{"id":7561,"date":"2013-10-12T07:40:01","date_gmt":"2013-10-12T11:40:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=7561"},"modified":"2013-10-12T07:43:42","modified_gmt":"2013-10-12T11:43:42","slug":"pirate-radio-recordings-radio-casablanca-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/pirate-radio-recordings-radio-casablanca-3\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirate Radio Recordings: Radio Casablanca"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Casablanca.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5097\" alt=\"Casablanca\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Casablanca-300x228.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"228\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Casablanca-300x228.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Casablanca-100x76.jpg 100w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/Casablanca.jpg 709w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Thursday night, I received word from Richard Blaine at Radio Casablanca:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We plan to be on the air tonight on 6940 kHz AM, starting sometime around 2300 UTC, and running until the plane to Lisbon has departed.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So at 23:00 Zulu, I started recording&#8230;<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/embed\/RadioCasablanca6.939MHz10OCT13230\" height=\"30\" width=\"500\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Though the noise level was particularly high on the lower HF bands, and Casablanca&#8217;s signal wasn&#8217;t quite as strong as <a title=\"Other Radio Casablanca posts\" href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/tag\/radio-casablanca\" target=\"_blank\">previous nights<\/a>, I could still enjoy Blaine&#8217;s nostalgic mix of WWII era music through the static. What a treat.<\/p>\n<p>You can listen to the full recording via the embedded player above, or simply <a title=\"Radio Casablanca\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/download\/RadioCasablanca6.939MHz10OCT13230\/RadioCasablanca-6.939MHz-10OCT13-230.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">click here to download the MP3<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday night, I received word from Richard Blaine at Radio Casablanca: &#8220;We plan to be on the air tonight on 6940 kHz AM, starting sometime around 2300 UTC, and running until the plane to Lisbon has departed.&#8221; So at 23:00 Zulu, I started recording&#8230; Though the noise level was particularly high on the lower HF [&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":[56,297,746,651,43,1167],"tags":[4092,693,1538,985,1310],"class_list":["post-7561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasters","category-pirate-radio","category-recordings","category-schedules-and-frequencies","category-shortwave-radio","category-whats-on-shortwave","tag-pirate-radio","tag-pirate-radio-recordings","tag-radio-casablanca","tag-shortwave-pirate-radio","tag-shortwave-pirates"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-1XX","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":13018,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/pirate-radio-recordings-rado-casablanca\/","url_meta":{"origin":7561,"position":0},"title":"Pirate Radio Recordings: Radio Casablanca","author":"Thomas","date":"April 19, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"Thursday night at 00:00 UTC, I was pleased to hear the interval signal of one of my favorite pirate radio stations: Radio Casablanca. \"Rick Blaine\" fired up his AM transmitter and pumped out some amazing WWII era music on 6,940 kHz for well over one hour and a half. 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