Ball Smacker Radio 4030 AM 0159 UTC 28 DEC 2022

[myteaquinn]

Ball Smacker up with Christmas music.
0229 UTC: Signal dropped and the noise came up destroying the signal.
0259 UTC: At recheck fond a S9+ signal.



Thanks for the broadcast tonight.

[~SIGINT~]

02:05 UTC - Weak readable S6 ~ S7 with Christmas program.

RSPduo | Barker & Williamson T2FD antenna

[Pigmeat]

Fat, 10 over signal. You think he'd play "Grandma Got Ran Over By a Reindeer" a few times in a row after the unforgivable thing he did to WART on Christmas Eve.

[FelixChapel]

SIO 455   Nice clean AM audio but not super strong.  Very enjoyable
0227 - Ball Smacker ID
0227 - Begining to Look Alot like XMas
0229 - So This Is Xmas - JL
0231 taking on some deep fades now
0233  I Want A Hippopotamus For Xmas
0236  Ball Smacker ID with reception report info
0236 Transiberian Orch Xmas song

[BallSmacker]

Pigmeat: We think you mean WANK and they were off 3 minutes (0155 UTC) before our interval started at 0158.  We had a clear frequency or would not have started.  Hats off to WANK for the pre-show!  We loved it!  More pirates are better!

[elburndx]

S9+7 with heavy QRN


0233 I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas - Gayla Peevey

[Pigmeat]

I heard it live, you ran over WANK. And now you're playing the abomination called "Feliz Navidad". You could at least play the Charro version so we could hear her chi-chi's banging up against that amplified acoustic guitar.

[BallSmacker]

Pigmeat:  You couldn't even spell the station's call right, so your report is suspect.  They were clearly receivable on our announced and unusual pirate frequency at our location until the perfect time for us to start.  It seemed to us that we were working together for everyone's enjoyment.  Anyone who thinks differently should email BallSmacker@protonmail.net and let us know.  We respect and encourage all pirate transmissions until there is a legal option for North America (at less than 50kW) like there is in other countries on our precious, but fading, shortwave frequencies.  Shout out to them as just coincidentally we had that song as our second.  Let's tie these TXs together to put together a whole night of music!  We are almost always under 2 hours. 

[Molvania Poacher]

SINPO=14211

255- Just barely made out a faint wisp of the melody of "Do They Know It's Christmas Time" by Band Aid on a quick fade up.

[Bali_Frank]

signal S9+- on the SDR in Fair Hill, Maryland
03.40 song "Merry Christmas"
03.43 song "Snoopy vs. The Red Baron"
03.45 ID
03.45 song "Last Christmas"
03.49 song "Baby, It's Cold Outside"
03.52 song "Silver Bells"