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NW7US

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WAIT FOR IT... I FIRST LISTEN TO A WEAK PIRATE STATION, THEN I TUNE TO THE VERY STRONG PIRATE STATION.

I caught some strong-signal pirate radio, this evening (around 23:45 UTC, Easter Sunday, 04-April-2021 UTC).  Here's a video capture.



I enjoyed catching these two pirate radio (non-licensed, illegal) broadcasting just under 7 MHz (40 Meters), on Easter Sunday 2021.  The second station had very strong signal into Ohio.

The 2nd station is the INFAMOUS CAPTAIN MORGAN pirate station.

This is a good season for pirate radio, so get out your radios and big antenna systems...

My antenna (used for this video capture) is an off-center-fed dipole up at 50 feet.  220 total feet of wire end to end.  The feedline is 450-ohm ladder line, about 83 feet, which feeds into a 4:1 balun that then connects with a 50-ohm coax that runs it into the receiver.  The receiver is the SDRplay RSPdx.

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Respectfully to the op, isn't a pirate radio just an ham who is breaking the rules and transmitting out of band, why does he or she get a pass?
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NW7US

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Respectfully to the op, isn't a pirate radio just an ham who is breaking the rules and transmitting out of band, why does he or she get a pass?

Greetings from the radio room.

According to Wiki ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_radio ):

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Pirate radio or a pirate radio station is a radio station that broadcasts without a valid license.

In some cases, radio stations are considered legal where the signal is transmitted, but illegal where the signals are received—especially when the signals cross a national boundary. In other cases, a broadcast may be considered "pirate" due to the nature of its content, its transmission format (especially a failure to transmit a station identification according to regulations), or the transmit power (wattage) of the station, even if the transmission is not technically illegal (such as an amateur radio transmission). Pirate radio is sometimes called bootleg radio (a term especially associated with two-way radio), clandestine radio (associated with heavily politically motivated operations) or free radio.

Thus, I cannot say with any authority that the person or persons originating the pirate radio station signals that I recorded are or are not amateur radio operators.  I have no idea who it is.

Regarding "free pass,"  what does that mean?  I am only reporting and sharing what I heard.

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