HF piracy: has it ever interfered?
Not quite sure this is Tech Loggish enough, but...
A friend and I were discussing a group of radio pirates who hang out around 6.6 MHz, which they call the Echo Charlie band. There are usually a handful of people transmitting on there in the evening, in Europe at least.
Every so often, one of these bad boys receives a visit from enthusiastic listeners in blue uniforms who encourage him to trade in his equipment for a suspended sentence and a few quid costs. The resultant press release never fails to mention that such piractical actions 'interfere with critical aircraft communications' or somesuch.
Has this ever happened? There are a few aeronautical HF channels in the EC band, but I've never heard it even rumoured. Though it might make a change from doing the Telegraph crossword.
R