: Ball Smacker 6960 USB 0058 UTC 12 Oct 2022
« Reply #8 on: October 12, 2022, 0143 UTC »
0141 Take A Letter Maria - R.B. Greaves  S8 ..... was stronger earlier, signal getting watery as the band goes long.
0144 ID ...
        Sweet City Woman - Stampeders
0147 Box For Of Letters - Wilco

« Last Edit: October 12, 2022, 0226 UTC by clobdell »
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Re: Ball Smacker 6960 USB 0058 UTC 12 Oct 2022
« Reply #9 on: October 12, 2022, 0144 UTC »
SINPO=22222, noisy with ute QRM here.

142- "Take A Letter Maria" by R.B. Greaves.
144- Recorded YL ID.
144- "Sweet City Woman" by The Stampeders.
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Re: Ball Smacker 6960 USB 0058 UTC 12 Oct 2022
« Reply #10 on: October 12, 2022, 0155 UTC »
Clear signal into Winter Park, FL tonight on 6960


0150 -  "Think I'm going out of my head"
0154 - Traveling Wilburys - Handle  with care

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Re: Ball Smacker 6960 USB 0058 UTC 12 Oct 2022
« Reply #11 on: October 12, 2022, 0209 UTC »
0142 "Take a letter Maria", ID, "Sweet City Woman", UnID song, ID, "I think I'm going outta my head", "Handle with care"

S6 here.  Found it hard to tune for fidelity.
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Re: Ball Smacker 6960 USB 0058 UTC 12 Oct 2022
« Reply #12 on: October 12, 2022, 0215 UTC »
Hey! This is last weekend's show!

Satan's Sideband, repeating shows, may the Lord Al Fansome have mercy on your soul!

You can't tune for fidelity, Marko, it's in sideband.

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Re: Ball Smacker 6960 USB 0058 UTC 12 Oct 2022
« Reply #13 on: October 12, 2022, 0220 UTC »
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0219z Rock and Roll Love Letter-Bay City Rollers
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Re: Ball Smacker 6960 USB 0058 UTC 12 Oct 2022
« Reply #14 on: October 12, 2022, 0234 UTC »
"Love Letters in The Sand". Even in SSB that brings out the crooner in me. Slim Whitman did a bang up version of it.

 

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