Free Radio Weekly #1037, Saturday, January 16, 2025
Covering free radio activity from January 9-15, 2016
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])
== Contributors ==
Please QSL and think good thoughts about our contributors, without
who, there is no newsletter!
Joe Filipkowski, JR
Warwick, RI
[email protected]
Chris Gay
Kentucky
Glenn Hauser
P O Box 1684
Enid OK 73702
[email protected]
P- or E-QSLs welcomed
NRD-545 with ALA-330S, IC-R75, FRG-7, PL-880, random wires
Ron Hunsicker
1238 Cleveland Avenue
Wyomissing, PA 19610-2102
610.478.0371
ronhunsi at ptd dot net
John Sedlacek
Nebraska
[email protected]
Larry Will
Mount Airy, Maryland
[email protected]
Icom IC-R75 and G5RV dipole, Tecsun PL-600
== North American Logs ==
** Classic Pirate Radio Relay Service
"Classic Pirate Radio Relay Service", 1-10-16 2250Z. Very weak. Heard
the ID. Too much going on to be able to stick with it (Gay-KY)
** Cold Country Canada
Cold Country Canada. Saturday, January 9, 2016, 1602, 6969 LSB. Music
and talk. Making telephone calls at 1605. Presumably live, he calls
the Canada weather service at 1607 and gets the weather forecast for
Saturday, January 9. Music by Gary Wright, "Can't Find The Judge," at
1615. Fair signal, s5. (Will-MD)
Cold Country Canada: 1/10/16 0519-0540 UTC 6969 LSB. S4-5 playing
songs by T Rex,America and Nazareth,usual YL IDs. (Filipkowski,RI)
Cold Country Canada: 1/10/16 1950-2035 UTC 6969 LSB. S4 with songs by
The Police and Judas Priest. (Filipkowski,RI)
Cold Country Canada: 1/11/16 1704-2224 UTC 6969 LSB. S5-6 with a David
Bowie tribute broadcast playing tunes "Man Who Sold The
World","Suffragote City","Rebel Rebel" and "Changes",IDs and OM said
"celebrating David Bowie,we lost a great one". (Filipkowski,RI)
** Cool AM Radio
Cool AM Radio, 6932.15 AM, 1-11-16 0024Z. Rock music and ID. Weak but
steady (Gay-KY)
** Liquid Radio (tentative)
Not much pirate activity lately on 42m, that I have caught, anyway.
Saturday night, UT Sunday Jan 10 the only one I can find is that JBA
carrier with some talk at 0112 on 6925.16-AM, and at 0206 with music,
S4. I remember that exact frequency as carrying Liquid Radio before,
but as 6925 it`s also unID in HF Underground:
http://www.hfunderground.com/board/inde ... 637.0.html
(Glenn Hauser, OK, DX LISTENING DIGEST)
** LTO Radio
LTO Radio: 1/13/16 0040+ UTC 6930 USB. Very faint music heard,ID via
HFU reported as LTO Radio "Louisiana Texas and Oklahoma".
(Filipkowski,RI)
LTO Radio: 1/15/16 0020 UTC 6925 USB. Very faint music heard,ID via
HFU logs. (Filipkowski,RI)
** Moonlight Radio
Moonlight Radio, 6935 USB, 1-10-16 2337Z. Generally weak, as usual.
But caught one ID. Music was pop oldies (Gay-KY)
Moonlight Radio: 1/10/16 2331-2340 UTC 6935 USB. S4 with ID and "Pump
Up The Jam" dance tune then back into the noise level.
(Filipkowski,RI)
Moonlight Radio: 1/14/16 0054* UTC 6935 USB. YL talking then off,very
faint signal and ID via HFU. (Filipkowski,RI)
MOONLIGHT RADIO 6935 USB / JAN 10 / 2335-2358*. Tail-end of broadcast
with music by Santana, Gnarls Barkley, and others. Good signal with
occasional fades. Multiple IDs @ 2358 s/off. (Sedlacek-NE)
Moonlight Radio. Saturday, January 16, 2016, 0014, 6930 usb. Music by
Jethro Tull. s6, good at 0014, dropped to just above the noise floor
by 0024. (Will-MD)
** Old time radio
Old Time Radio 6770AM 8 Jan 2025 2215-2216 Our Miss Brooks. Just
understandable. (Hunsicker, PA)
Old time radio. Thursday, January 14, 2016, 1410, 6770 am. Hallmark
Playhouse radio drama show. Commercial for Hallmark greeting cards at
1414 at 1426. Singing "O little town of Bethlehem" at 1418. Fair to
good signal with occasional deep fades. s7/s9. (Will-MD)
Old time radio. Friday, January 15, 2015, 1335, 6770 am. A woman gets
a job for the summer getting shot out of a cannon into a net at a
boardwalk carnival, but there is a conspiracy afoot. Show IDed as "The
Adventures of Frank Merriwell" presented by NBC at 1354. After the
show concluded, big band music, "There I said it again" at 1356. A bit
of another song, then Hallmark Playhouse started promptly at 1400.
Highly variable signal, occasionally very good and steady at s9, then
fading down to s5. (Will-MD)
Old time radio. Friday, January 15, 2016, 1404, 6940 am. Big open
carrier noticed here prior to 1400; thought at first it was a utility
transmission of some sort. But, at 1404, heard another old time radio
program, different than what's on 6770 at this time. Good signal, s7.
(Will-MD)
** Pee Wee
Pee Wee: 1/9/16 0240-0253 UTC 6955 LSB. Weak with rock music,CW and a
parody of Beach Boys "Kokomo". (Filipkowski,RI)
Pee Wee: 1/11/16 0255-0307 UTC 6926 USB. S4-5 with CW IDs and songs by
Ozzy Osbourne and Rob Zombie. (Filipkowski,RI)
** Radio First Termer
Radio First Termer: 1/14/16 1856-2059+ UTC 6935 AM. S5-6 then S7-8
with OM thanking various people including the World Wide Pirate Radio
Network,dedicated "Knocking On Heavens Door" to POW and MIA military
personnel,host thanked the military for their service,YL IDs and "69
megacycles on your FM dial",other tunes by ZZ Top,Led
Zeppelin,Hendrix,Cream,Yes,enjoyable show and first time hearing this
one! (Filipkowski,RI)
** Radio Three
Radio Three: 1/12/16 2235-2310* UTC 6950.7 AM. S8-9 and superb audio
with host Sal Ammoniac playing rock tunes like "Sooner Or
Later","America The Horrible" and "World Wide Nation",parody ads for
420 Coffee and Egg On Drugs,a few guest IDs by Buck McMoney and
Fearless Fred. (Filipkowski,RI)
Radio Three, 6950.75 AM, 1-12-16 2244Z. Rock music with Sal Ammoniac
as DJ. Not the greatest audio, but a good listenable signal. Off at
2310Z (Gay-KY)
** Unid
UNID, 6922.14, 1-10-16 2230Z. Appeared to be playing the soundtrack
from the movie "Live And Let Die". Then the song by the same name,
then off at 2230Z (Gay-KY)
UNID: 1/10/16 2205-2230* UTC 6922.1 USB. S5-6 with police sirens,some
OM talk and "Live and Let Die" tune. (Filipkowski,RI)
UNID: 1/11/16 1415-1450 UTC 6925 AM. Music right at the noise level
and just a carrier detected by 1450 UTC. (Filipkowski,RI)
UNID: 1/11/16 1415-1828 UTC 6925 AM. S7-8 and great sounding audio
with music by Judas Priest and Pink Floyd,audio clips from unknown
movie. (Filipkowski,RI)
UNID: 1/12/16 2003-2142 UTC 6925 AM. S7-S9+ and excellent audio
playing clips from 2001: A Space Odyssey and Pulp Fiction,songs
"Flowers On The Wall","Girl You'll Be A Woman Soon","Jungle
Boogie","Lonesome Town" and "You Never Can Tell". (Filipkowski,RI)
UNID: 1/13/16 2355-2357* UTC 6924.5 AM. Very weak playing music.
(Filipkowski,RI)
UNID: 1/13/16 1330-1349 UTC 6925 AM. S8-9 with dramatic music and
faded to S4-5 by 1349 UTC. (Filipkowski,RI)
Unid. Wednesday, January 13, 2016, 1343, 6925 am. Dramatic
instrumental music, possibly a film soundtrack. On past 1409 with no
breaks or ID. Fair to good signal, s7. (Will-MD)
UNID: 1/14/16 1513-1632 UTC 6925 AM. S5-6 then S7-8 playing tunes by
The Cars,AC/DC,David Lee Roth,ad for winning $1000 and some surf
instrumental music. (Filipkowski,RI)
UNID: 1/15/16 1430-1551* UTC 6940 AM. S9 with old time radio drama
called The Whistler. (Filipkowski,RI) [See also Old time Radio, above.
--Lw]
** WAZU
WAZU: 1/10/16 1339-1408* UTC 6925.6 AM. S5-6 then S7-8 with songs by
Rush and Red Ryder,"What's Up Judge Judy's Ass" parody tune,and IDs as
"W A Zed U". (Filipkowski,RI)
WAZU: 1/10/16 0510-0517* UTC 6925.7 AM. S6-7 with "Red Barchetta"
Rush,parody bit about Congress and "W A Zed U calling" at sign off.
(Filipkowski,RI)
** WBOG
WBOG 6925.4AM 8 Jan 2025 2214-2229 Very weak signal; a carrier spike
was just visible in the Elad's waterfall. Sidebands appeared during
some Blue Grass, but faded quickly. Then rock and Iheard a male
announcer. (Logged as unidentified, but I received a QSL, likely
because of a post to the HFUnderground, Hunsicker, PA)
** XLR8
XLR8: 1/11/16 2346-2347+ UTC 6955 USB. S3-4 with a David Bowie tribute
show. (Filipkowski,RI)
XLR8. Tuesday, January 12, 2016, 0050, 6955 usb. Music by David Bowie,
"Fame" and a live version of "Golden Years." s9 and steady, pretty
good sound for a sideband transmission. (Will-MD)
== QSLs ==
** Moonlight Radio
Moonlight Radio: Full data "moon and pirate ship" eQSL for the 1/10/16
broadcast. (Filipkowski,RI)
** WAZU
WAZU: Full data "Doggie Logs" eQSL for the 1/10/16 broadcast. (Filipkowski,RI)
WAZU: Full data "Angry Obama" eQSL for the 1/10/16 morning broadcast.
(Filipkowski,RI)
** WBOG
Emailed QSL from WBOG with an image of woman and man being threatened
by Batman(?). The email stated that the BC was a propagation test and
a 25-watt Corsair was used. Also, a playlist. (Hunsicker, PA)
== Internet Resources ==
Free radio station contacts:
https://sites.google.com/site/piratedatabase/
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http://www.hfunderground.com/board/index.php
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http://freeradiocafe.com/forum/
The FRN
http://www.frn.net/
Regards, Lw