{"id":432,"date":"2010-12-11T18:00:24","date_gmt":"2010-12-11T23:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/midx.wordpress.com\/?p=432"},"modified":"2010-12-11T18:00:24","modified_gmt":"2010-12-11T23:00:24","slug":"pirates-at-the-top-of-the-dial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amdxer.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2010\/12\/11\/pirates-at-the-top-of-the-dial\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirates at the top of the dial"},"content":{"rendered":"

There’s been a buzz going around regarding the mystery oldies station on 1710 calling itself “The Big Q”.\u00a0 See this post for more details<\/a>.\u00a0 More DXers are reporting reception and it was heard in Oregon as recently as last week on 1710 khz.\u00a0 With all of this recent talk, it has reminded me of some old pirate stations that I remember hearing back in the 80s at the upper end of the dial.\u00a0 I also remember that catching any pirate on medium wave was a big deal back then (to me anyway).\u00a0 Snagging a pirate reception on shortwave was difficult enough back then, and hearing something on MW from the midwest was even tougher.\u00a0 Today when I scan the band above 1700 khz, I routinely hear both Radio Soleil Int’l. & Radio Celestial from the east coast on 1710 – not exactly exciting pirate catches.\u00a0 Before the expanded AM band came into place, I fondly remember hearing pirate station WJDI pumping out music on 1620 with a said power of 2.5 kw. The Radio Animal’s WKND was also heard at the top of the dial at least once here.\u00a0 Digging way back in my pirate archive, I’ve pulled a few audio samples to bring back those warm fuzzies:<\/p>\n

WJDI_1620_Khz_0500_UTC_11DE89_00.mp3<\/a><\/a>
\nWJDI_1620_Khz_0500_UTC_11DE89_01.mp3<\/a>
\nWJDI_1620_Khz_0500_UTC_11DE89_02.mp3<\/a>
\nWJDI_1620_Khz_0500_UTC_11DE89_03.mp3<\/a><\/p>\n

WKND_1620_Khz_0614_UTC_17DE89_01.mp3<\/a>
\nWKND_1620_Khz_0614_UTC_17DE89_02.mp3<\/a><\/p>\n

Sadly, I never got one of those spiffy WJDI tower QSLs \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n

Long live the hobby<\/span> pirates at the top of the dial!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

There’s been a buzz going around regarding the mystery oldies station on 1710 calling itself “The Big Q”.\u00a0 See this post for more details.\u00a0 More DXers are reporting reception and it was heard in Oregon as recently as last week on 1710 khz.\u00a0 With all of this recent talk, it has reminded me of some […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,9,1],"tags":[52],"class_list":["post-432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pirate","category-radio","category-uncategorized","tag-wjdi-wknd-medium-wave-am-pirate-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amdxer.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amdxer.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amdxer.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amdxer.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amdxer.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amdxer.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amdxer.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amdxer.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amdxer.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}