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Author Topic: Radio Free Whatever 6850 AM 0008 UTC 20 Oct 2013  (Read 5139 times)

Offline ChrisSmolinski

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Radio Free Whatever 6850 AM 0008 UTC 20 Oct 2013
« on: October 20, 2013, 0014 UTC »
Signed on after MAC went QRT. S9 here.
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Re: Radio Free Whatever 6850 AM 0008 UTC 20 Oct 2013
« Reply #1 on: October 20, 2013, 0015 UTC »
S9 here, some fade

0016, Bruno Mars tune in progress
0019, ID & tune
--afk--
0028, tune in progress
0031, Papa Roach tune
0035, DJ gab about "top heavy" & monster trucks, ID
0038, heavy tune
0045, ID & acoustic rap ballad
0049, tune
0052, DJ gab - hard to make out w fade increasing... Down to S7-8 now
0058, --uncopyable--

=== Thanx for the show Dickweed!! ===
« Last Edit: October 20, 2013, 0058 UTC by Mentholyptus »
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Re: Radio Free Whatever 6850 AM 0008 UTC 20 Oct 2013
« Reply #2 on: October 20, 2013, 0021 UTC »
0020 20 dB over S9 but 55553 because of distortion.

In Wyomissing,

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Re: Radio Free Whatever 6850 AM 0008 UTC 20 Oct 2013
« Reply #3 on: October 20, 2013, 0027 UTC »
0026 - IDs and Jingles

0026 - Tune...

0030 - Broken Heart

0034 - ID and chatter

0037 - Kiss song

0044 - ID

0044 - Based Hero (Lil B)

0048 - Some sort of Santana song

0053 - Chatter and readouts of HFU posts

other tunes until sign off at 0117

Good Morning, Comrade Dickweed! I hope you read these posts out. I got some pictures of that bus I was telling you about.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/95647955@N03/10367854484/in/photostream/
and
http://www.flickr.com/photos/95647955@N03/10367849295/in/photostream/
« Last Edit: October 20, 2013, 0117 UTC by Echo_One »
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Re: Radio Free Whatever 6850 AM 0008 UTC 20 Oct 2013
« Reply #4 on: October 20, 2013, 0033 UTC »
00:32 Cannot hear it in Illinois  :(
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Re: Radio Free Whatever 6850 AM 0008 UTC 20 Oct 2013
« Reply #5 on: October 20, 2013, 0046 UTC »
s9+ signal here. 
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Re: Radio Free Whatever 6850 AM 0008 UTC 20 Oct 2013
« Reply #6 on: October 20, 2013, 0048 UTC »
Komrade Dickweed,

Got you here this evening at s6-8 with a spot about a Glockenspiel!!!

Sorry I'm late, had to make a beer run! ;)
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Re: Radio Free Whatever 6850 AM 0008 UTC 20 Oct 2013
« Reply #7 on: October 20, 2013, 0052 UTC »
Very faint here, even with the S4 noise level
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Re: Radio Free Whatever 6850 AM 0008 UTC 20 Oct 2013
« Reply #8 on: October 20, 2013, 0100 UTC »
0052 dj chat, S5 noisy, mag loop best SNR tonight.
0055 Radio Echo 1 birthday wishes..corrected,  burning bus discussion (Thanks RE1)
0057 Discussion on distortion monitoring
0058 Radio Free Whatever ID
Tough sledding tonight..band is noisy. (Stew Perry contest was pretty limited as well..gave up and came up here, but not much better conditions)
0112 DJ Signoff  ( signal copy improved slightly, noise down a little)
0114 Instrumental
0017 Email address, off
« Last Edit: October 20, 2013, 0117 UTC by halifaxtap »
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Re: Radio Free Whatever 6850 AM 0008 UTC 20 Oct 2013
« Reply #9 on: October 20, 2013, 0116 UTC »
S9+20 here at 0116 UTC.
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Re: Radio Free Whatever 6850 AM 0008 UTC 20 Oct 2013
« Reply #10 on: October 20, 2013, 0201 UTC »
Did anybody record this on the sdr or what not? I want to hear the chatter at 0055 and thereabouts
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