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 radio monitoring

All times UTC // parallel frequency *sign-on sign-off*

Euro-Pirate
6870, Radio Playback International, 2215-2230, April 5. Techno-pop and Oldies music. Canned ID at 2226. Weak signal but fair level on peaks. (Brian Alexander, PA)

USA Pirates
6925 USB, Voice of Doom, 0215-0224*, April 5, Constant talk by man. Too weak to understand what he was talking about but did catch an ID at sign off. (Brian Alexander, PA)

6925USB, Blue Ridge Radio, 2330-2345, April 4. Bluegrass music to ID. Weak signal. (Brian Alexander, PA)

6923.47 USB, KPR, *0231-0250, April 5. Sign on with Mr Sandman song. “KPR, we rock the Rockies” IDs. Music by The Beatles, Shangri-La’s, Ritchie Valens, Beach Boys & others.
Fair signal. (Brian Alexander, PA)

6925 USB, Dead Cat Radio, *0643-0734*, April 5. sign on with “Lonely Boy” song. Pop/rock music by Eagles, Ted Nugent, Belinda Carlisle and others. Cat meowing & ID at 0734 sign off. Strong, Very good signal. (Brian Alexander, PA)

6925USB, Blue Ridge Radio 2330-2348, SINPO 34433 Sign on with ID and banjo music.
reported that he is broadcasting from the Blue ridge mountains of Virginia and gave email address of blueridgeradio@gmail.com (Ragnar, MI/FRW #687)

6925USB, Barnyard Radio 2252-0037 3/29-30/09 SIO=222-. Very lengthy bcst lasting almost two hours. Announcer said that he was getting drunk, and it sounded like he was as time
went by. Also IDed as the Tijuana Donkey Show. Considerable profane talk directed at Jennifer and other women. The announcer was not happy with these women. Program of rock and punk rock music with the drunken profane rants by the announcer. Occasional cows moo and sheep baa noises. Gave only one clear ID at 0022 in almost two hours of broadcasting. Kidney Stone Cowboy segment. Anouncer went on and on with his profane remarks, but he was apparently too drunk to give an address. (Zeller-OH/FRW # 686)

6925USB, Gypsy Radio 0009-0020, Lots of static crashes here tonight, Accordion music Id & gmail address but lost in noise here, Mention of his wife Olga, accordion music with male vocals continue, Roll out the Barrel, 0019 hard ID This is Radio Gypsy, good bye for now. Poor (Rohde, OH/FRW # 687)

Liquid Radio
6925USB, Liquid Radio 0009-0020. Lots of static crashes here tonight, Accordion music ID and gmail address but lost in noise here, Mention of his wife Olga, accordion music with male vocals continue, Roll out the Barrel, 0019 hard ID This is Radio Gypsy, good bye for now. Poor (Rohde-OH/FRW #687)

6925AM, MAC Shortwave, SIO=454, 2157-2243*, Johnny Guitarman Show, (Silvi, Ohio)
MAC- 6924.8 AM 2157-2254* 3/28/09 SIO=242. Some classical music at sign-on into old Radio
Prague interval signal as usual. Nick Danger Firesign Theater sketch and a prgm of rock music
including Van Morrison and other artists. Usual address of macshortwave@yahoo.com . A Pirate's Life's for Me song and USA national anthem by band at QRT. (George Zeller,OH/FRW #686)

6975.2AM Radio Free Euphoria (presumed) *?2325-2330. Rock tune. SIO=3+52 at 1st & took a dive at 2330. ID per FRN posts. (Frodge-MI/FRW #686) Free Radio Euphoria 6875 AM 23:36- 03/08/09 SINPO 24322 Jay Clips from WBCQ. RFE ID from Capt. Ganja at 23:37. country song. monologue from Ganja saying hello to everyone and saying that Moe was the inspiration for the new show. (Ragnar, MI/FRW #686)

6925USB, Radio Ga Ga 1247-1302*. We Must Party Now, rap music, Radio GaGa song, Bad Boy. Noted 1302 test transmission radio GaGa, several times, off at 1302. Fair signal quality. (Rohde, OH/FRW # 687)

6925USB, Thinking Man Radio *2314-2334*, Many IDs, music, discussing his thoughts, (Silvi, Ohio) Thinking Man Radio, 3-28-09, 6.925USB, 2316-2335*, SIO 242. Heard Head East, Aerosmith, "Pretty Woman" and "Mr. Roboto." thanks for fast e-qsl. (McArdle-OK/FRW #686)

6925, 1625-1643. WBNY Radio. SIO=353, Easter show (Silvi, Ohio) *2006-2050*, 6924.9AM. SIO=232-. Commander Bunny Easter special program. Peter Rabbit and Peter Cottontail songs. Commander Bunny explains why we have eggs at Easter. Segment of shopping with Al Fansome at the Mall. Announcer's explanation of why repts must include return postage
or else there will be no QSL. Rolling Stones' Jumping Jack Flash toward the end. Belfast
address. (George Zeller, OH/FRW # 687)

Changes from Radio Joystick
As DJ Charlie Prince is moving to the south german spa town Kreuznach (Rhineland-Palatinate)
on 9th of April 2009 the address of RADIO JOYSTICK is changing also
(eff. 2009-04-09)

RADIO JOYSTICK
Postfach (Post Office Box) 23 31
55512 Bad Kreuznach
ALLEMAGNE

Last but not least: Everyone who writes in via snail mail will receive on of the very new RADIO JOYSTICK all-weather-stickers, 7 x 5 cm small, 4coloured, showing the movie set "Popeye Village" on Malta - and the new address!

(DJ Charlie Prince
Radio Joystick
Postfach 23 31
55512 Bad Kreuznach, ALLEMAGNE
Fax: +49 1212 511301202 Cell.: +49 179 3615394
http://www.myspace.com/djchapri http://www.radiojoystick.de/
(HCDX)

Pirate documentary online
Part One of the documentary When Pirates Ruled the Airwaves is now available for listen again
or download in two separate files. Covers the radio scene before the offshore pirates and ends with the shooting of Reg Calvert.

Much of the documentary consists of recent interviews with Tony Prince, Paul Burnett, Roger Day, Johnnie Walker, Dick Palmer, Emperor Rosko and Tony Blackburn so some fresh perspectives of the era.

Part Two will talk about 1967, into the 70's, 80's and beyond.

http://www.smoothradiolondon.co.uk/presenters-shows/smooth-documentaries-gfl6/listen-again-smooth-documentaries/ycnjzzsg/
(Mike Barraclough, UK/worldxclub)