{"id":9777,"date":"2014-05-29T16:32:01","date_gmt":"2014-05-29T20:32:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=9777"},"modified":"2014-05-30T13:15:58","modified_gmt":"2014-05-30T17:15:58","slug":"pirate-radio-recordings-hot-legs-radio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/pirate-radio-recordings-hot-legs-radio\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirate Radio Recordings: Hot Legs Radio (corrected)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1330\" style=\"width: 490px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/RadioListening.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1330\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1330\" src=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/RadioListening.jpg\" alt=\"&quot;Grandma! Is that Cyndi Lauper buried in the static?&quot;\" width=\"480\" height=\"304\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/RadioListening.jpg 480w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/RadioListening-300x190.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1330\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;Grandma! Is that Cyndi Lauper buried in the static?&#8221;<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"color: #333333;\">For your listening pleasure: about 20 minutes\u00a0of pirate radio station,\u00a0<em>Hot Legs\u00a0Radio<\/em>\u2013recorded May 25, 2014 starting around 1:55\u00a0UTC.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #333333;\"><em>Hot Legs Radio<\/em>\u00a0was broadcasting around 6,925\u00a0kHz in AM.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #333333;\"><em>Hot Legs<\/em>\u00a0was rather weak and somewhat over-modulated during this broadcast. Indeed, in regular AM mode, I couldn&#8217;t make out the station ID at all. Fortunately, by turning on the <a title=\"A review of the WiNRADiO WR-G31DDC \u201cExcalibur\u201d software defined radio (SDR)\" href=\"http:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2012\/10\/a-review-of-the-winradio-wr-g31ddc-excalibur-software-defined-radio-sdr\/\">WinRadio Excalibur<\/a>&#8216;s AM synchronous detector and selecting the less noisy lower sideband, I dug the signal out of the noise. AM sync also helped compensate for the over-modulation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #333333;\">You&#8217;ll hear me re-tune a couple of times in this recording. <em>Hot Leg<\/em>s&#8217; signal was a bit of a moving target. \u00a0I don&#8217;t think it would have been as noticeable in standard AM mode (which is more forgiving of drift), but in AM sync, you&#8217;ll hear a tone when the frequency shifts.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #333333;\">Still, I&#8217;m quite happy to have caught\u00a0<em>Hot Legs Radio<\/em>&#8211;a new pirate logging! Hope to hear them on again soon.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #333333;\"><a title=\"Download Hot Raves Radio\" href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/download\/HotRavesRadio6.924442MHz25MAY1401\/HotRavesRadio-6.924442MHz-25MAY14-01.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">Click here to download the recording as an MP3<\/a>\u00a0or simply listen via the embedded player below:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/embed\/HotRavesRadio6.924442MHz25MAY1401\" width=\"500\" height=\"30\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><em>Update: Correction to station name. I originally posted this as &#8220;Hot Raves Radio.&#8221; Many thanks to Andy Yoder for the correction!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For your listening pleasure: about 20 minutes\u00a0of pirate radio station,\u00a0Hot Legs\u00a0Radio\u2013recorded May 25, 2014 starting around 1:55\u00a0UTC. Hot Legs Radio\u00a0was broadcasting around 6,925\u00a0kHz in AM. Hot Legs\u00a0was rather weak and somewhat over-modulated during this broadcast. Indeed, in regular AM mode, I couldn&#8217;t make out the station ID at all. Fortunately, by turning on the WinRadio [&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":[442,3,297,746],"tags":[2962,2963,4092,693,1310,4082],"class_list":["post-9777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-news","category-pirate-radio","category-recordings","tag-hot-legs","tag-hot-legs-radio","tag-pirate-radio","tag-pirate-radio-recordings","tag-shortwave-pirates","tag-shortwave-radio"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pn3uc-2xH","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5384,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/pirate-radio-recordings-renegade-radio\/","url_meta":{"origin":9777,"position":0},"title":"Pirate Radio Recordings: Renegade Radio","author":"Thomas","date":"January 15, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Friday night (late) I caught Renegade Radio on 6.93 MHz in the upper side band. 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Wolverine was broadcasting on 6,945 kHz in the upper side band. Typical of Wolverine, lots of music variety which spans the decades and no commentary other than station\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Music&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Music","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/music\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"SSTV-28Apr2014-080706","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/SSTV-28Apr2014-080706.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":5740,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/pirate-radio-recordings-wolverine-radio-4\/","url_meta":{"origin":9777,"position":3},"title":"Pirate Radio Recordings: Wolverine Radio","author":"Thomas","date":"February 23, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"For your listening pleasure: 2 hours and 46 minutes of pirate radio station, Wolverine Radio--recorded\u00a0Sunday, February 17, 2013 around 2:40 UTC. Wolverine was broadcasting on 6.925 MHz in the upper side band. 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As you'll hear, the signal was quite strong, with\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Music&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Music","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/category\/music\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Frank_Sinatra_laughing","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/Frank_Sinatra_laughing-232x300.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":7569,"url":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/pirate-radio-recordings-wolverine-radio-5\/","url_meta":{"origin":9777,"position":5},"title":"Pirate Radio Recordings: Wolverine Radio","author":"Thomas","date":"October 13, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"For your listening pleasure: 1 hour and 44 minutes of pirate radio station, Wolverine Radio\u2013recorded Saturday, October 12, 2013 starting around 1:15 UTC. Wolverine was broadcasting on 6.945 MHz in the upper side band. 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