Free Radio Weekly #1312

Free Radio Weekly # 1312 – May 15, 2021

Covering Free Radio Activity from May 8 - May 14

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Editor This Week: Dave Turnick

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Harold Frodge (99crawdads@gmail.com)

David Turnick (caodwolf@gmail.com)

Larry Will (radio@zappahead.net)

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Contributors

-Mark Taylor, Madison, WI

-Rick Barton, Sun City, AZ : RS SW-2000629 and indoor wire; Drake SW-1 and outdoor longwire

-Greg Majewski, CT : HF+ Discovery SDR and You Loop

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

-Larry Will, Mount Airy, MD : Icom IC-R75, Tecsun PL-880, Grundig Sattelit 6001, G5RV dipole and various wires

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

-William Hassig, williamhassig@yahoo.com

All Times UTC

NORTH AMERICAN LOGS

Colon Potato Radio

3145 AM PIRATE (No. Am.) Colon Potato Radio, 0115, 5/9/21. Chaotic collages of talk about potatoes, radio, bits of “announcer voice” items, a synth woman’s voice repeated something 6 times (unintelligible,) “Colon Potato Radio,” bit of talk about a 2 hour radio with mentions of Saudi Arabia, Australia into part of a lecture about something, 0127 off mid-sentence. Not sure it would have made more sense if conditions were better. Poor with lots of static QRN. (Taylor - WI)

WENO

6865 LSB PIRATE (No. Am.) WENO, 0020, 5/8/21. Ethereal music with a “monster” heavily distorted voice with possible ID or other talk – unintelligible into more music with occasional “monster” interruptions, clear ID at 0101 into more music. Fair. (Taylor - WI)

WENO 6965LSB 8 May 2021 0037-0049 Chatter in GG over music. ID at 0047. (45554, Hunsicker, PA

Mix Radio International

6910 USB PIRATE (No. Am.) Mix Radio International, 2309, 5/8/21. Familiar 80’s song, 2313 ID sequence, pause, ID for Cool AM Radio via Mix Radio International, “Dream on.” I checked the frequency frequently throughout the evening with ongoing music and frequent combined Cool AM / Mix Radio Int. ID sequences. Good. (Taylor - WI)

5/9 2306 - 5/10 0046, 6910USB Mix Radio International ID at 23009, Good show of music from all periods. ID included the line Your Summer Music Station with Blue Cheer's Summertime Blues. Had both male and female announcers for ID. Thanks to the operator for a good show. Good to Poor signal over the period. (Majewski CT)

Mix Radio International / Cool Am, 6910usb, 5-8-2021, 0003utc, fair signal locally, old heavy metal tune Joe Walsh "rocky mountain way", female DJ saying "Mix Radio International", faded a bit by 0024, at 0034 sounds like old Pink Floyd music from late 1960's, stronger on Dixon IL sdr, at 0037 long stn ID by female, long heavy metal version of "summertime blues" then male DJ with ID. (Hassig-IL)

Mix Radio International. 5/9, 0010, 6910usb. ID and mellow pop music. Very good signal. (Will-MD)

Goat Herder Radio

6924 USG PIRATE (No. Am.) Goat Herder Radio, 0020, 5/9/21. Zeeky talking with an ID into “Roll over Beethoven,” into a program of 50’s music including “I will follow you,” and “Blue suede shoes.” Frequent talk of goats, the music and many ID’s. Attempt at Easy pal image with failed, then later a successful Easy pal image however I had turned away. (Taylor - WI)

6925 USB PIRATE (No. Am.) Goat Herder Radio, 2125, 5/2/21. Lighter rock, several songs segued with pause between each, 2132 roots / folk sing, country song with steel guitar, Easypal image (didn’t have the program running – others got “Goat Herder Radio,”) into show tunes including yodeling song from “Sound of Music,”, live recording of “Yesterday,” pulled the plug at that point. Good. (Taylor - WI)

5/9, 0134-0158* 6924USB Goat Herder Radio ID at 0138. Gave me a shout out for my post on HF Underground. Did a nice 50s music set with "Wake up Little Susie", Dream Lover, and others. 0156 did a sign off and sent a digital image. Good to Poor signal over the period (Majewski CT)

Goat Herder Radio 6924USB 9 May 2021 0057-0140 at 0104, Zeky notes that what preceded was KIND. Then 50's rock. IDs. (45454, Hunsicker, PA)

Goat Herder Radio. 5/2, 2118, 6925usb. Two songs by Tracy Chapman, Heaven's here on Earth, and at 2122, new Beginning. Good signal, s7/s9. (Will-MD)

Goat Herder Radio 6924.0-USB, May 9 at 0045, pirate music and DJ comments, via KB0FX SDR with storm crashes. Was hard to pin down frequency at first with unfamiliar music and no carrier. 0104 canned ID? By YL voice I cannot nderstand despite repeated multiple times. But then, ``this is Zekey here; that was KIND, classic? Recording``. It was obviously this filed as ``Goat Herder Radio``, Zekey; apparently no one else heard him mention KIND:
[www.hfunderground.com] (Hauser, OK)

Captain Morgan

6924.1 AM PIRATE (No. Am.) Captain Morgan, 0110, 5/8/21. Came on over a signal with was barely breaking through on 6925 U (others identified as Yeah Man.) ID into blues. Poor – fair. (Taylor - WI)

Captain Morgan Shortwave 6924.116-AM, May 8 at 0110, raucous pirate music at S7-S9. These say it`s Captain Morgan Shortwave: [www.hfunderground.com] (Hauser, OK)

Texas Radio Shortwave

6925 USB PIRATE (No. Am.) Texas Radio Shortwave, 0127, 5/4/21. Big band and other music, ID with gmail, goodbye, parody of “Yellow Rose of Texas,” chaotic section at the end, SSTV (creature with human like face and llama snout with “TRSW”,) off. Good. (Taylor - WI)

UNID RADIO

6925 USB (The real) “UNID RADIO” via Outhouse Radio, 0032, 5/8/21. Music 2 SSTV (“UNID RADIO” with SSTV QSL on it, Outhouse’s avatar,) off. Unfortunately my SSTV decode was not clear enough to understand the other smaller writing on the first SSTV. Poor in noisy conditions. (Taylor - WI)

6930-USB, May 13 at 0041, pirate music at S5-S7, 0059 maybe announcement over music, still 0106+. Much louder signal than the 6974.914-AM station tho metering about the same. Several more logs as unID: [www.hfunderground.com]
(Hauser, OK)

Underdog

6950 USB PIRATE (No. Am.) Underdog, 0153, 5/8/21. Music, off for several minutes then back with more music, rough male voice (unintelligible), hard rock, SSTV (didn’t decode here but others on HF Underground got Underdog.) Poor to very poor. (Taylor - WI)

Two Dog Radio

6950 USB PIRATE (No. Am.) 2 Dog Radio, 0149, 5/9/21. 2 Dog announced a broadcast and attempted it. “Who let the dogs out?” barely audible (don’t know I would have known what it was if it wasn’t familiar.) Some other music, then faded out by 0155. Poor. 2 Dog Radio didn’t stay on long after this with poor conditions overall. (Taylor - WI)

6960 USB PIRATE (No. Am.) 2 Dog Radio, 0053, 5/3/21. Ventures, big band music, ID off due to bad QRN. Poor. (Taylor - WI)

Radio Noid

6955 USB PIRATE (No. Am.) Radio Noid via Outhouse Radio, 0152, 5/9/21. Rock music segued, 2 Easypal sends (neither decoded here,) SSTV (woman biting maybe an apple with smoke coming out of her mouth,) “Lost my religion,” Outhouse with an ID, 0236 off. (Taylor - WI)

Outhouse Radio

6960 USB PIRATE (No. Am.) Outhouse Radio, 0039, 5/3/21. Chaotic music, Outhouse with talk, Jimmi Hendrix, ID and off 0044. Fair. (Taylor - WI)

Ballsmacker Radio

6960 AM PIRATE (No. Am.) Ballsmacker Radio, 0107, 5/8/21. Piano IS, ID and signature bowling pins falling sfx into songs with “home” theme with frequent ID, protonmail address and everyone ending with bowling pin falls. Fair. (Taylor - WI)

YHWH

7475/AM, 0425, 5/10 Josiah Elias and typical anti-Christian monologue, intermittently jackhammered by pulses from OTHR radar co-channel. ID at 0444. Shalom, "Good night, folks", playing of Days of Hard Life & off at 0529. SIO 444.

7475 / AM 0415, 5/11. Usual monologue in progress at tune-in with good signal lighting up green tuning eye on SW-2000629 with only my indoor wire at the moment. Left the room for a bit, only to return to silence at 0420

Yeah Man Radio

6925AM 8 May 2021 0048-0104 Light My Fire, Ride Sally Ride, Green-Eyed Lady, ID, and Spill That Wine. (Faint, Hunsicker, PA)

WBCQ Area 51 Relay

5/9, 0024, 6473.5am. A relay of the Grits Radio Show, parallel 6160am. Fair to good signal. (Will-MD)

Some Radio

5/10, 0153, 6930. Rock music into operator who sounds inebriated talking with protonmail email address; unfortunately the email address was squashed by a utility burst, fmradio at protonmail? Into music, Radio Ga Ga by Queen. s5, good. Op spouting profanities over the music. 0201, banjo music with op talking. 0202, music by Def Leppard, Rock of Ages. Signal improved at 0205, now s7 and very good. Into Eddy Grant, Electric Avenue. 0209, some dead air, and more inebriated talk. 0210, Comfortably Numb by Pink Floyd. From 0215, odd sounds like a thunderstorm, maybe some kind of digital transmission, and off at 0219. (Will-MD)

UNIDS
6930 USB Unidentified, 2318, 5/8/21. Several pieces of guitar rock, then off. Back at 2330 with Frank Zappa, another similar tune, SSTV (didn’t decode,) long tone, another non-decode SSTV, off 2348. (Taylor - WI)

5/10, 0031-0034* 6905USB Unidentified A strange broadcast of religious chanting. NO ID given. Maybe a test transmission. Fair Signal (Majewski CT)

3185.01USB 9 May 2021 0104-0128* Much talk about potatoes and potatoes in history. Electronic YL. (At best 35342, but mostly unintelligible; Hunsicker, PA)

5/9, 0029, 6924usb. Mellow jazz piano music, good sound. Suddenly off 0030. (Will-MD)

6974.914-AM, May 13 at 0045, S6-S7 of weak music, undermodulated, CODAR QRM. Presumably Nowhere Radio again on signature off-frequency. Two more tentative logs: [www.hfunderground.com] (Hauser, OK)

5/9, 0012, 6930usb. Spacey music, fair to good signal. (Will-MD)

EURO AND SOUTH AMERICA LOGS

The Vault

6965AM 2331-2359 11 May, The Vault. Show of music, 2339 U2 New Year's Day, 2346 Dave Bowie Jean Genie, 2253 Beatles Come Together, and 2355 Doors. Poor to Fair Signal (mostly poor) (Majewski CT)

EURO AND SOUTH AMERICAN UNID:
None reported

QSLS / SSTV / OTHER STUFF

Electronic Mail Addresses for stations
[piratedatabase.webhop.net]

73’s & good hunting…
Dave



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 05/15/2021 08:38AM by cosmikdebris.