{"id":21990,"date":"2016-10-31T06:58:35","date_gmt":"2016-10-31T10:58:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=21990"},"modified":"2016-10-31T06:58:35","modified_gmt":"2016-10-31T10:58:35","slug":"listen-for-halloween-pirate-radio-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/listen-for-halloween-pirate-radio-tonight\/","title":{"rendered":"Listen for Halloween pirate radio tonight!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Haloween-Pirate-Radio-e1414784149779.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-7809\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/Haloween-Pirate-Radio-1024x640.jpg\" alt=\"Haloween-Pirate-Radio\" width=\"640\" height=\"400\" \/><\/a>Halloween is typically the most active day of the year for shortwave pirates&#8230;so,<strong> here are t<strong>wo things you&#8217;ll want to do this Halloween (tonight):<\/strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>1. Hobby Broadcasting Blog<\/h2>\n<p><strong>Check out Andrew Yoder&#8217;s pirate radio blog<\/strong>\u00a0,the <a title=\"Check out the Hobby Broadcasting blog\" href=\"http:\/\/hobbybroadcasting.blogspot.com\" target=\"_blank\">Hobby Broadcasting blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-21991\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/HobbyBroadcastingBlog.jpg\" alt=\"hobbybroadcastingblog\" width=\"651\" height=\"277\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/HobbyBroadcastingBlog.jpg 651w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/HobbyBroadcastingBlog-300x128.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/HobbyBroadcastingBlog-624x266.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 651px) 100vw, 651px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Andrew is the author of the <a title=\"Review of the 2012 Pirate Radio Annual\" href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/review-of-the-2012-pirate-radio-annual\/\">Pirate Radio Annual<\/a>\u00a0and a guru on shortwave pirate radio. Andrew\u00a0has already logged some Halloween stations, as Halloween began last night in Universal Time.<\/p>\n<h2>2. HF Underground<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-21992\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/HFUnderground.jpg\" alt=\"hfunderground\" width=\"742\" height=\"253\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/HFUnderground.jpg 742w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/HFUnderground-300x102.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/HFUnderground-624x213.jpg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 742px) 100vw, 742px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Follow real-time pirate radio spots and loggings on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hfunderground.com\/board\/index.php\/board,3.0.html\" target=\"_blank\">the HF Underground\u00a0discussion forum<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>3. Listen!<\/h2>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-13568\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Crosley-Dial-BlackAndWhite-1024x390.jpg\" alt=\"Crosley-Dial-BlackAndWhite\" width=\"625\" height=\"238\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Crosley-Dial-BlackAndWhite-1024x390.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Crosley-Dial-BlackAndWhite-300x114.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Crosley-Dial-BlackAndWhite.jpg 1025w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 625px) 100vw, 625px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Listen for pirate radio stations today and throughout the weekend<\/strong>! \u00a0Turn on your radio anytime today, but especially around twilight and tune between 6,920 &#8211; 6,980 kHz. Pirates broadcast on both AM and SSB; you&#8217;re bound to hear a few. If you&#8217;re brand new to pirate radio listening,<a title=\"How To Tune In Pirate Radio Broadcasts on Shortwave\" href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/how-to-tune-in-pirate-radio-broadcasts-on-shortwave\/\"> you might read my pirate radio primer by clicking here<\/a>. I will be listening until late in the evening.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Happy Halloween to all!\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Speaking of pirates, don&#8217;t forget: the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/global-hf-pirate-weekend-and-the-2015-2016-pirate-radio-annual\/\">Global HF Pirate Radio Weekend is this weekend!<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Halloween is typically the most active day of the year for shortwave pirates&#8230;so, here are two things you&#8217;ll want to do this Halloween (tonight): 1. Hobby Broadcasting Blog Check out Andrew Yoder&#8217;s pirate radio blog\u00a0,the Hobby Broadcasting blog. Andrew is the author of the Pirate Radio Annual\u00a0and a guru on shortwave pirate radio. Andrew\u00a0has already [&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":[3,297,43,1167],"tags":[1307,2300,2316,2301,4092,2302],"class_list":["post-21990","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-pirate-radio","category-shortwave-radio","category-whats-on-shortwave","tag-andrew-yoder","tag-halloween","tag-hf-underground","tag-hobby-broadcasting-blog","tag-pirate-radio","tag-pirate-radio-annual"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-5IG","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11236,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/10\/halloween-pirate-radio\/","url_meta":{"origin":21990,"position":0},"title":"Halloween = Pirate Radio","author":"Thomas","date":"October 31, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Halloween is typically the most active day of the year for shortwave pirates...so, here are two things you'll want to do this Halloween (tonight): 1. 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