Weekend Logs: 3/24/17-3/26/17

Back'n'forth from the radio. Great night for listening!

XLR8: 6955U, 3/25, 0038+ Recorded most of it with the tuning off by 3 Hz, whoops. That makes song identification kinda tough. Excellent signal with a variety of music, but a lot of punk. Fear "The Mouth Don't Stop," Circle Jerks "Paid Vacation," Parquet Courts "Ducking & Dodging," Flamin' Groovies "Teenage Head," Dead Kennedys "California Uber Alles," And lots of obscure music that I can't identify.

The Crystal Ship: 6876.1, 3/24, 2325+ Static crashes, but VG signal with Judas Priest, Autograph "Turn up the Radio," Van Halen "Unchained," The Who "Goin' Mobile," The Who "Magic Bus," 38 Special "Rockin' into the Night." TCS "Unchained" program promo, Promo for TCS merch to own a piece of pirate radio history, eBeastiality ad, Free Radio Cafe ad,

Liquid Radio: 6925, 3/25, 0140+ Pretty good signal, clear ID at 0140. More like '70s rock music, rather than the regular electronic. Peter Schilling "Major Tom." Static levels really jumped around 0150 (or the signal dropped?), making this much less intelligible.

Cool AM Radio: 6925U, 3/25, 1238+ ID not long after I tuned in. Lots of WMPR-like electronic dance music. Nice signal. Thought I was hearing This Is Not WMPR for the 1st time

Gospel Music SW: 6925.4, 3/25, 1824+ Contemporary Christian worship music, such as Matt Redman "Bless the Lord," Chris Tomlin "How Great Is Our God," "Blessed Be the Name of the Lord," "You Are the Everlasting God," "Holy, Holy, Holy Lord God Almighty," "Here I Am to Worship," Promo with “on the 8th day, God created radio” & email address “Gospel Radio, your gospel shortwave station”

Unid: 6930, 3/25, 1824+ A pirate is also on with a nice signal here. I need to get another antenna up because I've got 6925.4 recording here & I'll check back here later after the I've got a decent chunk recorded.

6290, 3/25, 2223 Some audio on this

Radio Cinco (tent.): 6260, 3/25, 2245+ Big signal, Spanish?-language talk, Radio Cinco ID, into The Chiffons "One Fine Day." I'm calling this "Radio Cinco" for the time being, but I dunno if that's a real ID from the station

Captain Morgan: 6949.9, 3/26, 0023+ Strong signal--even above the noise of the dishwasher & vacuum cleaner running. I guess this is a Chuck Berry memorial show: Cpn Morgan playing Chuck Berry "Too Much Monkey Business," "Brown-Eyed Handsome Man," "Sweet Little 16" A number of audio dropouts. I wonder if RF is getting into the CD player or computer?

Radio Eclipse: 6925U, 3/26, 1914+ Tuned in to a Billy Joel song, then a Steve Mann editorial from Radio Eclipse and Louis Armstrong "What a Wonderful World." BTW, I believe this is an old show from about 20 years ago. Good signal

This Is Not WMPR: 6925, 3/26, 2117+ Good signal, but some bad local QRM here. My 1st time to hear it. Female computer-voiced IDs. Dance version of "I'll Be Glad When You Are Dead, You Rascal, You"

Radio Cinco (tent.): 6260, 3/26, 2230+ Nice signal, but terrible local QRM. I'm guessing that this is the same station that I heard IDs as "Radio Cinco" last evening.

Weekend Loggings: 4/19-4/20/15

Weekend Loggings: 4/19-4/20/15

unid: 6951, 4/19, 0126-0140* Clip of an old documentary about wireless. Good signal with a tiny bit of bleedover from Wolverine

Wolverine Radio: 6955U, 4/19, 0126 Huge signal, but I was listening to the station on 6951 and hoping that I'd be able to identify it

Liquid Radio: 6925.2, 4/19, ca0330+ Fair sig--the best I've had in the past few times I've heard Liquid. Techno dance music, ID per HFU. I need to check my recording more closely.

The Crystal Ship: 6876, 4/20, 0029+ Excellent signal. ATF "Der Kommissar," Psychedelic Furs "Love My Way," Human League "Don't U Want Me Baby?," A Flock of Seagulls "I Ran," Gary Numan "Cars," The Buggles "Video Killed the Radio Star," Barnes & Barnes "Fishheads," Devo "Whip It," Thomas Dolby "She Blinded Me with Science," The Vapors "Turning Japanese," Soft Cell "Tainted Love," Thompson Twins "Lies" Lots of t-storm QRN

Old-Time Radio unid: 6770, 4/20, 0000+ Amos & Andy. Nice signal

Channel Z: 6956.2, 4/20, 0004-0008* Just caught the end of the show with Sex Pistols "Anarchy in the UK." "Last channel you'll ever need" ID at QRT. Lots of t-storm QRN

Midweek loggings: 4/15/15

Midweek loggings: 4/15/15

Lots of stuff going on at the radio HQ that should result in some interesting articles. I've been in contact with some old '90s-era shortwave pirates--some inactive & one reactivated. And I've been working on a new radio project that I hope will be helpful to a variety of hobbyists. More details to come. For the time being, here's a logging from tonight:

Old-Time Radio unid: 6770, 4/15, 0000+ Lots of comedy on tonight: Abbott & Costello, Burns & Allen, and Fred Allen. Ads for 1948 Ford trucks & Rexall drug stores.

Old-Time Radio unid: 6770, 4/15, 1130+ An episode of Cloak & Dagger about WWII espionage

XLR8: 6950U, 4/16, 0045-0056* A live version of "Purple Haze," clear IDs @ QRT. Nice signal

Liquid Radio: 6925.2, 4/16, 0045+ ID per HFU. Have a carrier, but I'm getting a lot more audio from the pescadors on the frequency that from Liquid tonight.

Radio Casablanca: 6940, 4/17, 0010+ Huge signal with some RTTY down underneath, but that just gives it real shortwave atmosphere. "Stormy Weather" & other WWII-era songs, plus clips of the movie Casablanca.

Just received this eQSL from Rick Blaine four days ago

Weekend Logs: 5/31-6/2/14

Weekend Logs: 5/31-6/2/14

Old-Time Radio unid: 6771.4, 5/31, 1145+ Tuned into EZL music. Peaking up to S9+10. Seems to have drifted up a few hundred Hz in the past few days. Muzak cover of the day at 1153: "Somewhere over the Rainbow." 2139: Still EZL music, still a good signal. 2145: Station off mid-song.

unid: 6876.1, 5/31, 1148 Carrier only here. Might just be a utility, but it might be worth mentioning

unid: 6865.7, 5/31, 1148 Carrier only here. Might just be a utility, but it might be worth mentioning

X-FM: 6940, 6/1, 0230+ DJ Redhat with a long talk mentioning high-powered pirates (I think he said that one station would raise the hair on the back of your neck when you drove by the transmitter of the station when it was on the air) and that XFM is an alternative rock station. Asking for music requests and reception reports. Lots of noise on the band tonight. Lots of of shoutouts to listeners who reported on the message boards & also to those who e-mailed. Think he mentioned he's had some transmitter problems. Dire Straits "Sultans of Swing" The Cars "Take What You Want"

Liquid Radio: 6925.2, 6/1, 0230+ Carrier and not much audio here in loads of QSB. ID per HFU

YHWH: 6890, 6/1, 0340+ Tuned in on my way down to check on the OTR unid. Carrier, but just a bit of audio present. Listened for a min or two. Checked HFU afterward & saw that it was YHWH. Am tuned back in at 0348 and am just hearing bits of audio. The 21-MHz signals have been much, much better here

Old-Time Radio unid: 6771.4, 6/1, 0340+ OTR: I think this show is A Day in the Life of Dennis Day. Dennis thinks he's dead because city hall's records show that he is. 1156+ More Muzak. FSN news with Rebecca Foster at 1200: murder in India, new head of VA affairs, Ukraine's unpaid gas bills to Russia, Boston Marathon bombing obstruction-of-justice case. Muzak cover of the day: "Music Box Dancer."

My weekend loggings 11/22-11/24/13

Receiver: Kenwood R-5000
Antenna: half-wave dipole cut for 6300 kHz

Boom Box Radio: 6850 1316+ Between running around and doing a few things this morning, I saw an announcement from Boom Box Radio, saying that they were on the air. I ran up to the radio room, tuned in, and had a pretty good signal with fades. This was one of their "Breakfast with Boom Box" shows, which is a fun audience-participation concept: On the online forums, when listeners post their loggings, BBR also asks what you had for breakfast. I'm having a variety of cold cereal, but today's responses on ranged from eggs & bacon to beer.

Happy Hanukkah: 6920 2034-2042* Fair signal. Heard a couple of comedians in front of a live audience. Chime interval signal at the end with clear IDs. I haven't heard this station in probably about 15 years. Wonder if they still QSL or if it was simply an old recording and nothing more?

Radio Gallifrey International: 6925U 2212-2223* Heard just before eating supper with The Who "Who Are You?" and an interesting mashup of the Dr. Who theme and Gary Glitter's "Rock and Rock, Part 2" The SSTV image came out fairly well.

Radio Free Whatever: 6945 2338+ Fair/poor with The Doors "Touch Me," ELO "Don't Bring Me Down"

I missed hearing Red Mercury Labs in here...

Wolverine Radio: 6935U 0230+ Weak but steady. Weird conditions tonight. Can hear what sounds like old acoustic blues. It'll be interesting to see if the SSTV at the end can be decoded tonight

Liquid Radio: 6925 0227-0620+ In and out here with trance music. The signal would fade up and reach downright good levels, then slowly fade down and almost disappear for a while.