{"id":5032,"date":"2012-12-13T07:18:14","date_gmt":"2012-12-13T11:18:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=5032"},"modified":"2012-12-14T07:30:09","modified_gmt":"2012-12-14T11:30:09","slug":"pirate-radio-recordings-true-classic-rock-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/pirate-radio-recordings-true-classic-rock-radio\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirate Radio Recordings: True Classic Rock Radio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5033\" title=\"jimi-hendrix-foxy-lady\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/jimi-hendrix-foxy-lady.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"279\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/jimi-hendrix-foxy-lady.jpg 280w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/jimi-hendrix-foxy-lady-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/jimi-hendrix-foxy-lady-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/>Last weekend, I caught a shortwave pirate I&#8217;d never heard before: True Classic Rock Radio.<\/p>\n<p>Well, at least I&#8217;m pretty confident that&#8217;s their name. When I first heard their ID I couldn&#8217;t confirm it, but when I passed the clip to my buddy Andrew, he nailed it.<\/p>\n<p>Funny thing is, when I go back and listen to the station ID now (check it out around 17:30, and then again at the end of transmission) it sounds so obvious.<\/p>\n<p>This short broadcast includes some great classic rock and ends with Hendrix. I didn&#8217;t note the exact time they began to broadcast, but I heard them on between 3:00-4:00 UTC, on\u00a06,925 kHz AM,\u00a0December 8, 2012.\u00a0<a title=\"Download the MP3 recording\" href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/UnidPirateRadioStation-6925KhzAm-08dec12\/UNID-6.925MHz-09Dec12.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">Click here<\/a> to download the mp3 directly, or listen through our Archive.org player:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/embed\/UnidPirateRadioStation-6925KhzAm-08dec12\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"500\" height=\"30\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last weekend, I caught a shortwave pirate I&#8217;d never heard before: True Classic Rock Radio. Well, at least I&#8217;m pretty confident that&#8217;s their name. When I first heard their ID I couldn&#8217;t confirm it, but when I passed the clip to my buddy Andrew, he nailed it. Funny thing is, when I go back and [&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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[442,297,746],"tags":[693,1389,985,1310,1526],"class_list":["post-5032","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-pirate-radio","category-recordings","tag-pirate-radio-recordings","tag-pirates","tag-shortwave-pirate-radio","tag-shortwave-pirates","tag-true-classic-rock-radio"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-1ja","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4492,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/pirate-radio-recordings-radio-ronin-shortwave\/","url_meta":{"origin":5032,"position":0},"title":"Pirate Radio Recordings: Radio Ronin Shortwave","author":"Thomas","date":"September 24, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Saturday night was one of the most active nights for pirate radio I've heard in some time. 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