FRS on air Sunday September 2nd

 Last Sunday’s broadcast was seriously affected by a so called geomagnetic storm, a rare phenomenon occasionally popping up. As a direct result both 6275 & 7700 frequencies were poorly or even not at all being received in large areas on the European continent. Such storm is just bad luck and can happen; it’s simply beyond anyone’s control!

We have decided to repeat the full August 26th broadcast next Sunday September 2nd. For those who missed it: it is the inofficial celebration of our 38th anniversary (knowing FRS officially started its broadcasting life on Sunday August 31st 1980). In the past years various interesting themes were presented in our August broadcast: Made in Holland, progressive rock from Dutch bands, the 1967 Summer, Music & Radio Stories, music related to the ‘Sea’ topic, RNI Musical Memories etc. Also this time programmes will be thematic (see schedule below) and FRS wil offer varied & interesting themes in the different shows.

Frequencies will be 48 mb (likely 6275) and of course our main frequency 7700 as well.

FRS-HOLLAND Programme Schedule for Sunday September 2nd 2018
UTC Time	NAME PROGRAMME	CEST Time
17:52	Station-opening: ID’s & Theme tune	19:52
18:02	Musical Express- ‘Songs that you used to dance on’. Bert van Leer kicks off  with Floorfillers, not frequently played on the radio but popular in the disco in the 70s/80s era.	20:02
18:45	German Show- Jan van Dijk  is focusing on New Wave/ New Romantic (early 1980s). Plus one or a few radio items.	20:45
19:45	FRS Magazine – Peter Verbruggen. Peter Verbruggen recalls typical Big L tunes and some of their stories behind. Back to the mid 1960s… Also some radio news items and if times allows the day calendar.	21:30
20:45	Radiowaves- Dave Scott Classic 70s rock show with some rare tracks and of course two landbased free radio recordings from the past.	22:15
21:50	Close down	22:50

Streaming

Choosing for ‘the best of both worlds’ FRSH goes for broadcasting on short wave in good old AM and digital high quality web streaming. That means you can make their choice out of two possibilities:

• [http://nednl.net:8000/frsh.m3u] on Sunday Sept. 2nd 15:52- 19.50 UTC/ 17:52- 21:50 CEST
• [http://laut.fm/jukebox] on Saturday Sept. 1st 15:00- 19:00 UTC/ 17:00- 21:00 CEST.
• [http://laut.fm/jukebox] on Thursday Sept. 6th 17:00- 21:00 UTC/ 19:00- 23:00 CEST.

QSL/letters

Correct reception reports include: date + time of reception, QTH, frequency, your receiver/antenna and most important: a number of programme details (artists/records etc.). In case you are forwarding an MP3 file (which is much appreciated!) please make sure you include: date, time, frequency QTH within the file name! Thanks in advance! E-mails including correct reception reports to < frs/a/frsholland.nl > will be consequently replied by our e-QSL. If you prefer a good looking high quality color QSL (hard copy) ánd large colour sticker (plus personal letter), you must write to our Herten maildrop!! Please enclose 3 US dollars or 3 Euro. Please do not send any IRCs!

Source: station’s website

Pirate Radio Logs 14.08.2018 – 25.08.2018

14.08.2018

20.25 – 6275.0 – UNID – 45444-55444 – George Baker Selection – Little Green Bag
20.32 – 6285.0 – Laser Hot Hits – 45444 – Dance music, 20.33 – Michael Jackson – Stranger In Moscow (remix)
20.37 – 6310.0 – Radio Harmony (tent.) – 44333 – Pop music
23.40 – 6275.0 – Triple L Radio – 45433 – Country music, IDs

15.08.2018

20.38 – 6277.0 – Radio TRX – 45444-55444 – Jerry Lee Lewis – Breathless, 20.44 – ID, 20.46 – Elvis Presley – Trying to Get to You
20.47 – 6270.0 – Quadzilla Radio (tent.) – 34433 – Some slow ballad, 21.07 – CD
20.53 – 6285.0 – Laser Hot Hits – 54444 – Elton John – I’m Still Standing
20.59 – 6238.8 – Radio Merlin Int’l (tent.) – 24332 – Traces of music

18.08.2018

20.52 – 6265.5 – Radio Zwarte Panter – 43444 – Andre Moss – Ella, 20.54 – ID, greetings to me (thanks!)
20.56 – 6270.0 – Radio TRX (tent.) – 54444 – Pinetop Perkins – Sunny Road Blues, 20.59 – CD
21.04 – 6245.0 – Coast FM – 44433 – Arrow – Hot Hot Hot
21.08 – 6275.0 – Radio TRX (tent.) – 45444-55444 – B.B. King – You Upset Me, Baby, 21.35 – CD

19.08.2018

19.48 – 6322.0 – Radio Joey (tent.) – 45433-45444 – Delerium – After All, club dance music
19.52 – 6295.0 – Reflections Europe – 42442 – Sermon in English, QRM from Stanag-4285 UTE on 6295.2 kHz
20.29 – 6245.0 – Coast FM – 42442 – Pop music, announcements. QRM from carrier on 6243.9 kHz
21.30 – 6288.0 – Mustang Radio – 55545 – Greetings to me (thanks!), Fernando Express – Cordilleros de los Andes
22.19 – 6310.0 – Radio Harmony – 44433 – Andy Williams – Spooky, 22.24 – ID, email address announcement
22.26 – 6205.0 – Laser Hot Hits (tent.) – 25432 – Some music

23.08.2018

21.33 – 6275.4 – Charity Radio – 45444 – Irish music, female voice speech

24.08.2018

21.51 – 3905.0 – Mustang Radio – 45444 – ID, dance music, 21.57 – CD

25.08.2018

22.08 – 6275.5 – Charity Radio (tent.) – 45433 – Dire Straits – Money for Nothing
22.30 – 6290.0 – Triple L Radio – 43433 – ID, greetings to listeners, Johnny Cash – Home of the Blues

FRS on air Sunday August 26th 2018

 Following two successive broadcasts on Sunday July 22nd & 29th, FRS-Holland will carry out its traditional late August Summer evening broadcast next Sunday August 26th.

It will be the inofficial celebration of our 38th anniversary knowing FRS officially started its broadcasting life on Sunday August 31st 1980. In the past years various interesting themes were presented in our August broadcast: Made in Holland, progressive rock from Dutch bands, the 1967 Summer, Music & Radio Stories, music related to the ‘Sea’ topic, RNI Musical Memories etc. Also this time programmes will be thematic (see schedule below). Also this time we offer varied & interesting themes in the different  shows!

Attention: there may be- depending on SW propagation conditions– a  repeat on Sunday September 2nd. If so, you will be informed by mail (for those who are in our address book) and via this very website. Next Sunday FRS commences transmission at 17:52 UTC/ 19:52 CEST; close down will be  at approx. 21:50 UTC/ 23:50 CEST.

We realize that close down is late but we feel this is the best option. Frequencies will be 48 mb (possibly 6275) and of course 7700 as well.

FRS-HOLLAND Programme Schedule for Sunday August 26th 2018
UTC Time	Programme	CEST Time
17:52	Station-opening: ID’s & Theme tune	19:52
18:02	Musical Express- ‘Songs that you used to dance on’. Bert van Leer kicks off  with Floorfillers, not frequently played on the radio but popular in the disco in the 70s/80s era.	20:02
18:45	German Show- Jan van Dijk  is focusing on New Wave/ New Romantic (early 1980s). Plus one or a few radio items.	20:45
19:45	FRS Magazine – Peter Verbruggen. Peter Verbruggen recalls typical Big L tunes and some of their stories behind. Back to the mid 1960s… Also some radio news items and if times allows the day calendar.	21:30
20:45	Radiowaves- Dave Scott Classic 70s rock show with some rare tracks and of course two landbased free radio recordings from the past.	22:15
21:50	Close down	22:50

Streaming

Choosing for ‘the best of both worlds’ FRSH goes for broadcasting on short wave in good old AM and digital high quality web streaming. That means you can make their choice out of two possibilities:

• [http://nednl.net:8000/frsh.m3u] Sunday Sept. 2nd 15:52- 19.50 UTC/ 17:52- 21:50 CEST
• [http://laut.fm/jukebox] Saturday Sept. 1st 15:00- 19:00 UTC/ 17:00- 21:00 CEST.
• [http://laut.fm/jukebox] Thursday Sept. 6th 17:00- 21:00 UTC/ 19:00- 23:00 CEST.

QSL/letters

Correct reception reports include: date + time of reception, QTH, frequency, your receiver/antenna and most important: a number of programme details (artists/records etc.). In case you are forwarding an MP3 file (which is much appreciated!) please make sure you include: date, time, frequency QTH within the file name! Thanks in advance! E-mails including correct reception reports to < frs/a/frsholland.nl > will be consequently replied by our E-QSL. If you prefer a good looking high quality color QSL (hard copy) ánd large colour sticker (plus personal letter), you must write to our Herten maildrop!! Please enclose 3 US dollars or 3 Euro. Please do not send any IRCs!

Source: station’s mailing list

eQSL Key Channel Radio

 Thanks for the nice eQSL, Jasmine!

QSL-card and pocket calendar from Radio Habana Cuba

 Thank you very much!

Pirate Radio Logs 30.07.2018 – 12.08.2018

30.07.2018

19.07 – 6390.0 – Radio Zeewolf – 45433-55444 – Music, ID, operator’s speech, 19.24 – Koto – Visitors, 19.25 – CD
20.53 – 6305.0 – UNID – 45444 – Bulgarian folk music

01.08.2018

17.23 – 5832.7 – Pirate Radio Europe – 44444 – Doris Day – Hooray For Hollywood, 17.26 – Mick Harvey – Out of Time Man, 17.28 – ID by female voice

02.08.2018

20.22 – 6295.0 – UNID – 55444 – Janis Joplin – Me and Bobby McGee, 20.30 – Teencats – Rock ‘n Roll Is King

03.08.2018

18.40 – 5836.0 – Pirate Radio Europe (tent.) – 53444 – Songs by Elvis Presley
18.53 – 6747.0 – Radio Pioneer (tent.) – 42442 – Some music, strong OTHR QRM
18.59 – 6300.0 – Mustang Radio – 55444 – ID, greetings to me (thanks!), 19.00 – Leo Sayer – Thunder In My Heart, 19.03 – Tiësto – Love Comes Again

06.08.2018

21.27 – 6290.0 – Radio B4 (tent.) – 55444 – Koto – Visitors

08.08.2018

21.36 – 5832.0 – Pirate Radio Europe – 55545 – Buddy Guy – First Time I Met the Blues, 23.20 – Willie Nelson – Luchenbach, Texas

10.08.2018

22.10 – 5832.0 – Pirate Radio Europe – 45444 – Kraftwerk – The Hall of Mirrors, then QSY to 5834 kHz
22.50 – 6310.0 – Radio Harmony – 33443 – Slow musical compositions

11.08.2018

16.33 – 5832.8 – Pirate Radio Europe – 43444-54444 – Songs by Kino band, QRM from RFA on 5830 kHz
20.21 – 6310.0 – Radio Harmony – 44444 – Peggy Lee – Love, You Didn’t Do Right By Me
20.26 – 6240.0 – Quadzilla Radio (tent.) – 35433-45433 – Some music, 20.33 – Black Sabbath – Paranoid, 21.05 – Sweet – Love Is Like Oxygen
20.36 – 6266.0 – Radio Delta – 45444 – Propaganda – Duel, 20.42 – Leo Sayer – Orchard Road, 20.51 – ID
20.55 – 6324.0 – The Ghoul (tent.) – 34433 – Continuous speech by male voice
21.10 – 6275.7 – Clinic Radio (tent.) – 24332 – Weak music
21.43 – 6399.0 – Common & Precious IV – 23432-33433 – Usual beeping
21,48 – 6239.0 – Radio Merlin Int’l (tent.) – 154×1-25422 – Traces of music
22.34 – 6290.0 – Triple L Radio – 45444 – ID, greetings to me (thanks!), 22.35 – Duane Eddy – Crazy Arms

12.08.2018

19.13 – 5832.3 – Pirate Radio Europe – 45444-55444 – Depeche Mode – Personal Jesus, 19.17 – ID
19.25 – 6322.0 – Radio Joey – 45444 – Instrumental music, 19.30 – speech to listeners
21.14 – 6295.0 – Reflections Europe – 45433 – Sermon in English
21.17 – 12255.0 – Reflections Europe (tent.) – 25422 – Some speech under local noise
21.25 – 6285.0 – Laser Hot Hits – 45444 – Texas – Summer Son
21.30 – 6955.0 – Radio TRX – 54444 – Etta James – A Sunday Kind of Love, 21.32 – Stevie Wonder – Superstition, 21.35 – ID, 21.41 – CD

KCR transmission failure

 Dear friends, on Friday just before 7.00 pm during our usual test our transmitter broke down. The internet did not allow us to warn you in time, we are very sorry.

We thank you very much for the many messages, mail and whatsApp.

We plan to be back in September.

Sorry again for this incident, soon we will have a spare transmitter and what happened will not happen again.

Thank you for the much friendship you have shown yet, you are great !!

Thanks also for the broadcast of KCR on Saturday morning ……

Jasmine… 🙁

Source: station’s mailing list

Pirate Radio Logs 23.07.2018 – 29.07.2018

23.07.2018

02.13 - 6875U - Mix Radio Int'l (tent.) - 25422 - Weak traces of music
23.00 - 6399.0 - Common & Precious IV - 45423 - Dashes non-stop, 2W
23.38 - 6285.0 - Laser Hot Hits - 43443 - ID jingle

24.07.2018

19.07 - 6259.6 - UNID - 34333-44333 - Queensrÿche - Silent Lucidity, 19.12 - The Manhattan Transfer - Chanson D'Amour
20.42 - 6275.0 - Johnny Tobacco - 55445 - Snip & Snap - Blonde Mientje, 20.45 - Herman Brood - Maak Van Uw Scheet Een Donderslag
21.44 - 6285.0 - Laser Hot Hits - 43433 - Instrumental music
23.00 - 5140.0 - Charleston Radio Int'l - 43443-53444 - Old German song, 23.05 - ID by female voice
23.15 - 5780.0 - Zenith Classic Rock - 34333-44333 - Wings - Silly Love Songs

25.07.2018

20.45 - 6274.0 - Johnny Tobacco - 55445 - Pop music, IDs, 20.48 - CD

26.07.2018

19.35 - 6305.0 - Radio Fox 48 - 35422 - Some pop music, DJ's speech, 19.46 - We Love Pirate Station (disco version?)
20.01 - 6259.3 - UNID - 43333 - A Flock of Seagulls - I Ran, 20.07 - Al Stewart - Time Passages
23.33 - 6275.0 - Johnny Tobacco - 45433 - Greetings to me (thanks!), instrumental music

27.07.2018

20.23 - 6285.0 - Coast FM - 45243 - Madison Avenue - Don't Call Me Baby, 20.25 - ID

28.07.2018

19.22 - 6323.0 - UNID - 55344 - Scorpions - Wind of Change
19.35 - 6262.6 - Radio Pandora (tent.) - 24322 - Traces of music on peaks
19.44 - 6275.0 - Quadzilla Radio - 35333 - Some pop music, 20.21 - Eurythmics
20.46 - 6285.0 - Coast FM - 44344 - Vanilla Ice - Ice Ice Baby
21.00 - 3905.0 - Radio Alice - 44333 - Dutch folk songs, 22.11 - Black Sabbath - Paranoid, 22.14 - ID, speech
22.26 - 5150.0 - Charleston Radio Int'l (tent.) - 45333 - Some oldies music
23.00 - 6277.0 - Triple L Radio - 45344 - Creedence Clearwater Revival - Have You Ever Seen The Rain? 23.03 - ID, greetings to listeners

29.07.2018

18.28 - 6305.0 - Radio Python - 45344 - ABBA - Slipping Through My Fingers, ID, greetings to me (thanks!)




18.43 - 6320.0 - Radio Joey - 45343 - Club dance music, 19.27 - ID
18.48 - 6240.0 - Enjoy Radio - 45333 - Booker T. & the MG's - Green Onions, 18.48 - ID, 19.08 - Rod Stewart - Maggie May
18.57 - 6309.8 - Radio OZNRH - 44343 - Interval signals, IDs, time pips, light instrumental music
19.02 - 6295.0 - Reflections Europe - 34333 - Some song, ID, addresses announcement
19.18 - 6275.4 - FRS Holland - 45243 - Some alternative rock song, 19.20 - ID
19.22 - 7699.6 - FRS Holland - 35322 - Pop music, parallel to 6275.4 kHz
19.27 - 6399.0 - Common & Precious IV - 34333 - CW dashes non-stop
19.37 - 12255.0 - Reflections Europe - 35422 - Sermon in English, parallel to 6295 kHz
19.47 - 6265.0 - UNID - 55344 - Johnny Tillotson - Judy Judy Judy, 19.50 - Creedence Clearwater Revival - Cotton Fields
19.55 - 6285.0 - Laser Hot Hits - 45333 - Squeeze - Labelled With Love, 19.59 - U2 - With Or Without You
20.30 - 5150.0 - Charleston Radio Int'l - 44243 - Oldies music
20.42 - 5830.0 - Radio Batavia (tent.) - 34232 - Some music on peaks
20.52 - 6260.2 - Zender Pirat (tent.) - 15321-25322 - Weak traces of music on peaks, 21.40 - CD
21.22 - 6205.0 - Radio Panda (tent.) - 33322-33333 - Dance music
21.28 - 6375.0 - Discovery Radio (tent.) - 33333 - Music on peaks, some co-channel QRM
23.58 - 5780.0 - Zenith Classic Rock (tent.) - 34333 - Some music under local QRM-noise

FRS repeat on Sunday July 29th 2018

 As a result of last Sunday’s evening broadcast, we have decided to carry out a full repeat next Sunday July 29th.

Attention: the current SW conditions made us decide to start one hour later. That implies the BC will take place between 17:52 UTC/ 19:52 CEST and 21:50 UTC/ 23:50 CEST.

We knowclose down is very late but we feel this is the best option. Frequencies will be 48 mb (possibly 6260) and hopefully 7700 as well. Opposite to last Sunday 48 metres will be higher power than 7700.

FRS-HOLLAND Programme Schedule for Sunday July 29th 2018
UTC Time	Programme	CEST Time
17:52	Station-opening: ID’s & Theme tune	19:52
18:02	FRS Golden Show – Roger Davis. Roger focuses on 60s/70s tracks.	20:02
18:45	Musical Express- Bert van Leer Bert mainly plays 70s/80s tracks.	20:45
19:30	Radiowaves- Dave Scott Excellent classic rock to be heard nowhere else on SW	21:30
20:15	German Show- Jan van Dijk A nice choice of up-to-date music and a few interesting items	22:15
21:00	FRS Magazine – Peter Verbruggen. Includes a tunes item plus…Summer sounds.	23:00
21.50	Close down	23:50

Streaming

Choosing for ‘the best of both worlds’ FRSH goes for broadcasting on short wave in good old AM and digital high quality web streaming. That means you can make their choice out of two possibilities:

[http://laut.fm/jukebox] Sunday July 29th 15:00- 19:00 UTC/ 17:00- 21:00 CEST ánd Wednesday August 1st 18:00- 22:00 UTC/ 20:00- 24:00 CEST.
[http://nednl.net:8000/frsh.m3u] Sunday August 5th 14:00- 18:00 UTC/ 16:00- 20:00 CEST.

QSL/letters

Correct reception reports include: date + time of reception, QTH, frequency, your receiver/antenna and most important: a number of programme details (artists/records etc.). In case you are forwarding an MP3 file (which is much appreciated!) please make sure you include: date, time, frequency QTH within the file name! Thanks in advance! E-mails including correct reception reports to < frs/a/frsholland.nl > will be consequently replied by our E-QSL. If you prefer a good looking high quality color QSL (hard copy) ánd large colour sticker (plus personal letter), you must write to our Herten maildrop!! Please enclose 3 US dollars or 3 Euro. Please do not send any IRCs!

FRS on air on Sunday August 26th

On August 26th FRS will go on air with (almost) full programming including all presenters beig Jan van Dijk (German), Bert van Leer, Dave Scott & Peter Verbruggen. It will be the inofficial celebration of our 38th anniversary.All shows will be thematic. In the past years various interesting themes were presented: Made in Holland, progressive rock from Dutch bands, Music & Radio Stories, music related to the ‘Sea’ topic. FRS will surprise you with new themes upcoming August!

Source: FRSH mailing list

eQSL Empire Radio

 Got this nice eQSL from Empire Radio for the Special 40^th Birthday Transmission. Thanks to the station’s owner!