Free Radio Weekly #1363

Free Radio Weekly #1363, Saturday, May 7, 2022
Covering free radio activity from April 30 - May 6, 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 1363 - May 7 - Larry
FRW 1364 - May 14 - Dave
FRW 1365 - May 21 - Larry
FRW 1366 - May 28 - Dave


== From the archives

Republic of Texas Standoff [from Clandestine Profile, by George Zeller, ACE Newsletter, June 1997]

Undoubtedly most of us saw coverage of the Fort Davis, Texas standoff in late April and early May between some members of the Republic of Texas and a large contingent of law enforcement personnel from the state of Texas and the Federal Government. This incident made all of the national news networks, as well as most newspapers and magazines, over a period of days. ACE member Gigi Lytle of Texas sent in a variety of local press accounts from the Lubbock newspaper. I've been to the remote regions of the Davis Mountains in this sparsely populated region of western Texas, and so I can confirm that this area near MacDonald Observatory is far from civilization. Newsweek pointed out that it was 90 miles from the nearest Wal-Mart, presumably located in Odessa. The Republic of Texas figures were eventually arrested after a long standoff; one was shot dead.

It looks like we can probably bury this group's announced intentions to start a 50 Kw medium wave pirate/clandestine station under Republic of Texas jurisdiction. The group has repeatedly failed to respond to my e-mail inquiries about this project, and no station has materialized. The defeat of the group in this incident has not led to their disappearance, however. The Republic of Texas web site at [www].republic·of-texas.com was still active in late May.

[Note: As recently as 2009, the FCC busted a pirate radio station operating on 100.1 and 90.1fm in Austin, Texas. The operator claimed that as "a citizen of the Republic of Texas" he wasn't subject to the laws of the United States or the Commission's rules. The FCC disagreed and landed him with a US$10,000 fine. - Lw]


== Contributors ==

Rick Barton
Sun City, Arizona

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

Mark Taylor
Wisconsin

Larry Will
Mount Airy, MD
radio@zappahead.net


== North American Shortwave ==

** Ball Smacker Radio

4/30, 0058, 6960am. IS, poor conditions with heavy lightning QRN: Bass heavy rock instrumental, "We can work it out" - Beatles, "Tak'in care of business" - BTO, "Work'in for a living" - Huey Lewis & the News, ID, another pop / rock (faded down), ID, couldn't ID song. Couldn’t stay with it given the poor conditions. – 0152, 5.1.22. ID and e-QSL offer, "Supermodel (you better work)" - RuPaul, YL announcer "I've got ont thing to say, you better work," "The load out" - Jackson Browne, "16 Tons" - Tennessee Earnie Ford, ID & e-QSL offer, "The way it is" - Bruce Hornsby and the Range. Most likely a repeat of last night’s program. (Taylor-Wi)

4/30, 0116, 6960am. On Barrington Hills IL sdr with noisy S9+10 signal, hear "she works hard for the money" under noise, at 0121 switched to St Michel des Saints Quebec sdr with fluttery S9 to S9+10 signal, hear "sha na na get a job" Ballsmacker ID with bowling sound, at 0127 switched to Traverse City MI sdr with noisy S9+10 signal, hear old 60's tune "working in a coal mine", at 0132 switched to Ottawa ONT sdr with weak noisy S7 to S9 signal, at 0134 switched back to St-Michel-des-Saints QC sdr with least noisy signal but some flutter, at 0159 Tennessee Ernie Ford "sixteen tons", nice tunes, thanks. (Hassig-IL)

5/1, 0109, 6960am. On St.-michel-des-Saints QC sdr with fair S9 to S9+10 signal, heard song: "we can work it out", Ballsmacker ID, song: "taking care of business", this is a rerun from yesterday. Nice tunes, thanks. (Hassig-IL)

** Captain Morgan Shortwave

4/25, 0018, 6950.27am. "On your Way (Felix song)" - Anais Mitchell, blues, ID, "Twilight Zone" theme, contemp. Music, "Twilight zone" theme, ID into more contemporary music. Poor. (Taylor-Wi)

** Lime in the Coconut Radio

4/30, 2211, 6925usb. On Barrington Hills IL sdr with noisy S5 to S7 signal due to severe storms and a tornado in area, barely hear music under noise, at 2223 switched to St.-Michel-des-Saints QC sdr with fair S5 to S7 signal, hear song: "don't stand so close to me", at 2229 song: "knocking on heaven's door". (Hassig-IL)

** Radio Free Whatever

5/1, 0109, 6955usb. On St.-michel-des-Saints QC sdr with fair S9 to S9+10 signal, heard song: "we can work it out", Ballsmcaker ID, song: "taking care of business", this is a rerun from yesterday. Nice tunes, thanks. (Hassig-IL)

5/1, 2319, 6955usb. Mellow female vocal, ID, "Undigested parts" - Elf Power, DJ Dickweed announcing last song, talking about driving, more mellow rock, canned ID, "Free in the knowledge" - The smile into a program of talk, ID's and similar music. Very good. (Taylor-Wi)

** This is not WBCQ

5/1, 0403, 4791am. Music, Memory Remover by Geary Hanley. WBCQ ID at 0406, into Lynyrd Skynyrd, Cheatin' Woman. Family Guy FCC song at 0413. 0415, ID, "This is not WBCQ" and off. s7/s9 and steady, very good audio and signal. (Will-MD)

** Unid

5/2, 0042, 6950usb. On Barrington Hills IL sdr with fair S5 to S7 signal, mild pop tune playing, listened off and on, at 0142 natl anthem played on guitar. (Hassig-IL)

5/4, 0055-0122*, 6925usb. Bubble-gum pop music. None that I recognize. 2800 Hz wide. A bit of noise from approaching thunderstorms. (Good signal, Hunsicker, PA)

4/24, 2351, 6875am. Mellow vocal, "Con te Partiro" "Macchine da guerra" both Andrea Bocelli, other chamber and symphonic music. Poor – fair. (Taylor-Wi)

4/25, 0156, 6960am. Classical music, / opera. (Not familiar to me and Shazam can't ID). Fair. (Taylor-Wi)

4/25, 0035, 6970am. OM talking in TV like pace. Can't tell topic. "Super special" and other things which indicated it might be an infomertial. Lots of QRN - lightning. Off or lost ~ 0128. Poor. (Taylor-Wi)

5/2, 0044-0047+, 6950usb. Bluesy/jazzy tunes; Op said something about a hound dog. Lotsa QRN (Frodge-MI)

** Voice of Influenza

4/30, 2249, 6925am. On St-Michel-des-Saints QC sdr with weak S8 signal, hear music with low noise, DJ giving postal address, I suspect this may be a recording of a pirate from the glory days of pirate radio in the 1980's and 1990's. (Hassig-IL)

4/30, 2308, 6925am. ID into ditty. Poor in heavy QRN (Frodge-MI)

** WHIZ

4/27, 0027, 6935am. Music - light vocals, man w/ brief talk incl. ID - ? "radio", light rock, 0049 "Kiss my baby" - Sitcom, similar light vocal, woman , 0051 ID by woman, "Barbara Ann" - Rosie Tucker, "Life is good" - The Hunts, "Kong" - Bonobo, ID "You are listening to WHIZ. Wizz on your radio", "I do it for you" - Low Island ... gone 0135. Poor – fair. (Taylor-Wi)

** Yeah Man Radio

5/1, 0037, 6925am. At 0037, only pirate trace into TN SDR is here, music and DJ talk, S5/S7 vs high storm noise level = HSNL, and not even a carrier direct. These say it`s Yeah Man Radio, none later than 0048, but TN remote still had algo VP at 0157: [www].hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,96573.0.html (Glenn Hauser, OK, WOR)

** YHWH

5/2, 0310, 7475am. Josiah Elias, in progress at tune-in, "despicable nonsense in the New Testament", another "one page article", Commandments of "Yah-ha-VAY" at 0329. Transmitter issues at 0334. Outage lasted until at least 0350 when we tuned out. -- Fair to Good (Barton-AZ)

5/1, 0325, 7475am. Josiah in progress at tune-in, reading from 1st Samuel and Psalms. Heard on Drake SW1, long wire. Anti-war stuff just bf 0400 . First set of closing anncmts, Days of Hard Life, second set, "I love you" and off at 0411. -- Fair to Good (Barton-AZ)

4/30, 0305, 7475am. Josiah in progress at tune-in and progressing into the anti-war bit and other recycled material. Closing ann & Days of Hard Life at 0318, another short talk and faded out at 0325-ish (due to fadeout, not able to determine exact time the station ceased tx) -- Fair to Good (Barton-AZ)


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Regards, Lw