{"id":14305,"date":"2015-08-09T12:09:59","date_gmt":"2015-08-09T16:09:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=14305"},"modified":"2015-08-09T12:10:16","modified_gmt":"2015-08-09T16:10:16","slug":"radio-caroline-and-a-crystal-radio-the-making-of-a-rebel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/08\/radio-caroline-and-a-crystal-radio-the-making-of-a-rebel\/","title":{"rendered":"Radio Caroline and a crystal radio: “The making of a rebel”"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Radio<\/a>

Radio Caroline circa 1960’s.<\/p><\/div>\n

Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> reader Mike, who shares a link to this story\u00a0from the blog
\nR\u00e9publique No.6<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Growing up in Piennes Lorraine, Radio Caroline the making of a rebel<\/strong><\/p>\n

[A]t night with my younger brother we would listen to a \u201cpirate radio station\u201d on a boat that would put real good music on, crusing the international waters between England and France. He burst in laughter and told me: That\u2019s Radio Caroline\u201c. That was it. My brother and I would listen to that station nearly every night on an old \u201cgalena radio receiver\u201d with a huge antenna hidden in the attic built with copper wire we stole at the mine. I mean we didn\u2019t really steal it, it was everywhere. It was the wires used by miners to connect detonators to batteries when blowing new tunnels and locals were using it for all sorts of things, like holding parts in chicken coop to tie tomato or green bean plants to stakes and could be found everywhere.<\/p>\n

Actually at first we set the antenna in our bedroom but somehow it wasn\u2019t long enough not to mention mom who saw it and tore it down giving her an other excuse to punish us. So we decide it to place it in the attic where no one ever went.<\/p>\n

The most difficult part was going to the attic, there wasn\u2019t any stairs. We had to bring a ladder to the trap leading to it. Mom was watching us like a hawk, looking for any excuses to punish us.[…]<\/p>\n

Read the full story at\u00a0R\u00e9publique No.6.<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to SWLing Post reader Mike, who shares a link to this story\u00a0from the blog R\u00e9publique No.6: Growing up in Piennes Lorraine, Radio Caroline the making of a rebel [A]t night with my younger brother we would listen to a \u201cpirate radio station\u201d on a boat that would put real good music on, crusing […]<\/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":[373,56,3,305,297,288],"tags":[617,372,4052],"class_list":["post-14305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-am","category-broadcasters","category-news","category-nostalgia","category-pirate-radio","category-radio-history","tag-crystal-radio","tag-radio-caroline","tag-republique-no-6"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-3IJ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9109,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/happy-50th-radio-caroline\/","url_meta":{"origin":14305,"position":0},"title":"Happy 50th, Radio Caroline!","author":"Thomas","date":"March 28, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"I wish my schedule and travel funds would have allowed me to attend Offshore Radio Day 2014,\u00a0held in the Netherlands last week. 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