In the late 80s I was a technician with a UK radio paging network. We had loads of pirates in London who used our pagers as a way of allowing the audience to communicate with the DJ. One enterprising DJ wanted to host a competition but as soon as he announced it our paging bureau lit up and became congested with people trying to pre-empt the competition. I contacted the DJ through the salesman who sold him the pager. We worked out that I would lock out the paging account until he announced the competition was open. I was listening to his broadcast from home and dialled into our paging switch to unlock his account the instant he announced the lines were open. When the winner was announced I blocked the account again. I was rather pleased with my creativity.
Without the pirate radio stations a lot the music that exists today and many of the people involved in it wouldn't have existed. They owe it all to pirate radio!!
Tony Blackburn being a great example, pirate radio in 2023 is still going in some areas, I don't think they are getting prosecuted as much as 30 years ago.
Some of the biggest musical acts of the sixties would never have been heard of here without pirate radio. Because of them the BBC had to change all its radio stations and Radio 1 came into existence. There was no pop music on BBC radio before 1964 apart from Pick of the Pops on a Sunday night or you got Radio Luxembourg very faintly after 9.00 pm.
I know we have the internet but I have an ‘ odd ‘ obsession with vhf & uhf reception perhaps encouraged by growing up in the 70s in central southern england where the only radio playing punk ( apart from John peel on R1 ) was Radio Victory , 22 miles distant and us being 10 miles from the fringe of the signal on 95.0 - and TVS would fill Sunday afternoons with b & w old folks movies whilst HTV West showed their regions’ teams soccer highlights. I did a rig enough to receive both but nowadays a scan up the fm dial during the day makes me angry as the sole station playing anything unusual ( old school prog rock occasionally) is a community station in Verwood and the Asian Station in Southampton. So now I have a big Dipole above my chimney and when I get round to it , will see if anywhere between Selsey Bill and Portland Bill has anything ‘ naughty ‘ ....I very much doubt it ! Regards from Wilverley Enclosure Witches
We run one still.. What we do is only TX from a Friday to a Sunday morning (From 6pm on a Friday to 6am Sunday Morning. Mainly for the weekend party heads) We have 5 sites set up for TXing from, we broadcast thru a Shoutcast server to the TX site(s) We've never been busted yet and the station has been going for 5 years. 103.9 and 106.6 (we alternate between them every week) FM Glasgow area
when i was living in Maidstone in the 90's it was paradox fm ...not far from classic fm on the dial..sometimes they merged slightly so you got jungle playing with classical in the back ground ..kinda surreal
There would be no need for pirates if commercial stations such as Radio 1, Kiss and capital played better music and stop being dictated by the majors. Hence in the 90s was when pirates commanded the airwaves in London, Radio 1 realised that and got Fabio and Grooverider on there. Pirates play what the commercial stations wont. Kiss was good before they were taken over by Emap and started playing pop.
+Deejay Peekay Too right. Basically if there is a market that isn't being catered for by the established monopoly broadcasters then people will fix that for themselves. That's what pirates are all about. The only people that are against all this are the big corporate monopoly holders within the music industry because they realise that they aren't really needed anymore but are desperately trying to hold on to the the market.
2:33 The records were NOT stolen they were given to pirate radio DJ's for free by record companies or band managers to promote their bands, singers and/or music events that appeared at the local dance hall or cinema. And the so called 'lost Royalties'' were easily re-couped at these music events and by massive record sales. The 'pop' music industry, promoted by Pirate Radio, was beginning to bring in millions of pounds to Great Britain and the British government wanted in on it.
This is false. We bought 99% of our tunes. Sure there were djs on mailing lists but unless you were a known dj or was spinning on a decent pirate station, you would be lucky to get on one.
The records were bought individually by the DJs. True that sometimes record companies or producers would give promotional copies to select DJs or the station which would be a communal copy to stay in the station that all DJs can use. But it is a myth that pirate DJs got paid.
To make a microwave link they used to use an LNB from a satellite dish as the reciever end, and the transmitter end would be a horn from traffic lights, or from a shop door sensor, If i remember correctly. I have no idea what circuitry is used to modulate the signal etc, but a decent radio guy could figure all that out.
The Amateur Radio hobby encourages playing around with various technologies and frequencies. A lot of circuit designs are out there and can be adapted for this purpose.
imagine spending your life hunting down people who are just having a mix on the radio and feeling proud of yourself for shutting them down. Extremely sad
At the beginning they said they try to stop the pirate stations because its taking money away from the artists etc. But once the pirate stations moved away from being commercial these people that try to stop the remaining stations were impacting the artists revenue negatively as it became their advertisement And yet they still thought they were on the moral high ground. Just because you're enforcing a law, it does not mean that law is right.
The thing I hate about living out in the country side is the fact that I cant get any pirate radio stations anymore. When I used to live in Birmingham, I used to be able to get at least 5 when going into the City Center. They say the signal is line of sight, but you can actually see the city skyline from where I live and I can only get a faint signal on 1 pirate station called Mixfm.
You cannot defeat the underground. No...you can't. Big up the Tony badbwoy Blackburn. Seriously though, Rude FM solid as f@ck, Kool, Weekend Rush, Defection, Pulse, Impact etcetera ... We will never be defeated. Ever.
“ keeping the airwaves CLEAN “ ? In central southern england , when you tune your car or average builders’ radio , we have Capital, Breeze , Heart and Wave - Clone stations playing the Same music - then BBC Local Clone Radio playing identical content except for the “ what is your favourite colour bath towel “ type phone - in - then SMUG BBC Radio 2 playing The Bee Gees and Diana Ross and Elto and Rod day in , day out . Apart from BBC R1 , there’s no one broadcasting anything slightly diverse apart from the Ethnic and 50s stations in cities on very low power. Thank God for The Web as I cannot imagine what would’ve happened to the imaginations of Young and Growing or Interesting People. 🏴😇❤️love from The Elephants’ Graveyard of Broadcasting- Southern England
When was this recorded? Looks like mid 90s? Though one lady looked more like late 80s! Anyways, the last time i was in london for any length of time was 2015 and there was lots of pirates on air, all music, reggae, grime, DnB, RnB, 2step, everything the big stations ignore, and to be honest the airwaves sounded as lively in 2015 as they did in 92-95!!!
19:00 music for free?!?! You did a great job cracking down on that, didn't you, Jollon, old chap? It's now fucking free everywhere always, and giving pirate stations a hard time didn't do a blind bit of good.
7:38 bloke in the background sneezes... dont know why I found that funny! Anyway... pirates are not as regular as they used to be but some still fight on check out the Radionecks forum if you want to listen to whats on now in London, Kent, Essex and rest of the UK. I think this was Rude FM that then became Ruud Awakening in the early 00s?
does anybody knows the name the the movie i think its from uk and it haves ham radio and its a romans if im not mistaken and theres a guy in the space station a church old man a girl and guy that falls in love for each other and i think two other people talking with them with transmitter??
Why are they wasting time and money trying to stop people from doing this what true harm is it doing and plus the shit they destroy or take is cheap as chips and easy to get hold of
Several reasons.. Propaganda aside, mainly they go for the people who are playing uncensored music or the broadcaster themselves swearing and also to stop people trying to take the same frequency area as a licensed station who is paying $ to use it. You're supposed to pay for a license and know the proper radio rules so it's like a drivers license but for the radio. A license is mainly just a physical contract that you acknowledge the rules
@@xeric1953 A drivers license is available to almost anyone for very little money though, because it's in the interest of the government for us to drive and consume petrol and pay tax. Radio licenses were prohibitively expensive and the government were only handing them out to the likes of Jazz FM back in the 90s, not to the kids playing Jungle, who didn't have the means to go through the lengthy and (again) expensive application process.
Don't think so man. They'll get used for something surely they're not just gonna get left unused. It'll be at least 3 or 4 years probably longer til the switchover anyways
That's only when someone who doesn't know what they're doing and builds a sprog box. Someone who knows what they're doing would have tested the transmitter using a spectrum analyser. Band 1 isn't used as much because most people use microwave. The emergency services haven't used band 1 for years, they've moved to tetra airwave on 370-373 mhz. You're talking about the old 80s vfo txs. It's all a stupid law anyway. In Italy and other countries you're allowed your own tv & radio station.
This is ye olde, we need a new uodated doicumentery...we will never have the choice we should have for stations with the beeb hogging 70% of the FM band :( DAB is a joke with anything decent going mono and lowering the bit rate more and more
They want pirate stations to pay for licenses, dictate what they want to them say and play and get money from poor people instead of supporting the working class.
it would be nice to see the rig builders while they build the transmitters, tune them, use band pass filters and check how clean they are on analysers, but they won't as that would prove they don't interfere with other services or users, or do they ?? Anyone ever checked a rig on an analyser ?? maybe a new video ?
They say "pirate", I say 'pioneer'. True artists gladly appear on pirate radio. Long live the underground, forever pissing in the mainstream! Fuck the DTI, fuck the FCC! Much love from the US
18:46 she’s chatting shit about how many listeners they were getting simultaneously and the hit rate being in the millions. Remember back then the internet was still new to a lot of people. I was part of an internet station for over 10 years from 2006 and we were quite big but never saw those numbers. Silly cow.
The thing that people don't understand with Pirate radio between 87.5 & 108 MHz is that the frequencies which fell below it comprised of a lot of Emergency Services 9 as well as Utilities, nurses pagers and the PMR low band) . Also those which lie above 108 are the Civilian Air Band. When they say it could cause potential accidents, they're not trying to scare, they're being truthful.
The authorities do not realise the reason why there are pirates in the first place. Giving people what they want. They should reduce the cost of going legal, that’s the problem
Pauldjreadman We have a community radio licence, really tough to get one even if you have the money to cover it. We were only the third pirate station to go legal after Caroline and Kiss and I think every large town and city should have at least one legalised pirate station. Also DAB sounds like underwater arse. FM forever!
If the transmitter's dodgy, they could be way off the FM broadcast band, not to mention the many harmonics they might create even within it, which can easily wipe out the whole band, if not more. Even if they end up broadcasting where they intend to, the potential for possible QRM (interference) is massive, especially if the ERP (Effective Radiated Power) aka, the output (in Watts) is high.
good to see the government wasting the taxpayers money - wankers where's the crime. A close friend is a telecoms engineer who tells me alll emergency services are digital and the airports only use fm as backup.
In the late 80s I was a technician with a UK radio paging network. We had loads of pirates in London who used our pagers as a way of allowing the audience to communicate with the DJ. One enterprising DJ wanted to host a competition but as soon as he announced it our paging bureau lit up and became congested with people trying to pre-empt the competition. I contacted the DJ through the salesman who sold him the pager. We worked out that I would lock out the paging account until he announced the competition was open. I was listening to his broadcast from home and dialled into our paging switch to unlock his account the instant he announced the lines were open. When the winner was announced I blocked the account again. I was rather pleased with my creativity.
That was an elegant method to resolve that issue.
Without the pirate radio stations a lot the music that exists today and many of the people involved in it wouldn't have existed. They owe it all to pirate radio!!
Tony Blackburn being a great example, pirate radio in 2023 is still going in some areas, I don't think they are getting prosecuted as much as 30 years ago.
Some of the biggest musical acts of the sixties would never have been heard of here without pirate radio. Because of them the BBC had to change all its radio stations and Radio 1 came into existence. There was no pop music on BBC radio before 1964 apart from Pick of the Pops on a Sunday night or you got Radio Luxembourg very faintly after 9.00 pm.
@@cafsixtieslover facts!
Pirate Radio forever
hi!can u write some good sites with good manuals about this transmitters in blocks?i cant understend how ppl set them
obolonev Yeh great idea, on UA-cam!
LONG LIVE PIRATE RADIO!
till 2020 anyway
FMCREPAIRARMAGH It's 2020 now. So what's going to happen with pirate radio??
@KingPro [= Only just seen these replies. What’s he on about? Until 2020. LOL
Massive shout to Tony Blackburn, legend, started on Pirate and wants to finish on Pirate. Big respect
Here it is 2019 and PIRATES are still on the airwaves more than ever.
I know we have the internet but I have an ‘ odd ‘ obsession with vhf & uhf reception perhaps encouraged by growing up in the 70s in central southern england where the only radio playing punk ( apart from John peel on R1 ) was Radio Victory , 22 miles distant and us being 10 miles from the fringe of the signal on 95.0 - and TVS would fill Sunday afternoons with b & w old folks movies whilst HTV West showed their regions’ teams soccer highlights. I did a rig enough to receive both but nowadays a scan up the fm dial during the day makes me angry as the sole station playing anything unusual ( old school prog rock occasionally) is a community station in Verwood and the Asian Station in Southampton. So now I have a big Dipole above my chimney and when I get round to it , will see if anywhere between Selsey Bill and Portland Bill has anything ‘ naughty ‘ ....I very much doubt it ! Regards from Wilverley Enclosure Witches
@@newforestpixie5297 I haven't had cable since 1988. Rabbit ears then HD antenna. Still running today. 40+ channels.
@@MikePowlas What’s rabbit ears?
@@TheRaveMusicArchive tv antenna that sits on top of a tv
@@MikePowlas Ah right. Thanks.
Authority guy: "There's always a way around it"
Pirate guy: "There's always a way around it, you know"
Long live pirate radios !
love this documentary. the happy days
We run one still..
What we do is only TX from a Friday to a Sunday morning (From 6pm on a Friday to 6am Sunday Morning. Mainly for the weekend party heads)
We have 5 sites set up for TXing from, we broadcast thru a Shoutcast server to the TX site(s)
We've never been busted yet and the station has been going for 5 years.
103.9 and 106.6 (we alternate between them every week) FM Glasgow area
Same with us in Ireland long may it live bruv 👊😁
You reaching Edinburgh?
Do the government and police care to even try shut down pirate stations in 2022? I doubt it.
when i was living in Maidstone in the 90's it was paradox fm ...not far from classic fm on the dial..sometimes they merged slightly so you got jungle playing with classical in the back ground ..kinda surreal
Any audio kicking about on the internet of Paradox?
There’s been a few in Maidstone. Paradox, Kaos, Reason, Juice, Flava, and Innocence
There would be no need for pirates if commercial stations such as Radio 1, Kiss and capital played better music and stop being dictated by the majors. Hence in the 90s was when pirates commanded the airwaves in London, Radio 1 realised that and got Fabio and Grooverider on there. Pirates play what the commercial stations wont. Kiss was good before they were taken over by Emap and started playing pop.
+Deejay Peekay Too right. Basically if there is a market that isn't being catered for by the established monopoly broadcasters then people will fix that for themselves. That's what pirates are all about. The only people that are against all this are the big corporate monopoly holders within the music industry because they realise that they aren't really needed anymore but are desperately trying to hold on to the the market.
That's the thing about the mainstream. The people suck and the music sucks
deejay Peekay .you forgot Atlantic 252 lw back in the day.
There's always a need for pirates and always will be.
Super ironic considering KISS FM started out as a pirate station!
2:33 The records were NOT stolen they were given to pirate radio DJ's for free by record companies or band managers to promote their bands, singers and/or music events that appeared at the local dance hall or cinema.
And the so called 'lost Royalties'' were easily re-couped at these music events and by massive record sales.
The 'pop' music industry, promoted by Pirate Radio, was beginning to bring in millions of pounds to Great Britain and the British government wanted in on it.
anyway, he didn't last long in that job...
This is false. We bought 99% of our tunes. Sure there were djs on mailing lists but unless you were a known dj or was spinning on a decent pirate station, you would be lucky to get on one.
The records were bought individually by the DJs. True that sometimes record companies or producers would give promotional copies to select DJs or the station which would be a communal copy to stay in the station that all DJs can use. But it is a myth that pirate DJs got paid.
Shine FM, JFM, Shakedown, Solar, Climax, Powerjam, Upfront, London Underground, DejaVu, LWR, Starpoint..... Great times!!
My dad roger Howe built the Riggs for most of them stations
Good man ))
Can you imagine how much time and money they'd save by not going after pirates?
7:38 bloke at the back sneezes
The transmitter shown at the 11:15 mark onwards looks amazing.
To make a microwave link they used to use an LNB from a satellite dish as the reciever end, and the transmitter end would be a horn from traffic lights, or from a shop door sensor, If i remember correctly. I have no idea what circuitry is used to modulate the signal etc, but a decent radio guy could figure all that out.
Spot on bro..
The Amateur Radio hobby encourages playing around with various technologies and frequencies.
A lot of circuit designs are out there and can be adapted for this purpose.
I still broadcast on fm 2 this day
cant stop the pirates!
My dad roger Howe top transmitter builder bwbroadcast rip
Yes Jenna. Your dad was a legend! Still my favourite FM transmitters. We used them on Passion FM!
@@drmagis thank u means a lot ❤️
@@jennahowe7087 🙏❤
Anyone got a date on this? Seems like late 90s from the music and general look.
End credits say 1999
I recognise that voice - big up the Fugee aka The Fugitive!
Loved this
imagine spending your life hunting down people who are just having a mix on the radio and feeling proud of yourself for shutting them down. Extremely sad
Well said that man. 💯
At the beginning they said they try to stop the pirate stations because its taking money away from the artists etc. But once the pirate stations moved away from being commercial these people that try to stop the remaining stations were impacting the artists revenue negatively as it became their advertisement And yet they still thought they were on the moral high ground.
Just because you're enforcing a law, it does not mean that law is right.
Used to have an old amstrad stereo with scratches in the FM dial showing stations. Great days
The thing I hate about living out in the country side is the fact that I cant get any pirate radio stations anymore. When I used to live in Birmingham, I used to be able to get at least 5 when going into the City Center. They say the signal is line of sight, but you can actually see the city skyline from where I live and I can only get a faint signal on 1 pirate station called Mixfm.
exile radio. we ran tings
use tunein I live in birmingham and with it you can even get american radios
Callum Clarke I can get Chookazo F.M from my treehouse on Mars 👽👽👾👾🌲🌲🌳🌳🌳📻📻📻📻📻📻📻📻📼📼📼
You cannot defeat the underground. No...you can't. Big up the Tony badbwoy Blackburn.
Seriously though, Rude FM solid as f@ck, Kool, Weekend Rush, Defection, Pulse, Impact etcetera ... We will never be defeated. Ever.
track id! got some good bangers going on here
Excellent vid
Yes the Fugee Rude FM 88.2 👍🏻
“ keeping the airwaves CLEAN “ ? In central southern england , when you tune your car or average builders’ radio , we have Capital, Breeze , Heart and Wave - Clone stations playing the Same music - then BBC Local Clone Radio playing identical content except for the “ what is your favourite colour bath towel “ type phone - in - then SMUG BBC Radio 2 playing The Bee Gees and Diana Ross and Elto and Rod day in , day out . Apart from BBC R1 , there’s no one broadcasting anything slightly diverse apart from the Ethnic and 50s stations in cities on very low power. Thank God for The Web as I cannot imagine what would’ve happened to the imaginations of Young and Growing or Interesting People. 🏴😇❤️love from The Elephants’ Graveyard of Broadcasting- Southern England
Wicked stuff 🙌
Weird seeing Tony Benn against pirate radio, I’d of thought he would be all for it
It was also in the US From Discovery channel year in 90's or 2000's
then pirate radio will move to DAB.. big up all the DAB massive!!
Flick this switch... and we're on Air!! ;)
19:01 JOLLYON BENN
HIS PARENTS HAD A SENSE OF HUMOUR.
From pillar to post pirate radios your musical host 🎶📻🎧🎙️🎶
Long live pirate radio
Jeez I looked young!
When was this recorded? Looks like mid 90s? Though one lady looked more like late 80s! Anyways, the last time i was in london for any length of time was 2015 and there was lots of pirates on air, all music, reggae, grime, DnB, RnB, 2step, everything the big stations ignore, and to be honest the airwaves sounded as lively in 2015 as they did in 92-95!!!
Alexandra Starr judging by the comments, sometime in 1999
I have learnt a lot about music from listening to hardcore / Jungle / DnB because I am interested in the samples that are used.
could you tell me what song is played multiple times in the background eg 16:59
Big up storm FM
hahaha! Marylyn you kick ass!
stick to am then ,plenty of receivers still around,just spread the word
this program was made in 1999
the future is predicted twice at 17:03 and 19:28
19:00 music for free?!?! You did a great job cracking down on that, didn't you, Jollon, old chap? It's now fucking free everywhere always, and giving pirate stations a hard time didn't do a blind bit of good.
Don't suppose anyone knows the track at the end of part one is?
GET IT RIGHT
7:38 bloke in the background sneezes... dont know why I found that funny!
Anyway... pirates are not as regular as they used to be but some still fight on check out the Radionecks forum if you want to listen to whats on now in London, Kent, Essex and rest of the UK.
I think this was Rude FM that then became Ruud Awakening in the early 00s?
Trouble is, this great music is hardly ever heard on FM... There is a ap in the market for pirate radio style radio methinks.
Very glad you have set them straight, preach brother, preach the truth!
Big up the microwaves!!! All crew! Big up the Mad Ash a true old skooler! 13 thumbs downers are rumored to be from the DTI.. More news at ten!
Graffiti and underground musick, from the US to the UK, voice of the fucking people!
I bet its pissed a lot of people off that pirate ridio is no longer needed.anyone with a phone can broardcast now
does anybody knows the name the the movie i think its from uk and it haves ham radio and its a romans if im not mistaken and theres a guy in the space station a church old man a girl and guy that falls in love for each other and i think two other people talking with them with transmitter??
Jay Wolf that movie was also called “making waves”. There’s an IMDB page for it
Shouts to
Sunrise
Dream
Centerforce
Freak 101.8
Passion 91.8
Shine 89.7
Erotic 101.3
Flashback 97.6/99.3
Sounds 94.3
Taste 92.5
Rinse 100.3
Eruption 101.3
Kool 94.5
Flava 88.6
Rude 88.2
Heat 96.6
Flex 103.6
Delight 103.0
Ontop 95.5
Upfront 99.3
Raw 90.0
Imagine all of those 1 of a kind records being destroyed because of the authorities getting in the way of peoples expression.
Who’s that at @13.00 ? I need his knowledge
Why are they wasting time and money trying to stop people from doing this what true harm is it doing and plus the shit they destroy or take is cheap as chips and easy to get hold of
Several reasons.. Propaganda aside, mainly they go for the people who are playing uncensored music or the broadcaster themselves swearing and also to stop people trying to take the same frequency area as a licensed station who is paying $ to use it.
You're supposed to pay for a license and know the proper radio rules so it's like a drivers license but for the radio. A license is mainly just a physical contract that you acknowledge the rules
@@xeric1953 A drivers license is available to almost anyone for very little money though, because it's in the interest of the government for us to drive and consume petrol and pay tax. Radio licenses were prohibitively expensive and the government were only handing them out to the likes of Jazz FM back in the 90s, not to the kids playing Jungle, who didn't have the means to go through the lengthy and (again) expensive application process.
anybody got that id on 6;50 ?
Hey! Im creating a documentary which talks about pirate radio and would love to use some of this footage! How could i obtain permission to use? Thanks
just pirate it
Did you make it ?
i must say.. verrrry interesting. DAB can be pirated. would like to talk about it. BENTLEY.
Don't think so man. They'll get used for something surely they're not just gonna get left unused. It'll be at least 3 or 4 years probably longer til the switchover anyways
Where is beatz and grinda????
88.6 divine fm , 88.4 ice fm, 92.3 deja vu, 92.7 mac fm, 95.5 live fm, , 101.50 flight fm, 103 delight fm, 103.6 flex fm......
whats the track name thats getting played at 10:00
+ni99anugget Darude - Sandstorm
That's only when someone who doesn't know what they're doing and builds a sprog box. Someone who knows what they're doing would have tested the transmitter using a spectrum analyser. Band 1 isn't used as much because most people use microwave. The emergency services haven't used band 1 for years, they've moved to tetra airwave on 370-373 mhz. You're talking about the old 80s vfo txs. It's all a stupid law anyway. In Italy and other countries you're allowed your own tv & radio station.
The mighty rude
This is ye olde, we need a new uodated doicumentery...we will never have the choice we should have for stations with the beeb hogging 70% of the FM band :( DAB is a joke with anything decent going mono and lowering the bit rate more and more
www.drownedcity.com/ theres trailers on Youchube, but it's out on DVD now. It's absolutely incredible...
Check out Drowned City
Been on Internet radio for years . It's one endless party . Still rolling in 2019
Then along come the internet
yer hes been there from the off lol
Incidental music was made by DJ Kalm
subscribed to Marylyn+goldseal+MNNI+
What is the track name at 8:57?
14:58 Cementing a ventilation shaft sounds a tad unhealthy from a perspective of air quality.
freedomvigilant1234 neither does flammable cladding, didn’t stop them doing it anyway
@@bytesabre Good point
MkI Mondeo starting to look very dated now.
0:58 is that skream? haha
tflive 94.2fm
when was this documenatry released? sorry if i missed it somewhere
TheDJkarsy release in 1999 . MCMXCIX translates from roman numerals to 1999
TheDJkarsy 1843😈😈
why is it Illegal?
+broken house goverment mind control
They want pirate stations to pay for licenses, dictate what they want to them say and play and get money from poor people instead of supporting the working class.
fuckin'suits..
87.5 uk raw 104 .3 crystal / ex logic ! London /Surrey !
I swear Raws not a pirate station?
+Has Kk off air at the mo anyway
+dazza is it? Do you know why? I was wondering why I couldn't pick it up
+Has Kk probably been busted hopefully they will be back!
+Has Kk back on if your interested !!
it would be nice to see the rig builders while they build the transmitters, tune them, use band pass filters and check how clean they are on analysers,
but they won't as that would prove they don't interfere with other services or users, or do they ??
Anyone ever checked a rig on an analyser ??
maybe a new video ?
20:40 haha bitch 2016 and digital radio still hasn't caught on!
Mixcloud! The compromiser.
hehe bigupz and shouts from us interFACE !! pirate-radioDOTorg still going 17 years lataz!! watch?v=3T7sZhOhJMY
Jollyon ? WTF ???
I've got a jollyon right now, in fact.
Funny how people just do just like this funny that 😅😅😅😅bang on the same I'm thinking they see this and made the same thing just up to date
na its rude the original rude fm mate
Yes yes man.
Kiss was good when it started it's crap now of course...
Gordon Mac sold it out, now it sounds like Capital, Radio 1 and all the other crap stations.
They say "pirate", I say 'pioneer'. True artists gladly appear on pirate radio. Long live the underground, forever pissing in the mainstream! Fuck the DTI, fuck the FCC! Much love from the US
18:46 she’s chatting shit about how many listeners they were getting simultaneously and the hit rate being in the millions. Remember back then the internet was still new to a lot of people. I was part of an internet station for over 10 years from 2006 and we were quite big but never saw those numbers. Silly cow.
The thing that people don't understand with Pirate radio between 87.5 & 108 MHz is that the frequencies which fell below it comprised of a lot of Emergency Services 9 as well as Utilities, nurses pagers and the PMR low band) . Also those which lie above 108 are the Civilian Air Band.
When they say it could cause potential accidents, they're not trying to scare, they're being truthful.
The authorities do not realise the reason why there are pirates in the first place. Giving people what they want. They should reduce the cost of going legal, that’s the problem
Pauldjreadman We have a community radio licence, really tough to get one even if you have the money to cover it. We were only the third pirate station to go legal after Caroline and Kiss and I think every large town and city should have at least one legalised pirate station.
Also DAB sounds like underwater arse. FM forever!
If the transmitter's dodgy, they could be way off the FM broadcast band, not to mention the many harmonics they might create even within it, which can easily wipe out the whole band, if not more.
Even if they end up broadcasting where they intend to, the potential for possible QRM (interference) is massive, especially if the ERP (Effective Radiated Power) aka, the output (in Watts) is high.
no no no
good to see the government wasting the taxpayers money - wankers where's the crime. A close friend is a telecoms engineer who tells me alll emergency services are digital and the airports only use fm as backup.