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Author Topic: Damn Skippy 6930 USB 2320 UTC 27 Aug 2021  (Read 1100 times)

Offline refmo

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Damn Skippy 6930 USB 2320 UTC 27 Aug 2021
« on: August 27, 2021, 2348 UTC »
S4, some fades.
2347 - sounds like an Irish jig - "The Cruel Wars" by The Dreadnoughts [according to Shazam]
2352 - "What A Wonderful World" Israel Kamakawiwo'ole
2354 - "Wellerman" The Longest Johns, S5



« Last Edit: August 28, 2021, 0117 UTC by refmo »
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Re: UNID 6930 USB 2320 UTC 27 Aug 2021
« Reply #1 on: August 27, 2021, 2350 UTC »
Sounding like pirates singing, and sounding okay. Signal is a bit weak at my QTH, but the show is getting thru at S7. Thanks for the broadcast.
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Re: UNID 6930 USB 2320 UTC 27 Aug 2021
« Reply #2 on: August 27, 2021, 2354 UTC »
2352 S6 and a lot of static crashes.  Can make out a man singing.
2356 Popped in enough to ID a song "Roll, Boys, Roll" - Colm R. McGuinness
« Last Edit: August 27, 2021, 2357 UTC by raypfaff »
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Re: UNID 6930 USB 2320 UTC 27 Aug 2021
« Reply #3 on: August 28, 2021, 0008 UTC »
Fair reception

0007 Music with YL singer (Cranberries maybe) but much better on AM than USB
« Last Edit: August 28, 2021, 0010 UTC by Ct Yankee »
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Re: UNID 6930 USB 2320 UTC 27 Aug 2021
« Reply #4 on: August 28, 2021, 0016 UTC »
0013 UTC Call Me When You Get There
0014 UTC Now That I Know
0017 UTC Hell To You Baby

S9 + Better In AM Mode Direct on RSPdx
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Re: UNID 6930 USB 2320 UTC 27 Aug 2021
« Reply #5 on: August 28, 2021, 0019 UTC »
0011 "Rolling down to old Maui" (might have been Stan Roger's version), SSTV (Blue image with sun and clouds) 2 other sea songs (neither familiar) program of 2 sea songs (shantys, Irish sea songs, etc.) then an SSTV, last SSTV of a ship in full sail off into sunset, off.

S4 here, noisy.  Improved to S7 until just before end of program when it again declined to S4.
« Last Edit: August 28, 2021, 0144 UTC by Markokpik »
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Re: UNID 6930 USB 2320 UTC 27 Aug 2021
« Reply #6 on: August 28, 2021, 0031 UTC »
S9 plus signal this evening into NE Alabama. SINPO = 45344.
Irish ballads/ballads at 00:30 UTC. SSTV at 00:33 depicting a ship at sea.
Thanks for the tunes!

 
« Last Edit: August 28, 2021, 0045 UTC by Billo »
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Re: UNID 6930 USB 2320 UTC 27 Aug 2021
« Reply #7 on: August 28, 2021, 0036 UTC »
0035 UTC Tough copy...S5 signal in the noise with "One More Day"-The Jolly Rogers
0037 UTC "Galway Girls"-The Jolly Rogers



0042 UTC "Paddy Lay Back"-The Fisherman's Friends"
« Last Edit: August 28, 2021, 0043 UTC by Skipmuck »
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Re: UNID 6930 USB 2320 UTC 27 Aug 2021
« Reply #8 on: August 28, 2021, 0040 UTC »
0037 S4  Unid om vocal music.
0040 sstv

0017 The Drunken Sailor. Rovers vers?
« Last Edit: August 28, 2021, 0118 UTC by Paul Turkk »
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Re: UNID 6930 USB 2320 UTC 27 Aug 2021
« Reply #9 on: August 28, 2021, 0043 UTC »
0036 UTC song "One More Day"
0037 UTC song "Galway Girls"
0040 UTC sstv signal not a good decode here cant make out
0042 UTC song "Paddy Lay Back"
2049 UTC song "Rattlin' Winches"
2050 UTC SSTV signal
2052 UTC song "Bully In The Alley"

SINPO via W3HFU 3/3/3/3/3 a lot of ground noise and fading. Using shazam to id songs. Thanks for the show.
« Last Edit: August 28, 2021, 0052 UTC by TRI International »
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Re: Damn Skippy 6930 USB 2320 UTC 27 Aug 2021
« Reply #10 on: August 28, 2021, 0043 UTC »
Weak signal and noisy but at least I am hearing some of the music. They seem to be sailing songs. Some SSTV as well:

     

     
« Last Edit: August 28, 2021, 0121 UTC by myteaquinn »
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Re: UNID 6930 USB 2320 UTC 27 AUG 2021
« Reply #11 on: August 28, 2021, 0048 UTC »
00:40 UTC - Weak barely readable at this time.


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Re: UNID 6930 USB 2320 UTC 27 Aug 2021
« Reply #12 on: August 28, 2021, 0106 UTC »
Faint here, SINPO=24211

104- OMs singing what sounds like pirate or seafaring style music (as best I can tell).
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Re: Damn Skippy 6930 USB 2320 UTC 27 Aug 2021
« Reply #13 on: August 28, 2021, 0130 UTC »
signal S5-6 on the SDR in Elida, Ohio
00.56 song
00.57 SSTV
00.59 song

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