| DDP Radio |
 Dave
James / Rob Andrews Clip |
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The early spark for Surrey
Sounds (the Surrey Sounds 10W driver came from here). Rob
Andrews (Rob James) was the newsreader. It broadcast
from a tree at Spinney Hill in Claygate. Also spawned a
BBC Radio 1 DJ (David James) who once threw up on air.
Tom Baker
(Roger Hall) was the groupie!. Others were Dave the engineer,
Paul Kent and Martin Johnson.
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| Thameside Radio |
Thameside
New year 79_80 clip |
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Dave
Birdman and Terry Anderson from Uptown later joined forces
to produce the Clockwork Radio Co. Additional, well documented,
material is also available at Thamesideradio.net, Clockwork
Radio , Stephensykes and
also in Wikipedia. The
Thameside link transmitter used a frequency of 200.25MHz
(TV Band III) so my scrapbook says.
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One of the most famous
London Pirate stations. It had a huge following and always
had a good turn-out
at outside broadcasts, of which there were many. The most
daring and technically challenging was a Thames river cruiser
from Kingston-upon-Thames with about 100 people onboard and
broadcasting live. An original ticket is shown left.
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| Radio Suburbia |
Radio
Suburbia - Gerry Sinclair clip |
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| 90.5MHz Stereo (91.9MHz from 8/1/83)
Saturdays. I can't find much additional
material on this station, but it must have been good as I kept
the stickers. It broadcast from a tower block in Kingston in
glorious stereo. Presenters were Gerry Sinclair, Brian Tharg,
Martin Lewis. Mailing addresses used were Riverview Rd, Ewell
in Surrey and Dept ED32, PO Box 80, Croyden, Surrey. |
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| Uptown Radio |
Uptown
Radio clip |
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It Broadcast on 94.4MHz
7-10pm Sundays. Terry Anderson was the main presenter on
this high quality station for a while,
until joining Thameside in 1984 I believe. Bob Earle did
the second spot. Mailing address was Eastworth Rd,Chertsey,
Surrey. Uptown was raided on Back holiday Monday 3/5/82
at 8:25pm according to my scrapbook.
Uptown
listeners poll 1982 (pdf)
(copyright Terry Anderson)
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| London Music Radio (LMR) |
London
Music Radio clip |
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It broadcast on 94.4MHz Saturdays
from 18/7/81. I can't find or remember much about this station
other than the car non-sticky
car sticker.
Hopefully it
will jog a few memories. Christopher England,
Chris Miles, Mike Ross, Andy Allman, Roger Vosene, Monica and
Ricky
Stevens
were
some
of the
presenters.
The tape I have has a link
up with
BFBS Cyprus and a plug for Surrey sounds so they couldn't be
all bad! They also had a day trip to Southend on 8/5/83 when
Chris Miles didn't turn up.
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| Radio Sovereign |
Radio
Sovereign Announcement clip |
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This was the pioneer of the golden oldie station on 200m
medium wave and started broadcasting on the 10th May 1983.
They broadcast from a house at 3 Sherland Road, Twickenham.
The newsreader used BBC Ceefax to gather the news. More info
can be found at the following link:
Sovereign_UK
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| Radio Alpha |
GBH
in the falklands clip. |
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First test transmission
on 25/5/81 (Bank Holiday)
Gary Hughes (GBH) was one of
the presenters. Others were Tim Gordon (7-8pm),
Phil James(8-9), Roger Barry(9-10) and Mark Davis(10-11)
were
also there. Mailing addresses used were Lexham Gardens,
London W8 and 268 Hayling Rd, South Oxley, Herts.
Gary Hughes did a 'broadcast' from
the Falklands Islands as part of an advanced British liberation
force. I laughed so much I almost wet myself.
They normally
broadcast on a Monday night on the Thameside Radio frequency
although
they also had an occasional Saturday
service 7-11pm.
On
the 4th September 1982 they had a spot of bother and
Thameside broadcast on a Monday night instead. I believe
that Thameside
had also been raided the night before. |
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| SKYLINE |
Skyline
clip |
| Broadcast on 90.2MHz Wednesdays |
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| BORDER RADIO |
Border
Radio clip from Xmas 1983 |
| Run by Harry Marshall and the
address was PO BOX 46, Twickenham, TW1 3TY. and also used 2
Napolaean Rd, St. Margarets, Twickenham. Broadcast on 90.2 |
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| RADIO FLOSS |
Clip
from July 1982 |
| Broadcast on MW 222m playing rock
music, Sunday 10-3pm. One presentater was Paul James. |
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| HILLTOP |
Clip
from October 1982 until raided |
| Broadcast on 1982 on 90MHz. Address
was 6 Westcraft Square, London W6 |
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| WEST ESSEX RADIO |
Clip
from 26/12/82 |
| Broadcast only on Bank Holidays
on 90.2MHz. Presenter was Dave Ashton. |
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| RADIO VERONICA |
TBA |
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| CIVIC RADIO |
Civic
Radio clip |
| Tuesdays 90.4 MHz (92.4MHz from 18/1/83) |
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| PARKSIDE RADIO |
Parkside
last broadcast |
| Broadcast on
90.2Mhz. Presenter was Barry James. It also did adverts for
used cars.
Closed
down
on 30/1/83
after
five years but did a plug for Surrey
Sounds on the last broadcast which was nice. |
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| Radio Free London (RFL) |
RFL
sample from 3_5_82 |
| Rock station which broadcast on
92MHz. Presenters: Kenny Myers, Debbie Smith, Ian Roberts,
Jenny Leather. Mailing
address: Melborne Rd, Wimbledon SW19. Came back in April 1983
for a test broadcast after a long break. See also http://www.radiofreelondon.co.uk/ |
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| London Weekend Radio(LWR) |
LWR
clip from 4th April 1983 |
| This station broadcast on 92.5MHz.
Presenters: Martin James, Johnny Hayward, Paul Stafford, Ricky
King, John
Dawson. |
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| Hard Rock Cafe |
HRC
clip with Ian Roberts 13/11/83 |
| Broadcast for a short time
on 92MHz in 1983. Presenter was Ian Roberts and mailing address
was 133 Newcross Rd, Newcross SE14. |
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| Jazz Funk Music (JFM) |
JFM
Announcement 12_12_82 clip |
Spin off from Radio Jackie. Presenters were Nigel
Owen, Tony Mason, Robbie May, Graham Gold.
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| Dread Broadcasting Corp (DBC) |
 DBC
On YouTube from the 80's |
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DBC. Rebel radio broadcast from 6/2/1981 broadcasting
a variety of reggie, funk, calypso and soca music. Broadcast
originally on MW until 22nd November 19?? when they got
busted. Continued broadcasting on 103.8MHz in 1983 as the report
in the NME stated. The team of DJs included the likes of Neneh
Cherry and BBC Miss P.
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| Radio Bookham |
Test
transmission clip 1983 |
| Not much known about this station
except this test transmission in 1983. Broadcast on 90.9MHz. |
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| FORRESTSIDE |
Clip
from 3rd May 1982 |
| Mailing address was 105 Newport
rd London E10.; Not much else known about it. Broadcast on
92.8Mhz. |
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| HITS FM |
HitsFM
clip from 1st Nov 1987 with Tony James |
| Carried a mixed bag of programming
in 1987. Presenters were Tim Stuart, Jeff Palace, Marconi
and
Tony James. Broadcast on 105.5MHz on Sundays and occasionally
on Saturdays. Mailing address Balclava Rd, Surbiton, Surrey. |
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| Zodiac |
Zodiac
clip from 1982 |
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| Broadcast on 94.4 3-6pm Sundays.
Presenters were Roger Vosene, Mike Standing and Steve Mews |
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| Alice's
Restaurant |
Alice's
13/3/82 Clip |
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Serious Heavy metal/Rock station covering
London. Heavily advertised Shades Heavy Metal record store.
I can only remember one presenter, Dave Lane. Broadcast 214m
MW and on 90.2MHz, 11-2am Saturdays. Their stuido engineer
was called Mike Jeffries. Mailing address was 1 St Barnabus
Rd, Woodford Green, Essex.
They will shortly return
on the shortwave, broadcasting from europe legally using
100kW.
http://www.rockradio.eu.com |
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| Radio Jackie |
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The original land based
pirate on the medium wave. Broadcast 24/7 for a few years
before being
raided and put out of action. It is now a legalised station
broadcasting from Tolworth Towers in Hook, SE London. I
remember they always did fund raising activities for local
charities, one of which was for one of the presenters to
sit in a bath of custard for 24hours.
http://jkwebdesign.net/radiojackie/
http://www.radiojackie.com |
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| Radio
Caroline |
Return
of Radio Caroline 20/8/83 |
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Enough said. Shame that
they were not on the FM band in stereo. They
are still
broadcasting from a Maidstone studio on the Internet and at local DAB transmitters.
They do occasional RSLs from the Ross Revenge docked in Tilbury
which is in the process of being restored. For further info
see the website of the Radio Caroline Support Group at RCSG |
See additional material
on Radio Caroline at
The 1967 Marine offences act
http://www.horizonmagazine.co.uk/
http://www.radiocaroline.co.uk
http://www.rossrevenge.co.uk/
http://www.carolinesouth.com/
http://www.rcsg.co.uk/rc/rcsg.htm
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| Laser 558 |
Laser558
Eurosiege 26/8/85 |
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A competitor to Radio Caroline
for a couple of years until they were put out of action by
the authorities. Played top40
music to an American format. Additional material at
http://www.laser558.org/
http://www.laser558.nl
http://freeweb.telco4u.net/nogs/laser/
They
also released a single in 1985 called "I spy for the D.T.I"
by the Moreonic Surveyors which was quite entertaining.
I
Spy for the DTI Clip
The original ship has now been cut up for salvage in the Orkneys. |
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| General
stuff & links to
the land based pirates for further reading |
http://radio.eric.tripod.com/
http://www.freeradio.co.uk/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK_pirate_radio
http://www.amfm.org.uk/
http://www.gunfleet.com/index.html
http://www.rockradio.freeserve.co.uk/
http://www.radiokaleidoscope.co.uk/
http://www.radiolondon.co.uk/
http://www.radioduck.com/
http://www.anorakcorner.com/
http://www.thepiratearchive.net/
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