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A surprising number of radio stations in major cities in the UK started out as pirates. Why aren’t lawmakers in the US instead trying to make it easier for pirate radio stations to operate legally?
Playing music on HAM frequencies is against the terms of pretty much every license, and commercial radio receivers that everyone has in their house and car won’t pick up transmissions on HAM frequencies. Assuming a disproportionate amount of pirate radio stations operate in low-income areas, access to equipment is a high barrier to entry for listeners. Internet radio is one solution, but who wants to listen to the radio from their phone when their apartment already has an FM receiver?