{"id":5697,"date":"2013-02-20T10:46:07","date_gmt":"2013-02-20T14:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=5697"},"modified":"2013-02-20T10:46:07","modified_gmt":"2013-02-20T14:46:07","slug":"pirate-radio-recordings-wmpr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/pirate-radio-recordings-wmpr\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirate Radio Recordings: WMPR"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1330\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/RadioListening.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1330\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1330\" alt=\"RadioListening\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/RadioListening-300x190.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"190\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/RadioListening-300x190.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/RadioListening.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1330\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;Mama, they&#8217;re playing your favorite dance music!&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<p>For your listening pleasure: 32 minutes of pirate radio station, WMPR.<\/p>\n<p>I recorded this broadcast of WMPR on 6.925MHz AM on February 17th, 2013 at 10:00 UTC. You&#8217;ll note that this recording sounds a little &#8220;brighter&#8221; than a typical shortwave radio recording. \u00a0This is due to the fact that I widened the AM filter to match the bandwidth of WMPR&#8217;s signal (about 17 kHz!).<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"WMPR MP3 recording\" href=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/download\/WMPR6.924975MHz17Feb131000UTC\/WMPR-6.924975MHz-17Feb13-1000UTC.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to download the MP3 of the recording of WMPR<\/a>, or simply listen below:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/embed\/WMPR6.924975MHz17Feb131000UTC\" height=\"30\" width=\"500\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. You&#8217;ll note that this recording sounds a little &#8220;brighter&#8221; than a typical shortwave radio recording. \u00a0This is due to the fact that I widened the AM filter to [&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":[56,297,1557,746,43],"tags":[4092,693,1389,4106,1310,1713],"class_list":["post-5697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-pirate-radio","category-podcast","category-recordings","category-shortwave-radio","tag-pirate-radio","tag-pirate-radio-recordings","tag-pirates","tag-recordings","tag-shortwave-pirates","tag-wmpr"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-1tT","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5534,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/pirate-radio-recordings-radio-gaga\/","url_meta":{"origin":5697,"position":0},"title":"Pirate Radio Recordings: Radio GaGa","author":"Thomas","date":"February 8, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"For your listening pleasure: 28 minutes of pirate radio fun, courtesy of Radio GaGa. Recorded on Saturday, February 2nd, 2013\u2013starting around 00:10 UTC\u2013on 6.925 MHz (USB). 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":5384,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/pirate-radio-recordings-renegade-radio\/","url_meta":{"origin":5697,"position":1},"title":"Pirate Radio Recordings: Renegade Radio","author":"Thomas","date":"January 15, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Friday night (late) I caught Renegade Radio on 6.93 MHz in the upper side band. 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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":5226,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/pirate-radio-recordings-wknd\/","url_meta":{"origin":5697,"position":3},"title":"Pirate Radio Recordings: WKND","author":"Thomas","date":"December 24, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"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. 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