{"id":5917,"date":"2013-03-15T18:37:48","date_gmt":"2013-03-15T22:37:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=5917"},"modified":"2013-03-15T18:37:48","modified_gmt":"2013-03-15T22:37:48","slug":"pirate-radio-recordings-the-crystal-ship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/pirate-radio-recordings-the-crystal-ship\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirate Radio Recordings: The Crystal Ship"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5918\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/CrystalShipSSTV.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5918\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5918\" alt=\"(Source: Sealord on the HF Underground)\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/CrystalShipSSTV-300x240.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/CrystalShipSSTV-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/CrystalShipSSTV-100x80.jpg 100w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/CrystalShipSSTV.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5918\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">(Source: Sealord on the HF Underground)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Looking through some of my archived recordings from the past month, I found this broadcast from The Crystal Ship,\u00a0on the TCS Relay Network.<\/p>\n<p>Conditions were a little tough at the time and you&#8217;ll hear some some SSB interference near the end, but the mix is worth it. I started this recording around 1:15 UTC on February 26th, 2013, on 6.9255 MHz, capturing the last third of the show (based on\u00a0<a title=\"HF Underground\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hfunderground.com\" target=\"_blank\">HF Underground<\/a> logs).<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Download the MP3 directly\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/download\/TheCrystalShip6.925504MHz26Feb130\/TheCrystalShip-6.925504MHz-26Feb13-0.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to download the recording as an MP3<\/a>, or simply listen via the embedded player below:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/embed\/TheCrystalShip6.925504MHz26Feb130\" height=\"30\" width=\"500\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>Standard Pirate Radio Disclaimer:<\/strong> <em>This is a recording of a real pirate radio broadcast, and as such, may include strong or colorful language or lyrics. 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>Looking through some of my archived recordings from the past month, I found this broadcast from The Crystal Ship,\u00a0on the TCS Relay Network. Conditions were a little tough at the time and you&#8217;ll hear some some SSB interference near the end, but the mix is worth it. I started this recording around 1:15 UTC on [&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":[442,297,1557,746,43],"tags":[4092,4106,1310,1772,1771],"class_list":["post-5917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-pirate-radio","category-podcast","category-recordings","category-shortwave-radio","tag-pirate-radio","tag-recordings","tag-shortwave-pirates","tag-tcs-relay-network","tag-the-crystal-ship"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-1xr","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10176,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/pirate-radio-recordings-the-crystal-ship-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":5917,"position":0},"title":"Pirate Radio Recordings: The Crystal Ship","author":"Thomas","date":"July 4, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"For your listening pleasure: one hour, forty two minutes of the pirate radio station, The Crystal Ship. 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BOCHF started broadcasting around 23:10 UTC on 6,925 kHz USB, and after about a twenty-five minute set, took a five minute break, then returned with a\u00a0 forty-two minute set, ending with an SSTV QSL. 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