WPON 6925 AM 2358 UTC

[ChrisSmolinski]

Just signed on.

[jFarley]

10 June 2012

Looks like USB with some carrier here.

2358 Carrier on, "The Weapon" ID by YL, song "Paper Money"?, show-like tune about becoming rich, Neil Young-like song
0009 YL talk abt free speech, "Don't Get Mad, Get a Weapon.  WPON the Weapon", OM talk abt voting, a meaningless choice
0010 OM song "We Need More", YL talk abt rights of the people not being violated, Beatles - "Taxman", more YL talk abt
       constitutional rights (starting to pick up some severe fading)
0019 OM ID "WPON" followed by shots, OM song "The Revolution's in the Air"?, YL talk abt constitutional rights
0024 unid song, Twisted Sis - "We're Not Gonna Take It"
0029 YL ID "WPON The Weapon", shots, and off

S9+10 here.
Thanks WPON!

Back on at 0059z, w/ ID, "You Piss Me Off", "Take the Money and Run"
Was prev noted as USB w/ a trace of carrier in previous transmission; this looks like USB.
Strength down significantly to S6, but audio quality seems better.
0157 ID, shots, and off

0159 Back on...
0236 ID, shots, and off

[textim]

Fair signal here through lots of noise.  I can make out some of it listening in USB.

[Jhkayakr]

Better on USB here too. A lot of HF noise tonight.
Occasional fade-ins.

[rdla4]

Carrier in GA, and a hint of audio every now and then. Signal S3, noise S2.9!

I seem to hear a bit more audio on the USB side

[myteaquinn]

0059 WPON signed on again, 6925 USB

[textim]

A bit better signal than earlier.  Reggae song at 0108z, sounds like "Money World."
WPON ID at 0110.

[Bowman1]

I have them with a very weak signal on the FT-2000. I hear them, but nothing I can really make out. I've got a little too much daylight left here.

Much improved by 0130, with pink Floyd's Money and a song about Enron. SIO 322.

[Kilokat7]

I didn't catch the earlier broadcast but found WPON coming on the air at 0100 UTC, usb mode (no carrier).  Killer S9 signal here with good audio.

[John Poet]

6/11/2012, 6925 kHz USB,

0136 Caught WPON ID then into 'Money'- PInk Floyd
0141- 'where's the love, and where's that money go'

Peaking S-9+ in Lansing, MI

[lightkeeper]

Got him on the west coast of BC.....SINPO 24443

[Sealord]

Recorder catch:

6925 (rx in USB) SIO 232

First show was weak, but still audible for the most part just above the noise with some fading.

23:58z-00:29z 1st WPON

Audio (complete broadcast): http://archive.org/download/ShortwavePirateRadioCont/Wpon6925Am-usb2358z-0029z06-10_11-12.mp3

Second show came in better (SIO 333) with some fading - dang audicity locked up on me about 15mins into 2nd broadcast, but still got a decent portion of the show.  Missed the third one though

00:59z-01:45z 2nd WPON

Audio (00:59z-01:45z): http://archive.org/download/ShortwavePirateRadioCont/Wpon6925Usb0059z-0145z06-11-12.mp3

Thanks WPON!

[ChrisSmolinski]

Checking the SDR recording, the first transmission does indeed look like USB with a carrier. The carrier came up just as WPON went on the air, and went off just after the last ID, and was zero beat with the audio, making me suspect this was a transmitter that did AM with one carrier - I recall the Swan 350 did that, for example.

The second was just USB.

There was a third transmission at 0200z, with an ID heard at 0219z. ID and off at 0236z.

Some music heard again at 0239z, off at 0243z without an ID. May have been WPON again, the signal strength was about the same.

[jFarley]

Glad you could confirm a carrier in the first broadcast; I was beginning to second guess my logbook entry.

FWIW, here is a graph of the ops' signal strengths as heard here:



from 10900 to 9000 seconds is the 1st WPON BC
from 7200 to 3700 seconds is the 2nd WPON BC
from 3600 to 1300 seconds is the 3rd WPON BC
from 1200 to 1000 seconds is the "Bob Marley" BC

[ChrisSmolinski]

FWIW, here is a graph of the ops' signal strengths as heard here:

What did you use to create the graph?