Pirate radio stations are unlicensed transmissions, often clandestine in nature.
Halloween is the best night for pirates That makes it the best night to try and catch some pirate radio on the shortwave bands. For North America, try listening between 6.9 and 7 Mhz. Broadcasts may be in AM but also check USB and LSB. Happy hunting!
Here is another North American shortwave radio pirate; Moonlight Radio. Good signal this evening into the Toronto area. This was received on the ELAD FDM-DUO SDR radio. Antenna Par EF-SWL. The FRN http://www.frn.net/
Here is the Shortwave Ghost, putting on a Halloween Special, since it is October 31 today. Not the strongest pirate signal tonight. That belongs to Wolverine Radio on 6955 kHz shortwaveghost@outlook.com
I have over time picked up suspected pirate radio stations but have never paid much attention to them before. Here is Undercover Radio, coming from the middle of nowhere as they put it. Having an SDR radio and screen capture software makes it easy to document reception of station like this. I dropped an email … Read more