Free Radio Weekly #1038 01/23/16

[The Radical]

FREE RADIO WEEKLY 1038 .-.
Covering Logs from 16 thru 22-January-2016 (0.0)
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EDITOR THIS WEEK: Harold Frodge [[email protected]] .='`"``=.

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Our Contributors...a bunch that knows how to make good use of free time.

Rainer Brandt, Wiesenweg 6, D-29 361 Hoefer/Celle, Germany
[email protected], SONY ICF 2001D + 45m dipole
Joe Filipkowski Jr, Warwick RI, [email protected]
Harold Frodge: 5525 Whitehall St., Midland MI 48642
Chris Gay, Lexington KY
William Hassig: 102 North Russel St., Mt. Prospect IL 60056-2443
Glenn Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702, [email protected],
NRD-545 with ALA-330S, IC-R75, FRG-7, PL-880, random wires
Chris Lobdell, Tewksbury MA, Eton E1, JRC NRD-525 + G5RV Dipole,
40 Meter Dipole
John Sedlacek: 2728 N. 45th Ave., Omaha NE 68104-4527
Joe Talbot, Alberta, Canada
Larry Will, Mount Airy MD, [email protected], Icom IC-R75 with G5RV

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THE LOGS

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AMPHETAMINE RADIO

1/16, 1730-1914*, 6925/U; S4-5 playing audio from a weather radio into
a radio drama, CW & SSTVs, off with the National Anthem.
(Filipkowski,RI)
1/16, 1733, 6925/U; Computer voice, appears to be reading out lists of
numbers by date, possibly from a weather radio, but highly garbled.
"Monday six point two zero, Tuesday six point three zero." Windows
startup noise at 1736. Bits of music at 1736. More dramatic music
at 1737. Voice, mentioning "July 16 1938" at 1738. A murderer's
confession.. appears to be an old radio show. Show ended at 1909,
followed by several IDs, "Amphetamine radio special broadcast,"
CW & SSTV. Good signal, steady s9. (Will-MD)
1/20, 2311-2341, 6925/U; S5-6 with tunes by Motley Crew, Men At Work &
Deep Purple, CW & SSTVs, IDs & OM said "the most tweaked out
pirate station on the 43 meter band!", off or faded out at 2341.
(Filipkowski,RI)

COLD COUNTRY CANADA

1/16, 2056-2123, 6969/L; S4-5 with music by Van Halen & Led Zeppelin,
OM ID & "weakest pirate station in the nation" slogan.
(Filipkowski,RI)
1/16, 2215-2221+, 6969/L; Rock, rap & ID. SIO=2+53 (Frodge-MI)
1/16, 2221, 6969/L; Music, Sweet Emotion by Aerosmith. ID by robo-
female at 2224, into more music, Rolling Stones Gimme Shelter.
Rough copy at times, s5. (Will-MD)
1/17, 2026-2050+, 6969/L; Rock tunes by Derek & The Dominoes, Boston,
David Bowie, CSN&Y. ID by YL announcer 2050. [Lobdell-MA]
1/17, 2112-2138*, 6969/L; S5 playing songs by Heart, Fleetwood Mac,
Cheap Trick & Alice Cooper, OM with shoutouts to the HFU
listeners. (Filipkowski,RI)

LIQUID RADIO

1/17, 2032, 6925.15/AM; Music & ID. SIO=252 peaks, fady (Frodge-MI)
1/17, 2315+, 6925.12/AM; Usual selection of techno dance music. Faint
signal under poor conditions. (Sedlacek-NE)

MOONLIGHT RADIO:

1/15-16, 2350-0011, 6930/U; S3-4 with songs by Jethro Tull & Eminem.
(Filipkowski,RI)
1/16, 0014, 6930/U; Music by Jethro Tull. s6, good at 0014, dropped to
just above the noise floor by 0024. (Will-MD)
1/17, 2315-2335+, 6935/U; Rebel, Rebel by David Bowie. Initially decent
sig then quickly lost in noise by 2335. [email protected]
(Sedlacek-NE)
1/18, 2225-2252+, 6935/U; Music by Tom Petty, Humble Pie, 10 Years
After, others. Fair signal under noisy conditions. (Sedlacek-NE)
1/18, 2241-2245, 6935/U; Weak music here, ID via HFU loggings.
(Filipkowski,RI)
1/19, 0023-0027+, 6935/U; Song It'll Be All Right, station ID then lost
signal in heavy static. (Sedlacek-NE)
1/19, 0036-0048, 6935/U; S3-4 with unid music and clear Moonlight
Radio ID by OM. (Filipkowski,RI)

N8TIVE RADIO

1/18, 0156+, 6950/U; Faint weak signal hampered by persistent QRM
from digital signals. Music barely audible. (Sedlacek-NE)

OLD RADIO PROGRAM PIRATE

1/16, 1517-1524+, 6770/AM; Drama. Fair peaks & much better than usual
at this time. (Frodge-MI)
1/16, 1718, 6770/AM; A radio crime drama. Variable signal with some
fading, s5/s7. (Will-MD)
1/16, 2221-2230+, 6770/AM; Drama to close w/PSA into new drama @2228.
SIO=2+53- fady; LSB best (Frodge-MI)
1/17, 1911, 6770/AM; A western themed old radio show, Good signal,
s5/s7, noisy conditions. (Will-MD)
1/17, 2056, 6770/AM; Big band music at Tune-in into The Lone Ranger
opening w/Wm. Tell Overture @ToH. SIO=252+ peaks (Frodge-MI)
1/17, 2342, 6770/AM; Red Skelton Show. SIO=2+53 (Frodge-MI)
1/19, 2254, 6770/AM; The Great Guildersleeve. SIO=2+53 (Frodge-MI)
1/20, 2157-2201+, 6770/AM; Amos & Andy closing w/Dreft detergent ad
into Our Miss Brooks @ToH. Fair+ (Frodge-MI)
1/21, 1551, 6770/AM; "Short Story" presents The Oblong Box by Edgar
Allen Poe ending, into some big band music. Good signal, s7.
(Will-MD)
1/22, 1645, 6770/AM; A radio drama but the station has a somewhat
subdued signal this morning, only managing an s5. (Will-MD)

PEE WEE RADIO

1/16, 0100-0121, 6925/U; S3-4 came on right after Radio GaGa signed
off, spacey sounding music & CW IDs, some blues tunes.
(Filipkowski,RI)
1/17, 0103-0114, 6955.5/U; S5-6 with CW IDs & bluesy rock tunes.
(Filipkowski,RI)

RADIO AZTECA

1/1, 1328–1338, 6900/AM; SINPO:34443-33333 fair-good signal via
K2SDR receiver, some fading and noises; anouncements heard in
English and Dutch [Nope--Spanish] 1328 started listening here
with talk about a station, into oldtime jazz 1330 UTC started
my tape with oldtime jazzy sound and female singer 1332 station
ID RADIO AZTECA, program Ask Dr. Radio started, letters 1334 DR.
Radio would like to heard from you, PA address, about T-Shirts
1335 female speaker Hello Turkey? A story by a lady 1337 Inter-
val signal heard & Bram Stoker Belfast address to send reports
1338 sign off (Brandt)
1/16, 1915, 6900/AM; Radio Azteca with a fine signal, s9. Program
number 3 per Bran Stoker. (Will-MD)
1/17, 1306, 6900/AM; Bits of audio when listening in USB, ID via HFU
loggings. (Filipkowski,RI)
1/17, 2101-2125*, 6950/AM; Bram Stoker w/Mail Scrotum letters segment,
Monty Python Lumberjack song, World of Radio Parody including a
WHDA editorial; Ask Dr. Radio--included an apology to Ken Zichi
for stealing a #s station idea; Cantilever bra spot; Belfast
drop for QSLs. SIO=2+53- (Frodge-MI)

RADIO FREE EUPHORIA:

1/17, 2026, 6900/AM; Just barely audible here, ID via HFU loggings.
(Filipkowski,RI)
1/17, 2034-2046+, 6899.89/AM; Maharishi chants, rock & C&W lament
Pass It Around Again; ID @2045. SIO=2+52+ (Frodge-MI)
1/21, 2246-2251, 6925.4/AM; S5 & noisy here playing unid music,
ID via HFU loggings. (Filipkowski,RI)

RADIO FREE WHATEVER

1/22, 2212, 6950/U; Radio Free Whatever with rock music. ID at 2217.
s7/s9. (Will-MD)

RADIO GAGA

1/16, 0028-0100*, 6925/U; Great to finally of heard this one! Just
above the noise with hard rock guitar music, Fame by David
Bowie, off with Jimi Hendrix SSB version. (Filipkowski,RI)
1/16, 0542-0555*, 6924.95/U; Songs Hey, Big Brother, Kentucky Woman &
Mercedes Benz. Short segment of poetry into ID contact info.
Fair signal. [email protected] (Sedlacek-NE)

RADIO ILLUMINATI

1/17, 2153-2210+, 6150/AM; SIO:121 Pop tune Remember The Nights by The
Motels. Signal faded here after 2210. OP confirmed reception
after I posted on the hfunderground and sent nice eQSL to boot!
[Lobdell-MA]

WOLVERINE RADIO

1/17, 0124-0212*, 6935/U; Music with a "ride" theme: Magic Carpet Ride,
Midnight Rider, etc. SSTV image at end. Good signal (Sedlacek-NE)
1/17, 0140, 6935/U; finally some pirate axion, classic rock at S7-S9,
deep fades; bet it`s Wolverine Radio. Yes, IDs inserted at 0143
and again at 0152. (Glenn Hauser, OK)

XFM:

1/17, 0150, 6875/AM; ID, "This is XFM", greetings & callouts t liste-
ners reporting in on the various boards. "Music to the power of X"
at 0155. Good signal, s7/s9, with occasional utility blasts on top.
(Will-MD)
1/17, 0201-0330+, 6875/AM Stereo; SIO:232 Red Hat playing tunes by
The Romantics, 311, U2, Alannah Myles, etc. Chatter about propa-
gation, giving shout outs to those posting on the various boards,
such as the hfunderground. [Lobdell-MA]
1/17, 0238, 6875/AM; good/fair/poor, "XFM, the power of X", playing
requested tunes including my request of Roy Clark's Thank god &
greyhound you're gone, good sig at first then slowly faded to
fair then poor then gone, [email protected]. (Hassig-IL)
1/17, 0317, 6875/AM; S5-6 playing unid music. (Filipkowski,RI)

UNIDs:

1/17, 1956, 6925/AM; Someone relaying police comms but weak here.
(Filipkowski,RI)
1/18, 1350, 6925/AM; Electronica synth/pop dance music. Seems to be
talk radio interspersed in between. Into Shake Rattle & Roll at
1415. Very good fidelity. Good signal, s7/s9 with some slight
fading. (Will-MD)
1/18, 1500, 6930/U; Soundtrack of a cartoon related to Dr. Martin
Luther King, Jr., then into the soundtrack of a documentary
about MLK. On for over an hour when I had to leave. No ID heard.
Was typically between S5 and S7. Was on 6925 USB briefly @1419Z.
(Gay-KY)
1/18, 1730-1843+, 6925/AM; S7-8 & great audio with a program about
how shortwave radio works into music from the movie Scarface,
faded to S5 by 1843 UTC, loved the show! My vote for 2016
Pirate Of The Year! (Filipkowski,RI)
1/18, 1830-1834, 6925/U; S3-4 heard under the Scarface unid station
playing sultry music and YL talk. (Filipkowski,RI)
1/18, 2119-2223, 6925/U; S5-7 with some sort of radio drama then
multiple CW on top of the audio, some tribal music.
(Filipkowski,RI)
1/18, 2150-2210+, 6925/U; Apparently movie audio--too much music for
an old radio pgm; occasionally interspersed & covered by CW
including multiple CWs; sent too fast for me; only word copied
that made sense was "opera". S3-5 + buzz & warble bursts.
(Frodge-MI)
1/18, 2156+, 6925/U; Voices, whistling music, CW logjam. 43mb version
of 14313. I have no idea what was going on here. (Sedlacek-NE)
1/19, 0105-0107*, 6925/U; S4 with some CW then off. (Filipkowski,RI)
1/19, 1630-1728, 6925/AM; S5-6 into the noise by 1728, songs by Fleet-
wood Mac, Deep Purple & U2. (Filipkowski,RI)
1/20, 2234-2301+, 7600/AM; Classic hits such as Wings' Live & Let Die,
Beatles' Get Back & Eagles' Peaceful Easy Feeling. Voice from
2258 past 2300, but nothing I could copy. Best in LSB, but poor
in QRN w/brief copyable peaks to zilch. No candidates listed in
Aoki or EiBi, assuming it's not Sound of Hope or their ever
faithful CNR jammer. There have been more pirates in the 7500-
7600 area lately. (Frodge-MI)
1/21, 1856-2158*, 6925/AM; S6-8 with songs by Lynyrd Skynyrd, Pat
Benatar, Rolling Stones, relayed an old Radio Wolf Int. program,
interview with Andy Yoder about pirate radio & a forum about
LPFM radio. (Filipkowski,RI)
1/21, 2053, 6925/AM; In progress, talk recorded at the HOPE conference
in New York City about KBFR, the Boulder/Denver-based FM pirate
radio station. Interviews and Q&A with several people associated
with the station. Music, an extended mix of Rolling Stones Gimme
Shelter at 2140. Another Rolling Stones song, Miss You (another
extended mix) at 2148. Some tones & noises & brief m voice, ID? &
off at 2157. Good signal, some fades, s7/s9. (Will-MD)
1/22, 1536-1817*, 6925/AM; S7-8 then S9-9+ at 1642, someone relaying a
program about the Radio New York Int. FCC bust and playing music
by Billy Joel, Elton John & Dion. (Filipkowski,RI)
1/22, 1647, 6925/AM; Allan Weiner's interview about his pirate radio
adventures from the Amateur Radio Roundtable show that was recoded
on January 8. Fair to good signal, s5/s7, big wide AM fidelity.
(Will-MD)
1/22, 2146, 6925/AM; A World War II-era show about the implementation of
the Hallicrafters SCR-299 mobile radio transmitter for the War.
Analyzing the prewar Hallicrafters ham transmitters for applicabi-
lity to wartime use. Off abruptly at 2211. Very good signal and
sound, s7/s9. (Will-MD)
1/22, 2201-2211:37*, 6925/AM; Feature about the SCR-299 xmtr for mobile
military setup; closed with patriotic music @2209 & seem to start
into a repeat before going abruptly off. SIO=242+, far better in
USB; pesky & buzz burst QRM. No ID on either Free Radio Net or HFU
postings. (Frodge-MI)

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Sordid Logs:

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0000-0024 Moonlight Radio, 6930/U (continued from 1/15)
0028-0100 Radio GaGa, 6925/U
0100-0121 Pee Wee Radio, 6925/U
0542-0555 Radio GaGa, 6924.95/U
1517-2230 Old Radio Program Prate, 6770/AM
1730-1914 Amphetamine Radio, 6925/U
1915 Radio Azteca, 6900/AM
2056-2224 Cold Country Canada, 6969/L
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0103-0114 Pee Wee Radio, 6955.5/U
0124-0212 Wolverine Radio, 6935/U
0150-0330 XFM, 6875/AM
1306 Radio Azteca, 6900/AM
1956 UNID, 6925/AM
2026-2046 Radio Free Euphoria, 6900/AM
2026-2138 Cold Country Canada, 6969/L
2032-2315 Liquid Radio, 6925.12/AM
1911-2342 Old Radio Program Prate, 6770/AM
2101-2125 Radio Azteca, 6950/AM
2153-2210 Radio Illuminati, 6150/AM
2315-2335 Moonlight Radio, 6935/U
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0156 N8TIVE Radio, 6950/U
1350-1415 UNID, 6925/AM
1500 UNID, 6930/U
1730-1843 UNID, 6925/AM
1830-1834 UNID, 6925/U
2119-2223 UNID, 6925/U
2225-2252 Moonlight Radio, 6935/U
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0023-0048 Moonlight Radio, 6935/U
0105-0107 UNID, 6925/U
1630-1728 UNID, 6925/AM
2254 Old Radio Program Prate, 6770/AM
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2234-2301 UNID, 7600/AM
2257-2301 Old Radio Program Prate, 6770/AM
2311-2341 Amphetamine Radio, 6925/U
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1551 Old Radio Program Pirate, 6770/AM
1856-2158 UNID, 6925/AM
2246-2251 Radio Free Euphoria, 6925.4/AM
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1536-1817 UNID, 6925/AM
1645 Old Radio Program Pirate, 6770/AM
2146-2211 UNID, 6925/AM
2212-2217 Radio Free Whatever, 6950/U

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QSLs:

KCPR, date and frequency, Silver Mine photo eqsl, for December 28th 6950
USB, bc. Tnx KCPR. (Joe Talbot)

Radio GaGa: Full data "ice fishing shack" eQSL for the 1/16/16 show.
(Filipkowski,RI)



MOONLIGHT RADIO: Full-data QSL #0013 featuring pirate ship on the open
seas for report sent to [email protected]. Thanks, Moonlight Radio. (Sedlacek-NE)



N8TIVE RADIO: Ernest Yazzie Commerative QSL for Jan 18 broadcast from
posting on HFU site. Also included download link to show (http://www.filedropper.com/n8tivhalloweenaudacity). Thank-you N8tive Radio.
(Sedlacek-NE)



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