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Ahh yes I remember the UK pirates as they were know, they played music from pop to middle of the road, & I believe a classical station was tried but failed as no one listened to it, so it went over to pop. The only pop music stations you could get in England back before the pirates was Luxembourg & AFN via skywave at night, I remember listening to a fading, distorting Luxy or AFN on many a night. Some pirates TX'd with 50,000 watts & covered most of the country, they got out well with the sea being a good ground/counterpoise. Mam used to listen to Radio 270 (they gave their wavelength in metres back then instead of frequency & some stations were named after their wavelength, also one called 388 IIRC) it was moored of the Yorkshire coast & came in quite good here in Nottingham. 270 TX'd with 10,000 watts AFAIK. They were outlawed in August 1967 & all but one shut down. BBC Radio1 fired up in September 1967 playing pop music on a multi transmitter single frequency network on 247 metres/1414Khz...
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