Free Radio Weekly #1350

Free Radio Weekly #1350, Saturday, February 5, 2022
Covering free radio activity from January 29 - February 4, 2022

The Free Radio Weekly (FRW) is an internet newsletter devoted to the hobby of listening to free radio "pirate" broadcasters in the shortwave radio bands. The FRW is produced by the free radio community and distributed to those who contribute.

The weekly deadline is Saturdays at 0000 UTC (Friday night in North America). Please send your logs to all the editors, as our editing schedule is subject to last minute changes. Thank you for your inputs!


== FRW editors ==

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

FRW 1350 - February 5 - Larry
FRW 1351 - February 12 - Harold
FRW 1352 - February 19 - Dave


== Contributors ==

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

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

William Hassig
williamhassig@yahoo.com

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

John Sedlacek
Omaha, NE

Mark Taylor
Madison, WI


== Notes ==

Impressive activity over the past weekend with 22 individual reports on Saturday and 31 on Sunday,

The 35th NASWA Winter Fest is happening on March 4-5, 2022, as an all-virtual event. Program schedule and more details are at swlfest.com.


== North American Shortwave ==

** Ballsmacker Radio

1/29, 0210, 4030am. 0237 tuned in to an ID, "Billie Jean" - Michael Jackson, "Cathy's Clown" - Everly Brothers, ID, Valerie" - Steve Winwood and on with a program theme of songs with woman’s names. Chugging QRM on channel made listening very unpleasant. Unfortunate since the signal was generally good. (Taylor – WI)

1/29, 0215, 4030am. Locally and also on Barrington Hills IL sdr with weak S7 signal, hear tune "Gloria" sung by the late Laura Brannigan who left us too soon due to a brain aneurysm, at 0237 switched to Brookfield WI sdr with noisy S9 signal and barely hear audio, at 0239 tried Normal IL sdr but very weak, went back to Barrington Hills IL sdr but barely there. (Hassig-IL)

1/30, 0100, 6960am. IS, ID w/ frequency, Rosanna" - Toto, "Barbarann" - Beach Boys, ID, "Little Jeannie" - Elton John, "Mabellene" - Chuck Berry, "Gloria" - Lauria Brangian. Repeat of last night's songs with woman names in the titles show. Good initially then fading down to poor by 0150. Fair. (Taylor – WI)

1/30, 0106, 6960am. On Barrington Hills sdr with S9+10 signal, Beach Boys "Barbara Ann", at 0113 "Maybeline", Ballsmacker ID then at 0115 "Gloria" sung by the late Laura Branigan, at 0117 tuned in locally with noisy S9+20 signal over horrible S9+15 neighborhood noise, at 0120 Dolly Parton "Jolene", at 0131 "Suzy Q" by CCR, at 0134 "along comes Mary", seems to be a theme of women's names, at 0137 gave email address of ballsmacker@protonmail.com then a tune by the late Michael Jackson, at 0146 has mostly faded away, thanks for the nice tunes. (Hassig-IL)

1/30, 0222-0245*, 6960am. Program featured song titles with women's names. Comments about the newly redesigned website for the station.Fair signal under noisy conditions. (Sedlacek-NE)

** Captain Morgan Shortwave

1/28, 2328, 6925am. On Barrington Hills IL sdr, weak S7 signal, hear blues tune, Carrier closer to 6924.4khz, at 2333utc switched to Peoria IL sdr with S9 signal and slightly better reception, tried tuning in locally but lost cause under S9+10 neighborhood noise level, off at 0006 after ID, thanks for the blues tunes. (Hassig-IL)

1/30, 2345, 6931.5am. Saw on waterfall of Barrington Hills IL sdr with S7 to S9 signal, hear blues and jazz tunes, thanks for the tunes. (Hassig-IL)

** Mix Radio International

1/30, 1812, 6875am. All 50's/60's rock. Fun to hear the old music! (55433, Hunsicker, PA)

1/30, 2238, 6925am. On Barrington Hills IL sdr with fair/poor S7 to S9+10 varying signal, comedy instrumental with car horn followed by soul tune "what becomes of the broken hearted", at 2243utc song "splish splash (I was takin a bath)" followed by a doowop tune from 1950's sung by female, thanks for the nice oldies. After an hour of fair reception signal has weakened to S7 at 2340utc. (Hassig-IL)

1/30, 2303, 6925am. Pirate music; 2343 ballad, 2346 maybe `When A Man Loves A Woman`. 0024 January 31, S8-S5 of classic rock. 41 posts here say it`s Mix Radio International which started as unID long before by 1751 on 6875, moving to 6925 at 2229: [www].hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,92341.0.html and finally went off at 0132 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** Outhouse Radio

1/29, 2306, 6935usb. S9+5 hard rock and omodist = overmodulated and distorted, yet does not QRM 6940 Sky Radio as I had hit first on a downtune. 2318 SSTV; 2319 live? DJ still distorted says ``Imagine that``, and ``Alice? Radio``. Drama about Mars lander leads into another song; 2323 another Alice Radio ID. Well, it`s really OUTHOUSE Radio per all these; enunciate! [www].hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,92274.0.html with three noisy SSTV captures, a pierced tongue outstuck, a privy, and a full-bearded guy (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** Partial India Radio

1/16, 0714, 6920.0am. S6-S8 rock music with heavy bass. Extremely unusual for a N American pirate to be on so late; and I had not heard any on this band during `prime` Saturday evening time. No reports in HF Underground, except this unrelated? 7 hours later on 6920.6 with various IDs including Partial India Radio, Pirate Radio Boston, Captain Ganja, Radio Free Euphoria: [www].hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,91736.0.html (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)`` Chris Lobdell replies Jan 27: ``Hi Glenn, Your later reception on 6920 was actually partial India radio with their 25th anniversary show and you heard audio clips from various stations as part of the program`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

1/29, 1709-1724, 6972.7am. (ID per hfu) Faint and mostly unusable. About 13 dB above the noise in AM, with my equipment, means faint and unusable. Faint male, sub-continent voice, another male voice, and some music. (Hunsicker, PA)

** Sky Radio

1/29, 2303, 6940usb. Surprised to hear a pirate in Dutch, commercials? S7-S8 and surely intracontinental. 2305 jingle as --- something Radio, music. 2312 playing ``Downtown`` by Petula Clark, in English. Then I notice a stronger pirate on 6935, but when back on 6940 at 2318, it`s off. These say it`s Sky Radio: [www].hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,92273.0.html and Big Badfish Al quotes this from somewhere: ``Sky Radio is a Dutch commercial radio station playing non-stop Adult Contemporary pop music, owned by Talpa Holding. The target audience is men and women between 25 and 54 years of age. It is programmed according to the AC format`` (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** Rock-It Radio

1/29, 2000-2022, 6972.7am. Faint signal, about 15 dB above the noise, too little a difference for my equipment. Gave address for snail mail reception reports. At 2015 a USB transmission with guitar elevator music started on this frequency. (unusable, Hunsicker, PA)

1/29, 2034-2056, 6975.5am. Jammer there until 2035. Meantime Rock-It gives an ID and address. Stranded in the Jungle and other 50's music. (Hunsicker, PA)

** Pee Wee

1/30, 0232, 6952.5am. "Dust in the wind", pop / rock tunes (familiar but I don't know their names), "Behind blue eyes," waterfall image (didn't have Easypal running) CW ID both over music, "I can't get no satisfaction" 2 CW IDs, Cream, CW message, more rock, SSTV, "Setting Sun" - Blucas, SSTV ("Pee Wee" w/ names of HFU posters), 0307 off. - fading in and out of the static floor. Poor. (Taylor – WI)

** Radio Free Whatever

1/30, 2108-2115+, 6955usb. DJ Dick Weed w/instr’l music & Russian anthem. SIO=3+53+ (Frodge-MI)

1/30, 2128-2137, 6955usb. ID at 2128. Talks about distorted audio in his equipment. (35353, Hunsicker, PA)

1/30, 2330-2338+, 4185usb. Rock ditties 2335 female, lady woman, “Radio Free Whatever...the coolest station on SW...what ever.” SIO=454 (Frodge-MI)

1/30, 2232, 4185usb. On Barrington Hills IL sdr with fair S7 to S9 signal, DJ=Dick Weed taking calls for free donuts (caller #9 wins), he said he can't eat donuts because he's diabetic and too fat anyway. (Hassig-IL)

** Radio Genix

1/23, 2312, 6940usb. Rock guitar fading in and out. A 40 watt test per HF Underground. Poor. (Taylor – WI)

** Sky Radio

1/29, 2233-2245+, 6940usb. EZL instr’l at tune-in into Sugar Sugar by the Archies, “Throw some sugar on me honey” then Doobie Bros’ Listen to the Music; 2241 ID into ad in Dutch?, then EE apology to listeners & id, then more pop music. SIO=3+53+ assume a NAm relay. My 945th “different” pirate heard, not counting all the Zeeky mutations. (Frodge-MI)

1/29, 2236, 6940am. “Sugar, sugar”, “Listen to the music”, quick “Sky Radio”, Ads, “Welcome to the ultimate station of the 90’s … Sky Radio”, “Wishful Thinking” – China Crisis. Fair. (Taylor – WI)

** Small Dog Radio

1/24, 0049, 6935usb. Jazz / blues, "Just a memory" - John Mayall, short announcement, Easypal waterfall (don't have the program available,) SSTV (2 small dogs with "2 Small Dogs Radio"), waterfall image, Op. talks about perhaps coming back later, "All night long" - Jimmy "Duck" Holmes, "It's over" - John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers, "It's so tough" - John Mayall & Steven Van Zandt, "I got the blues () Bmi)" (sic) - Sam Myers, other blues, Op w/ ending, off 0132. Poor – fair. (Taylor – WI)

** Sycko Radio

1/29, 1925-2055, 6925usb. SSTV ID @ 1946. ID and email address at 1954. Music. (35343, Hunsicker, PA)

1/29, 1955-2002+, 6925usb. Op with a microphone & knows what it’s for! Playing tunes sent in by file by Radio 49. SIO=3543+ w/blaaat burst QRM (Frodge-MI)

1/29, 2029, 6925usb. Rock, Easypal send (not set up here), rock music, ID, Sycko talking - looking at snow cam in the East's snow storm, checked HFU logs shout outs to those who logged, 20 w power into "Judas" - Fozzy, Opening the phone line 1.704.669.5799 "call, call, call", "Elapsed" - Anartican .... suddenly off 2023. Fair. (Taylor – WI)

1/30, 0122, 4185usb. Eclectic blend of unusual music and Sycko talking. Mostly poor here. (Taylor – WI)

1/30, 0140, 4185usb. On Barrington Hills IL sdr, weak S3 to S5 signal, electronic music with singing. (Hassig-IL)

** Two Dog Radio

1/30, 0142, 6930usb. Poor S5 to S7 signal, rock music then rap tune about government. (Hassig-IL)

1/30, 0145, 6930usb. Program of mostly rap music with 2 Dog talking with ID’s. Poor. (Taylor – WI)

** Unid

1/23, 2207, 6925usb. Blues, man hawking a guitar, some more guitar music, SSTV (indistinct maybe a face mask and tree?), mellow guitar, scatted (more like screamed) with instruments joining, short percussion set, SSTV (forest), "Sweet Home Alabama," "The boys are back in town" - Thin Lizzy, "Aqualung" - Jethro Tull, SSTV (figure w/ waves), "The spirit of radio" - Rush, another song, SSTV (Bear with jeans?), "Devil's Answer" - Atimic Rooster, UnId song, SSTV (not clear enough to tell), "Renegade" - Styx, SSTV (can't tell ... writing on bottom - prob. ID) ... off 2330. Music was fair to good. SSTV was poor. (Taylor – WI)

1/29, 0036, 6929usb. On Barrington Hills IL sdr, weak S5 to S7 signal, hear people talking, at 0045 big band swing tune and signal improved to fair S9+, then heavy metal tune "what's the frequency Kenneth". (Hassig-IL)

1/29, 0141, 6925usb. On Barrington Hills IL sdr with weak S5 to S7 signal, also locally with very weak signal, somebody saying something I can't make out, at 0147utc big band swing tune then more big band music, by 0200 signal improved to S7 to S9 on the sdr. (Hassig-IL)

1/29, 0204, 6925usb. All Jimmy Dorsey songs: "I don't know why I love you like I do," "Sweet Sue, just you", "Can anyone Explain" - Jimmy Dorsey,"Manhattan", "I would do anything for you", "Grand Central Getaway" "The great lie", "Super Chief", "I'm glad there is you". I had to get up for a few minutes, and when I came back it was gone. Fair. (Taylor – WI)

1/29, 0209-0228+, 6925usb. Big band and swing music. Occasional ute QRN. Good signal despite conditions. (Sedlacek-NE)

1/29, 1804-1815+, 6925usb. Pop music, tones, pulses & clatter. SIO=353 peaks, very fady (Frodge-MI)

1/29, 2023-2030+, 6872.7usb. Spooky flute music @/o/QRN. (Frodge-MI)

1/29, 2209-2221*, 6950usb. Music, mostly by the Beatles. Announcer's voice seemed purposefully distorted. (Fair signal, Hunsicker, PA)

1/29, 2252-2302+, 6935usb. Hard rock ditties; uncopiable echo anmt; 2258:42 SSTV; 2259:57 weird music & sfx. SIO=353 Another music & voiceless pirate. (Frodge-MI)

1/30, 0016-0051:08*, 6929usb. Story abut a camping trip, alien encounter & abduction in Maine, the Allagash event. 0044:20 segue to big band tune & off @0046:27 but back @0047:10 w/rock tune. SIO=3+44- w/S9 peaks, brief warble QRM. (Frodge-MI)

1/30, 0019, 6929usb. Documentary style program about an alien encounter: telling what happened to 2 of 3 men talking about encounter w/ aliens which the men retrieved under hypnotic "regression". 3 OM's were "regressed" and without meeting previously were brought together & had the same drawings, obsessions each had after "regression" and meeting, talking about later obsessions, etc. 0044 Boogie woogie piano. Fair. (Taylor – WI)

1/30, 0043, 6950usb. OM telling a story - thanking for chance to talk, in and out of fade … "trail eneded at a very old farmhouse" … hard to follow with fast fading and only fair peaks. Poor. (Taylor – WI)

1/30, 0117-0150+, 6925am. Music by Dionne Warwick, We Five, The Kinks, and others. Weak signal. May have been Mix Radio International. (Sedlacek-NE)

1/30, 0157, 6925usb. "Eye of the tiger", faded down to just audible and coming up to fair however mostly down … 0204 "I've got a feeling". Poor. (Taylor – WI)

1/30, 0217+, 4185usb. Electronic, drone-like music. Heavy static. (Sedlacek-NE) [Possibly Sycko Radio]

1/30, 2350-2356*, 6931.4am. Blues. (35342, Hunsicker, PA)

1/30, 1756-1800+, 6875am. Pop music at QRN level; heard Yakkity Yak (Frodge-MI)

1/30, 2314-2321+, 6925am. S8 peaks w/brief buzz burst QRM. (Frodge-MI)

1/31, 0122-0131, 6950usb. Blues & SSTV. SIO=3+54- peaks, fady 0130 suddenly dropped way down & disappeared (Frodge-MI)

1/31, 2214-2222, 6920,25usb. Classic & not-so-classic rock. 2223:55 brief anmt by female, lady woman about a “break”. SIO=343 w/weak co-channel QRM; nothing on 6925 to splash. 2230ish moved to 6925/U; 2232:50 brief anmt mentioning “4:30”. 2233 roar QRM & now co-channel station seems to be there; pesky also on 6925/L. Real mess! (Frodge-MI)

1/31, 2224-2230:21*, 6920,25usb. QRMing stronger station on 6920; Beatles after stronger 6920 station moved to 6925...this station seemed to also move to 6925 QRMing it there. (Frodge-MI)

1/31, 2242-2245*, 6925usb. N instrumental followed by an YL announcing something. Then a guitar and a man talking. Quit before I could do a SINPO, but it was 32 dB over the noise, so "S" was stout! (Hunsicker, PA)

** WDOG

1/30, 1846-1954, 6900am. All Beatles. 25 dB over the noise and a really nice signal. (Hunsicker, PA)

** WFDR

1/30, 2214-2217, 6940am. Franklin D. Roosevelt speech. 32 dB over the noise. Great signal. (Hunsicker, PA) [originally logged as an Unid]

1/30, 2227, 6940usb. On Barrington Hills IL sdr with poor S7 to S9 signal, voice of FDR giving a speech. (Hassig-IL)

** Wolverine Radio

1/30, 0059, 6940usb. On Barrington Hills IL sdr with S9+10 to S9+20 signal, S-on with "testing 1 2 3 can anybody hear me then ID then 1930's blues tune sung by woman, various tunes with the word "thing" in them, at 0122 tuned in locally with S9+30 signal over high neighborhood noise, by 0147 beginning to fade away along with other pirates, thanks for the tunes. (Hassig-IL)

1/30, 0108-0202*, 6940usb. Music by The Animals, The Temptations, Marvin Gaye, and others. Good signal despite heavy QRM. Echo ID at end of show followed by an SSTV. (Sedlacek-NE)



1/30, 0124, 6940usb. "Ain't nothing like the real thing," - Marvin Gaye & Tammi Tarrell, ID, "Chains and things" - BB King, "Don't mess up a good thing" - RyCooder, "Things can only get better" - Howard Jones, into a program of "things" themed songs, “echo” ID, SSTV (missed it.) Good. (Taylor – WI)

** Zeeky

1/29, 2037-2143*, 6931usb. Goat Herder Radio; Pink Houses, Californication, and Zeeky chatting. Laments an unhappy computer. (35343, voice a little distorted, Hunsicker, PA)

1/29, 2113-2125+, 6931usb. Zeeky (as Goat Herder Radio) talking about COVID & the NE storm; said tune down to Sycko if you don’t like him...Sycko was off 6925 at that time. SIO=353+ (Frodge-MI)

** Zenith Class Rock

2/3, 0037-0106, 6950am. (ID per hfu) Jethro Tull with some powerful QRM that a broad notch and listening in USB eliminated. Around 0050 it became "unusable." (23342, Hunsicker, PA)


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Regards, Lw



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 02/04/2022 09:20PM by cosmikdebris.