It's interesting that the pirate radio stations appear to have been broadcasting religious programmes. Here in the UK (and presumably other places too) there's

It's interesting that the pirate radio stations appear to have been broadcasting religious programmes. Here in the UK (and presumably other places too) there's an interesting thing that mosques do, that I looked into for a bit about 15 years ago for someone. Five times a day, mosques must gather the faithful to prayer, so someone climbs up the tower of the minaret and recites the Adhan. There is a different one for each prayer. In the olden days, this would be someone fit enough to climb a long steep set of stairs and then sing at the top of his lungs for ten minutes, then get back down, but these days in predominantly Islamic countries they often just use a bunch of PA speakers and a microphone - or just a prerecorded prayer. Fair enough, but this won't fly in the south side of Glasgow, where roughly 15% of the population are Pakistani. You'd get shot for making all that noise. But they still need to broadcast the call to prayer from the minuet. The minuet, being a big high tower on the top of the mosque, is a great place to put a "four stack" high-gain omnidirectional antenna. Little cheap UHF walkie-talkies are, well, little and cheap. There are a bunch of UHF voice paging frequencies around 464MHz. Sit there and tell me that the Adhan is not "voice paging", I dare you.