a nice mix of what the pirate chasers are hearing lately. Thanks to Free Radio Weekly.
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Barnyard Radio
6930USB, 0410. SINPO 33343. Good music to animal sound effects. Sent reception report to request QSL. (Patalon, MD/FRW 752).2010, 0130. Rock music. ID at 0132. Signal S5. (Will, MD/FRW 752)
Capt. Morgan Radio
6924.1, 0115. Nice blues music. Reasonable signal with good sound and punchy audio amidst lots of static on the band. Captain Morgan IDs at 0124 and 0132. Started to fade at 0147, but still managing to come through the noise floor. Signal picked up again after ID at 0153. Noticeably lower than the nominal 6925 for the Captain this evening. (Will, MD/FRW 752)
Hard Tack Radio
6925USB, 0046-0115.* hardtackradio@gmail.com . Good signal, show celebrated the Blue and Gray through music of the Civil War. Many nice songs including the Star Spangled Banner played on a harmonica. I enjoyed the music. (Greg Majewski, CT/FRW 752)
Northwoods Radio
6925USB, 0129-0150, SINPO 45444. Played a song by Rainbow, Ohio by CSNY, and Ohio parody by the Marishashi, including Bozo and Scarfman references. Wolf call, ID, CW and off at 0150. (Ross Comeau-Andover, MA/FRW 753)
Outhouse Radio
6925, 545, SIO 444. Some fading, probably double-sideband/surpressed carrier. Motorhead doing "Jumping Jack Flash", ID just about 0545, anguished country music (Al Fansome, PA/FRW 752)
Radio Boston
6950, 1230, SINPO 25433. Charlie Loudenboomer talking about Melanie, and the song Lay Down. Mailbag segment with a letter from Harry Smith, Bill, Woody, John, Bill, weak but good signal in low static made for good listening. Show #2 2010. (Ragnar/FRW 753)
6950.6, *0156-0251. Charlie Loudenboomer hosting second show of 2010, reading listener e-mails, offering Scenes of Stoneham QSLs, and playing rock music. Good signal. (D’Angelo-PA/FRW 754)
Barnyard Radio
6930USB, 0410. SINPO 33343. Good music to animal sound effects. Sent reception report to request QSL. (Patalon, MD/FRW 752).2010, 0130. Rock music. ID at 0132. Signal S5. (Will, MD/FRW 752)
Capt. Morgan Radio
6924.1, 0115. Nice blues music. Reasonable signal with good sound and punchy audio amidst lots of static on the band. Captain Morgan IDs at 0124 and 0132. Started to fade at 0147, but still managing to come through the noise floor. Signal picked up again after ID at 0153. Noticeably lower than the nominal 6925 for the Captain this evening. (Will, MD/FRW 752)
Hard Tack Radio
6925USB, 0046-0115.* hardtackradio@gmail.com . Good signal, show celebrated the Blue and Gray through music of the Civil War. Many nice songs including the Star Spangled Banner played on a harmonica. I enjoyed the music. (Greg Majewski, CT/FRW 752)
Northwoods Radio
6925USB, 0129-0150, SINPO 45444. Played a song by Rainbow, Ohio by CSNY, and Ohio parody by the Marishashi, including Bozo and Scarfman references. Wolf call, ID, CW and off at 0150. (Ross Comeau-Andover, MA/FRW 753)
Outhouse Radio
6925, 545, SIO 444. Some fading, probably double-sideband/surpressed carrier. Motorhead doing "Jumping Jack Flash", ID just about 0545, anguished country music (Al Fansome, PA/FRW 752)
Radio Boston
6950, 1230, SINPO 25433. Charlie Loudenboomer talking about Melanie, and the song Lay Down. Mailbag segment with a letter from Harry Smith, Bill, Woody, John, Bill, weak but good signal in low static made for good listening. Show #2 2010. (Ragnar/FRW 753)
6950.6, *0156-0251. Charlie Loudenboomer hosting second show of 2010, reading listener e-mails, offering Scenes of Stoneham QSLs, and playing rock music. Good signal. (D’Angelo-PA/FRW 754)
Radio First Termer
6930USB, 0000. Signal fair-poor S7 max S5 noise floor. Eerie story of extraterrestials in Middle East as told by US soldier stationed there, strange phone call about renaming a US city "New Saigon." Blond making frantic on-star call saying she locked herself inside (yes inside) her car and the keys outside, then went into Vietnam topics, etc, gave website of radiofirsttermer.com (not an email address) to look at, still on at 0113. (Hassig-IL/FRW 752)
Radio GaGa
6925USB, 1252, SINPO 35433. GaGa signed on directly after Ronin sign off. Power to the people.(Ragnar/FRW 752)
Radio Ronin Shortwave
6950, 0300-0335. Blues or blues-rock just audible, with RRS ID and e-mail contact info at 0335z, mention of logging to FRN. Listening on barefoot Magnavox D2935 portable indoors. Dunno why but this rig seems to work better than anything else I have with AM pirates. Fair peaks occasionally, rapid fluttering fades. (Lex, Gopher Stomp, TX/FRW 753)
The Crystal Ship
6862, 0256, SIO 534. Lots of deep fading, "It's My Life", "Kids in America", "No More Nerds." Very good signal tonight best I've heard TCS in a long time (Al Fansome, PA/FRW 752)
WEAK Radio
6930USB, 0404-0418.+ Non-top 40 rock tunes, ads for Hotdog soup from Kwik Pik. Blowfish Ballads album from Whale Songs, B'casters Anonymous, Epicenter weight loss, Gargantua Mall.ID at 0416+. SIO=3+34 with occasional machine gun burst interference. (Harold Frodge,MI/FRW 752)
WLDJ
6925USB, 0256, SIO 322. Lots of interference, "this is a transmission test, this is a transmission test, please leave your feedback at ???? Radio". Local QRM and QRN, plus what sounds like some hum in the signal, making it hard to identify what he's saying, British male voice, Tom Petty "Last DJ" at 03:12, "Day After Day", "Baby Blue." Hey thanks for this one! One of my favorite songs. Station ID at 03:31, female voice saying something about taking request from an IRC channel, but impossible to make out the channel name (Al Fansome, PA/FRW 752)
Wolverine Radio
6950USB, 1045, SIO 545. SIgnal fading and some static crashes, "Heat Wave", "Love to See the Rain in the Summertime", "Summertime Blues", "Suddenly Last Summer."(Al Fansome, PA/FRW 752)
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6930USB, 0000. Signal fair-poor S7 max S5 noise floor. Eerie story of extraterrestials in Middle East as told by US soldier stationed there, strange phone call about renaming a US city "New Saigon." Blond making frantic on-star call saying she locked herself inside (yes inside) her car and the keys outside, then went into Vietnam topics, etc, gave website of radiofirsttermer.com (not an email address) to look at, still on at 0113. (Hassig-IL/FRW 752)
Radio GaGa
6925USB, 1252, SINPO 35433. GaGa signed on directly after Ronin sign off. Power to the people.(Ragnar/FRW 752)
Radio Ronin Shortwave
6950, 0300-0335. Blues or blues-rock just audible, with RRS ID and e-mail contact info at 0335z, mention of logging to FRN. Listening on barefoot Magnavox D2935 portable indoors. Dunno why but this rig seems to work better than anything else I have with AM pirates. Fair peaks occasionally, rapid fluttering fades. (Lex, Gopher Stomp, TX/FRW 753)
The Crystal Ship
6862, 0256, SIO 534. Lots of deep fading, "It's My Life", "Kids in America", "No More Nerds." Very good signal tonight best I've heard TCS in a long time (Al Fansome, PA/FRW 752)
WEAK Radio
6930USB, 0404-0418.+ Non-top 40 rock tunes, ads for Hotdog soup from Kwik Pik. Blowfish Ballads album from Whale Songs, B'casters Anonymous, Epicenter weight loss, Gargantua Mall.ID at 0416+. SIO=3+34 with occasional machine gun burst interference. (Harold Frodge,MI/FRW 752)
WLDJ
6925USB, 0256, SIO 322. Lots of interference, "this is a transmission test, this is a transmission test, please leave your feedback at ???? Radio". Local QRM and QRN, plus what sounds like some hum in the signal, making it hard to identify what he's saying, British male voice, Tom Petty "Last DJ" at 03:12, "Day After Day", "Baby Blue." Hey thanks for this one! One of my favorite songs. Station ID at 03:31, female voice saying something about taking request from an IRC channel, but impossible to make out the channel name (Al Fansome, PA/FRW 752)
Wolverine Radio
6950USB, 1045, SIO 545. SIgnal fading and some static crashes, "Heat Wave", "Love to See the Rain in the Summertime", "Summertime Blues", "Suddenly Last Summer."(Al Fansome, PA/FRW 752)
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