Free Radio Weekly #1315

FREE RADIO WEEKLY 1315                          .-.
Covering Logs from 29-May thru 4-June-2021     (0.0)
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EDITOR THIS WEEK: Harold Frodge              .='`"``=.

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

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Our Contributors...a bunch that knows how to make good use of
free time.

Jack Amelar, Lowell MI
Rick Barton, AZ
Tom Doerr, Mt. Morris MI
Harold Frodge, Midland MI
William Hassig, Mt. Prospect IL, Barrington Hills & Dixon IL
     remote rcvrs, williamhassig@yahoo.com
Glenn Hauser, Enid OK & Corrine UT remote rcvr, wghauser@yahoo.com
Ron Hunsicker, Wyomissing PA, ronhunsi at ptd dot net
Greg Majewski, CT
Mark Taylor, Madison WI
Larry Will, Mount Airy MD
Ken Zichi, Port Hope MI

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OUR EDITORIAL POLICY:  What editorial policy?  Just send your
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THE LOGS

BALL SMACKER RADIO:

5/29, 0100-0109, 6960/AM; Opening piano interval signal, then
      complete piece, balls hitting pins and ID by a YL. Opens
      with All Right Now and All Together Now. (Severe fading,
      Hunsicker, PA)
5/29, 0106, 6960/AM; weak signal with low noise on Barrington
      Hills IL sdr, songs All right now then All together now,
      Ballsmacker ID with bowling ball sound, also weak with
      low noise on Dixon IL sdr, storms here at my location,
      @0125 song I can see clearly now. (Hassig-IL)
5/29, 0118-0125+, 6960/AM; Almost oldies; “From a wire strung
      in the trees, Ball Smacker Radio”. SIO=453 (Frodge-MI)
5/29, 0140, 6960/AM; Program of pop music including It’s now or
      never & It’s too late to turn back now, frequent ID’s
      with characteristic bowling pin falling sound effects.
      Fair in noisy conditions. (Taylor – WI)
5/29, 0152, 6960/AM,; Both Sides Now, S9+ with storm noise.
      No doubt Ball Smacker Radio in regular 0100+ UT Sat
      sked. No other pirates around (Glenn Hauser, OK)
5/29, 0212-0234:50*, 6960/AM’ “NOW” themed programme including
      If You Don’t Know Me By Now by Harold Melvin & The Blue
      Notes, I Think We’re Alone Now by Tiffany, Against All Odds
      by Phil Collins (Now?), The Rolling Stones It’s All Over
      Now & Queen Don’t Stop Me Now. SSTV @0230. Traditional
      s/off including a snippet of Wildfire as always then YL
      w/mention of 4030 instead of the correct channel, but
      audio cut out mid sentence. Carrier continued to almost
      0236. The SSTV came in far better than usual this week.
      Good show & I’m showing my age that I knew all these
      tunes, I’m sure! :) 44+444 0212-0234:50* 29/May decent
      modulation --Zichi MI

ENIGMA 7:

5/29, 2353, 6925/U; “This is Enigma 7 calling,” into a song
      about pirate radio, ID into BBC program about pirate
      radio, SSRV (Blue spaceship with Enigma seven … Pirate
      Radio World service,) back to program with occasional
      interruptions for IDs, 0048 SSTV (raggity pirate flag
      with “Enigma seven QSL”), 0050 off. Fair. (Taylor – WI)
5/29, 2354, 6925/U; locally very weak with low noise, barely
      hear 2 or more males talking, tried Dixon IL sdr,
      nothing there but low noise level, very weak with low
      noise on Barrington Hills IL sdr, got ID from HFU.
      (Hassig-IL)
5/30, 0010-0017+, 6925/U,; BBC feature on unlicensed radio
      stations; 0016:33 “This is Enigma 7 calling” into SSTV.
      SIO=343 w/buzz burst QRM (Frodge-MI)

MEMORY RADIO 2021:

6/1, 0007, 6936/U; Franklin Delano Roosevelt's speech fol-
     lowing the Pearl Harbor attack in 1941. 0009 patriotic
     country song. 0012, Memorial Day spoken word talk with
     mellow music background, and off at 0015. Back @0024 with
     Born In the USA by Bruce Springsteen. ID per waterfall
     decode by raypfaff on the hfu. Good signal, s7/s9 (Will)

OUTHOUSE RADIO:

5/30, 0137, 6950/U; Beeps, then tuning tones, 0144 with indis-
      tinct music fading up into Right place, wrong time, Out-
      house with some talk & an ID into atmospheric rock,
      canned section on pirate radio, then a program of rock,
      jam rock music with Periodic SSTV of & related to armed
      forces (Air Force, Army, Navy, Mariens, POW- MIA, First
      territories, ending with Outhouse’s Avatar with “Out-
      house Radio.”)  Once up, it was good then faded down
      until fair – poor when I pulled the plug just before
      0300.  (Taylor – WI)

RADIO 48:

5/31, 0033, 3185/U; 0034 ID OM "Dare to be diffrent, Radio 48".
      Modern Rock. Still going by 0154. (Amelar)

RICHARD CRANIUM RADIO:

5/28, 2328, 6930/U; Music & talk fading in & out until 2340
      when mostly incomprehensible talk by man op came up
      into a country song, then faded out entirely.  ID from
      HF Underground.  (Taylor – WI)
5/29, 0021, 6930/U; fair signal, heard comedy music & announce-
      ment, then dead air, @0024 music but at lower level,
      @0031 improved level, local storms so I used Dixon IL &
      Barrington Hills IL sdr's. (Hassig-IL)

SYCKO RADIO:

5/30, 2152, 5130/U; 444 Hard Rock. 2157 OM announcer got
      amplifier working again, "play some tool(?) on Sycko
      Radio". Hum by 2209, by 2211 OM returns, had to take a
      phone call. 2218 fade out, or amp failing again,
      improved by 2230. OM, "Memorial weekend broadcast this
      fucking weekend". 2239 Star Spangled Banner with vocal
      all 4 verses. 2245 more hard rock (Amelar)

TRUTH RADIO INT’L:

6/4, 2219, 6925/U; Conspiracy talk about vaccines, aborted
     babies & plants being injected with human cells to make
     "humanized plants" & save us from COVID-19. Fair to
     good signal, s5. (Will-MD)

WBOG:

5/29, 0130, 6925/AM; on both Dixon IL & Barrington Hills IL
      sdrs, very weak with noise, hear some rock guitar audio,
      waterfalls show carrier around 6925.3khz, got ID from
      HFU. (Hassig-IL)

WSPR:

6/3, 0113-0017, 6974.8/AM; Played a Smash Mouth song & gone.
     Poor signal (Majewski CT)

WOLVERINE RADIO:

5/30, 0000-0010+, 6950/U; ID @tune-in; apparent theme is tunes
      containing “you”. S9 (Frodge-MI)
5/30, 0000-0137*, 6950/U; Nice show of popular music from 1920s
      to present day. Play artists like Bessie Smith, Benny
      Goodman, Birds, Doors, Neil Young, Bob Dylan & many others.
      Excellent signal with great audio for a SSB transmission.
      (Majewski CT)
5/30, 0003, 6950/U; fair signal locally, good signal on Bar-
      rington Hills IL sdr, woman singing Nobody knows you
      when you're down & out, nice variety of songs with the
      word "you" in them, @0051 Joni Mitchel You turn me on I'm
      a radio, @0136 Echo ID then SSTV/FAX, thanks for the show.
      (Hassig-IL)
5/30, 0007, 6950/U; Who loves you, ID, Exactly like you,
      (missed the name of this song,) IS, start of another big
      band song then I only have eyes for you, into a program
      of “you” themed music, 0136 “echo” ID, SSTV (little girl
      pointing at you,) off. (Taylor – WI)
5/30, 0014-0032, 6950/U; ID athen A Girl Like You, Rock 'n Roll
      Star & Hello, I Love You. Another ID (35454, Hunsicker PA)
5/30, 0014-0137*, 6950/U; “You theme” show, including Robo-OM
      IDs at :25, :31 & :40 among others. Today’s show included
      songs like the Flamingos I Only Have Eyes for You; The
      Four Tops You Keep Running Away; James Brown I Got You
      (I Feel Good) The Young Rascals A Girl Like You; The Doors
      Hello, I Love You, Spirit’s I Got A Line On You & Dave
      Mason’s Only You Know & I Know, etc. Also included an
      ‘underplayed hit’ James Taylor You Can Close Your Eyes
      (Mud Slide Slim & The Blue Horizon is one of my favourite
      albums) followed by Joni Mitchell’s You Turn Me On, I’m A
      Radio! Also played Earth Wind & Fire’s Got To Get You Into
      My Life & UB40’s cover of I Got You Babe. Off w/SSTV photo:
      45544--Zichi MI
5/30, 0047, 6950/U; 444 Mellow Rock. 0050 & 0058 OM robot ID.
      0136 SSTV. EOT 0137 (Amelar)
5/30, 0054-0115, 6950/U; 0054 You Are So Beautiful by Joe Cocker,
      0056 Couldn't ID it, 0058 Station ID then Missing You by
      Rolling Stones, Couldn't ID the songs after that 0115 You
      Got Lucky by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers (Doerr)

YEAH MAN RADIO:

6/1, 0017, 6925/AM; Yeah Man Radio ID, music, Born To Be Wild
     by Steppenwolf, fair signal, then completely obliterated
     @0018 by a wide band data transmission covering 6925.5 to
     6928. Data bursts subsided @0019 & the music came back in.
     0021 signal improved to s7 amidst noisy conditions. More
     music, 25 or 6 to 4 by Chicago at 0022. "Solid gold mil-
     lion dollar weekend" jingle @0026 into Beatles, Come To-
     gether. 0032, Some Kind of Wonderful by Grand Funk. 0035
     Everyday People by Sly & the Family Stone. 0038, Super-
     stition by Stevie Wonder. Off @0041. (Will)


YHWH:

5/31, 0312, 7475/AM; Station YHWH at S9/+10 into Corinne, N
      Utah SDR; 0317 ID asserting he is in North America; deep
      fades & occasional peaks higher. Tnx to tip from Eric
      Fetters-Walp near Seattle WA. Rick Barton, AZ was also
      hearing it well, but I found the Surprise AZ SDR had
      only a weak S5 signal. Rick says: ``yes, Glenn, anytime
      you use the Surprise AZ antenna you are hearing from
      near me. I live just off Greenway Rd & the Surprise city
      limits are 6 miles to my west. 73 -rb`` (Glenn Hauser, OK)
5/31, 0315, 7470/AM; Josiah a& usual monologue. Strong at first,
      then got fadey. Left the room came back rechecking after
      0330, gone. (Barton-AZ)

UNIDs:

5/28, 2029-2034, 6960/AM; Occasional very faint music. 20dB
      carrier, no visible sidebands. (Hunsicker, PA)
5/29, 0201-0215+, 6925.3/AM; Man talking till music @0205:25;
      instr’l, sounds jazzy. Poor at QRN level (Frodge-MI)
5/29, 2133-2139, 6925/AM; Faint music. Only slightest indica-
      ition on the waterfall. Faded away (25332, Hunsicker PA)
5/30, 0028-0134, 6975/AM; Variety of segued songs including
      rock, jazz (very nice,) instrumental, jam rock, & rock,
      jazz.  Started out well then began fading in & out.
      (Taylor – WI)
5/30, 0057, 6975/AM; on Barrington Hills IL sdr, fair/weak
      noisy signal, weak signal locally, hear nice soft jazz
      tune, thanks. Still on at 0139 with fair/poor signal
      after Wolverine left air over on 6950. (Hassig-IL)
5/30, 0115-0125+, 6975/AM; Peppy ditties...nuthin’ else.
      SIO=454- peaks, fady (Frodge-MI)
5/30, 0138, 6975/AM; EZ listening instrumental music. Never
      IDed. Fading out about 0200 (Amelar)
5/30, 0205-0300, 6975/AM; obscure tunes & KIPM-like voice con-
      tent like ‘The Quarantine of the planet must be continued’
      etc. Lots of punk/goth/metal stuff that I have no idea
      what to call. It is NOT in my wheelhouse! 3+5443 & I
      didn't strain to catch it, I never heard an ID either,
      but then neither did anyone on HFU. 30/May--Zichi MI
5/31, 0234, 6974.911/AM; soft pirate music at S7-S9. Lots of
      unID logs: [www.hfunderground.com]
      topic,82284.0.html who do not realize that on this exact
      off-frequency, Nowhere Radio has been reported before
      including by me on April 25, May 1 & 13 [Shame on them!];
      however definite IDs were lacking. Same transmitter anyway,
      but only the op can specify the name(s) used on any occa-
      sion. At this time I also have a trace of music on 6970
      USB (Glenn Hauser, OK)
 6/4, 0247, 6974.911; JBA music at S9 vs HNL of S8, undermodu-
      lated; presumed pirate Nowhere Radio as before on this
      offset. More logs here but never IDed except for the music:
      [www.hfunderground.com]
      (Glenn Hauser, OK)

         =+=+=+=+= European Stations/Relays =+=+=+=+=

THE VAULT:

5/27, 2317-2318, 6885/AM; Karen Carpenter, Close to You
      Poor to Fair signal (Majewski CT)

                  =+=+=+=+= LPFMs =+=+=+=+=

87.9 Midland MI, SE Midland LPFM relay; 11:26-11:34+AM, 5/29;
     EZL instr’l music, (p) The Surrounding Sound; “Good mor-
     ning; tanks for listening; correct time is 11:29” +++
     10:53-11:05+AM, 530; “Wherever you go, the Surrounding
     Sound keeps the music going; it’s 11 o’clock”, into
     Surrounding Sound weather (1st time I’ve heard that.)
     (Frodge-MI)

       =+=+=+=+= Relays via licensed stations =+=+=+=+=

WBCQ John Lightning relay. 5/31, 0242, 5130am. Relaying John
Lightning/11L-RNI broadcast, parallel 6160 WBCQ. s9, good
signal, s9. (Will-MD)

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Sordid Logs:

----- 5/29

0000-0034  Richard Cranium Radio, 6930/U (continued from 5/28)
0100-0235  Ball Smacker Radio, 6960/AM
0201-0215  UNID, 6925.3/AM
2133-2139  UNID, 6925/AM
2353-2400  Enigma 7, 6925/U (continued to 5/30)

----- 5/30

0000-0050  Enigma 7, 6925/U (continued from 5/29)
0000-0137  Wolverine Radio, 6950/U
0028-0300  UNID, 6975/AM
0137-0300  Outhouse Radio, 6950/U
2152-2245  Sycko Radio, 5130/U

----- 5/31

0033-0154  Radio 48, 3185/U
0234       UNID, 6974.9/AM
0312-0317  YHWH, 7475/AM

----- 6/1

0007-0024  Memory Radio 2021, 6936/U
0017-0041  Yeah Man Radio, 6925/AM

----- 6/2  ZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzzzzz

----- 6/3

0113-0017  WSPR, 6974.8/AM

----- 6/4

0247       UNID, 6974.9
2219       Truth Radio Int’l, 6925/U

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QSLs:

Ballsmacker Radio f/d QSL in about a day for an emailed
report to Protonmail.com address.-- Zichi MI
BallSmackerQSL.jpg


Recently reported e-mail addresses (Some are recent relays of
old programs & may not be valid.)

Ball Smacker Radio     ballsmacker@protonmail.com (2021)
The Beginning          thebeginning6965@gmail.com (2021)
Big Johnson Radio      bigjohnsonradio@gmail.com
Brocket 99             brocket99shortwave@gmail.com
Captain Morgan SW      captainmorganshortwave@gmail.com (2021)
CBZO                   krakerradio@pmlol.com
Celtic Music Radio     irelandfreeradio@gmail.com
Channel Z              channelzradio@gmail.com
Charleston Radio Int’l charlestonradiointernational@yahoo.com
Cool AM Radio          CoolAMRadio@hotmail.com (2020)
Cupid Radio            cupidradio@hotmail.com
CYOT                   cyotshortwave@gmail.com
Electric Circus        theelectriccircusshortwave@gmail.com
Enterprise Radio (Italy) enterpriseradio@hotmail.com
Flashback AM           flashbackam@outlook.com
FoxyAM                 FoxyAM@protonmail.com
Green Monster Radio    greenmonsterradio@gmail.com
Howdy Doody Radio      howdydoodyradio@gmail.com
Io Radio               ionradioshortwave@gmail.com
Laser Hot Hits         studio@laserhothits.co.uk
Key Radio              keyradioam@gmail.com
KR1                    info@kennemeradio1.nl
Mike Radio (Netherlands) mikeradio@live.nl
Mix Radio Int’l        Mix.Radio.International@protonmail.com
Movie Clip Radio       MovieClipRadio@gmail.com
Mystery Radio          radio21@gmail.com
Network 51             network51pirateradio@gmail.com
Nowhere Radio          nowhere.radio@yahoo.com
Panda Radio (Euro)     pandaswradio@gmail.com
Pandora Radio          pandoraradio@hotmail.com
Pioneer Radio (Euro)   PioneerAM@gmail.com (2021)
Radio 37 (Denmark)     qsl@radio37.dk
Radio 48               radio48@protonmail.com
Radio 60 (Euro)        erdenman@gmx.de
Radio 319              319report@gmail.com (2021)
Radio Casa             radiocasaam@gmail.com
Radio Corsair          radiocorsair@protonmail.com
Radio Cuckoo (Ireland) radiocuckoo@yahoo.com
Radio Delta            radiodelta6925@gmail.com
Radio Dummy Load       radiodummyload@gmx.net
Radio Diana Int’l      radio.doanainternational@protonmail.com
Radio Enterhaken (Euro) enterhaken@dmx.de
Radio Europe (Euro)    radioeurope@iol.it
Radio Free Mars        radiofreemars@gmail.com (obsolete?)
Radio Free USA         RadioFreeUSAPirate@gmail.com
Radio Harmony          harmonyqrz@gmail.com
Radio Humperdoo        drunkenradiopirate@gmail.com
Radio Igloo            radioigloo@gmail.com
Radio Jan van Gent (Euro) radiojanvangent@gmail.com
Radio Joey (Euro)      radiojoey@hotmail.com
Radio Mushroom         radiomushroom@gmail.com
Radio Northern Europe Int’l tgwtr@protonmail.com
Radio Nova (N.American) radionovausa2020@gmail.com (2021)
Radio Nova (Euro)      shortwaveradionova@gmail.com
Radio Olah             radioolah@gmail.com
Radio Piepzendar       radioqsl@hotmail.com
Radio Truth Int’l      trlinternational@protonmail.com
Radio Waves Int’l      rwaves@free.fr
Rebel Radio (Euro)     rebel.se@hotmail.com
Recycle Radio          recycleradioshortwave@gmail.com
Reggae Radio           raggaeradio@mx.net
Rock-It Radio          rockitradio@netzero.net
Sloppy Joe Radio       sloppyjoeirate@gmail.com
Space Shuttle Radio    spaceshuttleradio@yahoo.com
Speedwing Radio        speedwingradio@gmax.net
Tater Patch Radio      taterpatchradio@taterpatchradio.com (2020)
Technical Man (Euro)   technicalman@hotmail.nl
Texas Radio Shortwave  texasradiosw@gmail.com
Toynbee Radio          toynbeeradio@gmail.com
Truth Radio Int’l      TRLInternational@protnmail.com (2021)
Two Dog Radio          twodogradio@gmail.com (2021)
The Vault (Euro)       vaultshortwave@mail.com (2021)
Voice of Oz            thefoxsw@aol.com
Voice of Pancho Villa  mysteryirateradio@gmail.com (2021)
Voice of Pearl Harbor  voiceofpearlharbor@gmail.com
Voice of Uncle Don     thevoiceofuncledon@gmail.com
Voice of Weird Al      voiceofweidal@gmail.com
WDDR Drunken DJ Radio  drunkenradiopirate@gmail.com
WEAK                   WEAKradio@gmail.com
WLG We Love Girls      stationWLG@gmail.com
WREC Radio Free East Coast WRECradio@gmail.com
XFM                    xfmshortwave@gmail.com (2021)
Zeppelin Radio         zeppelinradiosw@yahoo.com

Latest update: 30-April-2021

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COMMENTARIOS

Do something besides just play music...cough, sneeze, fart...
anything! Run a Spatula City ad.

--920’s, HF