{"id":6455,"date":"2013-05-07T17:07:41","date_gmt":"2013-05-07T21:07:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=6455"},"modified":"2013-05-08T13:18:22","modified_gmt":"2013-05-08T17:18:22","slug":"pirate-radio-recordings-radio-cinco-de-mayo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/pirate-radio-recordings-radio-cinco-de-mayo\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirate Radio Recordings: Radio Cinco De Mayo"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_5539\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/RadioListeningFamily.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5539\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-5539\" alt=\"&quot;Dad, what better way could we celebrate this day than listening to Radio Cinco De Mayo?&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\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5539\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;What better way could we celebrate this day than listening to Radio Cinco De Mayo?&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Radio Cinco De Mayo made its annual broadcast on (you guessed it!) May 5th, 2013, starting around 00:17 UTC on 6925 kHz USB.<\/p>\n<p>Early Saturday morning, the band&#8217;s condition sounded like that of summer, with atmospheric noises (a few static crashes, produced by local thunderstorms), but propagation was steady and the overall quality very respectable.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Download the full recording\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/download\/RadioCincoDeMayo6.925MHz05May1300\/RadioCincoDeMayo-6.925MHz-05May13-00.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">You can download an MP3 of the full recording by clicking here<\/a>, or by listening via the embedded player below:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/embed\/RadioCincoDeMayo6.925MHz05May1300\" height=\"30\" width=\"500\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Check out Ragnar&#8217;s off-air recording of Radio Cinco De Mayo (and more!) <a title=\"Pirates Week\" href=\"http:\/\/shortwavepirate.info\/?p=2117\" target=\"_blank\">on his PiratesWeek podcast<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATE (May 08): Just received my Radio Cinco De Mayo QSL:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/radiocincodemayo-2013-2-qsl.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6465\" alt=\"radiocincodemayo 2013-2 qsl\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/radiocincodemayo-2013-2-qsl.jpg\" width=\"735\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/radiocincodemayo-2013-2-qsl.jpg 735w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/radiocincodemayo-2013-2-qsl-300x163.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/radiocincodemayo-2013-2-qsl-100x54.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 735px) 100vw, 735px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Radio Cinco De Mayo made its annual broadcast on (you guessed it!) May 5th, 2013, starting around 00:17 UTC on 6925 kHz USB. Early Saturday morning, the band&#8217;s condition sounded like that of summer, with atmospheric noises (a few static crashes, produced by local thunderstorms), but propagation was steady and the overall quality very respectable. 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