Free Radio Weekly #1324

Free Radio Weekly # 1324 – August 8, 2021

Covering Free Radio Activity from July 31 to Aug 6

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Editor This Week: Dave Turnick

EDITORS:

Harold Frodge (99crawdads@gmail.com)

David Turnick (caodwolf@gmail.com)

Larry Will (radio@zappahead.net)

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Contributors

-Mark Taylor, Madison, Wi.

-Greg Majewski, CT

-Harold Frodge, 5525 Whitehall St., Midland MI 48642-3156
Drake R8B + 185' RW
GMC Car Radio for FMBC logs

-William Hassig, williamhassig@yahoo.com

-Larry Will, Mount Airy, Maryland

-Ron Hunsicker, 1238 Cleveland Avenue Wyomissing, PA 19610-2102
ronhunsi at ptd dot net

-Glenn Hauser, OK

All Times UTC

NORTH AMERICAN LOGS

KAT’s Eye Radio

6925 USB PIRATE (No. Am.) KAT, 2328, 7/25/21. Zeeky talking with music by Cat Stevens, Beach Boys, America, Jim Croche; shout out to folks who posted in the HF Underground. Good.

KAT’s Eye Radio, 2353, 7/30/21. Digital signal, Zeeky talking and giving ID’s including asking or reception reports for a QSL, shout out, into Bruce Springsteen. Zeeky freely alters station names. Good. (Taylor – WI)

KAT's Eye Radio (Rhino Radio) 6925USB 31 July 2021 2338-0027 Zeeky introduces Rhino Radio during a broadcast of KAT's Eye Radio. Mostly talking about Rhino and stuff. Plays Cherry Bomb and a few other songs. (35343, Hunsicker, PA)

Foxy AM

6925 AM PIRATE (No. Am.) Foxy AM (T), 0020, 7/29/21. Poor reception – music, man announcer mostly unintelligible except few words here and there including “AM” and “radio” at different points, more music as the lightning QRN slowly overtook the signal. ID from HF Underground. Poor. (Taylor – WI)

6880 AM Foxy AM 0002 - 0003 1 August this was a poor signal just above the noise. It was better in USB than AM

New World Radio

6925 USB PIRATE (No. Am.) New World Radio, 0143, 8/1/21. ID repeated several times by synth man, fanfare then ID and fanfare repeated several times for a couple of minutes into a variety of 60’s pop style music then into other music including Weird Al’s “Girls just want to have lunch,” 0203 ID into woman with art music, 0206 ID and another song, “New World Radio … New World Radio … New World Radio. Is this absolutely necessary?” bluesy rock, ID 0225 starting to fade and gone by 0230. Started out good and slowly deteriorated. (Taylor – WI)

Radio 48

6935 USB PIRATE (No. Am.) Radio 48, 0142, 7/26/21. Rock with lots of sound effects, 0147 ID sequence, dance music, ID into rap / house music, ID, punk, ID sequence into many other contemporary forms of music with periodic ID’s. Fair. (Taylor – WI)

8/6, 0028, 6955usb. Radio 48. Music, Porno for Pyros, Pets (remix or mashup). 0035, Sycko Radio ad for Fair Radio with Uncle Bob. 0040, more music. Radio 48 ID at 0044 and into music by The B-52's. Radio 48 ID at 0047, 0058, 0106. Sycko with Radio 48 at proton mail dot com email at 0107. Nine Inch Nails, Head like a Hole (remixed or mashed up) at 0108. Beatles mashup at 0137. Still going with mashups at 0205. Good signal, 30 dBu on the PL-880 and s7 on the R75. (Will-MD)

Radio Free Whatever

69520 USB PIRATE (No. Am.) Radio Free Whatever, 2358, 7/30/21. End of a song, prepared ID, rock ballad … (then I had to restart my computer and interrupt the SDR) … DJDW announced 602-889-6307 and asked for call in. Into a program of nicely selected Indie music, talk, ID’s, some call INS, shout outs (including to my log on HF Underground.) Good. (Taylor – WI)

6980 PIRATE (No. Am.) Radio Free Whatever, 0115, 8/7/21. DJ Dickweed with talk ending with an ID into Indie rock, canned ID, more similar rock and a program of similar music, talk, ID’s. Fair. (Taylor – WI)

6950 USB Radio Free whatever 0005 - 0150 1 August DJ Dickweed with a long show. ID at 0007. He gave out a telephone for listeners to contact him and be on the air with him. Played a lot of new music, Nervous by Madi Diaz, Holiday by Adult Book and others. He talked about Starlink Internet Service. After 0130, Zeeky (Eye of the Kat) called in and they talked about their stations and shortwave listening. A nice long show. Good Signal (Majewski-CT)

RADIO FREE WHATEVER: 6950/U, 0026-0028+, 8/1; DJ Dick Weed took a phone call from Randolph, Maine; ID’d into the inevitable rock tune. At least he does something besides play tunes. SIO=3+54 (Frodge-MI)

Radio Free Whatever, 6950usb, 07-31-21/08-01-21, 2342utc on Normal IL sdr, fair signal S9 peaks, soft pop/rock tune playing, at 0058utc switched to Barrington Hills IL sdr, fair S9 signal. (Hassig-IL)

6980-USB, August 6 at 2350 giving out a 302-area code phone number; first thought it was a MARS net, but then for call-ins to R. Free Vatever; DJ muses about forbidden Dungeons &Dragons and plays such music. I did not copy the full phone number and no one else reports it either. We may assume that 302 = Delaware is not a clue to RFV real QTH. S6-S7 vs noise level. Many more logs: [www.hfunderground.com]
(Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

Radio Free Whatever 6930? 31 July 2021 2342-2349 and 0028-0040 Music. (Love it when I forget something important, like the mode. 35343, Hunsicker, PA)

Galaxy News Radio

6955 USB PIRATE (No. Am.) Galaxy News Radio / Wasteland Radio / Outhouse Radio, 2338, 7/25/21. Tuned into honky tonk music, man talking including several hard to understand ID’s into a series of big band tunes with Galaxy News Radio ID’s, 0004 SSTV (only partly decoded here – over “WLR” “BINGO kandi. Wasteland Radio,”) which morphed into Outhouse Radio, 0042 4 SSTV (Eagle with “Outhouse Radio”; Pirate battle “No rules. No Direction. No” (?); Figure with “Outhouse Radio”; Colin Kappernik and another figure “This is why condom usage is so important.” Off. (Taylor – WI)

Nowhere Radio

6974.9 AM PIRATE (No. Am.) Nowhere Radio, 2327, 7/25/21. Dance and dreamy electronic music. Poor – fair.

Nowhere Radio (P), 0031, 7/29/21. Light ambient music. Fair with lots of lightning QRN. (Taylor – WI)

X-FM

6285 PIRATE (No. Am.) X-FM, 0313, 8/8/21. End of rock song, Red hat with shout out to a different Mark describing his location as “somewhere under the stars,” another shout out, ID, mentioned he will be on another hour or so, more chat, e mail, taking reports from e mail, HF Underground or Shortwave Café (?), accurate TC, ID into music, produced ID into program of more music and talk until I pulled the plug about 0330. Fair to good. (Taylor – WI)

Mix Radio International

6860 PIRATE (No. Am.) Mix Radio International, 0148, 8/7/21. Mellow electronic jazz, 0151 ID mellow instrumental, ID sequence into more mellow electronic music. Fair. (Taylor – WI)

Mix Radio International, 9610usb, 07-31-21, 0028utc on Normal IL sdr, fair/poor signal varying S5 to S9, rock ballad playing, Mix Radio ID at 0033, ID at 0037 followed by Van Halen "you really got me", at 0040 song "refugee", nice selection of rock tunes from 1970's and 1980's, thanks for the show. (Hassig-IL)

Outhouse Radio

6930 USB PIRATE (No. Am.) Outhouse Radio, 0128, 8/7/21. Hard rock, SSTV (late start here with “Outhouse Radio” at bottom,) back to hard rock, 0142 Outhouse talks some giving an ID at the end, electric blues, Easypal send (didn’t have it on), off. Fair. (Taylor – WI)

Rhino Radio

6925 USB Rhino Radio 2355 31 July - 0000 1 August UTC Zeeky was on with different station name. He was talking about shortwave radio and the differences between the two studio he uses. Played Cherry Bomb by John Coguar. Fair/Good Signal (Majewski CT)

RHINO RADIO: 6933/U, 2308-2328+, 8/4; Gravel-voiced ancr w/several voice IDs! “Rhino Radio at your disposal” into 3-tune mashup then War ditties Low Rider & Spill the Wine (repeated), then a tune about Johnny Cash. SIO=2+53- (Frodge-MI)

Rhino Radio, 6925usb, 07-31-21, 2338utc on Normal IL sdr, fair signal S9 peaks, host talking at length then gave rhino ID then said standby followed by nothing. (Hassig-IL)

8/6, 0132, 6925usb. Rhino Radio. ID at 0132 tune-in and into music by Guns and Roses (which, sorry, makes me immediately change the channel). S7/s9, very good. (Will-MD)

RADIO GENIX

6950/U, 0158-0211+, 8/3; Reggae ditty at tune-in into techno tune which was interrupted a few times by DA & pips plus hissy distortion? 0202-04; 0206:38 Bee Gees’ Staying’ Alive to voice ID @0211:04. SIO=353- (Frodge-MI)

Radio Genix, 6875am, 07-31-21, 2342utc on Normal IL sdr, fair signal S9 peaks, soft pop/rock tune playing, at 0058utc switched to Barrington Hills IL sdr, fair S9 signal. (Hassig-IL)

Radiogenix (per HFU) 6950USB 3 August 2021 2107-2121 and 2159-2205 and at 2315 on for many hours with vocal music. (35343 to 35342, Hunsicker,

8/6, 2210, 6950usb. Radio Genix. Music, Cyprus Hill, Insane in the Brain; 2212, Daft Punk, Get Lucky; 2217, David Bowie, Let's Dance. Still going at 2235 and 2302 checks. Good signal, slowly improving, 30/34/40 dBu. (Will-MD)

Ball Smacker Radio

6960am, 07-31-21, 0059utc on Normal IL sdr, varying S7 to 10 over S9, hear interval signal just above low noise level then Ballsmacker ID, woman singing pop tune, at 0106 "I'm telling you now" by Freddie and the Dreamers from 1964. (Hassig-IL)

Camelback Radio

6925-USB, August 6 at 2353, pirate DJ talking about a nest? S5-S6 vs noise level. Many logs here as Camelback Radio about Vermont, not Arizona; a Zekey station:[www.hfunderground.com] Hauser, OK, and WOR)

UNIDS

6975.4 PIRATE (No. Am.) Unidentified, 0113 – 0116, 8/1/21. 2 minutes of techno music then disappeared. Fair – poor. (Taylor – WI)

6930 USB PIRATE (No. Am.) Unidentified, 0056, 8/1/21. Electronic techno music segued. Fair. 0150, 8/1/21. Techno music again for a few minutes then off. I was doing something else and didn’t notice how long it was on. Fair. (Taylor – WI)

6925/U, 2211-2213+, 7/31; another me-too rock station at QRN level; uncopiable anmt @2212+ (Frodge-MI)

6930U, 0028-0034+, 8/1l Techno ditty just over QRN level. (Frodge-MI)

6875/U, 0034-0042+, 8/1; Classic pop ditties. SIO=3+33- w/warble QRM. Another music & no ID station. (Frodge-MI)]

6930/U, 8/2, 0257-0302+, 8/2; Techno music. SIO=343 w/warble QRM (Frodge-MI)

6925/U, 2249-2303+, 8/2; Hippity-hop; no ID offered. SIO=353- (Frodge-MI)

6950/U, 0111-0131+, 8/4; Classic pop ditties including House of the Rising Sun, Here Comes the Sun, Boys Are Back in Town, Every Breath You take. SIO=2+52+. Nice tunes but just another me-too music & no ID pirate. (Frodge-MI)

6950/U, 0203, 8/5; Here Come the Sun at QRN level; same pgmas last night? Apparently so, 0205+ The Boys are Back Town. ZZZZZZzzzzzzzzz (Frodge-MI)

6875USB 1 August 2021 2325-2352 Old rock vocals. Male announcer. (35443, Hunsicker, PA)

8/5, 2041, 6950usb. Unid. Music, Beck, Loser; Bee Gees, Staying' Alive. 2051, Blue Oyster Cult, Burning' For You. Fair to good signal. (Will-MD)

EURO AND SOUTH AMERICA LOGS

EURO AND SOUTH AMERICAN UNID:

None reported

QSLS / SSTV / OTHER STUFF

At one point, all three (3) shows were on. Decisions, Decisions, which to listen. It is not often one has this problem. (Majewski-CT)

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

Dave