{"id":5510,"date":"2013-02-02T11:17:40","date_gmt":"2013-02-02T15:17:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=5510"},"modified":"2013-02-02T11:17:40","modified_gmt":"2013-02-02T15:17:40","slug":"pirate-radio-recordings-red-mercury-labs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/pirate-radio-recordings-red-mercury-labs\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirate Radio Recordings: Red Mercury Labs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5513\" alt=\"electromagneticradiowaves\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/electromagneticradiowaves.jpg\" width=\"263\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/electromagneticradiowaves.jpg 263w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/electromagneticradiowaves-100x71.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 263px) 100vw, 263px\" \/>Last Saturday night, I caught the shortwave radio pirate, <strong><em>Red Mercury Labs<\/em><\/strong>, on 6.9251 MHz in the upper side band.<\/p>\n<p>This broadcast, which started around 1:57 UTC, contains a great mix of rock music with some commentary throughout.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Right click to save\" href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/RedMercuryLabs-6.9251Mhz-0157UtcJan272013\/RedMercuryLabs-6.9251MHz-0157UTC-27JAN13.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">You can download the full recording as an MP3 file by clicking here<\/a>, or listen via the embedded player below. Enjoy:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/embed\/RedMercuryLabs-6.9251Mhz-0157UtcJan272013\" height=\"30\" width=\"500\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Saturday night, I caught the shortwave radio pirate, Red Mercury Labs, on 6.9251 MHz in the upper side band. This broadcast, which started around 1:57 UTC, contains a great mix of rock music with some commentary throughout. You can download the full recording as an MP3 file by clicking here, or listen via the [&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":[56,442,297,1557,746,43],"tags":[4092,693,4118,4106,1655,1656,1310],"class_list":["post-5510","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-music","category-pirate-radio","category-podcast","category-recordings","category-shortwave-radio","tag-pirate-radio","tag-pirate-radio-recordings","tag-podcast","tag-recordings","tag-red-mercury-labs","tag-red-mercury-labs-recording","tag-shortwave-pirates"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-1qS","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6029,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/pirate-radio-recordings-radio-ronin-shortwave-4\/","url_meta":{"origin":5510,"position":0},"title":"Pirate Radio Recordings: Radio Ronin Shortwave","author":"Thomas","date":"March 23, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"If you can't tell from the number of recordings I posted today, last night was a busy night for pirate radio. I heard no less than five pirates: AATW Radio, Red Mercury Labs Radio, Rave On Radio, Black Cat Radio and Radio Ronin Shortwave. Though many had great signals, the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Music&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Music","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/music\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Ronin's mix starts with the Sex Pistols (Photo: 45cat.com)|","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/sex-pistols-god-save-the-queen-2007-294x300.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":5697,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/pirate-radio-recordings-wmpr\/","url_meta":{"origin":5510,"position":1},"title":"Pirate Radio Recordings: WMPR","author":"Thomas","date":"February 20, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"For your listening pleasure: 32 minutes of pirate radio station, WMPR. I recorded this broadcast of WMPR on 6.925MHz AM on February 17th, 2013 at 10:00 UTC. 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Click here to download the MP3 of the recording, or simply listen below: Standard Pirate Radio Disclaimer:\u00a0This is a recording of a real pirate\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Broadcasters&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Broadcasters","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/broadcasters\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"\"All we hear is Radio GaGa!\"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/RadioListeningFamily-300x221.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":5515,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/pirate-radio-recordings-bust-a-nut-radio\/","url_meta":{"origin":5510,"position":3},"title":"Pirate Radio Recordings: Bust A Nut Radio","author":"Thomas","date":"February 2, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Bust A Nut Radio's AM signal came in fairly strong last night sometime around 5:45 UTC (February 2nd) on 6,940 kHz. 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Last night, I tuned in and recorded the pirate radio station, JFK Shortwave:\u00a0a tribute broadcast inspired by the late President Kennedy, filled with an array of music, sound clips and even parody. JFK Shortwave's upper side\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Nostalgia&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Nostalgia","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/nostalgia\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"JFK Shortwave QSL-","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/JFK-Shortwave-QSL--300x226.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":5863,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/pirate-radio-recordings-boombox-radio\/","url_meta":{"origin":5510,"position":5},"title":"Pirate Radio Recordings: Boombox Radio","author":"Thomas","date":"March 9, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"This morning, around 11:15 UTC, I caught a pirate that I had never heard on air before: Boombox Radio. 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