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Random Radio

Saturday, December 1, 2007, 0206, 6925 usb. Piano music, Random Radio ID, and mention of the frn grapevine. Jingle Bells, 40s version, eastern european version, Bing Crosby version, barking dogs version, ragtime version. SIO 322 variable. Improving to 433 after 0219. ID and QSL info and call outs to frn poasters at 0220. Hello to Beerus et. al. and "Good night everybody and Merry Christmas" at 0221, then off.

WMPR

Sunday, November 25, 2007, 1616, 6955 am. Music by Peter Gabriel, "WMPR 6955" ID. A somewhat different mix of tunes than the usual "dance party." 1622 "Thank you for tuning in to WMPR." 1624 "WMPR SSTV MP73," some SSTVs in MP73 format, a final ID, and off at 1627.

SIO 434 s9 with slight fades.

Some kind of madness

Our 182nd episode went out over shortwave live at 2300 UTC on Saturday, November 24, 2007. Good reception was had by most, from Wisconsin to Alabama and Louisiana with Pennsylvania, Maryland, Massachusetts, Ohio, and Michigan in between.

He bought a one way ticket, on a highway full of snow. Poor fucking bastard, Radio Legion is on the air.

• Bill Cox - The Whole Dam Family
• Jon Wayne - Texas Jail Cell - Texas Funeral (1984)
• Frank Zappa - Duodenum - Lumpy Gravy
• Byrds - Nashville West - Dr. Byrds and Mr Hyde
• Clint Eastwood - Santa Fe Trail - Clint Eastwood Sings Cowboy Favorites (1962)
• Pink Boys - Put Your Hands On The Radio
• Crack The Sky - Give Myself To You - Safety In NUmbers
• Goldie Hawn - Uncle Pen - Goldie Hawn (1972)
• Pure Prarie League - I'll Fix Your Tire, Merle - Alive In America
• Pink Floyd - Stay - Obscured By Clouds
• The Who - Love Ain't For Keepin' - Who's Next
• Kings X - Prisoner
• Clint Eastwood - Don't Fence Me In
• Leonard Nimoy - Hitchhiker - The Way I Feel (1969)
• Captain Beefheart and Hs Magic Band - Peaches - Unconditionally Guaranteed
• Blond Venus - Future

Undercover Radio

Friday, November 23, 2007, 0145, 3420 am. Undercover Radio sending a massive signal here with some nice upbeat progressive music. ID at 0147. Live call out to frn posters at 0154. At 0155, Dr. Benway mentioned that this weekend he might try and put a couple of hundred watts on 1710. Rebroadcast of the NYE 2005 show at 0156. Still going at 0244, but signal dropping a bit. Laser Hot Hits relay at 0250.

SIO 545 s20.

Here's an off air recording I made from 0154 on.

WSKO

Thursday, November 22, 2007, 2144, 6925.1 usb. Sycko has managed to completely cut up and remic the new Kracker Thanksgiving special. Hevay mash-up of Kracker, rap music, WSKO ID at 2150. Other music, Manson Dope Show, Smoke Dat Weed, gobbles, Allan and Mal. Allan Weiner saye "Be sure to go to eBay and buy a Kracker!" SIO 444 s9 steady with good sound and fidelity. off at 2212.

WTCR

Thursday, November 22, 2007, 0033, 6925 usb. 20th Century Fox movie sound, several times. "This is WTCR 20th Century Radio"

CSN - Wooden Ships
CSNY - Woodstock
Dan Hicks and His Hot Licks - I Scare Myself
Traffic - Shouldn't have took more than you gave
Fleetwood Mac - Oh Well
Fleetwood Mac - Rhainon
Gladys Knight and the Pips - Grapevine
Jimmy Cliff - Many Rivers to Cross
Jimmy Cliff - You Can Get It If You Really Want
Joe Cocker - With a Little Help From My Friends
Mountain - Never in My Life
Redbone - Come and Get Your Love
Rod Stewart - Maggie May
Sam Cooke - Twistin the Night Away
Count Five - Psychotic Reaction

SIO 434.

The Crystal Ship

Tuesday, November 21, 2007, 2317, 6700//3420 am. The Crystal Ship signing on with horn and signature song. Signal good on both with less interference on 6700. At 0019, "Wipeout" by the Safaris. SIO 434//433. By 0023, fading in and out.

I will record this in my Log

Slackful show 182 came and went at 2300 UTC on Saturday, November 17, 2007, on WBCQ 7.415 MHz. Not too many people in the northeast could hear us on shortwave tonight, but we had at least two reports that we were indeed on 7415 despite horrible shortwave conditions close in.

• Intro: Radio, Beefheart "Golden Birdies" Paris 1973, You funny little monkeys, We've got to go GET JOHNNY!, Susie in Baltimore 11/10/2007, Radio
• Johnny drunk
• Blue Oyster Cult - Screams - Blue Oyster Cult
• Use a billy (One good hit should put him away)
• Frank Zappa - What's New In Baltimore
• muffins and grits
• Grandpa Jones - Groundhog
• Brother Scare Numbers Jamba
• Johnny trashed
• Janis Joplin - Mary Jane
• The Amino Acids - Focusing Disintegrator Ray/'Slak' Removal Machine
• Johnny wasted 2
• cornholio techno rap
• They're coming to get you, Barbra
• Joe Jackson - I'm The Man
• One good hit should put him away
• Santana - Dealer/Spanish Rose - Inner Secrets
• Cosmik "Bob"
• Fat Free - Potty Mouth
• Chigger Red - Woke Up In Nevada - Hammered

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The Crystal Ship

Thursday, November 15, 2007, 0218, 3420 am. Breathe from Dark Side of the Moon. ID at 0229. KIng Crimson "In the court of.." at 0237.

SIO 422 with noise and occasional interference from what sounds like multiple utilities.

WMPR

Sunday, November 11, 2007, 1652, 6955 am. "WMPR Dance Party" and techno music. Good signal and sound. "Thanks for tuning in to WMPR Micro Power Radio" at 1713 and off. SIO 444 s15.

Power Jam 95/Sycko

Sunday, November 11, 2007, 1603, 6925 usb. Techno music, frequent "international shortwave" and "Power Jam" IDs. SSTVs in Scottie DX mode began around 1618. "International shortwave" IDs in between, as well as some transmissions in other modes, including CW. SIO 333 s7.

MAC

Saturday, November 10, 2007, 1702, 6950.9 am. MAC Shortwave with an old time radio broadcast about the FBI. ID at 1707, "This is M A C." SIO 545 s9 steady.

Local low power AM stations offer generally no useful content

Wednesday, November 7, 2007. The work hour commute in the Washington, D.C. metro area is typically miserable. Fortunately I don't have to make this trip but once every couple of weeks. Today I amused myself in the endless slow moving metropolitan parking lot by picking out all of the low power AM stations that seem to have popped up suddenly in the past five years or so. It is truly amazing that many of these stations endlessly play out of date, incorrect , useless, or just plain superfluous information; for example:

1. National Weather Service robot-delivery that has the weather report right but the time off by an hour,
2. National Park Service radio advertising events from a month ago,
3. Arlington County/City radio alerting us to traffic disruptions from last month,
4. Maryland State Police telling us "traffic is slow" as if we needed a radio station to tell us that.
5. Useless CIA station in an endless station ID loop.

Your taxpayer dollars at work.

Here are the logs:

Morning drive:

Rockville, 1259, 1630. Weather Radio WXM42 162.475 MHz Hagerstown weather being relayed on a local government station. At 1300 (8am local time) the station IDs "The current time is 9am eastern time." Signal good.

Langley, 1321, 1700. Arlington County radio with West Nile Virus mosquito control and emergency preparedness tips in English and Spanish. Signal good.

Langley, 1326, 1670. National Park service information station, describing events at the FDR Memorial. At 1328, detailing special events and tours from October 2, 19, and 20th. Signal fair.

Langley, 1330, 1660. Traffic information. ID "KFC 70." Signal fair.

Langley, 1330, 1640. endless ID loop "This is KJI955 transmitting on 1640 kilohertz." A previous report in World of Radio #4035 says this station originates at CIA Headquarters in Langley. Signal fair.

Langley, 1333, 1630. Another local station relaying Weather Radio, this one relaying KHB36 on 162.55 MHz. Signal good.

Langley, 1334, 1620. TIS mentioning virginiadot.org. Signal poor.

Rosslyn, 1340, 1680. Weather station with music from a broadcaster underneath. Broke in with City of Fairfax ID at 1351. Signal poor.

Arlington, 1344, 530. National Airport info. Signal fair.

Arlington, 1345, 1700. October road closings. Signal fair.

Evening drive:

Arlington, 2120, 1700. Arlington County emergency preparedness messages. Signal good.

Arlington, 2120, 1680. "1680 AM Radio" Fairfax Virginia, and into National Weather service relay. Signal fair.

Arlington, 2120, 1670. National Park Service, loop about memorial tours. Same loop as this morning. Signal excellent.

Arlington, 2125, 1640. "This is KJI955 transmitting on 1640 kilohertz" endless loop continues. Signal fair.

Langley, 2130, 1630. National Weather Service relay. Signal good.

Potomac, 2145, 1630. WNBY570 Maryland State Highway Administration radio, with police tiips such as "Mobile users call #77." Signal poor.

Potomac, 2145, 1640. KJI955 loop, signal good.

Potomac, 2145, 1700. Arlington County. Signal good.

Potomac/Rockville, 2150, 590. "This is WPBJ 590 in the I-270 corridor and WPDD 1070 in the US-29 corridor." Montgomery County Maryland radio. "Traffic is slow on I-495 and I-270" DUH. Also, report of a power outage in Bethesda.

Rockville, 2156, 1660. "1660 NIH Radio." KFC70 station ID. National Institute of Health bethesda campus parking info. Signal good.

Rockville, 2210, 1630. National Weather Service relay. Very low modulation, good signal.

Late weekend logs

Monday, November 4, 2007, 0216, 6925 usb. Someone obvoiusly very upset at a pirate transmission I can't hear, heckling another op by calling them "butt pirates" and "flaming faggots." A couple of minutes later, "You suck big green donkey dicks mother fucker. Hopefully tomorrow you can come up with something that doesn't suck!" 0222, weak music (classical?) underneath. s7 on the heckler.

Monday, November 4, 2007, 0033, 6925.1 usb. On with a collection of jingles, "maximum power," "innternational shortwave," and "jam power 95." Music by the GoGos, Culture Club, Stray Cats, Springsteen, the B-52's, Tommy Tutone, etc. IDs between every osng. SIO 233 s3.

Sunday, November 3, 2007, 2205, 6925 am. Male op. announcing as the Prince of Darkness. E-mail address wdvlsw at netscape.net. WDVL IDs. SIO 444 s9.

Sunday, November 3, 2007, 2205, 6899 am. The Crystal Ship with music by Jackson Brown, into standard classic rock mix with occasional Viet Nam-related sound bytes. SIO 444 s9.

There's nowhere left to turn

This one happened right after show 180, at about 2300 UTC on Saturday, November 3, 2007, and was broadcast on our internet stream for a couple of dozen crazy listeners. This show was completely and totally improv. It's been a while since we've done one of these and it turned out to be a lot of fun.

• Bonnie Raitt - I Ain't Blue
• Pink Floyd - Flaming - Dawn Of The Piper (Rev. A)
• Kracker Gaukin Industries/Leather
• The Beatles - Pirate Song
• Rick Nelson - Garden Party
• Wings - Getting Closer
• Bunny Kracker 08
• Lazy Smoke - Sara Saturday
• Link Wray - Tiger Man
• Baltimore Devival
• Hot Tuna - I See The Light
• Cadaverlac Industires
• Amino Acids - Destroy The Warming Sun
• The Smoke - Wake Up Cherylina
• UFOs and the "THING" in Baltimore/Bowling cats
• Titty Twisters - Talahassie Lassie (Squee!)
• Counrty Joe - Fish Chant - Woodstock
• The Horror - The Lost Days - First Blood 10
• Teenage Depression - Teenage Depression
• Roger Turnblad/FEMA Faith-based Homeland security mulitary industrial complex
• Syd Barrett - Octopus
• Brother Stair - Crank It

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I'd love to run out now

Tonight's show went out on shortwave at 2200 UTC on Saturday, November 3, 2007. Good conditions ath the top of the hour, and the at the bottom of the hour the combination of VOA 7405 and the skip caused our signal to drop to the static here. Nevertheless, many listeners from all around checked in with good signal reports.

• Intro: Misfits, Jonny Quest Voodoo, Radio
• Slim & The Soulful Saints - Fish Head
• Paul McCartney & Wings - No Words - Band on the Run
• Yonder Mountain String Band - Goodbye Blue Sky - Mountain Tracks Vol 2
• Billy Squier - My Kinda Lover (Squee!)
• Alice Cooper - Be My Lover - Killer
• Tampa Red - Play Proof Woman
• Bubble Puppy - Hot Smoke And Sasafrass
• Weirdo Corner
• Fugs - Wide Wide River
• Asylum Street Spankers - Funny Cigarette
• Grandpa Jones - Mountain Dew
• REO Speedwagon - Roll With The Changes
• Steely Dan - Fire In The Hole

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