X-FM 4185 AM 0000 UTC 30 OCT 2021

[Ct Yankee]

Good reception

0000 "ReLoad" PPK
0004 "Everybody Knows" Leonard Cohen, getting very noisy (maybe storm that is approaching?)
0009 RH talking, ID, fiber optics, 8 year anniversary since last vinyl show.
0016 "Squeeze Box" The Who
0018 "Antiphon" Midlake
0021 RH talking but difficult to understand
0027 "So Lonely" The Police
0030 "Summer Romance" Incubus
0033 Deep in noise again

[KMD3HR]

00:00 Reload Oracle.
SIO 333.
Everybody Knows Leonard Cohen.
Redhat on this evening.
Email addy given.
Starting on a somber note.
00:16 Squeeze Box The Who.
XFM Halloween Special jingle.
00:17  Antiphon Midlake.
Callouts HFU posters Thanks.
Thanks for tuning in.
00:25 So Lonely The Police New Wave period rockers featuring Sting on lead vocals
00:29 Summer Romance Incubus.
00:33 Straight on for you Heart Canadian based rockers featuring the Wilson sisters.
Signal just above the noise.
Tough copy on banter.
Email addy given.
00:42 Games People Play Alan Parsons Project Alan Parsons helped produce Pink Floyd on Darkside.
Jingle.
00:47 Slow Ride Foghat

[✠ Blue Max]

0002 Sounds good here, S8 or so at start, but things quickly got noisy
0004 "Everybody Knows," Leonard Cohen
0009 Redhat discusses iffy propagation conditions and gives E-mail address xfmshortwave (at) gmail (dot) com
0019 Redhat acknowledges HFU postings, says he played The Who and has The Police cued up
0024 "So Lonely," The Police
0039 Redhat on the mic again with time check and more HFU postings and a few E-mails
0053 "More Than A Feeling," Boston
0058 "My City Was Gone," The Pretenders

Thanks for the broadcast!

Recording:
https://archive.org/details/x-fm-4185-am-0000-utc-30-oct-2021

[Corn Desert Outpost]

30 over , balls of fire redhat  !!!  fantastic signal , 0004 utc

every time i hear you RH , i think you sound like Brian the dog from Family Guy ;-)

[refmo]

0002 - S9 with "Reload" by PPK [according to Shazam]
0003 - "Everybody Knows"
0010 - Redhat on the microphone, nice to hear you again.
0015 - "Squeezebox"
0019 - "Antiphon" Midlake
0022 - Shoutouts, and a great voice of Brian the Dog lol
0025 - "So Lonely" The Police.  Haven't heard that in a while...
0107 - more shoutouts.  Still sounding great here - S8 to S9+20
0109 - "Werewolves Of London".  I was looking forward to hearing Frankenstein in C-QUAM...
0113 - "Frankenstein"        Is this the 45?
0142 - S9+ with "Kodachrome"
0143 - "I Sat By The Ocean" Queens Of The Stone Age
0150 - shoutouts and recap of songs played
0203 - "Mary Jane's Last Dance".   Hmmm, my right and left channels are swapped.
0210 - "I'd Love To Change The World" Ten Years After.  Sounding great here - S9+15 with S2 noise floor.
0229 - "Time Of The Season" by The Zombies.  Betting that is a Professor pick.
0258 - "Lunatic Fringe"
0308 - "Once Upon A Time In The West" Dire Straits.
Thanks for the show, great conditions tonight!

[~SIGINT~]

00:00 UTC - Nice signal as always. Nice to hear you on the air again Redhat.
00:10 UTC - 2021 Vinyl Extravaganza show, which has not been done for the past 8 years;
00:22 UTC - Shout-outs to HFU listeners;
01:14 UTC - Propagation has improved tremendously, now sitting at an +/- S9+ and the noise level is down;
02:51 UTC - Going through a deep fade out period;
03:00 UTC - Switched to the end-fed longwire antenna, much better reception now;
03:05 UTC - Shout-outs to HFU listeners before sign-off;
03:12 UTC - Station ID and end of broadcast;
03:13 UTC - Carrier off.

Thank you for the show.

RSPduo | Barker & Williamson antenna | Toronto, Ontario Canada

[myteaquinn]

Good signal tonight. Thanks for the broadcast tonight Red Hat.

[Kilokat7]

Blowing my doors off in West Michigan, 30 over S9 during Leonard Cohen.

[Molvania Poacher]

SINPO=32432, serious Ute QRM (on an adjacent freq with a "whistle") here.

006- "Everybody Knows" by Leonard Cohen (from the movie "Pump Up The Volume").
009- Redhat on the mic, over mellow instrumental music. Talking about "almost eight years to the day." Email address provided.
014- Recorded OM ID.
014- "Squeeze Box" by The Who.

108- Redhat talking over music. Ends with ID.
109- Recorded OM ID.
109- Redhat makes a correction, and IDs, into...
109- "Werewolves Of London" by Warren Zevon.

253- "Will Do" by TV On The Radio.
256- "Lunatic Fringe" by Red Rider.
259- "Dirty Woman" by Big Gerb.

Thanks as always for the great tunes, content and commentary Redhat!

[Chuck54]

Reception into NE Ohio:

S8   SIO 444   SINPO 45444 Some slight fading but strong clear signal tonight

0005 UTC Everybody Knows by Leonard Cohen

0009 Red Hat comments, this is XFM, interesting buzz in headphones

0016 Squeeze Box by The Who

0018 Antiphon by Midlake

0027 So Lonely by The Police

0030 Summer Romance by Incubus

0033 Straight On For You by Heart

0042 Games People Play by Alan Parsons Project

0047 Slow Ride by Foghat

0053 More Than a Feeling by Boston

0058 My City Was Gone by The Pretenders

0103 Reading emails, comments

0108 Werewolves of London by Warren Zevon

0012 Frankenstein by The Edgar Winter Group

0016 Starrider by Foreigner

Hey! Great audio!!! Kudos to you. Great audio when you speak and when music plays! One of the best I hear on Pirate Radio.  Sitting back enjoying the tunes tonight. Appreciate it Red Hat!!

Thank you for the broadcast tonight!!!

[Andrew Yoder]

Tuned in just before "Everybody Knows" started. I have a weak het on the frequency that's keeping me from using the sync detector

I've been listening to the past hour or so on an SDR in Utah. Still decent on my own receiver, though

[William Hassig]

Tuned in at 0003 on Normal IL sdr, S9+10 to S9+30 signal but much powerline hash, song "everybody knows" by Leonard Cohen, I'm listening in QAM and hearing it in stereo, song "squeezebox", fired up local receiver and actually getting good S9+20 reception here at home but without powerline hash, at 0027utc tuned on on Peoria IL sdr with clean S9+20 and listening in CQUAM stereo, at 0035utc switched to Champaign IL sdr with even cleaner S9+20+ signal and listening in glorious CQUAM stereo, BTW, local reception has dropped to S9 with noise, at 0110 song "werewolves of London", thanks for the nice program. (edit) Later I tuned around on my Sony 2010 and heard XFM with just a rod antenna, signal varied between fair and poor.     

[dxace1]

0008 UTC fair signal at na5b

[skeezix]

Audio sounds fantastic tonight.


0008Z 45434 S7 Leonard Cohen "Everybody Knows"
0009Z 45434 S7 Redhat with ID.Testing new fiber optic system to transfer the audio from point A to point B over a ridiculous distance. This is 2021 vinyl extravanza tonight.
0024Z 45544 S7 The Police "So Lonely"
0029Z 45544 S7 ID
0029Z 45544 S7 Incubus "Summer Romance"
0034Z 45544 S7 ID
0034Z 45544 S9 Heart "Straight On"
0042Z 45544 S9+ The Alan Parsons Project "Games People Play"
0047Z 55544 S9+10 ID
0047Z 55544 S9+10 Foghat "Slow Ride"
0051Z 55544 S9+10 Redhat with ID and other things
0053Z 55544 S9+10 Boston "More Than a Feeling"
0057Z 55544 S9+10 ID
0057Z 55544 S9+10 The Pretenders "My City Was Gone"
0103Z 55544 S9+10 Redhat & Id
0107Z 55544 S9+10 Warren Zevon "Werewolves of London"
0112Z 55544 S9+10 ID
0112Z 55544 S9+10 Edgar Winter "Frankenstein"
0116Z 55544 S9+10 Foreigner "Starrider"
0124Z 55544 S9+10 The B-52s "Private Idaho"
0128Z 55544 S9+10 Dire Straits "Money for Nothing" (12" 45 RPM)
0135Z 55544 S9+10 ID
0135Z 55544 S9+10 Wall of Voodoo "Mexican Radio"
0140Z 55544 S9+10 ID
0140Z 55544 S9+10 Paul Simon "Kodachrome"
0144Z 45544 S9 Queens of the Stone Age "I Sat By The Ocean"
0150Z 35433 S9 Redhat talking and the band dropped significantly with more fading
0155Z 45444 S9+ Bobby "Boris" Pickett "Monster Mash" Band recovered a bit. Less noise, but fading is still more frequent.
0159Z 45444 S9+ Faron Young "Hello Walls"
0201Z 55544 S9+10 Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers "Mary Jane's Last Dance"
0206Z 45544 S9+ Ozark Mountain Daredevils "If You Wanna Get To Heaven"
0209Z 45544 S9+ Ten Years After "I'd Love to Change The World"
0238Z 35544 S7 The Alan Parsons Project "Sirius"
0245Z 35443 S5 Jefferson Starship "Miracles"
0253Z 15441 S3 Mostly noise now with only occasional bits of music.
0302Z Now deep in the noise and unable to make anything out.



_{National NC-183D with Wellbrook ALA1530S+ loop antenna}

[RobRich]

Leonard Cohen music at 0008z. Talking about 2014 at 0010z. ~S6 and SINPO 35333 via an active miniwhip. Moderate static crashing here. Good modulation.

Thanks for the broadcast and shout-out! :)