pirate radio monitoring

Time to catch up on newsletters and logs, to see what the pirate radio fans have been monitoring lately. What are you hearing on the bands?
Gayle VH

All times UTC

Ann Hoffer Radio
6925 USB, 2207 Ann singing "Ahh-woo!" Werewolves of London SINPO 24222. Only occasionally audible above the mush. (Lex-TX)

Barnyard Radio
6930 USB 22:40, SINPO 35343
Maniacal laughter into Barnyard announcement. All in the Family clip, Capt & Tennille (Ragnar).


Blitzkreig Radio
6925 USB, 0215-0510. Signal fair/poor, various Vaudeville tunes including Making Whoopee. Much dead air. At 0450, Klezmer and Yiddish music, song "Lilly Marlene" sung in German, quick ID then off. (Hassig-IL)

Bunny News Network (BNN) Relay Service
6900 AM, 2107-2153+ Shows from Iron Man Radio, OTH Radio and Dirty Radio were relay by
BNN relay service. Commander Bunny will broadcast shows that sent to the BNN. The FRN Grapevines announcements has the information. Nice shows with a good signal (Majewski CT)

KBOX
6925 USB, 0104*-0141.* Lengthy opening ID with male/female announcers with "All Boxy, all the time." Beatles tunes. Good signal. (Sedlacek-NE) kboxradio@gmail.com

Iron Man Radio
6925 USB 2345, SINPO 35434 John Henry, XRay Specs, Keel Brothers. Great signal on a station I only have heard rarely. (Ragnar)

Captain Morgan
6925.0/A, 2117-2136. Captain Morgan ID with email asking for FRN reports, playing blues music today. ID with email to The Blues Brothers! Soul Man, Blues Brothers 2135 Twilight Zone theme, 2136 off Fair. (Rohde) captainmorgan@gmail.com

Crocodile Radio
6925 USB, 0131-0146.+ Top 40 not-so-oldies and non Top-40 tunes. Station ID. SIO 243 with one rata-a-tat burst. (Frodge, MI)

KUSA
6925 USB, 0050-0125. Fair with some static. Monty Python song Bright Side of Life. Oldies of Alley-Oop, At The Hop, Baby It's You, New Roller Skates/New Key, Bus Stop, Chains Of Love, Chantilly Lace, etc, sed kusanorthamerica@gmail.com, I emailed KUSA several min ago,no bounce yet. (Hassig-IL)

Liquid Radio
6925 AM, 1845. Presumed with SINPO 25333. Intermittent dance music. Possible ID of Liquid Radio. (Ragnar)

Marine Corp Birthday Radio
6925 AM, 2050-2104. SINPO 35232. It's the Marine Corp Birthday with Sgt Balz, patriotic marches and a gruff Marine Corp Sgt to make all us silly villains stand at attention. (Ragnar)

6925 AM. 2153-2210. SIO 433. Program celebrating the 234th birthday of the Marine Corp. Sgt. Buster Balz calling cadence and playing Marine Corp Hymn . Please QSL (Smith-OH).

Northwoods Radio
6925 USB, 1340-1408.* SIO 242/141. Program of instrumental rock and rock and new age music. Did not catch an ID until 1402, but the ID also had their normal loon call interval signal. Weak and slightly distorted signal at times. (Zeller-OH)

Outhouse Radio
6925 USB, 0309-0325. Rock music with man announcer hosting and giving several IDs and talk. Poor and seemed to disappear under a pile of noise around 0325. (D'Angelo-PA) outhouseradio@gmail.com

Pumpkin Patch Radio
6925 USB, 2330. Song in Spanish, B&W SSTV with Radio Crimes caption, theme music from movie "Halloween." Difficult copy, only occasionally audible. (Lex-TX)

6925 USB, 0148-0212 Halloween movie theme, "Welcome to the pumpkin patch", AC/DC music Highway to Hell. Halloween movie theme again. SINPO - 24312, only occasionally audible, mostly fades into S2-S3 noise here (Lex-TX)

Radio Casablanca
6940AM, 2250-0004. Casablanca movie theme stations, lots of period music including, Blue Skies, I'll Be Seeing You, Joltin' Joe DiMaggio, Boogie Woogie Bugle Boy, Begin the Beguine, Dream a Little Dream of Me, sounds like Ella Fitzgerald/Louis Armstrong version, Animal Crackers in My Soup, If I Didn't Care for You, Gene Kelly's Singing in the Rain and Paper Moon. Ended with Radio Casablanca ID, e-mail address, audio clip from Casablanca movie ("I am shocked, shocked!"), La Marseillaise, "...this is the beginning of a beautiful friendship" line from movie. SINPO - 33323. (Lex-TX)

Radio GaGa
6925 USB, 0015-0024.* Fair/good signal with female pop group. Two stations were on at the same time. Northwoods Radio was under Radio GaGa. It was hard to sort which program was being heard. At one time, there was a song about Deer Camp. Both station identifications were heard. (Majewski CT)

6925 USB, 1300-1335. Spooky sound to SSTV of pumpkin, a little different version of the familiar "Monster Mash", followed with several SSTV images in B&W8 mode. SINPO - 34333, good audio (Lex-TX)

6925 SSB, 1648. Station ID "Radio GaGa" (Friesen MB Canada)

Satan Radio
6925 USB, 2235-2255. Deep voice IDs, heavy metal music, SSTV Scottie DX mode of Ouija board w/ Satan Radio ID. SINPO 24232 (Lex-TX)

Scott Joplin Radio
6925 USB, 0306. Tuned in to piane music, sounded like it was from The Sting. Station ID and whistling at 0311, back to music. The Sting played at 0314, 0319 a weak announcement and gone. Strong for a while, I have a recording. PLS QSL (Foltz-CA)

6935 USB, 0152-0206 Ragtime piano, Scott Joplin Radio ID and whistle after "The Entertainer" SINPO - 23222, some fades to inaudible (Lex-TX)

Shay Man
6925 USB, *0248-0250.* SIO 242+. Brief transmission of a robot vox saying "testing, 1, 2, 3, this is Shay-Man." Same remarks delivered twice, and then off. Obviously a test of some sort.
(Zeller-OH)

WSTH/We're Stairway To Heaven
6899.95 AM, 2109-2126+. Stairway to Heaven by various artists. WSTH Your Stairway to Heaven Station. SIO=2+52 (Frodge-MI)

6900.0 AM, 2257. A station that boasts 100 different versions of Stairway to Heaven, Heard many versions including, country, opera,Elvis, Gilligan’s Island version Good. (Rohde)

Wolverine Radio
6930 USB, 0116. Barely audible signal, then 0118, what sounded similar to a scanner. Per FRN this was a SSTV image from Wolverine Radio. (Foltz-CA)
(FRW # 712, 713, 715, 717, 718)

Radio GaGa SSTV QSL courtesy of Christopher Friensen via Greg Majewski/FRW

Pirate activity from Free Radio Weekly

Today's pirate logs are a sampling from the last two Free Radio Weekly newsletters. Thanks to the FRW gang.
Gayle VH

All times UTC *sign-on sign-off *

Captain Morgan
6925USB 5/18 0100-0125* Fair to good signal. ID as Captain Morgan in the pirate zone. Transmitter had some drift to lower frequencies. Songs by Jimmy Hendrix, Buffalo Springfield and a parody song Hillary with other sixties and seventies music.
(Majewsk CT)

MAC Radio
6850.84AM,5-11-08,0130. Signal poor with static. Music tune "It's So Easy To Fall In Love" and others. (Hassig-IL)

Maple Leaf Radio
6925USB 5/11/8 23:21 SIO 423. SIgnal very noisy, but strong. "Clap for the Wolfman" to ID at 23:23, "No Time", "These Eyes". Station off at 23:31 with ID.(Fansome, PA)

Radio Appalachia
6924.8AM 5/11/8 00:15 SIO 231. Just above the noise with Jerry Garcia and bluegrass music. No ID noted, this is very similar to their last broadcast. Stooges “Quiet numbskulls, I'm broadcasting". Station ID at 00:42 (Fansome, PA)

The Wave
6925USB 0106-0116 5/18/08 SIO=141+. Program of rock mx including Riders on the Storm by the Doors, I'm Your Captain by Grand Funk Railroad, and other rock tunes. IDs during show by male announcer giving the Belfast address and mentioning the 6925 frequency. I was actually unid on this transmission, but it was followed by a repeat of the same show, where the IDs were definite. (Zeller-OH)

Voice of the Angry Bastard
6925.3 AM 05/14/08 23:43 SINPO 25332. Tuned in to hear "Hell Yeah, Your listening to the Voice of the Angry Bastard." Into very angry punk music. Gloria, faint signal in lots of noise. (Ragnar-MI)

Wolverine Radio
6925USB 05/15/08 00:10- SINPO 43434. Hey Hey Goodbye, Strange Love, Do You Realize, Into The Mystic. Strong signal with a slight AM hum of second station playing techno music. (Ragnar-MI)

6925USB 5/18 02:27 SIO 333. Been listening for quite a while now,program of Motown music, several IDs. "What's Going On", "Sitting on the Dock of the Bay" (Fansome, PA)
(Source: FRW #640 via Ed Insinger & FRW # 641 via Greg Majewski)

Additional pirate logs:

Channel Z
6925USB 0227-0233*. 25 May 08. English. First log of this station. The last few minutes of the bx. Music by Alice Cooper, “Elected”and The Sex Pistols, “Anarchy in the UK.” ID and uncopied email address. SIgnal fair to poor quality. (J Wood, TN)

International Shortwave
6925USB 0237-0249/0311-0315. 25 May 08. English. First log of this station. “Turn up the Radio” heard twice along with “Funky Town.” Several IDs. Signal fair-poor. (J Wood, TN)

Liquid Radio
6925,000.0 0227-0248, May 17, English, Poor signal quality. I was QSLed on this one, Transmitter power is 4 watts. (Rohde-OH/NASWA Flashsheet #329 via Rich d'Angelo)

Radio First Termer
6925USB 1740-1936. 25 May 08. English. First log of this station. Male announcer “Dave Rabbit” with show reminiscent of AFRTS Vietnam era broadcasts. IDs as “Radio First Termer, 69 megacycles.” music included items from Bloodrock, Led Zeppelin, Three Dog Night, Jimi Hendrix, and others. Faint but clear signal that improved in strength as the show progressed. Fair. (J. Wood, TN).

The Crystal Ship
5385.0 0052, May 12, English, No sign of them on 6.845, Obama sound bits, "Rock & Roll All Night" by KISS to "Cat Scratch Fever". Fair signal quality. (Rohde-OH/NASWA Flashsheet #329 via Rich d'Angelo)