{"id":67255,"date":"2026-09-30T06:06:33","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T10:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=67255"},"modified":"2026-09-30T06:06:33","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T10:06:33","slug":"more-pirate-radio-waterfall-images","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/more-pirate-radio-waterfall-images\/","title":{"rendered":"More Pirate Radio Waterfall Images"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Many thanks to <em>SWLing Post<\/em> contributor Perry Lusk, who writes:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Thanks to Dan Greenall <a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/waterfall-images-from-pirate-radio\/\">for the article on SDR waterfalls<\/a>. There is a lot of activity lately that I have found on the Kiwi SDR KF8KK located in Michigan.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">So far, Stern Radio has the most creative examples:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Pirate-Radio-Images-1.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-67256\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Pirate-Radio-Images-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Pirate-Radio-Images-1.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Pirate-Radio-Images-1-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Pirate-Radio-Images-1-1024x576.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Pirate-Radio-Images-1-768x432.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Pirate-Radio-Images-1-624x351.jpeg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">As you can see, they broadcast in Motorola C-QUAM Stereo AM. The SDR will decode it by selecting QAM next to the AM mode button. It is quite the experience.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Pirate-Radio-Images-2.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-67257\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Pirate-Radio-Images-2.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1081\" height=\"665\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Pirate-Radio-Images-2.jpeg 1081w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Pirate-Radio-Images-2-300x185.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Pirate-Radio-Images-2-1024x630.jpeg 1024w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Pirate-Radio-Images-2-768x472.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Pirate-Radio-Images-2-624x384.jpeg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1081px) 100vw, 1081px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">I have also attached an audio recording in stereo:<\/p>\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-67255-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Aug-16-2026-6933-QUAM-khz-pirate.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Aug-16-2026-6933-QUAM-khz-pirate.mp3\">https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Aug-16-2026-6933-QUAM-khz-pirate.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor Perry Lusk, who writes: Thanks to Dan Greenall for the article on SDR waterfalls. There is a lot of activity lately that I have found on the Kiwi SDR KF8KK located in Michigan. So far, Stern Radio has the most creative examples: As you can see, they broadcast in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_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},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[3,297,43],"tags":[10384,4092,4082],"class_list":["post-67255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-pirate-radio","category-shortwave-radio","tag-perry-lusk","tag-pirate-radio","tag-shortwave-radio"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-huL","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67255","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=67255"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67255\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67259,"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67255\/revisions\/67259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}