{"id":5229,"date":"2012-12-24T10:51:31","date_gmt":"2012-12-24T14:51:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=5229"},"modified":"2012-12-24T10:51:31","modified_gmt":"2012-12-24T14:51:31","slug":"pirate-radio-recordings-dit-dah-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/pirate-radio-recordings-dit-dah-radio\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirate Radio Recordings: Dit Dah Radio"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5214\" style=\"width: 197px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5214\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5214\" alt=\"Santa likes Dit Dah Radio!\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/SantaWireless-187x300.jpg\" width=\"187\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/SantaWireless-187x300.jpg 187w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/SantaWireless-62x100.jpg 62w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/SantaWireless.jpg 335w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 187px) 100vw, 187px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5214\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Santa likes Dit Dah Radio!<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Being a fan of Morse code (or CW), I have a special affinity for pirates that use &#8220;the sacred language&#8221; in their broadcasts.<\/p>\n<p>Last night, around 00:30 UTC (only\u00a0a few minutes after <a title=\"Pirate Radio Recordings: WKND\" href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/pirate-radio-recordings-wknd\/\">WKND<\/a>\u00a0began broadcasting)\u00a0I heard Morse Code on 6.935 MHz USB.<\/p>\n<p>If you, too, love Morse code, you&#8217;ll love &#8220;Dit Dah Radio;&#8221; after their preamble in Morse code, they follow with\u00a0The Capris&#8217; 1960&#8217;s hit,\u00a0<em>Morse Code of Love<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Right click to save\" href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/DitDahRadio-6.935mhz-23dec12-pirateradio\/DitDahRadio-6.935MHz-23DEC12.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">You can download the full recording as an MP3 file by clicking here<\/a>, or listen via the embedded player below:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/embed\/DitDahRadio-6.935mhz-23dec12-pirateradio\" height=\"30\" width=\"500\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Being a fan of Morse code (or CW), I have a special affinity for pirates that use &#8220;the sacred language&#8221; in their broadcasts. Last night, around 00:30 UTC (only\u00a0a few minutes after WKND\u00a0began broadcasting)\u00a0I heard Morse Code on 6.935 MHz USB. If you, too, love Morse code, you&#8217;ll love &#8220;Dit Dah Radio;&#8221; after their preamble [&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":[56,297,746,43],"tags":[1565,4092,693,985,1310],"class_list":["post-5229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-pirate-radio","category-recordings","category-shortwave-radio","tag-dit-dah-radio","tag-pirate-radio","tag-pirate-radio-recordings","tag-shortwave-pirate-radio","tag-shortwave-pirates"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-1ml","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7365,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/pirate-radio-recordings-radio-gallifrey-intergalactic\/","url_meta":{"origin":5229,"position":0},"title":"Pirate Radio Recordings: Radio Gallifrey Intergalactic","author":"Thomas","date":"September 21, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Last night, I recorded pirate station,\u00a0Radio Gallifrey Intergalactic. 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