Free radio pirates on medium and short wave messageboard of alfa lima

Hello Andy,

thanks a lot for your sharp observations concernign the pirate scene on and around 48 meters.
Always a great pleasure to almost weekly read your introductional comments !!

Greetings

2157 1655 45433 Boomi with an important announcement: TESTING 1, 2. First time I heard good old Boomi on medium wave: You are welcome. In spite of a SINPO 4 for you and Baro your signal strength was miles away from Baro´s. Did you forget to switch from dummy to aerial? Hello Axel, happy New-Year t...

I guess it was also something with the propagation today that so many Dutch where on air. I think it had to do with the very bad and rainy weather that sunday overhere. 8) Concerning Merlin, I can confirm that overhere (in the Netherlands) his signal was also (one of) the strongest that I received ...

Box73 wrote:Yes, one might wonder why someone would do so...

Nobody with the slightest idea why it goes the way it does ?

73's, Boomi

By 1971 the MW band was full of "Back bedroom" Pirates all over London and I can remember hearing Dutch Pirates on MW back then too.At that time in the UK it was like in The Netherlands now,most Pirates operated from their homes,did some music programmes and some QSOing too Hi Andy, thank...

Axel wrote:as normal very near to other high power stations.

Yes, one might wonder why someone would do so...

Hello Dave, thanks a lot for your abstract about the US look towards the SW pirate/free-radio scene overhere in Europe during the eighties. UKdxer, thanks also for you addition the the article. For myself I find it most interesting to read about other peoples observations concerning the European fre...

BlueStar is broadcasting through the WertachTal transmitter site ??
Very hard to believe...

Or did the WertachTal technicians lower the power from a couple of hundreds kilowatts to only a few 100 watts ??

Hello Peter,

long time no see, very nice to hear from you again !!

All the best for the coming 2009 to you and all other forum readers and writers.

73's

Your first recording WAS Radio Boomerang.100%. The second was not Boomerang 100%. The last,I'm not sure.Maybe Boomerang. ha, ha, I can confirm also, despite the low signal. Was strugling with my new automatic antenne-tuner. The damn thing still is giving me some preliminary fire-works when pushing ...

zulu delta wrote:this is radio zulu delta

Probably, but also don't under-estimate the 'quality' of Andrew's ears.

p.s. be carefull with such a girl-friend, at least if she shows (much) interest in free-radio.

Dave Valko wrote: Toes and fingers got cold in the last hour.

Ha, ha, maybe you should supply more of the battery power to your heating device instead of your receiver.
Or maybe use a manually driven generator ??

Tnx for excellent work !!

Hi Andy,

thanks for the extensive comments on the pirate scene.
Always a pleasure to read. Keep on doing this nice work.

Of course the same holds for all other posters on this Forum.
Highly appreciated.

73's from the Dutch Mountains.

avranesjr wrote:Also today on Sunday morning, there was non stop music on 6300, definitely stronger than any other European Free Radio station has come through on a Saturday or Sunday morning here.
Again, none on Iann's chatroom caught an ID.

Yes, but definitely on this chat at that time somebody knew....

I am not yet sure about what to do, become angry or appologize... This because I got a number of VERY angry and agressive emails about intentionally jamming Brandaris (not you Andy!). Some of them without a decent sender-name... But, I can honestly say that, due to local/short/long-skip conditions o...