90's Pirate Radio Stations

[commuter]

unrelated - as it's legal and licensed. my father is a radio ham and broadcasts from his loft. his neigbour must have the electric opener on his garage door tuned to the same frequency as it goes up and down when he transmits

[Saifa]

I'm amazed none of the pro-estbalishment / right wingers who inhabit this forum have been posting saying about how morally wrong pirates are.

 

Look what happened to the graff thread....

 

Not that I'm complaining like

[grinboy]

Have a look at

http://www.talklikeapirate.com/piratehome.html

 

Or have I missed the point?

 

Tee-Hee

[stevie1957]

Originally posted by commuter

unrelated - as it's legal and licensed. my father is a radio ham and broadcasts from his loft. his neigbour must have the electric opener on his garage door tuned to the same frequency as it goes up and down when he transmits

 

Your dads not doing anything wrong...it’s the device on the garage that’s not shielded properly.

 

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[JoeP]

To whoever was asking....

 

Forge FM spun out of the Uni in the early 1990s - basically it became more open to non-students, as while it was student radio non-students (naturally!!) couldn't participate.

 

I got involved in 93, I think, and stayed on until Forge folded at the end of the decade. I was mainly involved on technical stuff, but also did some presenting, administration, aerial rigging, blagging, etc.

 

We were always legal - spending a couple of grand a year on licenses also meant that we were always looking for ways to raise money!

 

Joe

[JoeP]

Originally posted by Saifa

I'm amazed none of the pro-estbalishment / right wingers who inhabit this forum have been posting saying about how morally wrong pirates are.

 

Look what happened to the graff thread....

 

Not that I'm complaining like

 

My main objection to pirate radio stemmed from :

 

a. Having legitimate services (and stations with which I was working legally) being interfered with by bloody awful signals. The technical abilities in many pirate stations were quite abysmal.

 

b. The crap taste in music broadcast.

 

c. The fact that we were expected to find several grand a year for giving the community the opportunity to participate in radio whilst pirates got away with it for free.

 

d. Oh...and whether you like it or not it IS illegal.

 

I hope this isn't going to go in to a 'freedom of speech' debate because the freedom that most pirates seemed to want was freedom to broadcast the same music they and their mates would normally play to each other every evening in their rooms or listen to in clubs!

 

Joe

[Guest]

the more pirate radio stations in Sheffield the bestter. A slong as they don't interfere with the emergency services I have no issues with them. The legal local radio stations are that bad (Radio Sheffield :gag: , Hallam and the others aren't any better) that if they are drowned out it would do us all a favour.

[superchrome]

Originally posted by Saifa

While we're on pirate radio...

 

anyone know what became of sheffield community radio (SCR) that used to broadcast in the 1990s? That was a top station.

 

Where have all the decent pirates gone?

i was on SCR for 5 years 90-95, i knew most of the dj's and management,it got to a stage where the management went into other buisnesses so it just got faded out of operation,at one piont there was probably too many pirates,but scr was the most profesional,...it had always been a pirate even tho some djs went into legal radio like sweet-g for instance,he went onto radio sheffield.

dont know what happend to all the equiptment but i do know at one point fantasy fm was in the same flat as scr(keninghall mount)norfolk park. so it was probaly given or sold to them.

[JoeP]

Originally posted by robbie

the more pirate radio stations in Sheffield the bestter. A slong as they don't interfere with the emergency services I have no issues with them. The legal local radio stations are that bad (Radio Sheffield :gag: , Hallam and the others aren't any better) that if they are drowned out it would do us all a favour.

 

It would be nice if we had a system like that in Italy, where certain parts of the spectrum at the top of the VHF band are 'open' to anyone to broadcast in.

 

Apart from the emergency services, a poorly set up transmitter can interfere with legal broadcasters and other folks who've paid good licence fee to use the radio spectrum.

 

If they're using enough power, and broadcasting form the top of a block of flats, they'd also probably interfere with local TV / radio reception as well.

 

Joe

[superchrome]

Originally posted by JoeP

It would be nice if we had a system like that in Italy, where certain parts of the spectrum at the top of the VHF band are 'open' to anyone to broadcast in.

 

Apart from the emergency services, a poorly set up transmitter can interfere with legal broadcasters and other folks who've paid good licence fee to use the radio spectrum.

 

If they're using enough power, and broadcasting form the top of a block of flats, they'd also probably interfere with local TV / radio reception as well.

 

Joe

you seem to think people who ran the pirates where all stupid,they new just as much as any one could,if the broadcast levels where too high it would be cut out by a limiter or it would just be turned down.

it was the amount of pirates at the time that created inteference....not sloppy setting up.

if you were into specialised music that is what the pirates were for.