Free Radio Weekly #1025 10/24/15

[The Radical]

Free Radio Weekly #1025, Saturday, October 24, 2024
Covering free radio activity from October 17-23, 2015

The Free Radio Weekly (FRW) is an internet newsletter devoted to the
hobby of listening to free radio "pirate" broadcasters in the
shortwave radio bands. The FRW is produced by the free radio community
and distributed to those who contribute.

The weekly deadline is Saturdays at 0000 UTC (Friday night in North
America). Please send your logs to all the editors, as our editing
schedule is subject to last minute changes. Thank you for your inputs!


== FRW editors ==

Harold Frodge ([email protected])
Dave Turnick ([email protected])
Larry Will ([email protected])

FRW 1025 10/24 Larry
FRW 1026 10/31 Harold
FRW 1027 11/7 David
FRW 1028 11/14 Larry
FRW 1029 11/21 Harold
FRW 1030 11/28 David
FRW 1031 12/5 Larry
FRW 1032 12/12 Harold
FRW 1033 12/19 David
FRW 1034 12/26 Larry


== Contributors ==

Please QSL and think good thoughts about our contributors, without
who, there is no newsletter!

Chris Gay
Kentucky
[email protected]

William Hassig
[email protected]

Glenn Hauser
P O Box 1684
Enid OK 73702
[email protected]
P- or E-QSLs welcomed
NRD-545 with ALA-330S,
FRG-7, PL-880, random wires

Chris Lobdell
Box 80146
Stoneham, MA 02180
Receivers: Eton E1, NRD-525
Aerials: G5RV, 40 Meter Dipole

John Sedlacek
Omaha, NE

Larry Will
Mount Airy, Maryland
[email protected]
Icom IC-R75 and G5RV dipole


== North American Logs ==

** Amphetamine Radio

Amphetamine Radio ([email protected]) 6950 USB / OCT 17 /
0418-0502*. Songs "Maxwell's Silver Hammer," "You're Just What I
Needed," "Funky Casbah'" and others. Multiple SSTV images and IDs.
S/off with contact info into U.S. national anthem. Fair signal.
(Sedlacek-NE)

Amphetamine Radio, 6925 USB / OCT 17 / 1318-1328+. Saturday morning
show. Weak signal in heavy background noise. (Sedlacek-NE)

Amphetamine Radio, 6930 USB / OCT 22 / 0119-0146*. Songs "Oh, Happy
Days" and "Just What I Needed." Multiple SSTV images. Extremely noisy
conditions with fair-to-poor signal. (Sedlacek-NE)

Amphetamine Radio: 6925/U, 2301-2303:42*, 21-Oct; Tuned into an X-rap;
ID then USNA & Off. SIO=353+ (Frodge-MI)

6925.00-USB, Oct 21 at 0046, S9 signal, but vs noise level, rates only
very poor, announcement being made of a QSL eddress, from ---algo---
Radio; 0048 SSTV. This thread says Amphetamine Radio:
http://www.hfunderground.com/board/inde ... 015.0.html
and displays several naughty pix captured by J Farley, looking like
Vargas girls (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** Burn It Down Radio

B.I/D./Burn It Down Radio, 6962 AM, 0045-0102*, 10-12-15 SIO: 333
Tunes by Maroon 5, Jessie McCartney, 3 Doors Down. ID and slogan,
"discovering the world one frequency at a time". [Lobdell-MA]

** Classic Pirate Radio Relay Service

Classic Pirate Radio Relay Service, 6925 USB, 2236-2305*, 10-17-15.
SIO: 454 with relay of early 90's pirate "The Crooked Man" which
featured rock tunes, CPRRS ID by YL at close. A new one! [Lobdell-MA]

Classic Pirate Radio Relay Service. 6925 USB / OCT 17 / 2245+.
Replay/relay of a "The Crooked Man" broadcast. Good to hear this
station again. Thanks to the Relay Service. Difficult copy under noisy
conditions. (Sedlacek-NE)

Classic Pirate Relay Service: 6925/U, 2144-2153+, 17-Oct; Bits from
old Halloween shows?; ID into EZL music, then ID into screaming. Poor
in QRN + buzz burst QRM +++ 6925/U, 2254-2256:04*, 20-Oct; Tuned in to
EZL instr'l tune, then ID w/addy [email protected].
SIO=2+53 (Frodge-MI)

** Cold Country Canada

CCC/Cold Country Canada, 6969 USB, 2148-2246*, 10-10-15 SIO: 433
Program of great Bob Marley Reggae classics! Frequent IDs, OM
announcer said he was drinking Coke not beer and seemed apologetic!
[Lobdell-MA]

** International Radio Report

Friday, October 23, 2015, 2257, 6925 am. A relay of CKUT's
International Radio Report, talk about the BBC. Solid s9 signal
(Will-MD)

** KIPM

KIPM, 6950usb, 10-17-15, 0018utc, poor very weak, "hollow earth"
program, defunct Elkorn Neb PO box. (Hassig-IL)

** Liquid Radio

Liquid Radio, 6925am, 10-18-15, 0031utc, fair/poor, dance music. (Hassig-IL)

Liquid Radio, 6925.1 AM / OCT 18 / 0031-0051+ & 0140-0150+. Usual
program of bass-thumping dance music. However, QRN from SS ops on LSB
and high noise levels made for extremely difficult copy; often lost
signal during deep and extended fades. (Sedlacek-NE)

Liquid Radio, 6925.1 AM / OCT 22 / 0101+. Techno-dance music best
heard in USB due to QRN from ops on LSB and extreme atmospheric noise.
Poor signal. (Sedlacek-NE)

Liquid Radio: 6915.15/AM, 0110-0117+, 18-Oct; Thump-thump music w/ID
@0113+. SIO=2+43 w/pescador & hiss blast QRM. +++ 0105-0110+, 22-Oct;
Thumpity-thump music. ID per Free Radio Net post. SIO=332+ w/LSB pesky
QRM + QRN. (Frodge-MI)

6925.16 approx., Oct 18 at 0114, only 43 mb pirate activity is this
reliable but too-weak signal, just making out some music on AM at S5,
still presumed Liquid Radio. These logs say it was, and they also had
trouble hearing it, on 6925.145:
http://www.hfunderground.com/board/inde ... 972.0.html

I couldn`t help but notice that the Columbus-Days pirate, Radio
Paisano (which I didn`t hear) was also reported on such an
off-frequency, same transmitter? (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING
DIGEST)

** Northwoods Radio

Northwoods Radio: 6955/U, 2306-2320+, 23-Oct; Jazz music; detailed
description of a love-making session; feature about an operation
performed by Dr. Benway & Dr. Tetrazini; 2316 feature about a man with
a talking *******; [email protected]. SIO=354 (Frodge-MI)

Northwoods Radio, Friday, October 23, 2015, 2301, 6955 usb. William S.
Burroughs reading some of his material, mentioning goofballs and
junkies. s9 peaks, good signal. (Will-MD)

** Old Time Radio

Old Time Radio, 6770am, 10-17-15, 0100utc, poor, faded up & down, Phil
Harris/Alice Faye show, at 0130 George Burns/Gracie Allen show.
(Hassig-IL)

Old Radio Program Pirate: 6770/AM, 2140, 17-Oct; Tales of the Texas
Rangers, episode "The Boomerang". Best in LSB w/QRN. +++ 2306, 17-Oct;
Duffy's Tavern w/bartender Archie. +++ -1-7, 18-Oct; Phil Harris &
Alice Faye Show. SIO=343 in AM w/nearby SSB QRM. +++ 0028-0031+,
20-Oct; Lucky Strike ad by Don Wilson into the Jack Benny Show.
SIO=353- +++ 2057-2101+, 21-Oct; Comedy show to 2059 Dreft soap ad
into Our Miss Brooks. Fair +++ 2300, 21-Oct; Duffy's Tavern w/Duffy's
coming out party (probably didn't mean then what it means today).
SIO=353 +++ 2124-2130, 22-Oct; Our Miss Brooks w/ads for Lustre Cream
shampoo, Palmolive shaving cream & Parkay margarine. Fair peaks till
BoH dropout. (Frodge-MI)

6770-AM, Oct 18 at 0118, oldtimeradio pirate, song and applause, then
sounds like Jack Benny and Buffalo --- er, Rochester. S6 at max, which
is better than usual, and at the moment the `best` pirate on band, but
still too weak to SWL (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

Old Radio Program Pirate: 6770/AM, 2234-2238+, 23-Oct; Avalon
cigarette ad (they were so enthusiastic) into music & Red Skelton
Show. Fair peaks, best in USB. (Frodge-MI)

Old time radio. Saturday, October 24, 2015, 1731, 6770 am. Fair signal
with a western radio show, IDed as "Frontier Gentleman" at 1740.
(Will-MD)

** Radio Free Whatever

Radio Free Whatever, 6950usb, 10-16-15, 2316-0014utc, fair/good,
pop/rock music, DJ=Dick Weed, read my post in HF underground on air,
[email protected]. (Hassig-IL)

Radio Free Whatever, Friday, October 23, 2015, 2310, 6960 usb, sign on
and talk by DJ Dick Weed. Good signal, s7. (Will-MD)

** Radio Gaga

Radio Gaga, 6925 DSB no carrier, 10-20-15 1320Z. Very weak. Recognized
a couple songs and barely caught one ID. (Gay-KY)

** Radio Ronin Shortwave

Radio Ronin SW, 6954 USB, 0015-0023, 10-18-15 SIO: 333 IS, tune by Ten
Years After. Talk about the group and ID by OM announcer. [Lobdell-MA]

** Rave On Radio

Rave On Radio, 6925 USB / OCT 21-22 / 2340-0006+. Weak signal in heavy
noise. Music by Warren Zevon? Shout-outs to HFU posters?
Numerous repeated station IDs but unable to hear e-mail info. Lost
signal or s/off @ 0006 after country rock song. (Sedlacek-NE)

** Unid

UNID:6925/AM, 0031-0044:04*, 20-Oct; Eddie Arnold's Make the World Go
Away; Let It All Hang Out; Beatles', another rocker; USNA & off.
SIO=343- w/LSB pesky & buzz burst QRM (Frodge-MI)

UNID 6925/U, 2253-2306+, 17-Oct; ancr talking about many unrelated
thimgs--Lincoln blackmailed, blue antisceptics, Black & UV lights,
porcelain toilets, etc.; rock tunes; @2305 "The Crooked Man is
Calling". SIO=2+43- w/drifty freq, 6925.0-25.1 & buzz burst QRM.
Probably CPRS (Frodge-MI)

UNIDENTIFIED. 5800.17, Oct 18 at 0053 as I tune up the bands, what`s
this? C&W tune by YL, S9+5 AM but undermodulated; 0054 OM talks, then
seems it`s a parlato song, but cuts off air at 0056*. Very intriguing!
Could it be our old harmonicizer, KWHW Altus OK, 4 x 1450, instead of
2 x which was active last May? But that was on the lo side of 2900,
and a few minutes earlier I had tuned up across 2900 without noticing
anything. If not KWHW, there are 185 other 1450 stations in the US &
Canada. Other possible fundamentals to land on 5800 are 1160 and 580.
It would be considerably west of here if making a sunset pattern/power
reduxion circa 0100 UT.

The abrupt cutoff a few minutes before the hour, however, smax of a
mixing product with some SW station, like WWCR/WNQM, but 5800 is not
1300 kHz away from any WWCR frequency, and meanwhile 6115 is still on
as is 4840. 4840 plus 960 = 5800, but programming and cutoff don`t
work for this to be an external mix between WWCR and local KGWA Enid.
I didn`t have time for a thorough // search on the 49 mb, but seems
unlikely to be a leapfrog with such American-style AM programming.

And it could always be a pirate; not much activity on 6.9 MHz band at
the moment. 5800 was one of many Station YHWH frequencies --- remember
how active he was just a year ago until busted? But 5800 has been used
more by Euro-pirates, notably Free Radio Service Holland. HF
Underground has some old logs of that running late night on 5800, but
no recent logs of anything on 5800. Must recheck less than 24 hours
later. Or maybe FRSH will confirm this?

5800, Oct 18 at 2255, no signal here; checking again closer to 24
hours after yesterday`s unID musical log, Oct 19 at 0054 past 0100,
still no reshow (Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)

** WOHR (Halloween Radio)

WOHR (Halloween Radio): 6925 USB / OCT 23 / 0231-0239*. Song "Monster
Mash" into repeated station ID as "W-O-H-R." Played another song
couldn't copy due to incredibly noisy conditions. Another ID then
s/off @0239. (Sedlacek-NE)

** Wolverine Radio

Wolverine Radio, 6945usb, 10-17-15, 2330-0027utc, good sig, tunes
about animals incl Stones: "monkey man", "white bird", "dead skunk in
middle of road", etc. (Hassig-IL)

Wolverine Radio, 6945 USB, 2314-2331+, 10-17-15 SIO: 555/232 Songs
featuring tunes with animals in their name. Started off strong but
quite weak by 2335. [Lobdell-MA]


== FM Broadcast ==

** Unid (Midland, Michigan)

87.9 UNID Midland MI; 11:30 AM...2:29+ PM, 17-Oct; Mostly instr'l
versions of EZL pop & nostalgia tunes w/a few vocals; "The easy
surrounding sound, the difference is the music, just the music, the
music" sung non-ID @1:28 & 2:28 & spoken @1:58 PM + "Thanks for
joining us". Above the scratch. Local pirate?--relaying what?
3:00-3:50 PM; Did some DFBDA (Direction-Finding By Driving Around); it
appears to originate SE of me. The scratchless (or near scratchless)
footprint starts about 2 mi. off & extends to about 6 mi., so maybe
about 15-20 sq. mi.--too big an area to spot an Aha! QTH. probably not
a micro power operation. Same sung non-ID @3:25. 9:15 PM zilch. +++
11:43 AM-12:20 PM, 18-Oct; Pop/rock tunes + themes from Gilliagn's
Island & My 3 Sons; no anmts. The footprint moved & expanded from the
previous day, but still peaking to the SE. The scratchless footprint
started about 6 miles out (about where it ended the previous day), and
extended to about I-75/Z-Bridge, about 18 mi. out. The sig was kaput
at I-75/M-46, about 23 mi. out. 8:49 PM zilch. This has now become a
project. +++ 11:27 AM...1:01 PM, 19-Oct; Mostly C&W tune w/occ'l
classic rock w/few sec. DA pauses between tunes. Wildfire Credit Union
& Pandora Music ads, but no DJ chatter or ID & could find no FM //'s.
Found only a small hot spot, less than 1 sq. mi., about 2 mi. south
w/strong xmtr hum; not much at all beyond 1.5 mi. from the hot spot.
+++ 11:45 AM...12:25 PM, 20-Oct; Pop/rock at tune-in; about 11:40 hrd
some distortion & disappeared. 11:45 at yesterday's hot spot, hrd only
DA w/strong xmtr hum; still DA/hum @12:25 PM. 5:30 PM found them back
on w/a hard rocker then code! (no copy). Strong w/a touch of
distortion at the usual hot spot. Source may be from an apartment
building near the hot spot. The plot thickens. +++ 11:04 AM, 21-Oct;
kidsong & off to DA/hum @11:13; still off @11:45. Found back on @2:41
PM w/pop, Jeezus pop & ad for Feeney Chrysler in Midland. 6:25 PM
DA/hum. +++ 11:45 AM, 12:39 PM, 22-Oct; DA/hum. I may have dragged
this out about as far as it can go. (Frodge-MI)

== European Logs ==

** Black Bandit Radio

Black Bandit Radio: 6265/AM, 2252-2306, 23-Oct; Pop & C&W tunes,
including Elvis' One Night & Neil Diamond's Solitary Man. Fair at
time; covered by SS intruders @2306. (Frodge-MI)

** Rock Music Network

Rock Music Network, 6304.2 AM, 2130-2150+, 10-3-15 SIO: 222 European
polkas and talk in UNID language. ID per HFU. [Lobdell-MA]


== QSLs ==

** Amphetamine Radio

Amphetamine Radio: Received E-QSL in a few hours for reception report
of Saturday AM broadcast sent to amphetamineradio@gmail,com. QSL
featured a woman sitting on a chair in her kitchen holding a rolling
pin dressed in lingerie and stockings. Surely a typical scene in an
average American household! Thanks, AR. (Sedlacek-NE)

Amphetamine Radio: Full data E-QSL featuring picture of a young woman
getting out of her car. Received overnight for posting of October 22
broadcast on HFU. Thanks, AR. John Sedlacek (Omaha, NE)

** Crazy Wave Radio

Full data electronic QSL received for my September 7, 2024 report of
Crazy Wave Radio at 2330 on 6937. "The Voice of Pure Reason,"
broadcasting from a "secret" US relay station. Thanks, CWR. (Will-MD)


== Internet Resources ==

Free radio station contacts:
https://sites.google.com/site/piratedatabase/

The FRW on Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/pages/Free-Rad ... 6592073251

HF Underground
http://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php

Free Radio Cafe
http://freeradiocafe.com/forum/

The FRN
http://www.frn.net/


Regards, Lw