{"id":7376,"date":"2013-09-22T17:39:02","date_gmt":"2013-09-22T21:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=7376"},"modified":"2013-09-22T17:39:02","modified_gmt":"2013-09-22T21:39:02","slug":"pirate-radio-recordings-radio-borderhunter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/pirate-radio-recordings-radio-borderhunter\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirate Radio Recordings: Radio Borderhunter"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_4624\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/1-RadioListening.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4624\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4624\" alt=\"&quot;Woah! Timmy, is that Europe calling???&quot;\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/1-RadioListening-300x193.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"193\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/1-RadioListening-300x193.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/1-RadioListening-100x64.jpg 100w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/1-RadioListening.jpg 350w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-4624\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;Whoa! Timmy, is that <em>Europe<\/em> calling?&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<p>You&#8217;ll typically find North American radio pirates here on the SWLing Post, but on occasion, I do manage to pull in a station or two from Europe. \u00a0Last night was one of those rare occasions, and I have <a title=\"Pirates Week!\" href=\"http:\/\/shortwavepirate.info\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ragnar at Pirates Week<\/a> to thank for the tip.<\/p>\n<p>I tuned in Europirate\u00a0<em>Radio Borderhunter\u00a0<\/em>on 15,500 kHz AM, starting around 21:50 UTC. For an AM signal out of Europe, I was most impressed with <em>Radio Borderhunter<\/em>&#8216;s strong signal.<\/p>\n<p>I recorded about forty minutes of the pirate&#8217;s broadcast before propagation shifted. \u00a0He then moved down to 6,210 kHz in the 48 meter band, a prime Europirate hangout, to continue his show.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"download as an mp3\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/download\/BorderhunterRadio15.5MHz22SEP1321\/BorderhunterRadio-15.5MHz-22SEP13-21.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to download the recording as an MP3<\/a>, or simply listen via the embedded player below:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/archive.org\/embed\/BorderhunterRadio15.5MHz22SEP1321\" height=\"30\" width=\"500\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>By the way, <a href=\"http:\/\/shortwavepirate.info\/\" target=\"_blank\">check out Ragnar&#8217;s latest podcast on Pirates Week!<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;ll typically find North American radio pirates here on the SWLing Post, but on occasion, I do manage to pull in a station or two from Europe. \u00a0Last night was one of those rare occasions, and I have Ragnar at Pirates Week to thank for the tip. I tuned in Europirate\u00a0Radio Borderhunter\u00a0on 15,500 kHz AM, [&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":[56,297,746,1167],"tags":[2166,4092,693,2165,1310],"class_list":["post-7376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-pirate-radio","category-recordings","category-whats-on-shortwave","tag-europpirates","tag-pirate-radio","tag-pirate-radio-recordings","tag-radio-borderhunter","tag-shortwave-pirates"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-1UY","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7445,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/the-secret-sound-borderhunter-qsl\/","url_meta":{"origin":7376,"position":0},"title":"The Secret Sound: Borderhunter QSL","author":"Thomas","date":"October 1, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Many thanks to Europirate Borderhunter for this QSL. 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Even as many legacy international broadcasters are abandoning the shortwave bands, shortwave remains active and vibrant in another quadrant: namely, on shortwave pirate radio. Over the past few years, I\u2019ve found that one of my favorite\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Articles&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Articles","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/articles\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"QSL from Radio Gallifrey Intergalactic","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/twGallifrey-QSL-300x182.png?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":4492,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/pirate-radio-recordings-radio-ronin-shortwave\/","url_meta":{"origin":7376,"position":2},"title":"Pirate Radio Recordings: Radio Ronin Shortwave","author":"Thomas","date":"September 24, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Saturday night was one of the most active nights for pirate radio I've heard in some time. No doubt, pirates were taking advantage of the quiet\u00a0atmospheric\u00a0conditions. Radio Ronin was the first station I heard Saturday evening. His AM signal was very strong with only slight fading on 6,955 kHz. The\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Broadcasters&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Broadcasters","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/broadcasters\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/09\/steppenwolfmagiccarpetride-300x297.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":5697,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/pirate-radio-recordings-wmpr\/","url_meta":{"origin":7376,"position":3},"title":"Pirate Radio Recordings: WMPR","author":"Thomas","date":"February 20, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"For your listening pleasure: 32 minutes of pirate radio station, WMPR. I recorded this broadcast of WMPR on 6.925MHz AM on February 17th, 2013 at 10:00 UTC. 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