Weekend Pirate Loggings: 1/17-1/19/15

Weekend Pirate Loggings: 1/17-1/19/15

X-FM: 6975, 1/17, 0317+ One of the best signals I've had from X-FM in the past year. DJ Redhat with lighter, poppier music than normal. Tons of shoutouts.

Radio Dr. Tim (relay): 6875.7, 1/17, 2227 Nice signal. Polka, including chicken dance. Very long ID jingles with IDs & e-mail address.

Old-Time Radio unid: 6770, 1/17 Noted in passing several times today. Signal seems weaker than usual.

Radio Dr. Tim (relay): 6975, 1/18, 0000+ Just checked the radio to see if anyone was on & found a good signal on 6975. Tuned in to polka & thought "Wow, Dr. Tim is back!" Sure enough, it is. Station went off at 0002, but came back on within about 30 seconds, with an even better signal.

Radio Free Whatever: 6925U, 1/18, 0041+ Nice to hear RFW back on again. Seem to be winging this one: accidentally cut a song off in the middle, so Dick Weed said "totally killed the mood of that one" & started the song over from the beginning again.

Karma unid: 6925U, 1/18, 0110+ Haven't listened to this one yet, but I was recording RFW when this came on afterward. Have 4 legible SSTV decodes, primarily about karma (hence my name for the unid). (Later) I guess this station is actually called "Karma" because Chris Smolinksi reported an eQSL from the station this morning

WRR: 6925U, 1/18, 0154+ Country music under pescadors on the frequency. Just heard a couple of IDs, but difficult to copy. Seemed to fade out

unid: 3275, 1/18, 0211+ Per HFU, this station was playing a Sherlock Holmes OTR mystery, but I tuned in and heard it playing Culture Club "Karma Kameleon." Not sure if it's the Karma unid or if the song is just happenchance

Cool AM (relay): 6950L, 1/18, 0215+ Heard some talk and music, but the station's buried in utility splatter, plus I have some noise. ID per HFU

Old-Time Radio unid: 6770, 1/18, 2200+ Excellent signal again.

The Crystal Ship: 6850, 1/19, 0022+ Excellent signal with '60s pop music, including The First Edition "Just Dropped In," Status Quo "Pictures of Matchstick Men," etc.

Weekend Pirate Loggings: 1/10-1/13/15

Weekend Pirate Loggings: 1/10-1/13/15

Over the past few years, WAZU has been a difficult-to-hear North American pirate to log, but for the next two months, Fearless Fred's station recordings will be audible via licensed station WBCQ on 5110 kHz from 9-10 PM Friday nights (0100-0200 UTC Sat. mornings).

WBCQ (WAZU relay): 5110, 1/10, 0115+ Fearless Fred with the Belfast address a few times, Gerbil Rooter ad, T Rex "20th Century Boy," Dr. Tim promo, "We Love the Pirate Stations" clip

Weekday Pirate Loggings 1/5/15-1/9/15

Weekday Pirate Loggings 1/5/15-1/9/15

Old-Time Radio unid: 6770, 1/5 Our Miss Brooks, Great Gildersleeve, Parkay margerine & Ipana toothpaste ads, NBC chimes & promo, etc. Nice signals

NY Week loggings: 12/30/14-1/4/15

NY Week loggings: 12/30/14-1/4/15

Old Time Radio unid: 6770, 12/30, throughout the day Red Skelton Show, The Great Gildersleeves, etc.

The Backstabber: 6900-->6913, 12/31, ca1430+ Fair to good signal on fade ups, complaints about a particular DXer

Radio Dr. Tim: 6925, 1/1, ca2220 Some schlager & more. Nice signal

Liquid Radio: 6925.2, 1/1, 0115+ Some dance music, but the sign isn't too strong

Radio Appalachia: 6940, 1/1, 0115+ Country music and an announcement. Weak

Radio Free ADD: 6925U, 1/1, 0200+ ID per HFU. Weak signal in band noise. Can hear some dance music

WDDR: 6945U, 1/1, 0511+ Led Zeppelin "Gallow's Pole"

Weekend Pirate Logs: 12/27-12/29/14

Weekend Pirate Logs: 12/27-12/29/14

I've been away for most of the past few days, so I don't have many loggings to offer.

Radio Ga-Ga: 6925U, 12/28, ca.0000+ VG signal, but the signal-killing combination of the washer and dishwasher rendered it unusable.

X-FM: 6975, 12/28, 0150+ Very nice signal with The Who "Eminence Front"  & Toto "Africa." Shoutouts to me & others logging on HFU.

Old-Time Radio unid: 6770, 12/28, 1300+ Box 13 show, then Dangerous Assignments show being aired on the Wheaties Big Parade. Nice signal.

XLR8: 6950U, 12/29, 0040+ Heavier song, ID, then an instrumental ska song. Another ID,then a fast-paced song that might be Latin American?

Pre Christmas loggings: 12/23-24/2014

Pre Christmas loggings: 12/23-24/2014

Channel Z: 6925, 12/23, 2224+ CZ Christmas special with Run DMC "Christmas in Hollis" & many more Christmas songs. Great stuff to wrap Christmas presents to . . . and I was

OTR unid: 6770, 12/23, 2330+ Red Skelton show, starting monologue with joke about Yankees in the World Series again. Interesting just how similar this is to the monologues on current late-night shows. Avalon cigarettes ad.

Happy Hanukkah: 6875.5, 12/23, 2354-0003* Pretty good signal here, but quickly wavering. "Far from the Home I Love" from Fiddler on the Roof, Interval signal repeated a number of times with cuing information intact

Snowball Radio: 6940U, 12/24, 0039-0040* Off the air mid-"All I Want for Christmas Is My Two Front Teeth"

Radio BZN: 6952.5, 12/24, 0118+ Evidently BZN songs and an SSTV image coming through right now.

Nonpirate logs

NMN: 6501U, 12/23, ca. 2300 Coast Guard station from Chesapeake, VA. Gave a list of frequencies that would no longer be used in 2008 (!). Also gave phone number for inquiries as 1-800-742-8519. Excellent signal


Trenton military: 6754U, 12/23, 2335+ Aviation weather. Strong signal, accurate time checks

Weekend Pirate Loggings: 12/14-12/16/14

I'm getting really close to starting to lay out the 2014 Pirate Radio Annual, but I'll start adding in a few logs:

WHYP: 6880, 12/14, 0034+ James Brownyard belting out his biggest hits, such as "Niel Wolfish Got Runover by George Zeller, etc. Some announcements & bits by Maharishi Hashishi from Radio Free Euphoria. A few other songs from the 2001 WHYP punk Christmas special, such as Fear "F*** Christmas," etc. "Yah, yah" song by the original JB & off with George Zeller saying it's the worst thing hie's heard on shortwave. Excellent signal & audio.