{"id":5226,"date":"2012-12-24T10:31:59","date_gmt":"2012-12-24T14:31:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=5226"},"modified":"2012-12-24T10:31:59","modified_gmt":"2012-12-24T14:31:59","slug":"pirate-radio-recordings-wknd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/pirate-radio-recordings-wknd\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirate Radio Recordings: WKND"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4356\" style=\"width: 255px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4356\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4356\" alt=\"1-RadioListening2\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/1-RadioListening2.jpg\" width=\"245\" height=\"328\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/1-RadioListening2.jpg 245w, 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\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 245px) 100vw, 245px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-4356\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;Wow, that WKND sounds good!&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The holidays are a great time to listen for pirates on the shortwave spectrum. Since many pirates are on holiday leave from their day jobs, they have a little more time to broadcast.<\/p>\n<p>Last night, the first pirate I heard was WKND on 9,625 kHz AM.<\/p>\n<p>His station was quite clear, but modulation, perhaps, a tad low. Other noises, including Spanish SSB, can be heard in the background.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"WKND Pirate Radio\" href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/Wknd-shortwavePirateRadio-6925khz-23dec12\/WKND-6.924586MHz-23DEC12.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to download the full MP3 recording of WKND<\/a>, or simply listen via the embedded player below:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/embed\/Wknd-shortwavePirateRadio-6925khz-23dec12\" height=\"30\" width=\"500\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The holidays are a great time to listen for pirates on the shortwave spectrum. Since many pirates are on holiday leave from their day jobs, they have a little more time to broadcast. Last night, the first pirate I heard was WKND on 9,625 kHz AM. His station was quite clear, but modulation, perhaps, a [&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":[56,297,1557,746],"tags":[4092,693,985,1310,1564],"class_list":["post-5226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-pirate-radio","category-podcast","category-recordings","tag-pirate-radio","tag-pirate-radio-recordings","tag-shortwave-pirate-radio","tag-shortwave-pirates","tag-wknd"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-1mi","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5229,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/pirate-radio-recordings-dit-dah-radio\/","url_meta":{"origin":5226,"position":0},"title":"Pirate Radio Recordings: Dit Dah Radio","author":"Thomas","date":"December 24, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Being a fan of Morse code (or CW), I have a special affinity for pirates that use \"the sacred language\" in their broadcasts. 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