[Boatanchors] Movie: Pirate Radio

Wed Nov 25 15:32:45 EST 2009

As one who spent most of his active duty 1960's Navy days in the North 
Atlantic and the Med I remember those stations well. As an ET we had several 
back up radios available and often patched them into the ships entertainment 
system.

At other times we tuned to US stations when propagation was good and 
flamethrowers such as WBZ, WKBW, WINS, and others kept the crew happy with 
the latest Rock n Roll, news, weather, etc.

Carl
KM1H

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bob Peters" <rwpeters at swbell.net>
To: "'Radios R. Me'" <radios_r_me at yahoo.com>; <BOATANCHORS at LISTS.TEMPE.GOV>
Cc: "'BOATANCHORS LIST'" <boatanchors at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Wednesday, November 25, 2009 10:29 AM
Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] Movie: Pirate Radio

> 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
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: boatanchors-bounces at mailman.qth.net
> [mailto:boatanchors-bounces at mailman.qth.net] On
> Behalf Of Radios R. Me
> 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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> 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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