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Author Topic: UNID 1720 AM 2307 UTC 13 December 2020  (Read 1127 times)

Offline Big Badfish Al

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UNID 1720 AM 2307 UTC 13 December 2020
« on: December 13, 2020, 2309 UTC »
SINPO: 44444 via K3FEF

2307 - Al Stewart - The Year of The Cat
2308 - OFF
2328 - Back up Whitesnake - Here I Go Again
« Last Edit: December 13, 2020, 2331 UTC by Big Badfish Al »
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Re: UNID 1720 AM 2307 UTC 13 December 2020
« Reply #1 on: December 13, 2020, 2311 UTC »
Here also with a nice signal for about one minute with "Year of the Cat"-Al Stewart, then OFF at 2308 UTC
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Unid 1720 AM 2324 UTC 13 Dec 2020
« Reply #2 on: December 13, 2020, 2328 UTC »
2324 UTC "Is This Love"-Survivor
2327 UTC Signal jumped from S4 to S7
2328 UTC "Here I Go Again"-Whitesnake (Signal is distorting)
2333 UTC "Baby Come Back"-Player (Just a little bit of distortion now.....)
(2335 UTC Sounding really nice now!)
2337 UTC Maybe an OM with spoken word? Into "True"-Spandau Ballet
2341 UTC Last bit of a Youtube ad into "Time Passages"-Al Stewart
2345 UTC Bit of a Youtube ad, into "You're So Vain"-Faster Pussycat
(Song cut short followed by an OM saying "Testing testing testing........."
2349 UTC OFF

Here's a link to my recording:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1Q8EjTCYOdxCER_d1rrvH-2N5P8fk6Bd9/view?usp=sharing

Now that was an interesting test! Thanks!
« Last Edit: December 14, 2020, 0823 UTC by Skipmuck »
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Re: Unid 1720 AM 2324 UTC 13 Dec 2020
« Reply #3 on: December 13, 2020, 2330 UTC »
UNID 1720 AM S3-S5 in NY

2329: Whitesnake “Here I Go Again”
2337: OM said something then into Spandau Ballet “True”
2341: Commercial or Pee Wee Herman clip ? into Al Stewart “Time Passages”
2345: Another commercial ? into Faster Pussycat “You’re So Vain”
2349: OM said he was testing then went off the air
« Last Edit: December 13, 2020, 2350 UTC by pirateswl »
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Re: UNID 1720 AM 2307 UTC 13 December 2020
« Reply #4 on: December 14, 2020, 1808 UTC »
SDR recording catch

2253 Carrier on
2254 Off
2300 Back on
2302 "Year Of The Cat"
2307 Off
2321 Back on
2324 "Is This Love"
2328 "Here I Go Again"
2333 "Baby Come Back"
2337 "True"
2342 "Time Passages"
2345 Part of an advertisement, then "You're So Vain"
2348 OM repeating testing
2349 Off

Thanks for the broadcast! Any chance of an eQSL?  ;D
Chris Smolinski
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