Free Radio Weekly #1434

Free Radio Weekly # 1434 – September 16, 2023

Covering Free Radio Activity from Sept 9 – Sept 15

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Editor This Week: Dave Turnick

EDITORS:

Harold Frodge (99crawdads@gmail.com)

Dave Turnick (caodwolf@gmail.com)

Larry Will (radio@zappahead.net)

Ron Hunsicker (frwrjh@ptd.net)

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Contributors

-Mark Taylor, WI

-Ron Hunsicker, Wyomissing PA

-Larry Will, Mount Airy, Maryland Icom IC-R75, Tecsun PL-990, various wires

-William Hassig, williamhassig@yahoo.com

All Times UTC

NORTH AMERICAN LOGS

Thunder Chicken

4185 USB Thunder Chicken, 0104, 9.9.23. 'Lazy', 'Space Truckin' ' - Deep Purple; SSTV, 'Ez Come Ez Go', ‘Modern day Cowboy', 'Little Suzi', 'The Way it Is' – Tesla; SSTV, 'Bad Little Doggie', 'Comfortably Numb' - Gov't Mule; 'How Soon is it Now?' - The Smiths, SSTV, 'Ghost Chickens in the Sky', 'Happy Trails' - Van Halen, clucks, "From the barnyard. Bouncing off the ionosphere. This is Thunder Chicken Radio." Thunder, 0224 off. Good. (Taylor – WI)

Thunder Chicken Radio, 4185 usb, 9-9-23, 0132 on Barrington Hills IL sdr with S9 signal, SSTV/FAX then heavy metal rock. (Hassig-IL)

WMPQ

6950 USB WMPQ, 0228, 9.9.23. 'Where the Wild Waters Flow' - Axel Rudi Pell, 'Man of Sorrows' - Bruce Dickinson, confusing ~ 1 minute of music / noise (if an ID didn't hear anything), 'Dancing with an Angel' - U.D.O., 'The Bard's Song - In the Forest' - Blind Guardian, SSTV (Pig w/ snout in camera "I turn vegetables into bacon. What's your Super Power?"), 'A Tale That Wasn't Right' - Halloween, bit of group singing, SSTV (pig), 'When All is Lost' - Symphony X, “This is WMPQ”, SSTV, 'The Unforgiven' - Metallica, "WMPQ", SSTV (pig), 'Lake of Tears' - Gamma Ray, ID, SSTV, “This is (??). WMPQ." 0319 off. (Taylor – WI)

WMPQ, 09/11, 0104-0153*, 6950usb. Via a recording, a program in progress. Mostly “unusable” due to noise and a weak signal. SSTV in Scottie 1 at 0106, 0145, and 0151, the last and ID that was just readable. (25352, at best, Hunsicker, PA)

WDOG

6960 USB WDOG, 0105, 9.11.23. WDOG playing George Harrison from different eras of his career including Beatles. Music included 'My Sweet Lord', 'Don't let me wait too long', 'It Don't Come Easy (Rough Mix)', 'You', 'Crackerbox Palace', 'What is Life' (w/ dog howl over intro.) Bits of talk by Harrison between songs along with periodic dog howls, barks, etc. over and between songs. Several IDs. Fair to good. Heard on Chris Smolinski's Kiwi SDR & 120' T2FD, Westminster, Md. (Taylor – WI)

WDOG, 09/11, 0104-0143*, 6960usb. Via a recording. Seemed to open with Material World and barking dogs. Later, howling dogs. ID at 0118. 2800 was a nice fit. (45454, Hunsicker, PA)

WDOG. 9/11, 0008, 6960usb. Music, My Sweet Lord by George Harrison. Dog howling and barking and into more music, Don't Let Me Wait Too Long by George Harrison. Very good, s15/s20 peaks. (Will-MD)

WDRD

105.5 WDRD, 09/12, 0216-0349*, 6924.78am. Via a recording, a program in progress. Rap, then rock DJ Crash Crash. ID at 0324. At 0336, a discussion of the Vietnam war started. 18,000 Hz audio bandwidth! (45443, Hunsicker, PA)

Foxy AM

09/13 & 14, 2329-0007, 6025am. A program in progress. Two men talking about pirate radio, who then tell the audience that they were about to launch their station. Music, some talk, CW at 2343, and more Rock/Pop music. ID at 2356. Later, the noise level increased, and the signal strength dropped, and I pulled the plug. (45443, Hunsicker, PA)

Mix Radio International

09/12, 0216-0233*, 6875usb. Via a recoding, a program in progress. Pop music at 11,000 Hz bandwidth. Waterfall images at 0229 with “MRI” and a bat. (45454, Hunsicker, PA)

Mystery Science Radio

09/09, 2325-2350, 6938usb. Cherokee Jack with some pop music and the Movie Bob Show. Played theme music from B-movies of the 1960’s, 1970’s, and 1980’s. 3000 Hz was good. Stopped listening because of nasty local thunderstorm. (35343, Hunsicker, PA)

Pirate Radio Alien

Per HFU), 2325-2359, 6950usb. Via a recording, a program that was in progress and which was very faint. Mostly not quite there or unusable. SSTV in Robot 36 at 2357 included the word “MAD” in the Mad Magazine type font. Was it over at 2359? Who knows? (Hunsicker, PA)

Radio Free Whatever

09/13 & 14, 2315-0007, 6950usb. Via a recording, a program in progress. Dick bought a $7 Chinese breathalyzer and was trying to get it to work with Dollar Store batteries. It was not going well. 4000 Hz sounded good. (35454, Hunsicker, PA)

Radio GAGA (or not)

09/11, 0303-0349, 6930usb. Via a recording, a program in progress. Mostly faint and unusable. Rock music. Strong signal at 6931.11, notched. ID SSTV in Scottie 1 at 0347, then gone. (Mostly unusable, Hunsicker, PA)

Zeeky Radio

09/11, 0104-0117*, 6934usb. Via a recording, a program in progress. Rock music and Zeeky. 3800 Hz was very nice. (45454, Hunsicker, PA)

Zeeky. 9/11, 0015, 6934usb. Music, Light My Fire by The Doors. "The best show in pirate radio with Zeeky" at 0018. Whining about "the haters" (presumably some of the people who post logs). Music by Jimmy Buffett at 0021. Very good, solid s15. (Will-MD)

Zeeky Radio, 6955 usb, 9-8-23, 0006 utc on Barrington Hills IL sdr with fair S7 to S9 signal, heard end of "Kansas City", then announcement then "Stagger Lee," much talk then Ricky Nelson "garden party" at 0017 utc. (Hassig-IL)

Radio Free Whatever

6950 usb, 9-13-23, 2333 utc on Brookfield WI sdr with fair S9 to S9+10 signal, song about batteries, DJ=Dick Weed saying he has a battery tester, after much talk at 2340 playing a rock tune. (Hassig-IL)

Voice of Laryngitis via UNID

6930 am, 9-10-23, 0101 utc on Traverse City MI sdr with fair/poor S9 to S9+20 signal, parts of the infamous Orson Wells "war of the worlds" broadcast along with seal barking. (Hassig-IL)

Wolverine Radio

6975 usb, 9-10-23, 0007 utc on Barrington Hills IL sdr with fair/poor S9 signal, swing music, Wolverine ID, slow dance tune, at 0010 switched to Traverse City MI sdr with fair/good S9+20 to S9+30 signal, at 0015 Hank Williams "I just don't like this kind of livin'," many nice tunes with the word "living" in them, at 0056½ echo ID then SSTV/FAX, thanks for the nice program. (Hassig-IL)

Ball Smacker Radio

6960 am, 9-9-23, 0137 utc on Ashley Falls MA sdr with fair S9 to S9+10 signal, pop music, a program of songs with the word "touch" in them, at 0243 SSTV/FAX, goodbye announcement, piano IS then off at 0247, thanks for the tunes. (Hassig-IL)

UNIDS

6955 USB 0044, 9.11.23. Program of segued rock music w/ 1 SSTV (beer glass). Fair. Heard on Chris Smolinski's Kiwi SDR & 120' T2FD, Westminster, Md. (Taylor – WI)

09/09, 2010-2057*, 6930usb. Via a recording, a program in progress. Pop music, than two Sherlock Holmes stories with actors Sir Ralph Richardson and Sir John Gielgud in the main roles. In the second, which ended abruptly, mid-story, the King visited, worried about his meeting with a woman. 3000 was best. (35342, Hunsicker, PA)

09/09, 2355-2344*, 6030am. Via a recording, a program in progress. Talking head explaining the world to listeners. (Hunsicker, PA)

09/12, 2218=2343*, 6030usb. Program in progress with vocals from the musical “Annie.” Followed by some dinner music and a bit of opera. 3600 Hz audio bandwidth. (35343, Hunsicker, PA)

09/12, 2353-2354, 6925usb. SSTV in Robot 36 that was completely unusable. Then an OM talked, followed by strange noises. (Hunsicker, PA)

9/11, 0007, 6955usb. Rock music, good signal, s9 peaks. (Will-MD)

EURO AND SOUTH AMERICA LOGS

None reported

EURO AND SOUTH AMERICAN UNID:

None reported

QSLS / SSTV / OTHER STUFF

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(Hunsicker-PA)

Electronic Mail Addresses for stations
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73’s & good hunting…

Dave