Pirate radio

The term pirate radio lacks a specific universal interpretation. It implies a form of broadcasting that is unwelcomed by the licensing authorities within the territory where its signals are received, especially when the country of transmission is the same as the country of reception. When the area of transmission is not a country, or when it is a country and the transmissions are not illegal, those same broadcast signals may be deemed illegal in the country of reception. Therefore "pirate radio" can mean many things to many people. Pirate radio stations are sometimes called bootleg stations.

External links

• The movie Pump Up The Volume came out in 1990 and featured Christian Slater as a high school student who runs a pirate radio station.
• Click on "History" at RadioJackie.com to read how one English urban pirate station struggled from 1969 until 2003 to reach the status of legality with a scheduled daily output. Their story and level of community support are not typical of land-based pirate radio.
• Les pionniers des radios libres French free radio (French)
• Des radios pirates aux radios libres (French)
• How to be a Community Radio Station (formerly known as "How to be a Radio Pirate")
• To promote neighbourhood, community and open-access radio stations;
• To demystify the art of broadcast electronics;
• To be a source of high quality technical information;
• To review equipment and information available elsewhere.
• Pirate Radio
• Pirate Radio Hall of Fame
• When Don Pierson of Eastland, Texas created the most successful offshore stations of the 1960s: "Wonderful Radio London", "Swinging Radio England" and "Britain Radio - 'Hallmark of Quality'", he had no idea that the legacy of his creation would outlive his death in 1996. However, he did attempt one comeback of one his stations as "Wonderful Radio London International" in 1984. The station did not manage to come back on the air as a full time ship based radio station, but the company did produce its own new "Wonderful Radio London" programs which were heard nightly over 250,000 watts XERF-AM (Ciudad Acuña, Mexico across the Rio Grande river from Del Rio, Texas) and a handful of US domestic stations, which included Don Pierson's own radio station: KVMX-FM in Eastland, Texas. Since his death there have been other revivals and even other claims to the name. See The Wonderful Radio London Story
• For more information about Sir James Goldsmith's Referendum Radio of 1997, see: Sir James Goldsmith web site and the story of the ship Kowloon Moon
• For a listeners perspective on Offshore Pirate Radio mainly in the 60s and 70s look at the offshore radio chunk at http://www.wirelesswaffle.co.uk