Eurosiege '85 Laser 558

Laser 558 the radio revolution from the North Sea

[@boilerroombob]

I used to listen to later 558 way back in 85 ...a 14 year old dreaming of my own pirate station... struggling to build my own fm transmitters....then along came birds and beer 😅😅...for a few years then I opened my first station in 1989 .....loved it . I'm 54 now it never leaves leaves you

[@CrueLoaf]

Good days! Radio was exciting back then!

[@richardpicking4459]

Brings back happy memories of a visit onboard the Ross Revenge and alongside the Communicator in 1984.

[@frankedwardcurry]

Sad really - Laser 558 was a Great Radio Station. At least Caroline was finally granted a legal licence to broadcast. Mainly from land but also from the ship - I have happy memories of listening to both Laser and Caroline !

[@toinewillekens4710]

Radio Caroline nowadays is just crap let them return from the sea !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@adamskihousden146]

@@toinewillekens4710 if I could I would, I grew up with pirate stations, I can recall the Caroline bell from when I was very very little...bring back the offshore stations

[@redeye_]

that would be great, but funding & shipfinding could be a hard task unless you know someone who has a shipyard

[@chrismassey1960]

Johnny was my favourite. I remember listening to him as a boy. Little did i know a few years later i would live the dream. I loved the training school VOP Israel. I also went on to own 2 radio stations in Spain. Chris Adams.

[@chrisvasey5847]

i still listen to radio caroline flashback.still better than bbc radio.

[@timcollins380]

I used to fly helicopters in the Southern North Sea from 1984 to 1994. I am not aware of any instances of not being able to pick up rig or platform NDBs. Far from complaining, some of us used to listen to Laser and Caroline on our ADF receiver(s) while we were flying LOL.

[@gpo746]

So that proves the DTI were just lying to get public support against these stations

[@glennwillems9924]

You are correct. The examples of f2 - f1 and f1 - f2 are nonsense. In radio we should worry about so-called 3rd order intermodulation products, which occur at 2*f1 - f2 and 2*f2 - f1. The examples given in the presentation are misleading the press people. Oh, and a typical and well-known of property of intermodulation products is that they wil occur symmetrically around f1 and f2. Well.... if you take 963 and 576 kHz for example, using their logic one IM product would occur on 387 kHz. But, given the symmetrical nature of intermodulation products, another one would be produced on ... -387 kHz. A negative frequency. Utter bollocks. I rest my case, your honour.

[@PirateRadioArchive]

Nice one

[@CrueLoaf]

16:05 he made that name up didn’t he? 😂😂😂

[@gaz66chris]

that peter anderson was a sad little man wasnt he....

[@JonNewstead-cy4qw]

Patrick patomoster i 🤔 wot a guy very fast thinker proper old skipper

[@ianharling9569]

My brother is a commercial airline pilot and he has never had any interference from the stations in the North sea. DTI..."Department Of Technical idiots". 73 G7HFS/PA3IKH.

[@sarkybugger5009]

Typical of the DTI. Blind them with science, or baffle them with bullshit. Whichever works best. Had the same problems with AM CB radios in the late 70s. "Could, might, may, or can cause interference," but never "provably does." Have to make it appear as if they are actually doing something, because rules.

[@GarySanson]

New Zealand once had pirate radio and now thanks to them we now have private radio operating and with all tastes of music been looked after.

[@JJMMWGDuPree]

There appear to be dozens (And dozens) of British radio stations that can be clearly heard all around the coast. Has anyone tried using the DTI calculations to see if they may be causing catastrophic interference with anything?

[@MSMediaRotterdam]

Such a load of technical nonsense the DTI spread, based on assumptions. A waste of tax money indeed...

[@user-oh4su7bn4s]

This man is talking absolute rubbish