{"id":22027,"date":"2016-11-02T14:38:27","date_gmt":"2016-11-02T18:38:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=22027"},"modified":"2016-11-02T14:38:27","modified_gmt":"2016-11-02T18:38:27","slug":"chris-summary-of-halloween-pirate-radio-activity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/chris-summary-of-halloween-pirate-radio-activity\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris’ summary of Halloween pirate radio activity"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I had hoped this Halloween weekend would bring out a lot of shortwave pirates and it surely did! At one point Monday evening, I noted no less than five<\/em> pirate radio stations broadcasting simultaneously between 6910 – 7000\u00a0kHz. You can see the four SSB and one AM signal in the spectrum display above.<\/p>\n

Chris Smolinski, once again, has posted a Summary of Halloween 2016 Shortwave Pirate Radio Activity in North America<\/a>\u00a0where he lists all of the pirates logged on the HF Underground<\/a> for the full weekend. Check out the post on RadioHobbyist.org<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I was busy with family activities much of the weekend, but fortunately captured a lot of pirate spectrum to review and listen to later!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I had hoped this Halloween weekend would bring out a lot of shortwave pirates and it surely did! At one point Monday evening, I noted no less than five pirate radio stations broadcasting simultaneously between 6910 – 7000\u00a0kHz. You can see the four SSB and one AM signal in the spectrum display above. Chris Smolinski, […]<\/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":[2315,4092,2314,1310],"class_list":["post-22027","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-pirate-radio","category-shortwave-radio","category-whats-on-shortwave","tag-chris-smolinski","tag-pirate-radio","tag-pirate-radio-halloween","tag-shortwave-pirates"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-5Jh","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7806,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/halloween-was-a-very-active-night-for-pirate-radio\/","url_meta":{"origin":22027,"position":0},"title":"Halloween was a very active night for pirate radio","author":"Thomas","date":"November 2, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"You might remember my post from last week saying that Halloween is a pirate radio holiday?\u00a0Chris Smolinski from the HF Underground has\u00a0crunched some numbers from North American\u00a0pirate radio loggings on Halloween. 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