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Author Topic: Thunder Chicken Radio 6950 USB 2215 UTC 5 JAN 2024  (Read 1464 times)

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Thunder Chicken Radio 6950 USB 2215 UTC 5 JAN 2024
« on: January 05, 2024, 2215 UTC »
2215 OM repeating something - something about a wolf? Tough copy.
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Re: Thunder Chicken Radio 6950 USB 2215 UTC 5 JAN 2024
« Reply #1 on: January 05, 2024, 2217 UTC »

2215 Faint music just over noise floor, maybe C&W
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Re: Thunder Chicken Radio 6950 USB 2215 UTC 5 JAN 2024
« Reply #2 on: January 05, 2024, 2219 UTC »
2219 UTC S8 With Frank Zappa Bobbie Brown
2220 UTC love the rip on n Bob Dillon!!! LOL
Jewish American princess would be nice!
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Re: Thunder Chicken Radio 6950 USB 2215 UTC 5 JAN 2024
« Reply #3 on: January 05, 2024, 2219 UTC »
2218 utc SIO222 direct
Man singing
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Re: Thunder Chicken Radio 6950 USB 2215 UTC 5 JAN 2024
« Reply #4 on: January 05, 2024, 2223 UTC »
S9 with the KX4AZ KiwiSDR. Up to S7 direct at the end.

2221 UTC-Flakes by Frank Zappa
2226 UTC-Don't Eat the Yellow Snow by Frank Zappa
2228 UTC-Nanook Rubs It by Frank Zappa
2232 UTC-St. Alfonzo's Pancake Breakfast by Frank Zappa
2234 UTC-Father O'Blivion by Frank Zappa
2237 UTC-Cosmik Debris by Frank Zappa
2241 UTC-Baby, Take Your Teeth Out by Frank Zappa
2243 UTC-SSTV
2245 UTC-You Know What I Mean by Jeff Beck
2249 UTC-She's a Woman by Jeff Beck
0026 UTC-OFF





« Last Edit: January 10, 2024, 0210 UTC by Shortwave_Listener »
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Re: Thunder Chicken Radio 6950 USB 2215 UTC 5 JAN 2024
« Reply #5 on: January 05, 2024, 2223 UTC »
Reception into NE Ohio:

S9+5   SIO 555  SINPO 55555

2221 UTC Flakes by Frank Zappa
2226 Don't Eat the Yellow Snow by Frank Zappa
2230 Nanook Rubs It by Frank Zappa
2233 St Alfonso's Pancake Breakfast

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« Last Edit: January 05, 2024, 2233 UTC by Chuck54 »
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Re: Thunder Chicken Radio 6950 USB 2215 UTC 5 JAN 2024
« Reply #6 on: January 05, 2024, 2225 UTC »
2224 - Music here
2235 - Definitely Frank Zappa
« Last Edit: January 05, 2024, 2236 UTC by Radio Star »
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Re: Thunder Chicken Radio 6950 USB 2215 UTC 5 JAN 2024
« Reply #7 on: January 05, 2024, 2233 UTC »
2232: St. Alfonzo's Pancake Breakfast by Frank Zappa.
2240: Baby, Take Your Teeth Out by Frank Zappa.
0019: Carefree Highway by Gordon Lightfoot.
0023: If You Could Read My Mind by Gordon Lightfoot.

         
« Last Edit: January 06, 2024, 0026 UTC by myteaquinn »
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Re: Thunder Chicken Radio 6950 USB 2215 UTC 5 JAN 2024
« Reply #8 on: January 05, 2024, 2236 UTC »
2236 fair to good in high band noise
at MD SDR
Statue of Liberty SSTV image
« Last Edit: January 05, 2024, 2253 UTC by dxace1 »
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Re: Thunder Chicken Radio 6950 USB 2215 UTC 5 JAN 2024
« Reply #9 on: January 05, 2024, 2238 UTC »
2236 UTC - Signal is S5 in WNY, audio is making it above the noise, playing Frank Zappa tunes.
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Re: Thunder Chicken Radio 6950 USB 2215 UTC 5 JAN 2024
« Reply #10 on: January 05, 2024, 2240 UTC »
2237  "Cosmik Debris " Frank Zappa          S5
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Re: Thunder Chicken Radio 6950 USB 2215 UTC 5 JAN 2024
« Reply #11 on: January 05, 2024, 2245 UTC »
Frank Zappa music but FAX sounds at 2243 UTC.

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Re: Thunder Chicken Radio 6950 USB 2215 UTC 5 JAN 2024
« Reply #12 on: January 05, 2024, 2247 UTC »
6950 USB

Fair to good signal.



22:45z 'You Know What I Mean' - Jeff Beck
22:49z 'She's A Woman'
23:22z 'Volcano' - Jimmy Buffet
23:28z "..arrgghh.." - Op over 'A Pirate Looks at Forty'...hmm, that voice sounds familiar

Thunder Chicken Radio 6950 USB 2241z-0026z 01-05_06-24

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Re: Thunder Chicken Radio 6950 USB 2215 UTC 5 JAN 2024
« Reply #13 on: January 05, 2024, 2252 UTC »
on 6950 USB        direct
2250 some music, but badly jammed by UT  here in Europe

0000 SSTV barely heard, same interference here
« Last Edit: January 06, 2024, 0001 UTC by Ray Lalleu »
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Re: Thunder Chicken Radio 6950 USB 2215 UTC 5 JAN 2024
« Reply #14 on: January 05, 2024, 2322 UTC »
2320 UTC SIO 444 into my SDR direct
2320 Volcano by Jimmy Buffet
2327 A Pirate Looks at Forty by Jimmy Buffet
0008 The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald by Gordon Lightfoot.
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