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Just watched the Movie 'Pirate Radio' and what great memories it evoked too. It's good fun and pays meticulous attention to details. There's one scene involving a flotilla of boats with every boat being from that era.
Well worth watching especially if you enjoyed the great days of Caroline, London and others.
 
byron said:
Just watched the Movie 'Pirate Radio' and what great memories it evoked too. It's good fun and pays meticulous attention to details.
The GPO were jamming the signal using a mast array situated just up the road from me here in Upnor.
This chap who moors next to me runs trip out to the Maunsell Towers which was used by Radio Sutch.Radio 390,Radio Invicta and others.You can still see 390 painted on the side of one of the towers.It is possible to visit the tower if the weather is calm(ish)
http://www.x-pilot.co.uk/news.htm

Can remember the DJs "talking" to people parked on Frinton Seafront and asking them to flash their car headlights.
Wonder if you ever came across this bunch transmitting out of Monte Carlo ?
http://www.geronimosociety.com/
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byron said:
Just watched the Movie 'Pirate Radio' and what great memories it evoked too. It's good fun and pays meticulous attention to details. There's one scene involving a flotilla of boats with every boat being from that era.
Well worth watching especially if you enjoyed the great days of Caroline, London and others.
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Is that the same as the movie The Boat That Rocks????? or are there two movies on the same subject??


I remember the disc jockey asking technical questions about capacitors to get the tranny back to full power.
 
YES! The same movie goes by two different names. It is a definite 'must see' whatever name it goes as especially if you remember those heady days.
 
I'm living in British Columbia, and have recently taken interest in starting a pirate radio station. However, I don't have the means to set up an offshore broadcast, and was considering simply broadcasting from my home (which will likely change every year; I'm a university student). Is this a bad idea?
 
adorina said:
I'm living in British Columbia, and have recently taken interest in starting a pirate radio station. However, I don't have the means to set up an offshore broadcast, and was considering simply broadcasting from my home (which will likely change every year; I'm a university student). Is this a bad idea?
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Stick your transmitter on the top of Grouse and you ll get to 99% of the province....However expect a Mounty to come knocking on your door:D:D
 
adorina said:
I'm living in British Columbia, and have recently taken interest in starting a pirate radio station. However, I don't have the means to set up an offshore broadcast, and was considering simply broadcasting from my home (which will likely change every year; I'm a university student). Is this a bad idea?
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If you haven't a broadcast licence I agree with John, the Mounties will soon be popping around to see you.

What you have to remember is that all the British Stations were situated on vessels and forts located outside the 3 mile limit in international waters and had a ready made audience starved of pop music. The BBC only transmitted Pop for about 1 hour a week and the DJs were dried up pompous prunes in Dinner Jackets. Pirate Radios soon gathered something like half the population of the UK as their listeners. Pirate Radios never actually got banned. Buying advertising time, supplying them with food & water was banned. In short they were put under siege.
 
bitman said:
talking about real pirate radio wake up and tune to this http://www.radioseagull.com/ forget those radio caroline gompies who still trying to keep the water out of the bilge...
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Yeh! Right! a Pirate Radio working from inside a harbour legally. Playing a niche market schedule.
The only Pirate operations these days that the public support is the dudes supplying 86% of the 'roll yer own fags' smokers with their tobacco.
 
MERMAID137 said:
Hi,
with everything going digital and all the old radios going in the bin the pirates need to start up again!
Steve
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I have something like 9,000 radio stations available to me on my bedside radio (Logik IR100). but back in the 60s we were saddled with Aunty BBC and a weak signal from Radio Luxembourg. My tastes have changed now I am an ancient mariner and I regularly listen to things like Gunsmoke, Dragnet, Dick Barton and other classics from my childhood all on Old Time Radio stations. I still tune in a Rock Station but only while I get dressed and put my make-up on ;)
 
byron said:
I have something like 9,000 radio stations available to me on my bedside radio (Logik IR100). but back in the 60s we were saddled with Aunty BBC and a weak signal from Radio Luxembourg. My tastes have changed now I am an ancient mariner and I regularly listen to things like Gunsmoke, Dragnet, Dick Barton and other classics from my childhood all on Old Time Radio stations. I still tune in a Rock Station but only while I get dressed and put my make-up on ;)
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I remember the days when we knew where we were by the stations we could hear....Mind you it could be confusing receiving Luxemburg all the way up the Red Sea and Meddy when homeward bound.

We had Springbok Radio around the Cape....2UE off Sydney...... And always a race to see who could be first to get The American Forces Network in Veitnam..... (Good Morning Veitnam) as we headed for Japan from Singapore .... All we had from the BBC was a bit of Top of the Pops and the Merchant Navy program with 15 minutes of requests.... No sat TV no digital radio and definitely no broad band....:)

I can still remember the radio officer coming into the messoom and announcing the latest hit was ... ITSY BITSY TEENY WEENY YELLOW POLKA DOT BIKINI.... :D:D

Must make me as old as that sea dog in Ashmount...Oh hell...Older, he was in Miss Mathews class below mine:):)
 
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