{"id":5863,"date":"2013-03-09T16:20:31","date_gmt":"2013-03-09T20:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=5863"},"modified":"2013-03-09T16:20:31","modified_gmt":"2013-03-09T20:20:31","slug":"pirate-radio-recordings-boombox-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/pirate-radio-recordings-boombox-radio\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirate Radio Recordings: Boombox Radio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright 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\" \/>This morning, around 11:15 UTC, I caught a pirate that I had never heard on air before: <a title=\"Posts tagged Boombox Radio\" href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/tag\/boombox-radio\" target=\"_blank\">Boombox Radio<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Though rather weak, over the course of their 31 minute broadcast on 6,925 kHz AM, the signal did increase significantly (possibly as propagation improved).<\/p>\n<p>I was very surprised to hear a North American pirate on at this time of the morning.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Boombox Radio\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/download\/BoomboxRadio6.925MHz9Mar131115Z\/BoomboxRadio-6.925MHz-9Mar13-1115Z.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to download the full recording<\/a>, or simply listen via the embedded player below:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/embed\/BoomboxRadio6.925MHz9Mar131115Z\" height=\"30\" width=\"500\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Boombox, great to hear you on the air!\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This morning, around 11:15 UTC, I caught a pirate that I had never heard on air before: Boombox Radio. Though rather weak, over the course of their 31 minute broadcast on 6,925 kHz AM, the signal did increase significantly (possibly as propagation improved). I was very surprised to hear a North American pirate on at [&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":[297,1557,746,43,1167],"tags":[1756,4092,693,4106,1310],"class_list":["post-5863","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pirate-radio","category-podcast","category-recordings","category-shortwave-radio","category-whats-on-shortwave","tag-boombox-radio","tag-pirate-radio","tag-pirate-radio-recordings","tag-recordings","tag-shortwave-pirates"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-1wz","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5384,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/pirate-radio-recordings-renegade-radio\/","url_meta":{"origin":5863,"position":0},"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. Renegade's signal was consistently clear for unusually noisy conditions, though the station was occasionally plagued with transmitter problems. \u00a0I did not edit these out in the recording because dead air never exceeded a few minutes.\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Music&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Music","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/music\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"1-RadioListening","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/1-RadioListening-300x193.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":5534,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/pirate-radio-recordings-radio-gaga\/","url_meta":{"origin":5863,"position":1},"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":5861,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/pirate-radio-recordings-x-fm-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":5863,"position":2},"title":"Pirate Radio Recordings: X-FM","author":"Thomas","date":"March 9, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"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--something I have yet to try. This is a 10 year anniversary broadcast of X-FM and has\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Pirate Radio&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Pirate Radio","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/pirate-radio\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"\"Turn up the radio, I hear Stereophonics!\"","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":4598,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/pirate-radio-recordings-radio-ronin-shortwave-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":5863,"position":3},"title":"Pirate Radio Recordings: Radio Ronin Shortwave","author":"Thomas","date":"October 12, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Radio Ronin Shortwave's AM signal came in loud and clear again last Friday night on 6925 kHz. Another great set of music--all pirate radio themed. \u00a0You'll even hear KYAR \u00a0Pirate Radio from Pirates R Us. This time, Ronin starts out with a Stones interval signal.\u00a0You can download the MP3 or\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\/2012\/10\/the-rolling-stones-300x198.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":7580,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/pirate-radio-recordings-radio-paisano\/","url_meta":{"origin":5863,"position":4},"title":"Pirate Radio Recordings: Radio Paisano","author":"Thomas","date":"October 13, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"For your listening pleasure: fifty minutes of the pirate radio station, Radio Paisano. I recorded this broadcast on\u00a0Oct 11, 2013, starting around 23:30 UTC, on 6,925 kHz AM. This was the first time I had heard Radio Paisano on the air, though they do seem to broadcast around the same\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Pirate Radio&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Pirate Radio","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/pirate-radio\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"RadioListening","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":4681,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/pirate-radio-recordings-grizzly-bear-radio\/","url_meta":{"origin":5863,"position":5},"title":"Pirate Radio Recordings: Grizzly Bear Radio","author":"Thomas","date":"October 29, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"A few weeks ago, I found a pirate I had never heard before: Grizzly Bear Radio. They quickly nullified my claim that Radio Appalachia was the only pirate I knew of that broadcasts bluegrass music. According to Grizzly Bear, they transmit from the northwest US, so the fact that I\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\/2012\/10\/1-RadioListening-300x193.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]}],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5863","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5863"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5863\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5863"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5863"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5863"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}