{"id":11908,"date":"2015-01-02T08:22:47","date_gmt":"2015-01-02T12:22:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=11908"},"modified":"2015-01-02T08:22:47","modified_gmt":"2015-01-02T12:22:47","slug":"chris-reviews-hf-pirate-radio-activity-in-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/chris-reviews-hf-pirate-radio-activity-in-2014\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris reviews HF pirate radio activity in 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"pirate_radio_transmissions_per_month_2014\"<\/a>Chris Smolinski has just posted an amazing overview of 2014 pirate radio activity. His post includes statistics based on loggings from the HF Underground discussion forum<\/a>. This is the most comprehensive analysis of\u00a0pirate radio activity I’ve ever seen. I can only imagine how much time Chris spent putting all of this together (and creating the script that parsed the loggings).<\/p>\n

Click here to view Chris’ post,\u00a0Shortwave Pirate Radio 2014 \u2013 A Year In Review<\/em><\/a>, at the HF Underground.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Chris Smolinski has just posted an amazing overview of 2014 pirate radio activity. His post includes statistics based on loggings from the HF Underground discussion forum. This is the most comprehensive analysis of\u00a0pirate radio activity I’ve ever seen. I can only imagine how much time Chris spent putting all of this together (and creating the […]<\/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":[3,297,1167],"tags":[2315,2316,4092,2111],"class_list":["post-11908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-pirate-radio","category-whats-on-shortwave","tag-chris-smolinski","tag-hf-underground","tag-pirate-radio","tag-pirate-radio-frequencies"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-364","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":15396,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/halloween-2015-chris-charts-pirate-radio-activity\/","url_meta":{"origin":11908,"position":0},"title":"Halloween 2015: Chris charts pirate radio activity","author":"Thomas","date":"November 2, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to Chris Smolinski, from the HF Underground,\u00a0who has crunched some numbers from North American pirate radio loggings on Halloween. 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