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Author Topic: Earth Station 1W 6955 AM 2306 UTC 11 MAR 2022  (Read 1699 times)

Offline Skipmuck

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Earth Station 1W 6955 AM 2306 UTC 11 MAR 2022
« on: March 11, 2022, 2307 UTC »
2306 UTC OM with a Sci-Fi voice over spooky background music
2307 UTC Background music over Beatles song, then sound effects
2310 UTC Background music mixing with "Get Back"-Beatles
2311 UTC OM speaking over Beatles music.....Station 1W...initiating modulation test
2313 UTC "Eleanor Rigby"-Beatles mixing with background music
(So far a solid S9 here with excellent audio and light fades)
2315 UTC "Refrain from electromagnetic emissions on this wavelength....ionospheric ? is being closed"
2316 UTC Music then time pips and "I Am the Walrus"-Beatles
2320 UTC "I Want to Hold Your Hand"-Beatles
2321 UTC Time pips...OM "this is most unfortunate if our ? has alarmed you"..." over Beatles mashup
2324 UTC OM with "We have no interest in your ?....temperature is much to low...background music
2325 UTC "Something"-Beatles with OM speaking slowly over the music
2327 UTC OM "Planet Number 4", then more Beatles music
2328 UTC YL or young kid speaking over "For the Benefit of Mr. Kite"-Beatles segue into the outro of "She's So Heavy"-Beatles
2331 UTC OM with ID "Earth Station 1W", music mix into "Help"-Beatles with sci-fi effects
2334 UTC CW and sci-fi effects intro to "Yesterday"-Beatles
2336 UTC Sci-Fi effects and background music segue into "Strawberry Fields"-Beatles mashup with "Hello Goodbye"
2340 UTC OM with ID..."attention residents of Planet Earth"...into "Within You Without You"-Beatles
2343 UTC Unid version of "Blue Suede Shoes" into sci-fi effects, CW, segue into "Lucy In the Diamonds"-Beatles
2347 UTC OM with ID, into sci-fi effects and orchestral music
2349 UTC "Octopus's Garden"-Beatles
2351 UTC "Sun King"-Beatles then OM speaking with sci-fi effects
2352 UTC "Lady Madonna"-Beatles mashup
2354 UTC Sci-Fi effects then YL with ID segue into "Here Comes the Sun"-Beatles
2358 UTC Mashup of effects, into "Come Together"-Beatles
0002 UTC Mashup of effects and music
0003 UTC "Revolution"-Beatles
0005 UTC "Back In the USSR"-Beatles
0007 UTC "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" acoustic version George Harrison
0010 UTC OM with "Notice to the inhabitants of this planet.....Earth Station 1W", into "A Day In the Life"-Beatles
0016 UTC YL with ID with sci-fi effects, into "Hey Jude"-Beatles
0020 UTC "Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band"-Beatles
0022 UTC "All You Need Is Love"-Beatles
0025 UTC OM speaking....end of transmission, sound effects
0026 UTC OFF

Now that was awesome! Thanks for the Beatles Trip 1W!  8)

« Last Edit: March 12, 2022, 0032 UTC by Skipmuck »
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Re: Earth Station 1 W 6955 AM 2306 UTC 11 MAR 2022
« Reply #1 on: March 11, 2022, 2309 UTC »
Reception into NE Ohio:

S9  SIO 555  SINPO 55545   Some fading

2309 Because by The Beatles

2310 Music overlay on Get Back by The Beatles

2312 Music with "Earth Station 1 W".....

2312 Eleanor Rigby by The Beatles

2315 "Please refrain from emissions..."

2316 I am the Walrus by The Beatles with low voice overlay and tones

2320 Intro by Ed Sullivan into I Want To Hold Your Hand by The Beatles

2322 "Attention...Attention...we have no interest in....temperature much too low for us to survive...." With Baby You Can Drive My Car by The Beatles

2324 "the ships contain no visitors, we have no interest in your planet....."

2325 Something by The Beatles

2328 Being For the Benefit of Mr. Kite! by The Beatles

2330 She's So Heavy by The Beatles

2331 "Earth Station 1 W" into Help by The Beatles

2334 Sci-fi tones into Yesterday by The Beatles

2336 Sci-fi tones into Strawberry Fields by The Beatles

2340 Hello Goodbye by The Beatles

2341 "Attention, Attention....." into Within You Without You by The Beatles

2344 mix Blue Suede Shoes by Elvis

2345 Lucy in the Sky by The Beatles with sci-fi effects

2347 "Earth Station 1 W" twice  into Gold Finger by Shirley Bassey and Octopus's Garden by The Beatles and To Sir With Love by Lulu

2351 To Sir With Love continues with low voice and Lady Madona playing

2353 Reception Update S7 SIO 444  SINPO 45444 with fading, some overmodulation, often hard to make out low voice

2355 Sci-fi with ID, female voice "thank you for being our neighbor" into Here Comes The Sun by The Beatles

2359 Come Together by The Beatles

0003 Now 12 March 2022 with Revolution by The Beatles

0006 Back in the USSR by The Beatles

0008 While My Guitar Gently Weeps by The Beatles

0011 "Earth Station 1 W" into A Day in the Life by The Beatles

0016 Female ID into Hey Jude by The Beatles

0021 Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band by The Beatles 

0022 Love Love Love by The Beatles  (Nice way to end broadcast!!!)

0026 "End of Transmission" OTA

Thanks for the creative programming!! No need for LSD to get these effects!
« Last Edit: March 12, 2022, 0026 UTC by Chuck54 »
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Re: UNID 6955 AM 2306 UTC 11 MAR 2022
« Reply #2 on: March 11, 2022, 2310 UTC »
I have it with a fair signal(audio with static).  Played Beatles Tune, Because, then into Get Back. 2310Z
2312Z Distorted Voice saying Station One.  Now saying appropriate earth music.
2314Z, Signal getting Better, voice saying something about EM emission on this wavelength.
Thanks for the show! Nice Beatle tunes.  0026Z End of transmission announcement.

« Last Edit: March 12, 2022, 0027 UTC by JustGreg »
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Re: UNID 6955 AM 2306 UTC 11 MAR 2022
« Reply #3 on: March 11, 2022, 2311 UTC »
Very good reception

2311 "Get Back" The Beatles, talking over song but cannot decipher
2314 "Eleanor Rigby" The Beatles
2320 "I Want To Hold You Hand" The Beatles
2322 "The Word" The Beatles - Maybe we are going to get the entire Beatle catalog  ;D
2324 OM talking but still can't understand...to "Something"
2330 "Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite!"
2331 Earth Station 1W ID
2332 "Help"....I figure we have 200 plus songs they wrote plus countless covers to go ;)
2334 "Yesterday"
2340 "Strawberry Field Forever"
« Last Edit: March 11, 2022, 2342 UTC by Ct Yankee »
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Re: Station 1W 6955 AM 2306 UTC 11 MAR 2022
« Reply #4 on: March 11, 2022, 2314 UTC »
Booming in at S30+ with some fading here.
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Re: Station 1W 6955 AM 2306 UTC 11 MAR 2022
« Reply #5 on: March 11, 2022, 2316 UTC »
2313 Beatles "Eleonor Rigby", SIO 555
2315 OM speaking, mentions of the ionosphere.
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Re: Station 1W 6955 AM 2306 UTC 11 MAR 2022
« Reply #6 on: March 11, 2022, 2318 UTC »
signal S8-9 on the SDR in Elida, Ohio / audio not so good
23-16 song "I Am the Walrus"
23.20 song "I Want to Hold Your Hand"
23.01 talking (a man)  + song in the background (Beatles)
23.24 song "Something" + talking over the song (a man)
23.28 song "Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!" + talking in the background
23.31 ID (a man)
23.31 song "Help"
23.23 sound effects
23.34 song "Yesterday"
23.36 sound effects


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« Last Edit: March 11, 2022, 2337 UTC by Bali_Frank »
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Re: Station 1W 6955 AM 2306 UTC 11 MAR 2022
« Reply #7 on: March 11, 2022, 2322 UTC »
"Eleanor Rigsby", OM talking (can't make out what he is saying), "I am the walrus", 5 pips, "Station 1 W" into slow, somewhat distorted talk.

S5, although not particularly good reception.
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Re: Station 1W 6955 AM 2306 UTC 11 MAR 2022
« Reply #8 on: March 11, 2022, 2323 UTC »
2313 UTC SIO 333 to 343. QRM
2313 music "Elenor Rigby" The Beatles
2318 music "I am The Walrus" Beatles
2320 music " I Want To Hold Your Hand" Beatles
2321 Man speaking slow but I can't make out what he is saying
2326 music "Something" Beatles
2331 male announcer I heard 1W
2332 music "Help" Beatles
2338 music "Strawberry Fields" Beatles
« Last Edit: March 11, 2022, 2340 UTC by Sky Waves »
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Re: Station 1W 6955 AM 2306 UTC 11 MAR 2022
« Reply #9 on: March 11, 2022, 2324 UTC »
Some very weird programming at 2323 UTC with announcer at slow speed.....
Big signal at na5b and real radios in Maryland
As of 2340 UTC, S9+ 10 at Vermont SDR
0025 This is station 1W ending transmission
« Last Edit: March 12, 2022, 0028 UTC by dxace1 »
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Re: Station 1W 6955 AM 2306 UTC 11 MAR 2022
« Reply #10 on: March 11, 2022, 2327 UTC »
2325 UTC: Beatles music I Don't Know. But before that a disembodied voice made mentions that our planet was to warm, to colonize I guess. Just tuned in. S9+ but nasty fading.
0026 UTC: Off.
« Last Edit: March 12, 2022, 0029 UTC by myteaquinn »
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Re: Station 1W 6955 AM 2306 UTC 11 MAR 2022
« Reply #11 on: March 11, 2022, 2330 UTC »
Beatles, stuff about our planet or something, etc... Very weird. Okay signal (S8), but lots of noise.

23:56 UTC  Beatles - Here comes the sun
00:00 UTC  Beatles - Come Together
00:05 UTC  Beatles - Back In the USSR
« Last Edit: March 12, 2022, 0007 UTC by HulkSmash »
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Re: Earth Station 1W 6955 AM 2306 UTC 11 MAR 2022
« Reply #12 on: March 11, 2022, 2346 UTC »
Beatles and strange noises pumping into New England at S9+
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Re: Earth Station 1W 6955 AM 2306 UTC 11 MAR 2022
« Reply #13 on: March 11, 2022, 2346 UTC »
2343 - A version of Blue Suede Shoes, weird noises, and Lucy In The Sky mixed in there to boot, S8, SIO 434. QRM? Not sure what's what.  ;)
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Re: Earth Station 1W 6955 AM 2306 UTC 11 MAR 2022
« Reply #14 on: March 11, 2022, 2347 UTC »
Tuned in approx 2334. So far 3 or 4 Beatles tunes, with some weird sci-fi psycho racket in the background.  Maybe the worst show I've ever heard on free radio.
Signal approx S9 here w noisy conditions.
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