Free Radio Weekly #1390

Free Radio Weekly #1390, Saturday, November 12, 2022
Covering free radio activity from November 5-11, 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 1390 - November 12 - Larry


== Contributors ==

Jack Amelar
13110 Victory Woods Dr NE
Lowell, MI 49331-8857
jamelar@yandex.com

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

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


== Commentary ==

Reception conditions were bad last weekend and the Barrington Hills IL sdr was and still is missing. Also the Normal IL sdr disappeared several weeks ago. (Hassig-IL)


== North American shortwave ==

** Ballsmacker Radio

11/5, 0106, 6960am. On Brookfield WI sdr with poor/weak S7 to S9+ signal, heard what sounded like a Jerry Lee Lewis tune under the mud, variety of pop-rock tunes with the word "rock" in them. (Hassig-IL)

** KASS (Zeeky)

11/5, 0004-0125*, 6933usb. Zekey’s having a problem because his computer won’t work anymore. Hassled and was hassled by an interloper. Rough night for Zekey. Zekey needs more than 4MB of RAM… (35554, Hunsicker, PA)

11/5, 0006, 6933usb. On Barrington Hills IL sdr with fair/poor S7 signal, old heavy metal rock music. (Hassig-IL)

** Mix Radio International

11/6, 1930, 6930usb. Various upbeat pop music. Eurythmics mash-up at 2006. Time After Time by Cyndi Lauper at 2012. There appear to be occasional announcements between tracks, but if any ID was given, it wasn't clear. s5. (Will-MD)

11/6, 2148-2201+, 2251-2253+, 6930usb. Opera! Recheck @2251 & still opera; 2251+ roboW ID. SIO=453 (Frodge-MI)

11/6, 2201-2306, 6930usb. Classical Music Mix. An opera. 10,000 Hz was right. (55555, Hunsicker, PA)

11/6, 2228, 6930usb. Opera music, s15. (Will-MD)

** Outhouse Radio

11/6, 2312, 6955usb. Mellow jazz piano/guitar music, Outhouse Radio ID at 2317 and into SSTV. s5. (Will-MD)

11/6, 2313-2319+, 6955usb. Mellow jazzy ditty. ID @2318:23 into SSTV. SIO=353 (Frodge-MI)

11/6, 2334-0005, 6955usb. Long blues guitar solos with ID at 2354 and SSTV in Martin 1 to close the show. 4500 Hz seemed best. (35343, Hunsicker, PA)

11/7, 0153-0204, 6925usb. Faint music — Don’t You Cry No More. A descending noise source was moving very slowly through 6925 which thorough screwed things up. Long Cool Woman, Born to Be Wild, and an ID at 0204. (25342, Hunsicker, PA)

** Radio Free Whatever

11/5, 2204-2207+, 6955usb. Rock ditties; “...snap, crackle & pop, it’s the original Radio Free Whatever”. SIO=353 (Frodge-MI)

** Thunder Chicken Radio

11/5, 2133-0029*, 6935usb. Lots and lots of country music. Never heard an ID, but a 2213UTC SSTV transmission in Martin 1 (what TCR uses) was of the Thunder Chicken Radio cartoon of a rooster. Also, an image of tRump. An image of what I interpret to be a cat in the waterfall. There was a second waterfall image that I could not identify. 2800 Hz was good. (35353, Hunsicker, PA)

11/8, 2329-0123*, 6935usb. SSTV transmissions (for which I was ready) at 0008, 0028, 0054, and 0121. Something in the waterfall at 0043 for which I was NOT ready. ID at close. 2800 Hz best fit the signal. (35343, Hunsicker, PA)

11/9, 0011-0043, 6935usb. S9/+10 of pirate music, jazzy at first; 0028.5 SSTV beepery; 0030.5 back to music, now hard rock. Never any voice announcements, let alone IDs but this: [www].hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,105091.0.html has many logs of Thunder Chicken Radio with SSTV images including some fuzzy cheesecake (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

11/10, 2252-2325*, 6935usb. Concert by a solo male Blues singer. Enjoyed it. 2800 worked best. SSTV in Martin 1 with the TCR rooster, this time in shades. Extremely faint outlined words of 7 or 8 letters, first four “GOSR???” Closes with The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald and an ID. (35454, Hunsicker, PA)

** Truth Radio International / Midnight Radio Show

11/6, 1432-1508, 6925am. A vile broadcast describing how to harass coworkers and women. (35453, Hunsicker, PA)

** Unid

11/5, 2156-2207+, 6880usb. EZLish pop ditties; no ID offered. SIO=3+33+ w/grinding QRM (Frodge-MI)

11/6, 1310-1340, 6930usb. “7ii” repeated, odd music, comment about the ignoret, Gone at 1340? (25342, Hunsicker, PA)

11/6, 2201-2206+, 6925usb. Punk rock? into CCR ditty. SIO=3+53- (Frodge-MI)

11/6, 2230, 6958usb. Female reading numbers, ID "This is oscar november romeo (something unintelligible) radio". Fair signal, s3, squeal from nearby fishermen transmissions. (Will-MD)

11/7, 0058-0153, 6931am. Faint music; unusable. Checked occasionally but no better, usually just a spike from the carrier. (Unusable, Hunsicker, PA)

11/8, 2342-2350*, 6820usb. C&W music. “Baby, Won’t You Change Your Mind.” The carrier ended mid-song. (35342, Hunsicker, PA)

11/8, 2343-2352, 6935usb. Rock music + crowd noise; 2349:37 trill burst--some sort of new digithingy? & back to music? No ID offered. SIO=4+54+ (Frodge-MI)

11/9, 0230-0339,*, 6935am. Just a carrier spike, though I heard a brass instrument—a trombone?—at 0327. Here, 10 dB above the noise, as this signal was, does not work; I need at least 20 over for AM. (Unusable, Hunsicker, PA)

11/10, 0047, 6925usb. Hard rock, off 0054 mid-song. Returns 0126 with non-vocal metal tune, blues, Outer Limits TV opening theme. 0140 YL synth "Pirate Radio", no other announcement heard. Off at 0149. (Amelar-MI)

11/10, 0114-0114*, 6930usb. Middle of the Road music that started and stopped. (Hunsicker, PA

11/10, 0126-0140, 6925usb. Music with no ID. MOR, Blues, and some pop tunes. (25342, Hunsicker, PA)

11/10, 0050-0146+, 6935am. (B-Side Radio per HFU) 6935AM 10 November 2022 0050-0146* Just a carrier until 0135, then some faint rock music. OM talks and gave his name, which I missed. Touts the HF Underground as a source of information about Pirate Radio. Mostly unusable. (Hunsicker, PA)

11/11, 0108-0140*, 6930usb. Signal appeared at 0108. Repeated playing of “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald.” (25442, Hunsicker, PA)

11/11, 1335-1405*, Unidentified Carrier appeared at 1335. Veterans’ Day show with an oath by service persons, talks by Presidents Reagan and Kennedy, an explanation of Veterans’ Day, and a song by a children’s choir. Entire show repeated once. (45443, Hunsicker, PA) [wtfk? --Lw]

** WNFG Radio

11/10, 0019-0103, 6920usb. Twenty minutes of synthesized music and then the show turned to disparaging persons of color. Tuned away rather than listen. (35443, Hunsicker, PA)



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Regards, Lw