{"id":18373,"date":"2016-04-19T09:59:51","date_gmt":"2016-04-19T13:59:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=18373"},"modified":"2016-04-19T09:59:51","modified_gmt":"2016-04-19T13:59:51","slug":"pirate-radio-recordings-radio-casablanca-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/pirate-radio-recordings-radio-casablanca-4\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirate Radio Recordings: Radio Casablanca"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Poster<\/a><\/p>\n

Last\u00a0night at about 00:10 UTC, I was pleased to hear the interval signal of one of my favorite pirate radio stations: Radio Casablanca<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

\u201cRick Blaine\u201d fired up his AM transmitter and pumped out some amazing WWII era music on 6,940 kHz for about one hour and a half. Radio Casablanca only pops up a few times a year, so I always feel fortunate to grab the broadcast\u00a0(click here to listen to previous recordings<\/a>).<\/p>\n

Signal strength varied over the course of the broadcast and the bands were quite noisy–still, the Casablanca signal punched through quite well at times.<\/p>\n

Close your eyes and imagine what it must have been like to hear the great bands of the era over the shortwaves\u2026<\/p>\n

Click here to download an MP3 of the full recording<\/a>, or simply listen via the embedded player below. Note that the interval signal starts around 01:25:<\/p>\nhttps:\/\/archive.org\/download\/RadioCasablanca6.94MHz19APRIL2016\/RadioCasablanca-6.94MHz-19APRIL2016-.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n

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Last\u00a0night at about 00:10 UTC, I was pleased to hear the interval signal of one of my favorite pirate radio stations: Radio Casablanca. \u201cRick Blaine\u201d fired up his AM transmitter and pumped out some amazing WWII era music on 6,940 kHz for about one hour and a half. Radio Casablanca only pops up a few […]<\/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":[3,297,746,43,1167],"tags":[4092,1389,1538,4106,1310],"class_list":["post-18373","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-pirate-radio","category-recordings","category-shortwave-radio","category-whats-on-shortwave","tag-pirate-radio","tag-pirates","tag-radio-casablanca","tag-recordings","tag-shortwave-pirates"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-4Ml","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13018,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/pirate-radio-recordings-rado-casablanca\/","url_meta":{"origin":18373,"position":0},"title":"Pirate Radio Recordings: Radio Casablanca","author":"Thomas","date":"April 19, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Thursday night at 00:00 UTC, I was pleased to hear the interval signal of one of my favorite pirate radio stations: Radio Casablanca. \"Rick Blaine\" fired up his AM transmitter and pumped out some amazing WWII era music on 6,940 kHz for well over one hour and a half. 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