{"id":7170,"date":"2013-09-01T11:43:16","date_gmt":"2013-09-01T15:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=7170"},"modified":"2013-09-01T11:43:16","modified_gmt":"2013-09-01T15:43:16","slug":"pirate-radio-station-bochf-boards-of-canada-hf-back-on-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/pirate-radio-station-bochf-boards-of-canada-hf-back-on-air\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirate Radio Station BOCHF (Boards of Canada HF) back on air"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_7171\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/BOCHF2.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7171\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7171\" alt=\"QSL from BOCHF\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/BOCHF2-300x200.png\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/BOCHF2-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/BOCHF2-100x66.png 100w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/BOCHF2.png 550w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7171\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">QSL from BOCHF<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Again this morning at 2:20 UTC&#8211;and last night, during a <em>very<\/em> active night of pirate radio activity&#8211;<em>BOCHF<\/em> crept onto the airwaves, this time on 6,920 kHz USB.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Pirate Radio Recordings: BOCHF Radio (Boards of Canada HF)\" href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/pirate-radio-recordings-bochf-radio-boards-of-canada-hf\/\">Yesterday, <em>BOCHF<\/em> played the <em>Boards of Canada<\/em> album <em>Tomorrow&#8217;s Harves<\/em>t<\/a>; this morning, they played their album <em>In a Beautiful Place Out in the Country<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>And how did it sound?\u00a0 Combining the music of the <em>Boards of Canada<\/em> with the sonic texture of the shortwave ether is a winning combination, in my opinion. Thanks, BOCHF!\u00a0 But don&#8217;t take my word for it: take a listen yourself.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"download by right-clicking\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/download\/BOCHF6.92MHz01SEP130220Z\/BOCHF-6.92MHz-01SEP13-0220Z.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to download the full broadcast as an MP3<\/a>, or simply listen via the embedded player below:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/embed\/BOCHF6.92MHz01SEP130220Z\" height=\"30\" width=\"500\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>By the way, I recorded several other pirate stations last night&#8211;look for them in upcoming posts!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Again this morning at 2:20 UTC&#8211;and last night, during a very active night of pirate radio activity&#8211;BOCHF crept onto the airwaves, this time on 6,920 kHz USB. Yesterday, BOCHF played the Boards of Canada album Tomorrow&#8217;s Harvest; this morning, they played their album In a Beautiful Place Out in the Country. And how did it [&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":[56,442,297,894,746,1167],"tags":[1887,2113,4092,4106,1310],"class_list":["post-7170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-music","category-pirate-radio","category-qsl-gallery","category-recordings","category-whats-on-shortwave","tag-boards-of-canada","tag-bochf","tag-pirate-radio","tag-recordings","tag-shortwave-pirates"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-1RE","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7149,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/pirate-radio-recordings-bochf-radio-boards-of-canada-hf\/","url_meta":{"origin":7170,"position":0},"title":"Pirate Radio Recordings: BOCHF Radio (Boards of Canada HF)","author":"Thomas","date":"August 31, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Just last night, I came across a new shortwave pirate radio station: BOCHF. 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