{"id":47689,"date":"2021-02-08T08:31:41","date_gmt":"2021-02-08T12:31:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=47689"},"modified":"2021-02-08T08:31:41","modified_gmt":"2021-02-08T12:31:41","slug":"chris-analyzes-hf-pirate-radio-activity-from-2017-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/chris-analyzes-hf-pirate-radio-activity-from-2017-2020\/","title":{"rendered":"Chris analyzes HF pirate radio activity from 2017-2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/ew4JzFp.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-47690\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/ew4JzFp.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"329\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/ew4JzFp.png 500w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/ew4JzFp-300x197.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Many thanks to <em>SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Chris Smolinski, who shares annual pirate radio activity reports he has recently published on his blog. Chris notes that, due to time constraints, he hasn&#8217;t been able to publish these for a while, but recently posted reports from 2017-2020.<\/p>\n<p>Click the year to read each report on RadioHobbyist.org:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.radiohobbyist.org\/blog\/?p=2747\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2017<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.radiohobbyist.org\/blog\/?p=2751\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2018<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.radiohobbyist.org\/blog\/?p=2755\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2019<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.radiohobbyist.org\/blog\/?p=2757\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2020<\/a><\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Thanks, Chris! I love these insights and find it fascinating to see similarities in activity from year-to-year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Chris Smolinski, who shares annual pirate radio activity reports he has recently published on his blog. Chris notes that, due to time constraints, he hasn&#8217;t been able to publish these for a while, but recently posted reports from 2017-2020. Click the year to read each report on RadioHobbyist.org: 2017 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[3,297,43],"tags":[2315,4092,1310],"class_list":["post-47689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-pirate-radio","category-shortwave-radio","tag-chris-smolinski","tag-pirate-radio","tag-shortwave-pirates"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-cpb","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":11908,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/01\/chris-reviews-hf-pirate-radio-activity-in-2014\/","url_meta":{"origin":47689,"position":0},"title":"Chris reviews HF pirate radio activity in 2014","author":"Thomas","date":"January 2, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Chris Smolinski has just posted an amazing overview of 2014 pirate radio activity. 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At one point Monday evening, I noted no less than five pirate radio stations broadcasting simultaneously between 6910 - 7000\u00a0kHz. You can see the four SSB and one AM signal in the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;News&quot;","block_context":{"text":"News","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"excalibur-screen-grab","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Excalibur-Screen-Grab.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Excalibur-Screen-Grab.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Excalibur-Screen-Grab.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Excalibur-Screen-Grab.jpg?resize=700%2C400 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":15396,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/11\/halloween-2015-chris-charts-pirate-radio-activity\/","url_meta":{"origin":47689,"position":3},"title":"Halloween 2015: Chris charts pirate radio activity","author":"Thomas","date":"November 2, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to Chris Smolinski, from the HF Underground,\u00a0who has crunched some numbers from North American pirate radio loggings on Halloween. 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