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Author Topic: WFDR 6930 USB 2357 UTC 11 Aug 2017  (Read 2784 times)

Offline Davep

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WFDR 6930 USB 2357 UTC 11 Aug 2017
« on: August 11, 2017, 2358 UTC »
 2357 FDR Speeches -Day of Infamy
0001 Prayer on D Day
0007 Fala speech
0010 Address to Congress on Yalta
0018 ID WFDR New York

S 5_7 very nice
« Last Edit: August 12, 2017, 0020 UTC by Davep »
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Re: Unid 6930 USB 2357 UTC 11 Aug 17
« Reply #1 on: August 12, 2017, 0000 UTC »
2358 UTC FDR speech fading in and out of the noise....
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Re: Unid 6930 USB 2357 UTC 11 Aug 17
« Reply #2 on: August 12, 2017, 0000 UTC »
Weak but really clear here S6
0001 now fading
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Re: FDR Speeches 6930 USB 2357 UTC 11 Aug 17
« Reply #3 on: August 12, 2017, 0003 UTC »
Quite strong here, easily SIO 444.
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Re: FDR Speeches 6930 USB 2357 UTC 11 Aug 17
« Reply #4 on: August 12, 2017, 0004 UTC »
Weak but clear when fading in better. Very low noise conditions.
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Re: FDR speeches 6930 USB 2357 UTC 11 Aug 17
« Reply #5 on: August 12, 2017, 0005 UTC »
0004 poor/fair copy in the static crashes.
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Re: FDR speeches 6930 USB 2357 UTC 11 Aug 17
« Reply #6 on: August 12, 2017, 0007 UTC »
WFDR I.D. 6930 USB S1-S3 in NY

0006: FDR speech "Almighty God, Amen" mention of President Roosevelt and the 1944 campaign
0018: Silence then a WFDR I.D. then off the air
« Last Edit: August 12, 2017, 0103 UTC by PirateSWL »
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Re: WFDR 6930 USB 2357 UTC 11 Aug 2017
« Reply #7 on: August 12, 2017, 0040 UTC »
00:00 utc
Churchills speech
S8 signal very clear hardly no static
00:20 sign off
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Re: WFDR 6930 USB 2357 UTC 11 Aug 2017
« Reply #8 on: August 12, 2017, 0045 UTC »
I have never heard an op ID the station, nor have I encountered an email address for this  ???
I see that Davep has posted a closing ID for the station....interesting!
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Re: WFDR 6930 USB 2357 UTC 11 Aug 2017
« Reply #9 on: August 12, 2017, 0102 UTC »
I have never heard an op ID the station, nor have I encountered an email address for this  ???
I see that Davep has posted a closing ID for the station....interesting!

I heard an OM say something after the broadcast but it was so quick I missed exactly what he said. Makes sense WFDR. Maybe our SDR friends can check the end of their recordings.
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Re: WFDR 6930 USB 2357 UTC 11 Aug 2017
« Reply #10 on: August 12, 2017, 0136 UTC »
Definite Id , didn't hear an e mail
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Re: WFDR 6930 USB 2357 UTC 11 Aug 2017
« Reply #11 on: August 12, 2017, 0142 UTC »
I concur with Davep, although the static was bad I can clearly make out  the "D R New York" part of the ID.
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Re: WFDR 6930 USB 2357 UTC 11 Aug 2017
« Reply #12 on: August 12, 2017, 2147 UTC »
23.53 UTC program started with some speech extracts, off again for some seconds
23.53 UTC speech about US of A, peace, Japan
23.54 UTC emperor Japan, Pacific, American island, governor
23.55 UTC yesterday... Manila, yesterday launched an attack to Hongkong
last night, Japanese bombers... last night... island... this morning...
23.57 UTC pause, speech continued, applause, invasion
23.59 UTC I asked... what the congress... attack Japan... Sunday, December 7th, 1941
00.00 UTC annoncer about prayer on day, still speech, but continually faded away

Well, my late contribution herewith, copied this with my Perseus SDR, SINPO 24322
into Germany tonight, firstly quite good but later signals dropped
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