{"id":6026,"date":"2013-03-23T14:48:45","date_gmt":"2013-03-23T18:48:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=6026"},"modified":"2015-10-05T06:34:08","modified_gmt":"2015-10-05T10:34:08","slug":"pirate-radio-recordings-all-along-the-watchtower-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/pirate-radio-recordings-all-along-the-watchtower-radio\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirate Radio Recordings: All Along The Watchtower Radio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/AATW-QSL32.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-6033 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/AATW-QSL32.jpg\" alt=\"(Click to enlarge)\" width=\"720\" height=\"463\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/AATW-QSL32.jpg 720w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/AATW-QSL32-300x192.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/AATW-QSL32-100x64.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>One short pirate broadcast I caught last night was <em>All Along The Watchtower Radio<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>AATW Radio&#8217;s USB signal on 6.955 MHz started around 00:24 UTC (23 March 2013).<\/p>\n<p>The (robo voice) host, Alex Jobs, played a great mix of music starting with a version of <em>Video Killed the Radio Star<\/em> by <a title=\"See their site\" href=\"http:\/\/www.presidentsrock.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">The Presidents of the United States of America<\/a>. It actually sounded pretty good in upper side band!<\/p>\n<p>Hear for yourself!\u00a0<a title=\"click to download\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/download\/AATW6.955MHz23Mar130024Z\/AATW-6.955MHz-23Mar13-0024Z.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to download the MP3 recording of the full broadcast<\/a>, or simply listen via the embedded player below:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/embed\/AATW6.955MHz23Mar130024Z\" width=\"500\" height=\"30\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1330\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/RadioListening.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1330\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1330 \" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/RadioListening-300x190.jpg\" alt=\"&quot;Mom, could that be The Presidents of The United States of America? How patriotic!&quot;\" 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\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1330\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;Mom, could that be The Presidents of The United States of America? How patriotic!&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One short pirate broadcast I caught last night was All Along The Watchtower Radio. AATW Radio&#8217;s USB signal on 6.955 MHz started around 00:24 UTC (23 March 2013). The (robo voice) host, Alex Jobs, played a great mix of music starting with a version of Video Killed the Radio Star by The Presidents of the [&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":[442,297,1557,746,1167],"tags":[1804,1803,1802,4092,693,4106,1310],"class_list":["post-6026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-pirate-radio","category-podcast","category-recordings","category-whats-on-shortwave","tag-aatw","tag-alex-jobs","tag-all-along-the-watchtower-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-1zc","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6029,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/pirate-radio-recordings-radio-ronin-shortwave-4\/","url_meta":{"origin":6026,"position":0},"title":"Pirate Radio Recordings: Radio Ronin Shortwave","author":"Thomas","date":"March 23, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"If you can't tell from the number of recordings I posted today, last night was a busy night for pirate radio. 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So, if you've never heard a live pirate station on shortwave radio, this is a great opportunity to catch\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;News&quot;","block_context":{"text":"News","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Most pirate radio stations will send you an electronic or paper QSL. This is one I received from All Along The Watchtower Radio. (Click to enlarge)","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/AATW-QSL32-300x192.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":5226,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/pirate-radio-recordings-wknd\/","url_meta":{"origin":6026,"position":2},"title":"Pirate Radio Recordings: WKND","author":"Thomas","date":"December 24, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"The holidays are a great time to listen for pirates on the shortwave spectrum. Since many pirates are on holiday leave from their day jobs, they have a little more time to broadcast. 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