Logs form Newfoundland, Feb. 24-26

[newfoundland dxer]

Hi everyone:

It was a great weekend on the pirate bands. Friday night was unusually active, and conditions were fairly good. Saturday and Sunday nights were not as active, and the noise level was high, but there was still lots of great listening.

I logged 2 new stations this weekend … Elvis Radio and Double Kilo. Always nice to hear a new station. The best signals for the weekend were from Mustang and Double Kilo (Europe) and Wolverine and Captain Morgan (US). (Scotland and Black Bandit also has good signal strengths, but there was more noise.)

Just a reminder … my new blog has regularly updated logs and lots of QSLs. This past week features QSLs from Double Kilo, Black Arrow (2), Tropiq, Mustang, Witte Reus, Captain Morgan, Fox 48, WEAK (2), Blah Blah Blah, Alpen Roos and Big Boobs Radio. Visit at http://freeradioreport.blogspot.com/

Friday, February 24
6959.7 . . 2125 . Atlantic Radio, easy listening pop, jingle ID, 24342
3905,1 . . 2139 . Skyline Int. Radio, “Sweet Home Alabama”, “Love Hurts”, 34342
6447,7 . . 2204 . Elvis Radio, “Rock the Casbah”, “Running With the Devil”, ID and greetings, 23442 ute QRM
6303.8 . . 2227 . Radio Black Arrow, , weak music and talk, heard some words including “Netherlands” and “hello terry”, ID via Iann’s chat, 24331
6307,4u . 2248 . Radio Tropiq, dance music, ID and c/d or faded 2345, 24442, was back on with a better signal, 34443, at 0050 with “Clap for the Wolfman”
6300,0u . 2254 . Radio Fox 48, rock music, ID via Iann’s chat, 24441
6306,1 . . 2325 . Radio Altrex, very weak music, heard “Hello Terry, this is Radio Altrex” on a peak (thanks for greets), 24331
6220,0 . . 2337 . Radio Sluwe Vos, Scorpions “Send Me an Angel”, then faded, ID via Inann’s chat, 24331

Saturday, February 25
6925,0 . . 0140 . Radio Ronin Shortwave (US), “Living on the Edge”, “The Pusher”, ID, c/d 0227 after closing announcements, 34432
6925,0u . 0240 . WEAK Radio (US), relay of WEAK, either started in am or these was another carrier on the freq for the first few minutes, talk (very weak), ID and punkish music, still going 0315, 34442 now, 0322 finally a song I can ID: BST "Ride Captain Ride" 24442
6959,6 . . 2020 . Atlantic Radio, seems to have lost it’s audio feed, s5 carrier only
6970,0 . . 2024 . Laser Hot Hits, pop music, long talk by man with British accent, weak with high noise, 25331
6420,0 . . 2031 . Radio Mustang, instrumental, Dutch music, greetings, ID, dance, “Land Down Under”, 35343
6300,0 . . 2040 . Radio Witte Reus, barely audible music and talk, heard “bye-bye” before c/d at 2118, ID via Iann’s chat
3905,1 . . 2145 . Skyline Int. Radio, good signal, but horrible s9 utility on 3906. I had to use narrow filter and lsb, but this left the music and talk too distorted for details, 32341 – better at 2330, 33442, ham net QRM

Sunday, February 26
6925,0u . 0042 . Radio Ga-Ga (US), very weak music, "Only the Good Die Young" at 0048, ID via Iann’s chat, 25331
6925,0u . 0112 . Wolverine Radio (US), IS, ID, “black theme tonight, Stones “Painted Black”, Beatles “Blackbird”, Santana “Black Magic Woman”, usual great signal and audio, 55444
6220,1 . . 0136 . Sluwe Vos Radio, ELO “Don’t Bring Me Down”, greetings, just above the noise, 25331
6306,2 . . 0146 . Double Kilo Radio, Smokie and Suzie Quatro “Stumbling In”, IDs, email, HL, and snail mail, said was testing from the Netherlands, c/d 0207, 35443
6924,9 . . 0210 . Captain Morgan Shortwave (US), ID, America “Ventura Highway”, ID/email, “Raining All Over the World”, 45443
6925,0u . 0240 . Wolverine Radio (US), IS, comedy clip about wolverines, ID, 45443
15040,0u.1505 . Radio Tropiq, weak rock music, c/d 1507, ID via Iann’s chat, 24331
15040,0u.1606 . Radio Tropiq, back on with dance music, IDs, c/d 1700, 25432
6304,8 . . 2020 . Cupid Radio, weak music and talk, jingle ID at 2034, slowly improving with late fade in on 48m, Springsteen “Human Touch” at 2100, 25341, up to 25342 by 2125 with Smashing Pumpkins “1979”, ID, greetings
6300,1 . . 2215 . Radio Scotland Int., ID, greetings, heavy metal, email, 35332
6375,0 . . 2231 . Black Bandit Radio, ID, pop music, old country, c/d 2258, 34342
6959,7 . . 0028 . Atlantic Radio, signal finally faded in somewhat, Dylan “A Hard Rain’s Gonna Fall”, ID, Beatles “Don’t Let Me Down”, 25331

Cheers, Terry