Free Radio Weekly #1352

Free Radio Weekly # 1352 – February 19, 2022

Covering Free Radio Activity from Feb 12 – Feb 18

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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
-KV Zichi, 107 W Riverside St, Williamston MI 48895 USA radioguy73@gmail.com

-Edward Lusalik, Daysland, Alberta, CANADA

-Harold Frodge,5525 Whitehall St., Midland MI 48642-3156
Drake R8B + 185' RW Icom R2 + ducky for VHF/UHF Utes GMC Car Radio for FMBC logs

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

-John Sedlacek Omaha, NE

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

All Times UTC

NORTH AMERICAN LOGS

Ballsmacker Radio

4030/AM Ballsmacker Radio YL ID and bowling ball SFX at: 23 and into Spin Doctors’ “Two Princes”. At:27 a bit from Reefer madness about ‘habitually smoking marijuana cigarettes’ and into “Smoke two Joints” by Sublime and another YL ID and bowling pin noises at :29. Then Dolly Parton’s “Two Doors Down” meaning the theme tonight would be “two”. I did not stick around for the SSTV since they always seem to use the same one. Boys like Girls featuring Taylor Swift “Two is better than one”was on at tune out. 34+433 0220-0235 12/Feb RSPdx +SDRuno +ANC-4 +random wire --Zichi MI

BALL SMACKER: 4030/AM, 0221-0223+, 2/12; Mary Wells’ Two Lovers to ID @0222:55. S9-10 (Frodge-MI)


Corn Desert Outpost

4185.03/U “Corn Desert Outpost” (presumably see below) a “microphonically challenged” music and ID pirate. Rock music and SSTV of the cassette cover for Joe Satriani Live in San Francisco: followed by his “Friends” from that album and then “Surfing with the Alien” also from that album. Then SSTV 0258: and into Joe Satriani’s “Rubina”. Final SSTV, which I had to piece together because my computer stuttered, They tried to do a SSTV image while they were still playing music at 0250 and that just didn’t work. Maybe it was unintentional. Sent CW several times including at 0245 and 0251: “CORN DESERT OUTPOST” which I took to be the ID. And at end “THANKS FOR LISTENING GOOD NIGHT “Pretty decent reception: 35443+ and up to ‘good’ at times. 0238-0308* 12/Feb RSPdx +SDRuno +Multimode Mac +ANC-4 --Zichi MI

CORN DESERT OUTPOST: 4185/AM, 0226-0236+, 2/12; Rock & SSTVs; code @0229 & 0238, “CDO”. S8-9 (Frodge-MI)


Zeeky Radio International

6925/U Zeekey playing rock (“This Gun’s for Hire”, etc.) and ranting, and talking to someone who we could not hear, and going into more rants. How ‘altered’ was he tonight? Just to reiterate something, which anyone who knows me already knows, I am NOT ‘Zeekey’.... Some sort of OTH starting up before the ToH and Zeekey commenting about it and going off on a rant pirates who need to ‘grow a pair’ and ‘you know who you are and I know who you are too’ and repeating it all many times, while implying the OTHR was meant to be QRMing him, etc. 4 2-5 4 4 2-4 depending on whether or not the OTHR was on *2326-0120 13-14/Feb RSPdx +SDRuno+randomwire --Zichi MI

ZEEKY: 6925/U, 0012-0016+, 2/15; Lady Gaga ditties; Zeeky this time as “Zeeky Int’l Radio”. At least, he talks & IDs! SIO=3+53 My 13th different Zeeky ID. (Frodge-MI)

Zeeky Radio International 6933USB 12 Feb 2022 2143-2253 Sugar, Sugar; Bye-Bye Love; others. Late in the broadcast, it sounded like he had two channels playing at one time. (45454, Hunsicker, PA


Outhouse Radio

6930/U Outhouse Radio w/almost Arabic-ish sounding music and a guy with a pirate ‘twang’ announcing ‘you don’t hear that on the radio’ etc. and SSTV: Another SSTV at :29: and at 2332.5 voice ID and SSTV: and off. 3+4443+ occasional ‘trill’ digi-QRM but not too bad. ALMOST overall ‘good’. 2310-2333* 13/Feb RSPdx +SDRuno +ANC-4 +Multimode Mac +random wire --Zichi MI

Outhouse Radio 6930-USB, Feb 13 at 2308, novelty song about bride of Frankenstein, I guess for Valentine’s Day, S9+15; 2310 another song; 2312 segué to Mideast tune but English lyrics about rock `n` roll;2315.5 Outhouse Radio ID, SSTV. Many more logs here with lots of noisy fuzzy SSTV images: [www.hfunderground.com] (Glenn Hauser, OK,)


Mix Radio International

6955/U Mix Radio International w/Smooth Jazz and OM & YL DJs reading messages from listeners from an obvious NAm relay with a REALLY wideband audio signal with modulation -- spreading out to 6963! The software only allows going out to 6 kHz bandwidth, but it was clean and clear out that far. Another ID at tune out at oH. Noticed in my IQ recording fading in/signing on (I think the later) at: 21 and there was some RTTY QRM at first, but that was pretty much gone by2343. ID as “MRI Mix Radio International Worldwide “At: 25, as the RTTY was subsiding but not gone. Several more IDs by YL including email address. OM mention of ‘SW for North America’ at: 38. 4+5554+ THIS close to all 5s but for the signal strength 23 *2321-2400 13/Feb RSPdx +SDRuno ANC- +random wire --Zichi MI

RADIO FREE WHATEVER

6955/U, 2206, 2/12; Pop ditties to robolady “Whatever” @2208. Good signal (Frodge-MI)

Radio Free Whatever 6955USB 12 February 2022 2048-2253 Dick Weed doing Dick Weed. Announced the he has COVID and, on and off, has lost his senses of taste and smell. (35454, Hunsicker, PA)

RADIO MOSCOW

6950/U, 2247-2250:21*, 2/17; Rousing Commie music to 2249:13 Radio Moscow IS repeated & off. SIO=3+53 (Frodge-MI)

RADIO NOWHERE MAN

5055/AM, 0150-0202+, 2/12; Repeats of Beatle’s Nowhere Man & robolady ID “This is Radio Nowhere Msn”. S8-9; yes, 5055. My 950th “different” pirate heard; not counting all the Zeeky mutations. (Frodge-MI)

Not Clever Name Radio

6917USB 11 Feb 2022 2237-2241 Back in the USSR. (45343, Hunsicker, PA)

Radio Ronin Shortwave

6940AM 11 Feb 2022 2232-2241 ID and some C&W. (45343, Hunsicker, PA)

WTF Radio Worldwide

6925USB 11 Feb 2022 1949-2042 IDs at 1952, 2016, and 2030. Music. A bit of distortion. (35354, Hunsicker, PA)

Yeah Man Radio

6924.7AM 11 Feb 2022 2239-2241 Music and some nearby peskies on LSB. (34353, Hunsicker, PA)

WOLVERINE RADIO

6960 USB / FEB 13 / 0115-0240*. Songs about love from Steppenwolf, The Doors, Janis Joplin, Niel Young, and many more. Fair-to-good signal with usual SSTV at s/off. (Sedlacek-NE)



Radio Pushka

6920-, Feb 13 at 0305, S6-S7 music, 0410 JBA S5-S6. Slightly on the low side. These earlier made it Radio Pushka: [www.hfunderground.com] (Glenn Hauser, OK,)

UNIDS

6925ish/AM & U UNID (Zeekey?) no talking or ID heard. ANYhoo -- started out at :26 in AM with rock mx, then dead air and back again at :29 but this time in USB and continuing with the same rock tune for about a minute, then cut out again briefly, and back at 2330:30 slightly low in frequency, got even lower at around 32:30 and then stabilized on 6925 by 2333:30 when he cut out again, for 15 seconds, and came back even more distorted than before, and by 2334 was in OK, but was a bit high at 6925.15 and by 2335 was ‘on channel’ again. This on and off and ‘tweaking’ pattern continued a while and there was a LONG pause from 2335:30-past the end of my IQ recording at 50. 35443+ intermittently 2326-2336 13/Feb SPdx +SDRuno +ANC-4 +random wire --Zichi MI

6925/AM, 2324-2338+, 2/15; Classic rock ditties including Eagles & Phil Collins. Fair peaks & QSB to zilch; LSB pescador there (Frodge-MI)

6917/U, 2144-2153+, 2/16; Distorted rap music; 2152 sig strength up but still poor audio. (Frodge-MI)

6985.5AM 12 Feb 2022 2045-2115* Faint EE voices. (Unusable, Hunsicker, PA)

6905USB 12 Feb 2022 2322-2326 Welcome to the Jungle and Sister Christian (55454, Hunsicker, PA)

6925 AM / 0145-0210+. Music by Orleans, Grinderswitch, the BeeGees, and the Eagles. Noisy conditions, difficult copy. (Sedlacek-NE


6920-, Feb 17 at 0650, JBA carrier slightly offset minus, typical of N American Russian pirate, Radio Pushka (Glenn Hauser, OK,)

15075.00836 varying to 15075.00837, JBA carrier locked by Synch at UTwente, Feb 17 at 1656. First noted direct at 1550, JBA S4-S6; no better at UTwente at 1557, JBA carrier. Nothing normally here, unaccounted for other than as pirate Cupid Radio, Europe? As reported Feb 13 at 1739-1744* only by Arthur Pozner, NY (Glenn Hauser, OK,)

EURO AND SOUTH AMERICA LOGS

Mike Radio

15075 Feb.13.22 Mike Radio 1337 to 1352 hours UTC Heard this station HERE in Alberta, via the remote site 127 km's northwest of me, at VE6JY antenna farm. Unbelievable that I was able to hear this station, with a s3 to s4 signal strength. Best heard on the Wellbrook ALA100 Large Loop, 80 meters of wire, suspended 120 feet above ground level. Managed to catch two songs, one "I've got the Music in me' by the Kiki Dee Band and "House of the Rising Sun" by the Animals. Lost signal by 1352 hours, 5800 was not heard, not even a carrier on the Perseus. (Edward Kusalik-Daysland, Alberta, CANADA)


EURO AND SOUTH AMERICAN UNID:

None reported

QSLS / SSTV / OTHER STUFF

None reported

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73’s & good hunting…

Dave