{"id":7365,"date":"2013-09-21T10:33:03","date_gmt":"2013-09-21T14:33:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=7365"},"modified":"2013-09-22T10:52:22","modified_gmt":"2013-09-22T14:52:22","slug":"pirate-radio-recordings-radio-gallifrey-intergalactic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/pirate-radio-recordings-radio-gallifrey-intergalactic\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirate Radio Recordings: Radio Gallifrey Intergalactic"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_7366\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Gallifrey_Sound_of_Drums.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7366\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-7366\" alt=\"The Citadel of the Time Lords on Gallifrey (Source: Wikimedia Commons)\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Gallifrey_Sound_of_Drums-300x173.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"173\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Gallifrey_Sound_of_Drums-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Gallifrey_Sound_of_Drums-100x57.jpg 100w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/Gallifrey_Sound_of_Drums.jpg 415w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7366\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Citadel of the Time Lords on Gallifrey (Source: Wikimedia Commons)<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Last night, I recorded pirate station,\u00a0<em>Radio Gallifrey Intergalactic<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><em>RGI<\/em> appeared on 6,935 kHz USB and started their broadcast with a set of audio sweeps (<a title=\"Notice the diagonal lines?\" href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/GallifreyWaterfallSweeps.png\">which looked rather distinctive on my SDR&#8217;s waterfall<\/a>), followed by tones and then straight into the Dr. Who theme.<\/p>\n<p>What followed was a free-form set of spacy electronic music; from ambient to trance. You&#8217;ll hear their station ID in Morse code.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Right click and save to download\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/download\/RadioGallifreyIntergalactic6.935MHz21SEP130054Z\/RadioGallifreyIntergalactic-6.935MHz-21SEP13-0054Z.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to download an MP3 of the full broadcast<\/a>, or simply listen via the embedded player below:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/embed\/RadioGallifreyIntergalactic6.935MHz21SEP130054Z\" height=\"30\" width=\"500\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/twGallifrey-QSL.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7373\" alt=\"twGallifrey-QSL\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/twGallifrey-QSL.png\" width=\"768\" height=\"468\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/twGallifrey-QSL.png 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/twGallifrey-QSL-300x182.png 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/twGallifrey-QSL-100x60.png 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night, I recorded pirate station,\u00a0Radio Gallifrey Intergalactic. RGI appeared on 6,935 kHz USB and started their broadcast with a set of audio sweeps (which looked rather distinctive on my SDR&#8217;s waterfall), followed by tones and then straight into the Dr. Who theme. What followed was a free-form set of spacy electronic music; from ambient [&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":[56,442,297,746],"tags":[2163,4092,693,2162,1310],"class_list":["post-7365","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-music","category-pirate-radio","category-recordings","tag-dr-who","tag-pirate-radio","tag-pirate-radio-recordings","tag-radio-gallifrey-intergalactic","tag-shortwave-pirates"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-1UN","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":9040,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/pirate-radio-recordings-radio-gallifrey-intergalactic-3\/","url_meta":{"origin":7365,"position":0},"title":"Pirate Radio Recordings: Radio Gallifrey Intergalactic","author":"Thomas","date":"March 22, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"Last night, after returning from nearly two weeks of travel, I recorded pirate station,\u00a0Radio Gallifrey Intergalactic. 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Gallifrey started the broadcast with their customary audio sweeps and Dr. Who theme, then straight into the\u00a0Beatles, \"Strawberry Fields Forever.\" Brilliant! [I know my buddy, BJ, will enjoy this combo.] Radio Gallifrey Intergalactic was on\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Broadcasters&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Broadcasters","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/broadcasters\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Beatles","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/10\/Beatles-300x300.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":8851,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/03\/how-to-tune-in-pirate-radio-broadcasts-on-shortwave\/","url_meta":{"origin":7365,"position":2},"title":"How To Tune In Pirate Radio Broadcasts on Shortwave","author":"Thomas","date":"March 3, 2014","format":false,"excerpt":"This article originally appeared in the February 2014 issue of The Spectrum Monitor Magazine. 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