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Author Topic: UNID 6930 AM 0348 UTC 22 Apr 2014  (Read 1429 times)

Offline ChrisSmolinski

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UNID 6930 AM 0348 UTC 22 Apr 2014
« on: April 22, 2014, 1425 UTC »
SDR recording catch, very strong signal, SIO 555.
0348 Sign on with Beach Boys "Little Deuce Coupe"
0350 B-52's "Rock Lobster"
0355 Autograph "Turn Up The Radio"
0400 "Johnny B Goode"
0403 Off
0502 Back on with Dean Martin "Everybody Loves Somebody", then dead air
0510 Back on with some instrumental music: Rapid Eye "Circa Forever"
0518 Smash Mouth "Then The Morning Comes", then dead air
0527 The Who "Squeeze Box"
0530 Off

Thanks for the show, whoever you were...
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Re: UNID 6930 AM 0348 UTC 22 Apr 2014
« Reply #1 on: April 22, 2014, 2103 UTC »
This was RFW AM transmitter test. Tried different songs to tune for fidelity. Hope it sounded ok. Probably heard distortion as we changed various settings but should have smoothed out hopefully.
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Re: UNID 6930 AM 0348 UTC 22 Apr 2014
« Reply #2 on: April 22, 2014, 2125 UTC »
The audio was good, although from memory a bit narrow?
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Re: UNID 6930 AM 0348 UTC 22 Apr 2014
« Reply #3 on: April 22, 2014, 2139 UTC »
Da! We thought so too. We will try different transmitter next time.
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