Radio Diana Int. 6930 AM 1131 UTC 15 July 2023

[TRI International]

1131 UTC Om Radio Diana Int. Signing on then the song "Roll Daddy Roll"
1134 UTC Om Radio Diana Int, the Pirate Radio Network Dot com ?? Song "Blitzkrieg"
1150 UTC song "Cease to exit"
1151 UTC Om The Pirate Relay Network x 2 then the song "Skinhead Moonstomp"
1155 UTC Om talking
1158 UTC signal just above the noise now 
1205 UTC Radio Diana Int. / PRN ID

S 6 to 7 via W3HFU Web SDR, thanks for the show and the NEW Station. Pls Qsl if possible 

[Pravotorov]

SINPO 45454 in Milford
11:48 "Lease to exit" by Charles Manson
11:51 ID, "Skinhead moonstomp" by Jamaica Reggae Band
11:55 ID
12:00 "The funk is on" by Instant Funk
12:05 ID, "I got my mind made up" by Instant Funk
12:08 ID, funky song
12:14 ID, "Bad" by U2

[Big Badfish Al]

Frequency: 6930
Mode: AM
Date: 15 July 2023
Time: 1144
SINPO: 44444 via New Castle PA kiwi

1444 - Beach Boys tune
1445 - Cease to Exist
1449 - Pirate Radio Network ID then Radio Diana Int
1452 - Old ska like tune


Thanks for the broadcast. PSE e-QSL to bad_fish@hotmail.com

[Andrew Yoder]

Weird, but I just mentioned the band Symarip probably 5 min. before tuning in to "Skinhead Moonstomp" Then into IDs. Fair signal with deep fades

[ChrisSmolinski]

SDR recording catch. Weak at first, but getting stronger over time. 

I have an audio recording here: https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/1021029304970252350/1129810198161276938/RadioDiana.mp3

[Pigmeat]

Weird, but I just mentioned the band Symarip probably 5 min. before tuning in to "Skinhead Moonstomp" Then into IDs. Fair signal with deep fades

The first time I heard it was via a Specials cover in 1979 or 1980. Symarip recorded the original in what 1970-71 at the end of the Rocksteady era? The skinheads in Jamaica that took up playing reggae, smoking ganja, and talking about Jah soon after that were called "Baldhead Rasta's" Someone recorded a song in that era about them, it might have been the Wailers called "Crazy Baldheads". Toots and The Maytals were Baldheads. No dreadlocks for them.

[Andrew Yoder]

I first heard Symarip about 10 years later, but I think the LP I heard was a repress during the two-tone era when you heard the cover. Not sure if more than a handful of ex-pat Jamaicans were listening to this stuff in the US in the '60s & very early '70s

[Pigmeat]

There were a lot of those represses in that era. Bands got their names changed, it could get kind of funny when you heard the exact same tune, but it would be credited to two different bands. The Pioneers were the Pioneers sometimes, other times they were the Ethiopians. Same songs, same guys.

If I remember correctly, The Specials did their cover of "Skinhead Moonstomp" as commentary on right-wing skins coming into the clubs, breaking the place up, and beating up the Two-Tone fans and the left-wing skins that followed the scene? It's what the song "Ghost Town" was about, too.

There was record store in DC I can't remember the name of that carried a lot of Jamaican music in the late 60's, early 70s before reggae really hit in the US in '73/'74,they had a fairly large mail-order business I'm sure with the West Indian communities on the East Coast, it was being marketed in NYC and South Florida. Bob Marley was working in a factory in Wilmington, DE. in I believe 1967 or 1969, so likely the Philly area, too. A lot of early rap in NYC was by guys of West Indian descent. Jamaican records had a regular and a dub side for the DJ to do his thing over. Rap came out of a lot of those mixed African-American/West Indian neighborhoods in and around NYC where West Indians showed what could be done by talking over those 33 rpm. 12 inch club singles on the instrumental B side.

Reggae was the choice of Punks on both sides of the Atlantic for relaxing and having sex, or as the Rasta's called it, "Dubbing your daughter", the perverts!