{"id":8342,"date":"2013-12-19T08:15:10","date_gmt":"2013-12-19T12:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=8342"},"modified":"2013-12-19T08:15:10","modified_gmt":"2013-12-19T12:15:10","slug":"pirate-radio-recordings-radio-free-whatever-pearl-harbor-tribute","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/12\/pirate-radio-recordings-radio-free-whatever-pearl-harbor-tribute\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirate Radio Recordings: Radio Free Whatever, Pearl Harbor Tribute"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/960px-USS_SHAW_exploding_Pearl_Harbor_Nara_80-G-16871_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8344\" alt=\"960px-USS_SHAW_exploding_Pearl_Harbor_Nara_80-G-16871_2\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/960px-USS_SHAW_exploding_Pearl_Harbor_Nara_80-G-16871_2.jpg\" width=\"960\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/960px-USS_SHAW_exploding_Pearl_Harbor_Nara_80-G-16871_2.jpg 960w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/960px-USS_SHAW_exploding_Pearl_Harbor_Nara_80-G-16871_2-300x240.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/12\/960px-USS_SHAW_exploding_Pearl_Harbor_Nara_80-G-16871_2-100x80.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For your listening pleasure: one hour, seven minutes of the pirate radio station,\u00a0<em>Radio Free Whatever<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>I recorded this broadcast on\u00a0December 15 2013, starting around 2:40 UTC, on 6,925 kHz AM. This broadcast was a tribute to WWII and Pearl Harbor and contains news clips and music from the same time period. I believe my recording begins about five or so minutes into their broadcast.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Radio Free Whatever\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/download\/RadioFreeWhateverPearlHarbor6.925MH\/RadioFreeWhateverPearlHarbor-6.925MH.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">Simply click here to download an MP3 of the recording<\/a>, or listen via the embedded player below:<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/embed\/RadioFreeWhateverPearlHarbor6.925MH\" height=\"30\" width=\"500\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For your listening pleasure: one hour, seven minutes of the pirate radio station,\u00a0Radio Free Whatever. I recorded this broadcast on\u00a0December 15 2013, starting around 2:40 UTC, on 6,925 kHz AM. This broadcast was a tribute to WWII and Pearl Harbor and contains news clips and music from the same time period. I believe my recording [&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":[3,305,297,1557,288,746],"tags":[2426,4092,693,2073,4106,1310],"class_list":["post-8342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-nostalgia","category-pirate-radio","category-podcast","category-radio-history","category-recordings","tag-pearl-harbor","tag-pirate-radio","tag-pirate-radio-recordings","tag-radio-free-whatever","tag-recordings","tag-shortwave-pirates"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-2ay","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":29509,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2017\/12\/from-the-post-archives-radio-free-whatever-a-pearl-harbor-tribute\/","url_meta":{"origin":8342,"position":0},"title":"From the Post Archives: Radio Free Whatever&#8211;A Pearl Harbor Tribute","author":"Thomas","date":"December 7, 2017","format":false,"excerpt":"President Franklin Roosevelt called December 7, 1941, \"a date which will live in infamy\"--the day Japan attacked Pearl Harbor, Hawaii by air. 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Today (December 7, 2020) is the 79th anniversary. This morning, I was once again reminded of an off-air recording I made in 2013 of the pirate radio station,\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;News&quot;","block_context":{"text":"News","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/news\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/1024px-Attack_on_Pearl_Harbor_Japanese_planes_view.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200,"srcset":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/1024px-Attack_on_Pearl_Harbor_Japanese_planes_view.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1 1x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/1024px-Attack_on_Pearl_Harbor_Japanese_planes_view.jpg?resize=525%2C300&ssl=1 1.5x, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/1024px-Attack_on_Pearl_Harbor_Japanese_planes_view.jpg?resize=700%2C400&ssl=1 2x"},"classes":[]},{"id":7028,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/08\/pirate-radio-recordings-radio-free-whatever\/","url_meta":{"origin":8342,"position":2},"title":"Pirate Radio Recordings: Radio Free Whatever","author":"Thomas","date":"August 11, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Last night, I caught pirate radio station Radio Free Whatever; a new one for me. 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