{"id":9248,"date":"2014-04-12T09:39:58","date_gmt":"2014-04-12T13:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=9248"},"modified":"2014-04-12T09:39:58","modified_gmt":"2014-04-12T13:39:58","slug":"pirate-radio-recordings-chairman-of-the-board-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/04\/pirate-radio-recordings-chairman-of-the-board-radio\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirate Radio Recordings: Chairman of the Board Radio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Frank_Sinatra_laughing.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-9250\" alt=\"Frank_Sinatra_laughing\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Frank_Sinatra_laughing-232x300.jpg\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Frank_Sinatra_laughing-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Frank_Sinatra_laughing-77x100.jpg 77w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Frank_Sinatra_laughing.jpg 241w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 232px) 100vw, 232px\" \/><\/a>For your listening pleasure: a short 20 minute broadcast from the pirate radio station, <em>Chairman of the Board Radio<\/em>\u2013recorded Saturday, April 12, 2014 starting around 3:30 UTC.<\/p>\n<p><em>Chairman of the Board Radio<\/em>\u00a0was broadcasting on 6,935 kHz in the upper side band. As you&#8217;ll hear, the signal was quite strong, with just a little compression noise.<\/p>\n<p>I really enjoyed this short set of Frank Sinatra tunes. You&#8217;ll hear the station ID at the end with a shout out to listeners in Chicago.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Right click to download and save\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/download\/ChrmnOfTheBrdRad6.935MHz12APR1403\/ChrmnOfTheBrdRad-6.935MHz-12APR14-03.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\/ChrmnOfTheBrdRad6.935MHz12APR1403\" height=\"30\" width=\"500\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For your listening pleasure: a short 20 minute broadcast from the pirate radio station, Chairman of the Board Radio\u2013recorded Saturday, April 12, 2014 starting around 3:30 UTC. Chairman of the Board Radio\u00a0was broadcasting on 6,935 kHz in the upper side band. As you&#8217;ll hear, the signal was quite strong, with just a little compression noise. [&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":[442,297,1557,746,43,1167],"tags":[2739,2738,4092,4118,4106,1310],"class_list":["post-9248","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-pirate-radio","category-podcast","category-recordings","category-shortwave-radio","category-whats-on-shortwave","tag-chairman-of-the-board-radio","tag-frank-sinatra","tag-pirate-radio","tag-podcast","tag-recordings","tag-shortwave-pirates"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-2pa","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":6425,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/pirate-radio-recordings-shrimp-boat-radio-wsbr-a-k-a-freakin-awesome-radio-wfar\/","url_meta":{"origin":9248,"position":0},"title":"Pirate Radio Recordings: Shrimp Boat Radio, WSBR (a.k.a. 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