{"id":58120,"date":"2023-10-31T07:03:34","date_gmt":"2023-10-31T11:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=58120"},"modified":"2023-10-31T07:03:34","modified_gmt":"2023-10-31T11:03:34","slug":"halloween-is-a-pirate-radio-playground","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/halloween-is-a-pirate-radio-playground\/","title":{"rendered":"Halloween is a Pirate Radio Playground!"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Halloween is typically the most active day of the year for shortwave pirates. Spend some time on the HF bands tonight and you’ll easily tune in to numerous stations. Expect pirates to emerge like The Great Pumpkin!<\/p>\n

Here are two things you’ll want to do this Halloween weekend:<\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n

HF Underground<\/h1>\n

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Follow real-time pirate radio spots and loggings on the HF Underground\u00a0discussion forum<\/a>. If you’ve never tuned to a pirate in the past, these real-time loggings will help you find pirates while they’re on the air and also help you ID them!<\/p>\n

Listen!<\/h1>\n

\"\"<\/a>Listen for pirate radio stations tonight<\/strong>! \u00a0Turn on your radio anytime today, but especially around twilight and tune between 6,920 – 6,980 kHz. Pirates broadcast on both AM and SSB; you’re bound to hear a few. If you’re brand new to pirate radio listening, you might read my pirate radio primer by clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Happy Halloween to all!\u00a0<\/strong><\/em><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Halloween is typically the most active day of the year for shortwave pirates. Spend some time on the HF bands tonight and you’ll easily tune in to numerous stations. Expect pirates to emerge like The Great Pumpkin! Here are two things you’ll want to do this Halloween weekend: HF Underground Follow real-time pirate radio spots […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[3,297,43],"tags":[2300,4092],"class_list":["post-58120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-pirate-radio","category-shortwave-radio","tag-halloween","tag-pirate-radio"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-f7q","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":21990,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/10\/listen-for-halloween-pirate-radio-tonight\/","url_meta":{"origin":58120,"position":0},"title":"Listen for Halloween pirate radio tonight!","author":"Thomas","date":"October 31, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Halloween is typically the most active day of the year for shortwave pirates...so, here are two things you'll want to do this Halloween (tonight): 1. 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