Music Week reports that under a freedom of information act request they found that 400 London pirate stations have been closed down in that last two years. This is in a country that has food banks for the poor in every major town and city, but can waste the public money on preventing the creative use of the airwaves. They carry comments by one Clive Corrie of Ofcom in the piece, which contains such gems as the following:
"It's not about raising revenue," Ofcom's head of spectrum enforcement Clive Corrie told the London Evening Standard. "It's about protecting the spectrum from harmful interference.
"From the enquiries we've carried out, this problem doesn't exist in New York or Rome or Paris - it's a London phenomenon."
Of course those of us that are interested in pirate radio, will know that there are dozens of pirates in New York and Rome, Paris I'm sure has some as well. Ah but why let the let the truth get in the way of a good story.
"Lets see' we're on err 92 FM tonight, and it feels like a nice clean little band so far. No one else is using it. The price is right."
Mark Hunter - Pump Up The Volume.
"Lets see' we're on err 92 FM tonight, and it feels like a nice clean little band so far. No one else is using it. The price is right."
Mark Hunter - Pump Up The Volume.
"Lets see' we're on err 92 FM tonight, and it feels like a nice clean little band so far. No one else is using it. The price is right."
Mark Hunter - Pump Up The Volume.
To Nigeria now, and the transmissions of Radio Biafra a pirate anti-Government station, are still causing the Nigerian government major concern. Radio Biafra seeks independence for the Biafran people from Nigerian rule. As of this evening I listened to some of their live links, and at least on the net they are going strong, and claiming to be on FM as well.
"Lets see' we're on err 92 FM tonight, and it feels like a nice clean little band so far. No one else is using it. The price is right."
Mark Hunter - Pump Up The Volume.
Interesting piece as to why the author thinks there are so many Pirate stations in London.
Unpacking London’s pirate radio problem.
"Lets see' we're on err 92 FM tonight, and it feels like a nice clean little band so far. No one else is using it. The price is right."
Mark Hunter - Pump Up The Volume.
100KW Shortwave Transmitter for sale, don't ask I don't have a clue.....If you have a huge wad of cash handy this may be the thing for you.
Below is a list of the items that they are selling: ◾100 kW SW Transmitter RIZ OR 100-K-02/A (built acc. to German ARD Standards) ◾Compressor-Limiter w/ DCC transmitter control ◾Balun transformer 50 Ohm asym. to 300 Ohm symetric ◾Artificial antenna for testing 100 kW transmitter ◾Coax pipe, 4 1/8″, 20 meters ◾Elbow EIA, 4 1/8″, 5 pcs. ◾Connector, 4 1/8″ for HF 5″, 2 pcs. ◾Coaxial switch, 1 pc. ◾Remote control panel
The equipment is currently located in Deanovec, Croatia.
Ante Beljo, Director Croatian Information Center Meduliceva 13 10000 Zagreb, Croatia Tel.: +385 1 4826 040 Fax: +385 1 4846 944 Mobile: +385 98 318 842 abeljo@hic.hr
"Lets see' we're on err 92 FM tonight, and it feels like a nice clean little band so far. No one else is using it. The price is right."
Mark Hunter - Pump Up The Volume.
"Lets see' we're on err 92 FM tonight, and it feels like a nice clean little band so far. No one else is using it. The price is right."
Mark Hunter - Pump Up The Volume.
Buccaneers of the airwaves: 50 years on, how Scotland's pirate radio station shook up broadcasting..... Article from the Herald Scotland about Radio Scotland the ship based Pirate which started transmission on the 1st of January 1966.
"Lets see' we're on err 92 FM tonight, and it feels like a nice clean little band so far. No one else is using it. The price is right."
Mark Hunter - Pump Up The Volume.
"Lets see' we're on err 92 FM tonight, and it feels like a nice clean little band so far. No one else is using it. The price is right."
Mark Hunter - Pump Up The Volume.
"Lets see' we're on err 92 FM tonight, and it feels like a nice clean little band so far. No one else is using it. The price is right."
Mark Hunter - Pump Up The Volume.
Pirate radio still seen as a challenge by U.S. lawmakers in the Internet age....
"For about $750, pirates can buy equipment to broadcast at a range of at least 1 to 3 kilometres, experts say." Some experts, for $750 I would expect to get more than 1 to 3 Kilometers (just short of two miles.)
"Lets see' we're on err 92 FM tonight, and it feels like a nice clean little band so far. No one else is using it. The price is right."
Mark Hunter - Pump Up The Volume.
Pirate radio carries the fight to Isis..... The battle for Mosul is being won on the airwaves as well as the streets, but at a terrible cost for some listeners.
An article by the Times of London about Anti-Daesh Pirate radio station in Mosul Alghad FM, and the Isis run Radio al-Bayan. The cost for listeners to Alghad FM can be high, as it can mean their deaths at the hands of Daesh to be found listening to the station.
"Lets see' we're on err 92 FM tonight, and it feels like a nice clean little band so far. No one else is using it. The price is right."
Mark Hunter - Pump Up The Volume.
To promote their second season of "The Man in the High Castle" Amazon have launched an online fictional Pirate Radio station, as they imagine it in their Dystopian alternative history. You can listen online at the link below. It's worth a few minutes of listening anyway.
"The year is 1962. America stands divided and controlled by the Greater Nazi Reich in the East and the Japanese Pacific States in the West. Seventeen years after the Allied Powers lost World War II, people in this America are living in fear and oppression. But between these opposing political parties lies a lawless “neutral zone,” where a fledgling “Resistance” movement struggles to fight back. Hijacking the airwaves, a secret network of DJs broadcast messages of hope to keep the memory of a former America alive. Using music to hearten the spirits of the hopeless, they play bootleg songs that are performed and played in makeshift studios with obsolete equipment. Being on-air is dangerous, yet the desire to reach the resigned is somethings these DJs can’t resist.”
"Lets see' we're on err 92 FM tonight, and it feels like a nice clean little band so far. No one else is using it. The price is right."
Mark Hunter - Pump Up The Volume.
Something’s Rockin’ is a new TV drama created by Søren Frellesen and Jesper Malmose from an original idea by Price and Malmose. The new ten-part drama series is produced by SAM Productions for TV 2 Denmark, co-produced by Sweden’s TV 4. The show is inspired by real events and tells the fascinating story of the birth, rise and fall of Radio Mercur, a pirate radio station founded by a small group of music-loving dreamers in the late 1950s.
"Lets see' we're on err 92 FM tonight, and it feels like a nice clean little band so far. No one else is using it. The price is right."
Mark Hunter - Pump Up The Volume.
Backscatter Your Own FM Pirate Radio Station.... If you understand this, it would be interesting to hear of any practical uses for it in pirate radio. Even if just using posters to maybe advertise your station like in the video on the link, or make a statement about pirate radio on your posters.
"If you live in a city, you’re constantly swimming in a thick soup of radio-frequency energy. FM radio stations put out hundreds of kilowatts each into the air. Students at the University of Washington, [Anran Wang] and [Vikram Iyer], asked themselves if they could harness this background radiation to transmit their own FM radio station, if only locally. The answer was an amazing yes."
"Lets see' we're on err 92 FM tonight, and it feels like a nice clean little band so far. No one else is using it. The price is right."
Mark Hunter - Pump Up The Volume.