Laser Goes DX

If you haven't managed to hear Laser Goes DX presented by Gary Drew, he has posted some links so you can listen to the shows:

http://dl2.musicwebtown.com/gazlinks/playlists/295588/3297813.mp3
Laser Goes DX Show 1 - November 2011.

http://dl2.musicwebtown.com/gazlinks/playlists/295588/3301808.mp3
Laser Goes DX Show 2 - Xmas 2011.

http://dl2.musicwebtown.com/gazlinks/playlists/295588/3307305.mp3
Laser Goes DX Show 3 - Jan / Feb 2012.

In internet explorer browsers, right click and 'save target as' to keep the above files.

He also writes: "DXers in or near Dublin, Ireland please monitor Radio Fortunestown 91.8 FM most Sundays from 12.00 - 20.00 UTC, this should be a high power relay of South Herts Radio up to 40 miles. They do not always take the feed for the entire day but confirmation logs would be appreciated. http://www.southhertsradio.com

(Gary Drew, BDXC-UK Yahoo group)

Some of you might have noticed I haven't been posting many logs recently on this blog. I haven't had much time but will try and put stuff up when I get a chance.

Sat Mar 10

3905 1815 Skyline International Radio. ID and greetings, Dutch song, good signal. SINPO 44433.

4015 1808 Laser Hot Hits. Martin Scott show. INXS "Disappear." Good signal. SINPO 44433.

6095 1010 KBC via Wertachtal. Emperor Rosko show. Country music. SINPO 54444.

6326 1823 Radio Caroline Int. IDs, pop music, fair signal with good peaks. SINPO 34333.

6510 1820 Radio Rising Sun. IDs and email address, Bonnie Tyler "It's A Heartache." Fair signal. SINPO 34333.

6930 0950 Irish Music Radio. IDs and rap music. Fair reception. SINPO 34333.

6970 0955 Laser Hot Hits. Song "Hey Matthew," fair signal. SINPO 34333.

Wizard's medium wave pirate review

Wizard Radio writes: "Greetings from the UK

The latest monthly MW Pirate Review is now ready to download with many recordings of pirate stations heard in the UK during February. Click here http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?e4ntfn99i74utpu to download edition number eight.

In addition to our own recordings we have a selection of stations heard by Wire UK in the north-west of England, a recording made in the Netherlands and an archive recording.

Don't forget that there is a new review to download every month of the year. We are always trying to think of new things to include, so if there is anything you would like to hear please let us know and we will do all we can. Our email address is wizardshortwave@gmail.com

So, please enjoy the latest review which features over 50 recordings. If you have any comments please email us or leave them here on the AM Forum in Dutch or English.

If you missed any of our previous reviews, you can download them here.....

August 2011 http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?qsw2txnhqakugbu
September 2011 http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?p55lmc1uqqe6fum
October 2011 http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?uba4jd0dn9z6e2n
November 2011 http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?shbcnjjwx20rgxj
December 2011 http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?bivao6ccvpp2rnj
January 2012 http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?dgj64rdd49z7t4v
February 2012 http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?iz2a6ufn4xftain

All the best
David

(via AM Forum)

FRS Holland repeat online and shortwave

Hello FRS Friends,
Between 14.52- 21.05 UTC/ 15.52- 22.05 CET a repeat of the complete February 26th broadcast will be streamed via internet: < http://nednl.net:8000/frsh.m3u>.

And more good news: next Sunday March 11th 07:52- 14:03 UTC/ 08:52-15:03 CET the broadcast will be repeated on 7600 and hopefully 9300 kHz.
 73s, FRS Crew

Pirates on Parade

Paul Hayes has today announced on Facebook's Keith Skues Fan Group:

"Hello all! Keith's birthday seems an appropriate day to announce here a two-part special looking back at the pirate radio era, being broadcast this Easter on BBC Radio Norfolk. Going out across two episodes at 12 midday on Easter Sunday and 1pm on Easter Monday, "Pirates on Parade" features Keith, Andy Archer and Tom Edwards chatting and swapping stories about their watery wireless days, interspersed with some appropriate pirate-era tracks! I've had the honour and pleasure of editing for broadcast David Clayton's interview session with the trio, and I can promise it's a must-listen for any fan of Keith, Andy or Tom in particular or the pirate days in general!

I'm afraid it's only scheduled for Radio Norfolk for now, but it will of course be available online! (And fingers crossed we may even have stopped snap, crackle and popping online by then... I can't promise anything though, out of our hands)."

(via Mike Terry, radioanoraksuk yg)

Here's a link to Keith Skuwes' Radio Norfolk page: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p001zwry

Sat Mar 3

4015 1005 Laser Hot Hits. Stewart Ross show. Starship "Tell Me You Love Me." SINPO 34333.

6207 1705 Radio Merlin Int. Eagles "Hotel California," ID and greetings, fair signal. SINPO 34333.

6220 1655 Radio Sluwe Vos. Oldies, ID, weak-fair signal. SINPO 24332.

6295 1610 Unid. Laser 558 recordings, Blondie "Sunday Girl." SINPO 44433.

6299 1800 Radio Zeewolf. "Bend Me Shake Me", good signal. SINPO 44433.

6299 1825 Wizard Radio. Asking for QSO, fair signal. SINPO 34333.

6306 1700 Misti Radio. Country music, some splash from unid station on 6310. SINPO 33333.

6325 1630 Radio Zeewolf. Oldies, fair signal. SINPO 34333.

6420 1720 Radio Mustang. ID, The Doors "Light My Fire," strong. SINPO 54444.

6450 1615 Radio Universe. ID, greetings, giving out email address, Jean Michel Jarre music, "Pinacolado" song. SINPO 34333.

6510 1710 Radio Rising Sun. Chris de Burgh "Lady in Red," fair. SINPO 34333.

6920 1620 Trans Europe Radio. "I Won't Step Down", good signal, some fading, ID, greetings and email address, talking about Radio Shadow's operator passing away. SINPO 44433.

6930 0935 Irish Music Radio. Adele song, IDs, fair signal. SINPO 34333.

6960 1820 Atlantic Radio. Blank carrier for much of day but audio now, Roxy Music "More than This." SINPO 54444.

6970 0940 Laser Hot Hits. Paul Stuart show. Odyssey "Inside Out." SINPO 34333. By 1815 up to SINPO 54444.

Sun Feb 26

4015 1835 Laser Hot Hits. Tony James programme.  Lyndsey de Paul "No Honestly", good signal. SINPO 44444.

5820 0845 Orion Radio. Song "Girls", ad for AM Forum, then "Walk Like A Egyptian." Strong. SINPO 54444.

6005 1035 Radio Gloria via Radio 700. Roger Whittaker song. SINPO 34333.

6045 0950 Radio Iceman via Wertachtal. Michael Jackson "Wanna Be Starting Something." SINPO 54444.

6095 1505 KBC via Wertachtal. Jefferson Airplane "White Rabbit," reading email from listener in Ireland. SINPO 44433.

6172 0945 Misti Radio. Sixties music, weak signal but clear channel. SINPO 24332.

6200 0850 Radio Orang Utan. ID and said closing soon, Dutch song. SINPO 34333.

6203 1125 Radio Scotland Int. Slade "Mama We're All Crazy Now," off 1130. Strong. SINPO 54444.

6220 0940 Radio Sluwe Vos. ID jingle, Queen "We Are the Champions." SINPO 24332.

6240 0930 FRS Holland. Peter Verbruggen reading reception reports, parallel with 7600. SINPO 34333.

6265 1145 Radio Geronimo SW. Rock music, low power 20W test. SINPO 34333.

6285 0958 Radio Flying Dutchman. Boney M "Ma Baker," weak with fair peaks. SINPO 24332.

6323 1653 Radio Flying Dutchman. Bananarama "Venus", slight het on signal. SINPO 33333.

6325 1405 Baken 16 heard in QSO with Elvis AM. Both SINPO 34333.

6375 1725 Radio Caroline Int. Music just heard through the noise, ID through pirate chat.  SINPO 23332.

6420 1658 Radio Mustang. Turtles "Happy Together", strong. SINPO 54444.

6510 1710 Radio Rising Sun. "Sweets for My Sweet," weak signal. SINPO 24332.

6930 1015 Irish Music Radio. Boney M song, het on upper sideband. SINPO 23332.

6960 1825 Atlantic Radio. Rock song "Thought I'd Died And Gone to Heaven." Good signal. SINPO 44444.

6970 1010 Laser Hot Hits. Weak signal, music just audible. SINPO 24332.

7600 0935 FRS Holland. Oldies, parallel with 6240. SINPO 44433.

9480 1040 Radio Gloria via MV Baltic. Sixties music, not parallel with 6005. SINPO 34333.

Sat Feb 25

3905 1850 Skyline International Radio. "Baby I Want You," ID and greetings, fair-good signal. SINPO 44333.

4015 1010 Laser Hot Hits. Song from the Four Tops and Shakespeare's Sister. SINPO 34333.

6205 0933 Radio Sluwe Vos. The Cure "A Forest," ID jingle. Weak-fair signal. SINPO 24332.

6245 1730 Telstar Radio. Dutch music, fair signal. SINPO 34333.

6250 1015 Telstar Radio. ID and greetings, oldies, fair signal. SINPO 34333.

6300 1235 Radio Scotland Int. UFO "Doctor Doctor", ID and greetings. Good signal but some fading. SINPO 44433.

6300 1720 Wizard Radio. Instrument music, ID, "Popcorn." SINPO 44433.

6300 1808 Radio Armadillo. Running through the alphabet, said first time used the mic on 48m for many years, using around 60W, Nick Cave song. SINPO 44333.

6306 0925 Radio Altrex. Oldies, weak signal. SINPO 24332.

6325 1900 Radio Skywire. Weak signal, music just audible. SINPO 24332.

6420 1740 Radio Mustang. "Living Next Door to Alice," then The Shadows, ID and said closing down. Strong signal. SINPO 54444.

6920lsb 1732 Baltic Sea Radio. Jingle ID and email, oldies. Weak but clear signal. SINPO 24332.

6930 1005 Irish Music Radio. Whitney Houston song, fair signal. SINPO 34333.

6960 1000 Atlantic Radio. Big Country song, ID jingle, then Gloria Gaynor "I Will Survive." SINPO 34333.

6970 0950 Laser Hot Hits. Coldplay song, fair signal. SINPO 34333.

Fri Feb 24

4015 1815 Laser Hot Hits. Reading from Monitor magazine from 1985, Danii Minogue song. SINPO 44433.

6300 1635 Flying Dutchman Radio. "Dragon's Lair", ID jingle, then "Honey Honey." Using 7W, increased to 20W. SINPO 34333.

6325 1645 Gardner Radio. Poor modulation, weak signal, ID through pirate chat. Gave email as trachycarpus (@) gmail.com, said QSLs available. SINPO 24332.

6375 1740 Radio Caroline Int. Pop/dance music, ID jingles. Weak-fair signal. SINPO 24332.

6930 1700 Irish Music Radio. Pop music, IDs, slight het on the signal. SINPO 33333.

6960 1705 Atlantic Radio. Manic Street Preachers "If You Tolerate This," then REM. SINPO 34333.

6970 1715 Laser Hot Hits. Gerry Rafferty "Baker Street," fair signal. SINPO 34333.

Thurs Feb 23

4015 1810 Laser Hot Hits. Grace Jones "Pull Up to the Bumper," good signal. SINPO 44433.

6960 1800 Atlantic Radio. Manic Street Preachers "Design for Life," ID jingle, then Muse "Supermassive Black Hole." SINPO 34333.

6970 1740 Laser Hot Hits. Martin Scott talking about events in the mystery year, Billie Piper song. SINPO 34333.

FRS Holland this Sunday

Dear FRS Friends,

Sunday February 26th 2012
Following our October & December 2011 broadcasts, FRS-Holland will take to the airwaves with its first 2012 activity next - Sunday February 26th.
FRSH will be on 7600//6240 kHz for no less than 6 hours between 07.52- 14.03 UTC/ 08.52- 15.03 CET.  
Pxs will be presented by Jan van Dijk doing the German show, Dave Scott will be playing classic rock . Paul Graham will host another great 60s/70s
FRS Golden Show. Peter Verbruggen will look back to what happened in the past on February 26th (Day Calendar) and plays a mix of mainly 80s/90s/00s
music in FRS Magazine. He will also host a FRS Goes DX show with the latest news from the wonderful world of wireless.
As you will know, The Free Radio Service Holland is more than 'just playing music'. In all shows radio related items are included. This is for the keen free radio
enthusiast vital and most interesting. Find out yourself what we have in store next Sunday.....
Other items include 'the Phrase that Pays' and 'the listener of the month' (December 2011).
Between 14.52- 21.05 UTC/ 15.52- 22.05 CET the complete broadcast will be streamed via internet: < http://nednl.net:8000/frsh.m3u>

Still available: the FRS 30th Anniversary booklet (24 pages crammed with information- 5 euro/ 7 dollars) covering our 1980- 2010 history and the 3 Anniversary broadcasts.
Remember the 3rd and final one of that series took place exactly one year ago.

Last but not least: we would like to appeal on you, the listener, to support FRSH by sending in a correct reception report with some personal comments/ information.
The quality of some reports is very poor which is frustrating and discouraging for a team that works very hard and serious to provide you with 6 hours of Sunday entertainment....
A reception report should (in our eyes) cover a period of 30 minutes and should contain information about your QTH (where do you listen from), receiver, antenna, times of
reception, SINPO codes and last but not least programme information (details about what you heard on air: pop music or jingle  is not ok > Brown Sugar - Rolling Stones or
sonovox jingle FRS-Holland, Just a bit Different  is much better!).  I realize this should sound quite familiar to DX-ers...reality is however - to use our own slogan- 'just a bit different' !
We have quality QSL cards and stickers waiting for you (hard copy) if you write in to our Herten maildrop. Please enclose sufficient return postage: 2 euro/ 3 US dollars.

Remember our [frs.holland@hccnet.nl] address will disappear very soon. The only correct email address left will be [frs@frsholland.nl].

73s, Peter V. (on behalf of the FRS staff)

Sat Feb 18

4015 1010 Laser Hot Hits. Martin Scott show. Beautiful South song, not parallel with 6970. SINPO 34333.

6302 0940 Radio Altrex. "MacArthur's Park", weak signal, occasional fair peaks. SINPO 24332.

6307.5usb 1857 Radio Tropiq (tent). "Petula Clark "Downtown," weak but clear signal. SINPO 24433.

6930 0955 Irish Music Radio. "Magic Potion," talk about Blackpool Mecca. SINPO 44433.

6960 1045 Breeze AM. Easy listening music, www.breezeam.com. Looks like Irish internet station, could be Atlantic Radio testing their transmitter. SINPO 44433.

6960 1230 Atlantic Radio. Back on the air, ID, song "Dizzy," good signal but some fading. SINPO 44433.

6970 1000 Laser Hot Hits. Martin Scott programme. "Best of Me," then Four Tops song. SINPO 44433.

9510 0950 Radio City via IRRS. Rock n roll, "Station of the Cars" ID. SINPO 34333.

Fri Feb 17

3905 2000 Skyline International Radio. Boney M "It's A Holiday," good signal. SINPO 44433.

4015 2015 Laser Hot Hits. Paul Stuart programme. Chi-Lites song from the 70s, good signal. SINPO 44433.

EMR & Atlantic 2000 this Sunday

Dear Listeners,
EMR - Atlantic 2000 & MV Baltic Radio are on the air this Saturday and Sunday.

 MVBR Schedule for 9480 KHz for Sunday 19th February: 

European Music Radio 09.00  to 10.00 UTC, email: studio@emr.org.uk
Atlantic 2000 Int 10.00  to 11.00 UTC, atlantic2000international@gmail.com

European Music Radio Internet repeat times: 09.00 - 1400 - 18:00 - 21:00
Please visit www.emr.org.uk and click on the “EMR internet radio” button
which you will find throughout the website (see the menu on the left).

This Saturday and Sunday MV Baltic Radio will carry out some Test Transmissions on 9480 KHz
It is the aim to test a new system for computer control and automation of the transmitter.
The tests are on Saturday 18th at 10 UTC, (stress test) and Sunday 19th at 13 UTC, automatic control.
All Test Transmission reports to:  info@mvbalticradio.de

Good Listening   73s Tom

Tues Feb 14

3930 1800 Radio Batavia. Oldies and Dutch music, ID jingles, fair signal but strong SSB QRM from 3924. SINPO 33333.

4015 1810 Laser Hot Hits. Tony James show. John Ford "Star Dance", reading report from England, good signal. SINPO 44444.

6970 1742 Laser Hot Hits. Dave Simpson show. Ian Drury & The Blackheads "What A Waste." Strong. SINPO 54444.

MV Baltic Radio information for 2012

MV Baltic Radio will start broadcasts again in the 49mb via Media Broadcast (Germany) in April. The first transmission will be on the first Sunday of April, the power will be 100KW.

Radio Gloria International (Germany) will start transmissions via Media Broadcast on 25 March.

European Music Radio will transmit via Göhren, Germany (9480) and possible transmissions in the 49mb via Media Broadcast during 2012.

All stations via Göhren 9480 kHz:
The transmitter via Göhren ( 9480 ) is used for long distance broadcasts and transmissions on other frequencies. This service will continue as normal via the transmitter of MV Baltic Radio with the power of 1KW. More information will be added in the near future!

MV Baltic Radio and all stations via 9480 wish you good listening.  
73s Tom

(Tom Taylor, EMR)

QSL from Flying Dutchman Radio

Sat Feb 11

4015 0954 Laser Hot Hits. Stewart Ross programme. Starship "Tell Me that You Love Me." Fair signal. SINPO 34333.

6303 0940 Radio Altrex. Electro music, weak. SINPO 24332.

6930 0950 Irish Music Radio. ID, then Jessie J song. SINPO 44433.

6970 0945 Laser Hot Hits. Santana "She's Not There", greetings to Radio Gemini. SINPO 44433.

Fri Feb 10

3905 1830 Skyline International Radio. Polka, fair-good signal, some fading. SINPO 44433.

4015 2020 Laser Hot Hits. Weak signal, with music heard just above noise level. SINPO 24332.

6294 1805 Radio Flying Dutchman. Instrumental tune "Captain Scarlett", IDs. Fair signal. SINPO 34333.

6300 1733 Witte Reus & Lady Vampirella. The Beatles "Yesterday", good signal. SINPO 44433.

6375 1825 Radio Caroline International. Best in LSB due to CW QRM and stronger station on 6378. SINPO 23332.

6378 1815 Radio Dutchwing. German music, ID, then "Like A Rolling Stone." SINPO 54444.

6930 1755 Irish Music Radio. Dance music, female DJ with IDs. SINPO 34333.

6970 1800 Laser Hot Hits. Dave Simpson show. The Cars "Since You're Gone", thanking listeners for reports. SINPO 44433.

Thurs Feb 9

4015 1820 Laser Hot Hits. Tony James show. Limahl "Never Ending Story" then Dire Straits "Solid Rock." SINPO 44444.