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Author Topic: WFAT 6925 USB 2142 UTC 2 DEC 2022  (Read 692 times)

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WFAT 6925 USB 2142 UTC 2 DEC 2022
« on: December 02, 2022, 2144 UTC »
2142 Doo Wop music? / Poss Id S5
2147 This is WFA ?  back to music ?
2150 This is WFAT The Fat one " same song repeated  Shazam no help
2153 Id as before
2200 off after Id
« Last Edit: December 02, 2022, 2200 UTC by hsmith77 »
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Re: WFAT 6925 USB 2142 UTC 2 DEC 2022
« Reply #1 on: December 02, 2022, 2149 UTC »
Reception onto NE Ohio:

S9  SIO 444  SINPO 45434

2143 ID WFAT into Papa-Oom-Mow-Mow
1946 ID This is WFAT, the fat one into Papa......
1950 ID This is WFAT.....into Papa......
1953 ID...same
2200 ID then OTA

Thanks!
« Last Edit: December 02, 2022, 2200 UTC by Chuck54 »
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Re: WFAT 6925 USB 2142 UTC 2 DEC 2022
« Reply #2 on: December 02, 2022, 2149 UTC »
2148 UTC - Signal is S7 in WNY, audio is decent, The Rivingtons- Papa-OoM-Mow-Mow
2154 - This is WFAT "The Fat One" for ID then back to the Papa tune.
« Last Edit: December 02, 2022, 2154 UTC by Traveling Wave »
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Re: WFAT 6925 USB 2142 UTC 2Dec 2022
« Reply #3 on: December 02, 2022, 2150 UTC »
2140 UTC men singing shazam can't id (Doo - Wop music)
2149 UTC Om with possible station id then a repeat of the previous song
2151 UTC signal just above the noise now
2153 UTC Om with id "This is WFAT ??? then the song again.


S 7 to 8 with fading at times / thanks for the show Pls QSl and thanks  ;D
« Last Edit: December 02, 2022, 2207 UTC by TRI International »
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Re: WFAT 6925 USB 2142 UTC 2 DEC 2022
« Reply #4 on: December 02, 2022, 2151 UTC »
2150 - OM w/ID: "This is WFAT, the fat one"
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Re: WFAT 6925 USB 2142 UTC 2 DEC 2022
« Reply #5 on: December 02, 2022, 2151 UTC »
Excellent signal. Slowed-down voice ID: WFAT. "love that one" & into same song again

Guess the op was a fan of the original WFAT
« Last Edit: December 02, 2022, 2209 UTC by Andrew Yoder »
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Re: WFAT 6925 USB 2142 UTC 2 DEC 2022
« Reply #6 on: December 02, 2022, 2152 UTC »
2149 UTC OM with slowed down ID..."WFAT", into "Papa Oom Mow Mow"-The Rivingtons
2153 UTC OM with ID, followed by the Rivingtons tune again
2156 UTC OM with ID..."WFAT...The fat one", into the same tune
2159 UTC OM with ID, then OFF

I haven't heard that ID since the 1980's! ***
Here's my recording of the show:
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*** Checking back on my QSL's it seems I was wrong about that ID in the 1980's. It was WHOT that I heard and QSL'd! WFAT was one of a series of stations run by a group of ops that were pioneers in North American pirate radio! WFAT apparently was busted in 1979....
« Last Edit: December 06, 2022, 0025 UTC by Skipmuck »
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Re: WFAT 6925 USB 2142 UTC 2 DEC 2022
« Reply #7 on: December 02, 2022, 2153 UTC »
Papa Oom Mow Mow slowed down & repeated more than a few times and ID "WFAT: The Fat One" S7 through band noise hard copy in Central Wisconsin.
« Last Edit: December 02, 2022, 2207 UTC by dxbill »
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Re: WFAT 6925 USB 2142 UTC 2 DEC 2022
« Reply #8 on: December 02, 2022, 2154 UTC »
signal S6-7 on the SDR in Fair Hill, Maryland
21.51 song (a man) / unknown
21.53 ID (a man) / "This is WFAT the fat one"
21.53 same song (a man) / unknown
21.56 ID
21.56 same song (a man) / unknown
22.00 ID and off

All in a loop.

Thank you for the show. If possible, please QSL. Thank you.
« Last Edit: December 02, 2022, 2201 UTC by Bali_Frank »
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Re: WFAT 6925 USB 2142 UTC 2 DEC 2022
« Reply #9 on: December 02, 2022, 2201 UTC »
Weird and cool show! At first hard to decipher WFAT with the voice but then I got it thanks to hsmith. Good S8 signal in the Boston burbs.

Hope we get some more WFAT shoved down our radio holes soon!
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