European Free Radio Report for week ending February 25, 2007

[curious george]

Conditions were very good on Saturday evening, with Mystery Radio already audible 3 hours before my local sunset. The good conditions enabled me to log a new station, Radio Bonofox at 2108 UTC. I found Sunday morning conditions to be subpar, mostly as there was a lot of summer-like static crashes.


PIRATE (Europe). 5725.04, Orion Radio, 0755-0825 Feb 25, Lots of SSB chatter on both sidebands of this frequency, however I recognized John's voice, and "Atlantis" by Donovan at 0821 UTC. (Maroti-NY)

PIRATE (Europe). 6260.2, Cupid Radio, 0022-0030 Feb 25, Rinus moved from 6250 to this frequency; heard a Green Day song. Rinus was testing 48 meter TA propagation. SIO 333. (Maroti-NY)

PIRATE (Europe). 6300.66, Radio Bonofox, 0828-0847 Feb 25, Mostly instrumental music; flute type music at 0837 really punched through the QRN. Could distinguish between talk and music, and when a new song came on. ID per Valko log. This came in better the previous evening. (Maroti-NY)

PIRATE (Europe). 6300.68, Radio Bonofox, 2108-2112* Feb 24, Some instrumental music, but heard two ID's by a male during the last 4 minutes of this transmission. Weak, but not surprising as this was almost two hours before my local sunset. (Maroti-NY)

PIRATE (Europe). 6374.66, Westcoast AM, 0757-0810 Feb 25, Heard "Black Velvet" by Alannah Miles" at 0804, station confirmed it was them via a posting on the Alfa Lima Forum. Utility QRM on both sidebands; SIO 222. (Maroti-NY)

PIRATE (Europe). 15070.1, Radio Scotland Int'l, 1514-1532* Feb 24, Songs from AC/DC and Simple Minds; Albert talking about reducing his power output to 250 watts to improve his modulation. Was at S6 levels when I first tuned in, but faded down after that. (Maroti-NY)


I also had the following carriers on Sunday morning:

6239 (probably BRI) 0742 UTC
6258.9 UNID 0744 UTC
6400.7 (probably hoax WMR) 0746 UTC
6521.65 UNID 0748 UTC

[JoJo]

Hello George,

Many thanks for the log, much apprecited!