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Time Stations from the 1970s Heard in Ontario, Canada — And What You Can Still Hear Today

by Dan Greenall Time and standard frequency stations have been around for a long time. In my early years of DXing, there were more than 20 of them scattered all over the globe. These two pages fr…

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The SWL News Report: Two Iconic Stations Close | All About Radio Payam | WKRP in

 

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Fernando

Jun 6, 2026 MADRID
BBC’s Droitwich transmitter on 198 kHz long wave will close down in three weeks from now, and thus nearly a hundred years of illustrious history of radio broadcasting will just vanish in the air.

BBC Radio 4 on 198 kHz long wave

 

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The awesome sounding Hacker Super Sovereign: perfect way to listen to the Shipping Forecast 198 kHz​

Jun 15, 2026
It doesn't get much better than this, although my good friend tells me there is another Hacker model (the Herald I think) with a slightly larger speaker than the Super Sovereign. My goodness that radio must sound good, because the audio from this one is epic. 12:27
Thanks for watching and 73

The awesome sounding Hacker Super Sovereign: perfect way to listen to the

 

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Pirate radio - Wikipedia

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Radio Caroline - Wikipedia

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Pirate Radio Rewrote Broadcasting. So Where Is It Now?​

Jun 16, 2026
In 1964, a ship called the MV Mi Amigo anchored off the English coast and started broadcasting music that the BBC refused to play. Within three years, roughly fifteen million people were tuning in daily to a network of unauthorized offshore stations, and the British government was forced to completely rethink how domestic radio worked. What those pirate operators built didn't just change the playlist. It reshaped the format that commercial broadcasters worldwide still use today.
But the story didn't end when the ships were shut down. Pirate radio migrated somewhere nobody expected, incubated things the mainstream never saw coming, and evolved into a problem that governments across four continents are now spending millions of dollars and deploying AI-driven surveillance systems to contain. The enforcement data from 2025 alone tells a story that most people have never heard.
This is the full history of pirate radio, from the offshore ships to the encrypted digital streams, and where the war over the airwaves stands right now.


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Radio Caroline

Radio Caroline continues – with music from the past and present on DAB in selected UK towns & cities and on 648 AM to South East England, The Netherlands, Belgium and beyond

www.radiocaroline.co.uk

https://www.hfunderground.com/wiki/List_of_Pirate_Radio_Frequencies