Tuesday, April 13, 2010

chasing pirate radio on shortwave


Teatime Special Offshore Pirate Special
Starting Sunday April 18th, Atlantic Oldies 2NG is proud to present a special show by Bill Rollins. The special Teatime Special will take a look back at the Offshore Pirate Radio ships that broke the BBC's monopoly and finally gave the U.K. something that American listeners had been so used to for a long time. TOP 40 radio. Suddenly slick sounding Top 40 radio with American sung jingles eminated from ships and old war-time forts outside International Waters.

Bill started his radio career on a short-lived station "Tower Radio" and so presents an excellent two hours of a look back at this era with plenty of great Sixties music to keep you entertained for the two hours.

He goes right back to 1930 with Radio Normandie explaining how and why commercial radio came to the U.K. Before you know you'll be setting sail as Radio Caroline broke the mold on Easter Sunday 1964.

This is a fascinating show and can be heard at the following time

Sunday 18th April at 12pm EDT (1600 GMT, 1700 BST)
Tuesday 20th September at 12pm EDT (1600 GMT, 1700 BST)
Thursday 22nd September at 8pm EDT (0000 GMT, 0100 BST)
(Yimber Gaviria, Colombia)

Pirate Week Podcast
Week of April 11, 2010
Pirates in the news this week include notices of Unlicensed Operation given to Kathleen Paul, Lisa Hunt, Wilfredo Arroyo and Miguel Castro. SDR news had a story this week about Ham radio increasing in popularity. Bryan Clark’s Mailbox show on Radio New Zealand International talked a bit about receiving the “Hobby Broadcasters”.
‭Select postings from the Free Radio Network, HF Underground and note stations logged per the Free Radio Weekly ‭Off Air Recordings include the stations of: MAC, The Crystal Ship, WLDJ, UK Rocks the World, Family Friendly Radio, and WBNY ‭Background music from the Podsafe Music Network by the artists; Derek K Miller, Brain Buckit, Denis Kitchen
‭Thanks for listening
(Ragnar Daneskjold)
http://www.piratesweek.info/ /

All times UTC
All English unless otherwise indicated
*sign-on sign-off*

Euro pirate logs
7610.05, Radio Amica, 2325-2340. Pop dance music.talian station ID announcements. Fair signal but occasional interference on high side from 2-way radio communications. (Brian Alexander, PA)

6203 1104 0845 Radio Scotland International. Pop music, SINPO 24222
6220 0504 1755 Mystery Radio. Pops and dance music to jingle ID. SINPO 35443
6220 0604 1705 Mystery Radio. Pops and dance music to ID. SINPO 35443
6220 0904 1810 Mystery Radio. Pops, dance and disco music. SINPO 34433
6220 1004 1805 Mystery Radio. Pop music to jingle ID and disco music. SINPO 34333
6220 1104 0730 Mystery Radio. Soul music to jingle and ID. Noted Simon and Garfunkel music. SINPO 24332
6305 1104 1455 Radio Merlin International. Pop music including tune Abracadabra. Jingle to tune Give Peace a Chance. SINPO 24222
6420 1004 2050 Premier Radio International. Pop music to jingle and ballad. Downtown tune and Enio Morricone. SINPO 24332
6912 0904 1812 Continental Radio. German schlagers, pops, ballad and electro pops. SINPO 24232
6925 1004 1915 Spider Radio. Musical ballads, SSTV and Lady in Red. Noted in USB, SINPO 24322
7610 0504 0600 Radio Amica. Italian programming with rock, pops. Informazione europea, Falco, and radio news. SINPO 35443
7610 1004 0645 Radio Amica. Italian programming with techno pops. Station ID to pops. Radio news. SINPO 34343
7610 1104 0612 Radio Amica. Italian programming with electric salsa tunes. Station ID and email address.
(Silveri Gomez via Dario Monferini, Italy/playdx)

North American pirate logs
6930 USB, WLDJ, 2155-2214.* Rock music to IDs by woman announcer as “WLDJ, Voice of the Last DJ.” Email address. Sign off with SSTV. Weak. Poor with slight distortion. (Brian Alexander, PA)

6924.7, Captain Morgan. 2218-2228.+ Blues tunes to ID and email address at 2228. SIO 242. Minor signal splash from 6915 WYFR(prseumed) in Spanish. (Harold Frodge/MARE 575)

6924.46 AM, Radio Ronin Shortwave. 2145-2150. Rock music. IDs. Email address. Poor. Weak.(Brian Alexander, PA)

6925 USB, Radio Mushroom, 0040-0052.* Oldies pop music by Frankie Valli, Dion, Elvis and others. IDs. Email address. Poor in noisy conditions. (Brian Alexander, PA)

6924.9 AM, Capt Morgan, 0215. New Age pop, blues music. Email as: captainmorganshortwave@gmail.com . (Hassig-IL/FRW 738) 6925, 0156. SIO 323. Good signal, but nois. Station ID and Jetson's TV theme tune at 0206. Flinstones theme followed by
Rocky and Bullwinkle. (Fansome, PA/FRW738)

6925 AM, Northwoods Radio, 2340-2350.+ Rock music by Led Zeppelin, Train and others. IDs.Good. (Brian Alexander, PA)

6925, WHYP, 2010, 0100. Music and into the eay eay eay James Brownyard bit. Music from Talking Heads, Life During Wartime and lots of Devo. sycko at 0153. s15, excellent signal. Quick fadeout at 0158 down to just above the noise level. (Will, MD/FRW 738)

6925, Radio Ronin, 2155, SIO 333. Signal a bit noisy. Station ID at 2155. Music tunes-Somebody to Love, I Love Rock and Roll, One Way or Another. (Fansome, PA/FRW 738)

6925USB, Peek a Chew, *2313-2317.* SIO 242. A couple of rock tunes and then two ID's by announcer. ID is phonetic, I think that the spelling is approximate. No addr announced. (George Zeller, OH/FRW 738)

6876 The Crystal Ship. 2332-2351. Nice selection of rock music including REO and The Jefferson Starship. Signal hampered by static. (Joe Wood, TN).

6930USB, 2334-0001.* Good signal (S8-S9). Classic popular music tunes from the sixties like the Beatles, Box Tops, Frankie Vallie's Four Seasons and Trogs. End with SSTV signal. (Majewski CT)

6940 USB, WEAK Radio, 2050-2105. Rock music. ID. Fair to good. (Brian Alexander, PA)

6950, Coyt Radio, 0143-0152* A fair-good signal observed. Songs by the likes of Led Zeppellin, and Guess Who. Station ID coytradio@gmail.com. Station off with manual morse code ID. (Majewski CT/FRW 738)