Logs, July 18 & 19, QSLs from Fox 48 and Man Cave Radio

July 18
6980,0 . . 2148 . Rock Radio Network, music, severe ssb QRM prevented hearing any announcement, ID via Iann’s chat, 22441
6900,0L . 2221 . Baltic Sea Radio, barely audible music under ute, “seagull” ID, 22441

July 19
6280,0 . . 2106 . Mazda Radio, ID, greetings, Journey “Don’t Stop Beleivin”, 25442
6210,0 . . 2110 . Mustang Radio, ID, Human League “Don’t You Want Me”, 25442
6290,0 . . 2224 . Odynn Radio, Cheap Trick “I Want You to Want Me”, greetings, ID, 10cc “Dreadlock Holiday”, 25441
6905,0L . 2242 . Baltic Sea Radio, pop, “seagull” ID, 24441
3905,8 . . 2300 . Sallandse Boer, Dutch music, ID, 25341

I recently received this nice QSL from Fox 48.  Nice design!

Also, I received the first QSL from Man Cave Radio, a new station from the US.  Nice rules!  Thanks Bob.

Logs, July 13 & 14, and some memories.

It was a scorcher here today!  Over 31 C, and the second hottest day on record.

It has been a whole since I have posted, since I have been busy with other things.  

First, I have now entered semi-retirement.  I have closed my office, and will now run a reduced version of my business from my phone and computer.  After 24 years of 12 hour days, I am looking forward to more time for family and hobbies.

Also in the last few weeks, I had family return from across Canada for my parents memorial service and burial.  One of the things that I did for the memorial service was prepare a slide show of old pics.  As a little tribute to the man who introduced me to shortwave, here are pics I discovered of both him and me at our respective corner of our "radio room" from about 1978-9.

My father's equipment was either Heathkit or self-built.  My radio was a Yaesu FRG-7 (which I still have) and behind me is the Hammerlund HQ-180 boat anchor that I started on.

Another complication ... in late June my antenna feed suffered it's annual "failure".  I finally got a chance to rebuild it on Saturday, so I did hear some stations on Saturday and Sunday nights.

Saturday, July 13

6295,3 . . 2154 . Radio Lowland, IDs as TWN Radio, The Monkees, “Hey, Hey, We’re the Monkees”, Beatles “A Day in the Life”, ID as Lowland, c/d 2347, 25442

6920,0 . . 2204 . Trans Europe Radio, ID/email, instrumental, 25341

6909,0L . 2209 . Baltic Sea Radio, Black Sabbath “Paranoid”, ID, email, instrumental, 24442

6325,8 . . 2214 . Radio Caroline Int., dance, ID, mid-eastern music, 25442

6745,2 . . 2221 . Radio Pioneer AM, Patti LaBelle “New Attitude” 23341

6305,0 . . 2238 . NMD Radio, ID, greetings, report to Ronex, techno, 35342

5800,6 . . 2242 . Tower Radio, Boomtown Rats “I Don’t Like Mondays”, instrumental, ID,  c/d 2249, 25442

5909,8 . . 2249 . Continental  Radio, rock music, Dutch music, ID via Iann’s chat, 24442

3905,0 . . 2258 . Radio Baken 16, Guess Who “American Woman”, 25341, up to 25442 at 2325 with Jethro Tull, c/d 2327

6260,0 . . 2302 . Shortwave Gold, “Doo Dah”, ID, 45443

3905,0 . . 2327 . UNID, short voice (report to Baken I think), too weak to copy

6920,0 . . 2353 . Trans Europe Radio, back on with rock, 25442

6324,9 . . 2356 . Ronex Radio, moved to 6325 due to QRM on 6305, QSO with NMD, Ronex barely audible music and talk, ID via Iann’s chat

Sunday, July 14

6269,9 . . 0020 . Radio Rode Barron, “Highway to Hell”, “Summer of 69”, ID, talk in Dutch, 25342

1699,9 . . 0030 . UNID (Greece?), low talk and Greek sounding music, c/d 0032, 25442

1648,0 . . 0035 . Radio Moby Dick, Dutch music, talk, just a little too weak to copy, ID via Iann’s chat, 24441 (edit: upon reviewing audio file, heard 2 positive IDs)

1638,0 . . 0047 . Bluebird Radio, Dutch music, ID, greetings, best signal yet from Bluebird, 35342

6924,3 . . 0114 . UNID, Beach Boys “Fun, Fun, Fun”, ’59 Mustang car ad, “Mustang Sally”, ad for ’54 Lincoln, possible ID “you have entered the Man Cave”, 45433 (Update:  got a QSL identifying this as Man Cave Radio ... will post soon.)

15785,0 . 1347 . Hamburger Lokal Radio, discussion by two men in German, slow song by woman, ID, 25431, better at 1920 with program of old jazz in English, 25442

6305,0 . . 2112 . Radio Powerliner Int., ID, pop, weak at this early time, 24441

6209,8 . . 2125 . Radio Goundenster, very weak music, ID via Iann’s chat, 15341

6300,0 . . 2132 . TRX Radio, blues and oldies, ID, 32341, noise ute

6294,9 . . 2153 . Top Radio, very weak music, ID via Iann’s chat, just 10 watts, 25331

Logs, June 18 & 19, QSLs from Orgasm Int., Echo 1, & Northsea Int.

June 18
6910,0L . 2327 . Baltic Sea Radio, Beach Boys “Fun, Fun, Fun”, ID, email, Spice Girls “Wannabe”, 24441
6250,0 . . 2335 . Shortwave Gold, Hall & Oates “She’s a Maniac”, ID, 44443, occasional ute QRM

June 19
6250,0 . . 2203 . Shortwave Gold, CCR “Proud Mary”, ID, 33442, ute and ssb QRM
6290,6 . . 2236 . Radio Caroline Int., pop music, ID, 33442, ssb QRM

Three new QSLs in the past few days, all for relays.

The first is from Radio Echo 1, heard via CoolAM Radio

The next was also relayed by CoolAM ... Radio Orgasm Int.

And finally, a n/d card from Radio Northsea Int., for a report on their relay by Radio Spaceshuttle Int.

Thanks to all!

Logs, June 14 - a busy Friday!

6325,8 . . 2113 . Radio Yellow Submarine, dance, jingle ID, 24341

6250,0 . . 2118 . Radio Flying Dutchman, pop, ID, greetings, email, instrumental, 24441

6393,5 . . 2121 . Radio Underground, Abba “Fernando”, talk, c/d 2242, 24342

6303,0 . . 2133 . Radio Anode, Abba “Eagle”, ID, 25442

6285,0 . . 2200 . Free Radio Victoria, ID, “Peggy Sue”, c/d 2241, 25442

6293,0 . . 2208 . Radio Scotland Int., “Mama Weer All Crazee Now”, ID, greetings to Powerliner on 6303, c/d 2220, 45443

6210,0 . . 2213 . Sluwe Vos Radio, rap, ID, email, greeting, 25442

6293,0 . . 2221 . Radio Pluto, brief voice report to Scotland, 25341

6293,0 . . 2222 . Radio Powerliner Int., polka, report to Scotland, talk in Dutch, 35343, QSO with Pluto and Scotland, followed by a long show, c/d 0007

6304,8v . 2227 . Radio Morningstar, oldie, ID, greetings, said was 60 watts, 24342

3905,0 . . 2250 . Skyline Int. Radio, ID, “Sweet Home Alabama”, greetings, 24341

6267,0 . . 2302 .Radio Black Arrow, ID, greetings, Gilbert O’Sullivan “Get Down”, 34343

6735,0u . 2318 . Radio Orgasm Int. (via CoolAM Radio), pop, jingle ID, just above the noise, 25441, followed at 2336 by CoolAM Radio show, IDs, “Dancing With Tears In My Eyes”, then  Echo 1 Radio at 0036 with ID, cw, inice mellow instrumental tune

4926,0 . . 0000 . Laser Hot Hits, oldie “I’ll Be There?”, ID, 33341, usual ute QRM

6925,0 . . 0130 . Northwoods Radio, old instrumental jazz, talk by op, loon call, ID, more jazz, 35332

Logs, June 13 and QSL from Radio Verona

6299,8v . 2308 . Radio Morningstar, oldies, ID, greetings, country, c/d 2342, 24341

4026,0 . . 2355 . Laser Hot Hits, dance,  ID, clip of “Dragonslayer” with talk, 33341,ute QRM and usual summer static crashes

I received this  QSL from Radio Verona today.  Lovely knobs!  Thanks!

Logs, June 12

6925,1 . . 2335 .Radio Free Whatever, pop, ID, still going when I got back from supper at 0010, lots of good, but unknown, music (op was giving song names but couldn't catch a complete one), 24332

4026,0 . . 0028 . Laser Hot Hits, “Sound of Silence”, female DJ with very high pitched voice, 33442, ute QRM

6210,0 . . 0037 . Shortwave Gold, B52s (unknown song), ID, 34442

6975,5 . . 0057 . Boombox Radio, instrumental pop/jazz, multiple IDs, reggae, c/d 0106, 35442

6925,0 . . 0128 . UNID, “Secret Agent Man”, Beatles “Revolution”, had to leave the radio but came back at 0149 to catch one bar of “Twilight Zone” (not sure it’s the ame staion, but I think so), 24331

Logs, June 11

Conditions were quite good on 48 m tonight with low noise levels.  Not a busy night, but one mystery was the station on 6925,3.  No announcements, but it was logged much weaker by US listeners than here, so it may have been someone from Europe testing?

6975,5 . . 2342 . Boom Box Radio, dance, ID, 44443

6925,3 . . 2350 . UNID, music (French or Italian?), c/d midsong at 2356 without announcement, 33442, ssb QRM

6210,0 . . 0015 . Shortwave Gold, dance, ID, instrumental, 44443

6925,3 . . 0118 . UNID, 90 seconds of music, quite loud but audio was very distorted, 34443

4026,0 . . 0135 . Laser Hot Hits, pop song from 1981, ID, conversation by 2 guys about free radio, 33441, ute QRM,