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

Finally I had almost unlimited time to listen a sunday. Also many stations on air was making it fun!

Sunday 14 december 2008

3945 0759 Radio Free London was holding the Pirate Flay high this day. Great rockshow. Just as in the old days!!! Couldn´t hear them in the afternoon, but up again around 17.55. Superb signal at 2110. 35333 in the morning, even better in the evening.
4024,6 1457 Laser Hot Hits played "La Isla Bonita". Disappeared later while RFL grew stronger. Strange. 25222
5800 0753 Playback International with christmasmusic. Also at 1805 with more christmasmusic... 35323
5815 0834 Orion Radio said hello to Radio Tina and played some dutch c&w-music. Strongest piratestation before Scotland came on air. 35433
6209,8 0742 Radio Telstar South with very old oldies, swing from the 40's? No sign of them when I checked again around 0830. 35323
6220 0851 Mystery Radio warming up the transmitter for Atlantic 2000. 35433
6220 0900 Atlantic 2000 took over the transmitter. Opening ID in french 0905 followed by "Dancing queen". 35433
6260,2 0913 Delta Radio and "Sweet home Alabama". Around 0948 a couple of Pink Floyd-tracks. 23322
6280 1330 Radio Golfbreker announced a SMS-number. 23422
6283 0940 Radio Scotland Int. was testing the equalizer and played dancemusic. Sign off 0953. Strongest this day! 45444
6285 0935 Antonio Radio with "Be my baby". Still heard under North Korea after Voice of Koreas sign on 1000. The same happened also last sunday (7 December). That time Antonio was almost as strong as Korea at 1005. This sunday Korea won, pity. 35433 before Scotland came on air around 0940, after that 32432. After 1000 only 31431.
6290 1008 Radio Borderhunter was in the mood for old hits this day. Elvis, Status Quo, John Lennon... 35333
6299,8 1324 Radio Brandaris with an excellent mixed programme as usual. Great sound and "schwung" in the announcements. Sign off 13.59. 35443
6300 1003 Radio Boemerang was asking for QSO. 35443
6305 1318 Radio Devalon puts a lot of job on his programmes. A lot of stationrecordings and piratelogs. Reminds me of some of the finnish pirates in the early 80's... 35433
6310,2 1037 Radio Zodiac with a rockshow. At first I thought I had an englishman here. So it also turned out to be, but via Holland. Great show Andy! Not so strong, but I liked the pieces I could hear. 25322
6400 0810 Radio Free London also here // 3945. Same signalstrength on both frequencies in the morning. 6400 also quite good around 1430, but no sign of RFL in the evening. Announced RFL6400@hotmail.com. 35333
6424,6 0819 Radio Pionier played Bruce Springsteen. Sign off 0825. On the air again around 1420 with christmasmusic. 35443
6553,1 1109 Radio Galaxy produced a strong signal as usual. "YMCA" at this hour. 35443
6991,2 1342 Bank69 Radio with electronical space underwater instrumental music. Also some talking heard. Was it perhaps a relay of some FM-station or do we have a Bank69-programme now? Weak signal, so I couldn´t copy the talking but not much fading. Disappeared suddenly 1511. 25342 in the tops.

Section for unidentified:

6205 0847 South American music. Maybe not a pirate? Something from South America? (Iann in France heard DRP from Germany) 15221
6265 0922 some talking in english up a few seconds. (Everybody have heard Premier Radio from Ireland here. I guess it was them...) 14111
6305 1043 english POP-music with a good signal for some minutes, then off. No announcements heard. Was in USB! 35443
6325,9 0829 weak music. Also 0931-0957 weak music but on 6325,7. Both Jari and Rick in south Finland heard Campervan on 6326/6325,5 at 0845. Iann in France had Radio Waves Int. on 6326 later. I have never heard Campervan. Next time...
6925 2100 instrumental trumpetmusic and sign off. Was this the end of Spider´s eveningprogramme? 35443

Radio: NRD 525G
Antenna: outdoor cupperwire, 20 metres long.

Thank you for the shows and have a good week all pirates!



Jan

Hello Jan.
Perhaps it was our signal, but good look to hear it the next time.

Regards
The Campervan crew

Yes I think it was you Campervan, but not enough signal this time. Could you please park your van closer to me next time...heh...

Receiving Campervan is High Priority!
I am already looking for you .



Jan

Hello Jan, thanks for the log glad to read some logs from your side again.

Many thanks Jan for the log. Nice to hear that signal from our tiny TX reaches your QTH.

Hi Jan,
Thanks for this very nice report!
Only to bad i was using nearly the same freq. as Antonio. (and Dr. Tim)
I was not aware of this, cause i did not receive any other station at the time.
Then i saw on the chat at the site of Iann in France that i was interfering these stations.
I cd the tx asap, and return at 6250..

OK, thanks for the response Orion-John, Galaxy and Scotland! Nice to hear the comments from you three, the three strongest stations last sunday!

Orion:
I try to listen to you every sundaymorning if the signal is there. Great sound when all (seven?) tubes are glowing!

Galaxy:
Your signal sounds like 1 kW here, really impressive. I guess I hear you whenever you are on air. The skip-distance seems to suit me up here.

Scotland:
Well, not much to do about the interferingproblem I guess. You are skipping your neighbour down there, but we abroad hear you both and have comments about that... Here in the north I hear dutch stations strongly from the northern part, but not so well from the south. But I usually hear all dutch if their power is enough and the radioconditions are OK. For some reason I have big problems with belgian stations. I have never heard Brigitte on 6540 (I try every weekend) and only a few times Grensstad. This is strange (or do they both have low power?). I would guess the skip-zone would be wider than this. My "good-reception border" seems to go exactly through the middle of the Netherlands. Even bigger problems do I have with the german stations. I don´t know where Radio Devalon is situated, he comes in OK, but no other. Dr Tim I can hear enough well to identify perhaps one time out of five, and his voice is not so hard to identify...heh...

Thanks again all pirates, let´s now concentrate on the comming weekend!



Jan

Jan II wrote: The skip-distance seems to suit me up here.

My opinion is similar. I think there are some distances good matching to particular location (at particular band). Of course matching USUALLY, not always due to varying of propagations. I can be proud that Galaxy can be found in that famous company like Orion and Scotland. Greetings to all.

GLX Radio