Blog Logs - pirate radio

More bizarre and weird from the world of pirate radio. Todays logs are a sampling from recent Free Radio Weekly newsletters.

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Big Dog Radio
6925USB, 0020-0031* *0037-0100 SIO=141/242. Program of rock music such as Steppenwolf with occasional barking dog with the IDs. Seemed off for six minutes, but then came back with more classic rock by Jefferson Airplane and others. Mentioned Sunday, August 23, 2009, which was not today's date. Asked for repts to both FRW and FRN. Very weak at first, although audible on peaks. Better level by the close. (Zeller, OH/FRW 707)

6925 USB, 2215, SINPO 35333. Rocky Mountain Way. Audio is on 6925 USB, with a bad hetrodyne on 6924.7 LSB ? Big Dog ID with dog bark at 2220.(Ragnar/FRW 707)

Channel Z
6925, (presumed) 2357-0100.+ Music by Cat Stevens, Moody Blues, Jefferson Airplane, The Grateful Dead, Sergio Mendez and Brazil 66, and others. Male announcer with extensive comments on the music between sets. Partial IDs at 0014 and 0026. Signal fair-ggod. (Wood, TN/FRW 709)

KXKVI
6924.75Am, 0033-0048. SIO 233. Station ID as, "from the deepest recess of a warped mind KXKVI Interplanetary Radio" No address given. (Smith, OH/FRW 707)

MAC Shortwave
6850.69AM, 0046-0055.+ Paul Starr Show with popular oldies. Email as, macshortwave@yahoo.com . Greetings to FRN (FRW likes greetings too!). SIO 353. (H Frodge, MI/FRW 707)

Outhouse Radio
outhouseradio@gmail.com
6940 USB, 0303-0332.+ SINPO 35433. Esso ad and parody songs, including Behind Red Eyes. Also techno song Operator. Tuned out during a long radio play. (McClintock, OH/FRW 706)

6925USB, 1706-1728.+ Signal weak 1706-08 at QRN level and seems to be going off/on. Tuned back at 1719 to find SIO 253 signal with wide variety of tunes cut short. Magnificent Seven theme at 1723+. Station ID. (H. Frodge, MI/FRW 707)

Playback International Radio (Euro pirate)
6220AM, 2329-2354.+ Poor signal due to static. Female announcer with a British accent. Pop music, Crimison and Clover and a John Melencammp tune. (Majewski CT/FRW 707)

Radio Ga Ga
6925USB, 0029-0035. Fair signal just caught end with Jim Hendrix's Star Spangled Banner, then SSTV. (Majewski CT) 2310-2323*, 6925/USB. SIO 242. Program of rock music with an anti-war slant, including Country Joe and the Fish. Digital SSTV transmisison for the last two minutes, followed by a clear announcer ID. (Zeller, OH/FRW 706)

Radio Mushroom
mailto:radiomushroom@gmail.com
6925USB, 0120. SINPO 35323. Love the One Your With song. Fast signal fades. (Ragnar/FRW 706)

Undercover Radio
6925USB, 0005-0045. Fair signal, Repeat of the 20th Anniversary show with the story of putting up an antenna in an apartment building. Dr. Benway gave undercoverradio@gmail.com for reports (Majewski CT/FRW 709)

WEAK/Weak Radio
6925USB, 1934-1949.+ Wide variety of tunes of female rap, non-Elton John version of Rocket Man and X-rated rap. Station ID at 1949. SIO 152 with peaks at 253. Tough copy, thought it was in AM at 1st but only copyable in USB on peaks. (Frodge-MI)

WMPR
6925AM, 1335-1352. Fair signal for show of Techno music with WMPR identification at 1346 (Majewski CT) 6955AM, 2322-2357.* Good signal with the usual music. ID was given as WMPR by male and 6955 by female. (Majewski CT/FRW 709)

Pirates Week with Radnar Daneskjold www.piratesweek.info/

Pirates in the news this week include a story about Pirate Cat Radio. Atlantic 2000 International will be on the air today, Radio 99 has a new URL, and Dr. Tim caught several pirates making the hop across the pond. ‭Select postings from the Free Radio Network, HF Underground and note stations logged per the Free Radio Weekly Check out KXZI ‭Off Air Recordings include the stations of: Outhouse Radio, Eccentric Shortwave, 9-12 Radio, WMDR and MAC. ‭Background music from the Podsafe Music Network by the artists; Leaving Richmond, Sinfonia Electronique, Saro Tribastone, and Mario Tomic.

Blog Logs - pirate radio

Selected pirate loggings from the fine folks at Free Radio Weekly.

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Captain Morgan
6924.7USB, 2314-2345, SIO 242/242. Program of rock music with their signature Twilight Zone theme song clips here and there. Male announcer voice hard to copy until I figured out that the center freq was 300 Hz below 6925. Weakened at times, making copy difficult. (Zeller, OH/FRW #697)

Cat Butt Radio
6925USB, 0122. Signal good-fair with static. Audio problems and dropouts. Female DJ, punk rock by female bands. (Hassig,IL?FRW #697)6925USB, 2122-2132. SINPO 35433. Catt Butt Radio followed station XXP sign off. (Ragnar/FRW #697)

Jack Buck Radio
6925USB (tentative) 0002-0010, SIO 242. Program of rock music. Announcer's ID at open and close of programming. It sounded like Jack Buck to me, or similar. FRN people were calling this one Cat Butt. The actual ID is unclear. (Zeller, OH/FRW #697)

Radio Casablanca
6940AM, 0214-0334. Very entertaining program of period music related to classic movie Casablanca. SINPO 32333 with good audio, fairly steady signal with some fades and occasional interference from local RFI (bad streetlight in my neighborhood). Blue Skiy (confirmed by Radio Casablanca via e-mail), I'm In Heaven (artist unknown), Frank Sinatra's Fly Me To The Moon. Positive ID as Radio movie Casablanca. Ended with tunes La Marseillaise and Bogey's line from Casablanca, "This could be the beginning of a beautiful friendship." (Jenkins, TX/RW #697)

Radio Dismuke
6925USB, 0253, SIO 232. Signal just above the noise, been on for at least a half hour now. Station ID at 0254, but couldn't make it out. Another ID and off at about 0313. ID from Evil Elvis on #pirateradio, corrected by L Cee on the FRN www.dismuke.org/radio (Fansome, PA/FRW #698)

Radio Gaga
6935USB, 0117-0145+. Fair signal. Show started after a SS TV broadcast. Played several Carrs tunes like, Let the Good Times Roll, and Jim Hendrix's Third Rock from the Sun. Station ID given in CW. (Majewski CT/FRW #698)

Radio Mushroom
6925USB, *0112-0138.* SIO 232. Modest level in static. Program of rock music that including Bowie's Suffragette City and also Radar Love. I had some trouble copying the announced ID and address, but there was a clear ID at QRT by announcer. (Zeller, OH/FRW #698)

The Crystal Ship
5285.3AM, 0226-0237+, SIO 343. The Poet with a program of rock music by Yes and Hendrix. One military marching skit in the middle of the show. Good level. Had to go to bed before the program was over. (Zeller, OH/FRW #697)

Voice of the Robots
6925USB, 0021-0043, SIO 333. Station ID and music. ID at 0024, and (?) rap-like song, more music at 0027. Station ID at 0030 in robot-like voice to gmail adress a couple times(?). Hard to tell but thought he also said time is wasting, then some SSTV or QRM from SSTV?. Music at 0031, and 0043 ID and QRT. (Silvi, Ohio/FRW #697)

We Monkey Radio
6925USB, 2120. SINPO 35333. WMR coming in with some slight and fast fading. Program repeated at 2135 (Ragnar/FRW #698)

Red Rhino Radio
6925USB, 0038-0102+, SIO 322. Radio ID at 0058 redrhinoradio@gmail.com. Most of the stations music distorted, but much cleaner after the 0050 SSTV, and seemed to drop from 6925.1 to 6925.0. Tough copy. Per e-mail from RRR, the SSTV was not them, so probably the main source of the apparent distortion. (Frodge, MI/FRW #697)

Blog Logs - pirate radio

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Pirate (Euro)
6268 Radio Altrex 0915 with oldies. No announcements.I emailed them and they said they were a Dutch pirate and were running 35 watts into an inversted V antenna. Via a remote receiver in the Netherlands.(Hans Johnson, FL/Cumbre DX May 10)

North America
6925USB KBLU. 0305-0311*. 11 May 08. English. Electric Blues. Sign-off announcements with a computerized lady's voice mentioning several noted Pirate DXers and giving an ID. Good. (Joe Wood, TN).

6854.2, The Crystal Ship,0057-0120+, May 5, political talk. ID. // 5385.49 - both frequencies fair. (Brian Alexander, PA)

6850.0 MAC Radio, 0035-0135, May 11, EE. Hard Days Night, The Who, Secret Agent Man,The Paul Star Show. Noise running back and forth between 4 and 3 Good. (Rohde-OH/NASWA Flasheet # 328 via Rich d'Angelo, PA)

6924USB Maple Leaf Radio 5/3/8 21:10 SIO 333, a bit noisy, national anthem, "C-A-N-A-D-A", music presumed Canadian. Station ID at 21:12 (Fansome, PA)

6925USB Maple Leaf Radio 2337-2352 5/2/08 SIO=454. S/on w/O Canada NA by band, into a program of rock and folk music withJoni Mitchell, Neil Young, and others. Only talk was a quick announcers' ID at QRT, with no national anthrm. I did not copy the ID well, but subsequently on the FRN the operator came on and confirmed that this was him. (Zeller-OH/Free Radio Weekly #639 via Ed Kusalik, Canada)

6925USB Radio Jamba International 05/09/08 23:10-:34 SINPO 35443. Insane in the Membrane, Ghost Riders in the Sky, Johnny Cash's Hurt, Jimi Hendrix's Star Spangled Banner (Ragnar-MI) 6925USB 2306 tune in with ID's by male and female, into music including "Ghost Riders In The Sky." Also some C & W music. SIO = 454, nice signal. (Insinger, NJ/Free Radio Weekly #639 via Ed Kusalik, Canada)

6925USB Red Radio 5/4 0117+ This was a confusing show with id as the Real Voice of America with mention of Uncle Bob (locked in a closet) and Pyscko. Man and woman were announcing and talking about South Park. Uncle Bob was in the background. Played a song with Yah Yah. FinallyID as Red Radio with Pyscko as a Muse. (Majewski CT/Free Radio Weekly #639 via Ed Kusalik, Canada))

6925USB Voice of Capt. Morgan. Heard from 0203-0210 on 28 April. Male announcer with repeated IDs "Six point nine two five, Voice of Captain Morgan". Aired various rock and pop cuts. Fairly good signal, but audio was sullied by the use of SSB which, unfortunately, now seems to be ubiquitous among pirate broadcasters.
(Parker-PA/NASWA Flasheet # 328 via Rich d'Angelo, PA)