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Saturday, January 26, 2008

Blog Logs - pirate stations


The following logs represent a sampling of pirates logged from ther last few weeks. Thanks to Free Radio Weekly.
Gayle VH

All times UTC
Ann Hoffier Radio 6950USB 01/06 2132-2136* Ann singing live songs like "White Wedding Day" and others. Wished the pirate radiocommunity a "Happy New Year". An excellent sing. (Majewski CT)


Bi-Polar Radio 6925 USB 01/20/08 23:13- SIO 323 Sign on with CW & ID into mellow music such as Air Supply, wildest dreams, Listen to your heart. quiet signal in medium static (Ragnar-MI)

Captain Morgan 6925USB 12/29/07 2137-2210 SIO=343/222. Program of largely rock music withsome Outer Limits TV audio noises mixed in here and there. Modest level inlocal QRN. Mentioned the FRN, but otherwise gave no QSL addr that Iheard. (Zeller-OH)

Elvis Birthday Station 6925.1/USB, 2221-2222:25*, 8-Jan; Jail HouseRock & off after, Happy Birthday To Me. Weak. (Frodge-MI)ELVIS 6925 usb 01/08/08 21:23-36 SIO 233Elvis Birthday Broadcast, viva Las Vegas, Jail House Rock, (Ragnar-MI)

Grasscutters Radio 1925-2024*, 6925/AM; SIO 454 to open but varied greatly. Heard Grasscutter from 1925-1940 or so, then what sounded like Sunshine but she was severely QRMd off and on until 2020. Sunshine ID at 2015 followed by Neil Young song. Clear Sunshine ID at 2023. (Silvi, Ohio)

Mystery Radio 6220AM 01/05 2355-0352+ A nice long show until conditions changed.Signal was good to poor. Music played was techno, 80's disco and funk.(Majewski CT) 6220AM 01/06 2054-2132* Usual music show. When off at 2132.(Majewski CT)

Radio Jamba International 2150-2205, 6950 USB. Kinks's Destroyer, clips from Lumpy Gravy about Kracker being paranoid; off with SSTV (Ragnar-MI)

Undercover Radio 6925 USB 01/06/08 16:40-17:19 SIO 344 S5New Years show 2008. Dr. Benway talks about his various adventures & talks about broadcasting from way far out there. speech fromWilliam S Burroughs, Dr. Benway on live at the end thanking the posters on the FRN. repeated at 21:00 (Ragnar-MI)

Voice of the Bat 0033-0054, 6925/USB; SIO=141141+. Miserable signal, & what appeared to be an ID at 0035. 1940s pop and discussions by an OM ancr, but the level was so poor, copy was difficult. Copied no address. I haven't heard this one before. (Zeller-OH)

Voice of William Shatner 0000, 6925/USB; good/clear, rock song with choir, sed The Voice Of William Shatner several times. (Hassig-IL)1/14, 0001-0011, 6925/U; SIO 232 S3 Star Trek intro, VoWS ID, William Shatner "singing" Rocket man, (Ragnar-MI)

WBNY 6925 USB 01/05/08 21:28-21:50 SIO 444 S32008 New Years Show. T shirt ad, presidential election year of the rabbit, ontop of spaghetti, repeated on 6955 am 17:00 utc (Ragnar-MI)

WMPR 6925AM 01/01/08 1955-2014. English. First log of the New Year. Technomusic with interval signal at 2010. S5/F-G. (Wood, TN). 6925Am 01/01/08 2015, caught the WMPR ID fair signal (Majewski CT)

WTCR, Twentith Century Radio 6925USB 12/28/07 *1528-1604* SIO=242. Usual slogan of 20th Century Radio but this program was a mixture of old novelty rock and country Christmas tunes, somewhat out of their normal format. Belfast addr. (Zeller-OH) 6950 01/01/08 0422-0542* Female vocalists followed b Rolling Stones,Elvis Costello and others. Fair signal (Majewski CT)
(Source: FRW # 621, 622, 623, 624)