{"id":4516,"date":"2012-09-26T15:10:41","date_gmt":"2012-09-26T19:10:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=4516"},"modified":"2012-09-26T15:10:41","modified_gmt":"2012-09-26T19:10:41","slug":"pirate-radio-recordings-radio-appalachia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/pirate-radio-recordings-radio-appalachia\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirate Radio Recordings: Radio Appalachia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4356\" title=\"1-RadioListening2\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/1-RadioListening2-224x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/1-RadioListening2-224x300.jpg 224w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/1-RadioListening2-74x100.jpg 74w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/1-RadioListening2.jpg 245w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/>Radio Appalachia is the only pirate I&#8217;ve ever heard on the shortwaves which features bluegrass and gospel music. This recording was made Saturday night on 6.9349 MHz (AM).<\/p>\n<p>At 8:28 in the recording below, you&#8217;ll hear Radio Appalachia&#8217;s station ID :<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Radio Appalachia, you are listening to Radio Appalachia&#8230;the free voice of the Ohio Valley. Broadcasting from high above Moundsville, West Virginia, this is Radio Appalachia.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You then hear their signature Three Stooges audio sample and a repeat of the ID.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Download MP3 directly\" href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/RadioAppalachia22Sep2012\/RadioAppalachia-6.934866MHz-22092012.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to download the MP3<\/a>, or listen to the entire broadcast below:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/embed\/RadioAppalachia22Sep2012\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"500\" height=\"30\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Radio Appalachia is the only pirate I&#8217;ve ever heard on the shortwaves which features bluegrass and gospel music. This recording was made Saturday night on 6.9349 MHz (AM). At 8:28 in the recording below, you&#8217;ll hear Radio Appalachia&#8217;s station ID : &#8220;Radio Appalachia, you are listening to Radio Appalachia&#8230;the free voice of the Ohio Valley. [&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":[442,297,746],"tags":[4092,693,1377,985],"class_list":["post-4516","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-pirate-radio","category-recordings","tag-pirate-radio","tag-pirate-radio-recordings","tag-radio-appalachia","tag-shortwave-pirate-radio"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-1aQ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4681,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/pirate-radio-recordings-grizzly-bear-radio\/","url_meta":{"origin":4516,"position":0},"title":"Pirate Radio Recordings: Grizzly Bear Radio","author":"Thomas","date":"October 29, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"A few weeks ago, I found a pirate I had never heard before: Grizzly Bear Radio. They quickly nullified my claim that Radio Appalachia was the only pirate I knew of that broadcasts bluegrass music. According to Grizzly Bear, they transmit from the northwest US, so the fact that I\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Pirate Radio&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Pirate Radio","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/pirate-radio\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/1-RadioListening-300x193.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":4525,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/pirate-radio-recordings-wolverine-radio-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":4516,"position":1},"title":"Pirate Radio Recordings: Wolverine Radio","author":"Thomas","date":"September 27, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Wolverine Radio was yet another pirate station I recorded last Saturday night (along with Radio Ronin and Radio Appalachia). Wolverine Radio was broadcasting on 6.95 MHz in the upper side band. Their signal was very good and fidelity excellent for SSB. Lots of variety and a common \"radio\" theme throughout\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Pirate Radio&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Pirate Radio","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/pirate-radio\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/1-WolverineRadioSep222012-300x240.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":6217,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/pirate-radio-recordings-hard-tack-radio\/","url_meta":{"origin":4516,"position":2},"title":"Pirate Radio Recordings: Hardtack Radio","author":"Thomas","date":"April 14, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"For your listening pleasure: a 24 minute recording of the pirate radio station, Hardtack Radio. Hard Tack Radio plays US Civil War era songs \"celebrating the Blue and the Gray.\" I caught Hardtack's broadcast Friday night (April 12) around 23:10 UTC. Their upper side band signal was pretty strong and\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Pirate Radio&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Pirate Radio","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/pirate-radio\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"This Hard Tack Radio SSTV image can be decoded at the end of the broadcast.","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/HardTackRadioSSTVQSL-300x240.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":5534,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/pirate-radio-recordings-radio-gaga\/","url_meta":{"origin":4516,"position":3},"title":"Pirate Radio Recordings: Radio GaGa","author":"Thomas","date":"February 8, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"For your listening pleasure: 28 minutes of pirate radio fun, courtesy of Radio GaGa. Recorded on Saturday, February 2nd, 2013\u2013starting around 00:10 UTC\u2013on 6.925 MHz (USB). Click here to download the MP3 of the recording, or simply listen below: Standard Pirate Radio Disclaimer:\u00a0This is a recording of a real pirate\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Broadcasters&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Broadcasters","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/broadcasters\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"\"All we hear is Radio GaGa!\"","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":9419,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/pirate-radio-recordings-wolverine-radio-7\/","url_meta":{"origin":4516,"position":4},"title":"Pirate Radio Recordings: Wolverine Radio","author":"Thomas","date":"April 28, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"For your listening pleasure: 1 hour and 7 minutes of pirate radio station, Wolverine Radio\u2013recorded April 27, 2014 starting around 1:10 UTC. Wolverine was broadcasting on 6,945 kHz in the upper side band. Typical of Wolverine, lots of music variety which spans the decades and no commentary other than station\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Music&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Music","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/music\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"SSTV-28Apr2014-080706","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/SSTV-28Apr2014-080706.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":9248,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/pirate-radio-recordings-chairman-of-the-board-radio\/","url_meta":{"origin":4516,"position":5},"title":"Pirate Radio Recordings: Chairman of the Board Radio","author":"Thomas","date":"April 12, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"For your listening pleasure: a short 20 minute broadcast from the pirate radio station, Chairman of the Board Radio\u2013recorded Saturday, April 12, 2014 starting around 3:30 UTC. Chairman of the Board Radio\u00a0was broadcasting on 6,935 kHz in the upper side band. As you'll hear, the signal was quite strong, with\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Music&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Music","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/music\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Frank_Sinatra_laughing","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Frank_Sinatra_laughing-232x300.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4516","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4516\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}