{"id":36345,"date":"2019-03-17T08:44:26","date_gmt":"2019-03-17T12:44:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=36345"},"modified":"2019-03-17T08:44:26","modified_gmt":"2019-03-17T12:44:26","slug":"radio-mi-amigo-to-go-offshore-may-30-june-2-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2019\/03\/radio-mi-amigo-to-go-offshore-may-30-june-2-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Radio Mi Amigo to go offshore May 30 &#8211; June 2, 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Mi-Amigo-e1513164426633.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-large wp-image-29635\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/Mi-Amigo-1024x643.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"625\" height=\"392\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(Source: Southgate ARC via Mike Hansgen)<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<h1>Radio Mi Amigo to go offshore 30 May to 2 June<\/h1>\n<p>Five years after their success with\u00a0 <strong>Mi Amigo 40<\/strong>\u00a0in Ostend, the Mi Amigo team set their sails for the beautiful Belgian seaside resort of\u00a0\u00a0 Blankenberge, to organise a week of transmissions,\u00a0&#8220;live from the ship CASTOR&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>This will happen from Thursday 30 May to Sunday 2 June during the Blankenberg Havenfeesten&#8221;MI AMIGO 45&#8243;.<\/p>\n<p>The Mi Amigo40 ship being used in 2019 is the\u00a0 Castor,\u00a0 an identical sister ship of Radio Caroline&#8217;s Ross Revenge tender,\u00a0 &#8216;Bellatrix&#8217; and of the Greenpeace ship the &#8216;Sirius&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>Details here:\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/worldofradio.co.uk\/MiAmigo.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">https:\/\/worldofradio.co.uk\/MiAmigo.html<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(Source: Southgate ARC via Mike Hansgen) Radio Mi Amigo to go offshore 30 May to 2 June Five years after their success with\u00a0 Mi Amigo 40\u00a0in Ostend, the Mi Amigo team set their sails for the beautiful Belgian seaside resort of\u00a0\u00a0 Blankenberge, to organise a week of transmissions,\u00a0&#8220;live from the ship CASTOR&#8221;. This will happen [&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":[433,442,3,297],"tags":[4092,3709,580],"class_list":["post-36345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mediumwave","category-music","category-news","category-pirate-radio","tag-pirate-radio","tag-radio-mi-amigo","tag-southgate-arc"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-9sd","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9109,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/happy-50th-radio-caroline\/","url_meta":{"origin":36345,"position":0},"title":"Happy 50th, Radio Caroline!","author":"Thomas","date":"March 28, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"I wish my schedule and travel funds would have allowed me to attend Offshore Radio Day 2014,\u00a0held in the Netherlands last week. 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