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  • June 15, 2012 at 3:34 pm #1053265
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      fair play to the old boys, simply for having the balls to do this (and why not, now Auntie have told Ofcom they don’t want the frequency any more?)

      I vaguely remember the last few pirate broadcasts from the Ross Revenge in the 80s, chaps what did it were about the same age as me or just into their 30s. When Laser 558 had their supply chain shut off just before they gave up they sent a small boat close to the Ross Revenge – when close enough they did heave to, and then handed over the 558 kHz quartz to the Ross Revenge, so Caroline also came up on 558 kHz until they got raided by armed Dutch Post Office engineers! Now this is allocated to a Asian/multicultural station but of course 648 is now free..

      radiocarolineonair.com

      incidentally this is a current Band II allocation in the Netherlands. (This is the FM radio with better audio quality) I am not sure which stations are NOS (like BBC) and which are commercial but just shows how badly the BBC hog the allocations here…

      http://x264.nl/dump/reception_fmplus_87.5MHz-108.0MHz.txt

      June 30, 2012 at 5:31 pm #1254765
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        I watched a documentary about this, the boat hit an iceberg and jack died 🙁

        Wait that was titanic, but I did see a documentary about it, and it sank iirc (mby it was a elaborated film based on the true story) was pretty emotional though.

        June 30, 2012 at 5:36 pm #1254764
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          the Mi Amigo did sink in about 1980 but they got everyone off it, but they were more gutted that their record library ended up in Davy Jones Locker.. Thats why there is a respect section to Frinton and Walton lifeboat who often rescued folk from these ships. I met the original TX engineer of Caroline and he said their vessels were barely seaworthy and in the end he joined the BBC and was glad to be back on dry land!

          Laser copied all their vinyl onto carts in London (a loop of magnetic tape) and played out from these as they were more reliable..

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