{"id":7471,"date":"2013-10-02T07:47:58","date_gmt":"2013-10-02T11:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=7471"},"modified":"2013-10-02T07:47:58","modified_gmt":"2013-10-02T11:47:58","slug":"with-the-fcc-in-shutdown-pirates-hit-the-air","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/with-the-fcc-in-shutdown-pirates-hit-the-air\/","title":{"rendered":"With the FCC in shutdown, pirates hit the air"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"pirate\"<\/a>I noted at least seven pirate radio loggings here in North America on Wednesday, October 1–the first day of the US government shutdown. This is a remarkable number of pirate loggings for a weekday night.<\/p>\n

I then saw a message from Ragnar Daneskjold<\/a>, pointing to the FCC’s printed plan for an “Orderly Shutdown Due to Lapse of Congressional Appropriations<\/a>” and this quote, in particular:<\/p>\n

“FCC activities other than those immediately necessary for the protection of life or property will cease.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

So I’m sure, as one SWLing Post reader pointed out, pirates will “play while the (FCC) cat is away.”<\/p>\n

During the US government shutdown, expect extra pirate activity weekday nights between 6920-6970 kHz.<\/p>\n

Click here to read other items related to the US government shutdown<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I noted at least seven pirate radio loggings here in North America on Wednesday, October 1–the first day of the US government shutdown. This is a remarkable number of pirate loggings for a weekday night. I then saw a message from Ragnar Daneskjold, pointing to the FCC’s printed plan for an “Orderly Shutdown Due to […]<\/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":[3,297,43,1167],"tags":[4092,2207,1310,2205,2202],"class_list":["post-7471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-pirate-radio","category-shortwave-radio","category-whats-on-shortwave","tag-pirate-radio","tag-pirates-shutdown","tag-shortwave-pirates","tag-shutdown","tag-us-government-shutdown"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-1Wv","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":7576,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/thanks-to-us-shutdown-pirate-radio-activity-reaches-an-all-time-high\/","url_meta":{"origin":7471,"position":0},"title":"Thanks to US shutdown, pirate radio activity reaches an all-time high","author":"Thomas","date":"October 14, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"As frustrated as many are over the US government shutdown, it nonetheless offers one unique benefit to the shortwave radio community, and to pirate radio in particular\u2013\u2013no FCC enforcement. 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