{"id":7986,"date":"2013-11-23T09:58:31","date_gmt":"2013-11-23T13:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=7986"},"modified":"2013-11-23T18:42:03","modified_gmt":"2013-11-23T22:42:03","slug":"pirate-radio-recordings-jfk-shortwave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/11\/pirate-radio-recordings-jfk-shortwave\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirate Radio Recordings: JFK Shortwave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/JFK-Shortwave-QSL-.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-7995\" alt=\"JFK Shortwave QSL-\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/JFK-Shortwave-QSL--300x226.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"226\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/JFK-Shortwave-QSL--300x226.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/JFK-Shortwave-QSL--100x75.jpg 100w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/11\/JFK-Shortwave-QSL-.jpg 796w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Yesterday marked the <a title=\"Wikipedia entry\" href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Assassination_of_John_F._Kennedy\" target=\"_blank\">50th anniversary of the assassination of US President, John F. Kennedy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Last night, I tuned in and recorded the pirate radio station, <em>JFK Shortwave:<\/em>\u00a0a tribute broadcast inspired by the late President Kennedy, filled with an array of music, sound clips and even parody.<\/p>\n<p><em>JFK Shortwave<\/em>&#8216;s upper side band broadcast lasted for a little over half of an hour, starting around 00:07 UTC (23 November 2013) on 6,930 kHz.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Right click and save!\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/download\/JFKShortwave6.930MHz23NOV130007Z\/JFKShortwave-6.930MHz-23NOV13-0007Z.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=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/embed\/JFKShortwave6.930MHz23NOV130007Z\" height=\"30\" width=\"500\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday marked the 50th anniversary of the assassination of US President, John F. Kennedy. Last night, I tuned in and recorded the pirate radio station, JFK Shortwave:\u00a0a tribute broadcast inspired by the late President Kennedy, filled with an array of music, sound clips and even parody. JFK Shortwave&#8216;s upper side band broadcast lasted for a [&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":[305,297,1557,746,1167],"tags":[2348,2349,4092,693,4118,4106],"class_list":["post-7986","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-nostalgia","category-pirate-radio","category-podcast","category-recordings","category-whats-on-shortwave","tag-jfk-shortwave","tag-john-f-kennedy","tag-pirate-radio","tag-pirate-radio-recordings","tag-podcast","tag-recordings"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-24O","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5510,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/pirate-radio-recordings-red-mercury-labs\/","url_meta":{"origin":7986,"position":0},"title":"Pirate Radio Recordings: Red Mercury Labs","author":"Thomas","date":"February 2, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Last Saturday night, I caught the shortwave radio pirate, Red Mercury Labs, on 6.9251 MHz in the upper side band. This broadcast, which started around 1:57 UTC, contains a great mix of rock music with some commentary throughout. You can download the full recording as an MP3 file by clicking\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Broadcasters&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Broadcasters","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/broadcasters\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"electromagneticradiowaves","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/electromagneticradiowaves.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":5534,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/pirate-radio-recordings-radio-gaga\/","url_meta":{"origin":7986,"position":1},"title":"Pirate Radio Recordings: Radio GaGa","author":"Thomas","date":"February 8, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"For your listening pleasure: 28 minutes of pirate radio fun, courtesy of Radio GaGa. Recorded on Saturday, February 2nd, 2013\u2013starting around 00:10 UTC\u2013on 6.925 MHz (USB). Click here to download the MP3 of the recording, or simply listen below: Standard Pirate Radio Disclaimer:\u00a0This is a recording of a real pirate\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Broadcasters&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Broadcasters","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/broadcasters\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"\"All we hear is Radio GaGa!\"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/RadioListeningFamily-300x221.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":6029,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/pirate-radio-recordings-radio-ronin-shortwave-4\/","url_meta":{"origin":7986,"position":2},"title":"Pirate Radio Recordings: Radio Ronin Shortwave","author":"Thomas","date":"March 23, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"If you can't tell from the number of recordings I posted today, last night was a busy night for pirate radio. I heard no less than five pirates: AATW Radio, Red Mercury Labs Radio, Rave On Radio, Black Cat Radio and Radio Ronin Shortwave. Though many had great signals, the\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Music&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Music","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/music\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Ronin's mix starts with the Sex Pistols (Photo: 45cat.com)|","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/sex-pistols-god-save-the-queen-2007-294x300.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":5529,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/pirate-radio-recordings-rave-on-radio\/","url_meta":{"origin":7986,"position":3},"title":"Pirate Radio Recordings: Rave On Radio","author":"Thomas","date":"February 4, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"While Rave On Radio's upper side band signal was\u00a0fairly\u00a0weak, at least in my part of the world, on\u00a0Friday night, I managed to record it just the same. \u00a0The broadcast started around 23:15 UTC (February 1st) on 6,925 kHz. 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I was very surprised to hear a\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Pirate Radio&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Pirate Radio","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/pirate-radio\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"RadioListening","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/RadioListening-300x190.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":7986,"position":5},"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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