{"id":5384,"date":"2013-01-15T14:37:49","date_gmt":"2013-01-15T18:37:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=5384"},"modified":"2013-01-15T14:37:49","modified_gmt":"2013-01-15T18:37:49","slug":"pirate-radio-recordings-renegade-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/pirate-radio-recordings-renegade-radio\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirate Radio Recordings: Renegade Radio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/shortwave-radio-recordings-voice-of-greece-music\/1-radiolistening\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-4624\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-4624\" alt=\"1-RadioListening\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/1-RadioListening-300x193.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"193\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/1-RadioListening-300x193.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/1-RadioListening-100x64.jpg 100w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/1-RadioListening.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Friday night (late) I caught Renegade Radio on 6.93 MHz in the upper side band.<\/p>\n<p>Renegade&#8217;s signal was consistently clear for unusually noisy conditions, though the station was occasionally plagued with transmitter problems. \u00a0I did not edit these out in the recording because dead air never exceeded a few minutes. So, if you hear dead air, simply fast-foward a minute or two. Total broadcast exceeds one hour and, near the end, Renegade informs us that his transmitter was getting hot. \u00a0I&#8217;ll bet: I don&#8217;t know Renegade&#8217;s set-up, but many pirates use modified ham radio transceivers that were never intended for those 100% duty cycles, often at full power. Keeps a pirate warm on a winter night, though!<\/p>\n<p>Feel free to listen to the recording of Renegade Radio in the embedded player below, or <a title=\"Renegade Radio\" href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/RenegadeRadio-6.93mhz-11jan13-pirateradio\/RenagadeRadio-6.930045MHz-11JAN13-US.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">right click and save this link to download the MP3 directly<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/embed\/RenegadeRadio-6.93mhz-11jan13-pirateradio\" height=\"30\" width=\"500\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday night (late) I caught Renegade Radio on 6.93 MHz in the upper side band. Renegade&#8217;s signal was consistently clear for unusually noisy conditions, though the station was occasionally plagued with transmitter problems. \u00a0I did not edit these out in the recording because dead air never exceeded a few minutes. So, if you hear dead [&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":[442,297,746,43,1167],"tags":[4092,693,4118,4106,1310,986],"class_list":["post-5384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-pirate-radio","category-recordings","category-shortwave-radio","category-whats-on-shortwave","tag-pirate-radio","tag-pirate-radio-recordings","tag-podcast","tag-recordings","tag-shortwave-pirates","tag-shortwave-radio-pirates"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-1oQ","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":18373,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/04\/pirate-radio-recordings-radio-casablanca-4\/","url_meta":{"origin":5384,"position":0},"title":"Pirate Radio Recordings: Radio Casablanca","author":"Thomas","date":"April 19, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Last\u00a0night at about 00:10 UTC, I was pleased to hear the interval signal of one of my favorite pirate radio stations: Radio Casablanca. \u201cRick Blaine\u201d fired up his AM transmitter and pumped out some amazing WWII era music on 6,940 kHz for about one hour and a half. Radio Casablanca\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;News&quot;","block_context":{"text":"News","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Poster - Casablanca_13","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Poster-Casablanca_13.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Poster-Casablanca_13.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Poster-Casablanca_13.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":13018,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/pirate-radio-recordings-rado-casablanca\/","url_meta":{"origin":5384,"position":1},"title":"Pirate Radio Recordings: Radio Casablanca","author":"Thomas","date":"April 19, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Thursday night at 00:00 UTC, I was pleased to hear the interval signal of one of my favorite pirate radio stations: Radio Casablanca. \"Rick Blaine\" fired up his AM transmitter and pumped out some amazing WWII era music on 6,940 kHz for well over one hour and a half. This\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Music&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Music","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/music\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Poster - Casablanca_13","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Poster-Casablanca_13.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Poster-Casablanca_13.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/Poster-Casablanca_13.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":4492,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/pirate-radio-recordings-radio-ronin-shortwave\/","url_meta":{"origin":5384,"position":2},"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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