http://www.frn.net/vines/index.php Fri, 12 Jun 2026 03:10:52 -0400 Phorum 5.2.19 http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?3,11454,11454#msg-11454 http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?3,11454,11454#msg-11454 www.radiosurvivor.com] An interesting read from Jennifer Waits, of Radio Survivor. Especially, from those of us that had to live through Reagan & Bush Economics. (OK... I'll refrain my opinions here.)]]> ThaDood General radio discussion Sat, 06 Jun 2026 14:25:38 -0400 http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?5,11453,11453#msg-11453 http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?5,11453,11453#msg-11453
00:59 Wildfire intro loop.

01:00 Good evening ham sammiches..' intro, into Ain't That America

01:04 Nostalgic song where a dude recounts his memories, country lanes, first kiss on a friday night and listening to songs on the radio.

01:09 Sounds like Jack Black, 'This is where we used to live.. Why did they change the lock'

01:12 'Check our our, website at ballsmacker..' with reverb, into House Of The Rising Sun


01:16 Song, I'm on my way, home sweet home by Muttley Crue.

01:20 This Land Is Your Land.

01:23 E-mail address at proton mail. 'Send your reception reports' into 'no stranger' or no danger' No one put the bodies in the wishing well? sure I got that all wrong.

01:27 ??

01:31 Talkin' Heads' Burnin' Down The House. Ooh man, signal has taken a dive right here, cutting loose.
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Audio: 33 minutes of B-ALL this week

Always nice to hear an AM signal, ancient modulation, the original modulation. Thanks for the tunes this week.]]> Radio Animal Free Radio Logs Fri, 05 Jun 2026 21:57:19 -0400 http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?7,11452,11452#msg-11452 http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?7,11452,11452#msg-11452 ThaDood Medium Wave Logs Fri, 05 Jun 2026 11:22:05 -0400 http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?5,11450,11450#msg-11450 http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?5,11450,11450#msg-11450

01:44 Tune in to Blondie's Tide Is High

01:47 'Yeah puppies, WDOG' into sounds like Psychedelic Furs, with some dog whistles and barks

01:51 Is it old U2? Husky team barks

01:55 'Can't forget about this guy' WDOG ID that was stuttered on purpose. Into The Waiting Is The Hardest Part by Tom PETty.

01:58 WDOG singing ID with doogs, into Our Lips Are Sealed by Go Gos

02:02 "It doesn't matter any way, unless you're hungry like the dog." Hungry Like The Wolf, Duran Duran, a great song for the canines. Howling!

02:05 'How did she get in here, this is WDOG' Pretenders

02:08 I think of the ionosphere enjoying that song..' Talking Heads' Once In A Lifetime From the movie Down And Out In Beverly Hills with Mike The Dog and Metisse pup!

02:13 'Letting the days go by, ain't that the truth' Into Cars' Shake It Up, howls, barks.

02:16 Dire Straits' Romeo And Juliet

02:21 "Okay, one more song from 1981' Kings, The Beat Goes On

02:27 Group howls into Gary Numan, the WDOG theme, CW code.

02:30 'Welcome back to WDOG, we're going to explore, 84' into Big Country's Big Country

02:35 'Men Without (Wang Chung).' Dance Hall Days

02:39 'I don't know why the Canadians never talk about Wang Chung.. Athens GA'

02:42 'Every band on MTV, this band with a bunch of satellite dishes.' Are We Ourselves by The Fixx, howls.

02:45 'That was The Fixx from 1984, are we ourselves, I don't know I'll have to check on that.' Into Yaz's Situation.

02:47 'You're listening to WDOG, what were you doing in 1984? I was f'in around, I guess I'm still f-ing around.' Into Red Red Wine from UB40

02:53 'People were worried about 1984 with that George Orwell book out, but they had other things to worry about, like nuclear war?' Into Politics Of Dancing by Re-Flex. Some barks.

02:57 ' The Soviets were boycotting the Summer Olympics and people were asking "where's the beef", I think the beef was in the ..' Into Time After Time by Cyndi Lauper

03:01 'Time after time. In 1984 I tried to get into a bar with my girlfriend I was a brat!' into Psychedelic Furs' Heaven

03:05 'I think I'm regressing, I'm regressing back to 1984!..' The dB's - A Spy In The House Of Love.

03:09 'I'm getting a hold of myself, figuratively. No jerks, these guys were bigger jerks' Into Jump by Van Halen. Whistle to dog, whimper.

03:13 Everybody was a jerk in 1984, don't judge people by others' standards, unless you're U2.' Into U2s In The Name Of Love

03:17 White Lines by Grandmaster Melle Mel

03:22 Boys In Summer by Don Henley

03:26 'How do you like 1984, being stuck here, it's The Cars' It's Magic

03:30 'Not so sure about 1984, now I don't want to leave' David Bowie Loving The Alien

03:34 Dogs, 'It's morning again in America' audio bite on Fred Schneider's Monster 'Something I have to remind myself I'm doing pirate radio.. WDOG your source of information, and most important to dogs, piss information'

03:38 'Getting back into the usual WDOG high standards,' Into New Sensations by Lou Reed

03:43 'Oh no.. go along for the ride' Smiths' How Soon Is Now? CW n' barks

03:49 Gary Numan theme starts mixing into the Smiths, then into Michael Martin Murphey's Wildfire, into Bare Naked Ladies, then Pilot of the Airwaves by a female singer

03:55 Off air

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Audio: WDOG's audio barkin' in Opus

I don't know, for some reason I feel better when I listen to WDOG, they speak to me. I knew or have heard almost every song played tonight, or knew who the artist was. Great stuff from the 'Dancehall days'

Good signal all along, nice bass on a sideband signal that was locked on frequency for easy tuning, and clean audio, though phasing in the signal later on. I don't mind it, listening to distant AM stations, it doesn't bother me.

Barfy is an 8 pound Chihuahua.. :)]]> Radio Animal Free Radio Logs Thu, 04 Jun 2026 00:32:26 -0400 http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?5,11449,11449#msg-11449 http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?5,11449,11449#msg-11449
Recording and listening, mostly not logging the times, listen to the audio.

Curious mix of punk and underground rock, soul with what sounded like Miles Davis, mixed with Daddy Rich from the Car Wash movie, black poetry and spoken word, sounded like a college station late at night. Certainly different that what you usually hear on the shortwave airwave.

Ended with SSTV images:

http://boomerthedog.com/brain-injury-station.gif

See bigger SSTV

01:42 off air

Audio: Audio from Brain Injury Radio

[boomerthedog.com]

Cool stuff and a decent strength AM signal, though band had a big higher noise at that time, signal was hitting +20, not that common with my antenna on the WEB-888 SDR. I like the nice even frequency of 6900, feels boss.]]> Radio Animal Free Radio Logs Thu, 04 Jun 2026 00:25:03 -0400 http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?3,11448,11448#msg-11448 http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?3,11448,11448#msg-11448 www.arrl.org] Ooooooooooooooooooooooo!!!! You can now count FM contacts on 902MHz and 1.2GHz. Huh.. Really?!?!? I never knew that you couldn't before. [www.arrl.org] Don't forget to include VHF / UHF Band on that day. 6M can really rake-in those points. Hear y'all on the bands? Eh... Maybe... Anyone planning on doing Rover, Maritime Mobile, or even Aeronautical Mobile Operations? Those, are neat ones to work.]]> ThaDood General radio discussion Thu, 04 Jun 2026 00:37:06 -0400 http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?5,11446,11446#msg-11446 http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?5,11446,11446#msg-11446
02:35 Tune in to the end Spiders And Snakes the classic song, then into Flesh For Fantasy, man, haven't heard this for a long time, Billy Idol.

02:40, Kiwi waterfall ID '7Radio' into a song, 'rock until I die', talking about items from the rock world.

02:43 Pat Benetar's Hell Is For Children.

02:50 Sounds like AC~DC, Ride On?

02:54 Donnie Iris' Ah Leia, hey Pittsburgh band.

02:58 Hell In A Bucket by the Grateful Dead

03: (after Hell In A Bucket) 'Hope you all enjoyed the show tonight, thanks a bunch for the crew on HFU, signal reports, catch you next week.'

Waterfall picture.



Audio: The Sideband sounds of 7 Radio in opus


10 khz wide audio, real clear, no ultra compression as some of the sidebanders use, easy listening, with nice dynamics. Trying with the AGC off during the AC-DC, there was serious dynamic range, punch, great job, different!

Deep bass. Frequency sounded off at times, but could have been the SDR correcting? Going +10 to +25 hz seemed to fix it, at least it was a try, I couldn't get it to sound coherent.

Thanks for the show!]]> Radio Animal Free Radio Logs Sat, 30 May 2026 23:25:55 -0400 http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?5,11445,11445#msg-11445 http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?5,11445,11445#msg-11445
02:27 Birdland, with birds tweeting over it, including jungle birds and trees getting sawed down. Someone isn't being very friendly to our environment! Hilarious. Mourning dove coo follows.

02:31 White Bird by It's A Beautiful Day, this rocks on shortwave.

02:37 Bird tweets by themselves, sounding like an old record with clicks, into And Your Bird Can Sing by the Beetles.

02:40 Bird sounds, 'WBRD, the word of the bird' into a folky song, I Like Birds. 'Look at all the people like cows in a herd, I like birds.. I've got a feeder for you to perch on'.

02:43 Fly Like An Eagle, by Steve Miller band, 'Time keeps on slippin' into the future. At one time this was my favorite song and I played on a local diner's jukebox, along with Abba's Dancing Queen.

02:47 'WBRD, the word of the bird.. what they say is true, we are the proud descendants of dinosaurs' Beatles' Blackbird.

02:50 Rockin' Robin with bird tweets.

02:52 'Bird of prey, flying high, in the summer sky, take me' lyrics, Jim Morrison, Doors, Bird Of Prey in a techno version. Seance Tapes?

02:56 Buffalo Springfield - Bluebird 'There she sits, you sit there mesmerized, she got soul'

03:01 WBRD ID, sounding like it's in a bird's voice, into Psycho Chicken, to the tune of Talking Heads Psycho Killer. Doctor Demento had to play this.

03:04 Bob Marley Three Little Birds said, 'Don't worry about a thing, because every little thing gonna be all right.'

03:07 Canary In A Cola Mine by The Police

03:09 Pigeon coos, into Beatles

03:11 Mockingbird by Carly Simon & James Taylor, I had to look that one up, though it sounded like James.

03:15 Birds, Woody Woodpecker 'ah ha ha ha ha'. Into The Icicle Works - Birds Fly (Whisper To A Scream). I remember this, with groups like ABC and Frankie, OMD etc.

03:19 David Seville - The Bird On My Head 'I'm just sitting in a vacant lot, with a bird sitting on my head.' It's in the style of Witchdoctor.

03:21 WBRD ID, into Free As A Bird by the Beagles, Jeff Lynne.

03:25 Exotic bird tweets They Might Be Giants' Birdhouse In Your Soul started, then back to tweets, then the song mixed back in again.

03:29 'Pretend you're birds like us, shake your tail feathers' Big Bird and a friend? Into Rush, Fly By Night

03:33 Hummingbird by Seals And Crofts. 'Don't fly away, fly away'

03:36 Bird tweets with Road Runner's 'beep beep' in there, into Modern Lovers' Roadrunner, 'Power of the AM', yeah!

03:40 Tweety Bird song with Mel Blanc into Anne Murray - Snowbird, 'Spread your tiny wings and fly and take the snow back with you'

03:43 Bird with ID, 'Now is the time to fill all feeders, now is the time to spay all cats, now is the time to thank WDOG..' Into Freebird.

03:51 bird images in the upper sideband, "The bird is the word, everybody's heard' samples. This is done like Yaz's I Before E Except After C

03:55 Standard bird clip art image in waterfall, I think it's another station doing it though, as the bird sometimes was faded out while WBRD's signal stayed strong.



03:55 or so, off air?

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Audio:: The sound of the Bird


I felt I somehow had a psychic connection with what this station was going to be doing before the opener, Birdland, I heard the opening and thought, could it be, no way, but it was, a Spock thing between animals, I guess.. :)

Well this station did catch me, thrilling broadcast from a station I never heard before! I was glued to the radio, WEB-888 SDR.

Bandwidth is at least 4 khz and on frequency, making it easy to tune and listen to. Signal solid at all times, it wasn't going anywhere! Audio is really clear, I could hear the lyrics well, it was like good AM.]]> Radio Animal Free Radio Logs Sat, 30 May 2026 00:18:26 -0400 http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?5,11440,11440#msg-11440 http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?5,11440,11440#msg-11440
01:06 (9:06 local) Tube in to Papa's Got A Brand New Bag by James Brown.

01:10 El! with Heartbreak Hotel

01:12 'Most Friday nights, Ballsmacker Radio' into Doors' song about the Whiskey Bar

01:15 Delta Dawn, he'll take you to his mansion in the sky. Is Helen Ready? (Soupy Sales joke).

01:18 Golf Girl from Caravan, cool they played this, you don't hear it in the usual oldies play list.

01:23 'Tonight we have a special theme..' with e-mail, into Hotel California.

01:29 'Cry those ?? tears'? Sounded like it contained cussing, little dogs cover your ears.

01:32 Sierra Sue

01:35 'From some wire strung up in the trees, Ballsmacker Radio' into Dells' Standing Ovation

01:39 Van Halen, Yankee Rose.

Okay! Hear Bloodhound Gang a little later. What happened to that band?

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Sound: Ballz for toning, opus audio


Have to say it's a good signal tonight. It hit some selective fading for a while, but SAM mode helped on that, then the signal stabilized later. Morse code interference at times. Always enjoy the nice AM these guys put out.]]> Radio Animal Free Radio Logs Fri, 29 May 2026 21:48:58 -0400 http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?9,11439,11439#msg-11439 http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?9,11439,11439#msg-11439 coil32.net] I always seem to need help to determine 'L' when designing filters and winding my own inductors. So, this site is pretty cool.]]> ThaDood The Workshop Fri, 29 May 2026 22:34:47 -0400 http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?3,11438,11438#msg-11438 http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?3,11438,11438#msg-11438 fmmap.recnet.com] Zoom-in to each state, and the little Red & Green dots come up on station transmitter locations.]]> ThaDood General radio discussion Wed, 27 May 2026 14:26:57 -0400 http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?3,11437,11437#msg-11437 http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?3,11437,11437#msg-11437
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Wow... For decades, ops in the North East, that didn't have General Coverage Receive in their HF rigs, were able to still tune to the CHU FREQ's, when WWV was not as obtainable. Still, when propagation sucks for WWV / WWVH, CHU still can get through on their three FREQ's. So, this will be missed. BTW, I'd gotten word from an HFU post on this, just FYI.]]> ThaDood General radio discussion Fri, 29 May 2026 21:52:33 -0400 http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?3,11433,11433#msg-11433 http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?3,11433,11433#msg-11433 spacedaily.com]
OK... How come we were able to make gear that could last over 60 years, yet today you are damn lucky to have something that lasts 60 months? Huh...]]> ThaDood General radio discussion Fri, 29 May 2026 21:59:19 -0400 http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?3,11432,11432#msg-11432 http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?3,11432,11432#msg-11432 www.dxmaps.com] And, from there, I found this: [www.fmlist.org] Then, for Tropo & temperature Inversions, there's this: [www.dxinfocentre.com] This site is mainly for MW DX'ing, but has a boatload of various useful links: [www.bamlog.com] So, HAPPY Summer DX'ing in those upper bands!]]> ThaDood General radio discussion Wed, 20 May 2026 14:08:43 -0400 http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?5,11431,11431#msg-11431 http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?5,11431,11431#msg-11431
01:40 Tune in to a Todd Rundgren song

01:43 'With the finest mix and the finest sound, you're listening to Mix Radio International' into Californication by Red Hot Chili Peppers.

01:49 'Seducing your ears with sound, more music, less B. S.' and into Dream Weaver by Gary Wright, great to hear this on shortwave and in wide band. It did sound like this on AM radio, but had more bass.

01:52 'Zone 27, .. Zone 28 .. New Zealand.. Proudly serving the planet, on the powerful signal of Mix Radio International' into Southern Cross by Crosby Stills Nash. Was Mix listening to U-phonia a few days ago?

01:58 "The hottest sound is on Mix Radio International" lady announcer into Lonely Boy by Andrew Gold

02:02 ID, into a song You're a survivor, I'm just a dancer.

02:06 'With the finest sound and the finest mix..' into Destination Venus, search says: The Rezillos - Destination Venus

02:10 Grinding electronic music, sounds watery, lower fi. A-ha, at :11, 'You're tuned to Hobby Broadcasting Radio. QSL at Blue Ridge Summit, Black Cat Systems software, oh oh, lower the volume of your music bed, the voice is being lost.

'Ballsmacker Radio is good at QSLing', yeah right, they stopped sending QSLs to me, and I use the address they announce on the air.

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Audio: Mix Radio on 6850

Wow, audio out to 12 khz, the maximum bandwidth that the WEB-888 can do, nice to hear all the frequencies.]]> Radio Animal Free Radio Logs Tue, 12 May 2026 22:33:30 -0400 http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?5,11430,11430#msg-11430 http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?5,11430,11430#msg-11430

00:50 Tune in to CSN's Down By The River. I just noticed how funky the bass line is on this song, good bass on the transmitter.

00:58 "You're listening to Radio Free Phonia on international shortwave" followed by CW keying. Male DJ says, 'We're going to QSY 6945, we have a little bit of sideband action here.'

00:59 Moved to 6945. Woman's ID, 'You are listening to..' into Southern Man by CSNY. I do see a carrier on 6935.

00:05 Cinnamon Girl by Crosby Stills Nash, must be CSN night.

00:08 THX movie audio sound, into is it Silver Bird?

00:12 The Needle And The Damage Done. Cell phone sound, like he got a message, a 3 key flourish.

00:14 Female ID, movie audio 'Half a pack of cigarettes, we're wearing sun glasses and it's dark..' Into a waltz time song by CSN, 'Only love can break your heart..'

00:17 Don't know this 'un, a jam track, fuzz guitar, 'Rust', 'It's the woman in you that makes you want to play this game'

00:28 'Neil Young night of all nights, have a happy sunday evening, this is radio free Uphonia, gone.' Into a Kraftwerk sounding tune.

00:31 Carrier Off

Audio: RFU audio in Opus
Easy to listen to audio looks like it's out to about 10 khz, nice smooth and flat quality, no funky EQ or limiting, like good AM broadcast. Thanks!

I saw CSN with Young, when he did an encore of his own new songs, going back to a more doo wop sound.]]> Radio Animal Free Radio Logs Sat, 09 May 2026 21:36:44 -0400 http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?5,11428,11428#msg-11428 http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?5,11428,11428#msg-11428

02:19 'He created a Thriller.." Announcer dialog about Michael Jackson. "You are listening to Radio 48 via Mix Radio International" ID, into PYT remix by Michael.

02:24 'With the finest sound and the finest mix, you're listening to Mix Radio Worldwide' over the end of PYT.

02:26 'Rockin' with the best, Radio 48' into another mix, then 'No no no, you don't love me, yes I know now' Reggae song.

02:30 Italo sounding techno in the mix.


Audio: MIX, MIx, MiX, mIX, mix

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Strong signal as usual for Mix, and had the great SDR waterfall pictures with Radio 48 and a bat animal icon. Locked on tight to the frequency, so even being in sideband it sounded good, once I expanded the goal posts on the WEB-888 SDR to widen the bandwidth to 10 khz. No complaints about their technical prowess.]]> Radio Animal Free Radio Logs Fri, 08 May 2026 22:38:12 -0400 http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?5,11427,11427#msg-11427 http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?5,11427,11427#msg-11427

01:50 Diana Ross, Missing You

01:53 Family Affair by Sly And The Family Stone

01:57 'Tonight we have a special theme, if you can guess tonight's theme..' with e-mail. Over intro, and into Mama by Peter Gabriel. Signal is peaking here, strong and getting a little unstable.

02:03 Song, sounds like Mother Mother. Is it Cheryl Crow? Throwing that out there.

02:06 Mama Said There'll Be Days Like This song, the Sherelles

02:09 I Miss You

02: Stacy's Mom.

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Auuuudio: BallsmackeRadio in AM, Opus browser play


Better signals than during the winter on Ballsmacker, it peaked up pretty good there for a few minutes. Nice job AMer!]]> Radio Animal Free Radio Logs Fri, 08 May 2026 22:18:32 -0400 http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?3,11426,11426#msg-11426 http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?3,11426,11426#msg-11426 radio-locator.com] Now, what's weird is when you look at the ownership of these stations. Alaska Broadcast Communications, Inc.??? Um, who dey??? And, why would they be practically the only ones listed as the 'owner' of these stations? Eh???]]> ThaDood General radio discussion Fri, 08 May 2026 22:49:21 -0400 http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?5,11424,11424#msg-11424 http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?5,11424,11424#msg-11424

02:30 Tune in to Brandy by Looking Glass "7Radio" ID in the waterfall.

02:31 Country rocker, 'I like some good times, cheap wine, sun shine.. You can try to change me or love me the way I am'

02:32 Song with lyric, 'Lie to me, go ahead and lie to me'

02:40 I remember this, oh Skinny Bop? 1990s.

02:44 Song started, some other digital transmission at 6915 for a minute.

02:48 '7Radio' on waterfall, into modern rock 'What a shame.. give this man his wings.. That's the man he was..'

02:52 Song, 'What you gonna do when the whiskey ain't workin' any more.. I can't see, I can't hide, because the voices in my head are getting louder every night..' Guitar rock.

02:56 7Radio, the wideband sideband.. Hope you enjoyed the show tonight, see you next week.'

Off Air.


Aaaaudio: Audio from 7 Radio 28 minutes, opus

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Six stations on and one time under great band conditions!

Finally a station without the crunched audio like other SSB stations lately, and a more balanced, flat frequency response where you can hear the bass. It sounds like good AM.

It helped that his signal was stable, few propagation issues messing with the phase. I didn't see a vestigial sideband below the frequency either, on the waterfall, as some of the other SSBers have.]]> Radio Animal Free Radio Logs Sat, 02 May 2026 23:07:42 -0400 http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?3,11423,11423#msg-11423 http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?3,11423,11423#msg-11423 www.radioworld.com] Huh... On FREQ, AM Radio boosters are nothing new, since I've read about Part #15 stations actually doing this permissibly for years by some ops. Ernest Wilson, of Panaxis Productions, gave examples upon how that can be done. However, that FREQ better be tight, since just as much as a 1/2Hz off could actually cancel a signal instead. I've done that test myself, tuning up a signal generator on a test bench, and watching my own AM1620 HET with it IN and OUT.

And, as long as we're doing a Radio World kick, Boomer FWR these:

[www.radioworld.com]


[www.radioworld.com] Hmmmmm??? So, just how long will it be before Silicon Carbide MOSFET tech comes down to an affordable hobbyist level?]]> ThaDood General radio discussion Sun, 03 May 2026 00:05:04 -0400 http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?5,11422,11422#msg-11422 http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?5,11422,11422#msg-11422
01L19 tune in, to a rocker with harmonica, Dire? Only heard 10 seconds

01:20 John Denver - Sunshine On My Shoulder

01:25 'Tonight we have a special theme.. The songs we play tonight have one thing in common...' Over intro to Procol Harum's Whiter Shade Of Pale.

01:30 Sunshine Of Your Love by Creem

01:33 Hazy Shade Of Winter, 80s cover.

01:36 'From some wire strung up in a tree, BallSmacker Radio.' into Bring Me Sunshine, but sounding like some version of the Brat Pack singing it. Maybe it's Vic Fontaine.. :)

01:40 Moonshadow by Cat Stevens, I used to not like the theme of this song, but I like it better now.

01:42 Ain't No Sunshine When She's Gone by Bill Withers

01:44 'The Ballsmacker..' Standing In The Shadows Of Love by Four Tops

01:47 KC Und de Sonnenshein Band, Keep It Comin' Love

01:51 Shadows In The Moonlight by Anne Murray, man, the Carpenters could cover this one so easy.

01:54 '..Valid reception reports will receive a special E-QSL.' Giving e-mail address. Yeah right, the address no longer seems to be working, I haven't gotten a QSL or reply from them since last year.

01:55 Len's Steal My Sunshine. I think it's the sanitized Radio Disney version, which they played all the time.

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Audio: Ball's Audio in Opus for browser

Good sounding AM this week, and strengthy signal too, went from dips of S5 to to peaks near +10, not bad for the amount of attenuation in the antenna on the SDR, WEB-888.

Good band conditions too, not the lightning crackle of last night, though I can hear individual bolts at times, but otherwise pretty clean. Had a carrier and 'modem' sound blast in there a few times.]]> Radio Animal Free Radio Logs Fri, 24 Apr 2026 22:11:54 -0400 http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?5,11421,11421#msg-11421 http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?5,11421,11421#msg-11421
04:19 Tune in to song 'What You Need' by INXS

04:20 Another 80s sounding song, sounds like more INXS.

04:24 80s Rocker, maybe Aerosmith?

04:28 'You are listening to INXS Radio on pirate shortwave..' E-mail address, into New Sensation

04:33 The Devil Inside

04:37 More of a ballad, 'I was standing , you were there, two worlds colliding'.

04:40 Suicide Blond.

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Audio: IN EXCESS's audio in Opus


A Late late show station, didn't expect to find something this late! Clean, sounds like wide-band audio with good bass and flat response in the transmitter, studio.

Signal bouncing between S5-S8.]]> Radio Animal Free Radio Logs Fri, 24 Apr 2026 01:00:27 -0400 http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?5,11419,11419#msg-11419 http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?5,11419,11419#msg-11419
01:07 Blues rocker, I Put A Spell On You.

01:12 Radio Free Uphonia, 6935 upper sideband, he wanted to go on with the mode that more copyable in the storms, lower fidelity, but not too bad. Let's go with some CCR. Playing Rolling On The River.

01:15 CCR Bad Moon Rising

01:17 One of my favorites from CCR, and before that, oh yeah, Proud Mary. Let's continue the CCR.

01:21 Green River

01:24 'That was Creedence Clearwater Revival, before that we had Lodi.. Let's keep going while we still have time'

01:26 Down On The Corner by CCR

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Cool classic rock, and easy to hear, hardly heard any crackles on the S8 signal. CCR sure has a lot of hit songs!]]> Radio Animal Free Radio Logs Wed, 15 Apr 2026 21:27:40 -0400 http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?3,11418,11418#msg-11418 http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?3,11418,11418#msg-11418 www.vinylthon.com] Most of these stations are LPFM'er, college stations, and other public radio stations. So, are there any Part 15 stations doing this, or even linking-in to a station doing this event? Where I am, I'll plan to link to LPFM'er, WTSQ-LP 88.1FM, and be an ass-backwards translator for them. Give them AM coverage where their FM signal does not reach here, and they dig that, and totally permissible. [wtsq.org] and [radio-locator.com] So, if you have some nice sounding audio on your Part 15 stations, flaunt it with the Vinylthon Weekend. If anything, you'll sound very nostalgic. Oh... And something rare today, about the only time that you will hear live DJ's sinning-it overnight.]]> ThaDood General radio discussion Sat, 18 Apr 2026 14:11:36 -0400 http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?9,11417,11417#msg-11417 http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?9,11417,11417#msg-11417 www.elecevolve.com] Neat... Looks like table-top SDR features in a slim portable. I want one.]]> ThaDood The Workshop Mon, 01 Jun 2026 14:02:12 -0400 http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?5,11414,11414#msg-11414 http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?5,11414,11414#msg-11414
Saw carrier come up on the waterfall a minute earlier, then started song

00:35 Edie Brickell - What I AM

00:39 'That was Edie Brickell and the New Bohemians on Radio Free Eufonia' into Info Society and What's On Your Mind song (Spock saying 'pure energy')

00:44 Pretty Boys And Pretty Girls

00:48 'This is Radio Free Eufonia monday night.. Pretty Boys.. Book Of Love, how is that for radio hosting?' Depeche Mode?

02:04 Sign off

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Audio: Eufonia's audio 15 minutes

Good 80s mix, with lesser known tunes! Carrier within a few hertz of 6935, and stable. Audio has the kind of 'older' modulation quality you heard on AM stations, like a local college AM carrier current station, running an LPB audio processor, a sound like WPGH had here in the 80s, or WYEP FM in the mono days, distinctive.]]> Radio Animal Free Radio Logs Mon, 06 Apr 2026 22:15:35 -0400 http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?5,11413,11413#msg-11413 http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?5,11413,11413#msg-11413
01:47 Tune in (9:47 pm local) Miss Me Blind by Culture Club

01:49 George Benson Give Me The Night, big hit in Pittsburgh

01:53 The Ballsmacker, 6960 AM with bowling strike sound, into Take me in your arms, rock me a little while by Doobie Brothers

01:56 Steely Dan - Don't Take Me Alive

02:01 The Who - See Me, Feel Me, Touch Me.

02:04 'Tonight we have a special theme.. We'll send a special e-QSL if you guess tonight's theme..' Yeah right, a likely story.. :) Into Motown's You Keep Me Hangin' On, by Vanilla Fungus

02:07 Who Can It Be Now by Men At Work

02:10 You Really Got Me by the Kinks

02:12 Don't Do Me Like That by J. Geils

02:15 Fly Me To The Moon by Frank

02:17 Take Me Home Tonight by Eddie Money



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All the tunes tonight sound like a radio format that would have been heard throughout the Ohio Valley in the 1970s, good stuff!]]> Radio Animal Free Radio Logs Fri, 03 Apr 2026 22:25:03 -0400