Pirate Radio Logs – May 28-29

Okay, I have been slacking hard with posting my logs here. I am going to my best to keep up tonight… Also, for a little blog bling here is a SSTV image from Radio Ga-Ga received last night at 0322 UT on 6925.
Captain Morgan Shortwave, 6924.5v AM, 2130 – great signal at tune-in, Albert [...]

Pirate Radio Logs – May 13-14 + QSLs

Radio Ga-Ga, 6925 USB, 2118 – threshold audio, bubbling along just above noise floor. Was able to distinguish Higher Ground by Stevie Wonder at 2118 and SSTV at 2133. Want to see the awesome SSTV image I could decode? OK:
WEAK, 6930 USB, 2228 – after reading the logs on FRN for the past hour [...]

Pirate Radio Logs – May 9-10 + QSLs

Ragnar’s latest edition of the Pirate’s Week podcast is out! I had an early start this morning, and was able to catch the Voice of the Last DJ!
WLDJ Voice of the Last DJ, 6925 USB, *1356-1423* – nice signal this morning, playing old school rock like Hendrix, Bad Company, Foreigner and Dire Straits. [...]

Pirate Radio Logs + QSL – Cinco de Mayo

¡Hola amigos! I ordered Andrew Yoder’s Pirate Annual 2010 today. I am really looking forward to it arriving!
WEAK Radio, 6925 USB, *0001-0005* – On with Cinco de Mayo by War, DJ Knobtwister with an ID then gone! Excellent signal! Thank you for the QSL! This is WEAK QSL #18…
Outhouse Radio, 6930v USB, 0034 – [...]

Pirate Radio Logs – May 1-2

I was able to kick the local QRN I mentioned the other day. The culprit turned out to be a Western Digital ‘The Book’ USB drive, that joker was putting out massive 10 khz wide blobs of noise spaced every 30 kHz from LF to about 20 mHz. Now I can listen to some pirates!
Northwoods [...]

Pirate Radio Logs – May 1

My first pirate DX since a long time!
WEAK Radio, 6935 USB, 0130 – variable signal, playing all kinds of music that I can’t ID. “W-E-A-K” IDs between every couple of songs. Still going past 0200 UTC until ID and email address at 0228 UT and off. Thanks, WEAK!
Outhouse Radio, 6930 USB, 0253 – NIB by [...]

Slacking, but new QSLs arrived

I’ve really been slacking on DXing the pirates the last few weeks. I been spending most of my DX time lately on shortwave broadcast DX. But Elvis hasn’t left the building.
WBNY, 6924.7v AM, 0014-0035* – tough signal, lots of local electrical QRN. Signal drifting downwards the entire listening time. Beatles songs, Commander Bunny, “Ninety-nine” [...]

Pirate Radio Logs – July 16-17, 2009

All logging’s harvested via Perseus dirft net.
Outhouse Radio, 6925.08 USB, 2344 – excellent signal strength but modulation slightly distorted making for tough listening. Multiple espisodes of the old radio program Have Gun Will Travel, complete with old commercials. “This is Outhouse Radio taking you back to yesteryear” at 0058 UTC and off.
Radio Ga-Ga, 6925 USB, [...]

Pirate Radio Logs + Thinking Man Radio QSL – July 9-10, 2009

Radio Ga-Ga, 6925 USB, 0007 – poor signal with static bursts. SSTV interuptus, Last Train to Clarksvkille, People are Stange, People Are Strange, Radio Ga Ga by Queen. SSTV, voice ID and gone at 0025 UTC.
Cutting Zzz, 6925 NSB, 0030 – closed my eyelids and tuned in to some sleep.
WEAK Radio, 6925 USB, 0227 [...]

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

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 [...]