Rather irritatingly, there’s a pirate radio station in Cork broadcasting between two Radio 1 frequencies. Grr.

This means that when I retune on my crappy radio on my commute, I hit the ‘boom-boom-tish-tish” of their Scooter-themed playlist far too often.

Thought occurred as I tried to figure out how long it will take the BCI to raid them: a remote-controllable payg device that has access to, say, mobile data, and is directly connected to the transmitter, means that the link between the ‘studio’ and the ‘transmitter’ could be forever broken, and that all that is now at risk in a raid is the tx equipment and an android phone; i.e. very little.

The prospect of Whack-a-mole with a hundred micro-transmitters must be a scary one for licence-holders.