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Kool Fm - BBC News May 2007 about pirate radio interfering with aircraft air traffic control.
Why dont the DTI/Ofcom stop making up stories or show us hard evidence that pirates interfere. All pirates use low power transmitters which are miles away from Heathrow. Maybe Air traffic control need better receiver filters build in their radios.
Big up Funky Flurt and Kool FM 94.5 and 94.6

Listener from day 1 back in 1992
P.S Good comment Sharpey :-)

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[youngachatbox]

this is not a lie me and my dad is like best dathger and dad and did u no funky flirt is realy my dad no lie

[Prototypeuk]

Can you prove your statment that Funky Flirt is your Dad?

[ebyard]

Spot on. This BBC report is a load of rubbish. Most pirates use good transmitters from a certain UK supplier and they are top notch - they never drift off frequency.

This is the BBC and the DTI or whatever they are now just scaremongering...

[mike20021969]

88-108MHz is for fm radio broadcasting, and all other services now use frequencies outside of this range (in the uk in the early 80's,the police,gas board etc... did occupy 98-108MHz but this was gradually freed up for radio station use in the mid to late 80's).

the reason pirates are shut down is simple-they don't pay royalties to the artists whose music they play.

btw i did run a pirate station in the late 80s before getting an official visit and warning to stop. hee-hee

[ddbd]

funky flirt you chav, a word of advive, if you ever want to be taken serious when making a point, take out the stupid cocktail stick. blessed.

[HardcoreJungFunk]

free the music!!, djs and mcs who love their music not boring "personality" djs with playlists like the legal stations!! PIRATE RADIO WILL ALWAYS BE THE BEST KIND OF MUSIC RADIO, end of!!

[darkcat1984]

Ill explain the best i can what the issue is. every station is different. if they are using off the shelf transmitters then they should not be interfering in air traffic control operations. however if you make it your self just because it is set to say 100.00 MHz you may be beading onto any where from 90-110 MHz also they may be broadcasting frequency that they do not have the equipment to detect but you would not know unless you checked radio electronics is precise just saying its possible

[OrganicVeggieLoaf]

As a radio circuit designer since 1977 and having personally evaluated several pirate radio transmitters using a spectrum analyzer, I can attest to the fact that a lot of cheap shack-built transmitters produce an output spectrum rich in harmonics, spurious emissions, and parasitic oscillations resulting in signals appearing on the aircraft band and interference to other civilian radio services. The good pirates are the responsible ones, well-disciplined in the art of RF design and measurement.

[imkoolkid]

some of it is non sense but, poorley made transmitters can truly "jump" into other band and create interferance

[sean86allen]

Pirate stations operate in the same frequency band as legal stations, so what is the difference?

Is the main problem with pirate radio just that they are not paying their money to the regulators? I think so.

If so they shouldn't make up this nonsense (nonsense in my opinion) about interference because I am just not buying it at all! Free the music!!

[idontuseyewtube]

Nope, pirates are still going, and there's still decent dnb being made (you won't hear it on most shows on kool though.)

You can find some good drum & bass shows on rinse fm, alongside the dubstep and grime stuff.

[shriramvenu]

unless you use spread spectrum technology and other things like that which allow for wifi. alot of people think that just because something is 'digital' its some interefereance free miraculous broadcast

[shriramvenu]

sure it can. if your using crap transmitters that send out harmonics all over the place just like the intended signal. go study some basic telecom theory

[rtbvhsrip]

This is pure FUD... (fear uncertainty and doubt).

OFCOM is lying. Professional transmitters, correctly tuned and verifyed and built by people with knowledge (like those who have similar RF knowledge level to advanced hamradio operators, being able to fully understand RF circuits, calulcations) will not cause any interference.

Social nuisance? Why, simply not listen to it.

My opinion: Take away all transmitters from people who cause interference (but proove it!) but leave the others alone!