Free Radio Weekly #1359

Free Radio Weekly #1359, Saturday, April 9, 2022
Covering free radio activity from April 2-8, 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 1359 - April 9 - Larry
FRW 1360 - April 16 - Harold
FRW 1361 - April 23 - Dave
FRW 1362 - April 30 - Larry
FRW 1363 - May 7 - Harold
FRW 1364 - May 14 - Dave


== Contributors ==

Harold Frodge
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
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

Larry Will
Mount Airy, MD
radio@zappahead.net

Ken Zichi
Port Hope Michigan
RSPdx +SDRuno +randomwire
radioguy73@gmail.com


== North American Shortwave ==

** Ballsmacker Radio

4/2, 0107, 6960am. On Barrington Hills IL sdr with fair S9 to S9+15 signal, song "won't get fooled again", oldie "why do fools fall in love", song "fooled around and fell in love", the program theme is "fool", at 0200 signal down to S7 to S9, at 0245 back up to S9+10, at 0254 SSTV/FAX, announcement then piano interval signal, carrier off at 0257 utc, thanks for the nice broadcast. (Hassig-IL)

4/2, 0220-0229+, 6960am. Rock music & Doobie Bros.; 0228:32 Ballsmacker.net spot. S9+ but w/subdued audio (Frodge-MI)

4/3, 0105, 6960am. On Barrington Hills IL sdr with fair S9 to S9+10 signal, song "won't get fooled again" then oldie "why do fools fall in love?", apparently a rerun of yesterday's program, occasional light UTE QRM. (Hassig-IL)

** Best Smooth Jazz

4/2, 2115-2145, 6876usb. Best Smooth Jazz (presumably from Mix Radio Int’l relay) with listener feedback, birthday greetings and the like as well as ‘smooth jazz’ music. This is a radio relay of the ‘podcast’ .... 3543+3 occasional fades to the mud. VERY wideband and if it were just a titch better it would be EZL. --Zichi MI2

** Ion Radio

4/3, 2050-2131, 6970am. SSTV at 2050 (Scottie 2), 2055 (Scottie 1) and 2126 (Scottie 1). ID by YL at 2110. (35543 to 25332, Hunsicker, PA)

** Man Cave Radio

4/2, 2126-2151, 6923.97am. Some of the music was understandable, but generally was unusable. (25332, Hunsicker, PA)

** Mix Radio International

4/2, 2033-2214, 6876usb. Vocals, instrumentals, and an ID at 2037. 8500 Hz audio bandwidth. (35554, Hunsicker, PA)

** Outhouse Radio

4/2, 0154, 6930usb. On Barrington Hills IL sdr with poor noisy S5 to S7 signal, country and western tunes, switched to Normal IL sdr with same results. (Hassig-IL)

4/2, 0211-0220+, 6930usb. In the Still of the Night & Eddie Arnold’s Cattle Call (hit #1 in 1955); ID @0219. S6-7 w/buzzy QRM/N + whine (Frodge-MI)

** Radio USA

4/2, 2248-2313, 6925am. Radio USA w/clear IDs at both :49 and again at :02 and OM tx including the Wellsville NY PO Drop address but I couldn’t tell you what he said in any detail. 2+5332 mostly in the noise but popped up clearly for the IDs (that just doesn’t happen!) --Zichi MI2

** Unid

4/1, 2138-2202, 6919/6920usb. Rap music was understandable but OM announcer's voice was unintelligible. YL repeated, "The request lines are open, I will wait." (35443, Hunsicker, PA)

4/2, 0007-0020, 6925usb. Unidentified (said to be WHIZ per HFU) ID at 0007 missed. Faint music that was too weak to understand. (15341, Hunsicker, PA)

4/2, 0009-0019, 6931am. Faint and unusable. OM at 0010. (15341, Hunsicker, PA)

4/2, 0325-0403, 6865usb. Glam pop ditties like Smooth Operator, Don’t You Want Me Baby, Don’t Turn Around, Rio; SIO=4+54+ till 0333:50 when dropped down noticeably; off for 37 sec. @0334:50 & back w/SIO=454 w/brief dropoffs; 0349:50 & 0351:18 briefly switched to LSB. (Frodge-MI)

4/4, 0014-0044, 6974.9am. Rock music. Never heard an ID (35343, Hunsicker, PA)

4/4, 0032-0042+, 6974.9am. Sounds like mostly punk rock, just above QRN level. (Frodge-MI)

** WDOG

4/2, 2349, 6880usb. On Barrington Hills IL sdr with good S7 to S9 signal, song "don't you want me" then short announcement then another 1980's tune, at 2357 WDOG ID with dog barking, more 1980's soft pop tunes. (Hassig-IL)

4/3, 0108-0121:31*, 6880usb. Tuned in to howling, to anmt to tune to 5050-60 in about 30 min.; Weird version of Who Let the Dogs Out followed by 8+ min. of howling (15 sec. would have been plenty); 0120:53 SSTV & off. SIO=353+ (Frodge-MI)

4/3, *0138:05-0143+, 5055am. On with pop ditty & code IDs; 0141 dog barks to voice ID into folk ditty. SIO=4+54; shifted here from 6880. (Frodge-MI)

** WHIZ

4/1, 2358, 6925usb. On Barrington Hills sdr with poor S5 to S7 signal, hear male singing pop tune, at 0001 WHIZ ID followed by another rock tune. (Hassig-IL)

** WTF Radio Worldwide

4/2, 2205-2256, 6860am. WTF Radio Worldwide w/rock music like Aerosmith’s “Combination” and “Sweet Emotion”. ID at 2319 by OM 35443+ --Zichi MI2

4/2, 2213-2253, 6860am. Music and an ID at 2253. Audio bandwidth about 7000 Hz. (45433, Hunsicker, PA)

** YHWH

4/8, 1508, 15785am. In routine bandscan, I discover anti-Christ pirate Station YHWH on new frequency, the signature vocalizations of Josiah needing no explicit ID. No problem from the 1 kW DRM in Germany allegedly 24h on 15780-15790 (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

4/8, 1517, 15785am. Josiah peaking over QRN, almost fair at times. Much better in SSB than AM, and much better than when he was on 15100 recently (Frodge-MI)

** Zeeky

4/2, 1937-1941+, 9490usb [sic]. EZL ditties; 1940:36 ID as “CHIL Chill Radio”. SINPO=353-43- (Frodge-MI)


== FM ==

** Maryland

4/8, 3:30pm local time, 90.3fm. Long running classic hits jukebox pirate with music by Helen Reddy, I Am Woman; Fixx, Saved By Zero; and a Doors tune. Fair to good signal in the southern and eastern Frederick area, despite lots of buzzy, station-obliterating interference in the commercial strip area south of the city. (Will-MD)


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Regards, Lw