Glasson Dock, Lancashire With My Radio

[@neilhenderson6602]

Brilliant video. Love that hobbyists are taking over and doing radio stations as established broadcasters retreat to digital

[@tillyupnorth]

Yes interesting times

[@skyhill4279]

The offshore radio days of the 60's were a magical time to listen to the radio. The real Radio Caroline North on 199 and 259 was my favourite station along with Radio Scotland. Saw thw Fredericia every day walking along the Mooragh Prom in my home town of Ramsey. Try Radio Seagull on 747Khz AM from their radio lightship the Jenni Baynton. Nice video. 🇮🇲

[@tillyupnorth]

747 will have to try it late at night

[@tillyupnorth]

@@skyhill4279 must of been amazing. My mom and dad tuned to the original Caroline north in the 60s from Cheshire. I’m I Lancaster now .using 1368 is a great idea. My dads every year used to tune his radios to Manx to listen to to the TT races

[@richardmillican7733]

I'm down in Anglesey and Manx Radio broadcast on 1368 AM. All weekend long they're "Radio Caroline North"

[@tillyupnorth]

@ I had a mate who lived on Anglesey on the 2000s I remember getting 1368 there

[@skyhill4279]

@@tillyupnorth where I live on IoM listening to Manx Radio on 1368Khz is difficult as I live under the signal as there are a few smaller mountains that shield me from getting a decent signal so listen on FM. I need to go into town to get a decent AM signal. Yes, it was great looking out to see RCN out in the bay and seeing the tender come into Ramsey Harbour with djs coming ashore and the replacement djs heading out to the ship. I had the pleasure of Meeting Ronan a few times on a one to one basis. He felt safe on the island. It's ironic that Manx Radio's managing director is an ex Caroline dj.

[@christophermoore5405]

Great video love it❤

[@tillyupnorth]

Thank I enjoyed doing it

[@DaveMuirhead]

Great video! Loved the hey! hey! hey! German oompah bit at the end. I was going round my kitchen doing that 😂

[@tillyupnorth]

Thanks

[@captainboing]

@4:47, dad's car was a Hilman Avenger

[@tillyupnorth]

My dad. Had a ump before he avenger

[@pandaradio8431]

I Like you , I am known for taking my sw receiver ( tecsun PL990x) for a walk. good to see a fellow radio walker. I have good memories of Paul on radio Merlin, shame he got raided. 6070 is licenced tx from Germany, you should be able to listen to most of the Dutch pirates when the sun starts going down.

[@tillyupnorth]

Indeed . WMR and laser are very sable here so was trying to point out to people good signals to look for if your not a sw bitter like us.

[@duanetrivett750]

Great video Gentleman. I a Radio head from Tennessee and have a PL990 my self. It's really good on SSB . I like water front area a lot .England is my dream country to visit. I feel like the UK and the US are Cousins anyway. Thanks for the video ! Good luck from Tennessee.

[@DavidButterworth-z3z]

Thanks for this excellent video. I think Glasson is a gem. Love the place. Fascinating dicussion short wave radio stations.

[@tillyupnorth]

Thanks the video turned out well

[@markcancellara]

hey up.. ya looking smart tilly , top banana.. Great video .. good to see some old pics but i'm here for the signals 😊

[@tillyupnorth]

Brill I try and cover a bit of the history of the location and the signals. Hopefully we’re getting a ok mix

[@philrobinson5667]

Hi there…just subscribed to your fascinating channel! Saturday afternoon binge watching all the back stick of your previous stuff. Thanks so much!

[@philrobinson5667]

Should read ‘stuff’…not *stick* 🙄

[@tillyupnorth]

Thanks . I enjoy doing it. Hopefully it puts a few smiles on people’s faces

[@bobhomer5008]

What a great video. I live in the middle of the USA and I've never been to the ocean. I could almost smell the salt water (If it has a smell) on your walk around. I have a Tecsun PL660 and i walk to the park here and see what's on. It's one of the few places here where there is little RF interferance. Keep up with your journeys, it's better than a travel video.

[@tillyupnorth]

Thank you very much your so kind

[@buffplums]

5:57 Hughes Corporation did Rock the boat mate 😂

[@paultevendale9293]

Sorry to be pedantic, it was actually spelt Hues

[@buffplums]

@@paultevendale9293 haha thank you lol 😂

[@RonanCantwell]

Just stumbled across your channel. Glad I did. Bonus footage just secured another subscriber 👍

[@tillyupnorth]

Thank you so much

[@3fus]

2:35 Lol, noticed on the Bay cycle way sign that they mixed up the km and miles. I would think the total is 81 miles / 130 km.

[@tillyupnorth]

Yeh someone else noticed that

[@oscars4107]

Lancaster Smokehouse, fantastic work tilley's 😊😊😊

[@tillyupnorth]

Thank you! Cheers!

[@ShirleyDavidson-kg8my]

Loving your tour around Glasson..you should go all the way to Knott End...Mr Lowery visted there, nice cafe too..Oh and theres the ferry to Fleetwood, a brilliant market too..😊

[@tillyupnorth]

Sould do a Tilly up north meet

[@FrancoDX]

Enjoyed that, been a while since I went out with a portable. Of all the pirates Radio Johnny Tobacco usually gives me the strongest signal (I’m in the East Midlands). Not sure what has happened to the 292 (Germany) signal this last year, I could pick them up most of the day on 9670 kHz for a long time then they suddenly dropped down into the hash. 6130 also a solid signal here too. 73 Franco

[@tillyupnorth]

@@FrancoDX had him a few times this year

[@swissbianco]

great ending!

[@tillyupnorth]

lol yes .

[@RayCunningham]

Keep up the good work boys! 24 minutes and not a single pie...

[@tillyupnorth]

lol no I found a Carlinhos. Hope to see you doon

[@alarmactionukalarmactionuk893]

I managed to rescue an old Binatone Worldstar. The analogue frequency display lit up with red LED's in the dark is quite something. A hark back to simpler, happier times.

[@tillyupnorth]

@@alarmactionukalarmactionuk893 never had one of those. There’s time tho lol

[@alarmactionukalarmactionuk893]

@@tillyupnorth yeah apparently the WorldStar was quite common back in the 1970's. its the Binatone name that gets me. Reminds of a time of decent affordable electronic stuff. The last Binatone thing I ever bought was a SatNav that would joyfully tell me to take the fifth exit from a roundabout that only had three. That soon found itself at the charity shop!

[@alexmckenna1171]

Fortunes! That was Radio City's emergency record which they played when they wanted help on the Fort.. (Shivering Sands.)

[@tillyupnorth]

Ace do there may make it into a video. Thanks for the comment

[@adminomhfoz1908]

best unique channel

[@tillyupnorth]

Thanks for the kind comment

[@comicmania2008]

Looks nice where you live. I like your Tecsun radio, but 200 quid is a bit too much for me at the mo! So, got a couple of smaller Tecsuns myself, a PL-380 and an ICR 110. These are good little radios too.

[@tillyupnorth]

Yeh I’m thinking of getting one of them

[@markcancellara]

caught weekend music radio on the 75m band last weekend.. maybe they will using both 🤔 i don't know

[@VicTor-up9xg]

Nice video, I listen to Caroline daily on 648 AM at the Twente SDR, if there are too much atmospherics /interference I switch to the caroline dedicated website.

[@tillyupnorth]

Amazing stuff

[@ChrisMezzolesta]

XTC at 9:16!! Sad they're so underappreciated.

[@tillyupnorth]

@@ChrisMezzolesta got them a few years ago back. This was a wick flick though the band while I was out

[@WillsUKRetroTV-j6r]

Great station, can pick up Caroline on 648 AM here in Sussex. It's great for people with 80s or earlier cars that don't have FM on the radio.

[@tillyupnorth]

Only at nighttime for me not i get Caroline north one a month really well

[@buffplums]

Hey this is great Radio Caroline… I haven’t followed radio for a long time now and I always felt crap that I never listened to Radio Caroline back in its day and I should be listening to it now … so I will do that. But didn’t really realise the arrangement with Manx Radio … when I was a kid growing up in the late 60s early 70s on the Wirral, I used to listen to Manx Radio on medium wave what was the frequency 1154kHz? ….as for Radio Caroline ship so glad it’s being restored or hopefully restored…l wish that bugger down in London would sell the old Royal Iris Mersey ferry so that could at least be brought back to Merseyside

[@tillyupnorth]

Manx is on1368 still is . This weekend is a radio Caroline not north weekend live from the ship

[@RichieReportsUK_UKCNews]

I can sometimes just about hear Caroline on 648 KHz, here in Portsmouth, but luckily it's also relayed on the local DAB+ multiplex.

[@tillyupnorth]

yes it gets here very well late of night in the winter

[@leehewitt9559]

I’ve got a picture with my mum in exactly the same place and probably around the same time; early 1970s. I was born in 1969 and would be about 6 or so.

[@tillyupnorth]

Wow that’s great

[@leehewitt9559]

I’ll try and find it because I remember there being a red Hilman Avenger in the picture! Just think if it’s turns out to be your family car! Watch this space…

[@girlinagale]

On the tourist sign they've got km and miles mixed up, should be 81 miles - 130km.

[@girlinagale]

After buying a very cheap eyelet set and finding it not fit for purpose I searched for proper brass eyelets and found a Rochdale manufacturer (Hanolex). Looking forward to finishing the hand made sails for my old model sailing boat. I have a few small transistor radios, I'll get them out and have a listen.

[@tillyupnorth]

@@girlinagale yeh get the old transistor set out while you can

[@girlinagale]

@tillyupnorth I also have two large radio's that were my dad's, The battery one had a much bigger 9v battery which were silly expensive so I converted it to a PP3 which are cheap. The mains powered one is a Vega 215 Selena, it has FM, LW, Short wave 5, 4, 3, 2, and 1.

[@tillyupnorth]

@ I had a vega many years ago back . Was really good. The tuning in it went wrong in the end

[@girlinagale]

@@tillyupnorth I also have a dab radio but I dislike it. DAB is frustrating when they upgrade every year so fewer and fewer stations work unless you buy a new one.

[@tillyupnorth]

There all slowly going on to dab plus so you old dab radio must not support it. You will find a second hand dab radio cheep these days with dab plus

[@SuperBoobaloo]

You should be a TV presenter. You're such a natural.

[@tillyupnorth]

That would be be ace. Thanks for the kind comment

[@buffplums]

Is t it a bloody shame that YohTube censors music … I would love to recreate the vintage radio feel myself I used to listen to 194 Radio City on AM and FM 96.7MHz… oh some great music you are playing here guys… I really love your channel.. sorghum for all the comments … I’m really inspired by what you guys do… love to meet you sometime and have a cup,of tea and a chat about the old radio stations

[@tillyupnorth]

sounds nice you can contact me at tillybandmusic@gmail

[@PeteCswampy]

FOREST also covered rock the boat

[@bobjary9382]

Tecsun. Good radio

[@BeasleyStreet]

Lost a van door when it was blowing a whooley in Glasson dock a few years ago...

[@tillyupnorth]

@@BeasleyStreet I could imagine

[@buffplums]

I built myself a radio studio and have done a couple of broadcasts over the internet but before that I had a brief show on a local FM station Nova FM a in Newport Shropshire… loved it …but I want to build myself a low power AM Transmitter using valves to transmit on specific frequencies on the MF (MW) band and then to receive it on one of my valve receivers.. I can weaken the signal so much to introduce noise and that way if I plug my studio into the transmitter it might be an interesting experiment… I’m not a pirate but I feel that when the BBC eventually give up Radio from the LW frequency along with the last remainders like Max Radio (it will be a very sad day) but maybe our mission here will be to encourage new Radio Caroline’s of the future….

[@tillyupnorth]

i will miss the manx transmitter when its gone. keeps my old rados going

[@buffplums]

Makes me so sad the way those b****s Bauer and Global etc … (the only thing they do reasonably ok is Jazz FM and Classic FM ok Jazz is no longer FM Station I don’t think, unless innLondon) killed all of the radio stations off… they have no right but hey, I think we will see more pirate stations hopefully in the future.

[@tillyupnorth]

fm is getting very bland indeed

[@OFP2]

The sign said 81km/130 mile cycle way lol doesn’t look right

[@jackn4853]

It's the wrong way round.

[@stephenworthington8508]

Tell me more about the Radio!

[@tillyupnorth]

@@stephenworthington8508 if you watch my new radio it’s on there

[@marsultra7032]

Do you find them stations on long wave or short wave?

[@tillyupnorth]

@@marsultra7032 shortwave 6200 to 6300 is usually a good area

[@cariza5]

You can pick up North Korean Radio from Pyongyang on that radio.

[@tillyupnorth]

Maybe I’ll have to find out it’s broadcast times

[@karlb2620]

That’s an expensive radio I think

[@tillyupnorth]

Think you can get them for 170 now. Good price

[@aalexjohna]

Socially inadequate.

[@tillyupnorth]

@@aalexjohna thanks

[@Handlebar-MustDash]

How kind you are. Do you go kick puppies on your days off, like every single day?

[@Handlebar-MustDash]

​@@tillyupnorth Great channel mate. Love that radio, fantastic range and bandwidth on it looking at the specs. Was it from Ali-Express? I seen it on Martin's Radio UK website I think it is. Had a Russian Selena Vega B212 radio in a big wooden case years back and never should have sold it, it was built like a brick but was very reliable and a WorldBand receiver and the speaker was first class, lots of bass. The switches were very clunky and solid and it was so stylish looking. Hard to get hold of now as they were produced in the old Soviet Union in the 1970's to 80's.

[@philrobinson5667]

Hope you’re ok friend. You sound very much like you need help, or perhaps someone to chat to. By the last comment you have unfortunately described yourself…that’s such a shame…talk to somebody, please! Loved the video by the way.

[@philrobinson5667]

I was of course referring to ‘Aalex John’… or whatever name he/she is hiding under….