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Author Topic: Ball Smacker Radio 6960 AM 0158 UTC 21 Jan 2023  (Read 1071 times)

Offline DangerKitty

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Ball Smacker Radio 6960 AM 0158 UTC 21 Jan 2023
« on: January 21, 2023, 0158 UTC »
mx playing and no ID so far at 0158
0210: Tiny Dancer - Elton John
0216: "I Can't Stop Dancing" - Archie Bell & Drells
15221, JBA
0218: "Oh my my, oh hell yeah" - Tom Petty and Heartbreakers
Conditions are horrible here tonight. Everything is JBA. Hope it's better wherever you are.
0224: "All She Wants to do is Dance" - Don Henley
Seems to be a "dance" theme tonight.

Thank you for the show!
« Last Edit: January 21, 2023, 0229 UTC by DangerKitty »
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Ball Smacker Radio 6960 USB 0158 UTC 21 Jan 2023
« Reply #1 on: January 21, 2023, 0159 UTC »
SIO 344
0159 - piano music
0200 - Ball Smacker Radio ID
0201 - Everybody Dance - Chic
0202 - fading but signal improving!
0207 - Do you wanna Dance - Ramones
0209 - Tiny Dance - Elton John
« Last Edit: January 21, 2023, 0210 UTC by FelixChapel »
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Re: Ball Smacker Radio 6960 USB 0158 UTC 21 Jan 2023
« Reply #2 on: January 21, 2023, 0200 UTC »
0159 UTC: Ball Smacker signing on.



Thanks for the broadcast tonight.
« Last Edit: January 21, 2023, 0356 UTC by myteaquinn »
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Re: UNID 6960 AM 0158 UTC 21 JAN 2023
« Reply #3 on: January 21, 2023, 0203 UTC »
Tuned in at 0200 utc on Barrington Hills IL sdr with fair/poor S7 to S9 signal, song "everybody dance", Elton John "tiny dancer", at 0211 switched to Brookfield WI sdr with S9+ signal, at 0232 switched back to Barrington Hills IL sdr, song "dancing with myself", dance themed program,   
« Last Edit: January 21, 2023, 0254 UTC by William Hassig »
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Re: UNID 6960 USB 0158 UTC 21 Jan 2023
« Reply #4 on: January 21, 2023, 0203 UTC »
signal S8-9 on the SDR in Elida, Ohio
01.59 piano
02.00 ID
02.00 song "Everybody Dance"
02.06 song "Do You Want To Dance"
02.08 ID
02.08 song "Tiny Dancer"

« Last Edit: January 21, 2023, 0213 UTC by Bali_Frank »
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Re: BallSmacker Radio 6960 AM 0158 UTC 21 JAN 2023
« Reply #5 on: January 21, 2023, 0203 UTC »
02:01 UTC - Good readable with fading ... and here I have been waiting on 4030 kHz with no signal. Even the live stream is monitoring 4030 kHz with no signal;
02:18 UTC - Big fade out period, just went to unreadable, almost no carrier.


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« Last Edit: January 21, 2023, 0219 UTC by ~SIGINT~ »

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Re: UNID 6960 USB 0158 UTC 21 Jan 2023
« Reply #6 on: January 21, 2023, 0207 UTC »
It’s clearly in AM here in michigan — “everybody Dance@ and ‘do you wanna dance’. …

3+5444 and getting stronger. 
DXing *either* from:
MI -- South Central Lower Michigan with a 25 m randomwire and a LOT of local noise!
or
MI2 -- the tip of Michigan's Thumb with a 100 metre longwire and much quieter conditions.  Radios can be either an SPR-4 or IC-R71A or SDRplay

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Re: Ball Smacker Radio 6960 USB 0158 UTC 21 Jan 2023
« Reply #7 on: January 21, 2023, 0210 UTC »
It’s Ballsmacker — just heard the ID at :08
DXing *either* from:
MI -- South Central Lower Michigan with a 25 m randomwire and a LOT of local noise!
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MI2 -- the tip of Michigan's Thumb with a 100 metre longwire and much quieter conditions.  Radios can be either an SPR-4 or IC-R71A or SDRplay

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Re: Ball Smacker Radio 6960 AM 0158 UTC 21 Jan 2023
« Reply #8 on: January 21, 2023, 0212 UTC »
Unlike 4030 (SINPO=44333), can't copy any trace of BSR here on 6960.
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Re: Ball Smacker Radio 6960 AM 0158 UTC 21 Jan 2023
« Reply #9 on: January 21, 2023, 0214 UTC »
0214 UTC Weak carrier here with just a trace of music.
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Re: Ball Smacker Radio 6960 AM 0158 UTC 21 Jan 2023
« Reply #10 on: January 21, 2023, 0219 UTC »
0159 "Wildfire" IS, bowling ball pin strike sfx before ID "4030 AM from somewhere in the Northeast" and another sfx over intro to "Everybody dance" - Chic then a program of "dance" theme songs including Ramones version of "Do you want to dance", Elton John, Archie Bell and the Drells, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers.

S7 with good audio so far.
« Last Edit: January 21, 2023, 0223 UTC by Markokpik »
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Re: Ball Smacker Radio 6960 AM 0158 UTC 21 Jan 2023
« Reply #11 on: January 21, 2023, 0221 UTC »
Just above the noise floor with "Last dance with Mary Jane"
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Re: Ball Smacker Radio 6960 AM 0158 UTC 21 Jan 2023
« Reply #12 on: January 21, 2023, 0226 UTC »
Enough carrier tonight to get a lock on Sync AM direct but no audio coming through at this noise level. Nothing on 4030 at all.
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Re: Ball Smacker Radio 6960 AM 0158 UTC 21 Jan 2023
« Reply #13 on: January 21, 2023, 0235 UTC »
Getting run over by some clown in sideband in NorCal on 6960. Headin' back east.

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Re: Ball Smacker Radio 6960 AM 0158 UTC 21 Jan 2023
« Reply #14 on: January 21, 2023, 0244 UTC »
S-9 plus signal on the western Great Plains. "Save The Last Dance For Me". A ton of band noise. Must be a lot of wind out that way tonight, as usual.

 

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