[Boatanchors] Movie: Pirate Radio

Wed Nov 25 10:29:06 EST 2009

Being stationed in Holland in the 60's I as well
as Brian listened all the time to these stations
but mainly to Radio North sea off the Dutch
coast... They as well as Caroline had US DJ's... I
worked in the NATO Tech Control facility and when
we came in on shift we would call the Receiver
site to put two channels up and patch down to
us...Great audio on the R-390's One was Caroline
and one was North Sea... We would then patch it
into the NATO wide M/W System and it would go all
over Europe to all the NATO Bases.. Good use of a
great NATO Audio network... SHAPE HQS would patch
it over to the US and then it would get all over
to the US BASES that wanted it... I swear that
those 2 circuits got more use than any other NATO
wide circuit...

Very Best 73's,
Bob W1PE
Mesquite,TX
http://www.w1pe.com
http://www.myhamshack.com/W1PE/
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Sent: Wednesday, November 25, 2009 8:19 AM
To: BOATANCHORS at LISTS.TEMPE.GOV
Cc: BOATANCHORS LIST
Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] Movie: Pirate Radio

It's a good movie, but doesn't tell the real story
very well.

I was there, listening daily to these stations in
the 1960s and there were a great many of them.
Usually at any given time you could find 5 or 6
active stations on the AM dial.
Not all were on ships. Some operated in old WW2
off-shore fortifications, in the river estuaries
and around the coast of Britain that were
abandoned by the government after being used 
as defensive forts against invaders.

Yes, the bigger stations like Radio Caroline,
Radio London ("BIG L") etc. employed a few
American DJs.

 We loved them all. They were very popular. I
encourage ANYONE interested in this subject to
download 
some of the many MP3 files available on the web
from these stations. Of particular interest is the
LAST DAY of broadcast of Radio Caroline, which
became the longest surviving ship-board station
and pretty much described in this movie.

What they leave out is so much of the amazing
background about how that station started, and in
partcular 
the role of a national HERO known as "Screaming
Lord Sutch."

Sutch ran for Prime Minister every year - I think
it was "The Teenage Party" or something like that.
He had a number of hit records including "Jack The
Ripper" in the 1960s.

When his band played at the largest venue in
Cambridge around 1964 or so, my brother's band was
the opening act 
and I got to help set up the P.A. gear. Sutch was
about 8 or 10 years ahead of Alice Cooper and even
then they
did more outrageous things than him. I remember
seeing band members "dis-membered" on stage and
fake 
body parts pulled out and thrown into the
audience. He he...

Ah yes, Radio Caroline, Radio London, Radio City,
Radio North Sea International, Radio Atlanta,
Radio Caroline North, 
Radio 390, Radio Invicta, and many more that
popped up for periods of time. The main stations
were on the air 
all day playing rock and pop music that the BBC
refused to broadcast. There would have been NO
"British invasion"
of music in the 1960s if it had not been for Radio
Luxembourg on 208 metres in the early 1960s and
then the Pirate stations

You wouldn't believe how many millions of
transistor radios were sold in the UK during that
period!
Almost all of the WW2 surplus electronics dealers
along Tottenham Court Road in London started to
sell 
transistor radios and other Japanese goods in
those days. Within a few years that was ALL they
sold.

The British Pirate Radio movement dovetailed
perfectly with my love for radio. electronics and
music!
Very FOND MEMORIES for me!

Many of the mp3 files were posted over the past 12
years on the Usenet Binary Newsgroups, and I think

I have some of them from there if anyone is
interested.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_radio_in_Europ
e#United_Kingdom

http://www.imeem.com/people/TvWceus/music/W42iXUaE
/norman-st-john-radio-caroline-south-121265/

http://www.offshore-radio.de/sounds.htm

73 - Brian "Bry" Carling, AF4K

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Please use my main e-mail address:
af4k at hotmail.com

________________________________
From: Dave Merrill <r390a.urr at GMAIL.COM>
To: BOATANCHORS at LISTS.TEMPE.GOV
Sent: Tue, November 24, 2009 5:20:42 AM
Subject: Re: Movie: Pirate Radio

Could not agree more!  And you might catch a
glimpse of a Racal RA17, I believe.

/dave
N9ZC

On Mon, Nov 23, 2009 at 9:31 PM, Mark
<mroldradios at optonline.net> wrote:
> I haven't seen a post on this so forgive me if
I've missed it.
>
> Check out this movie which is now in theatres.
It's a lot of fun for a ton of great rock and roll
music, as well as many shots of classic mics and
studio consoles circa 1965.
>
> 73 de N1MG

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