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On New Year’s Eve (December 31, 2013), while band scanning, I tuned to 6,955 kHz around 22:15 UTC, and heard a relatively strong pirate station.
For at least 51 minutes, this unidentified pirate played various percussion music, much of which sounded like recordings of live drum circles. I never heard an ID during the broadcast, nor did anyone on the HF Underground board.
I was travelling Saturday night, but had the foresight to set my WinRadio Excalibur to record the pirate spectrum. There were few pirates on the band--less than I would have expected to hear on a holiday weekend in the US--and some of them were plagued by a local broadcaster whose spurious…
The holidays are a great time to listen for pirates on the shortwave spectrum. Since many pirates are on holiday leave from their day jobs, they have a little more time to broadcast. Last night, the first pirate I heard was WKND on 9,625 kHz AM. His station was quite…
Though listening conditions were tough Saturday night, as we were wedged between two lines of thunderstorms (both of which were no more than 60 miles away) I did manage to capture North Woods Radio's full broadcast. This broadcast featured some noted drum solos. As you can hear for yourself, their AM signal…
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Very cool! I think I could listen to this for hours on end and I will. Thanks for sharing. I love hearing variety from pirate broadcasters rather than just AOR cuts
You’re quite welcome, Sean! I actually fell asleep listening to this recording last night. I include all of my pirate radio recordings on the Shortwave Radio Audio Archive, by the way. You can actually podcast and automatically download recordings (of which, pirate radio recordings represent perhaps 35% of the recordings).
On New Year’s Eve (December 31, 2013), while band scanning, I tuned to 6,955 kHz around 22:15 UTC, and heard a relatively strong pirate station.
Love listening to small pirate radios like this. You do not know what type of music or energy you will get.
Very cool! I think I could listen to this for hours on end and I will. Thanks for sharing. I love hearing variety from pirate broadcasters rather than just AOR cuts
You’re quite welcome, Sean! I actually fell asleep listening to this recording last night. I include all of my pirate radio recordings on the Shortwave Radio Audio Archive, by the way. You can actually podcast and automatically download recordings (of which, pirate radio recordings represent perhaps 35% of the recordings).
Check it out here:
http://shortwavearchive.com
Cheers,
Thomas