Apres Wolverine... 6950 USB 0130 UTC 15Feb15

[jFarley]

0130 "Coming to Take Me Away" backwards

0133 Robot 24 SSTV


0133 "Coming to Take Me Away" forwards

0136 Robot 24 SSTV


0137 "Coming to Take Me Away" sped up

...more music

0153 Robot 24 SSTV


0200 Last audio heard.
Around an S5 average here.

[MrMomB]

S-5/7 QSB

1:49 Have you seen her
1:50 LA woman
Deep fades
1:58 Go ask Alice
2:00 Techno music

[Skipmuck]

Cool! It's a strange night in pirate radio land this evening
Good thing I'm not normal.....

[corq]

Weak in Mebourne, FL but 'have you seen her' and Doors music audible after, almost gone now
 SIO 212 at peaks.

[ByteBORG]

S5 to S6 siggie

0130 to 0159 - approx. - Heard the B side and the A side of "They're Coming to Take Me "Away"
                       with a few SSTV images between

                       Also heard LA Woman and White Rabbit on freq

Signal was quite a bit weaker than Wolverine, so I'm thinking this was a different station.

[Rafman]

0154z "More Human Than Human"
0156z "White Rabbit"

s6-8 signal but alot of static

[Skipmuck]

S5 peak here, but down to S2/S3 at 0156 UTC with "White Rabbit"-Jefferson Airplane
0159 OFF?

[ChrisSmolinski]

Heard here as well on the SDR recording, mostly USB, also noted in AM at 0137z.

[Skipmuck]

I listened back on my recording and have the following observations. The backwards version of "They're Coming to Take Me Away, Ha Ha" came on about 45 seconds after Wolverine's SSTV ended at 0130 UTC . The signal strength was much lower but still a nice S5/S6 here with clear audio. The first SSTV came on at 0133 UTC and after running JFarley's kind posting through the PAINT app and swapping some colors, appears to read..."TRUTH IS TRUTH even if no one believes it...LIES IS LIES even if everyone believes it". The forward version of the aforementioned tune came on about a minute and 15 seconds after the end of the 1st SSTV. The 2nd SSTV came on at 0137 UTC and I have absolutely no idea what it is This 2nd SSTV ended 30 seconds after it started. Then there was silence until about 0143ish UTC when a parody version of the Beach Boys Kokomo came on at a similar signal strength. (This parody is "The Camel Toe Song" by Tom Griswold and Bob Kevoian I believe)
0147 UTC Lots of WOO-OOO-OOO which sounded like a fake SSTV , with a break at 0147 UTC with a man saying something like "Pirate ID...P-I-R-A-T-E", then back to fake SSTV
0148 UTC "Have You Seen Her"-Chi-Lites
0150 UTC "LA Woman"-Doors (The song was cut off abruptly at 0152 UTC and a different song came on that I do not recognize-man singer)
0154 UTC A short SSTV came on, then after a minute of some kind of electronica music, "White Rabbit"-Jefferson Airplane at 0156 UTC. I get nothing after 0159ish UTC.


Thanks for the request and the broadcast whoever you were
(Any chance of a QSL?

[MrMomB]

Skip,  Agree!  As I listened last night and watched on the scope clearly these are two different stations. I started a new thread with the UNID and somehow it was merged into this Apres Wolverine thread. 

[Skipmuck]

Skip,  Agree!  As I listened last night and watched on the scope clearly these are two different stations. I started a new thread with the UNID and somehow it was merged into this Apres Wolverine thread.  

MrMomB...There seemed to be a lot of confusion as Wolverine has been known to come back on after the end of his programs and play a request made in the postings. I was uncertain about it and I did notice the two separate threads! I think it was a good idea to call this "Apres Wolverine"...Apres=After in French! It is still basically UNID! So the merging of the 2 threads was a good idea. In the half hour after the Wolverine closedown, I thought it might have been 2 different broadcasters, but the first two SSTV and the one at the latter part of the program are all Robot24 SSTV, so I think it was all the same broadcast...not Wolverine though! Pirate ops are always doing cool things like messing with the listeners....it's what makes pirate radio the enjoyable hobby that makes us keep coming back for more! We're gullible, easily misled, and pliant in the face of adversity in our pursuit of the QSL's.  

ChrisSmol...Did you get a clearer pic of the second SSTV than JFarleys? And in the 3rd SSTV...is that a rabbit, a squirrel, or a chihuahua

[MrMomB]

I did not fire up the computer to look at the SSTV.  Thanks for the Apres definition, I am no longer wondering. 

If the station in question was Wolverine, then, the broadcast was done by a different radio/antenna/mixer/power level.  The bandwidth and power was markedly different between the two by a huge factor.  The two were night and day apart on the pandapter.  Transmitters have fingerprints too.  By design or not? 

In the end, I enjoy all aspects of radio including listening to pirates.  That's why I stop here.  In fact, tonight, I wore a Undercover Radio T-shirt at a well attended ham radio event in which I worked.  The T-shirt did invoke a few QSO's on the subject.