Thing is yeah Pirate Radios played the music the other stations wouldn't play and MAX SPECT for that yeah. But nowadays there's plenty of small stations pumping out all types of music on FM in every city, so to be perfectly honest there isn't really a need for pirates anymore
The man from the council with his soundbites is very cynical and very wrong. Most of the stations I know of, ours included, everybody was doing it for the love of music and the buzz of knowing you were making lots of listeners happy. Take it from me there was no Mr Big, no big money, no alterior motives like drug peddling. It was the pure fun of doing it. The reason for going to extremes to hide and protect the gear was precisely because we didn't have ready cash to replace it.
both parts of this are excellent, the comment "these people cant be doing it for the love of the music" really shows how clueless the council really are...the same thing was said on the recent inside out report on squat parties.
He calls that crude? Look at all those filters and circuitry. Crude is using one transistor, two resistors, four caps and a bit of wire. Whoever build that wanted a good signal with little outband interference.
I don't buy the bullshit about the transmitters interfering with aviation bands.The oscillators are far too weak and the first harmonic sidebands are above that range of frequencies.
@conoba You are wrong about the airband interference, many of these use an oscillator at about 30Mhz tripled up to 90Mhz, I can assure you they can be heard at roughly 4 times the 30Mhz which puts them in airband. The modern PLL derived transmitters have other problems, usually spurs closer to the actual output frequency.
@g0fvt The engineers I used to know who built this stuff for most of the big pirates were on the ball when it came to these kind of "sprogs", had sophisticated scopes and scanners, were knowledgable about who used what parts of the radio spectrum and and went to great lengths to avoid this kind of interference. By the time you tried to measure the multiplier frequencies you'd have to be within a very short distance to pick it up, certainly no threat to professional airband communications.
@TonyJvideos I have actually seen a link transmitter on airband, but going back to the previous point many of the transmitters were seriously "sproggy". I am sure some of the builders were more conscientious than others...
@g0fvt Putting a link on a populated airband frequency sounds like asking for trouble. Typically the links I've seen were very low power and used directional aerials
I'm starting to work on a new pirate radio ststion in the next few weeks. There is no advertising on it what so ever. No money involved, its all about the music and we are assuring that we dont interfere with emergency transmissions or other stations. Wheres the crime in that?
Thing is yeah Pirate Radios played the music the other stations wouldn't play and MAX SPECT for that yeah. But nowadays there's plenty of small stations pumping out all types of music on FM in every city, so to be perfectly honest there isn't really a need for pirates anymore
JagoReedJones 10 months ago
The man from the council with his soundbites is very cynical and very wrong. Most of the stations I know of, ours included, everybody was doing it for the love of music and the buzz of knowing you were making lots of listeners happy. Take it from me there was no Mr Big, no big money, no alterior motives like drug peddling. It was the pure fun of doing it. The reason for going to extremes to hide and protect the gear was precisely because we didn't have ready cash to replace it.
TonyJvideos 1 year ago
both parts of this are excellent, the comment "these people cant be doing it for the love of the music" really shows how clueless the council really are...the same thing was said on the recent inside out report on squat parties.
GandhiShazny 1 year ago
These legends kept the scene alive........
dnb1210 1 year ago
cake tin, cake tin, cake tin, cake tin...
studioinsisto 1 year ago
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andaverdebazzano 2 years ago
the state is oppressing people man when will people wake up and rise up
fuckin hell
mrchips 2 years ago 6
@mrchips WERD.
micljnes 7 months ago
He calls that crude? Look at all those filters and circuitry. Crude is using one transistor, two resistors, four caps and a bit of wire. Whoever build that wanted a good signal with little outband interference.
I don't buy the bullshit about the transmitters interfering with aviation bands.The oscillators are far too weak and the first harmonic sidebands are above that range of frequencies.
conoba 2 years ago 3
@conoba You are wrong about the airband interference, many of these use an oscillator at about 30Mhz tripled up to 90Mhz, I can assure you they can be heard at roughly 4 times the 30Mhz which puts them in airband. The modern PLL derived transmitters have other problems, usually spurs closer to the actual output frequency.
g0fvt 2 years ago
@g0fvt The engineers I used to know who built this stuff for most of the big pirates were on the ball when it came to these kind of "sprogs", had sophisticated scopes and scanners, were knowledgable about who used what parts of the radio spectrum and and went to great lengths to avoid this kind of interference. By the time you tried to measure the multiplier frequencies you'd have to be within a very short distance to pick it up, certainly no threat to professional airband communications.
TonyJvideos 1 year ago
@TonyJvideos I have actually seen a link transmitter on airband, but going back to the previous point many of the transmitters were seriously "sproggy". I am sure some of the builders were more conscientious than others...
g0fvt 1 year ago
@g0fvt Putting a link on a populated airband frequency sounds like asking for trouble. Typically the links I've seen were very low power and used directional aerials
TonyJvideos 1 year ago
respect guys ,radio its coooool
dynisiuk 2 years ago
Maximum respect to the pirates.
MUYBIEN1 2 years ago 8
I'm starting to work on a new pirate radio ststion in the next few weeks. There is no advertising on it what so ever. No money involved, its all about the music and we are assuring that we dont interfere with emergency transmissions or other stations. Wheres the crime in that?
djdott1991 2 years ago
EMAP are satan, hard to beat them they own it all...
drmarrese101 3 years ago
3;20 shabba d looking young
flamboyantdj 3 years ago
pony mate
thexfactor27 3 years ago
Love it.
Love those transmitters.
wisteela 3 years ago