Free Radio Weekly #1340

Free Radio Weekly # 1340 – November 27, 2021

Covering Free Radio Activity from Nov 20 – Nov 26

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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
-Chris Gray, KY

-Rick Barton, Sun City, AZ

-Drake SW1, E/W longwire

-Harold Frodge 5525 Whitehall St., Midland MI 48642-3156

-Drake R8B + 185' RW

-William Hassig, williamhassig@yahoo.com

- Glenn Hauser, P O Box 1684, Enid OK 73702 bwghauser@yahoo.com

- NRD-545 with ALA-330S, IC-R75, PL-880, random wires

- Larry Will, Mount Airy, Maryland

-Mark Taylor Madison, WI

All Times UTC

NORTH AMERICAN LOGS

RADIO NOWHERE MAN

6925 USB, 11-20-21, 1453-1505+ UTC. S9 in central Kentucky. Playing a Beatles tune (guess the title) over and over again. ID by synthesized YL. (Gay-KY).

WSPR

6925 AM, 11-20-21, 1543-1600 UTC. Music by Glenn Miller, Jimmy Forrest, Pokey LaFarge, Billy Ward & The Dominoes and Dave Brubeck. Off at 1600 with an OM ID and "have a nice day". S9 in central Kentucky. (Gay-KY).

CAPTAIN MORGAN SW

6950.65/U, 0006-0009, 11/22; ID into classic rock ditty. SIO=353- but faded away @0009 (Frodge-MI)

Captain Morgan Shortwave, 6950.8am, 11-21-21, 0012utc on Barrington Hills IL sdr, weak S5 signal, heard end of "time passages" followed by short "Twilight Zone" theme, then nothing but background noise, saw carrier drop on waterfall. (Hassig-IL)

COASTAL ROCK RADIO

6925/AM; 2144-2234+, 11/20; Hard rock, blues, oldy & lotsa classic rock; ID @2156:27 but buried. IS @2233 by syn-W, but caught it this time. Is this what Zeeky would call “crap” music? SIO=333- w/pulse, buzz & chirp burst QRM +++ 0524, 11/22; still running classic rock; in/out of QRN w/ID @0526+ (Frodge-MI)

11/21, 2310, 6925am. Coastal Rock Radio. Music, Edgar Winter Group, Frankenstein. Fair signal with fishermen interference. (Will-MD)

ZEEKY

4050/U, 2241-2248+, 11/20; Folksy tunes, apparently not “crap” music; Brief Zeeky anmt @2246:52 & more of the same. SIO=354 (Frodge-MI)

BALL SMACKER RADIO

4030am, 11-20-21, 0205utc on both Barrington Hills IL and Champaign IL sdr's, S5 on Barrington Hills and S9 on Champaign, barely hear any rock music audio at all. (Hassig-IL)

4030 PIRATE (No. Am.) Ballsmacker Radio, 0206, 11/13/21. End of a Beatles tune, ID, “Sleepwalk” – Santo and Johnny, “I don’t want to miss a thing” – Aerosmith, “Loosing sleep” – John Newman, “All I have to do is dream,” – Everly Brothers into a program of sleep themed songs including “Mr. Sandman.” Fair until it started to fade about 0250. (Taylor – WI)

BLIND MELON RADIO

4050usb, 11-20-21, 2327utc on Barrington Hills IL sdr, fair S5 to S7 signal with low noise, hear country-rock tune then DJ said "john Cougar Mellencamp" with song "hurts so good", nice selection of tunes, thanks. (Hassig-IL)

11/20, 2326, 4050usb. Zeeky with Blind Melon Radio, "our thanksgiving gift to all our wonderful listeners throughout the world" and into some bluegrass music. s9, very good. (Will-MD)

WSPR SOLAR POWERED RADIO

11/21, 0509, 4035am. WSPR Solar Powered Radio. Take Five by Dave Brubeck Quartet. ID "WSPR solar powered radio," at 0512. Dropped to s7 but improved at 0515 with more music, Pokey LaFarge, Something In the Water. ID at 0520, into The Speakeasy Three, When I Get Low I Get High. 0527, Grateful Dead, Fire On the Mountain. Ripple(!) at 0531. ID and off at 0535. s7/s9, very good, nice clean AM sound. (Will-MD)

GOAT HERDER RADIO

11/25, 1533, 6930usb. Zeeky with bluegrass music. Goat Herder Radio ID at 1536. 1542, he says that he has three transmitters on now, one of them named "walrus." Signing off at 1603, off at 1609. Very good, s15 peaks. (Will-MD)

WOLVERINE RADIO

4015 USB PIRATE (No. Am.) Wolverine Radio, 0124, 10/14/21. "Put away a little ray of sunshine" - Lewis James, "They can't take that away from me" - Billie Holliday, "Let's get away from it all" Gloria Hart & Raymond Scott, "Don't take my whiskey away from me" - Wyonie Harris, "I'll fly away" - Hank Williams, "Twist'in the night away" - Sam Cooke, ID, "Not fade away" - Rolling Stones into a program of "away" themed songs with ID every 3rd song, (Taylor – WI)

OUTHOUSE RADIO

6930 USB PIRATE (No. Am.) Outhouse Radio, 2135, 11/14/21. “Run through the jungle” and other late 60’s early 70’s pop and album rock with SSTV (not set up on that SDR to decode) and eventually Outhouse making a couple of voice ID’s. Series of digital and waterfall images at the end. Poor – fair.

AM

11/24, 1604, 1710am, Unid. Liberty Mutual insurance commercial, a PSA, more commercials. News/political talk at 1615. Joe Namath Medicare commercial at 1625. Poor/fair but steady signal. Gone at 1748 check. Very rare to hear anything in the daytime here on 1710 that's not the Hudson County utility station. (Will-MD)

FM

11/26, 1756, 90.3fm, long-running Frederick MD pirate playing a Chickenman short, followed by a canned station ID, "Great Gold Radio", and into more classic hits by Frankie Vallie and Peter Frampton. First time I've ever heard anything close to an ID on this station after years of monitoring. (Will-MD)

UNIDS

11/20, 1655, 11840/AM. VG on Drake SW1 and long wire. Josiah and familiar "Yah-hah-VAAY" lectures; anti-Christian/Catholic, anti-war, anti-flag, anti-banxter cmtry. Days of Hard Life, closing ann 1800, second wind at 1805, new closing ann alluding to possibility of "The Man" (FCC) coming to the door & off at 1811 (11:11 AM local) -- Very Good (Barton-AZ)

6960.3/U, 0000-0006+, 11/22; SSTV & slightly distorted music. (Frodge-MI)

6925/AM, 2138-2146+, 11/21; Pop/rock ditties just over QRN Coastal Rock Radio again? (Frodge-MI)

6925/AM, 2105, 11/23; Pop music just over QRN; probably Coastal Rock Radio (Frodge-MI)

6930/U, 0305, 11/24; Thumpity-thump music at/below QRN level. (Frodge-MI)

6275AM Nov.20 1756 to 1828 sign-off (?) Program of waltz/polka hits but @1804 selection by Harold Melvin and the Blue Notes and then followed by the theme from Miami Vice. OM in DD but no ID that I could hear via the SDR site in NW Ireland. (Edward Kusalik Daysland, Alberta CANADA)

6919.90 AM, Nov 19 at 2319, only hint of activity now on pirate band is a trace of talk or music here. Some logs here think it may be R. Pushka: [www.hfunderground.com] (Glenn Hauser, OK)

6925.0-AM, Nov 22 at 2254, JBA music S9-S7. These say it was Coastal Rock Radio: [www.hfunderground.com] (Glenn Hauser, OK)

6919.9-AM, Nov 22 at 2255, JBA carrier: another NAm pirate? But no
equivalent log in HFU (Glenn Hauser, OK)

11/26, 2049, 6925am. Unid. Music, just above the noise threshold. (Will-MD)


EURO AND SOUTH AMERICA LOGS

RADIO ETHERFREAK

6206.2 Radio Etherfreak Nov.20.21 heard from 1355 to 1408 sign-off, with musical tunes. (Edward Kusalik Daysland, Alberta CANADA)

EURO AND SOUTH AMERICAN UNID:

None reported

QSLS / SSTV / OTHER STUFF

6206.2 Radio Etherfreak rec'd eQSL with cover letter and photos of studio, console and antenna system, in 3 days’ time from this email address: radioetherfreak@gmail.com v/s: Fokko van de Waard . (Edward Kusalik Daysland, Alberta CANADA)

6285 Blue Dragon AM Nov.7 heard from 2032 to 2046 sign-off. Sent report too: bluedragonam@hotmail.com rec’ed an attractive E-QSL within hours of posting my report. (Edward Kusalik Daysland, Alberta CANADA)


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

Dave