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Pirate BBC Essex

As well as being able to listen online to Pirate BBC Essex, which officially starts at 6 a.m. UK time (UTC +1) (0500UTC) tomorrow (Friday 10th), there will also be a video stream from the studio of the LV18 this year.

Pirate BBC Essex is also on Twitter and has a YouTube channel.

Links to all of these at:
http://www.bbc. co.uk/essex/ content/articles /2007/08/ 01/pirate_ bbc_essex_ listen_live_ feature.shtml

In 2007 they had test transmissions on the internet stream the night before they started between 2140 and 2400 UK time.

(via Mike Barraclough, radioanoraksuk)

Also check out the medium wave frequencies 729, 765 & 1530 kHz

Info via UKdxer

Important changes at Radio Joystick

Please spread important news on the changes at RADIO JOYSTICK:

The first change at RADIO JOYSTICK is not that new and already known to some of you:
Since 2009 RADIO JOYSTCK uses the help of NEXUS International Broadcasting Association in Milano, Italy to be heard via the transmitting facilities in Rimavska Sobota, Slowakia – every first saturday each month between 10 and 11 hours CE(S)T on 9510 kHz!

But another actual change is not famous yet:
As DJ Charlie Prince is moving to the south german spa town Kreuznach (Rhineland-Palatinate) on 9th of April 2009 the address of RADIO JOYSTICK is changing also (eff. 2009-04-09):

RADIO JOYSTICK
Postfach (Post Office Box) 23 31
55512 Bad Kreuznach
ALLEMAGNE

Last but not least:
Everyone who writes in via snail mail will receive on of the very new RADIO JOYSTICK all-weather-stickers, 7 x 5 cm small, 4coloured,
showing the movie set “Popeye Village” on Malta – and the new address!

— Kind regards / Vy 73s, DJ Charlie Prince Radio Joystick Postfach 23 31 55512 Bad Kreuznach ALLEMAGNE Fax: +49 1212 511301202 Cell.: +49 179 3615394 http://www.myspace.com/djchapri http://www.radiojoystick.de

Info via Charlie Prince on Hardcore-DX

Sonnet Radio Europe

Sonnet Radio Europe is starting to test on 48m this coming Sunday from 0450 UK Time through to 0900 and then again later in the evening.

We’ll be testing on 6260, 6225 or 6296 KHz.

Welcome all your reception reports and QSL requests, Audio file QSL’s win a SRE T Shirt or Coffee Mug.

More info @ www.sonnetradio.com

Thanks.

SRE

Info via Peter V. on A-DX

Big L Shortwave

Big L Shortwave is back during the Easter weekend in conjunction with the Mighty KBC.

Kicking off on Saturday the 11th of April, including Adrian John, Mike Read, Roger Davis, Chirpy, Eric van Willegen. and more to come.

Broadcasting on 9770 kHz between 7.30 AM and 14.30 PM UTC (sic)

* Saturday 11th of April
* Sunday 12th of April
* Monday 13th of April

E-mail requests or other comments some time in advance to: dutch(at)bigl.co.uk

More on the station, including Listen Again and downloads at:
http://www.kbcradio.eu/

Info via Mike B on DXLD

Radio Seagull

Dutch commercial stations Radio Seagull and Radio Waddenzee announce the following on their website at http://www.radioseagull.nl/

Yes, we are doing it again! After having challenged history by anchoring a radio ship 8 miles out in the high seas last year, we are going to do it again in 2009 !!!

One of the only two radio ships left in the world, the LV Jenni Baynton, will be anchoring in the Wadden sea off Holland from May 20th till June 6th.
Mind you, this is not a private owned ship temporarily fitted out as a radio ship, this is a real genuine radio ship. Radio Seagull (together with her sister station Radio Waddenzee) broadcast on the Medium Wave, 1602 AM. The ship, home of both stations, is usually moored alongside a pier in a small Dutch seaport called Harlingen. Once a year the ship is towed out at sea, manned with DJ’s and engineers and broadcasts using the ship’s transmitter.
The land site, from which we usually broadcast, is switched off for the occasion.

When the ship is out, you can arrange for a tender visit. How many chances do you think you’ll get to actually visit a transmitting radio ship in your life? This might be the last chance to actually experience the feeling we all know so well from the 60’s, 70’s, 80’s and a bit of the 90’s!

If you’re interested in a visit, details of how to contact the station are on this page http://www.radioseagull.nl/

Info via via Media Network via DXLD

Radio Snowball

RADIO SNOWBALL from SW Russia

Russian pirate station, Radio Snowball (=Radio Snegovik), SW Russia will have test broadcast to Europe on this Friday evening!

Radio Snowball will broadcast music for one hour on 6630 kHz on Friday
6th February 2009 from 20.00 to 21.00 UTC. Power is 50 Watts in USB.

At the moment there is no e-mail or contact address to the station but all listeners can leave reports as a comment on www.hkdx2.blogspot.com.

73s harri

Info via alfalima.net

FRS Holland

Dear FRS Friends,

Season’s Greetings from all of us at FRS-Holland. We wish all of you a merry Christmas.
May 2009 become a healthy, successful and radioactive year for all of you.
Thanks for your support in the past year.

Next Sunday December 28th 2008, FRS-Holland will take to the airwaves with another 5 hour seasonal broadcast.
We will be on 6220 kHz 08.00-13.00 UTC. In addition we are on 6400 kHz 08.00-22.00 UTC ánd 9770 kHz 14.30-15.30 UTC.
9770 features part 1 & 2 of FRS goes DX, output will be a 100 kW. We issue a special seasonal QSL card for next Sunday.
We’d love to hear from you….please add some personal comments and px criticism in your report. That would be fine!
Programmes will be presented by Jan van Dijk, Paul Graham, Mike Anderson & Peter Verbruggen.
Mike Anderson will present DX-Welle in German. Jan van Dijk will be doing the German Service including a 2008 Free Radio overview. Peter V. presents an extra long FRS Magazine flashing back to December 1988 and December 1998 and present FRS goes DX (part 1 & 2) including news from around the world and SW Free Radio news as well.
Ingredients for next Sunday are: great music from the past 4 decades, radio news, 2008 review, listener’s letters & eMails from November, a listeners competition, the ‘Phrase that Pays’, New Year Greetings and much, much more….

Christmas Day and Boxing Day Peter V. will present each day a one hour show on 9770 kHz 13.00- 14.00 hours UTC.
These programmes are part of a joint venture of KBC Radio, Britain Radio Int. and FRS-Holland. All shows are aired under the umbrella of the Mighty KBC but reports for the 13.00-14.00 UTC shows are more than welcome and can be sent to our usual mail or postal address! The broadcasts on both XMas Days will take place between 10.00- 15.30 UTC. 100,000 watts on 9770 kHz.

FRSH on a Sunday means fun & enjoyment….

All the best,

Peter Verbruggen on behalf of the entire FRS Crew being Bobby Speed, Mike Anderson, Jan van Dijk, PV & Paul Graham

FRS Holland 28th of December

Dear FRS Friends,

I N V I T A T I O N

Following our November 2nd broadcast a few weeks ago, FRS-Holland will again take to the airwaves over the X-Mas Holiday Season.
December 28th FRS-Holland will continue a long time tradition. And that means we invite you- the listener– to participate. Forward your very own personal New Year Greetings to the Free Radio Service Holland and we will make sure it’ll be read out during our broadcast.
You can dedicate your greetings to friends etc. but you can also make a ‘general NY Greeting. It can be written or (preferably!) taped (cassette, CD, MD or MP3 file) and send to our P.O.Box 2702, 6049 ZG Herten in the Netherlands. Of course the easy & quick way is by sending an e-mail to or . You can add something special to our December 28th broadcast by participating. So….don’t hesoitate and take part in the FRS Party that day. It’ll be great fun. Make sure your contribution reaches us before December 5th. We are looking forward hearing from you !!! Tune on the 28th…it’ll be great fun !!!

December 28th FRSH will be on 6220 for at least 4 hours. In addition we hope to be on a different frequency as well, perhaps not our full programming. Pxs will be presented by Jan van Dijk doing a 2008 Free Radio Review in his German Show. Paul Graham will be doing another classic FRS Golden Show playing great 60s/ 70s stuff as well as a feature on a landbased pirate radio station from years gone by. Peter Verbruggen will look back to what happened in the past on December 28th (Day Calendar) en plays a mix of 80s/90s/00s records in FRS Magazine. He will also host a 45 min. FRS Goes DX edition with the latest news from the wonderful world of wireless . Mike Anderson’s DX Welle will feature a mix of DX News and music. During the pxs we will read out November mail and New Year’s Greetings.
There’s a listener’s competition and ‘the Phrase that Pays’. In addition a 15 minute Joop ter Zee tribute will be aired. Pxs will most likely commence at 08.00 UTC/ 09.00 CET and last till 12.00 UTC/ 13.00 CET. Frequency is 6220 kHz. As said, part of the shows will be repeated on a different frequency, most likely in the afternoon. That day FRS will also be heard via the Internet, perhaps pxs will be repeated a number of times. We will send more mails December and a few days before the broadcast we hope to reveal the afternoon frequency and time-slot.

By now all back mail plus all letters/mail from the November 2008 broadcast (!!) have been handled. That implies the all new QSLs from our TX Series have been forwarded to the FRS listeners who responded.

Christmas Day Dec. 25th there might be another surprise when FRS-Holland will be co-operating with two other well-known (and long-serving) short wave
stations. Details about programming and frequency will be announced as soon as possible.

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

a Balance between Music & Information joint to one Format….

FRS-Holland
POBox 2702
6049 ZG Herten
The Netherlands

e-mail: < frs.holland(@)hccnet.nl>
e-mail: < frs(@)frsholland.nl>

FRS Holland

Hello SW Friends,

FRS-Holland will be on air next Sunday November 2nd 2008.
The broadcast will start at 08.00 UTC/09.00 CET and close down will be at 12.00 UTC/13.00 CET.
Of course we do hope propagation will be satisfactory that day.
Programme line-up consists of FRS Magazine, German Service, FRS Goes DX and FRS Golden Show.
Ingredients….great music, DX News, letters, the day calendar for November 2nd, a radior retelated
Internet item and an extract of a landbased pirate station of the past.
Radio entertainment on a Sunday. Tune in…6220 kHz/ 48 metres.
That same day 15.00- 18.00 UTC/16.00- 20.00 CET will see a full repeat on the internet.
Check on your computer http://nednl.net:8000/frsh.m3u.

All letters from the previous broadcast are handled coming your way very soon (with the brandnew QSL cards).

February 2007 we started a new series consisting of four different QSL cards called the FRS Transmitter Series. QSL #4 will be issued ifor next Sunday’s broadcast.
Edition 33 of FRS News is out now containing four A4 pages full of information and columns.
A copy can be obtained simply by sending 2 euro to our mailing address. Alternatively you can get yourself a free digital copy provided you have MS Publisher on your computer. In that case just send us an e-mail.

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

a Balance between Music & Information joint to one Format….

FRS-Holland
POBox 2702
6049 ZG Herten
The Netherlands

e-mail: < frs.holland(@)hccnet.nl>
e-mail: < frs(@)frsholland.nl>