{"id":5414,"date":"2013-01-22T13:00:14","date_gmt":"2013-01-22T17:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=5414"},"modified":"2013-01-22T13:00:14","modified_gmt":"2013-01-22T17:00:14","slug":"pirate-radio-recordings-two-short-unid-broadcasts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/pirate-radio-recordings-two-short-unid-broadcasts\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirate Radio Recordings: Two short UNID broadcasts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4356\" style=\"width: 234px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/1-RadioListening2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4356\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4356\" alt=\"1-RadioListening2\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/1-RadioListening2-224x300.jpg\" width=\"224\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"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, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/1-RadioListening2.jpg 245w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 224px) 100vw, 224px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4356\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;Wow&#8211;those were short!&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I was\u00a0travelling Saturday night, but had the foresight to set my <a title=\"A review of the WiNRADiO WR-G31DDC \u201cExcalibur\u201d software defined radio (SDR)\" href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/a-review-of-the-winradio-wr-g31ddc-excalibur-software-defined-radio-sdr\/\" target=\"_blank\">WinRadio Excalibur<\/a> to record the pirate spectrum. There were few pirates on the band&#8211;less than I would have expected to hear on a holiday weekend in the US&#8211;and some of them were plagued by a local broadcaster whose spurious emissions wiped out the whole band at times.<\/p>\n<p>I did catch a couple of interesting unidentified broadcasts, most likely transmitter tests as both were <em>very<\/em> short. \u00a0The first broadcast came on around 3:10 UTC (Jan 20) and consisted of two songs, ending with the Tardis sound effect from <em>Dr. Who<\/em>. <a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/UNID-Pirate-6.92643MHz-19Jan13.mp3\">Click here to download the MP3 file<\/a>, or listen in the player below:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F75992352\" height=\"166\" width=\"100%\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The second broadcast came on just after 7:00 UTC and consisted of only one song&#8211;no IDs at all. I would suspect this was the same pirate; however, the first broadcast had a tinny sound that this broadcast lacked. Indeed, their USB signal was quite amazing (wish s\/he would have broadcast a full show). \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/01\/UNID-PirateRadio-6.925082MHz-19Jan13.mp3\">Click here to download the recording<\/a>, or listen via the player below:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=http%3A%2F%2Fapi.soundcloud.com%2Ftracks%2F75993795\" height=\"166\" width=\"100%\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Please comment if you think you can ID these broadcasts.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was\u00a0travelling Saturday night, but had the foresight to set my WinRadio Excalibur to record the pirate spectrum. There were few pirates on the band&#8211;less than I would have expected to hear on a holiday weekend in the US&#8211;and some of them were plagued by a local broadcaster whose spurious emissions wiped out the whole [&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],"tags":[4092,693,4106,985,737,1617],"class_list":["post-5414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-pirate-radio","category-recordings","tag-pirate-radio","tag-pirate-radio-recordings","tag-recordings","tag-shortwave-pirate-radio","tag-shortwave-radio-recordings","tag-unid"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-1pk","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8471,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/pirate-radio-recordings-unid-percussion\/","url_meta":{"origin":5414,"position":0},"title":"Pirate Radio Recordings: UNID (percussion)","author":"Thomas","date":"January 4, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"On New Year's Eve (December 31, 2013), while band scanning, I tuned to 6,955 kHz around 22:15 UTC, and \u00a0heard a relatively strong pirate station. 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According to Grizzly Bear, they transmit from the northwest US, so the fact that I\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Pirate Radio&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Pirate Radio","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/pirate-radio\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/1-RadioListening-300x193.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":5229,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/pirate-radio-recordings-dit-dah-radio\/","url_meta":{"origin":5414,"position":3},"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. Last night, around 00:30 UTC (only\u00a0a few minutes after WKND\u00a0began broadcasting)\u00a0I heard Morse Code on 6.935 MHz USB. 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