Free Radio Weekly #1287

FREE RADIO WEEKLY 1287 .-.
Covering Logs from 14 thru 20-November-2020 (0.0)
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EDITOR THIS WEEK: Harold Frodge .='`"``=.

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

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Our Contributors...a bunch that knows how to make good use of
free time.

Jack Amelar, Lowell MI
Harold Frodge, Midland MI
Chris Gay, Lexington KY
William Hassig, williamhassig@yahoo.com
Ron Hunsicker, Wyomissing PA, ronhunsi at ptd dot net
Mark Taylor, Madison WI

So...What are the rest of y’all doing with your quarantine time?

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OUR EDITORIAL POLICY: What editorial policy? Just send your
stuff in, we'll handle the rest.

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THE LOGS

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BALL SMACKER RADIO:

11/14, 0214-0333*, 3480/AM; 322 ID @0216 email ballsmacker@
protonmail.com Usual rock music. Improved propagation
by 0248 SIO=444. “It’s Friday night at 9PM on Ball
Smacker Radio (bowling pins sound effect)” Actually it
was 9:50 PM ET. Likely a replay, keeps announcing 6960
shortwave. EOT 0333 (Amelar)
11/14, 0219, 3480. Tuned into ID & e QSL offer into rock music
with periodic ID’s, longer ID sequence & e QSL offer,
off.  Good.  (Taylor – WI)
 
CANADIAN RADIO AFTER DARK:

11/12, 0136, 6960/U. Remembrance Day program. Bagpipes playing
Amazing grace, man with Armistice day talk, bugle call,
brief talk by a woman about Remembrance day, taps, off.
  Fair.  (Taylor – WI)

COUP d’ETAT RADIO:

11/14, 0105-0119*, 6931/U; Zeke's voice. Lots of Top 40's rock.
Rags on Trump & the GOP.  QSL reports to 1600 Pennsyl-
vania Avenue.  (35443, Hunsicker, PA)

FOX NEWS RELAY:

11/19, 2021-2031+, 6970/AM; Sean Hannity; North Carolina High
Country restaurant spot; i-Heart spot; 2031 back to Han-
nity. Fair w/pipper QRM & fady. 94.5 WPTI Eden NC has
been reported. Still going @2200 w/“the best trout
fishing in the Southeast” spot (Frodge-MI)

GOOD TIMES RADIO

11/15, 2010-2100, 6925/U. 5-song playlist by Survivor, Kenny
Loggins, Blue Swede, Pharrell Williams & Van Morrison.
After a brief pause, played the 1st 4 songs again, then
music by Chicago. Very deep fading, went from nothing
to good-to-excellent several times in central Kentucky.
ID was given but not understood. Big Badfish Al on HFU
said it was Good Times Radio. New here. (Gay-KY)

KDOG:

11/15, 2230-2247, 6955/U. Song Dog Talk by K-9 Corp. then a
bunch of dog barking. ID via SSTV. Peaking at 20 dB
over S9 in central Kentucky. (Gay-KY)

MIX RADIO INT’L:

11/18, 2101-2132, 6914/U; IDs by YL.  Abrupt drop in strength
at 2123--Li Ion cliff? (55555 until 2123, Hunsicker, PA)
11/18, 2118-2124+, 6914/U; Jazz; robolady ID @2123:30. SIO=454
(Frodge-MI)
11/18, 2259, 6914/U; pirate music at first hard to pinpoint until
a voice could sound about right here. Heavy beat dance
music at the rate of 128/minute, slightly more than disco
which is about 120. No announcements between breaks, nor
any caught in sporadic chex past 2326 still going. Good
modulation better than many big guns achieve & S8-S9.
Many logs here as Mix Radio Int’l [www].
hfunderground.com/board/index.php/topic,74455.15.html
starting with this one 3 hours ago: ``Details: 2020
Ultra-wide USB - with jazz fusion music « Last Edit:
Today at 20:25 by Big Badfish Al »`` (Glenn Hauser, OK)

PEE WEE:

11/13, 2317, 6927.2/U; fair signal, heard SSTV/FAX followed by
some type of comedy tune, another SSTV/FAX then more music
(Hassig-IL)

TAMI FM:
11/14, 2150-2215+, 6880/AM, Music by Wang Chung, Seals &
Crofts, Billy Idol, Gene Pitney, Sly & The Family
Stone & others. Fair-to-good in central Kentucky
with long slow fading (Gay-KY)
11/14, 2154, 6880/AM; JBA music at S8 noise level, checked
after this tip to the WOR iog: “Pirate station TAMI FM
is on 6880 AM with an SIO 444 signal here at 2128 UTC”
[www.hfunderground.com],
74288.0.html Chris Smolinski, Black Cat Systems, West-
minster, MD USA (Glenn Hauser, OK)
11/14, 2157-2216, 6880/AM; Diamond Girl, Heartbreaaker, others.
SSTV ID @2211. (35352, Hunsicker, PA)

WDOG:

11/20, 2108, 6925/U; S6 playing La Bamba. Initially unID logs
here later say IDed as WDOG: [www.hfunderground].
com/board/index.php/topic,74523.0.html (Glenn Hauser, OK)

YEAH MAN RADIO:

11/14, 2124-2212, 6925/AM; Million Dollar Weekend. Rosemarie,
Marry Me Bill, others. (35353 to unusable at 2212,
Hunsicker, PA)

ZEKE’s/ZEEKY’s/ZEEKEY’s/ZEEKEE’s ATTIC:

11/17, 2142-2154*, 6937/U; Test transmission. Laments the state
of the United States due to Trump & his lackeys. My MTV,
Peggy Sue & more Buddy Holly. Talks about CD players &
loving Buddy Holly.  (Good quality, Hunsicker, PA)
11/19, 2202-2206:52*, 6933/U; Chuck Berry’s Oh Carol; 2205
Definitely Zeke speaking into Trump-Giuliani bash, then
Have You Ever Seen the Rain. VGood Looks like Zeke is
just another hate spewer. (Frodge-MI)

UNIDs:

11/13, 2048-2049*, 6924.95/AM; Male announcer. (Unusable,
Hunsicker, PA)
11/14, 0028-0033, 6950/AM; OM & music, then just music.
(Unusable, Hunsicker, PA)
11/14, 1635-1656+, 6928.2/AM, Music by The Doors, Peter Framp-
ton, others. Nothing here (not even the carrier) but
fair-to-good on a web receiver in New England. I had to
pull away for football, but I see even HFU didn't hear
an ID. (Gay-KY)
11/15, 2014-2025:56*, *2027:30-2033+, 6925/U; Pop ditties such
as Highway to the Danger Zone, Hooked on a Feeling,
Brown-Eyed Girl. Started 2nd round with Eye of the
Tiger & same tunes as before. Another music & no ID
station. ZZZZZzzzzzzzz SIO=343 w/brief buzz burst QRM.
Apparently Good Times Radio. (Frodge-MI)
11/15, 2126-2155+, 6880/U; Pgm host Bon Bierman talking about
politics & religion on pgm Truth 2 Ponder; “We Chris-
tians need to pray more and yell less”; Interview w/
Dan Robinson ex-VoA employee reminiscing about the
good old days of SWLing. S9+ peaks; started falling
off a bit about 2150. (Frodge-MI)
11/15, 2319, 6934.9/AM; JBA carrier typically piratical;
numerous reported previously in HFUnderground but
none currently (Glenn Hauser, OK)
11/16, 0012-0016+, 6925/U; Rock tune & SSTV. SIO=453+ (Frodge-MI)
11/16, 2257, 6925/AM; JBA, Latest log in HFUnderground was
almost 2 hours earlier, “Pathetic President Radio”, so
by now could be something else. [www.hfunderground].
com/board/index.php/topic,74396.0.html (Glenn Hauser, OK)
11/18, 0210-0250+, 6970/AM; S7-S8 JBA soft music, at first piano,
no announcements thru 0221 at least, presumably a pirate;
one other unID log of this at: [www.hfunderground].
com/board/index.php/topic,74437.0.html from someone in
Alabama, ``unid 6970.07 am 0215 utc 18 Nov 20 « on:
Today at 02:17 » Unid station with music signal that is
weak. Thanks for the show. Signal has drifted to 6969.9 am
« Last Edit: Today at 02:20 by blw »``. 6970 is also a 24-
hour Sound of Hope + CNR1 jamming frequency, but format &
propagation time are both to the contrary for both
(Glenn Hauser, OK)
11/20, 2109, 6935/U; bit of music then SSTV beepery, S9+10/20,
much stronger than neighbor on 6925-USB. 2110 brief
distorted unreadable voice announcements and more SSTV.
2112 pause and more SSTV, noisy announcement, L&C clear
“Don`t Tread on Me” 2nd-amendment song now S9+25 peaks;
2116 another song. Strangely enough there are no logs of
this bigsig in HFU, but there was similar behaviour an
hour earlier as unID: [www.hfunderground.com]
index.php/topic,74517.0.html An SSTV proclaimed: I HAD
MY / PATIENCE / TESTED / I`M NEGATIVE (Glenn Hauser, OK)
11/20, 2110, 6970/AM; JBA carrier, unID pirate? 2118 fading up S3
to S5 so I can make out a bit of English talk. During pre-
vious hour this was reported on 6969.9 as unID relay of
WPTI 94.5 Greensboro NC: [www.hfunderground.com]
board/index.php/topic,74516.0.html (Glenn Hauser, OK)
[CoL for WPTI is Eden NC.]

=+=+=+=+= LPFMs =+=+=+=+=

87.9 Bay City MI LPFM relay; 12:28-1:01*PM, 11/15; Pop, rock &
trad’l Xmas ditties, including My Mommy’s Jesus Tonight;
“It’s Xmas everywhere on 99.1”, “Deep in the Heart of
Xmas 89.3 KSBJ” (Galveston TX). 1st time heard since Sep-
tember (Frodge-MI)

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Sordid Logs:

----- 11/14

0028-0033 UNID, 6950/AM
0105-0119 Coup d’Etat Radio, 6931/U
0214-0333 Ball Smacker Radio, 3480/AM
1635-1656 UNID, 6928.2/AM
2101-2132 Mix Radio Int’l, 6914/U
2124-2212 Yeah Man Radio, 6925/AM
2150-2216 Tami FM, 6880/AM

----- 11/15

2010-2040 Good Times Radio, 6925/U
2126-2155 UNID, 6880/U
2230-2247 KDOG, 6955/U
2319 UNID, 6934.9/AM
----- 11/16

0012-0016 UNID, 6925/U
2257 UNID, 6925/AM

----- 11/17

2142-2154 Zeke’s Attic, 6937/U

----- 11/18

0210-0250 UNID, 6970/AM
2118-2326 Mix Radio Int’l, 6914/U

----- 11/19

2021-2200 Fox News relay, 6970/AM
2202-2207 Zeke’s Attic, 6933/U

----- 11/20

2108 WDOG, 6925/U
2109-2116 UNID, 6935/U

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QSLs:

Recently reported e-mail addresses (Some are recent relays of
old programs & may not be valid.)

Ball Smacker Radio ballsmacker@protonmail.com
Big Johnson Radio bigjohnsonradio@gmail.com
Brocket 99 brocket99shortwave@gmail.com
Captain Morgan SW captainmorganshortwave@gmail.com
CBZO krakerradio@pmlol.com
Celtic Music Radio irelandfreeradio@gmail.com
Channel Z channelzradio@gmail.com
Charleston Radio Int’l charlestonradiointernational@yahoo.com
Cool AM Radio CoolAMRadio@hotmail.com
Cupid Radio cupidradio@hotmail.com
CYOT cyotshortwave@gmail.com
Electric Circus theelectriccircusshortwave@gmail.com
Flashback AM flashbackam@outlook.com
FoxyAM FoxyAM@protonmail.com
Green Monster Radio greenmonsterradio@gmail.com
Howdy Doody Radio howdydoodyradio@gmail.com
Io Radio ionradioshortwave@gmail.com
Laser Hot Hits studio@laserhothits.co.uk
Key Radio keyradioam@gmail.com
KR1 info@kennemeradio1.nl
Mix Radio Int’l Mix.Radio.International@protonmail.com
Movie Clip Radio MovieClipRadio@gmail.com
Mystery Radio radio21@gmail.com
Network 51 network51pirateradio@gmail.com
Pandora Radio pandoraradio@hotmail.com
Radio 319 319report@gmail.com
Radio 48 radio48@protonmail.com
Radio Casa radiocasaam@gmail.com
Radio Corsair radiocorsair@protonmail.com
Radio Cuckoo (Ireland) radiocuckoo@yahoo.com
Radio Delta radiodelta6925@gmail.com
Radio Dummy Load radiodummyload@gmx.net
Radio Diana Int’l radio.doanainternational@protonmail.com
Radio Enterhaken enterhaken@dmx.de
Radio Europe radioeurope@iol.it
Radio Free Mars radiofreemars@gmail.com (may be obsolete)
Radio Free USA RadioFreeUSAPirate@gmail.com
Radio Harmony harmonyqrz@gmail.com
Radio Humperdoo drunkenradiopirate@gmail.com
Radio Igloo radioigloo@gmail.com
Radio Joystick [radiojystock.de]
Radio Northern Europe Int’l tgwtr@protonmail.com
Radio Nova radionovausa2020@gmail.com
Radio Olah radioolah@gmail.com
Radio Piepzendar radioqsl@hotmail.com
Radio Waves Int’l rwaves@free.fr
Reggae Radio raggaeradio@mx.net
Rock-It Radio rockitradio@netzero.net
Sloppy Joe Radio sloppyjoeirate@gmail.com
Space Shuttle Radio spaceshuttleradio@yahoo.com
Speedwing Radio speedwingradio@gmax.net
Tater Patch Radio taterpatchradio@taterpatchradio.com
Texas Radio Shortwave texasradiosw@gmail.com
Toynbee Radio toynbeeradio@gmail.com
The Vault vaultshortwave@mail.com
Voice of Oz thefoxsw@aol.com
Voice of Pearl Harbor voiceofpearlharbor@gmail.com
Voice of Uncle Don thevoiceofuncledon@gmail.com
Voice of Weird Al voiceofweidal@gmail.com
WDDR Drunken DJ Radio drunkenradiopirate@gmail.com
WLG We Love Girls stationWLG@gmail.com
WREC Radio Free East Coast WRECradio@gmail.com
XFM xfmshortwave@gmail.com
Zeppelin Radio zeppelinradiosw@yahoo.com

Latest update: 2-October-2020

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--895’s, HF