Free Radio Cafe: Pirate Radio On Shortwave & FM

Good signal here but rough copy due to heavy local RFI.
0459z: INXS "Disappear" punching through local RFI.
0550z: INXS "Listen Like Thieves", RML ID, still strong here at home.
0635z: Said band may be going long for some listeners, shout out to Bender. Still coming in very well here in Texas.

4/21/12, 6920 USB, 0333z: Dr. Benway with Undercover Radio ID, sounds live. Good signal peaks, lots of fades here. 0338z: Shout outs to folks logging this broadcast. 0340z: Leonard Cohen "Everybody Knows" 0359z: ID, "my first new show in four years". 0405z: Thanking listeners for patience in waiting...

4/20/12, 6924.5 AM, 0400z (approx): Stevie Nicks "Stop Dogging My Fart Around" & "Gypsy", into a James Bond movie theme set, Sheena Easton "For Your Eyes Only", (Shirley Bassey?) "Goldfinger", "Diamonds Are Forever", Paul McCartney "Live and Let Die", medley of themes from various singers, Man With ...

4/20/12, 6925 USB, 0211z: "Spirit in the Sky", very tinny and distorted audio.  A few restarts, then nothing.  Maybe signal/audio check.   Off-air recording here . 0230z: Back, music I can't identify, station ID in kid's voice, sounded like TTX Radio or ET Radio, but really tough copy due to extreme...

4/20/12, 6925 USB, 0045z: RML just fired up with clear ID and music (sounds like Chris Cornell vocals, not sure which band) 0058z: More Chris Cornell, "Fell On Black Days" with Soundgarden. 0103z: Says he has no web connection tonight, no way to check signal reports.  (Where's that pirate radio homi...

4/19/12, 6930 USB, 0156z: Music I can't identify - very thin, pinched audio and hard to tune to pitch. 0210z: Voice of Captain Ron ID, chat with someone in the studio.  Still very difficult to copy.  Sounds more like a recording than live. 0214z: Oops, I'm wrong, it's live.  Captain Ron shout out to...

QSL received from Turtlehead Radio for 4/15/12 show.  Thanks!  We nightowls and insomniacs appreciate the radio company.

4/18/12, 6925 LSB, 0612z: Air check?  Just an audio clip from movie Tropic Thunder.  Never go full retard. 0631z: Heee's baaack... same Tropic Thunder audio clip, clear IDs for Turtlehead Radio, music. 0641z: More Tropic Thunder, Culture Club "Karma Chameleon" 0649z: Edwyn Collins "A Girl Like You"....

4/17/12, 6925 USB, 0200z (approx): Just tuned in to hear some AC/DC, Red Mercury Labs ID, "Givin' the Dog a Bone". 0215z: Shout outs to loggers from various forums and email logs, mentioned the dipole hanging from the yardarm. "We were boarded by real pirates today." 0225z: Mentioned my signal repor...

4/16/12, 6925 USB, 0455z: Bruce Hornsby "The Way It Is", live on mic ID "This is the Dr Who and friends radio hour", monologue theme seems to be generally about personal independence and responsibility, government intrusion, etc. 0512z: "Once you start feeding the rats they start breeding," somethin...

4/15/12, 6925 LSB, 0545z: Just barely punching through heavy regional t-storm crashes, a couple of songs I couldn't identify, then clear Turtlehead Radio ID. 4/15/12, 6925 LSB, 0650z: Music again, signal and audio sounds similar to Turtlehead Radio. 0705z: Turtlehead Radio ID. Music unfamiliar to me...

4/14/12, 6925 USB, 0230z: Johnny Cash "Sunday Morning Coming Down", Red Mercury Labs ID, "I Walk the Line", "Folsom Prison" 0240z: Red Mercury Labs live on mic, shout out to me (thanky kindly), checking logs, playing more tunes from The Man In Black. 0247z: ID, shout outs to various listeners from C...

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4/13/12, 6925 LSB, 0355z: Collective Soul "Run", possible ID but couldn't copy here, song with autotuned vocals. 0415z: ID, still can't quite copy it clearly. 0415z: "When the Saints Come Marching In" Tom Waits? Sounds like his growlsinging and some New Orleans horns 0422z: Repeated IDs, sounds like...

4/12/12, 6924.8 AM, 0250z: Golden Earring "Radar Love", Queen "Another One Bites the Dust", Doobie Brothers "Long Train Running".  ID's barely audible, can only tell that it sounds like gmail addy. 0309z: Stones "Miss You" 0317z: Partial ID, "radio" and "dot com" audible, along with what sounded lik...

4/8/12, 6950 USB, 0210z: Just tuned in, heard Tracy Chapman/BB King version of "The Thrill is Gone", Wolverine Radio ID, some Joni Mitchell from "Hissing..." or "Hejira" era, don't recall which. 0225z: Cream, Jack Bruce - he's so glad. Poe "Angry Johnny" - she's so hawt. 0245z: Hendrix "Bipolar Diso...

4/8/12, 6925 USB, 0400-0700z, the KIPM episode that launched the legend, inspired by "The Galaxy Being". 0500z: Continuing with another KIPM relay, Legend of Tiamat Pt 1 0558z: The announcer's voice during the segue between episodes sounded familiar. I'm not gonna venture a guess publicly, but... th...

4/7/12, 6935 USB, 0515z: Red Mercury Labs ID, Rage Against the Machine. Fair to good signal, heavy local RFI.

4/7/12, 6925 USB, 0500z: Just tuned in, caught top of hour ID, Undercover Radio. Fair to good here.

4/6/12, 6925 USB, 0457z: Dr. Benway felt the very molecules of his existence tear apart.

I know the feeling.