{"id":7445,"date":"2013-10-01T07:54:15","date_gmt":"2013-10-01T11:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=7445"},"modified":"2013-10-01T07:54:15","modified_gmt":"2013-10-01T11:54:15","slug":"the-secret-sound-borderhunter-qsl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/the-secret-sound-borderhunter-qsl\/","title":{"rendered":"The Secret Sound: Borderhunter QSL"},"content":{"rendered":"

Many thanks to Europirate Borderhunter<\/em> for this QSL. It’s not often that I can hear a pirate across the Atlantic so very well.\u00a0Click here for the original recording of this broadcast<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Many thanks to Europirate Borderhunter for this QSL. It’s not often that I can hear a pirate across the Atlantic so very well.\u00a0Click here for the original recording of this broadcast.<\/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":[297,894,1167],"tags":[2166,4092,2201,248,2165,2200],"class_list":["post-7445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pirate-radio","category-qsl-gallery","category-whats-on-shortwave","tag-europpirates","tag-pirate-radio","tag-pirate-radio-qsl","tag-qsl","tag-radio-borderhunter","tag-the-secret-sound-borderhunter"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-1W5","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7376,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/09\/pirate-radio-recordings-radio-borderhunter\/","url_meta":{"origin":7445,"position":0},"title":"Pirate Radio Recordings: Radio Borderhunter","author":"Thomas","date":"September 22, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"You'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. 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