{"id":4450,"date":"2012-09-17T20:02:03","date_gmt":"2012-09-18T00:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=4450"},"modified":"2012-10-01T11:00:39","modified_gmt":"2012-10-01T15:00:39","slug":"pirate-radio-recordings-x-fm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/pirate-radio-recordings-x-fm\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirate Radio Recordings: X-FM"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/RadioListening.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-1330\" title=\"RadioListening\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/RadioListening-300x190.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"190\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/RadioListening-300x190.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/RadioListening.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Listening conditions Saturday night were \u00a0pretty good&#8211;we had clear skies and \u00a0though propagation wasn&#8217;t excellent, I did manage to record a full broadcast (over 3 hours) of X-FM.<\/p>\n<p>X-FM typically features a wide variety of music spanning trance\/electronica to varieties of rock\/metal. This broadcast was no exception&#8211;<a title=\"Download the MP3 directly\" href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/X-fm6.925KhzSep172012ShortwaveRadioPirateStation\/X-FM-6.925MHz-091712.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">hear for yourself<\/a>:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/embed\/X-fm6.925KhzSep172012ShortwaveRadioPirateStation\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"500\" height=\"30\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>PLEASE NOTE: While most of the music in this broadcast is perfectly safe,<em> parents should note that some songs contain explicit lyrics<\/em>. If you&#8217;re easily offended, you might want to slowly back away. \u00a0After all, this is pirate radio!<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE: Check out the QSL card I received for this broadcast:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4544\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/X-FM269-QSL.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4544\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4544\" title=\"X-FM269-QSL\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/X-FM269-QSL-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/X-FM269-QSL-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/X-FM269-QSL-100x75.jpg 100w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/X-FM269-QSL.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4544\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Listening conditions Saturday night were \u00a0pretty good&#8211;we had clear skies and \u00a0though propagation wasn&#8217;t excellent, I did manage to record a full broadcast (over 3 hours) of X-FM. X-FM typically features a wide variety of music spanning trance\/electronica to varieties of rock\/metal. This broadcast was no exception&#8211;hear for yourself: PLEASE NOTE: While most of the [&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":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[297,746],"tags":[4092,693,985,1310,1369,1370,1371],"class_list":["post-4450","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pirate-radio","category-recordings","tag-pirate-radio","tag-pirate-radio-recordings","tag-shortwave-pirate-radio","tag-shortwave-pirates","tag-x-fm","tag-x-fm-pirate-radio","tag-x-fm-pirate-radio-recordings"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-19M","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5861,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/pirate-radio-recordings-x-fm-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":4450,"position":0},"title":"Pirate Radio Recordings: X-FM","author":"Thomas","date":"March 9, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"For your listening pleasure: three hours of the pirate radio station X-FM. This broadcast was recorded this morning, starting around 2:00 UTC, on 6,950 kHz AM. X-FM can even be received in C-Quam stereo--something I have yet to try. This is a 10 year anniversary broadcast of X-FM and has\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Pirate Radio&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Pirate Radio","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/pirate-radio\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"\"Turn up the radio, I hear Stereophonics!\"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/RadioListeningFamily-300x221.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":4543,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/x-fm-qsl-card\/","url_meta":{"origin":4450,"position":1},"title":"X-FM QSL card","author":"Thomas","date":"October 1, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"I just received the following QSL card from the shortwave pirate radio station, X-FM: To hear the full X-FM broadcast associated with this QSL, check out our previous post with recorded audio.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Music&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Music","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/music\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/X-FM269-QSL-300x225.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":5117,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/pirate-radio-recordings-liquid-radio\/","url_meta":{"origin":4450,"position":2},"title":"Pirate Radio Recordings: Liquid Radio","author":"Thomas","date":"December 21, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Last weekend, I also managed to record the shortwave radio pirate known as Liquid Radio--perhaps best known for their activity on the FM spectrum and on the web. Liquid Radio's\u00a0format couldn't be more different than our last pirate recording from Radio Casablanca;\u00a0Liquid Radio plays a trance\/techno\/dance mix. Their last broadcast\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Broadcasters&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Broadcasters","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/broadcasters\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"LiquidRadio","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/LiquidRadio-e1356133276497.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":8912,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/make-a-raspberry-pirate-radio\/","url_meta":{"origin":4450,"position":3},"title":"Make a Raspberry Pirate Radio","author":"Thomas","date":"March 7, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post reader, Paul, for this article on Make Magazine that teaches you how to turn your Raspberry Pi\u00a0into an FM transmitter. Make Magazine states that this FM transmitter\u00a0\"has enough range to cover your home, DIY drive-in movie, a high school ball game, or\u00a0even a bike parade\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;How To&quot;","block_context":{"text":"How To","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/how-to\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Sorry, I just couldn't resist the urge to make a pirate graphic.","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Raspberry-Pirate.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Raspberry-Pirate.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Raspberry-Pirate.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":5529,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/pirate-radio-recordings-rave-on-radio\/","url_meta":{"origin":4450,"position":4},"title":"Pirate Radio Recordings: Rave On Radio","author":"Thomas","date":"February 4, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"While Rave On Radio's upper side band signal was\u00a0fairly\u00a0weak, at least in my part of the world, on\u00a0Friday night, I managed to record it just the same. \u00a0The broadcast started around 23:15 UTC (February 1st) on 6,925 kHz. I believe I recorded the entire broadcast; if not, I at least\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Broadcasters&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Broadcasters","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/broadcasters\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"1-RadioListening2","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/1-RadioListening2-224x300.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":5697,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/pirate-radio-recordings-wmpr\/","url_meta":{"origin":4450,"position":5},"title":"Pirate Radio Recordings: WMPR","author":"Thomas","date":"February 20, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"For your listening pleasure: 32 minutes of pirate radio station, WMPR. I recorded this broadcast of WMPR on 6.925MHz AM on February 17th, 2013 at 10:00 UTC. 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