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Author Topic: D-I-O-N 6850 AM 2037 UTC 17 Jun 2020  (Read 599 times)

Offline ChrisSmolinski

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D-I-O-N 6850 AM 2037 UTC 17 Jun 2020
« on: June 17, 2020, 2037 UTC »
2037 "Muskrat Love", SIO 222
2045 "I Just Want to Be Your Everything"
2101 "Summer Breeze"
2128 "If You Wanna Get To Heaven"
2131 Possible ID by synthesized YL voice, but could not decipher
2133 "Your Mama Don't Dance"
2146 Synth voice back, sounded like they said they were testing? I am sure they're giving an email address for reception reports  ;D
2211 ID, gave email address? Sounded like the WREC email address was given.
2213 "Highway To Hell"
2219 "School's Out"
2222 ID
2229 Signal faded out a bit now
2250 Off
« Last Edit: June 17, 2020, 2250 UTC by ChrisSmolinski »
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Re: UNID 6850 AM 2037 UTC 17 Jun 2020
« Reply #1 on: June 17, 2020, 2050 UTC »
Good reception, some fades

2049 "Still The One" Orleans
2051 "Lonesome Loser" Little River Band. Reception now very good
2055 Off?
2056 Signal quite faint now
2058 Gone/Off?
2145 YL repeating same words several times, very noisy, maybe saying testing among words
2146 Music snippets
2147 "Station Zero" ? ID
2148 "Baby Come Back" Player.....good reception with fades/noise, Computer YL talking over music
2151 "Hello, sorry, we are having problems, please stand by...This is DROS/M(?) testing"
2154 "Sentimental Lady" Bob Welch. YL sounds like "DIOM" or "DION"
Request? Maybe "Haitian Divorce"? Steely Dan
2158 Definitely "DION" several times....noisy
2200 "Cinderella" Firefall, very noisy
2204 YL talking, "my name is DION, this is a demo"
2207 "Lady" Little River Band.  Excellent reception, no noise
2210 Giving email addy but way too noisy......PJSparx taking qsl for this new station
2218 Unid hard rock
2220 "School's Out" Alice Cooper
« Last Edit: June 17, 2020, 2228 UTC by Ct Yankee »
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D-I-O-N 6850 AM 2037 UTC 17 Jun 2020
« Reply #2 on: June 17, 2020, 2112 UTC »
2110 UTC "Dream Weaver"-Gary Wright (S7 peaks with moderate fades and xmsn breaks)
2113 UTC "On and On"-Gary Bishop
2118 UTC "Diamond Girl"-Seals & Crofts
2123 UTC "Amie"-Pure Prairie League
2127 UTC "If You Wanna Get To Heaven"-Ozark Mountain Daredevils
2130 UTC YL with repeated "We are testing Pirate ??" (Hmmm.....can't get the ID)
2133 UTC "Your Mama Don't Dance"-Loggins & Messina
2136 UTC "Leader of the Band"-Dan Fogelberg
2141 UTC "I Go Crazy"-Paul Davis
2144 UTC YL said something....repeated but I can't make it out....."a new pirate station"
2148 UTC "Baby Come Back"-Player
2151 UTC YL with "Hello, sorry we are having problems...please stand by"
2155 UTC "Sentimental Lady"-Bob Welch
2159 UTC This is D-I-O-N testing...repeated
2200 UTC "Cinderella"-Firefall
2206 UTC "Lady"-Little River Band
Have to grab some dinner here....I believe the YL said reports can be sent to her in care of PJ Sparx at WREC.  :)
« Last Edit: June 17, 2020, 2216 UTC by Skipmuck »
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Re: DION 6850 AM 2037 UTC 17 Jun 2020
« Reply #3 on: June 17, 2020, 2155 UTC »
signal S9 on the SDR in Milford, PA
21.52 "Hello, sorry we are having problem Please stand by. This is DION testing." (a woman)
21.54 song (a man) + ID (a woman)
21.57 a lot of ID's (a woman)
22.00 song (a man)
20.04 a lot of ID's (a woman)  "This is a demo Hello HFU, My name is DION."
22.05 song (a man)
22.10 a lot of ID's (a woman) + WREC email
22.12 song "Highway to Hell"
22.15 song (a man)
22.19 song "School's out"
« Last Edit: June 17, 2020, 2223 UTC by Bali_Frank »
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D-I-O-N 6850 AM 2037 UTC 17 Jun 2020
« Reply #4 on: June 17, 2020, 2201 UTC »
S9 Just tuning in
2200 - "Cinderella" - Firerfall
2204 - Synth YL : "This is a demo, hello HFU. my name is DION" repeated...
2205 - "Lady" - Little River Band
2210 - Synth YL: "Hello HFU. My name is DION. You can QSL me through my good friend WREC Radio PJ SPARX. Helped me set up my new pirate radio station"
2212 - "Highway To Hell" - AC/DC
« Last Edit: June 17, 2020, 2213 UTC by Radio Star »
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