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Author Topic: KCR 6275 AM 1311 utc 01 Feb 2020  (Read 1234 times)

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KCR 6275 AM 1311 utc 01 Feb 2020
« on: February 01, 2020, 1317 UTC »
on 6275.0
1311 trace of audio, lost by 1317      1319 trace (weak carrier), then off ? (testing ?)

1425 weak, music, 1427 DJ in It, music, recording of ABC Radio (as announced by KCR), 1436
1450 switching from disco era hit parade to Andean music
1626 Baccara "Yes sir I can boogie" ... 1634 "I got you babe", 1637 "Telstar", 1640

(1940 no signal)
« Last Edit: February 01, 2020, 1941 UTC by Ray Lalleu »
D/E/F/G/It/Sp : Dutch/English/French/German/Italian/Spanish
+/- : about 0.02 offset, ++/-- 0.03/0.04 offset
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Re: Unid 6275 AM 1311 utc 01 Feb 2020
« Reply #1 on: February 01, 2020, 1421 UTC »
music and talk in It

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Re: KCR (tent.) 6275 AM 1311 utc 01 Feb 2020
« Reply #2 on: February 01, 2020, 1434 UTC »
Very Good Reception (S7) on the Parma, Italy SDR link - http://kiwisdrik4cie.ddns.net:8073/?f=17063.7usb

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1432 I heard ABC radio from OM otherwise in Italian.  KCR noted they would start with April 1978 ABC show.  Music sounds like disco from 1978
1434 "Brickhouse" The Commodores (1977)
1437 "Let's All Chant" Michael Zagger Band (1977 Jeez, I danced to this song 😳)
1442 "Number one" by computer several times, OM in Italian "Numero Uno" to Unid disco song
1447 Unid Italian Rock song YL singer
1453 Andes music?
1455 More Andes music
1500 ID Several times, "Music Radio", Spanish music
1503 African music
1516 African music
1521 ID and email, "Music Radio", return to African music
1545 African music continues
1608 "When I Need You" Leo Sayer
1616 "The Hustle" Van McCoy
« Last Edit: February 01, 2020, 1616 UTC by Ct Yankee »
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Re: KCR 6275 AM 1311 utc 01 Feb 2020
« Reply #3 on: February 01, 2020, 1730 UTC »
Presumed still KCR at 1730 with Dancing Queen
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Radio Metropolitana 6275 AM 1854 utc 01 Feb 2020
« Reply #4 on: February 01, 2020, 1859 UTC »
ID as Radio Metropolitana, capital de Cuba (?!) LA music

not pirate?


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Re: Radio Metropolitana 6275 AM 1854 utc 01 Feb 2020
« Reply #5 on: February 01, 2020, 1914 UTC »
This is likely Key Channel Radio -- they had their Latin America program on today
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Re: KCR 6275 AM 1311 utc 01 Feb 2020
« Reply #6 on: February 01, 2020, 2006 UTC »
Is The Winter Marathon! by KRC

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Re: KCR 6275 AM 1311 utc 01 Feb 2020
« Reply #7 on: February 01, 2020, 2016 UTC »
Broadcast will run 24 hours (until Feb 2 1400 utc) in six hour blocks of programming which are repeated.  Nothing here via terrestrial radio yet.
« Last Edit: February 01, 2020, 2109 UTC by Ct Yankee »
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Re: Radio Metropolitana 6275 AM 1854 utc 01 Feb 2020
« Reply #8 on: February 01, 2020, 2021 UTC »
This is likely Key Channel Radio -- they had their Latin America program on today
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Re: KCR 6275 AM 1311 utc 01 Feb 2020
« Reply #9 on: February 01, 2020, 2026 UTC »
2020 Everybody Dance - DJ It say Radio Elvis   2022 it's some play list next position
- heard on Kiwi IT
2200 ID confirmed
0010 direct SIO 222
« Last Edit: February 02, 2020, 0015 UTC by kris »
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Re: KCR 6275 AM 1311 utc 01 Feb 2020
« Reply #10 on: February 01, 2020, 2048 UTC »
2047 UTC Carrier here direct with some threshold audio fadeups
2134 UTC Signal is hitting S5 peaks now! "Laisser Passer"-Matchatcha
2139 UTC "Ma Hele"-Dally Kimoko
2200 UTC KCR ID
2204 UTC "At Peace With Woman"-The Jones Girls
2230 UTC I still have the carrier, but no audio......
« Last Edit: February 01, 2020, 2231 UTC by Skipmuck »
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Re: KCR 6275 AM 1311 utc 01 Feb 2020
« Reply #11 on: February 01, 2020, 2055 UTC »
2055 Some music heard here directly in the USA, still fairly weak, perhaps SIO 111/222
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Re: KCR 6275 AM 1311 utc 01 Feb 2020
« Reply #12 on: February 01, 2020, 2137 UTC »
Hearing it direct in Mount Kisco, NY with faint audio at 2134 UTC.  Shazam ID'd the song at that time as "Laissez-Passer (Dub Version)" by Diblo Dibala.

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Re: KCR 6275 AM 1311 utc 01 Feb 2020
« Reply #13 on: February 01, 2020, 2223 UTC »
KCR heard here around 2210 but nothing now at 2223..... just carrier.

2240 Audio back with Gilbert O'Sullivan tune "Nothing Rymed.
2244 Back to open carrier only.
2302 Audio back - fady
2317 "Native New Yorker" by Odyssey .
« Last Edit: February 01, 2020, 2320 UTC by clobdell »
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