Looks like the pirate gang from Free Radio Weekly, has spent a busy week chasing pirate stations on shortwave radio. The logs below are a sampling from this weekends newsletter. Nice logs guys!
All times UTC *sing-on sign-off*
All Your Base are Belong to Us
6925 USB, 3/19/08 20:40-:50 SINPO 35323 Parody song of Bohemian Rhapsody, "All You Base Belong to Us" with techno music mix, ID in CW (Ragnar-MI)
Captain Morgan
6925USB 3/15/8 20:54 SIO 121. Very faint music, Twilight Zone theme so it must be Captain Morgan, and is the station I heard underneath the unidentified earlier, Pink Panther theme to The Wind Cries Mary, drifting a bit.(Fansome-PA)
East Coast Radio
6925USB, 03/21/08 22:20- SINPO 35323 Next Contestant, Here Without You, "Welcome to East Coast Radio, eastcoastradio@hotmail.com " music is a little tinny 23:39 second station came on playing old station jingles (Ragnar-MI)
Mash Up Radio
6925 USB, *1945-1954*, 15 Mar 08. "Sweet Home Alabama", ID by announcer several times, John Wayne bit to Do It To Me Baby. SIO: 444 [Lobdell-MA]
6925 USB, 2131-2140*, 15 Mar 08. Station ID to mix of Ghostbusters with Michael Jackson, off abruptly at 2140 UTC SIO: 454. [Lobdell-MA]
Radio Azteca
6925USB 2042-2101 3/10/08 SIO=141/343. Bram Stoker with a typical program from this veteran pirate. Ask Dr. Radio segment. A story told by the Story Lady. A python snake eats a dog. No maildrop address announced, but they use the Belfast drop. (Zeller-OH)
Radio Foxtrot
6925USB 3/15/8 22:12 sio333. Punk-like music to station ID at 22:15 Radio Foxtrot?, Tunes Incense Peppermints, Green Tambourine, Journey to the Center of the Mind, and Over Under Sideways. Station ID and off at 22:26. (Fansome-PA)
Relaxation Radio
6925USB, *2253-2304 Mar 15. Hard to tell when Foxtrot closed and this opened by all of a sudden instead of hearing Radio Foxtrot I was hearing a woman with "Relaxation Radio" followed by a man with several repetitions of station ID. Opening music was Goodnight Sweetheart followed by Mr. Sandman. Several IDs at 2304 tune out. Fair to good signal. (D'Angelo-PA)
Tangerine Radio
6925.6USB 2333-2346 3/10/08 SIO=242. Return of this old-time pirate. Raucnhy Rick with his "anti-religion" program. Among other things, he said that the Rev. Jim Jones, Jesus, and others were cult leaders. The station goes back to 1984, and in those days it used Wellsville, which is now Belfast. This was my second weekday night pirate this week, constituting an unusually large volume of weeknight pirate activity. (Zeller-OH)
Voice of Juliet
6925/USB, 2236-2251+, 20-Mar. Rock tunes; spot for the New Cannibal Cookbook--If you can't beat 'em, eat 'em; Patriarchy sucks; Roseanne bit--men can pee out a campfire better than women; Merlin drop. SIO=3+43+. Old show? Logged here in 1996-98 via NAPRS! (Frodge-MI)
Wolverine Radio
. 6925USB, 0145-0230. 16 March 08. English. Wolverine Radio playing Neil Young, David Bowie and a whole bunch more that I could not identify. Male announcer mentioned that some of the music was from a Swiss band. IDs at 0204 and 0212. Faint signal-close to unreadable. (Wood, TN).
WSTD
6925, 3/15/08, 2305-2355, SIO=353. Music, National Lampoon Radio, IDs of "WSTD - the pirate station you don't want to touch". (Pls QSL, Lee Silvi, Ohio)
WTCR
6925 USB, 03/15/08 00:00-58 SINPO 45344 on with fanfare, WTCRTtwentieth Century Radio you music from the Twentieth Century, Day dreamer, Paperback Writer, Lay Lady Lay, My Best Friend's Girl, Drift Away, Sign off at 00:56 (Ragnar-MI)
(Source: Free Radio Weekly # 632 via Bill Finn)
All times UTC *sing-on sign-off*
All Your Base are Belong to Us
6925 USB, 3/19/08 20:40-:50 SINPO 35323 Parody song of Bohemian Rhapsody, "All You Base Belong to Us" with techno music mix, ID in CW (Ragnar-MI)
Captain Morgan
6925USB 3/15/8 20:54 SIO 121. Very faint music, Twilight Zone theme so it must be Captain Morgan, and is the station I heard underneath the unidentified earlier, Pink Panther theme to The Wind Cries Mary, drifting a bit.(Fansome-PA)
East Coast Radio
6925USB, 03/21/08 22:20- SINPO 35323 Next Contestant, Here Without You, "Welcome to East Coast Radio, eastcoastradio@hotmail.com " music is a little tinny 23:39 second station came on playing old station jingles (Ragnar-MI)
Mash Up Radio
6925 USB, *1945-1954*, 15 Mar 08. "Sweet Home Alabama", ID by announcer several times, John Wayne bit to Do It To Me Baby. SIO: 444 [Lobdell-MA]
6925 USB, 2131-2140*, 15 Mar 08. Station ID to mix of Ghostbusters with Michael Jackson, off abruptly at 2140 UTC SIO: 454. [Lobdell-MA]
Radio Azteca
6925USB 2042-2101 3/10/08 SIO=141/343. Bram Stoker with a typical program from this veteran pirate. Ask Dr. Radio segment. A story told by the Story Lady. A python snake eats a dog. No maildrop address announced, but they use the Belfast drop. (Zeller-OH)
Radio Foxtrot
6925USB 3/15/8 22:12 sio333. Punk-like music to station ID at 22:15 Radio Foxtrot?, Tunes Incense Peppermints, Green Tambourine, Journey to the Center of the Mind, and Over Under Sideways. Station ID and off at 22:26. (Fansome-PA)
Relaxation Radio
6925USB, *2253-2304 Mar 15. Hard to tell when Foxtrot closed and this opened by all of a sudden instead of hearing Radio Foxtrot I was hearing a woman with "Relaxation Radio" followed by a man with several repetitions of station ID. Opening music was Goodnight Sweetheart followed by Mr. Sandman. Several IDs at 2304 tune out. Fair to good signal. (D'Angelo-PA)
Tangerine Radio
6925.6USB 2333-2346 3/10/08 SIO=242. Return of this old-time pirate. Raucnhy Rick with his "anti-religion" program. Among other things, he said that the Rev. Jim Jones, Jesus, and others were cult leaders. The station goes back to 1984, and in those days it used Wellsville, which is now Belfast. This was my second weekday night pirate this week, constituting an unusually large volume of weeknight pirate activity. (Zeller-OH)
Voice of Juliet
6925/USB, 2236-2251+, 20-Mar. Rock tunes; spot for the New Cannibal Cookbook--If you can't beat 'em, eat 'em; Patriarchy sucks; Roseanne bit--men can pee out a campfire better than women; Merlin drop. SIO=3+43+. Old show? Logged here in 1996-98 via NAPRS! (Frodge-MI)
Wolverine Radio
. 6925USB, 0145-0230. 16 March 08. English. Wolverine Radio playing Neil Young, David Bowie and a whole bunch more that I could not identify. Male announcer mentioned that some of the music was from a Swiss band. IDs at 0204 and 0212. Faint signal-close to unreadable. (Wood, TN).
WSTD
6925, 3/15/08, 2305-2355, SIO=353. Music, National Lampoon Radio, IDs of "WSTD - the pirate station you don't want to touch". (Pls QSL, Lee Silvi, Ohio)
WTCR
6925 USB, 03/15/08 00:00-58 SINPO 45344 on with fanfare, WTCRTtwentieth Century Radio you music from the Twentieth Century, Day dreamer, Paperback Writer, Lay Lady Lay, My Best Friend's Girl, Drift Away, Sign off at 00:56 (Ragnar-MI)
(Source: Free Radio Weekly # 632 via Bill Finn)
