Pirate Radio Logs + WEAK Radio QSL – July 8-9, 2009

WEAK Radio eQSL My apologies for this late posting! I accidentally took a nap after work, and just never got caught up after sitting down at the controls of the Perseus. Some of these logs are “live”, and others are being harvest this morning from the Perseus dirft-net. Crazy active night for the middle of the week!

Thinking Man Radio, 6925, 0117 – tune in during mid-program, good signal but soon fading significantly. Midnight Rider, ID and email, last song Lighter Shade of Pale, one last ID and gone at 0128 UTC.

Captain Morgan Shortwave (tentative), 6923.6v AM, 0146 – Tentative Captain Morgan due to short bit of Twilight Zone theme heard. No announcements heard. Audio slightly distorted and transmitter jumping around approx. +/- 100 Hz. Set included Brown Sugar, The Call Me The Breeze, Play That Funky Music and Drift Away.

Pirate Radio USA relay via Outhouse Radio, 6925 USB, 0129 – ID of “This is a special broadcast transmission from Pirate Radio USA originating from KQLZ FM Los Angeles” (audio clip). Brief transmission.

Dead Cat Radio, 6925 USB, 0204 – moderate signal with lots of static. Crosby Still & Nash songs, ID at 0220 UTC and off.

WEAK Radio, 6930 USB, 0238 – great signal from WEAK! Set included James Brown, Dr. Demento, Elvis the Singing Dog, Bob Marley, etc. Parents of Girls Gone Wild spoof commercial. Multiple ID’s.

Dead Cat Radio, 6925 USB, 0255 – noticed DCR back at 0255 with a better signal. Set included Buffy Come Back, Johnny Are Your Queer, Video Killed The Radio Star and other. ID at 0315 and off again.

Pirate Radio USA relay via Outhouse Radio, 6925 USB, 0319 – Outhouse relaying Pirate Radio USA, see link for details of this program.

M-A-C Shortwave, 6924.7v AM, 0325 – Interval weakly heard, times pips, Ultraman heard at 0332 UTC. Extremely weak, threshold audio. Splatter from WYFR.

Radio Margaritaville, 6930 USB, 0408-0508 – initially threshold signal slowly improving too fair levels by 0420 UTC. Back to back Jimmy Buffett songs, set included Miss You So Badly, Incommunicado, It’s My Job and more. ID at 0508 UTC. Station jumped down to 6925 kHz USB at 0508 UTC. New station! Fingers crossed for a QSL…

Radio Margaritaville, 6925 USB, 0508-0538 – good signal. Back to back Jimmy Buffett songs, set included Distantly In Love, Come To The Moon, Somewhere Over China and more. ID at 0521 UTC (audio clip).

Outhouse Radio, 6930 USB, 0459-0559 – good signal, set included Powerman 500, Cars, Rob Zombie, S.T.P., Steve Miller, ZZ Top, Sabbath and Jimi Hendrix. Off at 0559 UTC.

UnID, 6925 USB, 0557-0618 – generally a decent signal, no ID or announcements heard. Set including B.O.C., April Wine, Garbage. Off at 0618 UTC.

UnID, 6925 USB, 0655-0712 – poor signal, no ID or announcements heard. Tune in to Year of the Cat by Al Stewart. Played a few more songs I couldn’t make out, then Walking In Memphis at 0707 UTC and appearing to leave the air at 0712 UTC.

QSLs WEAK Radio hooked Lex and I up with this nice QSL tonight’s broadcast. This makes 12 different WEAK Radio QSLs in the Album. Evil Monkey loves WEAK! Thank you, thank you very much!

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