Hello and welcome to the May 2008 edition of the Pirate Radio Report.
Springtime conditions have arrived and static is on the rise. The good news is that the longer days are causing pirate signals to be heard longer in the evening before dropping MUFs cause fade-outs. Lots of activity during the past few weeks as well, including replays of Radio Metallica and UPMB.
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Hello and welcome to the May 2006 edition of the Pirate Radio Report.
Conditions on the pirate bands continue to remain viable, even though static levels are increasing. Enjoy it while it lasts! We also have several first time reporters. Keep those logs a coming. Because of the later sunsets, pirates should propagate later into the evening during the summer. On to the logs.
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Hello and welcome to the February 2006 edition of The Pirate Radio Report. The level of activity which had remained quite high through New Year has started to taper off, but we are still pleased to bring you a nice crop of logs. The Winterfest in Kulpsville, PA will be here before you know it! I plan to be there and help out George Zeller with the Pirate Forum. Hope to see you there as well.
Hello and welcome to the December 2005 edition of The Pirate Radio Report. I apologize for no column last month, but in order to make it up to you, the month we will have two pages jam packed with logs. Halloween this year brought good propagation and a few new stations.
Also, we will be starting to use logs submitted to the NASWA Flashsheet. Read on!
Many thanks to the following contributors: Ralph Brandi-NJ, Joe Wood-TN, George Zeller-OH.
Alfa Lima International, from Holland, heard on 15069.42 kHz at 1603 UTC with techopop, many IDs on October 16th. [Brandi-NJ]
Captain Morgan, heard on November 6th at 2105 UTC on 6925 kHz. Excellent show from the good Captain! IDs at 2107, 2121, 2127, and 2130 as “You’re in the pirate zone with Captain Morgan.” Music included” “Get Ready” by Rare Earth, “Mama Told Me” by Three Dog Night, “Captain Morgan” by Garth Brooks (several repeats), “Big Airliner” by Steve Miller, “You’re so Vain” by Carly Simon, and others. OM announcer in with talk on building radios and listening to pirate radio. Also gave an uncopied address for reports. This is the first time that I have heard this station with any type of announcements other than IDs. [Wood-TN]
Hello and welcome to the August edition of the edition of the PIRATE RADIO REPORT. I’ve just returned from a two week vacation at Walt Disney World in Florida. Too hot for me down there this time of year!
Things are a little slow this month, so I think I’ll review my tips on proper reporting to pirate stations.
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Hello and welcome to the July edition of the PIRATE RADIO REPORT. In case you didn’t notice there was no report in The Journal last month. Sorry! A busy schedule and a family illness got in the way.
The results are in and the winner this year is:
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Hello all. I am glad to report that the Winterfest ‘99 in Kulpsville, PA was a success, pirate wise.
It was great to meet a lot of old friends. Pirate Stevie was there from Switzerland along with his chocolate bars. It was nice to meet Peter Worth of Anteater Radio who had some interesting pirate radio tales to share. The forum on pirate radio was again hosted by George Zeller and Andy Yoder and was well attended as usual.
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Welcome to the February 1999 edition of THE PIRATE RADIO REPORT. This month we have a first hand report of a visit by the FCC from Tommy Pickles of Radio Halloween plus some more of your logs.
In case you don’t know who I am, I’m Tommy Pickles, the owner/operator of shortwave pirate station Radio Hallowe’en. I’ve been active the past few Halloweens, playing scary sound effects, stories about haunted houses, etc. The usual Halloween stuff.
Hello and welcome to the last PIRATE RADIO REPORT of 1998! I hope all of you had a great Thanksgiving. Now it’s time for Christmas.
If you’ve been tuning the pirate bands over the past few weeks and haven’t heard anything, don’t worry. It’s not bad propagation, a broken radio or antenna that’s the cause.
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Hi, and welcome to the October edition of the PIRATE RADIO REPORT! Winter conditions are setting in which means less noise and the sunspots are arising which means this should be the best pirate DX season since 1992. Let’s hope so!
The Halloween holiday has always been an active one for pirates and this year it falls on a Saturday, so expect 6955 kHz to be active throughout the afternoon and evening on October 31st. Will Radio Halloween make it’s annual appearance? We’ll just have to wait and see. Be sure to send in your Halloween logs which will appear in the December PPR.
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