Logs from Newfoundland, Oct. 21-24

[newfoundland dxer]

Hi everyone:

It was another great weekend on the pirate bands. Lots of stations and lots of great music.

Conditions were strange. 48 m usually fades in a couple hours before local sunset. Sometimes it is one hour. Saturday night, however, 48 m did not fade in until after sunset. Mediumwave and 76m faded in before 48m, which I have never seen before.

Thanks to all the ops for the great shows.

Friday, October 21
6285,0 . . 2028 . Radio Powerliner Int., music, email, 24441
6300,0 . . 2043 . Radio Paardenkracht, said “low power”, ID, “Black Betty”, “Radar Love”, 35343
6305,0 . . 2054 . Radio Powerliner, “Don’t You Want Me Baby”, ID, greetings, 34442 at first, up to 44443 at 2340
3805,1 . . 2108 . Skyline Int. Radio, pop music, ID, 33442
6295,0 . . 2137 . UNID, weak pop music, c/d 2140 without announcement, 23341, ute QRM
6285.0u . 2144 . “The Anonymous Pirate”, pop music, cw greetings to mike in Finland, cw ID “this is the anonymous pirate” (thanks to DB in Iann’s chat for the cw translation), 24442
6294,9 . . 2209 . Radio Marconi, Led Zep “The Immigrant Song”, ID, 43442
6288,0 . . 2251 . Radio Fox 48, very weak music, ID via Iann’s chat
4030,1 . . 2323 . UNID, Blind Melon “No Rain”, Cult “She Sells Sanctuary”, no announcements heard, 34342

Saturday, October 22
6924,7 . . 0050 . Family Radio (US), opera, ID, Zombies “Time of the Season”, 34433
6935,0u . 0132 . WAHR (Automated Halloween Radio) (US), click from old horror movie, computer generated ID, 34342
27315,0 . 1337 . UNID, Three Dog Night “Never Been to Spain”, followed by QSO pile-up, US accents, deliberate QRM from someone whistling and moaning, sounds like the CB version of 14313, 23441
1620,0 . . 2023 . UNID (presumed Greek), Greek music, talk by man with echo effect, fading in and out, audible until 2045
1654,0 . . 2047 . Radio Barones, ID, Dutch version of “Country Road”, 25431
1635,0 . . 2056 . Radio Batavier, Steve Miller “The Joker”, Elvis “Jailhouse Rock”, 34432
1625,7 . . 2112 . Radio Witte Raaf, Bee Gees “Words”, “Whiter Shade of Pale, greetings, 25431
6310,0 . . 2128 . Radio Powerliner Int., unknown pop music, ID, 35442
3905,6 . . 2135 . Radio Sallandse Boer, weak at first, up to 34443 by 2230, Dutch music, talk in Dutch, ID, sporadic loud ham QRM
6305,0 . . 2210 . Radio Tropiq, very weak music, ID via Iann’s chat, 25441
6550,0 . . 2215 . Radio Rising Sun, had been just a carrier all night, finally heard some weak music, barely above the noise, ID via Iann’s chat.
6930,0 . . 2220 . Irish Music Radio, hip hop, (announcer said by Bruno Mars?), ID, more hip hop, 24432
6920,0 . . 2235 . Trans Europe Radio, instrumental music, asking for reception reports, ID, 24341
6920,0L . 2255 . Baltic Sea Radio, dance music, rap, ID, “We Will Rock You”, email, “I Can’t Get No Satisfaction”, 44443
6290,0u . 2259 . Radio FSM, heard greetings to ulx2 in Ukraine and myself, c/d, 24442
6299,8 . . 2311 . Radio Marconi, Kiss “I Was Made for Loving You”, ID, 45443
6960,0 . . 2328 . Radio Malta, “Last Night the DJ Saved My Life”, jingle ID, 35442, moved to 6965, then 6969 at 2340 where the signal was 45443, “Owner of a Lonely Heart”
6290,0u . 2343 . Radio Underground, instrumental music, greetings, ID, “Caroline”, relay of Artem’s World of Music at 0045, 35443

Sunday, October 23
6305,0 . . 0027 . Radio Borderhunter, dance music, ID, greetings, “I Was Made for Loving You”, “Venus”, “American Woman”, c/d 0121, 35443
6925,0 . . 0135 . Captain Morgan Shortwave (US), weak music, off 0140, back 0143 with much better signal, Cat Stevens tunes, ID with British accent, “Bad Moon Rising”, 34443 (heard all over Europe, from UK to Ukraine!)
6925,0 . . 0220 . UNID, Cat Stevens “Wild World”, off 0223 without announcement, 35442
6300,0 . . 0225 . Radio Morning Star, greetings, “Old Time Rock and Roll”, “Stuck in the Middle With You”,
6310,0 . . 0258 . UNID, very weak talk by man, occasional comments by woman, and short bits of music,
15065,2 . . 1500 . Cupid Radio, pop music, ID, c/d 1508, 33441 mixing with a bad ute/spur
15795,0 . . 1524 . Radio Borderhunter, jingle ID, “Tell Me Lies”, live ID, “Yesterday”, more IDs, email, “Breakin the Law”, c/d 1651, back at 1655 for very short usb test 45433 in am, 45444 in usb
15055,0 . . 1557 . Radio Tropiq, 30 seconds of dance or pop music, a few words by the op (a little too weak to copy) and c/d, ID via Iann’s chat, 24331
7625,0 . . 1856 . Radio Northpole, some hints of music heard in a half hour of monitoring, ID via Iann’s chat
6284,5 . . 1919 . Radio Alice, weak at tune in, up to 33442 at 2015 with Dutch music, Canned Heat “Going Up the Country”, ID, c/d 2207
6550,1 . . 2003 . Radio Powerliner Int., instrumental music, mellow pop, ID, polka later, email, 35442
6240,0 . . 2030 . Radio Rainbow Int., “I Can’t Get No Satisfaction”, ID, dance, 33442 ute QRM
6930,0 . . 2047 . Irish Music Radio, oldies ballad, Meatloaf, ID, 25432
1645,8 . . 2157 . Radio Vrolijke Mijnwerker (Happy Miner), talk in Dutch, report to other stations (including Barcelona), ID, 24332
6285,8 . . 2208 . Marconi Radio, polka, report to Alice in Dutch, jingle ID, Led Zep “Rock and Roll”, 45443
6300,0 . . 2240 . Radio Morning Star, barely audible music and talk, ID via Iann’s chat, 14331
6300,0 . . 2252 . Radio KGB with Radio Powerliner Int., ID, said was a new location and new antenna, announced 500 watts, “Dancing With Tears in My Eyes”, polka, c/d 2324, 45443
4015,0 . . 2355 . Laser Hot Hits, dance, ID, 35432

Monday, October 24
5815,1 . . 0055 . Radio Hercules, would have been copiable, except for huge splatter fro US station on 5810. I had to use usb and narrow filter to eliminate the splatter, which left just weak music and talk, 23331
6925,0u . 0106 . XFM Radio (US), IS consisting of electronic music and announcement “This is Radio Station XFM. Please stand by. Our broadcast will begin in one minute.”, B52s?, live talk about weather, fall and upcoming tunes, time checks, email, 34342

Cheers, Terry

[Glowbug]

15MHz active? Interesting.

Cheers!