{"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_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"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). 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