CQEW 6930 USB 2143 27 December 2020

[Markokpik]

Electronic music. ID "???W.  The spirit of radio." More electronic music. 

S7 here

2154 clear ID into more electronic music.

oldies remixes, 80's music with frequent ID's.  Off 2144.

Thanks for the show.

Stayed S7 - S8 throughout the show

[Skipmuck]

2044 UTC OM with ID....CQDW? , into "Hard Times/Love Action"-Human League (per Shazam)
(Killer Signal here banging in at S9+ with excellent USB audio!)
2049 UTC OM intro "I'll try it again....." followed by "Destination Unknown"-Missing Persons
2053 UTC OM with ID "CQEW" (I think that's it!), into "Major Tom"-Paul Schilling
2057 UTC OM with "The Spirit of Radio", into "Space Age Love Song"-Flock of Seagulls
2101 UTC OM with "CFNY The Spirit of Radio"...high atop the CFNY ? , into "Witness the Change"-Pete Shelley
2106 UTC OM with "This is CQEW The Spirit of Radio", into "Cars"-Gary Numan
2110 UTC OM DJ, into "Tainted Love"-Soft Cell (signal dropped down to just above the noise floor during the song)
2114 UTC Spoken word I didn't quite get, into "Taschenrechner"-Kraftwerk
2121 UTC OM with "CQEW The Spirit of Radio", into "Fascination(Keep Feeling)"-Human League (Had to retune....bit of a frequency drift. Also some peskies yakking on the frequency now)
2126 UTC Signal deep in the noise now 
2128 UTC Sounds like an old radio clip now with a Dr. Pepper advertisement
2129 UTC "Dance Hall Days"-Wang Chung (bits of audio but enough to ID this song!

Very interesting broadcast CQEW! Back in 1985 I sent a report to a Canadian pirate station calling themselves COAX Radio. They replied with a nice letter and Polaroid of the xmtr setup! They also sent along a couple of stickers from a local FM outlet where they knew the DJ. Here's a picture of that sticker!



Here's something I found on a google search: "....the station began using "The Spirit of Radio" as a promotional catchphrase. In turn, listeners of the station began to refer to CFNY as "The Spirit of Radio". Canadian band Rush was unable to obtain airplay on many radio stations other than CFNY early in their career, and in 1979 wrote the song "The Spirit of Radio" about the station. Unable to mention CFNY directly for fear of alienating airplay on other stations, the band instead ensured the catalogue number for their album Permanent Waves was 1021, a nod to the station's 102.1 FM frequency."

Here's a link to my recording before the band went long! Would be very grateful of receiving an eQSL! 
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1pD6s3IRHG5bjoeM18eO-AaUDHnuTM6Ek/view?usp=sharing

[Ct Yankee]

Very good reception

2047 EDM
2049 OM "Jimi Hendrix, are you there Jimi Hendrix?"
2050 Unid EDM
2052"The Spirit of Radio" but could not catch ID letters, too low
2054 Volume very low to "Major Tom" Peter Schilling, as opposed to Curt
2057 ID again
2101 "From the outta control room...."
2109 "Cars" Gary Numan
2121 Now under noise floor at sunset here

[Zane]

Very nice signal and audio. S9+10 on peaks.

2046z - Human League - Hard Times
2050z - Missing Persons - Destination Unknown
2053z - ID, CQEW - The Spirit Of Radio.
2110z - Soft Cell - Tainted Love.
2130z - Wang Chung - Dance Hall Days - still S9+

If this music keeps up I'm going to have to open a California Cooler.

Z

[Bali_Frank]

signal S9+10-20 on the SDR in Milford, PA
20.50 song "Destination Unknown"
20.53 ID "CQEW" (a man)
20.53 song "Major Tom" (German)
20.57 ID (a man)
20.57 song
21.01 talking (a man)
21.01 song
21.06 ID (a man)

[Radio Star]

SIO: 454 S6
2054 - "Major Tom" - Peter Schilling
2058 - ID: "CQEW - The Spirit of Radio"
2058 - "Space Age Love Song" - A Flock Of Seagulls
2106 - ID, into: "Cars" - Gary Numan
2110 - "Tainted Love" - Soft Cell
2116 - "Crazy drivers on the road with a a CFNY bumper sticker" - into: "Taschenrechner" - Kraftwerk
2122- "Fascination" - Human League
2126 - "Speed Of Light" - David Bowie
2128 - CFNY Mobile Molson Cruiser ad
2129 - "Dance Hall Days" - Wang Chung
2132 - "Timing X/Space Junk" - Devo
2134 - "Blockhead" - Devo
2137 - Molson Golden Ad, Into: "Rockit" - Herbie Hancock
2141 - "Twilight" - Pete Shelley
2143 - OM: "This is CQEW - The Spirit of Radio"
2144 - OFF

Enjoyed the 80's techno! Please consider sending an eQSL. Thank You!

[hsmith77]

 really nice  signal at 2058  S7 "Space Age Love Song "

[Big Badfish Al]

SIO: 444 via N1NTE
Signal meter: S9+

2108 - Gary Numen - Cars
2109 - FM 101.1
2110 - Soft Cell - Tainted Love
2114 - Soft Cell - We Did Our Love Go

[clobdell]

2118 Pocket Calculator - Kraftwerk Nice S9 signal.
2121 ID by OM.
2121 Fascination - The Human League

[dxace1]

Heard in Maryland weak signal via SDRs and on Virginia na5b.
Huge better signal at Vermont SDR with music at 2138 UTC.
IDs as 101.1 and mention of New York
"This is CQEW, the spirit of radio" and off at 2144 UTC

[Chronic Listener]

Very strong S9+ in western North Carolina at 21:42 UTC

[aurora]

Weak here - only S5

2143 - ID (om), "This is CQEW The Spirit of Radio"
2144 - gone?

[blw]

Good signal coming through. Good sounding audio. Thanks for the broadcast.

[Chuck54]

Reception into NE Ohio

SIO 232    SINPO 24222

2110 UTC Tainted Love by Soft Cell

2121 ID

2124 Fascination by The Human League

Then into the noise.

Wondered if maybe a Canadian pirate "C" of CQEW, then location is somewhere around or along the "QEW" between Buffalo and Toronto. Just a thought.

Hope this report helps some.
Hope to catch you later!