European Pirate Report from Dunlo, PA, USA, 23 March 2008

[Dave Valko]

1671 UNID. 0018-0035 just nonstop Schlagers. No sign of Rock AM as scheduled here. Web rx. (22 March)

6305 R. Royal (pres.) 1046 Techno Dance mx. Just sufficiently strong enough but a good deal of fading. Apparently gone by 1103. No anmnt hrd during numerous checks. Pres. per ukDXer blog. Web rx. (22 March)

6270 R. Calypso 1054 Pop mx. 1100 Schlager mx. 1104 instru. song skipping and then another Schlager started. Nice signal by 1110 but some buzzing on the freq. 1112 M w/short voice-over anmnt w/ment of R. Tina, Calypso, and Delta. CD player still skipping. Finally an ID at 1127 w/SMS for rpts 0031-613542272. E-mail addr as calypso104@hotmail.com. Getting some feedback on anmmnts. UTE at 1134. Web rx. (22 March)

6554 Just caught mx before the rx freq was changed at 1256. Decent strength. Who was here?? Web rx. (22 March)

6325 Free Radio Holland 1301 signal came on the air. Then mx started at 1304. 1307 canned ID and e-mail addr for rpts. Back to mx. 1311 another canned ID anmnt. 1314 live ID w/ment of Radio Sweetfire. Still going at 1615 w/live ID again, but almost uncopiable. Fair and steady signal early though. Web rx. (22 March)

6882 Playback Int. 0700 "Someone Saved My Life Tonight" by Elton John, then canned ID jingle at 0703 and "Dream On" by Aerosmith. Exc. signal. Web rx. (23 March)

1620 UNID. Just caught anmnt around 0724 but didn't hear ID. Schlagers. Another anmnt at 0740 but it came during f/out. Web rx. (23 March)

3935 LHH 0742 apparently replaying Radio London pgm w/Oldies, M w/song anmnt, Radio London ID jingle, wx, "Shake, Rattle, and Roll", song anmnt w/ID, jingle, more mx. Audio quality sounded like a tape. 0754 into Rainbow R. pgm w/LHH and Rainbow ID, then long anmnts including www.statesofunrest.com Web site, many acknowledgements. Web rx. (23 March)

5815 Orion R. Could just barely hear Percy Faith at 0803. Still no better by 0830, and unreadable anmnt. 0948 John reading rpts w/slightly better signal. Web rx. (23 March)

6271 UNID. In the web rx chat, "Guest 17514" said he was going to test and came on at 0841 w/instru. Techno mx. Strong but the UTEs here made it impossible until they went off at 0843. 0849 unreadable echo anmnt, then sev. Summermeeting 2008 ads in GM and EG, then another by Dr. Tim in GM. 0855 back to mx. Had connection problems at 0908. Said was going to play a Star Club R. pgm, and did indeed sound like a SCR ID at 0936 mixing w/UTE. Really heavy echo at 0954 w/ID, jingle. 1002 Summermeeting promos again, then Dr. Tim Pirate News promos. Went off at 1014. Web rx. (23 March)

6265 Premier R. Int. 0858 "Eye of the Tiger" by Survivor. 0901 ID and tlk about the R. Caroline anniversary. Very good signal. Web rx. (23 March)

6305 R. Mazda 0938 Schlager. 0942 anmnt in DT w/phone number given. Sounded like a R. Mazda ID. Heavy fading. Web rx. (23 March 2008)

6220 Mystery R. 0951 "Woman" by John Lennon, then what sounded like the Andrews Sisters. ID at 0954. Web rx. (23 March 2008)

6310 UNID. 1021 someone here playing Reggae mx then went off the air about 20 seconds after t/in. Good. Who was this?? Web rx. (23 March)

Conditions sure have been difficult recently!!

[JoJo]

Hello Dave,

thanks for the logs, much appreciated. It must be "Percy Faith" and the QRG otherwise I guess it was hard to know who was on. i'm Thinking about taking another tune ....