{"id":58152,"date":"2023-11-04T14:29:15","date_gmt":"2023-11-04T18:29:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=58152"},"modified":"2023-11-04T14:29:15","modified_gmt":"2023-11-04T18:29:15","slug":"pirate-radio-qsl-card","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2023\/11\/pirate-radio-qsl-card\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirate Radio QSL Card"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Beautiful emailed QSL card from Undercover Radio<\/p><\/div>\n

This QSL card just came today from a broadcast on Halloween, station Undercover Radio. There were a number of broadcasts that night, but this was by far the most unusual that I heard!<\/p>\n

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Robert Gulley, K4PKM, is the author of this post and a regular contributor<\/a> to the SWLing Post. Robert also blogs<\/em>\u00a0at All Things Radio<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This QSL card just came today from a broadcast on Halloween, station Undercover Radio. There were a number of broadcasts that night, but this was by far the most unusual that I heard!   Robert Gulley, K4PKM, is the author of this post and a regular contributor to the SWLing Post. Robert also blogs\u00a0at All […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"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":[3194,297,43],"tags":[4092,899],"class_list":["post-58152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guest-posts","category-pirate-radio","category-shortwave-radio","tag-pirate-radio","tag-qsl-cards"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-f7W","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":20102,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/a-great-pirate-qsl-card\/","url_meta":{"origin":58152,"position":0},"title":"A Great Pirate QSL Card!","author":"Robert Gulley","date":"July 19, 2016","format":false,"excerpt":"Here's a great example of a QSL report from Pirate Station X-FM Stereo Shortwave monitored Halloween 2015. 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