Free Radio Cafe: Pirate Radio On Shortwave & FM

8/26/12, 6950 USB, 0130z: Wolverine with booming signal, seems to be a summer theme.  "Heat Wave", Eddie Cochran "Summertime Blues", Wolverine Radio ID, "One Summer Night", "(Love Is Like A) Heat Wave" - sounds like Martha & The Vandellas version, "In the Heat of the Night" Ray Charles, "Summer in t...

8/25/12, 6925 USB, 0125z-0155z: CCR tunes "Who'll Stop the Rain", "Have You Ever Seen Rain", Eddie Rabbit "I Love A Rainy Night", SRV "Texas Flood", unid gal singing "Keep on the Sunny Side". 0150z: Extended male computer voice ID for Weather Control Radio. Very good signal to east coast web tuner. ...

8/19/12, 6925 USB, 0515z: Unid station relaying what sounds like live/realtime web feed for a Fargo, ND, FM station. Mention of Bob Dylan and some Dylan music, current time of 12:27 AM at 0527z. 0531z: Announcer talking about in-studio recording of song just played? Difficult copy due to fluttery pe...

8/19/12, 6925, 0454z: Terry Jacks "Seasons In The Sun", Elvis "In The Ghetto" 0458z: "This has been Radio Ga-Ga, broadcasting where the (trees?) are just the right height." Partially obscured by OTHR. 0500z: Shout out from Blue Ocean Radio to Radio Ga-Ga, listeners Fair to good via midwest tuner, no...

8/19/12, 6925 USB, 0308z: WPOD back on, Job rolling papers ad, spoof version of "Devil Went Down to Georgia" with weed theme.
0318z: "I'll Never Smoke Weed With Willie Again", off without ID - not sure if tech problems.

8/19/12, 6925 USB, 0134z: Van Halen "Hot For Teacher" 0139z: Mr. Microphone sketch, WPOD ID, Chuck Berry "Hail Hail Rock 'n' Roll" 0142z: WPOD "White Punks On Dope" ID, "Hillbilly Hooker" movie trailer 0143z: Ramones "Rock 'n' Roll High School" 0147z: Alice Cooper "School's Out" 0150z: Off after WPO...

8/13/12, 6930 USB, 0530z: Harry Belafonte "Banana Boat Song", Blue Ocean Radio ID, more calypso music. 0543z: BOR ID from op, shout-out to moi, "You're listening to Harry Belafonte on Blue Ocean Radio", playing the 1956 "Calypso" album. 0611z: BOR ID, gmail contact info, some dance-worthy fiddle mus...

8/13/12, 7425 USB: 0405z (approx): Immediately after sign off of TCS baseball theme show, into some version of Leonard Cohen's "Hallelujah", some orchestral instrumentals. Seems to be similar signal strength and audio, not sure it's same station however. 0450z: Alison Krauss "Down to the River to Pr...

8/13/12, 7425 USB: Listening since 0300z, hearing TCS baseball theme show, Bruce Springsteen "Glory Days" at 0315z, Abbott & Costello "Who's On First" routine, "Joltin' Joe DiMaggio". Good signal via east coast web tuner (too much local QRN at home tonight due to regional storms). 0331z: TCS relay n...

8/12/12, 6925 USB, 0355z: Waylon Jennings "Good Hearted Woman", Jimmy Buffett "A Pirate Looks At 40" 0410z: Cold Play 0433z: Lincolnshire Poacher theme 0436z: SSTV, no copy here 0437z: Red Mercury Labs ID Some odd choppy artifacts in audio, hard to describe due to heavy QRN. Not sure whether these w...

8/12/12, 15080 AM, 0040z: Just tuned in to hear Lady Gaga "Pokerface" with ute QRM that nearly matches the song's rhythm. 0043z: Radio True North ID 0055z: Chaka Khan "I Feel For You", RTN moved to 15090 0059z: RTN ID and email contact info, Cold Play song Roller coaster peaks/fades. Significant imp...

8/12/12, 6925 USB, 0200z: Wolverine booming in on 6925 USB via east coast and midwest remote tuners and on the home receiver. 0209z: Roy Orbison "Crying" 0228z: Blind Faith/Stevie Winwood, Joe Cocker "Cry Me A River", Jethro Tull "Cry Me A Song" 0239z: Janis Joplin "Cry, Baby" 0315z: After sign-off ...

8/7/12, 6925, 0735z: Right after Blue Ocean Radio, another station with some jazzy music, then bluegrass version of "Sympathy For The Devil". Not sure if Eccentric Shortwave on after QSO with BOR a little while ago.

8/7/12, 6930 AM, 0640z: Just tuned into 6930 AM, hearing some blues. 0643z: George Jones "Choices" 0652z: John Lee Hooker "One Bourbon, One Scotch, One Beer" 0704z: Alison Krauss 0720z: Harry Belafonte "Beetlejuice Boat Song" 0722z: Blue Ocean Radio ID 0730z: Sign off ID, brief QSO with another op, ...

Assuming I'm hearing BOR on 6930 USB - lots of wailing bluesy rock guitar, lyrics with "freedom", just not quite punching through the QRN. 8/3/12, 6930 USB, 0412z: Been listening for awhile, just started punching through well enough to copy ID for Cool AM being relayed by Blue Ocean Radio. 0422z: CC...

7/29/12, 6950, 0201z: Sam Cooke "Bring It On Home", other great R&B tunes, very good signal to east coast remote tuner (home receiver unplugged at the moment). 0207z: S&G "Homeward Bound", seems to be a home theme show. 0225z: Brewer & Shipley "Can't Go Home", Wolverine Radio ID 0244z Fine Young Can...

Same heard on 6900 AM, 7/30/12, via east coast remote tuner. Very good peaks with some fades to barely audible.
0307z: Red Ryder "Lunatic Fringe" followed by Radio Whatever and DJ Sennheiser (sp?), David Bowie/Freddy Mercury "Under Pressure".
0315z: Sign-off with email contact info.

Same heard via east coast web tuner, good signal from Captain Morgan with songs noted above.

7/3/12, 6925 USB, 0045z: Right now, intermittent CW and "Hello, Itasca" voice transmissions for this annual show. Only fair at the moment, hopefully will improve. 0059z: CW again, signal improving. 0100z: Woman's voice "...on the hour and half hour on 3105..."? Rough copy due to heavy local RFI, but...

7/6/12, 6925, 0427z: Just heard "Peepee Vagina Radio" ID in kid's voice, and some music I don't recognize. Just barely audible through heavy local RFI, no way to tell whether there's more than one station on. 0440z: Still hearing music I can't copy well enough to identify, plus Peepee Vagina Radio k...