The United Nations have tried to stop it, and it has been brought down in a storm. However, TV Marti, the US government transmitter that broadcasts into Cuba from a 10,000 ft. tether off the coast of America, continues to operate.
weird outlaw radio transmitters
In the pre Pirate Bay days of analog transmission, pirate radio stations were setup in the most bizarre places, to avoid being shut down. Many of these were offshore, in boats, lighthouses, disused forts, or even balloons or planes.
The idea for outlaw stations came from the US military who broadcast from B 29 bombers, over Vietnam, ships off the coast of Soviet states and continue to broadcast to Cuba from balloons. Israel is the last remaining country to have pirate radio ships in operation, where they broadcast ultra conservative religious programming.
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Sealand, or the Principality of Sealand, as it is now known, has a long history of free information exchange. It has been claimed that a group of Russian investors are actually planning to operate an Internet file sharing satellite from it.<p /><p />Sealand was originally known as the Knock John Naval fort and was home to the pirate radio station, Radio Essex, later renamed BBMS — Britain's Better Music Station
The Stratovision program, which was used to broadcast TV and Radio over south Vietnam, during the war, was another inspiration for civilian border buster broadcasts.<p /><p />Radio Caroline which operated radio stations aboard ships, intended to broadcast TV by plane using a similar method.
Red Sands was occupied by Radio Invicta, later named KING Radio, before it was turned into an easy listening station called Radio 390
A Banksy style art piece. A self contained radio station in a briefcase, intended to be left unattended.
The most impressive of the Thames estuary forts was taken over by Screaming Lord Sutch (a non lunatic who used to enter himself as a candidate of the Monster Raving Loony Party, to liven things up in British government elections) to create a pirate radio station.
This pirate station operating on a platform in the North Sea was actually taken out by a Dutch Military attack - just in case you thought that the Dutch Military didnt exist - what were you smoking?
In 1974 several people with broadcasting kit, including a transmitter, boarded the abandoned Gunfleet Lighthouse and began to renovate it, before they were arrested.. It is believed that this may have been an attempt to relaunch Radio Atlantis pirate radio station.
A lonely fort with a single gun on either side, the Sunk Head Fort has been destroyed.<p /><p />A band of enthusiasts set up a Radio Tower on Sunk Head Naval fort, but the station had little budget, poor coverage and lasted only a few months.
Israel was the last country to have pirate radio stations in operation, some were still operating within the last 2 years. Unlike the history of pirate radio in other countries, the ships operated within Israeli waters, and transmissions tend to reflect right wing opinion rather than left.<p /><p />Arutz Sheva was financed from the UK and broadcasts ultra right wing religious propaganda, which the Knesset tried to stop. <p /><p />The music played was also somewhat different from the original rock and roll pirate stations of the sixties. All music recordings were of male singers, it being against the operators orthodox beliefs that a womans voice be heard singing.
The British government used the same radio jamming technology that the Russians used to try to block US propaganda transmissions, in order to block Radio North Sea International.
The M V Frederica was a former passenger ferry that became the first ship to operate the legendary Radio Caroline offshore pirate radio station.
This ship was parked of the coast of of the Greek Island of Rhodes, in order to broadcast the Voice of America radio station to Soviet Block Countries.
