{"id":50667,"date":"2021-10-29T12:00:54","date_gmt":"2021-10-29T16:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=50667"},"modified":"2021-10-28T11:01:02","modified_gmt":"2021-10-28T15:01:02","slug":"halloween-weekend-will-offer-up-excellent-sw-pirate-listening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2021\/10\/halloween-weekend-will-offer-up-excellent-sw-pirate-listening\/","title":{"rendered":"Halloween weekend will offer up excellent SW pirate listening!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Halloween is typically the most active day of the year for shortwave pirates. This year, Halloween falls on Sunday, October 31st which essentially opens up a Friday through Sunday Halloween Piratefest. Expect pirates to emerge like The Great Pumpkin!<\/p>\n

Here are two things you’ll want to do this Halloween weekend:<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

HF Underground<\/h1>\n

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Follow real-time pirate radio spots and loggings on the HF Underground\u00a0discussion forum<\/a>. Chris Smolinski at HFU typically posts post-Halloween pirate stats<\/a> on the SWLing Post<\/em> as well–always a fascinating overview.<\/p>\n

You might also venture over to Andrew Yoder’s pirate radio blog, the Hobby Broadcasting blog<\/a>. Although he doesn’t log frequently, he usually makes time on Halloween (no pressure, Andy! Ha ha!)<\/p>\n

Listen!<\/h1>\n
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Photo by Bill Patalon<\/p><\/div>\n

Listen for pirate radio stations today and throughout the weekend<\/strong>! \u00a0Turn on your radio anytime today, but especially around twilight and tune between 6,920 – 6,980 kHz. Pirates broadcast on both AM and SSB; you’re bound to hear a few. If you’re brand new to pirate radio listening, you might read my pirate radio primer by clicking here<\/a>. I will be listening until late in the evening.<\/p>\n

Happy Halloween to all!\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Halloween is typically the most active day of the year for shortwave pirates. This year, Halloween falls on Sunday, October 31st which essentially opens up a Friday through Sunday Halloween Piratefest. Expect pirates to emerge like The Great Pumpkin! Here are two things you’ll want to do this Halloween weekend: HF Underground Follow real-time pirate […]<\/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":[2300,2314],"class_list":["post-50667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-pirate-radio","category-shortwave-radio","tag-halloween","tag-pirate-radio-halloween"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-dbd","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":28945,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/10\/listen-for-halloween-pirate-radio-this-weekend-and-tuesday-night\/","url_meta":{"origin":50667,"position":0},"title":"Listen for Halloween pirate radio this weekend and Tuesday night","author":"Thomas","date":"October 28, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"Halloween is typically the most active day of the year for shortwave pirates. 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