{"id":24726,"date":"2017-03-18T20:37:25","date_gmt":"2017-03-19T00:37:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=24726"},"modified":"2017-03-18T20:37:25","modified_gmt":"2017-03-19T00:37:25","slug":"pirates-playing-chuck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/pirates-playing-chuck\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirates playing Chuck"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Chuck Berry (1926-2017)<\/p><\/div>\n

If you’re a fan of rock’n’roll, you no doubt heard the sad news of Chuck Berry’s passing today<\/a>\u00a0after 90 years at full throttle.<\/p>\n

Many thanks to SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Mike Hansgen (K8RAT), who notes that a number of pirate stations have been playing Chuck Berry tributes tonight; these will, no doubt, continue into tomorrow night, as well.<\/p>\n

Mike’s message prompted me to trigger a spectrum recording, as I’m currently on the road. I’ll pull out a portable tonight and listen live, but it’ll be nice to catch up with Chuck later as I play back my spectrum recordings. (This is why I love SDRs.)<\/p>\n

Many thanks to the pirates who are paying tribute to the legend.<\/p>\n

Rest in peace, Chuck. A toast to the grandfather of rock’n’roll.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Mike Hansgen (K8RAT), who notes that a number of pirate stations have been playing Chuck Berry tributes tonight; these will, no doubt, continue into tomorrow night, […]<\/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":[442,3,297,43,1167],"tags":[6038,4092,985,1310],"class_list":["post-24726","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-news","category-pirate-radio","category-shortwave-radio","category-whats-on-shortwave","tag-chuck-berry","tag-pirate-radio","tag-shortwave-pirate-radio","tag-shortwave-pirates"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-6qO","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":22027,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/11\/chris-summary-of-halloween-pirate-radio-activity\/","url_meta":{"origin":24726,"position":0},"title":"Chris’ summary of Halloween pirate radio activity","author":"Thomas","date":"November 2, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"I had hoped this Halloween weekend would bring out a lot of shortwave pirates and it surely did! 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