Radio Free Spirit 6960 LSB 2346 UTC 15 MAY 2026

[DJ Kraze]

Not sure of the exact frequency, there is some waterfall art at or about 6960 LSB starting just before 2346 UTC with "Radio free Spirit" and later a ghost graphic, no audio.

2351 Showing the ghost image again
2352 Radio Free Spirit Graphic
2355 Ghost Image
2355 Audio Started with a classical piece I don't know the name of with military communications overlayed
2357 Radio Free Spirit Intro
0000 Echo & The Bunnymen - The Cutter
0003 Steven Berkowitz - Stasis
0004 Television - Elevation
0004 Song interrupted by something and then continued with a female voice over "What the hell was that? ..."
0008 voice over with station ID
0009 Peter Gabriel - Shock The Monkey
[dang it, I got a phone call, I can't be detailed atm]
0014 voice over some stories, into song
0018 The Cult - Fire Woman
[off phone now, can concentrate better]
0023 Voice Break "[email protected]"
0023 Spacehog - Into The Meantime
0027 Commercial - Blackwood Forest
0027 New Radicals - You Get What You Give
0029 Signal Dropped out briefly
0032 [Dita is investigating a noise at the transmitter]
0033 Tame Impala - Elephant
0037 Voice over [Juan Valdez]
0037 Blur - Coffee & TV
0042 [somone got shocked, yet somehow the transmitter is still holding frequency]
0043 Arctic Monkeys - Crying Lightning
0047 Talking Heads - Life During Wartime
0050 Sounds like a sign off and as this is happening, there was some wideband morse code cutting into it, one last song KEEP 43 METERS WEIRD
0051 Van Morrison - Into The Mystic
0054 music ends
0056 Waterfall Art "Stay Tuned For Ballsmacker Radio"

Monitoring from the W3HFU Westminster MD 500 FT Northeast Beverage KiwiSDR Signal strength is 8 out of 10 very noisy band tonight, signal is cutting past that
Please send eQSL to [email protected]

[Chuck54]

S8-9  SIO 434  SINPO 45334

2356 UTC Night on Bald Mountain by Leonard Bernstein & New York Philharmonic
2358 YL welcome and ID, thanks for signal reports
0000 The Cutter by Echo & The Bunnymen
0004 Elevation by Television (What the h*ll was that?!?)
0009 YL ID into Shock the Monkey by Peter Gabriel
0014 Banter between YL's, News
0018 ID into Fire Woman by The Cult
0023 YL reports, email into In the Meantime by Spacehog
0027 YL comments, commercial into You Get What You Give by New Radicals
0032 YL late night alternative rock, book, ID into Elephant by Tame Impala
0037 Juan Valdez chatted about, raccoons into Coffee & TV by Blur
0044 Comments into Crying Lightning by Arctic Monkeys
0047 ID into Life During Wartime by Talking Heads

Thanks!

[Ray Lalleu]

on 6960 LSB    direct
0000 music

0030 music, 0032 W talking, with ID

[Radiouser]

s9 here

2355 'Night On Bald Mountain' by Leonard Bernstein & New York Philharmonic with voice comms overtop.
2357 Dita with Radio Free Spirit ID and thanking for reports.
0000 'The Cutter' by Echo & The Bunnymen.
0003 'Elevation' by Television.
0008 Dita got shocked so new Op announcing with ID for now.
0009 'Shock the Monkey' by Peter Gabriel.
0014 Dita back now.
0015 Koa reading news of utter incompetence.
0017 Koa with ID into 'Fire Woman' by The Cult.
0022 Dita asking for reports and eQSL info.
0023 'In the Meantime' by Spacehog.
0027 Dita with ID
0028 You Get What You Give' by New Radicals.
0032 Koa back at the mic.
0033 ID into 'Elephant' by Tame Impala.
0037 'Coffee & TV' by Blur.
0043 Dita asking for reports from HFU listeners and ID into 'Crying Lightning' by Arctic Monkeys.
0047 ID into 'Life During Wartime' by Talking Heads.
0051 'Into The Mystic' by Van Morrison.
0054 OTA

Thanks for today's broadcast! ) ) ) ) )

[William Hassig]

0000 on Empire MI sdr2 with weak noisy S5 signal, hear pop music at noise level,

[dxwingr]

0002utc  fair signal  direct

The Cutter
Elevation


Thanks for show!!

[jackroberts]

0003 music - Elevation (interrupted)
0009 Koa speaks, into next song Shock the Monkey, and then will be back with the news
0014 news - outer limits of municipal incompetence - pickle barrel lightning storage
0017 Fire Woman
0023 request for emailed reception reports, into next song - In the Meantime
0027 Blackwood Forest and Psychic Septic Services - har! into next song You Get What You Give
0033 ad for your book, into next song ELephant


If any HFUers read this, I highly recommend their book - "Radio Free Spirit" on Amazon
I always appreciate an eQSL sent to [email protected]
Shrewsbury VT SDR
SINPO 55344 noise is growing

[DXerKen]

Station: Radio Free Spirit
Listening date: 16 May 2026
Listening time: 00:04 - 00:45 (UTC time)
Frequency: 6960 LSB
SINPO: 35333 - 35232 / 35333
Listening Location: Yokohama City (Japan) via kiwiSDR Tustin, MI, USA / Reinhold, PA, USA
Receiver used: kiwiSDR / Tustin, MI, USA / Reinhold, PA, USA
Antenna used: Dipole / Center Fed Dipole 2-30MHz
Details of the programme listened to:
  0004 "Elevation" by Television
  0008 YL talking & YL ID
  0009 "Shock the Monkey" by Peter Gabriel
  0014 YL talking & YL ID
  0015 YL News
  0017 YL ID
          "Fire Woman" by The Cult
  0023 YL talking & YL ID & eQSL info(HFU & email address)
          "Piece of Wood 2" by The National Cynical Network
  0027 YL ID & YL talking
          "You Get What You Give" by New Radicals
     :
  0035 "Elephant" by Tame Impala
  0037 YL talking
          "Coffee & TV" by Blur
  0042 YL talking & email address
          "Crying Lightning" by Arctic Monkeys
  0045

Thank you for your music show.   I enjoyed your music show again...

I would be grateful to receive your eQSL at: [email protected]

[JustGreg]

I have it with a fair signal.   YL talking about the music  Thanks for the show.
0029 Starting to fade here
0059 Off the air

[dxace1]

Into the "news" as of 0015 UTC
Good signal at Vermont, some noise

[Markokpik]

0031 YL interrupts music to talk early rock on radio  Talk about  R. Free Spirit incl email. 60's style rock n' roll, Yl w/ soliloquy about music, more rock.  Op dialogue w/ OM abut the station, 'Crying Lightning' - Arctic Monkeys, 'Life During Wartime' - Talking Heads, YL soliloquy & says goodbye, 'Into the Mystic' - Van Morrison, off 0055.

S7.  The music is much lower than voices here. Slow QSB.

[sgreenstreet]

0039:  S7 with moderate-to-high QRN using the Shrewsbury VT KiwiSDR.  A bit of fade too.  Perhaps the summer conditions are coming in a bit early this year?

[CookieJarvis]

A noisy S9+10 into metro DC on an otherwise ideal reception night across the bands.

We love hearing you too, RFS, though you faded just as the email address was revealed.

[Zenith.swl]

0045 S7 Good Audio
0051 Into the mystic - Van The Man Morrison

[Professor]

0047 S8-9 with good audio and The Talking Heads