Channel 4 TV - Pirate Radio in 1982 (2)
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- Опубліковано 16 вер 2010
- Land-based Pirate Andromeda Independent Radio (AIR) from the Pennines, East of Manchester in the U.K. Broadcast on the Channel 4 TV 'Whatever You Want' programme on 20 December 1982.
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40 years ago - I wonder where these young rebels are today and what they are doing?
We ran album rock stations; Telstar 1, Alice's Restaurant, Amanda, RFM, HMR, Rock 106, and also ''Andromeda' all mid 60's to 1990, very rocky/progtastic man! Andromeda was 2 x 6146, 120w into a 'T' antenna on 1278kHz, good signal over a large part of the southeast incl. London
06:20 - important that radio is brought down from the establishment level to the personal level.
That's my voice. I'm the one driving the car and first over the gate at 4:55. We got paid for our contribution, a life-changing £15 each!
Great clip!
Their jingle machine is a huge reel-to-reel and they record their shows onto cassette the day before!
I just had some kind of singularity moment when I realised how the same sort of thing is now digitised and transmitted all over the world
I was one-half of Andromeda Radio and we each recorded our programmes at home in our own home studios. It all went onto cassette and was played out via our transmitter up a local hill. We started in 1979 and went on until 1984. We then tried to set up a truly local community station in the village of Glossop in the High Peak area but getting people off their backsides proved very difficult.
1 watt covers the same area as Radio Manchester using 4,000 watts? I beg to differ, 1 watt will disappear past the first hill, that's why higher power is used to overcome these issues, that said, I admire the spirit of pirate radio operators, it's the freshest and rawest radio, a type of radio you will not hear on establishment stations.
I was one of the operators, and we did cover roughly the same area as Radio Manchester. We had listeners in Liverpool, Southport, Bolton, Nantwich and Wigan, this in addition to our local listeners in Tameside and Greater Manchester. Sure, the signal level was a lot lower but it didn't seem to bother anyone!
1 Watt does seem rather low but they did have a high gain antenna and broadcast from the top of a huge hill. The antenna would have added a few watts and as VHF signals travel line of sight they would have had the potential to cover quite a wide area. In contrast, I used a 150w transmitter from Fulham and could barely reach further than Putney Hill, but when used from Hampstead I knocked out other pirates operating on the same frequency from several miles away, whose own signal I couldn't pick up from my location.
KFM Radio Manchester
Ah! At 4'00" - The Ecology Party and the Green Gathering at Glastonbury. I was there!!
Does anybody have any more Whatever You Want clips, it was a great show in it's day, Keith Allen was actually rather good on it!