Logs from Milano Italy

[alfred]

Aegean Sea: sun, fishes and pirates... From Bocca di Magra, with Dario
Monferini, I could hear a lot of them... Maybe many of them are fishermen
that in the night spend their time broadcasting with old, terrible
transmitters, drifting as a ski champion during a slalom in the Olympic
games of Torino. Real bad modulation and some explosion... Here a list, just
for fun, with two nordic pirates and a Finnish Maritime, what a confusion!

1628,1 05...10/2 1858...0230 Greek pirate on/off

1630,1 05/2 0705-0712 UNID Greek pirate, blastering Testing "ena ena ena
dia tria...." on this X-band channel .... so be very careful....

1632,7 05...09/2 1645....2355 UNID Greek pirate, with liscas turk/greek
songs melodias ..... Monster signal 9+40 db

1635 05/2 1800-1803* Tornado, Dutch pirate, Ids suff/good

1638,1v 05/2 1810-1830 UNID Greek pirate, with sirtaki melodias. monster
signals 9+40 db V.good

1643,2 05+09/2 1715....0200 Dramas Microphonis, Greek pirate with very
good Mix disco dance... (like an FM station in London !!!) good/v.good

1645,2 05/2 2330-2355 R. Barones, dutch pirate, sending greetings to other
pirate & listeners good/v.good

1655,3-1657,2 05/2 -1643*,1720- UNID Greek pirate, TX problems, on/off
....blastering and moving up and down +/- 15 kHz, terrible. Good

1660,6 05+09/2 1812-1830 UNID Greek pirate, bad modulation, TX on/off
drifting .... horror ..... Good

1670,2 05+08/2 0045....1642 UNID Greek pirate, at 0045 with INDIAN sitar
music .... foolish .... bad modulation ! good

1675,8 05+06/2 0544-0634 UNID Greek pirate, with disco mix no stop ....
good audio .... v.good

1677 07/2 0235-0242 Mariehamn Radio, Turku, Finland, maritime service with
info for fisher man in Baltic sea.... in finnish. suff/good

1679,2-1629,5 05/2 1815-1839 UNID Greek pirate, non stop SALSA music Mix
.... talks in greek .... v.good

1684,5 05/2 1615-1630 UNID Greek pirate, disco mix greek sounds. v.good

1687,3 08/2 0048-0053 Helladio Radio, Greek pirate..... blasting on 1690
kHz.... horror modulation v.good

1695,5 05+09/2 1730-1739* UNID Greek pirate, testing his TX, off after 9
minutes driving up/down 16 kHz

1699,6 05+09/2 1649-,2344- UNID Pirate sound Bosnian or Albanian ....
killed soon UNID Pirate Greek deliberating interferring on his frequency
..... this is a madness .... v.good

1701,3 09/2 2030-2032*,2339- Galaxias amatori, UNID pirate Greek , testing
and "fighting" with another one clobbering the same frequency... madness...
v.good

1706,5 05/2 1639-1644 UNID Greek pirate, with Sirtaki sounds no stop. good

1708,8 05/2 1635-1659 Madedonska Radio, Pirate, UNID country. Qrm by Pireus
Dekafonis v.good

1718,6 05/2 1615-1619 UNID pirate, UNID country, folk songs... good

1725,8 09/2 2040-2044 Podgoriza Radia Studio Nesto, UNID pirate, folk music,
sending greetings to listeners. Good

1752,5 05/2 750-1752 UNID pirate Unid country but Balcan area, very bad
modulation from underground. Good

1765,9 05/2 1753-1954 UNID Skopiera area ?? UNID pirate, TX going up and
down +/- 12 kHz... Good (the signal)

RX: CiaoRadio H101, AOR 7030, Drake SPR-4, RFspace SDR-14
ant: Wellbrook LFL 1010

73
Giampiero

Giampiero Bernardini
Milano, Italy
giampiero.bernardini@fastwebnet.it

Rx: Drake SPR-4 & R-4C (with DDS-4); RFT EKD 315; AOR AR7030+ AR5000+
AR3000A-DX; RF Space SDR-14; CiaoRadio H101; TenTec RX320 & RX321; Icom
R7000 & PCR1000; Lowe HF150; Kenwood R5000 & tuner KT-6040; Grundig Satellit
700 & 500; Yamaha T-85; Sangean ATS 909 mod. & DT 220; Degen DE1103; Alinco
DJ-X3 (In all FM rx I use 110/80/53 kHz filters)- Ant: wires 100 m. & 30 m.;
RKB 5, 9 & 10 elements FM; DX One pro; T2FD 15 meters; Wellbrook LFL 1010,
loops by A.Capra; DLA (GZ project) by P. Albini

[jan]

Hello,

It looks like that a lot of greek pirates use a single tube transmitter, just like many dutch pirates in the early years.
Self oscillating power tube, when the antenna moves in the wind, the transmitting frequency also dos
Who cares they are on air
But we have a mediumwave reception report from Italy thank you for that.

Greetings Jan

I suppose that good at the end off the line is the reception strenght.