{"id":6217,"date":"2013-04-14T12:52:44","date_gmt":"2013-04-14T16:52:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=6217"},"modified":"2013-12-04T21:40:12","modified_gmt":"2013-12-05T01:40:12","slug":"pirate-radio-recordings-hard-tack-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/pirate-radio-recordings-hard-tack-radio\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirate Radio Recordings: Hardtack Radio"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_6218\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/HardTackRadioSSTVQSL.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6218\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6218\" alt=\"This Hard Tack Radio SSTV image can be decoded at the end of the broadcast.\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/HardTackRadioSSTVQSL-300x240.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/HardTackRadioSSTVQSL-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/HardTackRadioSSTVQSL-100x80.jpg 100w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/HardTackRadioSSTVQSL.jpg 320w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-6218\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">This Hardtack Radio SSTV image can be decoded at the end of the broadcast.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>For your listening pleasure: a 24 minute recording of the pirate radio station, <em>Hardtack Radio<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Hard Tack Radio plays <a title=\"What is the American Civil War?\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/American_Civil_War\" target=\"_blank\">US Civil War<\/a> era songs &#8220;celebrating the Blue and the Gray.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>I caught Hardtack&#8217;s broadcast Friday night (April 12) around 23:10 UTC. Their upper side band signal was pretty strong and well above the active noise floor, though there was a\u00a0heterodyne\/data\u00a0noise located right around 6926.8 kHz. You won&#8217;t hear this noise in the recording below, because I effectively used the WinRadio Excalibur&#8217;s notch filter to eliminate it. At the very end of the recording, I turn off the notch and you&#8217;ll hear the noise a few seconds before the broadcast ends.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Download Hard Tack Radio's audio\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/download\/HardTackRadio6.925MHz12Apr132310Z\/HardTackRadio-6.925MHz-12Apr13-2310Z.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to download the full recording of Hardtack Radio<\/a>, or simply listen via the embedded player below:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/embed\/HardTackRadio6.925MHz12Apr132310Z\" height=\"30\" width=\"500\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For your listening pleasure: a 24 minute recording of the pirate radio station, Hardtack Radio. Hard Tack Radio plays US Civil War era songs &#8220;celebrating the Blue and the Gray.&#8221; I caught Hardtack&#8217;s broadcast Friday night (April 12) around 23:10 UTC. Their upper side band signal was pretty strong and well above the active noise [&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":[297,1557,746,1167],"tags":[1861,1860,4092,693,79,4106,985],"class_list":["post-6217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pirate-radio","category-podcast","category-recordings","category-whats-on-shortwave","tag-hard-tack-radio","tag-hardtack-radio","tag-pirate-radio","tag-pirate-radio-recordings","tag-podcasts","tag-recordings","tag-shortwave-pirate-radio"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-1Ch","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10176,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/07\/pirate-radio-recordings-the-crystal-ship-2\/","url_meta":{"origin":6217,"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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