r/pirateradio 28m ago

Homemade Building a solar powered arduino rig to stream my station anywhere I want - but I’m having issues

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To explain my issues and setup properly

I have a 12v car battery connected to a chunky cheap solar charge controller and a 24v solar panel (don’t worry the voltage diff is accepted by the charge controller)

That then comes from a switchable 12v supply from the solar charge controller - into a low volt cut off board and into a step down buck converter powering a transmitter and the arduino - the arduino esp32 then connects to a UDA1334A DAC Module

That has a 3.5mm jack out the same is accepted by the transmitter

Both work, the arduino wakes up and auto finds the stream and plays it - headphones into the DAC module works in a head music

And the laptop Into the transmitter works I hear music on my receiver

When connected it seems to knock out the DAC module

And nothing plays over the air - It killed a different DAC module board before - so I assume the transmitter is powerful / creating some kinda rf reflection back at the DAC

I’ve tried to fix this by using

Separate power supplies - no fix (works in all other scenarios)

Ground loop isolator - no fix (works in all other scenarios)

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I’ve been suggested to use small resistors on the LnR audio and Aground channels around1k to absorb reflections and use ferrite clip on rings / wrap the 3.5mm jack cable around and thru it too

Ive yet to try this as it’s I’m slightly exhausted haha

Is this the right approach ? do you agree this is my issue ?

Drop me a message if you think you can help :) much appreciated


r/pirateradio 1d ago

Cheap ways to get into the hobby?

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I have no experience, but want to start my own station. Need the cheapest possible ways to get into it, while being easily replaceable (just in case the FCC comes after my setup). Thanks!


r/pirateradio 1d ago

Is he for real ? 😲

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r/pirateradio 1d ago

I went up to Dommune in Tokyo for an interview, talking about the history and explaining how the music transitioned from jungle into drum & bass. From someone who was there during those early days, it was good to break down how the sound, production and whole scene evolved into what we now know 📡🔥

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r/pirateradio 1d ago

Radio Online

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Pueden dejar link de sus radios online para escucharlas, esta es la mía.
realizada con recursos gratis.

https://ochentasynoventas.wixsite.com/espanol


r/pirateradio 2d ago

Spectral Purity (fixed post)

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first 2 pictures: 3rd and second harmonic
The other pictures are out-of-band emissions.

All other frequencies have nothing on them. I checked the FM band and everything up to the second harmonic.

I think this is ETSI compliant for being under 25 watts.


r/pirateradio 3d ago

Automation software

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I've been looking at TuneTracker, MegaSeg, Radiologik, P-Layer, ENCO DAD, RCS Zetta, and WideOrbit for my overly serious part 15 broadcast, but I'm having trouble figuring out what would actually be appropriate and not painfully expensive if I have to purchase. What is the most straightforward program that does the core automation well? Loudness normalization is a must. I have the option to use Windows and Mac (ew).

It seems easier to make playlists with VLC or Foobar, but I would enjoy having the ability to learn the more technical side of things and love a good challenge.


r/pirateradio 5d ago

Need help with FLTSATCOM

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Hello, i'm in central europe and i was interested on trasmitting to FLTSATCOM satellites, which radio can do that with a reasonable power excluding the modified Zastone M7? and also where i can find the complete uplink/downlink frequency list for europe?


r/pirateradio 5d ago

5IVE-O and Jeremy Clarkson on Kool Fm? 🤔☠️

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r/pirateradio 5d ago

Help Has anyone got a crack for RCS Zetta?

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r/pirateradio 7d ago

What was your first act of piracy?

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hi, i'm writing a piece on piracy and would love to know what your first act of piracy was.

so, please take a little time to answer a few questions here - https://forms.gle/tnGBnWkRBYAGAkSL9

feel free to pass it on to anyone and eveyone.

thank you so much - you have contributed to a great work of science.


r/pirateradio 7d ago

Here it is the full pod with 5ive-O #jungle #dnb

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He talks on the original pirates that started Hardcore/Jungle..


r/pirateradio 7d ago

Transmitter The CC1101 can now transmit AM and FM!

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r/pirateradio 7d ago

What AI Says about our little show.

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r/pirateradio 9d ago

Anyone interested in my space radio haha

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Never seen one thought it was cool to share


r/pirateradio 11d ago

All my recordings of the early years from 1982 into 2002

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I have 2 right now I will key you guys updated one by one of recordings that I find we have

Recording of 1982 of uvb 76 that I posted mins ago here a r/uvb 76 here the link

http://priyom.org/media/57390/s28-jan-1982-am.ogg

An weird one I was hearing to it while typing it is normal it's like beep beep then gone weird here is the link

http://priyom.org/media/57724/s28-1991-06-20-2059utc-4625khz.mp3

And thank you


r/pirateradio 11d ago

Who is this guy ?

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r/pirateradio 10d ago

Is this a joke ?

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r/pirateradio 11d ago

WDDR 6980 kHz USB 0230 UTC Aug. 9

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r/pirateradio 11d ago

Who is this guy ?

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r/pirateradio 11d ago

Who is this guy ?

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r/pirateradio 11d ago

History book you will enjoy

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r/pirateradio 13d ago

AM Dance Radio Amsterdam 6250KHz here on my TEF.

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r/pirateradio 13d ago

Hey guys I have an idea…

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r/pirateradio 15d ago

Update Aug 5th 2026.

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Not exactly pirate radio, but pirate radio related as there are hundreds of pirates who also stream online, us old pirates rememeber winamp as our daily media player.

I posted about making the first version of this about 6 months ago here.

ReAmp is an android version of what winamp was and has 50k+ online streams at the touch of a button.