"Pirates" Rife In England
Estimated at One Million ONDON is leading with radio pirates in quite a profitable manner. The Post Office has been sending out wireless detector vans, five of them identifiable as such by the aerial visible on the roof, and one disguised as a private ear. As a result of the voyages of the detector vans through some 5000 miles of London streets, 80,000 licenses have been taken out within a week, in addition to the normal growth of licenses issued. "Give me a wireless license quickly, the van is in our street," was the frank demand of one householder. Wit week the Post Office has received = Vo. 000 from these evaders, and about, a hundred prosecutions have been uthorised, while many more are being considered. A Post Office authority estimates that, judging from these London disclosures, there are probably a million unlicensed wireless sets throughout the country.
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Radio Record, Volume V, Issue 26, 8 January 1932, Page 8
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151"Pirates" Rife In England Radio Record, Volume V, Issue 26, 8 January 1932, Page 8
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