Maple Leaf Radio

Posted at 8:47PM on Thursday, February 28, 2008 in hf and pirates.

Friday, February 29, 2008, 0148, 6925 usb. Music, Rush "Working Man." Excellent sound and fidelity, not so strong. s3-s5. Song about Canada, land of the big snow balls. C-a-n-a-d-a. You get to see them all. Maple Leaf ID at 0155, mentions frn. SIO 243/344.

Back on at 0207. Anthem, ID, Music, "Welcome to Canada." Faded down after 0212, still there but very weak.

Radio for the Common Man

Posted at 8:47PM on Wednesday, February 27, 2008 in hf and pirates.

Thursday, February 28, 2008, 0147, 6925 usb. Bill Cooper theme, and voice "Radio for the Common Man." A couple of IDs, and into music, "I get knocked down." Brief transmission troubles. More music, then ID and theme again at 0159.

SIO 434 s7.

Wolverine Radio

Posted at 7:46AM on Wednesday, February 27, 2008 in hf and pirates.

Wednesday, Frebruary 27, 2008, 0031, 6925 usb. Music: Jefferson Airplane, Jackson Browne, Free, Amboy Dukes, Incense and Peppermints, Crimson and Clover, Flying Burrito Brothers, Monkees.. ID at 0054. Two IDs at 0107 and off.

Very strong signal, solid s9 with s15+ peaks. Great musical show.

Gazing out the windows of my mind

Posted at 7:30PM on Saturday, February 23, 2008 in area 51 and hf and lumpy gravy radio show and wbcq.

This one went out at 2300 UTC on Saturday, February 23, 2008, on WBCQ 5.110 and 7.415 MHz worldwide shortwave. Shortwave reception continues to improve. Both 5110 and 7415 were good here for our show. Listeners checked in from Louisiana, Michigan, Oklahoma, Ohio, Nova Scotia, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Maryland, to name but a few. Thanks, everyone!

  • Area 51 Yahweh
  • Buck 65 - Rough House Blues - Secret House Against The World
  • Panjabi MC - Mundian to bach kela - The Album (2003)
  • JJJ - Call me anything you want
  • Pink Boyz - Put your hands on the radio - Subgenius Media Barrage 5
  • A Looney Tune
  • Frank Zappa - Camarillo Brillo - Overnite Sensation
  • Unknown artist - We'd like to party wi' choo (from the ''found on the ground'' tape)
  • Jean and Fest Crew - You saw him lookin' at porn!
  • Dead Moon - Jane - Stranded In The Mystery Zone
  • The GTO's - TV Lives - Permanent Damage (1969)
  • Michael Ketter - Happy Girl Calamity Janes
  • The Hook - You Don't Have Top Stay - Hooked (1968)
  • Spiderman 1967
  • Mr. F. LeMur - Davy Crockett Beer
  • Carter Family - Worried Man Blues - Smokey Mountain Ballads (Recorded in Memphis, 5/24/30)
  • Theme to From Russia With Love (Radio Operation)
  • The Hello People - I Ride To Nowhere - Fusion (Phillips Records PHS 600-276 1968)
  • Mr. F. LeMur - PR Gnus 1401
  • Was (Not Was) - Hello Dad, I'm in Jail - What Up, Dog?
  • Bow Street Runners - Spunky Monkey - Bow Street Runners (B.T. Puppy Records BPTS 1026 1970)
  • Speedy West and Jimmy Bryant - The NIght Rider - Flaming Guitars
  • Slacktone - Into the Blue Sparkle - Secret Exit Man
  • Mr. F. LeMur - PR Gnus 1399
  • Pink Floyd - Wots...uh the Deal - Obscured By Clouds (1972)
  • National Lampoon - Radio (from the beginning of the National Lampoon Radio Hour #5, 12/15/73)
  • Show 200 Redux
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Last Night I Had The Strangest Dream

Posted at 7:26PM on Saturday, February 16, 2008 in area 51 and hf and jane in space and lumpy gravy radio show and wbcq.

Saturday, February 16, 2008, 2300, WBCQ 7415 and 5110. Call from Bill at the bottom of the hour. Signal was awesome for both from 2200 on. 5110 on at 2108, audio levels seemed low. Improved by 2130, steady through 2256, when we were cut off n mid-song by Rod Hembwee. 7415 excellent at 2300, faded to nil by 2230.

  • Intro: Mission:Impossible, Dragnet, Jim & Tammy, You will listen to everything I say, Radio
  • Todd Rundgren - International Feel
  • Fugs - Caca Rocka
  • Joe Tex - Skinny Legs And All
  • Mary Jane - Grass Party
  • Poofy The French Poodle
  • John Hartford - Lady Jane - Aero-Takes
  • Mighty Mouse BAD MP3
  • Mason Proffit - Freedom - Last Night I Had The Strangest Dream (Ampex A-10138 1971)
  • Old & In The Way - Dark Hollow - KSAN-FM Studio 3.2.73
  • Beatles - For You Blue - Get Back (Original Let It Be recordings Apple UK CD)
  • King Crimson - Model Man - Studio Rehearsals New York 04-09-1983 Disc 2 09
  • Jane in Space 1999
  • The B-52's - Dance This Mess Around
  • Frank Zappa - Cleetus Awreetus-Awrightus
  • Juicy Lucy - Willie The Pimp
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WMPR

Posted at 4:47PM on Saturday, February 16, 2008 in hf and pirates.

Saturday, February 16, 2008, 2145, 6925 am. WMPR dance music booming in nice and steady with an s9, SIO 444.

Wolverine Radio

Posted at 1:33PM on Saturday, February 16, 2008 in hf and pirates.

Saturday, February 16, 2008, 1834, 6925 usb. Comedy bits. Firesign Theatre? "B William Bob Evilhouer," sounding like James Hightower, ranting about dinosaur juice, dinosaur bones, alley oop comics, books and series about dinosaurs. CNN No Evil News. Various versions of "The Three Little Pigs." ID at 1841 and off. SIO 444 s9.

WBNY

Posted at 11:30AM on Saturday, February 16, 2008 in hf and pirates and rodent revolution.

Saturday, February 16, 2008, 1630, 6925 usb. Commander Bunny, berating monkey boys, asking for votes and T-Shirt purchases, and mentioing President's Day 2008. SIO 434 s9 peaks.

Taunton Blues

Posted at 7:10PM on Saturday, February 9, 2008 in area 51 and crack the sky and hf and lumpy gravy radio show and wbcq.

Saturday, February 9, 2008, 2200, 5110//7415. L1qu1d B1ble Beater, followed by pissed off Liquid Radio. At 2300, Dacron Pants For ''Bob'' with Pastor Pants, Deacon Pants, and Rev. Krackerpants. Rev. Krackerpants will preach at your house, and at the Winterfest, with Panties on his head. Rev. Pantihead says praise ''Bob'' and pass the weather report. 47 and clear in Mount Airy. 20 and partly cloudy in Monticello. 74 and clear in New Orleans. 28 and light snow showers in Halifax. 44 and clear in Columbus. 71 and clear in Odessa. 79, partly cloudy in Key West. -11 with light snow (-24C) in Medicine Hat, Alberta. SIO 333/433.

  • The Who - Rael (with inner loop) - The Who Sell Out (Decca DL 74950 stereo)
  • 2008-0209-intro
  • They Might Be Giants - Chess Piece Face - They Might Be Giants (1986)
  • Odgen Edsl - Thank God Im A Rich Kid
  • Atomic Rooster - Vug - Death Walks Behind You (1970)
  • Chester Thompson - PowerHouse - The Best of Black Jazz Records 1971-1976
  • George Harrison - Thanks For The Pepperonni - All Things Must Pass
  • Moody Blues - Legend Of A Mind - This Is The Moody Blues
  • 2003-1205-pjl drinking game
  • I can't find the bunny!
  • Frank Zappa - Duodenum - Lumpy Gravy
  • Crack The Sky - Bennie and the Jets - Dogs From Japan
  • Buffalo - Suzie Sunshine - Dead Forever (1972)
  • Rolling Stones - Out Of Time - Singles Collection The London Years
  • Pirates Anthem
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More Unid music, Sycko?

Posted at 7:56PM on Sunday, February 3, 2008 in hf and pirates.

Monday, February 4, 2008, 0056, 6925 usb. Telephone ringing over and over. Pop music at 0058, Paula Abdul? 0103, more pop music. 0123, more music and fooling with a sampler. Sounds like Sycko. Whistling and other voices seem to indicate the presence of at least one more op at the same time. Techno music noted at 0150. Sycko ID at 0151, a brief talk, and more fun with the sampler. SSTV on top of sycko at 0154. He's reading the frn logs and said hello at 0156. Techno music into metal at 0158. At 0205, Sycko has a female guest who he instructs not to use her real name. 0206, a mash-up of Rush's Tom Sawyer. Sycko's friend announced her radio name "Red" at 0228. Discussion about Monkeys and Monkey boys at 0229. Another operator noted underneath Sycko at 0233. 0240, Allan Weiner Worldwide theme and Allan sound bytes. Signal just about gone by 0247.

Very entertaining show!

Recorded from 0219; available here.

SIO 333 s5.

Mighty Mouse

Posted at 7:38PM on Sunday, February 3, 2008 in hf and pirates.

Monday, February 4, 2008, 0038, 6925 usb. Mighty Mouse song "Here I come to save the day." Repeated once, then off. Sounded like the same operator as in the earlier CONELRAD broadcast. SIO 333 s5.

CONELRAD

Posted at 7:23PM on Sunday, February 3, 2008 in hf and pirates.

Monday, February 4, 2008, 0023, 6925 usb. Air Raid sirens, and into CONELRAD radio. Hillbilly jazz flying saucer song at 0025. CONELRAD message at 0027. SIO 333 s5.

Unid SSTV

Posted at 4:47PM on Sunday, February 3, 2008 in conceptual continuity and hf and pirates and slack and sstv.

Sunday, February 3, 2008, 2147, 6925 usb. An interesting mix of slow scan TV in the pirate band this afternoon. I missed the first but managed to capture most of the rest. Most were transmitted in Scottie 1 mode, but at least one, the Bipolar Radio image, was in Scottie DX.

2147 "Beer Give your brain the night off"


2207 with interfering pescadories


2222 Bipolar Radio, ScottieDX mode (I missed the top of this one)


2227 Praise ''Bob'' Scottie 1 mode


2230, someone saying "hello" and "yabba dabba doo" and barking like a small dog.

2234, The Other Ones, Fall Tour


2245 Popeye


2257 Haha!


2311 Uncle Josh's Huskin' Bee by Cal Stewart


2329 Sweetmeat (he started sending the Edison record again but aborted about a third of the way in)


2336. Someone testing. Voices, squeeaks, tones, "shave and a haircut" sounds. "I Know who you are. You're going to hell." Good signal.

2337. The Simpsons Abbey Road.


2359. Kracker.


0010 Spam.


Pedro screws up

Posted at 4:02PM on Sunday, February 3, 2008 in bizarre and hf.

Sunday, February 3, 2008, 2049, 6800-6910. A very wide band squeal, appearing with carriers every 1.5 KHz or so, obliterated the band. At about 2100, the commie numbers station V2 started on every carrier. This mess was noted simultaneously across the country by various listeners, as noted in #pirateradio. The SDR scan is courtesy www.blackcatsystems.com.

Jim E. Night's Paranoia Pills

Posted at 2:02PM on Sunday, February 3, 2008 in area 51 and hf and lumpy gravy radio show and wbcq.

This show happened at 2300 UTC on Saturday, February 2, 2008 live on WBCQ 5.110 and 7.415 MHz. Conditions are slowly improving, and we got out far and wide once again, although 7.415 is still skipping long at this time of day. The music sounded so good on 5110 that we were occasionally paying more attention to the sound of the radio instead of programming a radio show.

  • Intro: Meow
  • Frank Zappa - Pertrouska
  • Brad - Far out, man!
  • LeMurian Beaver Rip - My mother, cryin' and tremblin', leaped out of the window
  • Susie electric chair bit
  • The Pink Boyz - Put Your Hands On The Radio
  • Bugs Bunny - Promenade - Hillbilly Hare 1950
  • Crack The Sky - Skindiver
  • Missing Persons - Mental Hopscotch
  • Blue Oyster Cult - Subhuman - Secret Treaties
  • El Ray - Circus Monkey
  • Morons - Chapter Two
  • Ten Years After - Stone Me
  • Theme from The Man From U.N.C.L.E. season 3
  • Mason Proffit - Let Me Know Where You're Goin' - Movin' Towards Happiness (Happy Tiger 1970)
  • Lynyrd Skynyrd - I Ain't The One - Collectybles
  • Steve Gaines - Alone In The Mountins - I Know A Little...Live
  • Bonnie Raitt - Under The Falling Sky - Give It Up
  • Spock's Beard - In The Mouth Of Madness - The Kindness Of Strangers
  • Link Wray - Raw Hide
  • Damn You Tommy Tutone
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Sycko Radio

Posted at 1:55PM on Saturday, February 2, 2008 in hf and pirates.

Saturday, February 2, 2008, 1820, 6925 usb. Brief "hello radio" heard at 1753. Music started at 1820. Sycko says "hello radio" again at 1839. 1855, mentions MAC on 6850 and "pot head radio" earlier. Bothered by an occasional het. SIO 444 s7 and steady. Off at 0204.

MAC is inaudible here; nothing at all on 6850.

Puxatawney Pothead

Posted at 12:13PM on Saturday, February 2, 2008 in hf and pirates.

Saturday, February 2, 2008, 1713, 6925 usb. Puxatawney Pothead making his annual Groundhog Day appearance with music and commentary. Stones' Fool To Cry at 1743. Off abruptly at 1746. SIO 444 s7.

Radio Day

Posted at 8:06PM on Friday, February 1, 2008 in 867-5309 and hf and lumpy gravy radio show and wbcq.

Our latest appearance on shortwave was an impromptu fill-in for Jen's 867-5309 on Saturday, February 2, 2008 at 0000 on WBCQ 7.415 MHz. Good signals reported further out from listeners in Minnesota, Wisconsin and Illinois. Listeners to a cool web-enabled HF rig in North Carolina also reported good conditions. We weren't so lucky here in Maryland, as 7415 faded out early.

  • I Hate that old conspiracy (Vaudeville)
  • Thank God It's Friday
  • Devo - Worried Man
  • Beavis & Butt-Head - Spanish class
  • Zeb Turner - I Got Loaded
  • Elvin Bishop - Struttin' My Stuff
  • REM - What's The Frequency, Kenneth
  • DJboutit Spooge Away
  • Vegomatic - Radio Day - Surfin, robots and the correct use of Rock and Roll
  • Mr. Guy (Frank Zappa) - Letter From Jeepers
  • Theme from The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
  • The Smoke - Sydney Girl (Alternate Take)
  • Paul McCartney - Junior's Farm - Essential Rarities 1
  • Jane, stop this crazy thing
  • MTV 81 Moon
  • Squirrel Nut Zippers - Ghost of Stephen Foster
  • The Who - Behind Blue Eyes (1971 demo) - Who's Lost
  • Fella with the fiddle
  • Halibut - The Man from H.A.L.I.B.U.T.
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Puxatawney Pothead

Posted at 3:28PM on Friday, February 1, 2008 in hf and pirates.

Friday, February 1, 2008, 2029, 6925 usb. Music, "Let's get it started" by the Black Eyed Peas. Puxatawney Pothead ID at 2031. Belfast contact info. Music by Green Day at 2033. Lots of very interesting music followed. Little Red Rooster at 2054. Theme from Doctor Who at 2055. Good Golly Miss Molly at 2059. s9 sio 555 until 2107, when it faded down to s5. Puxatawney back on at 2107 talking to the listeners. Pink Floyd Comfortably Numb at 2109. A bit of silence, then Cat Scratch Fever at 2116.