Logs, March 31

It was a very busy night on the shortwaves, which was a nice treat for a Sunday night.  Two new stations tonight ... Odynn and NMD and my best reception yet of Northpole.  NMD had a nice long show with great music, as did Renegade.  The loudest signals were from Mustang and Bogusman, but Odynn, NMD and Focus had some nice peaks.

Thanks to all the ops.

6270,1 . . 1924 . Bogusman Radio, slow instrumental, long talks, 25442 at this early time, up to 44443 by 2100

7610,0 . . 1936 . Radio Northpole, very weak at first, definite polkas by 2030, ID and greetings 2055, c/d 2057, 25342

6305,0 . . 1943 . Odynn Radio, “Kids in America”, greetings, ID, “Dreadlock Holiday”, “The Israelites”, 25442

6552,8 . . 2256 . Pink Panther Radio, “Green Green Grass of Home”, long ID with PP theme music, 35342

6305,0 . . 2058 . Mustang Radio, greetings, REO Speedwagon “Keep on Loving You”, ID, 45443

6325,0 . . 2104 . NMD Radio, instrumental, “Radar Love”, ID/email, “Long Cool Woman”, c/d 2350, 35443

6208,8 . . 2116 . Crazy Wave Radio, weak pop/rock music and talk, recognized ID, 24341

3904,9 . . 2150 . Radio Alice, weak Dutch music fading in, ID, 25342

3935,0 . . 2209 . Radio Underground, weak talk, ID, polka, 23341, ham QRM

6305,0 . . 2249 . Radio Powerliner Int., pop, greetings, ID, instrumental, 35442

6925,0u . 2300 . Voice of KAOS, “Get Smart” theme, ID, “Every Time She Goes Away”, 24442

6284,7 . . 2345 . Focus Int., “I Can’t Hear You”, ID, “I’ll Be There”, 34442 (was better when I tuned by earlier)

3465,0L . 2358 . UNID, pop and easy listening music, op chatting with freebanders between and during songs in Italian?, 23431

6925,0u . 0038 . Renegade Radio, Fleetwood Mac “Gold Dust Woman”, ID, greetings to HFU posters, lots of great classic rock, 35442

Logs, March 30

Conditions were back to normal tonight, and there was lots of great radio.

15089,9 . 1715 . Channel Z Radio, B52s “Channel Z”, repeat of last night’s show with guest DJ Andy Walker, 15441

6449,0 . . 1930 . Studio 52, polka, weak at first, up to 34342 by 2000, ID

6552,8 . . 2005 . Pink Panther Radio, “Against the Wind”, greetings, ID, 35332

6940,0 . . 2110 . Irish Music Radio, ID, announced an ‘All-American Blast from the Past”, unknown song, 25442

6935,0 . . 2226 . Radio Powerliner Int., country song, ID, greetings, instrumental, 33442, strange “chirping” QRM

1629,0 . . 2238 . UNID (Greece), Greek style music, heard ID but could not copy, 34332

3935,0 . . 2242 . Free Radio Victoria, “Blueberry Hill”, more oldies, ID, just above the noise, 34342

6284,7 . . 2247 . Focus Int., ID, Blur “Parklife”, talk by DJ, eclectic mix of music, audio seems a little low, 44333

1611,0 . . 2254 . Stathmos Anatolia (Greece), Greek style music and talk, soon covered by US station on 1610, ID via Iann’s chat, 23442

6925,0u . 2257 . Voice of KAOS, caught the last minute, ID, theme from “Get Smart”, c/d, 33342

6949,5 . . 2259 . XEROX Radio Duplicado, “Queen of the Ghetto”, ID, Spanish style guitar song, flute music, 44443

1648,0 . . 2312 . Radio Moby Dick, very weak music mixing with splatter from Canadian station on 1650, ID via Iann’s chat, 23341

6924,2 . . 2341 . Insane Radio, barely audible at first, funky pop song, echo ID, clip of “Just Dropped In”, up to 34442

6985,0  . . 0012 . Lightning Radio (presumed), weak pop style music poking through the noise, 24331

4029,0 . . 0035 . Laser Hot Hits, elevator style instrumental, morphed in new-age, ID, dance, 35442

6925,1 . . 0045 . Channel Z Radio, instrumental, ID, B52s “Channel Z”, repeat of Andy Walker show, 44433

6940,0u . 0108 . Red Mercury Labs, rock song, long talk, caught ID, several mentions of freq, April Wine “Just Between You and Me”, greetings, Skynyrd “Simple Man”, 25441

Logs, March 29

Conditions were very poor today.  48 m did not fade in until just before local sunset, the same time as 76 m, and signals were weaker than usual.  Mediumwave was not working at all.

The highlight of the evening was a great show by Channel Z Radio (US) with guest DJ Andy Walker featuring 60's British pop.

15845,0u .1655 . Radio Spaceshuttle, relay?, duet in Dutch, faded or off after 5 minutes, ID via HFUnderground, 24442

3935,0 . . 2115 . Radio Underground, polka, pop music, ID, jazz, email, c/d 2200, 25442

6552,8 . . 2122 . Pink Panther Radio, instrumental version of “Born to Be Alive”, greetings, offer of special Easter QSL, email, 35442

3920,0 . . 2130 . Polka Radio, instrumental polkas, 25442 moved to 3925 at 2143 which had more ham QRM,  ID, greetings, email, 33442

3894,1v . 2148 . Radio Sallendse Boer, Kiss “I Was Made For Loving You”, ID, talk in Dutch, “My Little Runaway”, 24442, frequency slowly drifting down

6305,0 . . 2204 . Super Boeren via Radio Osaka, Dutch web station, lots of Dutch music, 35442, on past 0100

3905,0 . . 2227 . Skyline Int. Radio, “Start Me Up”, Outfield “Your Love”, 23341, ham QRM, long show, c/d 0153

6284,7 . . 2250 . Focus Int., program by man and woman about free radio in the 1960’s, “Daytripper”, 35442

6925,1 . . 2330 . Channel Z Radio, B52s “Channel Z”, special guest DJ Andy Walker with a show of unknown songs by known musicians from the 60’s, 45443

6205,0 . . 0056 . Radio Powerliner Int., very weak music, ID via Inn’s chat, 25341

6935,0 . . 0101 . UNID, Greg Kihn Band “Breakup Song”, Rainbow “Stone Cold”, c/d, no announcement heard, 34442

6925,0u . 0148 . WPOD,  theme from the Benny Hill show, ID, Alice Cooper “No More Mr. Nice Guy”, 25442

Logs March 28 & QSLs from Delta and Python

It was a very quiet night on sw.  Thankfully, Focus had a good signal for most of the night, and mw faded in for a bit.


1620,0 . . 2155 . UNID (Greece?), Greek sounding music and talk, c/d 2157, 24442

1625,0 . . 2204 . Radio Orban, weak music, heard 5 minutes before I had to go to supper, ID via Iann’s chat, 25342

1646,0 . . 2241 . Witte Raaf Radio, Eagles “One of These Nights”, greetings, ID, “Smoke on the Water”, 35442

6284,7 . . 2309 . Focus Int., ID, HL number, Dylan “Knocking on Heaven’s Door”, 44343

Recently received QSLs include this one from Delta:

Thanks Wim!

And thanks to Python for this card:

Logs, March 27 and pic of Gander Volmet towers

6949,5 . . 2345 . WGWR (Global Warming Radio), Fall Out Boy “ Thanks for the Memories”, talk with Al Gore about global warming and carbon credits, Cheap Trick “Surrender”, c/d 2358, 44333

1638,0 . . 0045 . UNID (Greece), Greek style music and lots of talk between songs, 34342

4029,0 . . 0020 . Laser Hot Hits, pop and talk, good signal but severe rtty and occasional ssb QRM, 42332

I had to travel through Gander last weekend, so I stopped to take a pic of the Gander Volmet tower site.  Not pirate, of course, but I thought it might be of interest of utility DXers out there.

And here is a pic of the photographer, squinting in the very bright sunlight, and not realizing he had accidentally reversed the camera shot, lol.

Logs, March 26 (27 UTC)

1633,0 . . 0015 . Radio Barcelona, slow music, steady signal for about 15 minutes, then faded at announcement,  ID via Iann’s chat, 24442

4029,0 . . 0050 . Laser Hot Hits, pop, ID, email, talk about the BBC WS, 24332, occasional ssb QRM

6930,0 . . 0111 . Black Cat Radio, rock song, ID, sstv and c/d, 34442

Logs, March 25 (26 UTC)

6950,7 . . 0058 . The Crystal Ship, “Roundabout”, ID, announced it was the Rock & Roll Art Show, Floyd “Time”, c/d 0138, 44443

1710,0 . . 0112 . Radio Celestial (tent), I have not heard Radio Soleil, the Haitian station from Brockton, MA in quite a while, although there has often been a carrier. Tonight I heard distinct Spanish talk, with a mention of “Jesus Christo”, then religious style music.  Possibly Radio Celestial from New York, 25331 (not my favourite kind of pirate, but an interesting reception since NYC is 2000 km away)

4029,0 . . Laser Hot Hits, instrumental, ID, dance, 23442, ssb QRM, very wide signal,