Free Radio Weekly #1387

Free Radio Weekly #1387, Saturday, October 22, 2022
Covering free radio activity from October 15-21, 2022

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 inpoots!


== FRW editors ==

Harold Frodge (99crawdads@gmail.com)
Dave Turnick (caodwolf@gmail.com)
Larry Will (radio@zappahead.net)

FRW 1387 - October 22 - Larry
FRW 1388 - October 29 - Dave
FRW 1389 - November 5 - Harold
FRW 1390 - November 12 - Larry


== Contributors ==

Rick Barton
Arizona
Drake SW1, long wire

Martin Foltz
Sarasota FL

Harold Frodge
5525 Whitehall St., Midland MI 48642-3156
Drake R8B + 185' RW

William Hassig
williamhassig@yahoo.com

Glenn Hauser
P O Box 1684
Enid OK 73702
wghauser@yahoo.com
NRD-545 with ALA-330S, IC-R75, PL-880, random wires

Ron Hunsicker
1238 Cleveland Avenue
Wyomissing, PA 19610-2102
ronhunsi at ptd dot net

Mark Taylor
Madison, WI

Larry Will
Mount Airy, Maryland
Icom IC-R75 andf various wires

Ken Zichi
107 W Riverside St
Williamston MI. 48895. USA


== North American shortwave ==

** Ballsmacker Radio

10/15, 0100, 6960am. Synth woman, 'You are listening to Ballsmacker Radio, 6960 AM. Somewhere in the Northeast", "Wicked games" - Chris Isaak, "The Name Game" - Shirley Ellis, IS w/ bowling pin sfx, "Games People play" - The Spinners and on with program of "games" themed songs w/ frequent ID's. Good signal, although noisy. (Taylor - WI)

10/15, 0103, 6960am. On Barrington Hills IL sdr with weak poor S5 to S7 signal, at 0107 switched to Brookfield WI sdr with varying S7 to S9+10 signal, various tunes with a "game" theme. (Hassig-IL)

** Damn Skippy

10/21, 2331, 6955usb. SSTV, and into technotrance-like music. Hard copy, ID from SSTV decode on the hfu. s3/s5. (Will-MD)

** High Lift Radio / Outhouse Radio

10/14, 2327-0042*, 6960usb. IDs as High Lift Radio through-out the BC, but SSTV at 0040 shows Outhouse Radio. Bells, laughter, chatter, and music. Plagued by noise. (25342, Hunsicker, PA)

** KTVI

10/15, 1309-1358*, 6925am. Carrier appeared at 1309 and then Halloween music. Emmanuel Goldstein is operator, and this was a special European edition. Mail drop and QSL info. Code ID at 1322 that I could not read. (45453, Hunsicker, PA)

** Mix Radio International

10/16, 2331-2334+, 6880am. Another rock music pirate; Stones’ ditty to voice ID @2333:30. SIO=453 (Frodge-MI)

10/17, 0058, 6880am. Several IDs in a row, into a program of oldies Top 40’s program including “Whem I am your baby” and ”Johnny Angel” with periodic IDs … off 0304. Fair to good. (Taylor – WI)

** Mushroom Head Radio

10/15, 2320, 4124usb. On Barrington Hills IL sdr with weak S3 to S5 signal, hear rock music just over the noise. (Hassig-IL)

** Old Time Radio Show

10/19, 0104-0133*, 6930usb. Halloween songs, many about goblins. IDs @ 0112 and 0125. Announcer talks over the music. Fuzzy, perhaps the bandwidth (3000 Hz) was a bit narrow? (35353, Hunsicker, PA)

** Outhouse Radio

10/15, 0004, 6960usb. On Barrington Hills IL sdr with weak S5 signal, mournful pipe organ music, came back at 0010 utc and various Halloween heavy metal tunes. (Hassig-IL)

10/15, 0229-0252, 6950usb. ID at 0240 and an SSTV ID at 0251. Heavy metal music. Just usable most of the time. (25432, Hunsicker, PA)

10/15, 2317, 6933usb. Contemporary dance music, talk at one point however noisy and weak signal so could not understand, SSTV (a goblin) before going off. Off and on for the next hour which I did not track with other pirates also on. Others reported an Outhouse SSTV ID at the end of the last program. Poor – fair at times. (Taylor - WI)

10/15, 2323, 6933usb. On Barrington Hills IL sdr with fair S5 to S7 signal, sounds like heavy metal rock, at 0020 utc SSTV/FAX then another one at 0022 utc. (Hassig-IL)

10/15, *2341-0026+, 6933usb. Outhouse Radio w/’strange stuff’ like “Sugar, Sugar” (The Archies) but w/sheep bleats and ‘skipping record’ effects and at :45 something with a heavily synthesized drum track and more ‘heavy metal’ type music that I don’t have a clue about. Then some ‘spooky environmental’ stuff, again, no clue what it was. Several fuzzy SSTVs and some ‘Robo-YL echo repeats of ‘radio’ between the SSTVs at 0020-22. Then more hard rock stuff. Rough copy. 3+5443 *2341-0026+ 15-16/Oct RSPdx +SDRuno +FLdigi +ANC-4 +randomwire, +MultiMode Mac IQ recorded --Zichi MI

10/17, 0051, 6935usb. Punk, "I'm God, Your God, We are all God", "There's nothing wrong with your radio ... We control" … looped and repeated, punk, rock ballad, 0059 ID, 'lets not have no confusion now', "Fish Heads", 'that was for you Badfish. Outhouse Radio', Hard rock until I pulled the plug. Fair. (Taylor – WI)

** Radio Free Whatever

10/17, 2223, 6955usb. DJ Dickweed with introductory talk, wondering if he is getting out, Indie rock, ID, more music, DJDW with talk, shout outs to HFU folks noting where he is being heard ending with ID, into more music. Fair. (Taylor – WI)

10/17, 2310, 6955usb. Pirate music VP S6/7. Many reports here as RFW > Radio Free Whatever: [www].hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,103399.0.html (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

10/18, 2305-0105, 6955usb. Dick Weed with lots of indie rock. Signal much weaker after 0030 and not sure when the BC ended. (45444, Hunsicker, PA)

** Radio Gaga

10/15, 0135, 6925usb. On Barrington Hills IL sdr with fair S5 to S9 signal, heavy metal guitar solo then what sounds like Frank Zappa music, off at 0150 utc. (Hassig-IL)

** Unid

10/13, 0148, 6932usb. Scary sound effects (tones and ascending / descending tones, sinister laughter, etc. SSTV (Monkey riding a pig) - OM in non English language and talking, 0206 off. Fair. (Taylor - WI)

10/15, 2330, 6925usb. Waterfall images of spiders, then snakes (or whatever they are supposed to be) about 7 times, off. Fair. (Taylor - WI)

10/16, *0003-0059*, 6960am. UNID Music and no announcements at all. Songs included “Year Of the Cat” (Al Stewart), (Blood Sweat & Tears) “And When I Die” and “Black Water” (Doobie Brothers) and “Jessica” (Allman Brothers Band) among other good oldies. 453+3+3 proud carrier, but band noise and somewhat weak modulation did it in *0003-0059* 16/Oct RSPdx +SDRuno +FLdigi +ANC-4 +randomwire, IQ recorded --Zichi MI

10/16, 2040-2053+, 6920usb. Another rock music pirate; no ID offered. SIO=454 (Frodge-MI)

10/16, 2323-2331+, 6925usb. Another rock music pirate. No ID offered. SIO=4+54+ (Frodge-MI)

10/17, 2136-2149+, 6925usb. Another rock music pirate. Hard rock w/crowd noise. No ID offered. (Frodge-MI)

10/18, 0115-0130, 6970usb. Interval signal through 0125, then a vocal. Unintelligible due to narrow bandwidth. (35352, Hunsicker, PA)

10/18, 2338-2350, 6930usb. Hard rock, head-banger stuff. Occasional “Oh, yeah,” from an OM. Just usable at times. (25342, Hunsicker, PA)

10/19, 0018-0057*, 6935usb. Song “Honey, Honey” played several times, maybe in in loops. Laughter, odd noises, and strange voices. q(25342, Hunsicker, PA)

10/19, 0027-0038+, 6930usb. Another rock music pirate. Variety ditties; techno, EZL, weird ditty about cannibal animals. No ID offered. SIO=3+54- (Frodge-MI)

10/19, 0130-0140+, 6850am. Another pop music pirate; no ID offered; Techno-ish & new wave-ish ditties? SIO=353, fady (Frodge-MI)

10/19, 0245-0249*, 6930usb. Started at 0247 with a single rock tune. No announcer’s voice. (25342, Hunsicker, PA)

10/19, 0301-0304*, 6930usb. Started at 0301 and played a single song, too weak to understand. Don’t think that it was the same song as at 0245. (25341, Hunsicker, PA)

10/21, 2257, 6935usb. Creepy 1950s/1960s style music, The Mummy's Bracelet by Lee Ross. 2258, Contrails, Mummy Walk, Walking Death. 2302, spoken word bit, and into Werewolf by Carl Bonafede. 2304, more werewolf rock, "everybody howl". 2306, Teenage Werewolf movie trailer, into I Was a Teenage Monster by The Keynotes. 2310, Teenage Creature by Lord Luther. SSTV at 2312. 2314, Creature From Outer Space by Sonny Day. SSTV again at 2224 and into the classic "The Blob". Off at 2330. s9, good. (Will-MD)

** WDTD Radio

10/19, 0010-0058*, 6930usb. Halloween music, odd (scary) noises, strange utterances. ID @ 0015. (25342, Hunsicker, PA)

** WJAN

10/14, 2356-0019*, 6935usb. Bad Moon Rising, Don’t Bogart the Joint, Jumpin’ Jack Flash. Jumped into and out of many songs. (35454, Hunsicker, PA

10/15, 0014, 6935usb. On Barrington Hills IL sdr with fair S7 to S9 signal, pop-rock from 1970's and 1980's. (Hassig-IL)

** Wolverine Radio

10/15, 2358, 6950usb. On Barrington Hills IL sdr, came on at 2358 utc with S7 to S9+ signal, song "radio man" by Al Jolson, old timey country tune about radio, Joni Mitchell "you turn me on I'm a radio", "radio" themed program with various tunes with the word "radio" in them, at 0048 John Hiatt "pirate radio", at 0101 utc echo ID then SSTV/FAX, thanks for the nice program. (Hassig-IL)

10/15, 2358, 6950usb. 'Testing 1, 2, 3. Can anybody hear me?' IS, 2359 ID, "Mr Radio Man" - Al Jolson, "Rhythm on the Radio" - Louis Prima, "Heaven's Radio" - Molly O'Day & the Cumberland Mountain Folks, "You turn me on, I'm a radio" - Joni Mitchell into a program of “radio” themed songs with IDs periodically, 0100 "echo" ID, SSTV (20's picture of man in radio studio - "Wolverine Radio"), off. Very good. (Taylor - WI)

10/15, *2358-00xx, 6950usb. Wolverine Radio w/“can anybody hear me” “Interval Signal” and into “Mr Radio Man” (Al Jolsen) (A tune from the Jazz Singer you just don’t hear enough!), “Rhythm on the Radio” “Louis Prima), “Heaven’s Radio” (Molly O’Day & the Cumberland Mountain Folks), “You Turn Me On I’m a Radio” (Joni Mitchell). Also played (Warren Zevon) “Mohammed’s Radio” and “Radio Radio” (Elvis Costello & The Attractions) among lots of other ‘radio’ themed stuff and of course, “Radio Nowhere” (Bruce Springsteen) to round out the hour. Several ‘echo’ IDs including at start and at :07, :17 and at end at 0100 among others. and the usual SSTV to match the show’s theme. (Rather fuzzy despite the nice clean signal!) 554+4+4+ THIS close to all 5s with nice wideband clean audio *2358-00xx 15-16/Oct RSPdx +SDRuno +FLdigi +ANC-4 +randomwire, +Multimode Mac, IQ recorded --Zichi MI

** WPIG

10/15, 0002, 6950usb. On Barrington Hills IL sdr with fair S7 to S9 signal and heard oinking noises and then "this is the voice of the trough, WPIG", various heavy metal tunes, variety of hard rock tunes sung by women, at 0100 CW ID (?) then Porky Pig saying "that's all folks" with merry melodies music then off air. (Hassig-IL)

10/15, 0026, 6950usb. Pig and pork related songs with frequent IDs including “Pigs in Zen” – Jane’s Addiction, “Piggies” – Beatles, “Pigs on the Wing 1” – Pink Floyd. Pigmeat came on and acknowledged WDOG as relaying the program (with some reservations as dogs have been known to eat pig meat) … Good, S8 signal. (Taylor - WI)

** WTF Radio Worldwide

10/13, 2325, 6925usb. S6/S7 of pirate music, ``Lay, Lady, Lay``. Many logs here of WTF Radio Worldwide: [www].hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,103208.0.html Nothing else heard on pirate band now (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

10/14, 2226-2348*, 6925usb. Synthesized music, some elevator music, adv for Bulova watches, Baby Elephant Walk., and a weather report. Regular IDs by OM. (45555, Hunsicker, PA)

10/14, 2243-2248+, 6925usb. Voice ID! “WTF Radio Worldwide...on the east coast of North America”; weird tunes including the Lollypop tune @2246:16. SIO=3+54 (Frodge-MI)

10/18, 2346-2358*, 6925usb. Walk Like an Indian and more. ID @ 2356, then a PSA of some sort. (Hunsicker, PA)

** Yeah Man Radio

10/21, 2213, 6950usb. Music, Mellow Yellow. Very good signal, s7 peaks. "Solid gold" liner at 2217, into Steam, Na Na Hey Hey Goodbye and off at 2221. (Will-MD)

** YHWH

10/18, 0215, 7475am. Familiar voice of Josiah Elias again, familiar monologue, strong signal tonight, Days of Hard Life and going to live segment at 0251. This is Josiah Elias saying good night & off at 0255. Pushing meter up to S9 -- Good Barton-AZ

10/15, 0210, 7475am. (In progress at tune-in), familiar voice of The Oracle of Olancha, Josiah Elias, fair signal tonight, peaking out S-meter bars to just under S9. Reset of the Commandments at 0235, closing ann and Days of Hard Life at 0250. Contact info and warnings about pending nuclear war, "Good night folks, I love you" and off 0258. Logged with SW8, long wire -- Fair to Good Barton-AZ


== European shortwave

** Unid

10/15, 0503-0515+, 6931.07am. Weak music; no talk or break detected. [HFU says Indy Radio, a Euro] (Frodge-MI)


== QSL ==

** Mix Radio International

6935 kHz, eQSL in 3 days for an email report (MF-FL)


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Regards, Lw