This week's @popshopradio.bsky.social record label scan is for the novelty song Leader of the Laundromat, by The Detergents. Ain't that something!

The 2300z @swradiogram.bsky.social via WRMI 9455 rolled into my location like a wrecking ball, with rock-solid decodes. From coastal Alabama. One of these days I'm gonna visit Annapolis. It looks kinda charming. I missed it on my last trip through Merry-land.

Images from the 0230z @swradiogram.bsky.social via WINB 9265: "Celestial (and one mountain)" edition. I sincerely hope to one day see the Milky Way as clearly as that photo (minus all the post-processing, obviously) but who knows if I'll ever get that far out in the boonies or not.

A surprise @swradiogram.bsky.social decode, with 4 images snagged from the 0930z WRMI 7780 kHz broadcast. This one seemed kind of odd. The signal LOOKED great on the waterfall, but it was quite error-prone, even for MFSK32 text. From the pleasantly sunny Alabama gulf coast.

Surprisingly solid @swradiogram.bsky.social reception on the 0800z WRMI 5850 broadcast. Here are the two photos from the start and end of the show. From coastal Alabama.

On this week's @popshopradio.bsky.social, we got to hear Phil Ochs, the not-Tokens, a Ringo B-side and a Monkees cover that topped the Rhodesian hit parade, which is a thing that apparently existed. Can't get enough of that Sugar Crisp!

Images from the 2300z @swradiogram.bsky.social via WRMI 9455, fashionably late edition. Set 1 of 2. Received on the Alabama gulf coast. Looks like it was a killer signal, too…

This week's @radioactiveal.bsky.social birthday radiogram on the #MightyKBC, plus the two Peter Johns DX Headlines SSTV images. In my limited decode time I couldn't figure out what the underlying text mode was, so no captions on those pictures this week.

More colorful, er, colors, courtesy the 0230z @swradiogram.bsky.social via WINB 9265. From the soggy Alabama gulf coast.

For a brief moment, I glanced at Fldigi as @swradiogram.bsky.social was decoding and thought it said "panettone" and thought we were gonna get pictures of desserts. Oh well. Delightful colors courtesy of Pantone™; delightful fuzziness courtesy of the ionosphere.

The best images from the redeye 0800z @swradiogram.bsky.social via WRMI 5850 were the first two and the last two. The others were quite raggedy. From the Alabama gulf coast.

Another week getting to hear the 0100z @popshopradio.bsky.social live via WRMI 5950. This is getting to be a trend! Ending a show with Barry White… who's next, Teddy Pendergrass? (I wouldn't complain.)

A rare successful decode of the 1430z @swradiogram.bsky.social via WRMI 9955 here on the Alabama gulf coast this morning! This is one of those signals that's always there but always weak, and when you add in the aggressive EQ, it makes digital decoding difficult. So this is a pleasant surprise.

Images from the 2300z @swradiogram.bsky.social via WRMI 9455, "oops all critters" edition. Good results again this week from my location on the no-longer-rainy Alabama gulf coast. We got a much needed inch+ of rain the other day.

This week's #MightKBC broadcast, off WRMI 5950 earlier today. @radioactiveal.bsky.social's birthday image is Lou Gramm of Foreigner, plus two Peter John's DX Headlines images in SSTV format. The music sounded a LOT better than the slow scan pictures look! Oh, and K0BAD is a real call in Hawaii!

A pretty strong signal for the 0230z @swradiogram.bsky.social via WINB 9265, but with some notable dropoffs here and there. These are the four best images from this broadcast. From the (thankfully) soggy Alabama gulf coast.

Well, this was unexpected. How about a @popshopradio.bsky.social episode broadcast on pirate radio? Looks like it was Mix Radio Intl relaying an episode I'd never heard before. Too bad I came in late, the lineup looked pretty good. Here's the record label image, decoded off an SDR in Louisiana.

Fuzzy but mostly-complete results from the 2330z @swradiogram.bsky.social via WINB 9265. The Prenolepis winter ant took multiple tries before it worked, but otherwise errors were minimal despite the poor signal.

Before I get to tonight's @swradiogram.bsky.social, I found the 0930z 7780 WRMI broadcast had, for once, given me good results. All images and text decoded except the Finland bridge. There's an interesting pattern in the images. Is this from WRMI's processing? From the Alabama gulf coast.

Excellent results for the redeye @swradiogram.bsky.social via WRMI 5850, as received on the AL gulf coast. Pictures so good, I gotta share across multiple posts! 1/3

Somehow I managed to get all but one image from the 1430z @swradiogram.bsky.social via WRMI 9955. The signal strength was "pitiful" but somehow it did pretty well considering my location. Here are four of the more interesting pics. Yagi birds is my favorite.

Better conditions (and a slightly adjusted loop) yielded a good hour of music and this @popshopradio.bsky.social record label image off the 5950 WRMI broadcast. I think the highlights this week were Kyu Sakimoto and Fox with songs I'd never heard before. Thanks for the show, as always.

Still not sure why my @swradiogram.bsky.social reception has been consistently bad so far this week. Finally got all the images from the 2300z WRMI 9455 show, but it's pretty ratty. After the show I did try to re-orient my loop to minimize noise, so we'll see if it helps on later shows.

Reception of this weekend's #MightyKBC via WRMI 5950 wasn't good enough for music enjoyment, but the @swradiogram.bsky.social birthday image of the week by @radioactiveal.bsky.social and the DX Headlines SSTV were successfully decoded. From coastal Alabama.

After the poor results for yesterday's @swradiogram.bsky.social, I was hoping the 0230z repeat on WINB would be better. It was… kind of. I got the gist of the two stories this time, and a different set of images, but it's still incomplete. It's down to WRMI now to get me the full set! From AL USA.

I seemed to have a lot of trouble with the 2330z @swradiogram.bsky.social via WINB 9265. The first half was mostly inaudible, with very little MFSK32 making it. But by the time the MFSK64 started, the signal got much better. Here are four of the 8 images that decoded… From coastal Alabama.

The image tells the tale, this week's @popshopradio.bsky.social on WRMI 5950 was kinda difficult to listen to. There was thankfully a lack of local noisemaker RF but the signal was weak and WRMI's processing isn't ideal. Still, great show. See you next week!

The 2300z @swradiogram.bsky.social via WRMI 9455 was its usual great signal, but there were some interesting fades through the images section, most notable during Jinling's photo, and the fact that the photo of the week was missed. I tried multiple times to get it to work, but no dice. From AL.

Fine results from the 0230z @swradiogram.bsky.social via WINB 9265, as received on the Alabama gulf coast.

The first of this week's @swradiogram.bsky.social had decent enough reception, but there was a processing glitch in the Abutilon pictum image, poor little plant! I've only heard a few transatlantic LW stations here in the US, but sadly 198 was not one of them.

Really lovely reception of the redeye 0800z @swradiogram.bsky.social via WRMI 5850, so this is part one of two sets of images from that broadcast…

Uh oh, looks like this week's Sunday @popshopradio.bsky.social on WRMI 5950 was a repeat. A show so nice, they aired it twice! Condx here were pitiful due to local RF noise so I also checked out the K4EGA SDR in Eatonton, GA for a better signal.

Four of the better looking images from the 2300z @swradiogram.bsky.social via WRMI 9455. I had a nice strong signal but there was some unusual noise patterns that didn't resemble my usual local noisemakers. No sure what was going on but it didn't really hurt the images. From coastal Alabama.

The 0230z @swradiogram.bsky.social via WINB was much much better than yesterday's broadcast, but somehow the cyclists image was missed during unattended playback. That Artemis photo of earth is one for the ages. From the Alabama gulf coast.

A delightfully fuzzy start to the week's @swradiogram.bsky.social with yesterday's 2330z WINB broadcast. The newsletter story about antenna issues is quite relatable. I've got either a bad connector, coax or antenna on my discone and it's just too difficult to bring it down for inspection.

Despite high local RF noise levels, the 0800z @swradiogram.bsky.social decoded with no observable errors in either MFSK mode. Pictures actually look pretty decent as well. From coastal Alabama.

Not the greatest signal for this week's @popshopradio.bsky.social via WRMI 5950, but another killer lineup, including a version of Valerie by The Monkees that I had somehow never heard! Faron's Flamingoes, The Hollywood Flames and The Big Three were also great. Thanks for the show, as always.

The @radioactiveal.bsky.social birthday image of the week on the #MightyKBC via WRMI 5950 was Muddy Waters, real name McKinley Morganfield. He was born on 4 April 1913, and died in 1983.

Reception of the 1430z @swradiogram.bsky.social via WRMI 9955 was even weirder than the 9455 broadcast… No usable signal at all until the preamble to the Finnish speed limit sign, which came through nicely. After that, it went to crap again. Several missed images and a weird pattern to the noise.

Somehow, seven images from the 2300z @swradiogram.bsky.social via WRMI 9455 made it through despite horrendous signal strength and high noise. MFSK32 text was mostly error-free but MFSK64 struggled. From the Alabama gulf coast, where this is normally a robust signal to decode from.

The 0230z @swradiogram.bsky.social on WINB started off great, but got kinda iffy in the middle. One image trigger was botched but I was able to tweak playback of the recording to get it to 'take'. Good, error free decoding on the Finnish, too.

Rough stuff for the 2330z @swradiogram.bsky.social via WINB 9265. No missed images but the quality was pretty poor and a lot of MFSK64 text was garbled. I thought MFSK32 was also bad but it turns out it was just Finnish. 😹 From coastal Alabama.

Morse Code "coin". Not particularly useful for learning but the "receive side" is interesting. See if you can figure it out.

Decent results from the 2300z @swradiogram.bsky.social via WRMI 9455… this has been being a great signal but I think conditions aren't quite as good as normal. I had an unusually low noise floor but also an unusually low signal strength. From coastal Alabama, USA.

Pop Shop Radio A26 schedule: WRMI 0100 UT Monday 5950 khz 0300 UT Monday 9395 khz Channel 292 (Germany) 1600 UT Wednesday 3955 & 9670 khz 2200 UT Saturday 3955 & 9670 khz Shortwave Gold (Germany) 1400 UT Saturday 3975 khz 1900 UT Sunday 3975 & 6160 khz

Three flowers and a neon sign from the 0230z @swradiogram.bsky.social via WINB 9265. Much better conditions for this broadcast versus last night's. The signal also steadily got better as the show went on, with no noticeable text errors in either mode.

Looks like my spate of noisy @swradiogram.bsky.social decodes isn't ending anytime soon. These are at least pleasantly fuzzy. It seems to be a mix of weaker than normal signal and high local noise. From the 2330 WINB broadcast.

Quite difficult reception of the 0800z @swradiogram.bsky.social via WRMI 5850 on Monday morning, with a low signal and copious amounts of local RF noise. Still, several images managed to make it through. There were enough errors in text to make it mostly unreadable, though. From coastal Alabama.

The first half of this week's @popshopradio.bsky.social sounded great but things went downhill during the Kingston Trio, er, duo… A ratty image is the result. I did not have "Avril Lavigne/Billy Idol collab" on my bingo card for 2026. Great tunes from Kay Starr, Freddie Aguilar, and Biddu Orch!

Despite unusually high local RF noise, the 2300z @swradiogram.bsky.social via WRMI 9455 produced some pretty decent images. Oddly, the bulk of the text errors were in the early MFSK32 (as much as I could tell French from gibberish, anyway.) From coastal Alabama.