{"id":8471,"date":"2014-01-04T11:07:44","date_gmt":"2014-01-04T15:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=8471"},"modified":"2014-01-04T11:11:18","modified_gmt":"2014-01-04T15:11:18","slug":"pirate-radio-recordings-unid-percussion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/pirate-radio-recordings-unid-percussion\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirate Radio Recordings: UNID (percussion)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/AlwaysBeAPirate.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-8472\" alt=\"AlwaysBeAPirate\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/AlwaysBeAPirate-300x216.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"216\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/AlwaysBeAPirate-300x216.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/AlwaysBeAPirate-100x72.jpg 100w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/AlwaysBeAPirate.jpg 358w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>On New Year&#8217;s Eve (December 31, 2013), while band scanning, I tuned to 6,955 kHz around 22:15 UTC, and \u00a0heard a relatively strong pirate station.<\/p>\n<p>For at least 51 minutes, this unidentified pirate played various percussion music, much of which sounded like recordings of live drum circles. I never heard an ID during the broadcast, nor did anyone on the <a title=\"HF Underground\" href=\"http:\/\/www.hfunderground.com\/board\/index.php\/board,3.0.html\" target=\"_blank\">HF Underground board<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Listen for yourself:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/download\/UNIDPirate6.955MHz31DEC132200Z\/UNIDPirate--6.955MHz-31DEC13-2200Z.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">click here to download the recording as an MP3<\/a>, or simply listen via the embedded player below.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/embed\/UNIDPirate6.955MHz31DEC132200Z\" height=\"30\" width=\"500\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On New Year&#8217;s Eve (December 31, 2013), while band scanning, I tuned to 6,955 kHz around 22:15 UTC, and \u00a0heard a relatively strong pirate station. For at least 51 minutes, this unidentified pirate played various percussion music, much of which sounded like recordings of live drum circles. I never heard an ID during the broadcast, [&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":[442,297,1557,746],"tags":[4100,693,4106,1310,1617,2463],"class_list":["post-8471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-pirate-radio","category-podcast","category-recordings","tag-music","tag-pirate-radio-recordings","tag-recordings","tag-shortwave-pirates","tag-unid","tag-unidentified-pirates"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-2cD","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5414,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/pirate-radio-recordings-two-short-unid-broadcasts\/","url_meta":{"origin":8471,"position":0},"title":"Pirate Radio Recordings: Two short UNID broadcasts","author":"Thomas","date":"January 22, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"I was\u00a0travelling Saturday night, but had the foresight to set my WinRadio Excalibur to record the pirate spectrum. There were few pirates on the band--less than I would have expected to hear on a holiday weekend in the US--and some of them were plagued by a local broadcaster whose spurious\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Broadcasters&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Broadcasters","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/broadcasters\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"1-RadioListening2","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/1-RadioListening2-224x300.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":5226,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/pirate-radio-recordings-wknd\/","url_meta":{"origin":8471,"position":1},"title":"Pirate Radio Recordings: WKND","author":"Thomas","date":"December 24, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"The holidays are a great time to listen for pirates on the shortwave spectrum. Since many pirates are on holiday leave from their day jobs, they have a little more time to broadcast. Last night, the first pirate I heard was WKND on 9,625 kHz AM. His station was quite\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Broadcasters&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Broadcasters","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/broadcasters\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"1-RadioListening2","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/1-RadioListening2.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":4423,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2012\/09\/pirate-radio-recordings-northwoods-radio\/","url_meta":{"origin":8471,"position":2},"title":"Pirate Radio Recordings: North Woods Radio","author":"Thomas","date":"September 13, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Though listening conditions were tough Saturday night, as we were wedged between two lines of thunderstorms (both of which were no more than 60 miles away) I did manage to capture North Woods Radio's\u00a0full broadcast. This broadcast featured some noted drum solos. As you can\u00a0hear for yourself, their AM signal\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Pirate Radio&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Pirate Radio","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/pirate-radio\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/08\/pirate-150x150.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":5032,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2012\/12\/pirate-radio-recordings-true-classic-rock-radio\/","url_meta":{"origin":8471,"position":3},"title":"Pirate Radio Recordings: True Classic Rock Radio","author":"Thomas","date":"December 13, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"Last weekend, I caught a shortwave pirate I'd never heard before: True Classic Rock Radio. Well, at least I'm pretty confident that's their name. When I first heard their ID I couldn't confirm it, but when I passed the clip to my buddy Andrew, he nailed it. 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