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General Category => Pirate Radio History => Topic started by: Boriken on August 04, 2019, 1411 UTC

Title: Pirate Log from the 1980's
Post by: Boriken on August 04, 2019, 1411 UTC

Found a scrap of paper the other day with some of my pirate logs from the 1980's

19840506 0100 7421 KQRP - STARWARS
19840509 0412 6233 KQRP - ID & BEATTLES
19840510 0300 7354 RADIO CLANDESTINE - COMEDY
19840510 0330 7413 KQRP - DR RX & PO BOX 982
19840601 0215 7435 WIMP - PO BOX 982 BATTLE CREEK MI
19840705 0045 7415 KQRP - LOTS SA QRM
19840730 0130 7428 R SINEWAVE - PO BOX 5074 HILO HI
19841217 2313 7435 WMTV FM96 - PO BOX 1945
19841230 2100 7436 VOICE OF THE RAINBOW - PO BOX 5074
19850126 2035 7433 KROK - ID & ROCK
19850126 2050 7425 KROK - PO BOX 245 MOREHEAD MN

Title: Re: Pirate Log from the 1980's
Post by: Andrew Yoder on August 10, 2019, 1244 UTC

Took a look at my logbook & I also heard the 7/30/84 Radio Sine Wave show & one of the 1/26/85 KROK shows. Thanks for posting. Good times!

Title: Re: Pirate Log from the 1980's
Post by: WWBR on September 25, 2019, 0153 UTC

WIMP was one pirate I logged frequently back then from Flint, MI. That really brought back some memories!

Title: Re: Pirate Log from the 1980's
Post by: bfrederi on April 27, 2021, 1646 UTC

I was never a big QSL collector, but I held on to this one I received from Radio Sine Wave for the Sept. 30, 1984 broadcast.  (At least I think that's a "9" for September. Others in this thread reference a July 30 bdcst.)

Several notable things about this QSL:

1. Dr Calculator was decades ahead of his time by using 8.5 inch x 11.0 inch printouts rather than postcards. It's just that HE printed them out instead of his listeners. :)

2. It's two-sided. The other side was funny as hell.

3. He made two comments that made me chuckle some 37 years later:

       - The note about my radio blowing up when somebody rings my doorbell was presumably in response to describing my antenna as a "random length of doorbell wire". I don't have a copy of my original reception report, but at the time I was renting the second floor of a duplex and running stealth, and that was my antenna.
       - On the reverse side he gave me "0" rating for "Plausibility", presumably for my antenna description among other things. My HFU signature composed just a few weeks ago describes one of my antennas as "implausibe". I guess some things never change, even after almost four decades.

4. Given the, um, UNIQUE presentation and format of the QSL, I've been wondering whatever became to Dr. Calculator.  I presume that he did not grow up to become a  ruthless PITA VP of Engineering at some start-up, nor a Senior Agile Evangelist for a giant social media company. At least I hope not.

QSL front:
(https://i.imgur.com/ju5o3tN.png)

QSL back:
(https://i.imgur.com/qhqeVOw.png)

Title: Re: Pirate Log from the 1980's
Post by: refmo on May 01, 2021, 0309 UTC

That is EXCELLENT, bfrederi!!  Thanks for sharing!

Title: Re: Pirate Log from the 1980's
Post by: ChrisSmolinski on May 08, 2021, 1810 UTC

I thought that QSL looked familiar...

(https://i.imgur.com/PcMXCTb.jpg)

Title: Re: Pirate Log from the 1980's
Post by: bfrederi on May 10, 2021, 0116 UTC

That is very cool! Interesting that the handwriting is different. I didn't really picture RSW being a multi-person operation.

I'd love to know what they ended up doing with their lives.   ???