Free Radio Weekly #1044a 03/04/16

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FREE RADIO WEEKLY 1044 .-.
Covering Logs from 2/27 thru 3/4 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.

Joe Filipkowski, Warwick RI, SDRPlay using Studio One/HDSDR/SDR Console
software and dipole antenna up about 30'
Harold Frodge: 5525 Whitehall St., Midland MI 48642
Chris Gay, Lexington MY
William Hassig, 102 North Russel St., Mt. Prospect IL 60056-2443,
[email protected]
Glenn Hauser, PO Box 1684, Enid OK 73702, [email protected], NRD-545 +
ALA-330S, IC-R75, FRG-7, PL-880, random wires
Chris Lobdell, Tewksbury MA, Eton E1, JRC NRD-535 + G5RV Dipole
John Sedlacek: 2728 N. 45th Ave., Omaha NE 68104-4527
Joe Talbot, Red Deer AB, [email protected], JRC NRD 535D + 160' Long
wire at 140'

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THE LOGS

=+=+=+=+= North American Stations/Relays =+=+=+=+=

AMPHETAMINE RADIO:

2/28, 1915-1958*, 6925/U; S3-4 playing punk rock & LA Woman by The Doors,
King Of The Hill audio clip, SSTVs & off with National Anthem.
(Filipkowski,RI)

BID, BURN IT DOWN RADIO:

2/28, 0248-0353, 6965/U; 0248 21 Guns Green Day, 0311 Bad Days Fuel,
0330 I Wanna Be There 11K Shazams, other tunes by Bob Dylan, Bob
Seger, Don Henley, 0348 "BID Radio Burn It Down" ID, Its A Great
Day To Be Alive Travis Tritt, and off at 0353. SINPO:454444. S8-9
signal, nice audio. (Talbot-Alberta Canada).

CANADIAN RADIO AFTER DARK:

3/2, 0128-0148+, 6930/AM; Very weak with bits of audio heard but not
enough to make anything out, ID via HFU loggings. (Filipkowski,RI)

CELTIC MUSIC RADIO:

3/2, 0050-0057+, 6950/U; Celtic music & two IDs while tuned; gave addy,
but missed it. SIO=2+53+ (Frodge-MI)
3/2, 2258-2306:43*, 6950/U; Lotsa fiddle tunes; ID at close. SIO=253-
(Frodge-MI)

COLD COUNTRY CANADA:

2/28, 2038-2205+, 6969/L; S4-5 with Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin & dance
remixes of Time Of The Season & Spooky, usual YL voice IDs.
(Filipkowski,RI)
3/2, 0118-0124+, 6925/U; S5-6 YL ID & "6969 shortwave" but on 6925, music
by Rush & Judas Priest, faded away by 0124. (Filipkowski,RI)

CZ, Channel Z Beacon:

2/27, 2148, 11427.7; Clear code "CZ". Apparently drifting downfreq from
an earlier report from fellow beaconista Rob Ross. (Frodge-MI)
3/3, 1435, 11428.3 approx.; I am tuning around for Indonesian USB QSO
pirates, but instead detect an extremely weak CW signal. Seems like
it is sending, C & Z & maybe K? No, the K is just a partial C. Final-
ly with extreme narrow bandwidth I can copy it as CZ over & over, so
it`s the beacon run by the pirate Channel Z, location unknown. There
are several recent logs of this on HF Underground if you search on
11428, also dating back to 2012y & 2011, various decimals above
11428. Coincidentally, Rob Ross has reported this, never saying what
the ID was, and got a QSL indicating the power as 380 milliwatts, to
continue until the battery die (Glenn Hauser, OK)

GIRL SCOUT RADIO:

3/1, 0023-0025+, 6955/U; S3-4 playing music by Gorillaz, YL ID.
(Filipkowski,RI)

LIQUID RADIO:

2/26, 2229, 6925.15/AM; (presumed) Thumpity-Thump music. poor (Frodge-MI)
2/27, 0023, 6925.15/AM; (presumed) Music buried in QRN (Frodge-MI)
2/27, 2345, 6925.11/AM; S8 weak pirate with some talk & music. It was
IDed an hour later as Liquid Radio:
http://www.hfunderground.com/board/inde ... 634.0.html
(Glenn Hauser, OK)
2/28, 0010, 6925/AM; poor/fair, new age/new wave music, QRM de pesca-
dores on lower side. (Hassig-IL)
3/3, 2301-2306+, 6925.06/AM; (presumed) Thumper music. SIO=232 w/pulse
burst, LSB pesky QRM & @2304 someone tuned up running random pips
at varying pitches. (Frodge-MI)

MOONLIGHT RADIO:

2/26, 0032-0040+, 6935/U; SIO:232 Pop music, ID by OM and mention of
using 5 watts. Either signed off or faded out after 0040.
[Lobdell-MA]
2/27, 2318-2334*, 6935/U; S3-4 with dance music & off with ID &
"thanks for listening". (Filipkowski,RI)
3/2, 0047-0050+, 6945/U; Rock tune & ID. SIO=353 (Frodge-MI)
3/3, 0106-0117*, 6930/U; playing mx I didn't know...or couldn't Shazam,
0117 "Your Listening To Moonlight Radio" & off. SINPO:23432. Noisy
night, S3 signal at best in ECSS USB. (Talbot-Alberta Canada).
3/4, 0044-0059, 6935/U; 0044 Miss You The Rolling Stones, ID & Email
address, Papa Was A Rolling Stone then off at 0059. SINPO:33333.
S4-5 at best, high QRN tonight. (Talbot-Alberta Canada).

OLD RADIO PROGRAM PIRATE:

2/26, 2230, 6770.06/AM; Sounds like The Great Guildersleeve. Fair peaks
(Frodge-MI)
2/27, 0102, 6770/AM; poor/weak at noise level, Amos and Andy (they seem
to play that a lot). (Hassig-IL)
3/1, 2229-2244+, 6770/AM; S6-7 noisy conditions with an episode of The
Great Gildersleeve and Parkay Margarine ad. (Filipkowski,RI)
3/1, 2232, 6770.06/AM; The Great Guildersleeve. SIO=253- (Frodge-MI)
3/2, 2338-2342+, 6770/AM; S7-8 with ad for Avalon Cigarettes, swing
music & comedy skit with OM. (Filipkowski,RI)
3/3, 2249-2255+, 6770.06/AM; The Great Guildersleeve (seems to be the
2230 staple lately). 2256 pgm close w/PSA asking folks to use coal
instead of oil to heat their houses, to preserve oil for the war
effort & ad for Kraft cheese. 2259 vocal by Helen O'Connell? 2300
Vitalis intro to the Allen Young Show. SIO=252+ (Frodge-MI)

PEE WEE RADIO:

2/27, 0015-0021:31*, 6955/AM; Tune in to pgm close from VoA Rhodes;
VoIRI IS/ID into bluesy tune; off w/PEEWEE code ID. SIO=353+
(Frodge-MI)
2/27, 0143-0204, 6950/U; S4-5 then up to S7 playing dance & rock music,
CW IDs. (Filipkowski,RI)
2/27, 0340-0341*, 6924.6/AM; S4-5 heard song Sweet Little Angel & CW ID
then off. (Filipkowski,RI)
2/27, 0347-0414*, 6925/U; S3-5 with blues, dance & rock tunes including
Nationwide by ZZ Top, IDs via SSTVs, nice audio (Filipkowski,RI)
2/28, 0007, 6954.98/U; tune in to All India Radio interval signal! So it
is Partial India Radio? Is it WLIS = We Love Interval Signals? No,
read on. At S9+5 level, IS after IS plays, apparently recorded off
the air & many of them overmodulated/distorted here. Quite a trip
down memory lane, as many of them no longer exist. I can ID most of
them by tune or by announcement: All India Radio, Minsk IS & ID,
Radio Cancao Nova ID, IS & Burasi Sofia Radyosu, i.e. Bulgaria with
Turkish ID, CRI East is Red theme & ID; now it`s 0009.5: unfamiliar
IS, but ID in Chinese for CJKT, Zhi Sheng, chimes unknown 8-note IS,
alternating two different but related noteseries, anmt sounds like
Greek language IS `Forward, Left!` & Radio Prague, Czechoslovakia
ID, Radio Denmark Shortwave Department, IS & opening first of three
broadcasts to North America, on 15165 Sakura on marimba, NHK. By
now it`s 0014: unfamiliar horn fanfare, ID? IS, Suomen Yleisradio,
Radio Finland IDs Horns & drumming, ID in French; I thought at
first it was ORTF Tahiti, or was it something from Africa, Abid-
jan? [next: can`t read my scribble – Cairo, maybe?] Yankee Doodle,
VOA Rhodes signing off, Voice of Islamic Republic of Iran, IS, ID,
NA we still hear 0017 change to a song about fever; some dead air
0021 still tuned to 6955, hear a slow CW ID twice: PIWI--But is it
still the Interval Signal station? Amazingly, no one on HFU repor-
ted the above, but there were several reports of Peewee Radio on
6955 after 0128 with non-IS programming:
http://www.hfunderground.com/board/inde ... 637.0.html
O, depending on the exact spacing, maybe they were sending PEEWEE
instead of PIWI as I copied it. Sending Morse code slowly can axu-
ally make it harder to copy accurately (Glenn Hauser, OK)

PPKD BEACON:

3/1, 2234, 6815; Usual slow code ID (Frodge-MI)

PRECODE RADIO:

3/2, 1400-1500, 6925/U; My best guess at a name. Played a movie sound
track for an hour. A couple times, sent: "2450 URS 1931 PRECODE
FILM 2450 URS 1931 PRECODE FILM PRECODE RADIO" in CW. I think the
"2450 URS" may have actually been "24 HOURS". Not sure if I got
the "PRECODE" part right. Lots of fading. (Gay-KY)

RADIO AZTECA:

2/27, 1338-1433*, 6925.3/AM; Just above the noise at tune in then shot
up to S6-7 by 1353, Bram Stoker with program #8 featuring Ask Dr
Radio, listener mailbag, Top 10 reasons why Dr Gene Scott is on
the air, talk about He-Man Radio, WYMN & East Coast Beer Drinker,
off air clip of WPIG from the 1990s Pirate Bloopers with WLIS &
"How to be a respected member of the DX community" bit, usual
funny stuff! (Filipkowski,RI)
2/28, 2101-2201*, 6900/AM; S9+ with two replays of program #8.
(Filipkowski,RI)

RADIO FREE MARS:

2/26, 0123-0145+, 6925/AM; SIO:333 Disco remix of Elton John’s Rocket
Man, Benny & The Jets, 0129. ID by op who identified himself as
“yours truly, Mr. Martian”. Played a mix of Space Oddity/Rocket
Man. [Lobdell-MA]

WDDR Drunken DJ Radio:

2/28, 0150, 4015/U; fair, announcement was made at end of Wolverine
broadcast that DDJR would be coming up on 4015khz in the 75 meter
band, pleasant R&B music. (Hassig-IL)
2/28, 0156-0635*, 4015/4020/U; Marathon b'cast with AMAZING S9+20-30
signal & superb audio, op got extremely drunk during the course
of the b'cast which made for an enjoyable & funny listen, took
music requests from listeners via HF Underground & sent several
SSTVs honoring some of the listeners, played songs by The Doors,
Doobie Brothers, Jefferson Airplane, Grateful Dead, The Who,
Ramones, B52s, BB King, Fixx, Santana & Harry Chapin, "Dave's Not
Here" skit from Cheech & Chong, a few of the songs played twice
because the op was so drunk that he didn't realize he had already
played them, also had a YL synth voice named Robin making funny
comments to HFU poster Skipmuck like "hey Skipmuck what the ****"
& "internet porn is great but Skipmuck is better". (Filipkowski,RI)
2/28, 0422-0615+, 4020/U; SIO:444. “Wolverine Radio” op doing his Drunken
DJ alter ego station. Frequent SSTV images, taking requests from
posts on the hfunderground. Tunes by Ram Jam, Ramones, Procol
Harum, B52s, war, etc. Used female voice synthesizer he named
“Robin” to heckle hfunderground poster “Skipmuck”. [Lobdell-MA]

WEEK RADIO:

2/27, 2105-2200*, 6976.1/AM; S7-8 with tunes Come Monday, Tuesday's Gone
With The Wind & I Wanna Be Your Friday Night, IDs & gmail address
for reports. (Filipkowski,RI)

WOLVERINE RADIO:

2/28, 0109, 6950/U; good, songs with the words king & queen in them
such as queen of the roller derby & Abba's dancing queen, SSTV/FAX
at 0145. (Hassig-IL)
2/28, 0109, 6950/U; jazz/blues song at S9+25. 0111 slightly risque song,
``King Size Papa``; @0124 I`m hearing it well on the PL-880 just
with whiprod, ID as expected: ``Wolverine Radio`` (Glenn Hauser, OK)
2/28, 0124-0149, 6950/U; S3-4 "Kings & Queens" music program & couple of
SSTVs. (Filipkowski,RI)

XLR8:

2/27, 0048-0525*, 6955/U; S3-4 & very little noise made for a good
reception, marathon b'cast with a wide variety of music including
electronica, punk, rock & pop, artists included The Dead Kennedys,
Rage Against The Machine, Wall Of Voodoo, Skee-Lo, Bikini Kill &
Serj Tankian, got my first XLR8 SSTV decode, lotsa IDs like "Acce-
lerate" & "X-L-R-8", great show! (Filipkowski,RI)
2/27, 0051, 6955/U; weak but clear, heavy metal music, gave ID twice.
(Hassig-IL)
2/27, 0122, 6955.00/U; bluesy song at S9, 0123 ``Accelerate``,not XLR-8.
ID & classic rock. Only pirate noted active this Friday evening,
unless that was another one, the JBA carrier on 6770
(Glenn Hauser, OK)
2/28, 0110-0330, 6955/U; Try A Little Sunshine The Factory, XLR8 IDs,
Mexican Radio Wall Of Voodo, still on at 033. SINPO:33333. S5
signal at best in ECSS USB, hard to copy because of QSB.
(Talbot-Alberta Canada).

UNIDs:

2/27, 2027-2315, 6945/AM; S6-9 documentary about radio jamming, Andy
Yoder talk on pirate radio & rock tunes by Kiss, Metallica, AC/DC
& Rob Zombie, signal buried in noise @2315. (Filipkowski,RI)
2/27, 2045-2050, 6925/U; S8-9 played song with OM laughing then a bunch
of farting sound effects. (Filipkowski,RI)
2/27, 2342, 6945/AM; S7 vs noise level, continuous talk, sounds like it
could be a commercial station so check my three MW locals to be
sure not // 960, 1390, 1640. (1390 can put a x5 harmonic on 6950,
but not close enough). Nor does it fit for a WWCR/WNQM parasite.
Still there after 0000 Feb 28. It was also UNIDENTIFIED for three
loggers in this thread:
http://www.hfunderground.com/board/inde ... 633.0.html
Nigel Pimblett in Alberta said, ``An interview about radio at 0058,
apparently Allan Weiner talking to a pirate operator. Poor to fair
signal`` (Glenn Hauser, OK)
2/28, 0022, 6945/U; poor, extended talk, possible Alan H Wiener talking
about radio. (Hassig-IL)
2/28, 2113+, 6925/AM; OM talk down in the noise & couldn't make much out
of it. (Filipkowski,RI)
2/29, 1503-1737*, 6925/AM; S6-7 with songs Bow Legged Polly, Groovy,
Foul Owl,Runnin' On Empty & some Led Zeppelin, sudden sign off.
(Filipkowski,RI)
3/2, 1824-1828, 2141-2151, 6925/AM; S6-7 at tune in with rock music then
quickly faded into the noise, S7-8 with S9 peaks at 2141 playing
music by Kid Rock,Lady Gaga & Rob Zombie. (Filipkowski,RI)
3/3, 2236-2248+, 6925/U; Soundtrack from the movie French Connection.
SIO=2+43- w/buzz & pulse burst QRM. (Frodge-MI)
3/4, 0116-0145, 6925/AM; Who Are You The Who (heard underneath 6925 LSB
Portuguese peskie QRM), faded under QRN & 6925 LSB Portuguese
peskie, still copy very weak mx at 0145. SINPO:33333. S3-4 at best,
QRM/QRN made for tough copy. (Talbot-Alberta Canada).

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IBC/Italian Broadcasting Corporation-Italy:

2/27, 2326-2353+, 6970/U; SIO:333 Rock tunes by Led Zeppelin, Pink
Floyd, frequent IDs, DX tips. Nice QSL received by mail for Feb
5th broadcast. [Lobdell-MA]

Johnny Tobacco-Holland:

2/27-28, 2256-0039+, 6925/AM; SIO:333 Johnny talking, giving shoutouts
to those posting on Iann’s Chat room. Played tunes such as Blue-
berry Hill, Blueboy by John Fogerty, frequent IDs. Station
formerly known as Black Bandit. [Lobdell-MA]

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Sordid Logs:

-----2/27
0015-0022 Pee Wee Radio, 6955/AM
0023 Liquid Radio (p), 6925.15/AM
0048-0525 XLR8, 6955/U
0102 Old Radio Program Pirate, 6770/AM
0143-0204 Pee Wee Radio, 6950/U
0340-0341 Pee Wee Radio, 6924.6/AM
0347-0414 Pee Wee Radio, 6925/U
1338-1433 Radio Azteca, 6925.3/AM
2027-2315 UNID, 6945/AM
2045-2050 UNID, 6925/U
2105-2200 WEEK Radio, 6976.1/AM
2148 CZ, Channel Z beacon, 11427.7
2256-2400 Johnny Tobacco, 6925/AM, continued past 2400.
2318-2334 Moonlight Radio, 6935/U
2326-2353 Italian B'casting Corp., 6970/U
2342-2400 UNID, 6945/AM
2345 Liquid Radio, 6925.11/AM
-----2/28
0000-0039 Johnny Tobacco, 6925/AM, continued from 2/27
0007-0021 Pee Wee Radio, 6954.98/U
0010 Liquid Radio, 6925/AM
0022 UNID, 6945/U
0109-0149 Wolverine Radio, 6950/U
0110-0330 XLR8, 6955/U
0150-0635 WDDR Drunken DJ Radio, 4015/4020/U
0248-0353 BID, Burn It Down Radio, 6965/U
1915-1958 Amphetamine Radio, 6925/U
2038-2205 Cold Country Canada, 6969/L
2101-2201 Radio Azteca, 6900/AM
2113 UNID, 6925/AM
-----2/29
1503-1737 UNID, 6925/AM
-----3/1
0023-0025 Girl Scout Radio, 6955/U
2229-2244 Old Radio Program Pirate, 6770/AM
2234 PPKD Beacon, 6815
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0047-0050 Moonlight Radio, 6945/U
0050-0057 Celtic Music Radio, 6950/U
0118-0124 Cold Country Canada, 6925/U
0128-0148 Canadian Radio After Dark, 6930/AM
1400-1500 Precode Radio, 6925/U
1824-1828 UNID, 6925/AM
2141-2151 UNID, 6925/AM
2258-2307 Celtic Music Radio,6950/U
2338-2342 Old Radio Program Pirate, 6770-.06/AM
-----3/3
0106-0117 Moonlight Radio, 6930/U
1435 CZ, Channel Z Beacon, 11428.3
2236-2248 UNID, 6925/U
2249-2255 Old Radio Program Pirate, 6770.06/AM
2301-2306 Liquid Radio (p), 6925.06/AM
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0044-0059 Moonlight Radio, 6935/U
0116-0145 UNID, 6925/AM

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QSLs:

Italian Broadcasting Corporation: Full data postal QSL for the 2/5/16
broadcast. (Filipkowski,RI)


MOONLIGHT RADIO: Received beautiful e-QSL #36 from Feb 21st show for
report to [email protected]. Many thanks Moonlight Radio.
(Sedlacek-NE)



Electronic Mail Addresses for Stations:
http://piratedatabase.webhop.net

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COMMENTARIOS

Joe Filipkowski's recent SSTV captures from WDDR, XLR8 & Pee Wee.



--734's, HF