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General Category => General Radio Discussion => Topic started by: ChrisSmolinski on October 15, 2013, 2123 UTC

Title: If you think there's been more pirate activity during the shutdown, you're right
Post by: ChrisSmolinski on October 15, 2013, 2123 UTC

Here's a graph showing the number of unique pirate logging threads on the HFUnderground.com

Each thread represents a different shortwave pirate radio broadcast. The red bars on the right are the number of broadcasts during the shutdown per day. I've also drawn in green the average number of broadcasts per day during the month before the shutdown (6.9 per day) as well as during the shutdown (12.2). As you can see, activity is up 77%. This past weekend was extremely active, setting records.

(http://www.radiohobbyist.org/blog/mypics/ShutdownPirateActivity.png)

Title: Re: If you think there's been more pirate activity during the shutdown, you're right
Post by: Echo_One on October 15, 2013, 2133 UTC

Well I've done my bit help you suffering people out *chuckles*

How many of these stations are new people?

Title: Re: If you think there's been more pirate activity during the shutdown, you're right
Post by: thechoat on October 15, 2013, 2147 UTC

Thats awesome, i knew our government was good for something

Title: Re: If you think there's been more pirate activity during the shutdown, you're right
Post by: Mentholyptus on October 16, 2013, 0036 UTC

It's been a regular pirate gold mine lately!
Hard to keep a decent log with so much activity   :^)

Title: Re: If you think there's been more pirate activity during the shutdown, you're right
Post by: Echo_One on October 16, 2013, 0105 UTC

Yes, lots of NAM pirates...

And a lone and plucky Brit doing his best to keep the British end up!

Title: Re: If you think there's been more pirate activity during the shutdown, you're right
Post by: RCCI on October 16, 2013, 2335 UTC

Thanks Chris for that information! It's very interesting...   ....Steve