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Author Topic: 6925u High Plains Relay Svc - Crystal Ship 0200 UTC  (Read 2510 times)

Offline Kilokat7

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6925u High Plains Relay Svc - Crystal Ship 0200 UTC
« on: April 28, 2012, 0202 UTC »
Coming on now, 0200 UTC - good S7 signal over the static mostly with Crystal Ship relay
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Re: 6925u High Plains Relay Svc - Crystal Ship 0200 UTC
« Reply #1 on: April 28, 2012, 0204 UTC »
0200 IS, "We Want the World and We Want it Now", Door - "The Crystal Ship", opening poetry at S7
0204 David Rovics - "Pirate Radio Song"
0207 "My Country Used To Be..."
0211 Eric Idle - "The FCC Song"
0213 ID, Donner Pass Diner comm, various audio clips
0215 ID, addy by Juliana Montana, FRC spot
0216 "Shots From the Portside" w/ the Radical
0219 REM - "Losing My Religion"
0223 "Drunken Poet's Dream", various clips, ID. addy
0228 "Sockpuppet Circus", a letter to the FCC, Soviet NA
0234 Youngbloods - "Get Together"
0241 Alice Cooper - "Poison", eBeastiality.com ad, EBS test
0248 Steely Dan - "Don't Take Me Alive"
0300 The Radical w/ QSL info, Ramones - "We Want the Airwaves" - the band is getting unsettled up here now
0304 J Priest - "Breakin' the Law"
0307 off

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Thanks HPRS!


« Last Edit: April 28, 2012, 0309 UTC by jFarley »
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Re: 6925u High Plains Relay Svc - Crystal Ship 0200 UTC
« Reply #2 on: April 28, 2012, 0206 UTC »
Got it here at signon. I heard station ID, but did not copy :'(
Thanks for ID KiloKat7. Nice signal SIO 433.
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Re: 6925u High Plains Relay Svc - Crystal Ship 0200 UTC
« Reply #3 on: April 28, 2012, 0207 UTC »
got it in Los Angeles, way above noise level. Making it into the west coast
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« Last Edit: April 28, 2012, 0247 UTC by MR. SHORTWAVE »
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Re: 6925u High Plains Relay Svc - Crystal Ship 0200 UTC
« Reply #4 on: April 28, 2012, 0210 UTC »
S9 in Boston at 0210z.
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Re: 6925u High Plains Relay Svc - Crystal Ship 0200 UTC
« Reply #5 on: April 28, 2012, 0211 UTC »
4/28/12, 6925 USB, 0200z: High Plains Relay Service relay of The Crystal Ship.  Fair to good over the usual blanket of white noise RFI on the home rig and indoor antenna.  "FCC F*** You" and "F*** You All So Very Much" songs.
0214z: Donner family restaurant parody ad, Juliana Montana ID.
0216z: Commentary from The Radical.
0221z: REM "Losing My Religion"
0228z: "Drunken Poet's Dream" Hayes Carll, great song
0229z: Commander Bunny voice "sockpuppet" and "three ring sockpuppet circus" audio bits, "Dear Mr. Bridgewater... I wish to report a communist... who calls himself 'The Poet'..." email. "Ya long eared sockpuppeting FCC snitch!" "I'm all for peace, love and understanding.  But if that doesn't work, bring on the Elmer Fudd solution." "Kill da wabbit!" song by Elmer Fudd.
0235z: Youngbloods "Get Together"
0240z: Promo for sockpuppet-free FRC in bunnyvoice
0242z: Alice Cooper "Poison"
0246z: eBeastiality spoof ad
0255z: Steely Dan "Don't Take Me Alive", Glenn Frey "Smuggler's Blues", Warren Zevon "Lawyers, Guns and Money"
0301z: Gunny Hartman bit, TCS ID and contact info by The Radical, Quint singing, Ramones "We Want the Airwaves"
0308z: Off after JP "Breaking the Law"

Enjoyed the show - adversity seems to have inspired Poet.  And thanks to HPRS for the relay!


Started out fair to good but peaked much better by 0220z.  SINPO=43433, not much QRM/static crashes, mostly local RFI.

Off-air recording (starting about 20 minutes into broadcast):
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« Last Edit: April 28, 2012, 0402 UTC by Lex »
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Re: 6925u High Plains Relay Svc - Crystal Ship 0200 UTC
« Reply #6 on: April 28, 2012, 0232 UTC »
I have them here with The Radical, shots from the portside.
REM's Losing My Religion
Drunken Poets Dream
Station ID, You're listening to the Crystal Ship on the TCS Relay Service.
Anti-bunny songs.

About an S7 on the meter. Band seems to have settled down though. SIO 444
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Re: 6925u High Plains Relay Svc - Crystal Ship 0200 UTC
« Reply #7 on: April 28, 2012, 1130 UTC »
Mostly S8 signal, I think this program started at around 0150?  ID at 0215, plug for FRC. "I love the Bunny" song.

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Re: 6925u High Plains Relay Svc - Crystal Ship 0200 UTC
« Reply #8 on: April 28, 2012, 1710 UTC »
Recorder catch:

6925 USB SIO 323-434

Good signal with little fade despite conditions - similar details as others.

01:51z-03:07z The Crystal Ship relay show

Audio (complete broadcast): http://archive.org/download/ShortwavePirateRadioCont/TheCrystalShiphprsRelay6925Usb0151z-0307z04-28-12.mp3

Good to hear ya again Poet and thanks for the relay HPRS! :)
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Re: 6925u High Plains Relay Svc - Crystal Ship 0200 UTC
« Reply #9 on: April 29, 2012, 1336 UTC »
First picked up some music at 01:55 then an ID at 02:00.
Had a S7-S9 signal with very good audio.

LMAO at the "Donner Family Diner" ad @ 02:13.

Got a very nice eQSL.
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