1.   All pirate stations, such as ours, have to close at the end of December.

2.   Illegal pirate stations, operating on locally-free channels and low-power transmitters already fill part of this gap.

3.   The pirate station, which ran aground last November, is using equipment and records donated by listeners.

4.   ...a pirate radio station.

5.   Commercial broadcasters worry that the pirate station and others like it are the harbingers of chaos in the orderly world of big-time radio.

6.   Critics of the pirate stations argue that because they are unregulated, they can carry inflammatory messages.

7.   Decades ago, Bates used the abandoned concrete fortress as a platform for a pirate radio station, operating without license from the British government.

8.   He began, he says, running offshore pirate radio stations, then developed Libya as his best customer for timers, antennas, listening devices and other electronics.

9.   Heard regularly in Britain on Radio Caroline, a pirate station, Dylan was in the early throes of fame and about to play the Royal Albert Hall.

10.   I went to work on a pirate station that broadcast rock music from a ship in the North Sea.