Day: August 7, 2023

PRESS RELEASE
DJ’s line up for a celebration of offshore Pirate Radio
Radio Mi Amigo will be joining up with Carillon Wellbeing Radio to return to the airwaves on Saturday and Sunday this week.
The two-day pirate radio event will take place on Harwich Quay and has attracted a host of DJs who are coming from near and far to transmit from the restored Lightvessel LV18 as a tribute to the 60’s offshore radio stations.
This year’s on-air team, headed by programme director and trustee Garry Lee, will bring back the popular sound of the offshore pirate stations that broadcast from just off the coast and were served from the Ha’penny Pier, which is now the LV18s permanent berth.
Joining the crew will be two DJs from America and music connoisseurs, former pirate radio and Radio 1 DJ Keith Skues and former BBC Suffolk presenter and current Radio Caroline DJ Stephen ‘Foz’ Foster.
The broadcast will run 24 hours a day, from midnight on Friday night until midnight on Sunday night, the 12th and 13th August.
This tribute to the offshore pirate radio stations will celebrate the likes of Radio Caroline, Radio London and several others that appeared off the coast of Harwich in the 1960s, bringing about a revolution in radio broadcasting.
Following the previous pirate radio broadcasts from LV18, which attracted thousands of visitors to the area, Radio Mi Amigo will celebrate the watery wireless days from the new studio, located on the bridge of the lightvessel.
Further to previous year’s events, LV18 will broadcast from her permanent berth by the Ha’penny Pier, Harwich, enabling members of the public to not only visit the classic vessel on Sunday, but to meet the DJ’s.
The classic heritage vessel LV18 featured in the film The Boat that Rocked and now hosts a pirate radio exhibition, with new interactive audiovisual systems and interpretation signage.
TUNE IN @ 1476khz AM if you are in the listening area.
OR : Listen Online @ https://carillonradio.com/
(Player at bottom of the page).

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On This Day.
August 7th.
07 Aug. 1971
+ GBR. Edinburgh. 1322 kHz MW. 01:00-02:30 Radio Free City is on air tonight
+ GBR. Edinburgh. 1394 kHz MW. 23:00-01:00 Radio Caroline South is on air tonight
07 Aug. 1972 GBR. London. 230m MW, [1300 kHz]. West London Radio is noted at 10:40
07 Aug. 1981 GBR Merseyside 1107kHz MW. Radio J1000 is on air 7 days a week
07 Aug. 1982 GBR. London. 90.2 FM Phoenix Radio is on air 20:00-23:00, followed by Alices Restaurant
07 Aug. 1983
+ GBR. Dublin. 819 kHz MW. Radio Nova moves here after deliberate interference to its 828 kHz service appears.
+ GBR. London. 1350 kHz MW. Radio Floss is on air today. Tim Allen, Woody Woodpecker and Bob Williams are noted
+ GBR Twickenham. 1494 kHz MW. On air 7 days a week, Sovereign Radio is on air today
07 Aug. 1984
+ GBR. Ludlow. 1017 kHz MW. On air 7 days a week, Sunshine Radio is on air today
+ GBR. SW London. 1332 kHz MW. On air 7 days a week, Radio Jackie is on air today
+ GBR. SE London. 1413 kHz and 90.2 FM. Skyline Radio is on air today 06:00-00:00
+ GBR. London. 102.5 FM. Horizon Radio is on air 7 days a week
+ GBR. London. 102.8 FM. JFM is on air 7 days a week
07 Aug. 1987
+ GBR. Redruth. 1503 kHz MW. Radio Argus Cornwall is on air today
+ GBR. Chelmsford. 90.7 FM. Radio Galaxy is on air today
07 Aug. 1988 GBR. Camborne. 1503 kHz MW. Radio Argus Cornwall is on air 08:00-22:00
07 Aug. 1989
+ GBR. Cornwall. 1503 kHz MW [St. Ives], 1602 kHz MW [St Dennis], 102.8 FM [St Agnes] and 103.1 FM [Camborne]. Radio Argus Cornwall is on air today
+ GBR. Bromley. 1611 kHz MW and 92.0 FM. Radio Argus London is on air this evening
As usual, any corrections and additions, please let me know.
Regards,
Bert

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On This Day.
August 6th.
06 Aug. 1971 GBR. Edinburgh. 1322 kHz MW. 01:00-02:30 Radio Free City is on air tonight
06 Aug. 1972
+ GBR. London. 230m MW, [1304 kHz]. Radio Concord is on air every Sunday 11:00-15:00
+ GBR. 228m MW. [1315 kHz]. Radio Columbia is noted at 13:20
+ GBR. London. 227m MW. [1321 kHz]. Radio Jackie is on air today
+ GBR. London. 222m MW. [1321kHz]. Radio Porridge is on air today
+ GBR. 235m MW. [1276 kHz] Radio Odyssey is noted at 14:20
+ GBR. Middx. 200m [1500 kHz] MW, Radio Titania is noted at 18:45 with a strong signal
+ IRL. Dublin. 1525 kHz MW. Radio Valleri is on air today
+ GBR. 7500 kHz SW. Skyport Radio is on air 11:00-13:00
06 Aug. 1976 NED. 1327 kHz MW. Radio Black Shadow is on air today
06 Aug. 1978
+ GBR. North London. 1358 kHz MW. Radio AMY is on air today 11:00-14:00 every Sunday
+ GBR. London. 92.0 FM. Radio Free London is on air today
+ GBR. London. 92.4 FM. Invicta Radio is on air this Sunday
06 Aug. 1981 GBR Merseyside 1107kHz MW. Radio J1000 is on air 7 days a week
06 Aug. 1983
+ GBR. London. 1503 kHz MW. Radio Sovereign is noted with shows by John Kenning, Nick Piercy and Crispian St John today
+ GBR. London. 90.2 FM Phoenix Radio is on air 17:00-23:00, followed by Alices Restaurant, in this month Jenny Kelly leaves Phoenix Radio
06 Aug. 1984
+ GBR. Ludlow. 1017 kHz MW. On air 7 days a week, Sunshine Radio is on air today
+ GBR. SW London. 1332 kHz MW. On air 7 days a week, Radio Jackie is on air today
+ GBR. SE London. 1413 kHz and 90.2 FM. Skyline Radio is on air today 06:00-00:00
+ GBR. London. 93.9 FM. On a different frequency to its former 103.8 mHz, DBC is noted today with a show by Lepke
+ GBR. London. 102.5 FM. Horizon Radio is on air 7 days a week
+ GBR. London. 102.8 FM. JFM is on air 7 days a week
06 Aug. 1987 GBR. Redruth. 1503 kHz MW. Radio Argus Cornwall is on air today
06 Aug. 1988 GBR. Camborne. 1503 kHz MW. Radio Argus Cornwall is on air 08:00-23:00
06 Aug. 1989
+ GBR. Cornwall. 1503 kHz MW [St. Ives], 1602 kHz MW [St Dennis], 102.8 FM [St Agnes] and 103.1 FM [Camborne]. Radio Argus Cornwall is on air today
+ GBR. Bromley. 1611 kHz MW Radio Argus London relays Rock FM [RFM] for much of today
+ GBR. London. 92.0 FM. Rock FM [RFM] is on air today
And that’s it for me today. I have transcribed about half of the Merseyside stations, and a surprise addition of another station’s details have boosted the document to 344 pages, all in small font Arial narrow!
I hope your weekends were good, I have a medical appointmant tomorrow but have the rest of the day to myself so will ‘crack on’ with more Merseyside details.
As always if you have any additions, please get in touch, ideally the order needs to be if possible…
Date: Location [as vague as you want it – just a country will do]: Frequency: station name and any other details.
It is thanks to a lot of responders that this document is growing as fast as it is.
Thanks friends.
Bert Bridges

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