{"id":10176,"date":"2014-07-04T08:34:26","date_gmt":"2014-07-04T12:34:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=10176"},"modified":"2014-07-04T08:34:26","modified_gmt":"2014-07-04T12:34:26","slug":"pirate-radio-recordings-the-crystal-ship-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/pirate-radio-recordings-the-crystal-ship-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirate Radio Recordings: The Crystal Ship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Radio_Revolution.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-10177\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Radio_Revolution-300x225.png\" alt=\"Radio_Revolution\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Radio_Revolution-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Radio_Revolution-100x75.png 100w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/Radio_Revolution.png 380w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>For your listening pleasure: one hour, forty two minutes of the pirate radio station, <em>The Crystal Ship<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Last night, TCS broadcast on\u00a06,876 kHz (via \u00a0the <em>TCS Shortwave Relay Network<\/em>) starting around 2:05 UTC on July 4th, 2014.<\/p>\n<p>TCS played a wide variety of patriotic songs honoring <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Independence_Day_(United_States)\" target=\"_blank\">Independence Day<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>TCS&#8217; AM signal was strong enough that it could still be easily heard over the higher-than-normal noise level. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hurricane_Arthur_(2014)\" target=\"_blank\">Hurricane Arthur<\/a>&#8211;which was approaching the coasts of North and South Carolina at time of recording&#8211;generated static crashes and noise in excess of S4 on my receiver&#8217;s meter. Fortunately, the WinRadio Excalibur&#8217;s sync detector helped mitigate some of that noise.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/download\/TCS6.87MHz4JUL140205Z\/TCS-6.87MHz-4JUL14-0205Z.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to download the full recording of The Crystal Ship<\/a>, or simply listen via the embedded player below:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/embed\/TCS6.87MHz4JUL140205Z\" width=\"500\" height=\"30\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For your listening pleasure: one hour, forty two minutes of the pirate radio station, The Crystal Ship. Last night, TCS broadcast on\u00a06,876 kHz (via \u00a0the TCS Shortwave Relay Network) starting around 2:05 UTC on July 4th, 2014. TCS played a wide variety of patriotic songs honoring Independence Day. TCS&#8217; AM signal was strong enough that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3,297,746,43],"tags":[4092,4118,4106,1310,3088,1771],"class_list":["post-10176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-pirate-radio","category-recordings","category-shortwave-radio","tag-pirate-radio","tag-podcast","tag-recordings","tag-shortwave-pirates","tag-tcs","tag-the-crystal-ship"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-2E8","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5917,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/pirate-radio-recordings-the-crystal-ship\/","url_meta":{"origin":10176,"position":0},"title":"Pirate Radio Recordings: The Crystal Ship","author":"Thomas","date":"March 15, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Looking through some of my archived recordings from the past month, I found this broadcast from The Crystal Ship,\u00a0on the TCS Relay Network. 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