Logs from Newfoundland, Nov. 4-6, best weekend ever!!!

[newfoundland dxer]

Hi everyone:

What an incredible weekend!!!! Harri Kujala did a fantastic job of organizing the high frequency DX tests this weekend (thanks Harri!!), and it just seemed to snowball into the most active pirate weekend I have ever seen.

I don’t usually count my logs … although I may seem like a “list-logger”, to me it is about showing my appreciation to the stations for taking to the air. But I could not resist this weekend … 84 logs!

A big, big thank you to all the stations that took to the air this weekend. It was a huge bit of fun that I will remember for a long, long time.

Friday, November 4
3905,0 . . 2128 . Skyline Int. Radio, Mike Oldfield “Tubular Bells”, weak talk, ham QRM, “Driver’s Seat” at 0040, ID via Iann’s chat, 23341
1675,0 . .2132 . Radio Barones, weak music and talk, fading in and out, ID via Iann’s chat, 24331
6920,0 . . 2218 . Radio Mustang, Byrds “Turn, Turn, Turn”, ID, greetings, Roy Orbinson “Anything You Want”, 25342
6925,0u . 2228 . Radio Mushroom (US), Queen “We Will Rock You”, ID, email, Hendrix “Star Spangled Banner”, 35443
6900,0 . . 2256 . Radio Mustang . “I Think We’re Alone Now”, ID, “What’s Love Got to Do With It”, 35443

Saturday, November 5
6324,2 . . 0835 . Black Bandit Radio,“Summertime Blues”, ID, 35432
18950,0L.1118 . Baltic Sea Radio, ID, pirate song, ID, 34432
15807,0 . 1133 . Radio Powerliner Int., music, ID, c/d 1137, 25441
15060,1 . 1158 . Radio Scotland Int, music, ID, said 200 watts, 35442
6925,0 . . 1212 . Captain Morgan Shortwave (US), weak music (country or folk), ID via Iann’s chat, surprised to hear him at all at this time, 25341
21890,2 . 1233 . Radio Oscar Zulu, Celine Dion, ID, dance, on past 1430,25432
21490,1 . 1341 . Black Arrow, ID, email, Heart “ Magic Man”, 35443
15009,1 . 1436 . Old Time Radio, ID, ABBA “The Winner Takes it All”, greetings, Bee Gees “Night Fever”, 35433
26020,0u.1450 . Radio FSM, Foster the People “Pumped Up Kicks”, ID, 25442
26020,0u.1501 . Radio Altrex, calling Russia, greeting Jon in Georgia, voice only, c/d 1504, 35443
26050,0u.1506 . Radio Altrex and Radio FSM, Altrex with voice, ID, greeting Andrew Yoder and me, on top on FSM with pop music, also 3rd station calling in voice (could not copy well, but sounded like “Radio Mike” maybe)
26050,0u.1511 . Radio Free Limburg and Kilo November?, RFL calling, KN? answered, talked about receiving FSM and Altrex, voice only, 25442 for each, Altrex back 1517, heard greetings to me under (I think from Free Limburg) and a 3rd station ( “something” lima)
15009,1 . 1316 . Old Time Radio, weak at first, up to 35432 by 1532, Huey Lewis and the News “If This is It”, greetings, Bee Gees “Night Fever”
15800,0 . 1518 . Radio Powerliner Int., pop music, ID, greetings, , voice was louder than music, 25432
24000,4 . 1522 . Shoreline AM, weak music jingle ID, greetings, het from a carrier on 24000.0 (possibly receiver generated), 23331, moved to 24007,4 for a minute at 1538 (better, 25332), then back to 25000,4
13956,6 . 1614 . Best of Briton, barely audible music, ID via Iann’s chat
15480,0 . 1619 . Radio Borderhunter, ID, greetings, polkas, “Wild Thing” 45444
15490,0 . 1629 . UNID, Beatles “8 Days a Week”, “Tax Man”, “Let it Be”, c/d 1635, 24342 (maybe Powerliner, played a lot of Beatles all weekend)
6300,7 . . 1830 . Old Time Radio, “We Love the Pirate Stations”, greetings, ID, hip hop, 25442
6315,5 . . 1849 . Radio Caroline Int., “Musicbox Dancer”, ID, 25341
6925,0 . . 1928 . Radio Mustang, ID, greetings, “Mr. Vain”, 35443
6325,0 . . 1937 . Black Bandit Radio, country, Dutch pop, ID, said would change antenna, 35443, c/d , back at 1950 with dance, Scorpions “Send Me an Angel”, 45443
6295,0 . . 1942 . UNID, Black Eyed Peas “I Gotta Feeling”, c/d without announcement 1950, 45444
6310,0 . . 2001 . Radio Fox 48, weak but audible country music, c/d suddenly 2005, 24342
6920,0 . . 2007 . Trans Europe Radio, “Bye, Bye Love”, ID, c/d 2012, 24441
6920,0 . . 2012 . Baltic Sea Radio, came right after TE, seagull ID, 24441
6915,0 . . 2023 . Radio Boomerang, dance, “Radio Gaga”, ID, short test, 45444
6935,0u . 2037 . Wolverine Radio (US), 30’s or 40’s music, ID, 45444
1629,0 . . 2046 . Radio Carolina?, polka, said was testing new antenna, faded right at the ID, Dutch music, ID via Iann’s chat, 24332 to 24331
6400,0 . . 2111 . Radio de Witte Reus, pop/dance, ID, greetings, 34442, rtty QRM
6299,3 . . 2124 . Radio Rainbow Int., weak music and talk, heard one word clearly: “Rainbow”, 14441
6305,0 . . 2144 . UNID, Spanish sounding acoustic guitar, c/d 2152 without announcement, 25442
6924,8 . . 2203 . WFMT/Family Radio (US), weak music and talk, ID via Iann’s chat, 24341
6305,2 . . 2238 . Old Time Radio, Seger, “Old Time Rock and Roll”, ID, greetings, “Born in the USA”, c/d 2325, 35442
6289,9 . . 2245 . Radio Altrex, music, ID greetings, voice louder than music, 25441
6925,1 . . 2351 . Radio Free Euphoria (US), Karaoke with his own lyrics, ID, 35442
6299,6 . . 2356 . Radio Marconi, AC/DC “Runaway Train”, “Wooly Bully”, 45443

Sunday, November 6
6290.0u . 0022 . Radio Underground, instrumental song, talk, jingle IDs, blues, 24442
3929.9 . . 0043 . Radio Batavia, Dutch music, greetings, “Candyman”, ID, email, Abba, “SOS”, 34442
6925,1 . . 0102 . Liquid Radio (US), came on after RFE (same tx I think), dance music, ID, chatter, 35443
6935.9 . . 0109 . Malta Radio, “Heard It on the Grapevine”, ID, 24432
6285,0u . 0157 . Radio Underground, ID, greetings, punkish music, Beatles medley “Help”, “Paperback Writer”, “Hello Goodbye”, 35442
6299,7 . . 0800 . Cupid Radio, traces of dance music under ssb qrm, ID via Iann’s chat, 23341
5815,0 . . 0803 . Orion Radio, promo (I think for Offshoore Echoes), talk by John, (I could recognize his voice, but not copy), 24341
6199,9 . . 0817 . Radio Urang Utan (presumed), music, op talking, I think he said was testing anew antenna, also gave phonetic spelling that included “echo India sierra”, 24341
9301,2 . . 0852 . Free Radio Service Holland, carrier on 0851, music started 0852 (unknown song), IS, ID, ssb QRM, 33442.
6325,4 . . 0903 . UNID, dance, Scorpions “Send Me an Angel”, 23442 (I suspect this was Black Bandit)
6970,0 . . 0927 . Laser Hot Hits, pop music, ID, 25341
12257,1 . 0933 . WR Int., barely audible at this time, a little better at 1030 with weak pop and talk with British accent, but still barely above the noise, 15341
20795,0 . 0941 . Radio Borderhunter, dance music, ID, email, 25342
15065,0 . 1002 . UNID, 2 minutes of dance music and c/d without announcement, 35342
15060,0 . 1014 . Radio Shadow, weak music, ID repeated, more music, c/d 1017, 24341
14375.0L.1114 . Radio Fox 48, dance music, ID, c/d 1126, 25441
14385.0u.1127 . Radio Free Limburg, “Come Together”, greetings, “Stand By Your Man”, thanked everyone for listening and c/d 1137, 35442
15065,0 . 1140 . Radio Powerliner Int., Beatles "Back in the USSR", “Oh-Bla-Di, Oh-Bla-Da”, ID, greetings, hip hop, 35442
21880,1 . 1149 . Radio Free Victoria, Gino Vanelli “Wild Horses”, “Nights in White Satin” at 1345, 14441
21550,0L.1201 . Baltic Sea Radio, pirate song, ID with seagull sounds, 23441, splatter from 21540
15065,0 . 1342 . Radio Powerliner Int. tuned in to pop music, but a massive carrier from Cairo cam up within seconds, PL covered completely when Cairo audio started 1344, 25342 before Cairo
21490,0 . 1402 . Radio Black Arrow, came on with a bit of “Dragonslayer”, ID, dance version of ZZ Top “Legs”. 454431425
21880,1 . 1425 . Free Radio Victoria, dance music, slow song, talk too weak to copy, ID via Iann’s chat, long slow fades, 25331
20795,0 . 1508 . Radio Borderhunter, dance, ID, weak signal, 25441
23990,2 . 1518 . Shoreline AM, ID, email, pop and rock, 25432
15480,0 . 1532 . Borderhunter Radio, Johnny Cash “One”, jingle IDs, Buck Owens “Johnny Be Good”, 45444
15380,0 . 1542 . Radio Powerliner Int., Beatles “I Feel Fine”, “Revolution”, ID, 25441
15149.0u.1545 . Radio Fox 48, dance music, rather distorted in usb, jingle ID, 25441
21460,1 . 1557. Cupid Radio, ID, beaming to the USA, 400 watts, pop, on past 1735, 25442
15045,0 . 1636 .Radio Shadow, barely audible music fading in and out, moved to 15060 at 1651, c/d 1655, ID via Iann’s chat
6380,2 . . 1721 . Radio Alice, very weak music, incredibly early fade in, was improving but c/d soon after
21460,0 . 1855 . Wolverine Radio (US), several Cupid-themed songs, ID, SSTV and c/d 1905, 45444 (Cupid then called for QSO, but no reply. Also Black Arrow gave very short report.)
6420,5 . . 1819 .Radio Lowland, “The Night They Drove Dixie Down” in Dutch, ID, Terry jacks “Seasons in the Sun”, said was only 50 watts, 33342
6305,1 . . 1829 . UNID, very weak music, (perhaps Osaka, reported by others earlier)
6255,1 . . 1840 . Radio Telstar South, weak music and talk, recognized he ops voice, 24341
6304,8 . . 1853 . Free Radio Nova, “Lola”, CCR “Who Stopped the Rain”, terrible het from Radio Spaceshuttle on 6305, 32441, up to 34442 after Space c/d, still there 2035 with “Mama Told Me Not to Come”, still on 2130, couple very quick IDs heard but could not copy, c/d 2230, then Marconi gave him a report on 6304,5 (45443) and Nova came back with positive ID, followed by Marconi, and Spaceshuttle at 2253 (25442),
6315,4 . . 1907 . Radio Caroline Int., dance, jingle ID, 25441
6375,9 . . 1923 . Radio Rockefeller, continuous music, Billy Idol “Mony, Mony, greetings and ID just before c/d at 1945, 24342
6957,0 . . Radio Malta, Great Big Sea “When I’m Up I Can’t Get Down” (great song by a Newfoundland band!, thanks Malta!), Asian sounding song, ID and jingle ID, good signal, 35443
6325,0 . . 2014 . UNID, Pink Floyd “Have a Cigar”, “Stand by Your Man” (instrumental), long breaks between songs, great signal, 44443 (I am almost certain this was Black Bandit, but no ID heard)
6930,0 . . 2045 . Irish Music Radio, Stevie Wonder “Higher Love”, ID, Stones, “Get Off My Cloud”, 34342
6970,0 . . 2051 . Laser Hot Hits, ID and talk about a report from a listener near London, unknown pop, 24442
6990,5 . . 2247 . Lightning Radio (presumed), some weak music popped up from the noise a few times, nothing I recognized, 15331

Cheers, Terry

[Caroline]

Hi Terry,

lot of thanks for such 2 logs of us at saturday and sunday evening there!!!!

Power had been 120watts at both days.

Great results of logs from your side, we are impressed!

Best wishes,
Radio Caroline International.

[JoJo]

Thanks for the log Terry