Radio Jamba International

Posted at 9:06PM on Thursday, July 31, 2008 in hf and pirates.

Friday, August 1, 2008, 0050, 6925.65 usb. ID, "Radio Jamba International ya f00kin slob" and into the Asshole Song by David Allan Coe. 0107, ELO, Hello Mr. Radio. 0116, Allan and Mallan. ID, "f00kin ionosphere" and kracker radio at pmlol dot com. 0119, Tomtron's Piss weak little mobile song. 0122, extended Bozo loop, ending with "Bozo kisses dick" repeated several times and into Sinsemilla Street where Kermit and Big Bird are getting stoned. 0130, Black Sabbath War Pigs. 0133, discussion between Wal-Mart Security Number One and Number Two on the CB radio. Floggin Molly pirate song, Pink Floyd Wish you were here. 0230, an extended mash-up, and off with Bozo "how do you know i said that? well i heard it on the radio."

SIO 322 s5.

Undercover Radio

Posted at 7:51PM on Thursday, July 31, 2008 in hf and pirates.

Thursday, July 31, 2008, 2449, 6925 usb. "Undercover radio. Testing 1.. 2..."

2354, 6925 LSB. Free "All Right Now"

0000, 6925 USB. Dr Benway welcoming us to a test show. Into house music. 0007, "Welcome to the house of Benway."

Thanks to the frn posters at 0013, "Good Night," and off.

SIO 544 s9+.

Sycko

Posted at 8:49PM on Wednesday, July 30, 2008 in hf and pirates.

Thursday, July 31, 2008, 0048, 6925.6 usb. Sycko with some nice rock music. Transmitter seems a bit drifty. Laughter and ID at 0055. Richard Pryor drugs bit, and Porn Star Barbie at 0105. 0114, a hilarious Kermit and Big Bird smoke crack skit! Sycko 6955 iD. 0120, into Batman & Robin parody with Blackman, Blackbitch and Robin (and Fat Albert too). 0125, more music. 0129, massive "JAMBA" voiceover loop over the music. 0132, Sycko imitates over the horizon radar. 0133, "Mommy I'm scared. The big bad Sycko again."

0143, "Barack Obama Radio sixty nine two five. This is Barack Obama Radiooooo" in the background underneath Syko making strange sounds. 0145, Syko says "Sorry I'm off now" and "Vote Commander Bunny 2008."

0146, 6925.35. "2012. This is Barack Obama" and suddenly on 6925.6, a Commander Bunny commercial and CB, "we don't wanna hear what you dumb fuckin monkeys are talking about."

SIO 434 s9+.

Sycko Radio

Posted at 9:44PM on Monday, July 28, 2008 in hf and pirates.

Tuesday, July 29, 2008, 0144, 6926 usb. Sycko with techno music. SIO 434 s9. There appears to be a het bothering the transmission, possibly someone on 6925 in AM?

0254, 6926 usb. A series of random sounds like percussion beats run through a sampler. Presumed Sycko experimentation.

Sycko Radio

Posted at 8:35PM on Sunday, July 27, 2008 in hf and pirates.

Monday, July 28, 2008, 0035, 6925.82 usb. Sycko Radio with music "You don't want me anymore" and an ID with "holy crap" (probably in reaction to the rock/pop music). Lots of pop/rick music and frwquent IDs from Sycko. Into some pop metal at 0050. "The merry old land of Oz" at 0100. Yo ho ho! 0104, "Let the sun shine in" by Pebbles and Bamm-Bamm! PMLOL! Crimson and Clover (Joan Jett) at 0107. Stevie Nicks at 0113. Uncle Bob at 0114. Sycko and Uncle Bob did an ad for "Kracker brand sandpaper" at 0115, and into "I ran.." Rude and nasty selections from the "Chipmunk Punk" LP at 0121. Devo at 0141.Pink Floyd "One of these days" and into a segment that Sycko warns the listeners about. Nice spacey mix. On past 0225.

SIO 433 s9.

Random Radio

Posted at 11:16PM on Saturday, July 26, 2008 in hf and pirates.

Sunday, July 27, 2008, 0317, 6925 usb. Donovan Hurdy Gurdy Man. Spirit in the Sky at 0318. Letters from listeners at 0322. "The preceding was a paid program. This is Random Radio" at 0324.

Heavy splatter from the Satan worshippers on WYFR 6915 making a clean copy difficult at times. SIO 323 s5-7.

WTCR

Posted at 10:04PM on Saturday, July 26, 2008 in hf and pirates.

Sunday, July 27, 2008, 0200, 6925 usb. Music. Firesign Theatre at 0204, Jack Poet Volkswagen bit. 0205, For What It's Worth. Hotel California at 0208. ID at 0214 and Captain Equinox bit. 0216, Bonnie Raitt. Stones at 0220. 0228, 96 tears. ID at 0230 and into Jack Parr Amateur hour. 0232, Everybody plays the fool. 0234, Don't be cruel. Dylan at 0237. Unid from "the blind black guy" as Jane says at 0246. Army-Navy classic bits at 0246. Riders on the storm at 0247. Signing off ID at 0253 with Belfast QSL address.

Interesting mix of pop culture audio in addition to the great music. Good to see WTCR evolve and improve as time goes on. This is a free radio station worth listening to.

SIO 545 pushing s20 at 0200, settled down to s9 peaks at 0240.

Octopus are pretty things

Posted at 8:15PM on Saturday, July 26, 2008 in hf and lumpy gravy radio show and slack and wbcq.
This went out at 2200 UTC on Saturday, July 26, 2008, on WBCQ 7.415 worldwide shortwave. This was a very interesting and obscure show, embedded with much slack.

We warmed up for Timtron who was back at home with a great live two hour show tonight. Welcome back, Tim!

  • Intro 1 : Space, time, and the third dimension
  • Mr. F. LeMur - Women Remover 2
  • Too Many Years In The Circus - John Cougar Visits the Real World
  • Al Caiola - Theme from The Man from U.N.C.L.E.
  • Jimi Hendrix - Ain't No Tellin' - Axis Bold as Love (Reprise RS 6281 1967)
  • Chargers Street Gang - Through the Windshield - 07 - (not talkin' 'bout) freedom
  • Preachers and Binny
  • Intro 2 : Granpaw Kracker
  • Syd Barrett - Octopus
  • Mr. F. LeMur - BBB Gnus 44
  • Ren & Stimpy - Muddy Mudskipper Theme
  • Bob Williams - Pabst Blue Ribbon Beer
  • Bad Dooleys - Space Rockers
  • Don Gilliland - Ft. Worth Rock [Texas previously unreleased]
  • Pretty Things - Buzz The Jerk
  • Traffic Sounds - Lux - Yellow Sea Years
  • Electric Banana - Blow Your Mind
  • Downliners Sect - Why Don't You Smile Now
  • The Real Tuesday Weld - Bathtime in Clerkenwell
  • Fugs - Dirty Old Man
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Real Pirate Radio

Posted at 10:11PM on Tuesday, July 22, 2008 in hf and pirates.

Wednesday, July 23, 2008, 0210, 6925.0 usb. Timtron Piss weak little mobile, Real Pirate Radio "RPR" ID, CW McCall Convoy. SIO 323 s5. QRM from "Uncle Bob" on 6925.50 usb at 0212, PMLOL.

Sycko testing

Posted at 9:06PM on Tuesday, July 22, 2008 in hf and pirates.

Wednesday, July 23, 2008, 0105, 6925.50 usb. Metal and thrash metal. Nice signal. Off at 0116. SIO 544 s9 peaks.

Real Pirate Radio

Posted at 9:40PM on Monday, July 21, 2008 in hf and pirates.

Tuesday, July 22, 2008, 0136, 6925 usb. "RPR" ID at 0137. "Have a nice frosty, a Becksweiser." Timtron Piss weak little mobile song, and some Captain Ganja also heard.

SIO 323 s5.

Sycko Radio

Posted at 10:03PM on Sunday, July 20, 2008 in hf and pirates.

Monday, July 21, 2008, 0153, 6925.6 usb. Sycko with a loop of the Cars "Let the good times roll." ID at 0153. Into more Cars. Psychedelic Furs at 0203. Ramones at 0205. Frequent IDs. 0214, best at 6925.57, with Rush. Sycko is playing with the turntables.Off for a bit at 0231, and back with Grover from Sesame Street and into Ann-Margaret. An incredible "Uncle Bob" bit from 0242 or so. JAMBA at 0244. 0245, Beavis knows the power of the bungholio jamba. SIO 444 s9 peaks. This broadcast was all live, free form, and was most excellent!

Off-air recording from 0221 here.

Link Wray and the Ray Men from Mars

Posted at 4:55PM on Sunday, July 20, 2008 in hf and lumpy gravy radio show and wbcq.
Our 230th show happened on Saturday, July 19, 2008. We started off early with a 45 minute pre-show segment on 975pirateradio.com, and went live on WBCQ 7.415 MHz shortwave at 2200 UTC. This was a very lively show with a lot of great audience feedback. Shortwave conditions were overall very good to excellent. About halfway through our show we were monitoring WBCQ with an absolutely perfect signal.

Preshow:

  • Link Wray - Jack The Ripper - Early Recordings )Chiswick CDCHM6 1963-2006)
  • Elton John - Island Girl (demo) Devo - Jocko Homo (with Ohio, White Punks on Dope and We Accept You, We Accept You, One of Us, One of Us) - The Men Who Make The Music
  • Link Wray - Mr Guitar - Early Recordings )Chiswick CDCHM6 1963-2006)
  • James Brown - Aint It Funky Now
  • Gov't Mule - Thelonius Beck
  • Electric Light Orchestra - Mr. Radio
  • Theme to the Man From U.N.C.L.E.
  • Jimi Hendrix - Electric Ladyland Jam
  • The Ventures - Tequilla
  • Insane Clown Posse - Down with the Clown

On WBCQ:

  • Intro: Fred, Jay, Syd, some bible beaters, Link Wray
  • Joe Jackson - I'm The Man
  • Wally Willette - Pink Elephant
  • Walt Disney Presents Songs From Mickey Mouse Club Serials - Buckwheat Cakes (Darlene and Buddy Ebsen) (Disneyland DQ-1229 1962)
  • Jean Knight - Mr Big Stuff (Stax STA-0088 1971)
  • Link Wray - Scatter - Early Recordings )Chiswick CDCHM6 1963-2006)
  • Frank Zappa - Baby Snakes (Zappa Z-10)
  • Link Wray - Crowbar - Link Wray (Polydor 1971)
  • Michael/Ganja/Bedrock Weiner/Marion goofy
  • Bubble Puppy - Hot Smoke And Sasafrass
  • The Ventures - The Man From U.N.C.L.E.
  • Devo - Secret Agent Man - The Men Who Make The Music
  • Walt Disney Presents Songs From Mickey Mouse Club Serials - Annette (Disneyland DQ-1229 1962)
  • Fugs - Saran Wrap
  • Link Wray - The Shadow Knows - Early Recordings )Chiswick CDCHM6 1963-2006)
  • Action Figure Party - Clock Radio
  • Link Wray - Facing All The Same Tomorrows (1965 demo) (Norton 003 1989)
  • Link Wray - Run Chicken Run - Early Recordings )Chiswick CDCHM6 1963-2006)
  • Miss Ann-Margaret - C'est si bon - The Vivacious One (RCA LPM-2551 Mono 1962)
  • Jefferson Airplane - Embryonic journey
  • Link Wray - Batman Theme - Early Recordings )Chiswick CDCHM6 1963-2006)
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Radio Jamba International

Posted at 9:48PM on Monday, July 14, 2008 in hf and jamba and pirates.

Tuesday, July 15, 2008, 0143, 6925 usb. Hendrix, I'm gonna wave my freak flag.. High! Kracker's voice "at the corner of walk and don't walk" and shortly thereafter "This is Radio Jamba International."

SIO 322.

Wolverine Radio

Posted at 7:42PM on Sunday, July 13, 2008 in hf and pirates.

Sunday, July 13, 2008, 2343, 6925 usb. Music, "Miss you more than anything." ID at 2348. SIO 444 s7-9.

Sycko Radio

Posted at 6:38PM on Sunday, July 13, 2008 in hf and pirates.

Sunday, July 13, 2008, 2225, 6925.50 usb. Screaming, scary sounds, evil laughter, and sound bytes, "it is known that certain electromagnetic frequencies can cause mental disruptions in human beings....," "unworthy...," "shut the FUCK UP," "sychopath..." Sycko at 2236 with metal music. ID at 2251. Sycko talking at 2259, but signal has dropped back down to s3.

Started out just above the noise floor, improved to s7-9 around 2233.

Crack The Sky, Recher Theatre

Posted at 11:23PM on Saturday, July 12, 2008 in crack the sky and music.
The ageless phemomenon known as Crack The Sky keeps rocking. Tonight Jane and I got right up front for the early show and were treated to the new (old) line up, featuring John Palumbo, Rick Witkowski, Joe D'Amico, Joe Macre, Bobby Hird, and Glenn Workman. Paul Newman helped out on acoustic during "Ice." It was great seeing Joe D'Amico and Joe Macre back with the band. It's been like thirty years now since we've seen the two Joes live? Seems like only yesterday.

This is the first show we've been to in a couple of years when we didn't either grab a setlist off the stage or copy down the tracks played. But among the great tunes we heard were Rangers At Midnight, Ice, A Sea Epic, Hold On, Surf City, a couple of tracks from the new album "The Sale" including Patriot, and a cool Beatles medly with encore Hot Razors In My Heart to close. The clasic Crack songs (from the first two albums) sounded much closer to the originals with Joe and Joe back in the lineup. John went crowd surfing right over our heads during the encore.

John surrepititiously stuffed a water bottle in his pants towards the end of the show and sang a few bars before giving up and pulling it out to the amazement and great humor of us there right up front.

There are more photos from the show on our flickr site.

Another strange broadcast

Posted at 9:16AM on Friday, July 11, 2008 in hf and pirates.

Friday, July 11, 2008, 0321, 6925 usb. Computer generated voice, difficult copy with splatter from WYFR 6915. Godzilla by Blue Oyster Cult. Male computer voice again, repeated phrases:

"chris is in no way responsible for this broadcast"

"email john at frn dot net for a true change"

"this will be the last broadcast message you hear from this station"

Other bits and bytes picked out from the rant, e.g. "seek professional help", etc.

Signal was okay, s7 at best, but bothered by the messy junk coming off of WYFR.

RJI

Posted at 9:26PM on Thursday, July 10, 2008 in hf and pirates.

Friday, July 11, 2008, 0135, 6925 am. Caught a bit of Radio Jamba International during the greyline. Pink Floyd's Have a Cigar, the Cadence song, and an ID before fading back into the noise after about 0139. Verified via irc, this is his Corsair from near the Mississippi River in Missouri.

The Crystal Ship

Posted at 10:46PM on Wednesday, July 9, 2008 in pirates and pirates.

Thursday, July 10, 2008, 0246, 6700 am. The Crystal Ship with sixties music, including the Monkees' I'm a Believer, ID, and into Hamilton Joe Frank & Reynolds "Don't pull yer love out on me bebbie." SIO 322 with heavy atmospheric and utility noise. No sign of co-channel 5386.

The Crystal Ship

Posted at 10:14PM on Tuesday, July 8, 2008 in hf and pirates.

Wednesday, July 9, 2008, 0214, 5386 am. Poet playing some Doors tunes. SIO 534 s9 with some fades and thunderstorm noize.

Sycko

Posted at 8:07PM on Monday, July 7, 2008 in hf and pirates.

Tuesday, July 8, 2008, 0007, 6925.8 usb. Music, hard to get a good fix. Cars at 0018, "You're all I've got tonight" (a live version or a cover). 0032, "we want liquid radio" 0033, someone QRMing syko with "OH STOP." 0034, "Bob Barker" in a slob net with the much stronger op nearby. All quiet at 0039. CW at 0040, "CQ." "Uncle Bob" calling CQ at 0042. 0045, down to 6925.45 with some sound bytes and samples of kracker. "fucktard" loop at 0053. SIO 333 s5.

Sycko Radio

Posted at 10:15PM on Sunday, July 6, 2008 in pirates.

Monday, July 7, 2008, 0210, 6925 usb. Loops, "Chris Slimonski is a fucktard." Sycho ID at 0213. "International shortwave" sample. 0215, Kracker samples: "fucking kracker of radio jamba international," "mother fucking games," etc. 0217, Lumpy Gravy sampled, "the holy grail of micro powered transmitters" and Jane saying "woo hoo". 0225, Sycko "Long live pirate radio Yarrrrrr." Mal, "I don't wanna hear that shit" and into an extended Uncle Bob bit. 0232, ID. 0246, "This one's goin' out to Kracker" and a Metallica song. Off around 0254.

SIO 322.

Radio Appalachia

Posted at 7:25PM on Sunday, July 6, 2008 in hf and pirates.

Sunday, July 6, 2008, 2325, 6925. Seems to carrier + USB. Old time bluegrass music, reminiscent of Flatt & Scruggs and the Carter Family. Started on 6928 but shifted down to just above 6925 after a half a minute of so. Three Stooges and ID, Radio Appalachia, at 2330, and into more bluegrass. SIO 322 s5.

Unid 6925

Posted at 6:23PM on Sunday, July 6, 2008 in hf and pirates.

Sunday, July 6, 2008, 2223, 6925.06 usb. Music, "Ger yourself a dirty job." 2226, music by Syd Barrett. 2228, Kinks "Apeman." Lots of song mixes and bits, War, ELO, Steely Dan, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Alice Cooper. Still on at 2307 with "Why can't we be friends." SIO 323 s5, lots of thunderstorm noise. Signal improved by 2252 to 434 s7-9. Off at 2310.

Post-X-Day Lumpy Subgenius Saucerfest

Posted at 8:30PM on Saturday, July 5, 2008 in hf and lumpy gravy radio show and slack and wbcq.
A crazy one, inspired in part by all our Subgenius friends, as well as a healthy dose of Sycko Radio, this one happened at 2200 UTC on Saurday, July 5, 2008, on WBCQ 7.415 MHZ worldwide shortwave, and it was relayed (if one we to know of such things) from the krackershack.

This one was inspired by many people. Phineas Narco, Rev. Ivan Stang, Rev. Susie the Floozie, Rev. Norelpref, Mr. F. LeMur, Brad, Jean, Jim, Chesty, Rev. Magdalen, The Lymph Node Institute, Joes Stax, Kracker, Syyrf, Bob, Syko, Static Junkie, The Axis, Rev. Yukon Jack, David in Louisiana, Larry in South Paul, Dr Becker, Allan, Jen, Michael, Tim, Marcy, Rusty, Chevy, Heathcliffe, Muffin, Georgianna Jane, and Tippy. If we missed anyone, we apologize.

  • X-day-intro part 1: Candy, Saucer Grl, Pink Boyz
  • Laurie Johnson - Avengers Tag
  • Jesse Dixon and the Chicago Community Choir - I Still Got A Long Ways To Go (Gospel (Savoy) Newark NJ MG-3086 no date)
  • Dragnet Anti LSD PSA
  • ZZ Pot and Dr Ninja - Tinkering With Weapons of Mass Destruction
  • Mr. F. LeMur - PR_Gnus1415
  • Brian Eno - The Paw Paw Negro Blowtorch - Here Come The Warm Jets (Polydor 2302-063A 1973)
  • Theme from the Radio Operation
  • Cake - Short Skirt, Long Jacket (picking up slack!)
  • Rev. Norelpref - Hellobob
  • Mad River - Amphetamine Gazelle - Mad River (Capitol 2985)
  • X-day-intro part 2: Brady Kids Candy, Pat f00kin' Robertson, Norelpref Beer, Pastor John Lewis, Sycko
  • Mr. F. LeMur - PR_Gnus1416
  • Baby Ray & The Ferns - The World's Greatest Sinner - Cucamonge Years (1963 FZ)
  • Crazy 2001 Rant Candy, Brad gets cookie, "Open the pod doors, Jane!"
  • Frank Zappa - Muffin Man - FZ-OZ (Sydney, Austrailia Jan 20 1976)
  • Chapelz - Found On the Highway Dead
  • "Track 66" - GTO Tiger
  • Troggs - Miller Beer Spot # 1 (Special Place)
  • Andy Gibb 2001 Space signoff

WJPL

Posted at 3:15PM on Saturday, July 5, 2008 in hf and pirates and rni.

Saturday, July 5, 2008, 1916, 6925 usb. A relay of one of John Lightning's WJPL shows. "don't touch that dial, or I'll kill you!" Jingle, "He's been waiting to entertain you, here on your radio..." Multiple 11L-WJPL IDs. 1935, an ID for 91.9 FM WJPL.

SIO 333 s7.

Sycko

Posted at 11:16PM on Friday, July 4, 2008 in hf and pirates.

Saturday, July 5, 2008, 0315, 6925.2 usb. Sycko with a killer mix of metal. SIO 434 s9. ID at 0316. Shout outs to cosmik and Bad Andy at 0321. 0328, closer to 6925.3. Very strong signal, s9 steady. 0331, signal dropped to s5.

Wolverine Radio

Posted at 9:56PM on Friday, July 4, 2008 in hf and pirates.

Saturday, July 5, 2008, 0156, 6925 usb. Mellow music. Good signal, variable, s5-s9 peaks. Faded down to nil by 0204.

Slob net & Wind Up Radio

Posted at 9:03PM on Thursday, July 3, 2008 in hf and pirates.

Friday, July 4, 2008, 0103, 6925.44 usb. Sounds like a slob net with Sycko and another op, Uncle Bob?
0105, Music "Turn up the radio"
0108 Mommy mommy who's that on the radio? (baby voice) s9
0108 It's Sycko Radio (a bit weaker) s5
0113 Sycko (microsoft "bob" voice) do you want some candy little girl? do you want to play?
0114 I have to ask my mommy (baby voice)
0115 my mommy thinks that you should call 911
0115 syko laughs
0115 maybe someone will read me a story? (baby)
0117 OH SHIT what a f00kin riot! (syko)
0117 ...the big bad syko who lives in the woods (baby)
0127, another station fires up with Syko & Uncle Bob continuing their occasional chat

0128 6925 AM Dixie, 78-rpm version. ID, "Wind Up Radio"
0130 Nice clear ID, "Wind Up Radio" and into music, "Last Night"
0137 78-rpm version of "God Bless America," signal improving.
0137 ID, "This thing on? Hey there. This is Wind-Up Radio..."

Sycko Radio

Posted at 10:51PM on Wednesday, July 2, 2008 in hf and pirates.

Thursday, July 3, 2008, 0249, 6926 usb. Rev. Billy saying "who ya gonna vote for in 2008?" Get down wit the pirate radio. Vote fo Commander Bunny. A couple of Sycko IDs in there as well as a mention or two of the Church of the Subgenius. Praise de Lord on de radio. SIO 333 s7 peaks amidst the noise. Thanks, Sycko!

Thursday, July 3, 2008, 0304, 6925.95usb, continuing as "Door Bell Radio" with frequent "bing bong"s. Signal improved dramatically to s9 peaks at about 0300. Creepy grunge music with Sycko talking over, and the signature sample machine doing the Door Bell Radio "bing bong," pirate Yarrrr sounds, and "everybody lookin' for pirate radio." "Bing Bong Yarrrrrr Door Bell Radio 6925" at 0307 and into more crazy audio. Sounds like a live broadcast!

SIO up to 434 by 0306.