{"id":5861,"date":"2013-03-09T13:19:22","date_gmt":"2013-03-09T17:19:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=5861"},"modified":"2013-03-09T13:19:22","modified_gmt":"2013-03-09T17:19:22","slug":"pirate-radio-recordings-x-fm-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/pirate-radio-recordings-x-fm-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirate Radio Recordings: X-FM"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5539\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5539\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5539\" alt=\"&quot;Turn up the radio, I hear Stereophonics!&quot;\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/RadioListeningFamily-300x221.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"221\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/RadioListeningFamily-300x221.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/RadioListeningFamily-100x73.jpg 100w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/RadioListeningFamily.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-5539\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;Turn up the radio Jim, I think I hear Stereophonics!&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<p>For your listening pleasure: three hours of the pirate radio station <a title=\"Other X-FM recordings\" href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/tag\/xfm\" target=\"_blank\">X-FM<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This broadcast was recorded this morning, starting around 2:00 UTC, on 6,950 kHz AM. X-FM can even be received in C-Quam stereo&#8211;something I have yet to try.<\/p>\n<p>This is a 10 year anniversary broadcast of X-FM and has an <em>excellent<\/em> mix of music (everything\u00a0from Indie rock to trance) and Redhat&#8217;s live commentary. Superb signal strength, too.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"X-FM\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/download\/XFM6.95MHz9Mar130200Z\/XFM-6.95MHz-9Mar13-0200Z.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">You can download the recording of X-FM by clicking here<\/a>, or simply listen via the embedded player below (note that I included X-FM&#8217;s full seven minute interval signal\/leader):<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/embed\/XFM6.95MHz9Mar130200Z\" height=\"30\" width=\"500\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Standard Pirate Radio Disclaimer:<\/strong>\u00a0<em>Though X-FM is quite a professional pirate (is there such a thing?), this is a recording of a real pirate radio broadcast, and as such, may include colorful language. In general, if you are easily offended by the words, ideas, music lyrics, or music herein, you should slowly\u2026back\u2026 away\u2026<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For your listening pleasure: three hours of the pirate radio station X-FM. This broadcast was recorded this morning, starting around 2:00 UTC, on 6,950 kHz AM. X-FM can even be received in C-Quam stereo&#8211;something I have yet to try. This is a 10 year anniversary broadcast of X-FM and has an excellent mix of music [&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":[297,1557,746,43],"tags":[4092,693,4106,985,1310,1369,1388],"class_list":["post-5861","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pirate-radio","category-podcast","category-recordings","category-shortwave-radio","tag-pirate-radio","tag-pirate-radio-recordings","tag-recordings","tag-shortwave-pirate-radio","tag-shortwave-pirates","tag-x-fm","tag-xfm"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-1wx","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4450,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/pirate-radio-recordings-x-fm\/","url_meta":{"origin":5861,"position":0},"title":"Pirate Radio Recordings: X-FM","author":"Thomas","date":"September 17, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Listening conditions Saturday night were \u00a0pretty good--we had clear skies and \u00a0though propagation wasn't excellent, I did manage to record a full broadcast (over 3 hours) of X-FM. X-FM typically features a wide variety of music spanning trance\/electronica to varieties of rock\/metal. This broadcast was no exception--hear for yourself: PLEASE\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\/2011\/07\/RadioListening-300x190.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":4543,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/x-fm-qsl-card\/","url_meta":{"origin":5861,"position":1},"title":"X-FM QSL card","author":"Thomas","date":"October 1, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"I just received the following QSL card from the shortwave pirate radio station, X-FM: To hear the full X-FM broadcast associated with this QSL, check out our previous post with recorded audio.","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Music&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Music","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/music\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/X-FM269-QSL-300x225.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":5117,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/pirate-radio-recordings-liquid-radio\/","url_meta":{"origin":5861,"position":2},"title":"Pirate Radio Recordings: Liquid Radio","author":"Thomas","date":"December 21, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Last weekend, I also managed to record the shortwave radio pirate known as Liquid Radio--perhaps best known for their activity on the FM spectrum and on the web. Liquid Radio's\u00a0format couldn't be more different than our last pirate recording from Radio Casablanca;\u00a0Liquid Radio plays a trance\/techno\/dance mix. Their last broadcast\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Broadcasters&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Broadcasters","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/broadcasters\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"LiquidRadio","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/LiquidRadio-e1356133276497.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":8912,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/make-a-raspberry-pirate-radio\/","url_meta":{"origin":5861,"position":3},"title":"Make a Raspberry Pirate Radio","author":"Thomas","date":"March 7, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to SWLing Post reader, Paul, for this article on Make Magazine that teaches you how to turn your Raspberry Pi\u00a0into an FM transmitter. Make Magazine states that this FM transmitter\u00a0\"has enough range to cover your home, DIY drive-in movie, a high school ball game, or\u00a0even a bike parade\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;How To&quot;","block_context":{"text":"How To","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/how-to\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Sorry, I just couldn't resist the urge to make a pirate graphic.","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Raspberry-Pirate.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Raspberry-Pirate.jpg?resize=350%2C200 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Raspberry-Pirate.jpg?resize=525%2C300 1.5x"},"classes":[]},{"id":6012,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/pirate-radio-recordings-black-cat-radio\/","url_meta":{"origin":5861,"position":4},"title":"Pirate Radio Recordings: Black Cat Radio","author":"Thomas","date":"March 23, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Last night, I heard a new pirate on the air: Black Cat Radio. Black Cat signed on 6,925 kHz USB around 23:45 UTC. After sending in a reception report, I received a reply with a cool eQSL card (see right) and learned that this was, in fact, show number one.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Broadcasters&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Broadcasters","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/broadcasters\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"(Click to enlarge)","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/BlackCatQSL-210x300.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":9052,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/my-raspberry-pirate-is-now-radio-active\/","url_meta":{"origin":5861,"position":5},"title":"My Raspberry Pirate is now radio-active","author":"Thomas","date":"March 25, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Two weeks ago,\u00a0Make Magazine published\u00a0a simple hack that turns your\u00a0Raspberry Pi into a low-powered and portable FM transmitter\/radio station. For those of you not familiar, the Raspberry Pi\u00a0is a single-board computer developed in the UK by the Raspberry Pi Foundation. 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