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Author Topic: Ball Smacker 6960 AM 0058 UTC 1 AUG 2020  (Read 1382 times)

Offline Bali_Frank

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Ball Smacker 6960 AM 0058 UTC 1 AUG 2020
« on: August 01, 2020, 0058 UTC »
signal S9 on the SDR in Elida, Ohio
00.58 piano
01.00 ID + frequency
01.00 song (a man)
01.03 song (a woman)
01.08 ID
01.08 song (a man)
« Last Edit: August 01, 2020, 0214 UTC by pirateswl »
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Re: Ball Smacker 6960 AM 1.August 2020
« Reply #1 on: August 01, 2020, 0059 UTC »
0058 after carrier on and into two short bursts of music intro
Signal powerful via na5b in VA, heard here in MD
ID at 0100 as Ballsmacker and into music show
« Last Edit: August 01, 2020, 0101 UTC by dxace1 »
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Re: Ball Smacker 6960 AM 1.August 2020
« Reply #2 on: August 01, 2020, 0059 UTC »
Wildfire Interval.
01:00 Ballsmacker Radio Goodevening Ham sandwiches.
01:00 Golden Years David Bowie Once David Jones, Ziggy Stardust. Alladin Sane, The Thin White Duke..Golden Years from the Station to Station Album.
01:03 Golddust Woman Stevie Nicks of Fleetwood Wood Mac and Nicks and Buckinham.
Ballsmacker ID Wires up in the trees.
01:08 Gold Rush (Deluxe Edition) Ed Sheeron.

How about Heart of Gold Neil Young.
Goldfinger Shirley Bassey.
Gold in these Hills Pink Floyd.
Golden Ring George Jones and Tammy Winette.
Honey by Bobby GOLDSBoro.


01:11 (Music into) Gold John Stewart With help from Stevie Nicks.
Ballsmacker email addy for Theme and Valid Reception Report.
01:16 Radar Love Golden Earring.
01:22 Twilight Zone Golden Earring Twilight Zone hit series on television in late 50s and early sixties 59 to 64 Rod Serling Producer Rod Serling also wrote the Original Planet of the Apes
01:26 Goldfinger Shirley Bassey Lead song for the 007 James Bond Movie Goldfinger Who could forget Pussy Galore and the Golden girl Sean Connery stars as 007
01:30 Gold Imagine Dragons
Ballsmacker ID.
01:34 Heart of Gold Neil Young Once part of CSN and Young! Lynyrd Skynyrd sang a Southern Man doesn't need Neil Young around anyhow in Sweet Home Alabama
01:36 Golden Days Panic! At The Disco
Ballsmacker Radio with Bowling Pins Crash from a Bowling Ball ID
01:41 Fields Of Gold Sting Former lead singer of The Police during the New Wave Era of the early 1980s now Solo
01:44 Golden Leaves Passenger.
Ballsmacker ID
01:49 Your Gold Teeth II Steeley Dan Popular Studio Band in the 1970s
01:52 Fool's Gold Thompson Twins.
Band pretty much dropping out now like last week
01:55 Gold Prince RIP Prince
02:01 Golden Slumbers The Beatles of Liverpool, England.
1st wave of the British Invasion in America.
Baalsmacker ID.
02:02 Glitter And Gold The Turtles Famous rock group of the 1960s.
Signal peaked up again
02:03 Gold On The Ceiling The Black Keys
Ballsmacker Website
02:07 Silver, Blue And Gold Bad Company Rock Group of the early to mid 1970s
02:12 Sister Golden Hair America Rock sensation of the late sixties and early seventies.
Ballsmacker email Addy given.
Wildfire Interval.


Thanks for another stellar show!

Off the Air 02:17





« Last Edit: August 01, 2020, 0217 UTC by KMD3HR »
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Re: Ball Smacker 6960 AM 1.August 2020
« Reply #3 on: August 01, 2020, 0100 UTC »
on 6960.0             direct
0059 some IS or  smooth jazz ?, 0100 talking at noise level
0103 not USB, but AM "Golden years", next tune,
0108 talking, next tunes, 0116 talking, "Radar love "? but under sudden bad noise
blob from 6941 to 6963, off at 0126, music heard again
0129 Shirley Bassey "Goldfinger", 0131 another tune,
0133 .... Radio, "Heart of gold"

on 6959.96
0147 music, 0148 talking : .... shortwave ..., 0149 music, occ. ut, 0155 ID?, music
0200 W voice, more music

(going back to bed, sleepy again,good night)

« Last Edit: August 01, 2020, 0202 UTC by Ray Lalleu »
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Re: Ball Smacker 6960 AM 1.August 2020
« Reply #4 on: August 01, 2020, 0101 UTC »
S9 @ 0100 with "Golden Years"
0213 - S9+10 with "Sister Goldenhair Surprise".  Nice signal tonight.
« Last Edit: August 01, 2020, 0213 UTC by refmo »
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Re: Ball Smacker 6960 AM 1.August 2020
« Reply #5 on: August 01, 2020, 0104 UTC »
Ball Smacker Radio with Golden Years tune at the moment. Thanks for the show tonight, B.S.
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Re: Ball Smacker 6960 AM 1.August 2020
« Reply #6 on: August 01, 2020, 0106 UTC »
S8 signal with QRN

0102 Golden Years - David Bowie
0103 Gold Dust Woman - Fleetwood Mac
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Re: Ball Smacker 6960 AM 1.August 2020
« Reply #7 on: August 01, 2020, 0108 UTC »
0107 JBA here.
Denver, CO.
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Re: Ball Smacker 6960 AM 1.August 2020
« Reply #8 on: August 01, 2020, 0109 UTC »
Found BSR at 0103
ID @ 0108 with sound of bowling ball hitting pins
45453 in Wyomissing.

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Re: Ball Smacker 6960 AM 1.August 2020
« Reply #9 on: August 01, 2020, 0128 UTC »
Weak into NE Central Florida. just above the S5 noise floor. Some QRN, can tell there is music.
0129 fade up S7 Woman singing, can't make out tune.
« Last Edit: August 01, 2020, 0130 UTC by The Web »
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Re: Ball Smacker 6960 AM 1.August 2020
« Reply #10 on: August 01, 2020, 0132 UTC »
0104 Several mellow vocals, rock, ID and protonmail e mail address, "Radar love," into more music.

S7 here.
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Re: Ball Smacker 6960 AM 1.August 2020
« Reply #11 on: August 01, 2020, 0202 UTC »
S9 and sounding great.  Thanks for the show!
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Re: Ball Smacker 6960 AM 1.August 2020
« Reply #12 on: August 01, 2020, 0213 UTC »
0209 Hearing Ballsmacker with a fair/ good signal with Qrn. Playing Bad Company / silver blue and gold at the moment 
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Re: Ball Smacker 6960 AM 0058 UTC 1 AUG 2020
« Reply #13 on: August 01, 2020, 0216 UTC »
The signal's just above the noise out here near Seattle (where it's still daylight) as of 0215 UTC, but I can hear the music.
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Re: Ball Smacker 6960 AM 0058 UTC 1 AUG 2020
« Reply #14 on: August 01, 2020, 1247 UTC »
Accidentally deleted my post - Grrrr !

Ball Smacker Radio 6960 AM S1-S3 in NY

0058: Michael Martin Murphey "Wildfire"
0100: Good Evening Ham Sandwiches, You Are Listening To Ball Smacker Radio I.D. into David Bowie "Golden Years"
0104: Fleetwood Mac "Gold Dust Woman"
0108: Ed Sheeran "Gold Rush"
0112: John Stewart "Gold"
0116: I.D. & e-mail Ballsmacker@protonmail.com into Golden Earring "Radar Love"
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