{"id":4543,"date":"2012-10-01T10:57:54","date_gmt":"2012-10-01T14:57:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=4543"},"modified":"2012-10-01T10:57:54","modified_gmt":"2012-10-01T14:57:54","slug":"x-fm-qsl-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/x-fm-qsl-card\/","title":{"rendered":"X-FM QSL card"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just received the following QSL card from the shortwave pirate radio station, <a title=\"Pirate Radio Recordings: X-FM\" href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/pirate-radio-recordings-x-fm\/\">X-FM<\/a>:<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_4544\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><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<p>To hear the full X-FM broadcast associated with this QSL, <a title=\"Pirate Radio Recordings: X-FM\" href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/pirate-radio-recordings-x-fm\/\">check out our previous post<\/a> with recorded audio.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/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":[442,297,894,43],"tags":[4092,1389,248,4110,985,1369,1388],"class_list":["post-4543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-pirate-radio","category-qsl-gallery","category-shortwave-radio","tag-pirate-radio","tag-pirates","tag-qsl","tag-qsl-gallery","tag-shortwave-pirate-radio","tag-x-fm","tag-xfm"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-1bh","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":20102,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/a-great-pirate-qsl-card\/","url_meta":{"origin":4543,"position":0},"title":"A Great Pirate QSL Card!","author":"Robert Gulley","date":"July 19, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Here's a great example of a QSL report from Pirate Station X-FM Stereo Shortwave monitored Halloween 2015. Not only is it a beautiful card, Redhat (the Deejay) also included the playlist as a .txt attachment. As I recall he also made live announcements of who had left reception reports\/comments on\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;News&quot;","block_context":{"text":"News","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"XFM927","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/XFM927.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/XFM927.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/XFM927.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/XFM927.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":4450,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/pirate-radio-recordings-x-fm\/","url_meta":{"origin":4543,"position":1},"title":"Pirate Radio Recordings: X-FM","author":"Thomas","date":"September 17, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Listening conditions Saturday night were \u00a0pretty good--we had clear skies and \u00a0though propagation wasn'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--hear for yourself: PLEASE\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\/2011\/07\/RadioListening-300x190.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":7632,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/radio-paisano-qsl\/","url_meta":{"origin":4543,"position":2},"title":"Radio Paisano QSL","author":"Thomas","date":"October 19, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Last week, I listened to and recorded the pirate radio station,\u00a0Radio Paisano. Three days ago, I received this message along with a QSL card: Radio Paisano is a novelty shortwave pirate station that celebrates Columbus Day, and features the music of Lou Monte and the comedy of Pat Cooper. This\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Pirate Radio&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Pirate Radio","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/pirate-radio\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"2013PaisanoQSL-Witherspoon112","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/2013PaisanoQSL-Witherspoon112.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/2013PaisanoQSL-Witherspoon112.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/2013PaisanoQSL-Witherspoon112.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/2013PaisanoQSL-Witherspoon112.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":7445,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/the-secret-sound-borderhunter-qsl\/","url_meta":{"origin":4543,"position":3},"title":"The Secret Sound: Borderhunter QSL","author":"Thomas","date":"October 1, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to Europirate Borderhunter for this QSL. It's not often that I can hear a pirate across the Atlantic so very well.\u00a0Click here for the original recording of this broadcast.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Pirate Radio&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Pirate Radio","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/pirate-radio\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Radio_Borderhunter_qsl_thomas_witherspoon-X","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Radio_Borderhunter_qsl_thomas_witherspoon-X.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Radio_Borderhunter_qsl_thomas_witherspoon-X.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Radio_Borderhunter_qsl_thomas_witherspoon-X.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Radio_Borderhunter_qsl_thomas_witherspoon-X.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Radio_Borderhunter_qsl_thomas_witherspoon-X.jpg?resize=1050%2C600 3x"},"classes":[]},{"id":13050,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/radio-casablanca-qsl-card\/","url_meta":{"origin":4543,"position":4},"title":"Radio Casablanca QSL card","author":"Thomas","date":"April 25, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm very pleased to have just received a QSL card for the Radio Casablanca broadcast I heard last week. If you missed\u00a0the show, click here to listen to my off air recording. This recording was also uploaded to the Shortwave Radio Audio Archive; if you subscribe to the archive as\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;News&quot;","block_context":{"text":"News","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Radio Casablanca QSL Card","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Thomas-Witherspoon-04172015.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Thomas-Witherspoon-04172015.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Thomas-Witherspoon-04172015.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":42724,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2020\/04\/check-out-this-amazing-qsl-and-off-air-audio-from-shortwave-pirate-the-purple-nucleus-of-creation\/","url_meta":{"origin":4543,"position":5},"title":"Check out this amazing QSL and off-air audio from shortwave pirate &#8220;The Purple Nucleus of Creation&#8221;","author":"Thomas","date":"April 8, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"This morning, I uploaded a recording of 2001 shortwave pirate The Purple Nucleus of Creation to the Shortwave Radio Audio Archive (SRAA). The recording was submitted by Adam C. Smith, a regular over at the SRAA. Adam's six minute off-air recording was made on October 27, 2001 at\u00a0 0009UTC on\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;News&quot;","block_context":{"text":"News","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Purple-QSL-6-1024x1024.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Purple-QSL-6-1024x1024.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/04\/Purple-QSL-6-1024x1024.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x"},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4543","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=4543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}