{"id":44188,"date":"2020-07-07T08:53:27","date_gmt":"2020-07-07T12:53:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=44188"},"modified":"2020-07-07T08:53:27","modified_gmt":"2020-07-07T12:53:27","slug":"deke-duncan-of-radio-77-broadcasting-to-an-audience-of-one","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/deke-duncan-of-radio-77-broadcasting-to-an-audience-of-one\/","title":{"rendered":"Deke Duncan of Radio 77: Broadcasting to an audience of one"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_42313\" style=\"width: 810px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Pirate-Radio-Microphone-e1584225204331.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-42313\" class=\"size-full wp-image-42313\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/Pirate-Radio-Microphone-e1584225204331.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-42313\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo by Ben Koorengevel<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Many thanks to <em>SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Bill Hemphill (WD9EQD), who writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I\u2019ve just finished reading \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2020\/07\/radio-waves-sealands-caretakers-bitcoin-ham-radio-cw-training-and-50-years-ago-casey-kasem-started-at-40\/\">Sealand\u2019s Caretakers<\/a>\u201d. Very fascinating.<\/p>\n<p>In the article, they give a link to an article \u201cThis excerpt describes the fallout that came from a gang of international scam artists bootlegging Sealand passports.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This article is titled: <a href=\"https:\/\/narratively.com\/the-plot-against-the-principality-of-sealand\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">\u201cThe Plot Against the Principality of Sealand\u201d and is hosted on narratively.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s another fascinating article about Sealand and well worth the read.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/narratively.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Narratively.com<\/a> is a very interesting site with lots of well written articles. In perusing the site, I came across <a href=\"https:\/\/narratively.com\/the-dj-who-broadcast-to-one-listener-for-40-years\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">an article about Deke Duncan who ran Radio 77 from a backyard shed for an audience of one<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>At the end of the article, you can listen to the \u201cRadio 77\u201d episode of Snap Judgement by Jeff Maysh.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wnyc.org\/widgets\/ondemand_player\/wnycstudios\/#file=\/audio\/json\/1028692\/&amp;share=1\" width=\"100%\" height=\"54\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>BBC did a piece on it in 1974:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/c1nv6xA0jYw?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>It\u2019s a great story about someone\u2019s love of radio.<\/p>\n<p>For even more detail about Deke, check out this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-6448249\/Stockton-shed-DJ-Deke-Duncan-tells-JANE-FRYER-big-break-BBC-Radio.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">article<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Thank you so much for sharing this, Bill!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Bill Hemphill (WD9EQD), who writes: I\u2019ve just finished reading \u201cSealand\u2019s Caretakers\u201d. Very fascinating. In the article, they give a link to an article \u201cThis excerpt describes the fallout that came from a gang of international scam artists bootlegging Sealand passports.\u201d This article is titled: \u201cThe Plot Against the Principality [&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":[8,3,305],"tags":[6954,8651,8650],"class_list":["post-44188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-news","category-nostalgia","tag-bill-hemphill-wd9eqd","tag-deke-duncan","tag-radio-77"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-buI","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":49061,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2021\/05\/bbc-radio-stations-broadcasting-re-tune-instructions\/","url_meta":{"origin":44188,"position":0},"title":"BBC Radio Stations Broadcasting Re-Tune Instructions","author":"Thomas","date":"May 28, 2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Bill Hemphill (WD9EQD), who writes: Hi Thomas, The BBC in their transition to digital radio has started closing some of their AM radio stations. See following link: https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/reception\/work-warning\/news\/mw-closures-2021 The AM stations being closed are broadcasting \u201cRe-Tune\u201d instructions on their frequencies. 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