Free Radio Weekly #1439

FREE RADIO WEEKLY: #1439

Covering free radio activity from 13 October through 20 October 2023

Editor this week: Ron Hunsicker

Date emailed: 21 October 2023

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EDITORS:

Harold Frodge (99crawdads@gmail.com)

Ron Hunsicker (frwrjh@ptd.net)

Dave Turnick (caodwolf@gmail.com)

Larry Will (radio@zappahead.net)

Contributors to #1439

William Hassig, Mt. Prospect IL, williamhassig@yahoo.com
Ron Hunsicker, Wyomissing PA, ronhunsi(at)ptd(dot)net
Glenn Hauser, Enid OK, wghauser@yahoo.com
Ed Kusalik, Alberta, Canada
Mark Taylor, Madison WI

OUR EDITORIAL POLICY: All times and dates are assumed to be UTC.

North American shortwave stations

3WZO/3W2O

3WZO/3W20, 10/16, 0125-0141*, 6955usb. Via a recording, howls, and odd noises and waterfall images. One advised to “GET OUT” and the other seemed to be an ID. (Hunsicker, PA)

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77 Lima Juliet Sierra

77 Lima Juliet Sierra, 10/15, 2227, 6930usb. Barrington Hills, IL SDR with weak noisy S5-S7 signal heard woman singing classical music, male DJ spoke for about a half minute them more classical music sung by woman, at 2236 switched to Brookfield WI SDR with better S7 to S9+10 signal, male DJ reading about the classical piece just played or about to play, off air at 2302, thanks for the nice music. (Hassig, IL)

77 Lima Juliet Sierra, 10/15, 2257-2302*, 6930usb. Via a recording, a program in progress with opera. ID, program info, and the day at 2202. 3000 Hz. (35454, Hunsicker, PA)

Ballsmacker Radio

Ballsmacker Radio, 10/21, 0147-0242*, 6960am. ‘All by Myself' - Eric Carmen, 'All the Young Dudes' - Mott the Hoople, ID and eQSL offer for identifying the theme, ‘Party All the Time' - Eddie Murphy, 'All My Ex's Live in Texas' - George Strait, 'Shakin' All Over' - Jonny Kidd & The Pirates, ID, 'That's All' - Genesis, 'Bang the Drum All Day Long' - Todd Rundgren, "All Apologies' - Nirvana, ID, Gimme All Your Lovin' ' - ZZ Top into a program of 'All' themed songs, 0240 SSTV (Unusable decode here), "That's our show for tonight", ID, eQSL offer, "Wildfire" IS, off 0242. Good. (Taylor, WI)

Brain Brothers Pirate Radio Network

Brain Brothers Pirate Radio Network, 10/15, 0004-0050*, 6905usb. Via a recording, the sound of an airplane diving and then landing. Professor Plum and Miss Scarlet chat. 40’s and 50’s music—Boogie-Woogie Bugle Boy of Company B, A Train, In the Mood, Hello Dolly, others. Ad for Medicare Magic Hot Line at 0026. 3400 Hz bandwidth. (35454, Hunsicker, PA)

Brain Brothers Shortwave Radio Network, 10/15, 0026, 6905usb. Brookfield, WI SDR with fair S9+10+ signal, Connie Francis “Who’s Sorry Now” followed by comedy ad for so-called Medicare advantage then “Moonlight Serenade” by Glen Miller, 0039 “Hello Dolly” by Louis Armstrong, Connie Francis (?) “Where the Boys Are” goodbye announcement then nat'l anthem. Thanks for the program. (Hassig, IL)

EXP/WTF Radio Worldwide

EXP/WTF Radio Worldwide, 10/14, 0008, 6950usb. Barrington Hills, IL SDR with fair S5 to S9 signal, electronic music, announce, “Foxy Lady” by Jimi Hendrix, more Hendrix. (Hassig, IL)

KIPM

KIPM, 10/14, 2023-2158*, 6873am. Via a recording. Testing with starts and stops. Playing songs several times: Hot-Blooded, Slow Ride, On Radio. Skit with a captain of an airliner. Play, “The Dark Eye.” Alan Maxwell’s voice at 2153. The transmitter seemed to take a dump at 2158. (45454, Hunsicker, PA)

Outhouse Radio

Outhouse Radio, 10/16, 0037-0138, 6925usb. Via a recording, the program started with Hard Rock music. SSTV IDs in Scottie 2 at 0044, 0059, 0112, 0129, and 0136. SSTV images included ID’s and broadcast info. Very noisy and listening was unpleasant. (35352, Hunsicker, PA)

Outhouse Radio, 10/15, 0054, 6025usb. Brookfield, WI SDR with fair S9 scary symphonic music for Halloween. (Hassig, IL)

Radio Free Whatever

Radio Free Whatever, 10/14, 2127-2330*, 6950/6955usb. Via a recording, the broadcast started with music, likely being played backwards, many times. It was never explained. The RFW anthem and DW at 2134. Switched from 6950 to 6955 at 2153. As always, an interesting selection of Indy Rock. (35454, Hunsicker, PA)

Radio Free Whatever, 10/15 & 10/16, 2223-0044, 6955usb. Barrington Hills, IL SDR with fair S7-S9 signal, woman singing, I came back at 2303 on Brookfield, WI SDR with fair S9+10 signal after classical music station signed off, wide variety of rock music, listening I background while watching “60 Minutes” and doing laundry, DJ = Dick Weed signed off at 0044uc, thanks for the program. (Hassig, IL)

Radio Free Whatever, 10/15 & 10/16, 2257-0043*, 6950/6955usb. Via a recording, a program in progress. DW with another interesting selection of Indy Rock. A visit from a band of noise about 0006 and a slow loss of signal strength meant that, in Wyomissing, 0043 was a good time so sign-off since the signal was just about unusable. 4000 Hz sounded good. (35453, Hunsicker, PA)

Sycko Radio

Sycko Radio, 10/14, 0112, 6930am. Sycko playing Halloween music, sound effects, tinkering with his home built new transmitter and general talk. Music included; 'Ghost Train' - The Swanks, 'The Cave, Part 1' - Gary "Spider" Webb, 'Graveyard' - Leroy Bowman & The Arrows, talk, 'Teenage Creature' - Lord Luther and many others. Off 0248. Fair. (Taylor – Wi)

Sycko Radio, 10/16, 0219-0336*, 6930usb. Via a recording, this program, with a much stronger signal, started immediately after the unidentified Blues broadcast on this frequency. “Halloween Special Broadcast.” 3200 Hz was good. (35343, Hunsicker, PA)

The Doghouse

The Doghouse, 10/14, 0309, 6930usb. 'Gimme That Boom' - Skynyrd, waterfall image (late start only "The Doghouse" visible), 'Night Creature' - The Runaway, Op. with "Welcome to the Doghouse", 'Saturn' - Sleeping at Last, OM (not comprehendible), 'Set Fazers' - Skynyrd, OM w/ monologue about life span and people having disappointment about life, 'Valhalla Calling' - VoicePlay, 'Dog House Blues' - Bill Monroe, waterfall image part way through song (maybe dog skull and cross wrench / shovel), & back to finish song, Op. "yeah, Doghouse Blues", 'Sea of Memories' - Coldhaven, SSTV (Doghouse w/ dog print above door and "The Doghouse" printed on the door), instrumental, ID, 'Everybody Talks to God' - Aaron Lewis. Had to quit for bedtime. Op. sounded like Outhouse. Fair. (Taylor – Wi)

Unidentified

Unidentified, 10/15, 0049, 6950usb. S8/S9, sounds like old time radio drama; distracted by another on 6955-USB, so tuning forth and back. At 0051, 6950 is talking about SCOTUS as if in a documentary. 0104 in music. Meanwhile I switch to real music on Encore, 5850 WRMI, missing first few minutes. 0154 recheck, both pirates off. Many more reports of this as Zeeky Radio. (Hauser, OK)

Unidentified, 10/15, 0050, 6955usb. Right next to another pirate on 6950, music I would call ``trance``; 0056 cut to SSTV which presumably contained an ID but not for me; 0057 back to music; 0103 announcement maybe attempt at ID but all I catch is ``listening to me``. (Hauser, OK)

Unidentified, 10/16, 0042-0219, 6930usb. Via a recording, a program in progress. All Blues and all unusable due to a weak signal and strong noise. Bummer. Pretty sure the BC ended at 0219. (15251, Hunsicker, PA)

Unidentified, 10/17, 0640, 7300.09 approx., JBA S7/S9 talk probably sermon from the hamish pirate heard before only on UT Sundays but this is Tuesday. Nothing from another one now on 7320 (Hauser, OK, WOR)

Various

Various, 10/15, 0211, 6930usb. Jazz at S6/S9, 0235 more like soul vocal. These reports say it was Two Dog Radio until 0219*: followed by: Sycko Radio. and followed by a third one on same 6930 at 0253 I did not hear. (Hauser, OK, WOR)

WENO

WENO, 10/14, 0150, 6925usb. Initially a flute w/ Ute sound which ended simultaneously (initially thought it might be jamming over music), sfx, “WENO,” spoken word section, 0200 ID, another spoken word section, sfx incl. howling wolf / dog and nooding on a soprano sax? Chaotic section of sound effects and noise … finally got unpleasantly chaotic, so I tuned away. Fair. (Taylor – Wi)

Winking Al Radio

Winking Al Radio, 10/14, 2203-2312*, 6969usb. Via a recording, a program in progress. Weak signal until 2307. Frequent IDs by an OM, often repeated many times, sometimes over the music being played. Mostly Rock. 4000 Hz fit nicely. (35554, Hunsicker, PA)

WTF Radio Worldwide

WTF Radio Worldwide, 10/19, 0134-0143*, 6955usb. Caught the tail end of the broadcast: 'Tuesday's Gone' - Lynyrd Skynyrd, ID, off 0143. Fair. (Taylor, WI)

Yeah Man Radio

Yeah Man Radio, 10/15, 0030-0110, 6925usb. Via a recording, the program started with Up, Up, and Away followed by the Million Dollar Weekend. ID and frequency at 0054. (35453, Hunsicker, PA)

Yeah Man Radio, 10/15, 0054, 6925usb. Brookfield, WI SDR with fair but weak S7 to S9 signal and slight fading, pop tunes from the 1960’s. (Hassig, IL)

Zeeky

Zeeky, 10/14, 0004, 6957usb. Barrington Hills, IL SDR with fair S9 signal, punk rock tune playing. (Hassig, IL)

Zeeky, 10/14 & 10/15, 2343-0050, 6950am. Via a recording, the broadcast started with music at 2343. Zeeky chatted about jammers and such. Promised a history of 50’s Rock. Long political statement from 0038. 3400 Hz covered the signal. (45454, Hunsicker, PA)

Zeeky, 10/14 & 10/15, 2344, 6950usb. Brookfield, WI SDR with fair S9+ signal, s-on with woman singing “Daydream Believer” by the Monkees, at 2353 “I’m a Believer” by the Monkees, at 2355 “Rock Around the Clock” Bill Haley and the Comets, at 0000 “Suspicious Minds” by Elvis, at 0022 “Don’t Eat the Yellow Snow” by Frank Zappa. (Hassig, IL)

Zeeky, 10/15, 0045-0110*, 6950usb. Talk about the 4th amendment, mx by Bruce Springsteen and “go your own way” by Steve Nix Hrd via KiwiSDR in Midwest (Kusalik, Alberta, Canada)


European shortwave stations

Enterprise Radio

Enterprise Radio, 10/14, 1924-2002, 6955usb. Heard via KiwiSDR in NW Ireland. Many selections from Pink Floyd to Boston, ID’s as given with e-mail address as enterpriseradio@hotmail.com (Kusalik, Aberta, Canada)

Johnny Tobacco

Johnny Tobacco, 10/14, 2048-2102, 6290am. Via KiwiSDR in NW Ireland. Variety of music , gave out greetings to Fox 48, with reports from Canada and UK. Fantastic signal well over s9 to 20 DB’s (Kusalik, Alberta, Canada)

Radio di Mi Amigo

Radio de Mi Amigo, 10/14, 2024-2045, 6260am. Heard with a variety of music from pop to polka music. Many ID’s but no real e-mail address given. Heard via KiwiSDR in NW Ireland. (Kusalik, Alberta, Canada)

South of the Border

Hikiri FM

Hikari FM, 10/15 & 10/16, 0450, 6200am. (Pirate) testing again ---
6200 AM - For a long time I had not been hearing any Hikari FM
(pirate) signal and assumed he was having transmitter problems. Then
on both Oct 15 and 16, I heard an open carrier with good signal
strength (0450+ UT). Sent an email to the operator of Hikari FM,
inquiring if I was correct in assuming he was testing again. Here is
his reply, with the good news that he plans on returning to the air
before too long with actual audio.

"Yes, I am having problems with my amplitude modulator. I need an
audio amplifier to modulate it. The previous modulator got very hot
and it was very inefficient which led to its failure. Right now the
setup is a modulation transformer and I am building a class E audio
amplifier. This setup allowed me to step up the power a little. The
carrier is on because I will be doing some testing and pretty soon
will be back on air with music. This is if all goes by plan. There is a lot of new music that will be coming and another reformatting with
now separate time for electronic music and another time for Jpop.
Thank you very much for your support! Best regards." (Howard, CA)

Unidentified

Unidentified 10/16, 0655, 6200am. JBA carrier, probably Hikari
FM, the pirate in NW Mexico, which has been silent for quite a while.
First time I`ve heard a trace checking almost nightly. (Hauser, OK)

Unidentified, 10/17, 0645, 6200am . S7/S8 open carrier, presumably
Hikari FM, pirate still testing (Hauser, OK, WOR)

Unidentified, 10/18, 0656, 6200am . S7/S8 carrier, silent, or trace of mod? From presumed pirate Hikari FM (Hauser, OK, WOR)

Unidentified, 10/19, 0633, 6200am. JBA carrier, presumed pirate Hikari
FM, S7/S8 about equal to noise level., 7320 (Hauser, OK, WOR)

Unidentified, 10/20, 0635, 6200am. JBA carrier again presumed
from pirate Hikari FM testing (Hauser, OK, WOR)

QSLs

None reported

Otherness

Electronic Mail Addresses for stations

[piratedatabase.webhop.net]

Best regards,

Ron