anyone else have false alarms like this, I though I was hearing a pirate

I suppose the signal might be abit ropey on a bbc local radio station traveling a long distance, might be playing something you’d not normally hear. It was 2021 when I last heard pirate something with regular schedule, it doesn't seem they will come back, I had to go over to the online music box to listen to it.

Afew months ago I thought I was hearing something interesting down on 88.2, playing brit pop, signal was there for a while stereo sign there but not overly strong, then you could tell this was in a car tx, you got that tell tail fluttering. I think what made me think it was something albert’s talked about something been set up in the pennines in the past, they’ll probably say nothing is there, I did think it was albert's station for a while.

I feel for you NE.. beyond the big smoke's pirates are few and far between even in the South with fairly populated small towns. Raw FM 87.5 was a countryside station over the west of Lond went west into the posh zones of Hampshire and so on for maybe 60miles, I think that frequency and a good site, maybe on their mates castle or stately home or maybe they had a big flag mast on their mates hunting lodge ? Got them out well that way. They are probably all living in 4 bedroom detached house in Windsor now, 2 kids and driving a nice sleek Merc.

maybe rich footballers in white trainers in the land of holly willoughby but probably not
A flagpole would be left well alone, suppose there might be a Tudor cottage in the cotswolds out on its own, you could put an aerial up, the council wouldn’t know, like the avenngers or something. I suppose fm transmission not something thats out of the ordinary if its something you’ve always done, to others outside of normal most people get their tv/radio through streaming.

it was on raw I heard shoutouts to glastonbury crew, I suppose it was maybe just people there, think raw and uk’s finest have been around recently, think their more confined. I think there was one on 107.5, only had 1 station on across the country we have tmcr now, its not so clear, another frequency gone. uk’s finest remember reading in the past some were it said it was not a london station, it was outside of it, to everyone else further away it was.
I think the wikend put txers that are further away, don’t think they wanted to put any in the far north, noone wants to get their dunks/trainers wet in a quagmire