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BallSmacker Radio 6960 AM 0055 UTC 18 SEP 2021
« on: September 18, 2021, 0055 UTC »
Ball Smacker Radio 6960.0 kHz AM 00:55 UTC 18 SEPTEMBER 2021

00:55 UTC - Carrier is up; some interference from the station on 6955.0 kHz USB;
00:57 UTC - Interval signal and station on 6955.0 kHz is now off-air;
01:00 UTC - Broadcast begins;
01:44 UTC - Signal went into a deep fade out.


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« Last Edit: January 12, 2022, 2055 UTC by Skipmuck »

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Re: Ball Smacker Radio 6960 AM 0055 UTC 18 SEP 2021
« Reply #1 on: September 18, 2021, 0058 UTC »
0058:  Interval music.  SIO 222, just above the noise.
0100:  "Good evening, this is Ballsmacker radio broadcasting form somewhere in the Northeast," with crashing pins promo.
0100:  Billy Ocean "Get Out Of My Dreams, Get Into My Car."  SIO 333. 
0104:  Unid music selection.  SIO 333.
0108:  Genesis "Home By The Sea!!!!!"  SIO 333.
0112:  Unid music selection, instrumental. SIO 333.
0114:  Ballsmacker Radio ID with crashing pins into unid music selection.  SIO 333.
0117:  +5
0120:  Led Zeppelin "The Ocean"  SIO 333.
0122:  Below the noise.
0124:  Ballsmacker Radio ID into unid music selection.  Just above the noise.
0127:  Unid music selection. SIO 444/ S 9.
0128:  +5
0130:  Below the noise.
0131:  Ballsmacker Radio ID reception report promo, into A Flock Of Seagulls "I Ran (So Far Away)". SIO 333.
0136:  Frankie Ford "Sea Cruise"  SIO 333.
0139:  Ballsmacker Radio ID with crashing pins into unid music selection just above the noise.
0144:  Unid music selection, just below the noise.
0146:  Ballsmacker Radio ID with website information promo into unid music selection, just below the noise.
0150:  Billy Ocean "Caribbean Queen".  SIO 333.
0152:  Unid music selection.  SIO 444
0155:  +5
0156:  Unid music selection.  Just below the noise.
0158:  +5
0159:  Ballsmacker Radio ID then sharp fade under the noise.  Recovered to unid music selection just above the noise.
0206:  Unid music selection, just below the noise.
0209:  Ballsmacker Radio ID with wires strung up in the trees promo into unid music selection.  SIO 222.
0213:  Unid music selection.  SIO 222
0215:  Unid music selection.  SIO 222
0218:  No carrier.
0222:  Back up, unid music under the noise.
0224:  No carrier.



« Last Edit: September 18, 2021, 0228 UTC by bigd »
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Re: Ball Smacker Radio 6960 AM 0055 UTC 18 SEP 2021
« Reply #2 on: September 18, 2021, 0101 UTC »
signal S9+30 on the SDR in Milford, PA
00.58 piano
01.00 ID
01.00 song "Get Outta My Dreams, Get into My Car"
01.04 song "Beyond the Sea"
01.07 ID
01.07 song "Home By The Sea"
01.12 instrumental music
01.15 ID
01.15 song "Down by the Seaside"
« Last Edit: September 18, 2021, 0116 UTC by Bali_Frank »
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Re: Ball Smacker Radio 6960 AM 0055 UTC 18 SEP 2021
« Reply #3 on: September 18, 2021, 0102 UTC »
Wildfire Interval.
Good evening Ham Samiches.
Ballsmacker Radio ID from somewhere in the Northeast
01:00 Get out of Dreams  Billy Ocean.
01:04 Beyond the Sea Bobby Darin Hit maker in the 1950s Well known for Splish Splash Rock and Roll Classic.
Ballsmacker Radio ID.
01:07 Home By the Sea Genesis featuring Phil Collins on vocal. Phil Collins just released he is having heath issues where he can no longer play drums like he did. But he will stay in music.


How about Sea Cruise Frankie Ford?
Sweet Painted Ladies Elton John?
Sea Hunt television Theme?
Sea of Love Robert Plant, Honeydrippers?
Seamus Pink Floyd?
Cool Change Little River Band?
Calypso John Denver.
Catch a Wave The Beach Boys?
Sail on Sailor The Beach Boys?
Echoes The Pink Floyd?
Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald Gordon Lightfoot?
Into the Mystic Van Morrison?
Comfortably Numb The Pink Floyd?
Anchors Away The US Navy?
Mariners Hymm?
Any Surf song?


01:12 Cruel Sea The Challegers.
License to Smack Ballsmacker Radio.
01:15 Down by the Sea The Led Zeppelin featuring Robert Plant on vocal Smash Rock band of the late sixties into the 70s with monster hits.
01:20 .The Ocean The Led Zeppeln.
01:25 Put your Hand in the Hand Ocean Song about the big guy upstairs!
01:27 The Dead Sea The Lumineers
Proton addy given for valid reception report.
01:32 I ran so far away A flock of Seagulls.
01:36 Sea Cruise Frankie Ford Great make of this song on American Hot Wax...Movie about the late Moondoggie himself Alan Freed.
Ballsmacker Radio ID.
01:39 Blue Blue Ocean Echo and the Bunnyman.
01:44 To many fish in the Sea The Marvelettes MoTown
Ballsmacker.net ID.
01:47 Cake by the Ocean DNCE
01:50 Carribean Queen Billy Ocean This song featured on a Miami Vice episode back in the eighties.
Ballsmacker Radio ID.
01:53 Ocean Lady A.
01:55 Walk on the Ocean Toad the Wet Spockett
Proton addy given for valid reception report.
01:59 From The Edge of the Sea The Cure.

Loss of Signal????????

My Bonnie Lies over the Ocean Ella Fitzgerald. Jazz Singer

All gone....nothing but noise...Thanks Ballsmacker





« Last Edit: September 18, 2021, 0213 UTC by KMD3HR »
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Re: Ball Smacker Radio 6960 AM 0055 UTC 18 SEP 2021
« Reply #4 on: September 18, 2021, 0104 UTC »
Tuned in at 0100utc on both Normal IL and Barrington Hills IL sdr's, fair S9 to S9+10 signal on both, soft pop tune I've heard B4 but can't ID, big band tune "beyond the sea", Ball Smacker ID at 0107utc, at 0127 QRM on lower sideband DE data transmission on 6955usb, at 0133 song "I ran so far away", at 0037 old song "sea cruise" from 1959, nice program, thanks.   
« Last Edit: September 18, 2021, 0152 UTC by William Hassig »
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Re: Ball Smacker Radio 6960 AM 0055 UTC 18 SEP 2021
« Reply #5 on: September 18, 2021, 0110 UTC »
Tough copy here tonight, SINPO=14121

108- "Home By The Sea" by Genesis.
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Re: Ball Smacker Radio 6960 AM 0055 UTC 18 SEP 2021
« Reply #6 on: September 18, 2021, 0112 UTC »
Fairly weak copy, which has been the norm for me for a while. Sounds like MARS or something like that may be on the same frequency or near it.
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Re: Ball Smacker Radio 6960 AM 0055 UTC 18 SEP 2021
« Reply #7 on: September 18, 2021, 0133 UTC »
Signal isn't as good as usual with slight fading but still enjoying the show. Thanks for the broadcast.
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Re: Ball Smacker Radio 6960 AM 0055 UTC 18 SEP 2021
« Reply #8 on: September 18, 2021, 0204 UTC »
S5 with lots of storm noise tonight
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Re: Ball Smacker Radio 6960 AM 0055 UTC 18 SEP 2021
« Reply #9 on: September 18, 2021, 0252 UTC »
S9 in Pacific Northwest and well above my noise. Looked like about 6khz wide AM signal