Setting Up A New Pirate Radio Station

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[@matambale]

Why is it that unfunded, high risk pirate radio is so much more listenable than profit-obsessed, ad-saturated commercial radio?

[@m.9243]

Great memories from my youth..

[@clangerbasher]

I am surprised by how professional some of these stations sounded.

[@stephenjones9153]

This brought back memories of my 1st Homebrew Transceiver back when I was 11 (now 63), It was a 2 Valve VHF AM from a circuit design I was given by an Ex British Forces Radio Tech who belonged to the Merseyside Free Radio Movement; they called CQ Echo Charley every weekend. I remember powering it up for the 1st time in our cellar and after about 1/2hr of tune,ing it up I heard a GPO van pulling up in the street 😳. Needless to say I pulled the plug quick and went to hide. 😂🤣😂🤣Very Happy Day's 😊

[@Willam_J]

Even though I live in the US (northern Illinois), I still find all of this radio history to be fascinating. There are as many similarities, as there are differences. The stories about ‘repeater wars’ are especially intriguing. I’ve been an ARO for 32 years, and have never heard of anything like that happening, here. (I’m not saying that it didn’t happen, just that I haven’t heard of it.)

[@daveg8htfadlibaudio250]

Yet another good one Lewis, my old mate Rick Dane ( RIP ) who ran radio Jackie North had many a run in with Gordon from the GPO and had lots of funny and clever tales to tell on how on most cases he managed to fool him on exactly where his transmitter actually was as most Pirates stations just ran run end fed quarter wave strait into the transmitter pi tank output stage circuit as it would match most load impedance's that a badly cut antenna would present. Rick Dane used a half wave on 217 mtrs with a matching unit at the antenna fed with about 150 foot of RG58 cable running all sorts of ways around a high rise block of flats even through drain pipes so it was very hard to trace it. the GPO used to go to every floor in the block of flats with a radio to see where the signal was strongest but because of the antenna matching unit the SWR at the TX was very low so the signal only got stronger at the top of the block of flats where the antenna came into, in the end Gordon and his mates decided to pull the main fuses out for the 4 different sides of the block to see when the TX went off but Rick had gone a stage further he ran his mains supply with a long run of 1.5mm mains cable from the other side of the block about 5 floors up from the flat he used to transmit from so this confused the GPO mob for ages as the main fuse on that particular phase did not make the transmitter go off, this made no sense to them as Rick used to change the mains feed from week to week around the block of flats, this went on for ages and I think they sort of gave up in the end for quite a while.

[@christopherhulse8385]

Fascinating, looking forward to part 2 tomorrow night 😃

[@Bluelagoonstudios]

In the Netherlands, pirates are just part of their culture, and sometimes they are very creative. So when I worked for Broadcast Partners, we noticed an FM dipole between all the other stacks of antenna's that were not on our list, it contained a digital link in OGG, and the MPX straight in an FM exciter. They took power from the safety signal lights. And we measured field intensity in the neighborhood, while the rest of the transmitters were down for maintenance. I'm still wondering how they pulled this off. Of course, all the equipment was removed after we called the police and got a warrant to remove everything. Like I said, very creative minds.

[@558vulcanxh]

I remember it well , we could pick it up well with our Bush Portable in Hazel Grove , and easily recognisable to us are where the photos of Manchester are taken from .Happy days, Thanks 😊

[@DavidHarberRadio]

Thanks for this. Really interesting content. I know a good amount about the pirates "tossing around in the north sea" and London's land based stations. Really interesting to watch a well put together video about stations 'up north'. (Love the Piccadilly sticker on the TX!) Keep it up!

[@raymondmartin6737]

Thanks 😊 for more about the Pirates in your

[@whothefoxcares]

a small flying drone can act as a radio router. broadcast to/from a mesh of many pi rate radios.

[@erikmutthersbough6508]

Always good story's and history lessons. I look forward to the next episode ❤

[@petecoventry6858]

I was on the Mi Amigo the day before she sank - and I am still on The Ross Revenge to this day :)

[@wisteela]

Fantastic bit of history. I love that with the stereo trick. Looking forward to part 2.

[@huwkelvinmorgan3575]

It's just fascinating hearing the history of this station i would have been around 8 years old back then just getting into CB and SW

[@Jauffre-innit]

These chaps are definitely very intelligent. I wonder how they learned how to build and setup their stations though

[@boilerroombob]

1st class Lewis ...you cannot get any better than the history of a pirate radio station

[@M0UAW_IO83]

Cheeky gits, "Piccadilly 261" sticker on the side of their TX 😅

[@NoddyAlba]

Anyone remember atlantic 252 ?