{"id":15343,"date":"2015-10-30T08:40:24","date_gmt":"2015-10-30T12:40:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=15343"},"modified":"2015-10-30T08:34:21","modified_gmt":"2015-10-30T12:34:21","slug":"tune-in-halloween-weekend-is-a-pirate-radio-playground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/10\/tune-in-halloween-weekend-is-a-pirate-radio-playground\/","title":{"rendered":"Tune in: Halloween weekend is a pirate radio playground!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Haloween-Pirate-Radio\"<\/a><\/p>\n

Halloween is typically the most active day of the year for shortwave pirates…so, here are three\u00a0things you’ll want to do this Halloween:<\/strong>
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  1. Listen for pirate radio stations this weekend<\/strong>! \u00a0Turn on your radio anytime this weekend, but especially around twilight and tune between 6,800 – 6,990 kHz. Pirates broadcast on both AM and SSB; you’re bound to hear a few. For a comprehensive primer on pirate radio listening, check out this post<\/a>.<\/li>\n
  2. Note what pirate stations are being logged–in real time<\/em>–on the HF Underground<\/a><\/strong> pirate radio forum.\u00a0This is a very active community of pirate radio listeners; I often check the latest loggings to discover frequencies where stations have surfaced. Click here to view the HF Underground pirate radio forum<\/a>. Posting to the forum requires registration and approval by the moderator<\/a> (so do this in advance!).<\/li>\n
  3. Check out Andrew Yoder’s pirate radio blog<\/strong> with its deceptively simple title, the Hobby Broadcasting blog<\/a>. Andrew is the author of the Pirate Radio Annual<\/a>\u00a0and a guru on shortwave pirate radio. He’s already logged a few mid-week, pre-Halloween pirates. Bookmark his site while you’re at it!<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Happy Halloween to all!\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Halloween is typically the most active day of the year for shortwave pirates…so, here are three\u00a0things you’ll want to do this Halloween: Listen for pirate radio stations this weekend! \u00a0Turn on your radio anytime this weekend, but especially around twilight and tune between 6,800 – 6,990 kHz. Pirates broadcast on both AM and SSB; you’re […]<\/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":[3,297,43],"tags":[1307,2315,2300,2316,2301,4092,2302,2314,1310],"class_list":["post-15343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-pirate-radio","category-shortwave-radio","tag-andrew-yoder","tag-chris-smolinski","tag-halloween","tag-hf-underground","tag-hobby-broadcasting-blog","tag-pirate-radio","tag-pirate-radio-annual","tag-pirate-radio-halloween","tag-shortwave-pirates"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-3Zt","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":40405,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/halloween-a-playground-for-shortwave-pirates\/","url_meta":{"origin":15343,"position":0},"title":"Halloween: A playground for shortwave pirates!","author":"Thomas","date":"October 30, 2019","format":false,"excerpt":"Halloween is typically the most active day of the year for shortwave pirates. 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