Eurythmic wrote:
The internet and audio streaming has to some degree reduced the allure of pirate radio.
When I'm in the car I sometimes listen to a local community station, one that prides itself on being somewhat lefter than I am politically, but I enjoy the style of music they always play with minimal chatter and advertising.
I think in setting up a pirate station your biggest challenge will be in getting listeners, people don't generally scan the airwaves looking for new stations. Along with the fact that operating hours can be a challenge, will you be on air 24/7? Who is going to operate the station when you need to sleep or work?
All stations operate more or less automatically. We had shoutcast station running at my university in late 90s-early 2000s, but shut it down when copyright became issue. It was pretty cool to feel like you are running a station, especially talking with listeners, taking requests even though it was just a PC with a cheap microphone and winamp. About the same time I've helped to build a website and setup online streaming for a local FM station and it was kind of weird to find out their broadcasting setup was almost identical, just a slightly better PC and a little more expensive microphone