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I kept the IQ recorder going, I figured them lawless, disrespectful Commie Pinko Pirates would ne doing something and, by Holy Ronald Reagan, there they were!

All kinds of stuff including Dick Bulger dot com on USB and a whole bunch of other stuff on both sidebands. (I was always a Buzzy's man myself - nothing like one of those unsanitary bowel bursters after a wild evening at the Channel or the Rat!)

Good signal though up here in Maine on the RSP1B.

Wonder if this boy QSLs?]]> Lee Free Radio Logs Mon, 22 Jun 2026 10:40:01 -0400 http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?5,11457,11457#msg-11457 http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?5,11457,11457#msg-11457
02:00 Tune in to Song from 1954 that was banned.

02:03 Bit about cats because the station believes in equal time, rekindling the love for your kitty, into Goodnight Sweetheart, Goodnight, good sign-off song.

02:06 I learned a lot about 1954.. Instants of BS in the news.

02:09 WDOG ID, Piece of Hey Bulldog! into sign off song, with Gary Numan and Sir Magnetron doing the singing. Other singing, CW tones,

02:14 'We made a mess of 1954, now we go to 1964, we make a mess of 64.'

02:16 Professor D.E. Magnetron was around in 1964, but hadn't yet reached consciousness, so Radio User helped out with the music. Into a song called Needles And Pins(a)?

02:19 Beatles tune

02:21 'The first of a couple of Lennon and McCartney tunes that they sold off' Now Dave Clark 5's Do You Love Me Now That I Can Dance.

02:28 Put On Your Red Dress. Some small dog barks in song to make sure you know this is WDOG.

02:32 'Try to use the original mono recording, though it doesn't matter to WDOG.' Into You Really Got Me

02:35 Dang Me

02:36 I see Beatles, Beatles, Beatles on the top Billboard tracks, I don't always play popular music.' Into You Really Got A Hold On Me

02:40 It's Over by Roy Orbison. Dog bark (sounds like Barfy there) 'No, the show is not over!' Into Come A Little Bit Closer

02:45 Dancing In The Street

02:48 'WDOG' singing ID, In The Big City

02:51 Something not rock and roll, something a little jazzy, Girl From Ipa, Ipa nima'

02:53 I Won't Stay In A World Without Love 'a McCartney composition' he says later.

02:57 Baby Love.

02:59 Dog whimper and howl, into Suspicion

02:02 The Swim, the dogs barked extra loud when the singer said it's just like doing The Dog but not so low.

02:07 '.. broadcasting to no-one in particular' That famous WDOG line, yeah!
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Audio: WDOG audio in Opus


I'd call the signal average, SIO 3s, though I prefer to give them all fours when they deserve it. Good yearly retrospectives that these guys do, Magnetron and all the dogs.]]> Radio Animal Free Radio Logs Thu, 18 Jun 2026 23:20:13 -0400 http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?5,11456,11456#msg-11456 http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?5,11456,11456#msg-11456

02:18 (10:18 pm local) Paperback Writer by the Beatles

02:19 Mister Postman 'wait a minute, deliver the letter

02:22 'Playing the greatest hits..' ID into Take A Letter, Maria

02:25 Paper Tiger, 'You paper tigers are all alike' Eartha Kitt?

02:27 'Check out our website at Ballsmacker net' into The Letter.

02:29 SSTV, sign off announcement, Wildfire interval.

02:32 Carrier off
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Audio: Audio, Ballsmackre 6-12-26


Good to catch some. Good signals and clear audio in post storm conditions, like the rain washed out the ionosphere of all the hash and trash of the past week. Good oldies and thank you.]]> Radio Animal Free Radio Logs Fri, 12 Jun 2026 22:51:19 -0400 http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?5,11453,11453#msg-11453 http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?5,11453,11453#msg-11453
00:59 Wildfire intro loop.

01:00 Good evening ham sammiches..' intro, into Ain't That America

01:04 Nostalgic song where a dude recounts his memories, country lanes, first kiss on a friday night and listening to songs on the radio.

01:09 Sounds like Jack Black, 'This is where we used to live.. Why did they change the lock'

01:12 'Check our our, website at ballsmacker..' with reverb, into House Of The Rising Sun


01:16 Song, I'm on my way, home sweet home by Muttley Crue.

01:20 This Land Is Your Land.

01:23 E-mail address at proton mail. 'Send your reception reports' into 'no stranger' or no danger' No one put the bodies in the wishing well? sure I got that all wrong.

01:27 ??

01:31 Talkin' Heads' Burnin' Down The House. Ooh man, signal has taken a dive right here, cutting loose.
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Audio: 33 minutes of B-ALL this week

Always nice to hear an AM signal, ancient modulation, the original modulation. Thanks for the tunes this week.]]> Radio Animal Free Radio Logs Fri, 05 Jun 2026 21:57:19 -0400 http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?5,11450,11450#msg-11450 http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?5,11450,11450#msg-11450

01:44 Tune in to Blondie's Tide Is High

01:47 'Yeah puppies, WDOG' into sounds like Psychedelic Furs, with some dog whistles and barks

01:51 Is it old U2? Husky team barks

01:55 'Can't forget about this guy' WDOG ID that was stuttered on purpose. Into The Waiting Is The Hardest Part by Tom PETty.

01:58 WDOG singing ID with doogs, into Our Lips Are Sealed by Go Gos

02:02 "It doesn't matter any way, unless you're hungry like the dog." Hungry Like The Wolf, Duran Duran, a great song for the canines. Howling!

02:05 'How did she get in here, this is WDOG' Pretenders

02:08 I think of the ionosphere enjoying that song..' Talking Heads' Once In A Lifetime From the movie Down And Out In Beverly Hills with Mike The Dog and Metisse pup!

02:13 'Letting the days go by, ain't that the truth' Into Cars' Shake It Up, howls, barks.

02:16 Dire Straits' Romeo And Juliet

02:21 "Okay, one more song from 1981' Kings, The Beat Goes On

02:27 Group howls into Gary Numan, the WDOG theme, CW code.

02:30 'Welcome back to WDOG, we're going to explore, 84' into Big Country's Big Country

02:35 'Men Without (Wang Chung).' Dance Hall Days

02:39 'I don't know why the Canadians never talk about Wang Chung.. Athens GA'

02:42 'Every band on MTV, this band with a bunch of satellite dishes.' Are We Ourselves by The Fixx, howls.

02:45 'That was The Fixx from 1984, are we ourselves, I don't know I'll have to check on that.' Into Yaz's Situation.

02:47 'You're listening to WDOG, what were you doing in 1984? I was f'in around, I guess I'm still f-ing around.' Into Red Red Wine from UB40

02:53 'People were worried about 1984 with that George Orwell book out, but they had other things to worry about, like nuclear war?' Into Politics Of Dancing by Re-Flex. Some barks.

02:57 ' The Soviets were boycotting the Summer Olympics and people were asking "where's the beef", I think the beef was in the ..' Into Time After Time by Cyndi Lauper

03:01 'Time after time. In 1984 I tried to get into a bar with my girlfriend I was a brat!' into Psychedelic Furs' Heaven

03:05 'I think I'm regressing, I'm regressing back to 1984!..' The dB's - A Spy In The House Of Love.

03:09 'I'm getting a hold of myself, figuratively. No jerks, these guys were bigger jerks' Into Jump by Van Halen. Whistle to dog, whimper.

03:13 Everybody was a jerk in 1984, don't judge people by others' standards, unless you're U2.' Into U2s In The Name Of Love

03:17 White Lines by Grandmaster Melle Mel

03:22 Boys In Summer by Don Henley

03:26 'How do you like 1984, being stuck here, it's The Cars' It's Magic

03:30 'Not so sure about 1984, now I don't want to leave' David Bowie Loving The Alien

03:34 Dogs, 'It's morning again in America' audio bite on Fred Schneider's Monster 'Something I have to remind myself I'm doing pirate radio.. WDOG your source of information, and most important to dogs, piss information'

03:38 'Getting back into the usual WDOG high standards,' Into New Sensations by Lou Reed

03:43 'Oh no.. go along for the ride' Smiths' How Soon Is Now? CW n' barks

03:49 Gary Numan theme starts mixing into the Smiths, then into Michael Martin Murphey's Wildfire, into Bare Naked Ladies, then Pilot of the Airwaves by a female singer

03:55 Off air

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Audio: WDOG's audio barkin' in Opus

I don't know, for some reason I feel better when I listen to WDOG, they speak to me. I knew or have heard almost every song played tonight, or knew who the artist was. Great stuff from the 'Dancehall days'

Good signal all along, nice bass on a sideband signal that was locked on frequency for easy tuning, and clean audio, though phasing in the signal later on. I don't mind it, listening to distant AM stations, it doesn't bother me.

Barfy is an 8 pound Chihuahua.. :)]]> Radio Animal Free Radio Logs Thu, 04 Jun 2026 00:32:26 -0400 http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?5,11449,11449#msg-11449 http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?5,11449,11449#msg-11449
Recording and listening, mostly not logging the times, listen to the audio.

Curious mix of punk and underground rock, soul with what sounded like Miles Davis, mixed with Daddy Rich from the Car Wash movie, black poetry and spoken word, sounded like a college station late at night. Certainly different that what you usually hear on the shortwave airwave.

Ended with SSTV images:

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01:42 off air

Audio: Audio from Brain Injury Radio

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Cool stuff and a decent strength AM signal, though band had a big higher noise at that time, signal was hitting +20, not that common with my antenna on the WEB-888 SDR. I like the nice even frequency of 6900, feels boss.]]> Radio Animal Free Radio Logs Thu, 04 Jun 2026 00:25:03 -0400 http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?5,11446,11446#msg-11446 http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?5,11446,11446#msg-11446
02:35 Tune in to the end Spiders And Snakes the classic song, then into Flesh For Fantasy, man, haven't heard this for a long time, Billy Idol.

02:40, Kiwi waterfall ID '7Radio' into a song, 'rock until I die', talking about items from the rock world.

02:43 Pat Benetar's Hell Is For Children.

02:50 Sounds like AC~DC, Ride On?

02:54 Donnie Iris' Ah Leia, hey Pittsburgh band.

02:58 Hell In A Bucket by the Grateful Dead

03: (after Hell In A Bucket) 'Hope you all enjoyed the show tonight, thanks a bunch for the crew on HFU, signal reports, catch you next week.'

Waterfall picture.



Audio: The Sideband sounds of 7 Radio in opus


10 khz wide audio, real clear, no ultra compression as some of the sidebanders use, easy listening, with nice dynamics. Trying with the AGC off during the AC-DC, there was serious dynamic range, punch, great job, different!

Deep bass. Frequency sounded off at times, but could have been the SDR correcting? Going +10 to +25 hz seemed to fix it, at least it was a try, I couldn't get it to sound coherent.

Thanks for the show!]]> Radio Animal Free Radio Logs Sat, 30 May 2026 23:25:55 -0400 http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?5,11445,11445#msg-11445 http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?5,11445,11445#msg-11445
02:27 Birdland, with birds tweeting over it, including jungle birds and trees getting sawed down. Someone isn't being very friendly to our environment! Hilarious. Mourning dove coo follows.

02:31 White Bird by It's A Beautiful Day, this rocks on shortwave.

02:37 Bird tweets by themselves, sounding like an old record with clicks, into And Your Bird Can Sing by the Beetles.

02:40 Bird sounds, 'WBRD, the word of the bird' into a folky song, I Like Birds. 'Look at all the people like cows in a herd, I like birds.. I've got a feeder for you to perch on'.

02:43 Fly Like An Eagle, by Steve Miller band, 'Time keeps on slippin' into the future. At one time this was my favorite song and I played on a local diner's jukebox, along with Abba's Dancing Queen.

02:47 'WBRD, the word of the bird.. what they say is true, we are the proud descendants of dinosaurs' Beatles' Blackbird.

02:50 Rockin' Robin with bird tweets.

02:52 'Bird of prey, flying high, in the summer sky, take me' lyrics, Jim Morrison, Doors, Bird Of Prey in a techno version. Seance Tapes?

02:56 Buffalo Springfield - Bluebird 'There she sits, you sit there mesmerized, she got soul'

03:01 WBRD ID, sounding like it's in a bird's voice, into Psycho Chicken, to the tune of Talking Heads Psycho Killer. Doctor Demento had to play this.

03:04 Bob Marley Three Little Birds said, 'Don't worry about a thing, because every little thing gonna be all right.'

03:07 Canary In A Cola Mine by The Police

03:09 Pigeon coos, into Beatles

03:11 Mockingbird by Carly Simon & James Taylor, I had to look that one up, though it sounded like James.

03:15 Birds, Woody Woodpecker 'ah ha ha ha ha'. Into The Icicle Works - Birds Fly (Whisper To A Scream). I remember this, with groups like ABC and Frankie, OMD etc.

03:19 David Seville - The Bird On My Head 'I'm just sitting in a vacant lot, with a bird sitting on my head.' It's in the style of Witchdoctor.

03:21 WBRD ID, into Free As A Bird by the Beagles, Jeff Lynne.

03:25 Exotic bird tweets They Might Be Giants' Birdhouse In Your Soul started, then back to tweets, then the song mixed back in again.

03:29 'Pretend you're birds like us, shake your tail feathers' Big Bird and a friend? Into Rush, Fly By Night

03:33 Hummingbird by Seals And Crofts. 'Don't fly away, fly away'

03:36 Bird tweets with Road Runner's 'beep beep' in there, into Modern Lovers' Roadrunner, 'Power of the AM', yeah!

03:40 Tweety Bird song with Mel Blanc into Anne Murray - Snowbird, 'Spread your tiny wings and fly and take the snow back with you'

03:43 Bird with ID, 'Now is the time to fill all feeders, now is the time to spay all cats, now is the time to thank WDOG..' Into Freebird.

03:51 bird images in the upper sideband, "The bird is the word, everybody's heard' samples. This is done like Yaz's I Before E Except After C

03:55 Standard bird clip art image in waterfall, I think it's another station doing it though, as the bird sometimes was faded out while WBRD's signal stayed strong.



03:55 or so, off air?

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Audio:: The sound of the Bird


I felt I somehow had a psychic connection with what this station was going to be doing before the opener, Birdland, I heard the opening and thought, could it be, no way, but it was, a Spock thing between animals, I guess.. :)

Well this station did catch me, thrilling broadcast from a station I never heard before! I was glued to the radio, WEB-888 SDR.

Bandwidth is at least 4 khz and on frequency, making it easy to tune and listen to. Signal solid at all times, it wasn't going anywhere! Audio is really clear, I could hear the lyrics well, it was like good AM.]]> Radio Animal Free Radio Logs Sat, 30 May 2026 00:18:26 -0400 http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?5,11440,11440#msg-11440 http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?5,11440,11440#msg-11440
01:06 (9:06 local) Tube in to Papa's Got A Brand New Bag by James Brown.

01:10 El! with Heartbreak Hotel

01:12 'Most Friday nights, Ballsmacker Radio' into Doors' song about the Whiskey Bar

01:15 Delta Dawn, he'll take you to his mansion in the sky. Is Helen Ready? (Soupy Sales joke).

01:18 Golf Girl from Caravan, cool they played this, you don't hear it in the usual oldies play list.

01:23 'Tonight we have a special theme..' with e-mail, into Hotel California.

01:29 'Cry those ?? tears'? Sounded like it contained cussing, little dogs cover your ears.

01:32 Sierra Sue

01:35 'From some wire strung up in the trees, Ballsmacker Radio' into Dells' Standing Ovation

01:39 Van Halen, Yankee Rose.

Okay! Hear Bloodhound Gang a little later. What happened to that band?

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Sound: Ballz for toning, opus audio


Have to say it's a good signal tonight. It hit some selective fading for a while, but SAM mode helped on that, then the signal stabilized later. Morse code interference at times. Always enjoy the nice AM these guys put out.]]> Radio Animal Free Radio Logs Fri, 29 May 2026 21:48:58 -0400 http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?5,11431,11431#msg-11431 http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?5,11431,11431#msg-11431
01:40 Tune in to a Todd Rundgren song

01:43 'With the finest mix and the finest sound, you're listening to Mix Radio International' into Californication by Red Hot Chili Peppers.

01:49 'Seducing your ears with sound, more music, less B. S.' and into Dream Weaver by Gary Wright, great to hear this on shortwave and in wide band. It did sound like this on AM radio, but had more bass.

01:52 'Zone 27, .. Zone 28 .. New Zealand.. Proudly serving the planet, on the powerful signal of Mix Radio International' into Southern Cross by Crosby Stills Nash. Was Mix listening to U-phonia a few days ago?

01:58 "The hottest sound is on Mix Radio International" lady announcer into Lonely Boy by Andrew Gold

02:02 ID, into a song You're a survivor, I'm just a dancer.

02:06 'With the finest sound and the finest mix..' into Destination Venus, search says: The Rezillos - Destination Venus

02:10 Grinding electronic music, sounds watery, lower fi. A-ha, at :11, 'You're tuned to Hobby Broadcasting Radio. QSL at Blue Ridge Summit, Black Cat Systems software, oh oh, lower the volume of your music bed, the voice is being lost.

'Ballsmacker Radio is good at QSLing', yeah right, they stopped sending QSLs to me, and I use the address they announce on the air.

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Audio: Mix Radio on 6850

Wow, audio out to 12 khz, the maximum bandwidth that the WEB-888 can do, nice to hear all the frequencies.]]> Radio Animal Free Radio Logs Tue, 12 May 2026 22:33:30 -0400 http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?5,11430,11430#msg-11430 http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?5,11430,11430#msg-11430

00:50 Tune in to CSN's Down By The River. I just noticed how funky the bass line is on this song, good bass on the transmitter.

00:58 "You're listening to Radio Free Phonia on international shortwave" followed by CW keying. Male DJ says, 'We're going to QSY 6945, we have a little bit of sideband action here.'

00:59 Moved to 6945. Woman's ID, 'You are listening to..' into Southern Man by CSNY. I do see a carrier on 6935.

00:05 Cinnamon Girl by Crosby Stills Nash, must be CSN night.

00:08 THX movie audio sound, into is it Silver Bird?

00:12 The Needle And The Damage Done. Cell phone sound, like he got a message, a 3 key flourish.

00:14 Female ID, movie audio 'Half a pack of cigarettes, we're wearing sun glasses and it's dark..' Into a waltz time song by CSN, 'Only love can break your heart..'

00:17 Don't know this 'un, a jam track, fuzz guitar, 'Rust', 'It's the woman in you that makes you want to play this game'

00:28 'Neil Young night of all nights, have a happy sunday evening, this is radio free Uphonia, gone.' Into a Kraftwerk sounding tune.

00:31 Carrier Off

Audio: RFU audio in Opus
Easy to listen to audio looks like it's out to about 10 khz, nice smooth and flat quality, no funky EQ or limiting, like good AM broadcast. Thanks!

I saw CSN with Young, when he did an encore of his own new songs, going back to a more doo wop sound.]]> Radio Animal Free Radio Logs Sat, 09 May 2026 21:36:44 -0400 http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?5,11428,11428#msg-11428 http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?5,11428,11428#msg-11428

02:19 'He created a Thriller.." Announcer dialog about Michael Jackson. "You are listening to Radio 48 via Mix Radio International" ID, into PYT remix by Michael.

02:24 'With the finest sound and the finest mix, you're listening to Mix Radio Worldwide' over the end of PYT.

02:26 'Rockin' with the best, Radio 48' into another mix, then 'No no no, you don't love me, yes I know now' Reggae song.

02:30 Italo sounding techno in the mix.


Audio: MIX, MIx, MiX, mIX, mix

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Strong signal as usual for Mix, and had the great SDR waterfall pictures with Radio 48 and a bat animal icon. Locked on tight to the frequency, so even being in sideband it sounded good, once I expanded the goal posts on the WEB-888 SDR to widen the bandwidth to 10 khz. No complaints about their technical prowess.]]> Radio Animal Free Radio Logs Fri, 08 May 2026 22:38:12 -0400 http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?5,11427,11427#msg-11427 http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?5,11427,11427#msg-11427

01:50 Diana Ross, Missing You

01:53 Family Affair by Sly And The Family Stone

01:57 'Tonight we have a special theme, if you can guess tonight's theme..' with e-mail. Over intro, and into Mama by Peter Gabriel. Signal is peaking here, strong and getting a little unstable.

02:03 Song, sounds like Mother Mother. Is it Cheryl Crow? Throwing that out there.

02:06 Mama Said There'll Be Days Like This song, the Sherelles

02:09 I Miss You

02: Stacy's Mom.

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Auuuudio: BallsmackeRadio in AM, Opus browser play


Better signals than during the winter on Ballsmacker, it peaked up pretty good there for a few minutes. Nice job AMer!]]> Radio Animal Free Radio Logs Fri, 08 May 2026 22:18:32 -0400 http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?5,11424,11424#msg-11424 http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?5,11424,11424#msg-11424

02:30 Tune in to Brandy by Looking Glass "7Radio" ID in the waterfall.

02:31 Country rocker, 'I like some good times, cheap wine, sun shine.. You can try to change me or love me the way I am'

02:32 Song with lyric, 'Lie to me, go ahead and lie to me'

02:40 I remember this, oh Skinny Bop? 1990s.

02:44 Song started, some other digital transmission at 6915 for a minute.

02:48 '7Radio' on waterfall, into modern rock 'What a shame.. give this man his wings.. That's the man he was..'

02:52 Song, 'What you gonna do when the whiskey ain't workin' any more.. I can't see, I can't hide, because the voices in my head are getting louder every night..' Guitar rock.

02:56 7Radio, the wideband sideband.. Hope you enjoyed the show tonight, see you next week.'

Off Air.


Aaaaudio: Audio from 7 Radio 28 minutes, opus

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Six stations on and one time under great band conditions!

Finally a station without the crunched audio like other SSB stations lately, and a more balanced, flat frequency response where you can hear the bass. It sounds like good AM.

It helped that his signal was stable, few propagation issues messing with the phase. I didn't see a vestigial sideband below the frequency either, on the waterfall, as some of the other SSBers have.]]> Radio Animal Free Radio Logs Sat, 02 May 2026 23:07:42 -0400 http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?5,11422,11422#msg-11422 http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?5,11422,11422#msg-11422
01L19 tune in, to a rocker with harmonica, Dire? Only heard 10 seconds

01:20 John Denver - Sunshine On My Shoulder

01:25 'Tonight we have a special theme.. The songs we play tonight have one thing in common...' Over intro to Procol Harum's Whiter Shade Of Pale.

01:30 Sunshine Of Your Love by Creem

01:33 Hazy Shade Of Winter, 80s cover.

01:36 'From some wire strung up in a tree, BallSmacker Radio.' into Bring Me Sunshine, but sounding like some version of the Brat Pack singing it. Maybe it's Vic Fontaine.. :)

01:40 Moonshadow by Cat Stevens, I used to not like the theme of this song, but I like it better now.

01:42 Ain't No Sunshine When She's Gone by Bill Withers

01:44 'The Ballsmacker..' Standing In The Shadows Of Love by Four Tops

01:47 KC Und de Sonnenshein Band, Keep It Comin' Love

01:51 Shadows In The Moonlight by Anne Murray, man, the Carpenters could cover this one so easy.

01:54 '..Valid reception reports will receive a special E-QSL.' Giving e-mail address. Yeah right, the address no longer seems to be working, I haven't gotten a QSL or reply from them since last year.

01:55 Len's Steal My Sunshine. I think it's the sanitized Radio Disney version, which they played all the time.

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Audio: Ball's Audio in Opus for browser

Good sounding AM this week, and strengthy signal too, went from dips of S5 to to peaks near +10, not bad for the amount of attenuation in the antenna on the SDR, WEB-888.

Good band conditions too, not the lightning crackle of last night, though I can hear individual bolts at times, but otherwise pretty clean. Had a carrier and 'modem' sound blast in there a few times.]]> Radio Animal Free Radio Logs Fri, 24 Apr 2026 22:11:54 -0400 http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?5,11421,11421#msg-11421 http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?5,11421,11421#msg-11421
04:19 Tune in to song 'What You Need' by INXS

04:20 Another 80s sounding song, sounds like more INXS.

04:24 80s Rocker, maybe Aerosmith?

04:28 'You are listening to INXS Radio on pirate shortwave..' E-mail address, into New Sensation

04:33 The Devil Inside

04:37 More of a ballad, 'I was standing , you were there, two worlds colliding'.

04:40 Suicide Blond.

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Audio: IN EXCESS's audio in Opus


A Late late show station, didn't expect to find something this late! Clean, sounds like wide-band audio with good bass and flat response in the transmitter, studio.

Signal bouncing between S5-S8.]]> Radio Animal Free Radio Logs Fri, 24 Apr 2026 01:00:27 -0400 http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?5,11419,11419#msg-11419 http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?5,11419,11419#msg-11419
01:07 Blues rocker, I Put A Spell On You.

01:12 Radio Free Uphonia, 6935 upper sideband, he wanted to go on with the mode that more copyable in the storms, lower fidelity, but not too bad. Let's go with some CCR. Playing Rolling On The River.

01:15 CCR Bad Moon Rising

01:17 One of my favorites from CCR, and before that, oh yeah, Proud Mary. Let's continue the CCR.

01:21 Green River

01:24 'That was Creedence Clearwater Revival, before that we had Lodi.. Let's keep going while we still have time'

01:26 Down On The Corner by CCR

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Cool classic rock, and easy to hear, hardly heard any crackles on the S8 signal. CCR sure has a lot of hit songs!]]> Radio Animal Free Radio Logs Wed, 15 Apr 2026 21:27:40 -0400 http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?5,11414,11414#msg-11414 http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?5,11414,11414#msg-11414
Saw carrier come up on the waterfall a minute earlier, then started song

00:35 Edie Brickell - What I AM

00:39 'That was Edie Brickell and the New Bohemians on Radio Free Eufonia' into Info Society and What's On Your Mind song (Spock saying 'pure energy')

00:44 Pretty Boys And Pretty Girls

00:48 'This is Radio Free Eufonia monday night.. Pretty Boys.. Book Of Love, how is that for radio hosting?' Depeche Mode?

02:04 Sign off

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Audio: Eufonia's audio 15 minutes

Good 80s mix, with lesser known tunes! Carrier within a few hertz of 6935, and stable. Audio has the kind of 'older' modulation quality you heard on AM stations, like a local college AM carrier current station, running an LPB audio processor, a sound like WPGH had here in the 80s, or WYEP FM in the mono days, distinctive.]]> Radio Animal Free Radio Logs Mon, 06 Apr 2026 22:15:35 -0400 http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?5,11413,11413#msg-11413 http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?5,11413,11413#msg-11413
01:47 Tune in (9:47 pm local) Miss Me Blind by Culture Club

01:49 George Benson Give Me The Night, big hit in Pittsburgh

01:53 The Ballsmacker, 6960 AM with bowling strike sound, into Take me in your arms, rock me a little while by Doobie Brothers

01:56 Steely Dan - Don't Take Me Alive

02:01 The Who - See Me, Feel Me, Touch Me.

02:04 'Tonight we have a special theme.. We'll send a special e-QSL if you guess tonight's theme..' Yeah right, a likely story.. :) Into Motown's You Keep Me Hangin' On, by Vanilla Fungus

02:07 Who Can It Be Now by Men At Work

02:10 You Really Got Me by the Kinks

02:12 Don't Do Me Like That by J. Geils

02:15 Fly Me To The Moon by Frank

02:17 Take Me Home Tonight by Eddie Money



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Sound: BallllZ Smacker Radio audio


All the tunes tonight sound like a radio format that would have been heard throughout the Ohio Valley in the 1970s, good stuff!]]> Radio Animal Free Radio Logs Fri, 03 Apr 2026 22:25:03 -0400 http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?5,11412,11412#msg-11412 http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?5,11412,11412#msg-11412
01:06 Tune in to 90s rock, grunge.

01:08 'Don't go anywhere.. Radio 48', phony automated psychic. 'Find out if you're going to die, or make love, or die making love with a horse'. Fentayl PSA by Robert Denero.. The Now Sound, Radio 48 ID.. More music, play the music.'

01:11 CDs increase profit margins. 'That's important for a six year old to know'. Stoner type rock song.

01:20 'The sound of free independent music radio on shortwave..' into live tune.

01:23 'A free radio virus, free radio becomes a way of life.. This is Mix Radio International. Everything that rocks.. The station with the best music, in the mix, Mix Radio International.' A tightly mixed ID-promo section. Live song.

01:29 Modern Pop tune

01:31 Mixed into song, 'Found myself in Paris, we appreciate Paris' lyric, mix into this song sounded good.

01:37 'This is MRI-i-i-i' .. You are in the mix-x-x One frequency .. It's mix it's Mix' song, wow, intense production! into song, 'Make-up is a lie' with lyrics about returning to Paris, sounds like Morissey.

01:41 "You are listening to Radio 48 via Mix Radio International" into cover of Paint It Black
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Audio: Mix's audio tonite


Good sounding sideband transmission 6 khz wide audio, and songs you don't hear, great stuff!]]> Radio Animal Free Radio Logs Fri, 03 Apr 2026 21:52:17 -0400 http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?5,11409,11409#msg-11409 http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?5,11409,11409#msg-11409
00:33 As I was tuning in to slower electronic ballad, female singer, words rhyming, like 'finer' (fina), 'Miner' (myna).

00:34 DJ came on over 1970s electronic instrumental. 'It's really been great running the tunes for you tonight, it's time for me to go. Hope you enjoyed the show... This is Radio Free Phonia keeping it weird.'

00:37 Carrier off

Audio: Audio in Opus, from WEB-888 SDR, Pgh

Nice AM signal out there tonight, wish I'd heard a little more.]]> Radio Animal Free Radio Logs Mon, 30 Mar 2026 22:09:16 -0400 http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?5,11405,11405#msg-11405 http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?5,11405,11405#msg-11405

02:31 (10:31 pm local) Tune in to Ray Parker's The Other Woman

02:34 Sounds like Primus?

02:38 'You're listening to Radio Free Euphonia and that was .. now Les Claypool.. Song, 'You don't know how to play the game.. make me wanna cry'

02:42 'Radio free Uphonia, on the 43 meter band' ID by woman, into Too Shy by Kajagoogle. Oops, big signal fade.

02:46 DJ talking, into dance beat, like a euro-disco track.

02:50 Newer dance track with grinding keyboard, Junior Senior?

02:54 Ah, Foster The People, the DJ says, into pop track, Carried Away

02:59 Techno track.

02:02 DePooch Mode, mix of Behind The Wheel

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Audio: Uphonia recording, in opus

Deep fades, which seems to be the theme tonight, Ballsmacker was the same, down to S6, up to 9 plus. Good bass response, and the audio was compressed to sound louder. Good to hear a new station on the air.]]> Radio Animal Free Radio Logs Fri, 27 Mar 2026 23:12:58 -0400 http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?5,11402,11402#msg-11402 http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?5,11402,11402#msg-11402

01:50 (9:50 local time) Tune in to Tom Jones' Stay Until Tomorrow

01:53 Disco pop, 'Stay with me' song

01:57 'Stay with me', 2000s pop ballad.

02:00 'Tonight we have a special theme, if you can guess what it is..' Soul track, couldn't catch lyrics

02:03 Modern pop ?

02:05 I can't stay mad at you girl group oldie

02:07 'Most Friday nights, it's Ballsmacker Radio' into 60s 'stay with me' song.

02:10 Sounds like Sir Elton, Can't Stay At Home Tonight.

02:14 Song like 'At The Hop' knok off, Rock And Roll Is Here To Stay by Danny And The Juniors

02:17 'Nothing but the hits' ID, Song, 'only hearing the negatives.. turn the radio on, I miss you'

02:19 'I am glad you finally called me on the phone..'

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Audio: Balls Smacking radio in opus


It's something that dogs hear all the time, 'stay'. Good signal at times, some troughs into the noise. Always like these guys and their AM signal. Thanks!]]> Radio Animal Free Radio Logs Fri, 27 Mar 2026 22:30:16 -0400 http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?5,11398,11398#msg-11398 http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?5,11398,11398#msg-11398

23:52 (7:52 pm local) tune in to song Shattered Dreams

23:54 Duran Duran's Hungry Like The Wolf

23:58 'Black Cat Systems has been producing programs. You can download dozens of programs for Mac.. blackcatsystems com..' ad.

00:00 You're tuned in to Hobby Broadcasting Radio.. This is a pirate radio DX program. Wow, at first I thought this was Mix radio.

00:02 'Welcome to Hobby Broadcasting Radio.. back after a hiatus..'

Excerpts of various other pirate radio stations.

00:28 'Thanks for listening to Hobby Broadcast Radio' sign off with e-mail address, good night. Black Kitty Systems ad once more, with their programs.

00:31 ABC's The Look Of Love song. Great tune, since video features a Sheepdog.

00:35 Song with chorus 'Down on the street' Classy soul takes me back to 1982, even though I don't know this track.

00:38 Yaz - Don't Go

00:41 Mix Radio International ID 'Thanks for joining us'. Disco song where she has to find a man. Familiar but not fully. Typical of early 80s keyboard sound, Sylvester, Patrick Cowley.

00:44 Fine Young Cannibals I think, I call this song 'Gooseneck' because that's what I thought they were saying when I heard it back then, but it's Good Thing.

00:47 Broadcasting .. This is Mix, Into Captain Sensible's 'Wot' This sounds like a BBC chart show from 1981, or Rock Over London! Now I'm waiting for like, Toto Coelo, Spandau Ballet, Human League, OMD, Associates. I was on AM radio, playing all this stuff at the time.

00:51 ID, produced, and now, of course, Feels Like I'm In Love by Kelly Marie, had to look up her name, forgot that.

00:54 The station with the best music produced ID. I remember this song, Motown strings, fine little thing Shout To The Top? Net says, The Style Council - Shout To The Top, oh yeah, I remember these guys.

00:58 Reggae pop, Don't turn around?

01:01 Love And Pride, I think it's by King, that's what comes to mind for the band. Oh wow, I realised they're playing like Duran Duran in this.

01:05 Neverending Story, forgot the band's name, soundtrack.

01:08 Duran Darnit, Girls On Film, I would sing 'Dogs On Film' to this.

01:11 ID, broadcasting from America, into Kim Wilde's Kids In America.

01:15 'With the finest mix and the finest sound' ID I remember this tune, Don't Pay The Ferryman, from our local AOR station.

01:18 A, B and C again, The Look Of Love. They should play the long version with the sampling keyboard.

01:22 Blondie's Call Me

01:25 I know this voice, Jerry Knight? Sampling on the Fairlight?

01:29 I remember this, 'Get out of your lazy bed' lyric, like old swing. Needs Puttin' On The Ritz next.. :)

01:33 Feels Like Heaven

01:36 Blame It On The Boogie MJ cover

01:40 Kim Wilde's View From A Bridge

01:44 Sounds like Eurythmics 'words don't come easy.' then their song Respect.

01:52 Jammin'

01:54 ID 'Going out world wide' into Let's Go To Bed with The Cure, their first hit?

01:58 Ain't No Stopping Us Now. Waterfall logos started above the frequency, pirate ship, red pepper, MRI, Bermuda Triangle, Hot Mix, Skull, bat, HFU, Mix written like Meow Mix. Bandwidth reducd to 6 khz.

02:02 Human League - The Lebanon, haven't heard for years.

02:05 Can't fight the moonlight?

02:09 Imagination - Music And Lights

02:13 Eurythmics, sounds like the song is Sometimes

02:16 Dose of Italo started, cut off, new song started in 10 seconds, song in French begins.

02:22 When Smokey Sings by A-B-C, their biggest hit in the USA?

02:26 Doctor Beat

02:31 Duran Duran - Union Of The Snake

02:35 Loads of Mix picture icons on the waterfall between 3 and 6 khz.

02:


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Audio: Hobby Broadcast and Mix radio


Ha, I was going to get out of here in ten minutes to do something else, but the programming and good signal kept me locked in.

10 khz audio bandwidth, has a particular really strong audio compression that brings up every sound ,even hiss on the, tape? Transmitter op adjusted bandwidth downward during the broadcast for the voice audio apparently.

Audio is great, I think it could be this tight and loud but less strenuous to the ear, with some careful adjustment. Every beat or sibilance that has to recover is lost RF power in AM. No doubt it's tight, but jumpy, like listening to a Dolby C tape with no Dolby, or even DBX, compression release is super fast.

The initial impression is ultimate loudness, but that can be monotonic, I don't think I'd have lasted as long without the selective fades adding their flavor. Could some of it be the WEB-888? Can't complain, I'm compelled to listen, right? It's unique sound

Nice to hear something different, as there's not a lot of talk programming on the shortwave pirates, then the 80s 'New Romantic' British chart music was a winner.]]> Radio Animal Free Radio Logs Sat, 21 Mar 2026 22:59:35 -0400 http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?5,11396,11396#msg-11396 http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?5,11396,11396#msg-11396

00:19 (8:19 local time) tune in. Electronic, 80s sounding midi instruments.

00:24 'Embrace the freedom of a dead phone, emptiness is bliss, .. for now, unplug'. Guru wisdom, but modern, with F-bombs. Into a song with chorus, 'This is the beauty in poison'

00:30 Stern 'Mister Yuk' face on the waterfall display, into Song saying 'You are the one, who save me, from myself'

00:35 Lyric, 'Keep this fire away'

00:39 'No meteorites.. somewhere between pleasure and pain.. You're everywhere but in the present.. catastrophe' lyrics

00:43 Duran Duran - Save A Prayer

00:49 Heavy metal version of Save A Prayer

00:55 'Take a s--t,' Guru meditation funny. Techno tune.

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Audio: Stern Audio in opus


8 kilohertz audio tonight, with the great technical achivement of independent sideband stereo, with the WEB-888 SDR's SAS setting.

I could hear the stereo well when the signal wasn't fading too much, but signal phase flips caused panning. Sounds like less processing on the signal tonight and it's clearer.]]> Radio Animal Free Radio Logs Thu, 19 Mar 2026 21:03:23 -0400 http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?5,11394,11394#msg-11394 http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?5,11394,11394#msg-11394
00:07 tune in (8:07 pm local) Smooth techno

00:09 'With the best sound and the best mix, you're listening to Mix Radio International, shortwave' Into easy pop with smooth voice.

00:16 Song with lyric, 'How does it feel so good'

00:19 ID, 'The home of real music, Mix Radio International' into funky tune, 90s house sound.

00:29 Your free and independent music station rocking all over shortwave, this is Mix Radio International. 'In Real Life this is Mix Radio International' ID, into jazzy tune in foreign language, sounds like Italian, I heard 'Bambino' I believe.

00:34 IDs, Listening to Mix Radio worldwide. Into Giorgio sounding tune, yes, it's a reMIX of Coast To Coast bumper music.

00:41 'The sound of FM radio on shortwave..' ID

00:46 Live DJ, saying all kinds of people listen all over the world to smooth jazz.

00:52 Dee Jay says the internet might get cut and one way to keep going is shortwave. Song with lyrics 'Adjust your mind and the living is easy' with a 'dub' sound.

00:56 'The smoothest place on the planet is Mix Radio International' ID. Song lyric, 'I don't need a reason to feel justified.'

01:25 'With the finest mix and the finest sound.. Mix Radio Worldwide' Into jazzy piano tune, like a Vince Guiraldi


Audio: Mix's audio in Opus


11 khz frequency response, sounds great! Also had clear waterfall text above the audio, and they said 'Mix Radio International' MRI, Hot Mix, HFU, with pictures of a bat animal, skull and crossed bones, pirate with eye patch, radio waves, with everything nice and clear on the SDR's display (WEB-888).



Very good, and it is FM-like frequency response. I know, it's great to hear actual treble in a shortwave broadcast, I LOVE wide frequency response!

It sounds better if you increase the AGC decay time to 4000 milliseconds on your radio, I thought it sounded better.]]> Radio Animal Free Radio Logs Sat, 14 Mar 2026 21:44:10 -0400 http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?5,11393,11393#msg-11393 http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?5,11393,11393#msg-11393
Tune in at 9:45 (09:45 UTC) to Kinks' Destroyer, 'Paranoia, they destroy ya'

01:49 The Ballsmacker, 6060 Keel-o-hertz AM into She Drives Me Crazy by Fine Young Cannibals

01:52 Later edition KISS, no makeup, thought so, Crazy Crazy Night.

01:56 Is everybody going crazy song.

01:59 'Tonight we have a special theme', send in valid reception reports. Into is this Glenn Frey? I used to like this song on rock radio.

02:04 Green Day's 'Basket Case'

02:07 Gnarls Barkley's Crazy.

02:10 Most friday nights.. it's Ballsmacker Radio, with bowling strike sound effect. Into pop rock tune Lyric: '.. you gotta be out of your mind, crazy.. Gotta be crazy baby'

02:14 Into bassy song, singing along with vocoder harmony, can't catch the words.

02:16 Insane In The Brain

02:19 'Nothin' but the hits..' into Don't You Love Her Madly by The Doors.

02:23 'I'm wired a different way.. don't change me.. I wanna be a part of something I don't know' song

02:25 Ba-lack Sabbath! - Paranoid.

02:28 'Playing the greatest hits of all time, the Ballsmacker, 6960 shortwave' into Crazy, Patsy Cline.

02:31 Napoleon X111's They're Coming To Take Me Away a Dr. Demento classic spin! It has the great line, 'They'll put you in the ASPCA you mangy mutt'

02:33 Seal's Crazy, 'Never gonna survive unless we are a little bit, crazy'

02:39 SSTV, decoder didn't catch, likely because the preamble was in a fade condition.

02:40 'That's our show for tonight.. songs have one thing in common' sign off message, into Wildfire interval.

02:42 Sign-off


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Audio: BALL, audio in opus, follows log


Nice Signal this week, might have been helped by getting the antenna out from under snow and off of the ground. but good signal and band is quiet here. SAM synch mode used since signal was selectively fading.

Stern Radio was down at 6944, no clashing sidebands.]]> Radio Animal Free Radio Logs Fri, 13 Mar 2026 23:12:26 -0400 http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?5,11388,11388#msg-11388 http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?5,11388,11388#msg-11388

01:59 Wildfire piano interval signal

02:00 (9:00 pm local) 'Good Evening Hamm sammiches..' introduction, into Everybody Dance by Chic. Nice to hear some disco!

02:06 Police, Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic

02:10 Hot Chocolate - Every 1's A Winner

02:14 'Check out our Website at Balllsmacker net' into Everybody Hurts

02:20 Chicago - Stronger Every Day

02:24 Wang Chung's Everybody Have Fun Tonight

02:28 'Tonight we have a special theme, if you can guess what it is.. Guess tonight's theme..' Into Wham - Everything She Wants

02:34 Every Time You Go Away by Paul Young

02:38 Every Day Is A Winding Road, Cheryl Crow

02:42 "From some wire strung up in a tree, BallsMacker Radio" into Tears For Fears -

02:46 Cyndi Lauper - Money Changes Everything

02:51 Every Time I Think Of You

02:55 The Ballsmacker, 6-9-6-0 kiilohertz AM. Into Elvis C. Every Day I Write The Book.

02:59 Every Rose Has It's Thorn.

03:03 EVery Breath You Take - Police

02:07 'Tonight we have a special theme.. ' Into I Want To Be With You Everywhere.

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Audio: B ALL Smacker Radio in opus browser playback

Good signal tonight, getting some static build-up with rainy conditions coming. There were some long fades and some data a kilohertz above, on 6961, and another station below to avoid, but generally it was heard all night.

Thanks BallSmacker!]]> Radio Animal Free Radio Logs Fri, 06 Mar 2026 22:20:12 -0500 http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?5,11385,11385#msg-11385 http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?5,11385,11385#msg-11385

02:59 Tune in to We Are The Champions by Queen.

03:00 You Can't Stop The Music, sounds like the Village People boogieing down.

03:03 'Tonight we have a special theme, if you can guess what it is..' Into Dire Straits, about a rock and roll station, movies on location.

03:09 Gold Finga, from the James Bond movie.

03:11 Remake of Hazy Shade Of Winter, I used to play this, I think it's Bananarama.

03:14 'Most Friday nights..' into Searching For A Heart Of Gold by Neil Young

03:17 Beck's 'Loser'

03:21 Sounds like an easy goer by Fleetwood Mac, 'You won't forget me.. the Woman that loves you..'

03:26 Sting, Upon The Fields of Gold

03:29 Get Up And Boogie by Silver Convention

03:33 Rap, new type, can't catch a name

03:35 "Playing the greatest hits of all time, the Ballsmacker, on 6960 shortwave" into David Bow Wow's Golden Years.

03:39 Phoebe Snow You are the Poetry Man, you make things all rhyme.

03:43 'Check out our website at Ballsmacker net.' Into an Olympics theme, 1984?

03:47 Bowling ball pin smack, into SSTV, the 'pink bowling ball' one. Excellent reception. FSK ID: BALLSMACKE



03:48 'Tonight, a special theme.. have a good night' sign off statement, into Wildfire interval.

03:51 Carrier off


Audio here - Listen here in Opus


Nice and tight on frequency, 1.0 hz off according to the WEB-888 SDR's GPS connection. Decent signal up to S9 and a little more, kind of hissy on the band though

Long fades, but not selective, phase type of fading.

Good variety of music and some favorites from the past!]]> Radio Animal Free Radio Logs Fri, 27 Feb 2026 23:10:11 -0500 http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?5,11382,11382#msg-11382 http://www.frn.net/vines/read.php?5,11382,11382#msg-11382

00:58 (8:58 local) Opening piano from Wildfire, MMM.

01:00 'Good evening ham sammiches..' intro into Ohio Players' Fire

01:04 Wild Horses

01:10 In The Year Of 2525

01:13 'Check out our website at ballsmacker net' into Fleetwood Mac

01:17 Sounds like U2 'You left my heart like a vacant lot' lyric. Wild horses mentioned, who is going to ride them.

01:23 I don't know, Linda Ronstadt?

01:26 'Tonight we have a special theme..' into Country tune, Fire On The Mountain

01:30 Horse With No Name

01:34 Oh Oh She's The Girl.

01:37 'From some wire strung up in a tree, Ballsmacker Radio..' into

01:41 Wrecking Ball

01:44 It Was A Very Good Year

01:49 The Ballsmacker, 6960 keelohertz AM. into Smoke From A Distant Fire

01:53 'I'm not a princess, this is not a fairy tale .. White Horse'

01:56 Steely Dan - Reeling In The Years.

01:00 'Valid reception reports will receive an e-QSL..' Into We Didn't Start The Fire

01:05 Crazy Horses

02:08 Year Of The Kitty. I like the album cover for this, all kinds of cat products on someone's bureau.

02:14 'Most friday nights.. Into All Fired Up

02:18 Save A Horse, Ride A Cowboy.

02:22 I'll Keep Holding On

02:26 'Nothin' but the hits' Paper And Fire

02:29 Wild Horses

02:32 Golden Years

02:36 'Playing the greatest hits of all time, the Ballsmacker..' Kisses Like Fire, Pointer Sisters

02:39 'Woo hoo, woo hoo' You're Not The One For Me

02:42 'Check out our Website..' into Still Crazy After All These Years

02:45 SSTV



02:47 'That's our show for tonight..' Signoff. Wildfire interval.

02:49 Carrier off

Audio: Ballsmacker whole show in Opus audio


Good signal tonight, no interference from junk like sounders or digital noise, but there was a higher background hiss level than there has been on the band generally, likely from warming temperatures. Signal hit some levels over S9, and had some fades, including selective, so I went to SAM on the Pittsburgh WEB-888 SDR.

Thank you BallSMacker!

Boom]]> Radio Animal Free Radio Logs Fri, 20 Feb 2026 23:03:08 -0500