On This Day…
March 17th.
17 Mar. 1971
+ GBR. Edinburgh. 1322 kHz MW. 01:00-02:30 Radio Free City is on air tonight
17 Mar. 1973
+ GBR. London. 92.8 FM. Radio Free London [RFL] re-appears, from a vicarage, initially Saturday evenings but later this year it moves to 92.0 FM and all-day Sundays. Staff at the time include: – Kenny Myers, Mark Ashton, and others. It is during this reincarnation, (the date is not known,) that a raid takes place at a transmitter site on a Saturday night in Bedford’s Park, Havering, on very high ground with a wood, where the two DJs who are caught, try pretending to be there for ‘romantic reasons’ until the police threaten to charge them with indecent acts in a public place, whereupon they admit to operating a free radio station. Another DJ who avoids the raid, later rescues them from Collier Row police station!
17 Mar. 1974
+ IRL. 6317 kHz SW. Radio Valleri is on air today
17 Mar. 1978
+ GBR. Wolverhampton. 1332 kHz MW. UK Radio is on air this evening
17 Mar. 1979
+ GBR. Wolverhampton. 104.0 FM. UK Radio is on air this evening
17 Mar. 1980
+ GBR. Wolverhampton. 1332 kHz MW. UK Radio is on air this evening 19:00-22:00 with Paul Johnson and David Jarvis
17 Mar. 1982
+ IRL. Tramore. 729 kHz MW ABC Radio is on air 07:00-01:00 today
17 Mar. 1983
+ IRL. Tramore. 1026 kHz MW and 101.0 FM. ABC Radio is on air 07:00-01:00 today
+ GBR. London. 94.4 FM. Horizon Radio is on air 24 hours today
17 Mar. 1984
+ GBR. Ludlow. 1017 kHz MW. On air 7 days a week, Sunshine Radio is on air today
+ IRL. Tramore. 1026 kHz MW and 101.0 FM. ABC Radio is on air 07:00-01:00 today
+ GBR. SW London. 1332 kHz MW. On air 7 days a week, Radio Jackie is on air today
+ GBR. SE London. 1413 kHz MW and 90.2 FM. on air 7 days a week, Skyline Radio is on air today 06:00-00:00
+ GBR. London. 92.5 FM. On air 7 days a week, LWR is on air today
+ GBR. London. 102.5 FM. Horizon Radio is on air 24 hours a day
+ GBR. London. 102.8 FM. JFM is on air 24 hours a day
17 Mar. 1985
+ IRL. Tramore. 1026 kHz MW and 101.0 FM. ABC Radio is on air 07:00-01:00 today
+ BEL. 6205 kHz SW. Radio Delmare relays Free Radio Service Holland [FRSH] today, but the conditions on Short Wave are again poor
+ GBR. Telford. 94.2 FM. Wrekin City Radio is on air this afternoon
+ GBR. Telford. 96.1 FM. On air 7 days a week, Shropshire Sound is on air today 08:00-20:00
+ GBR. West Midlands. 102.5 FM. Subway Sounds in on air this morning
+ GBR. West Midlands. 103.5 FM. UK Radio is on air today
17 Mar. 1986
* GBR. London. An attempt to move RFM studio equipment into Claire’s flat turns into a ‘piss-up’ at the pub.
+ IRL. Tramore. 1026 kHz MW and 101.0 FM. ABC Radio is on air today
17 Mar. 1987
+ IRL. Tramore. 1026 kHz MW and 101.0 FM. ABC Radio is on air today
17 Mar. 1988
+ IRL. Tramore. 1026 kHz MW and 101.0 FM. ABC Radio is on air today
+ GBR. Camborne. 1503 kHz MW. Radio Argus Cornwall is on air 07:00-23:00
17 Mar. 1989
+ IRL. Monaghan. 981 kHz MW. Radio Star Country is on air today, it goes off air when a visit from the Dept of Communications turns up, but later fires back up after they have gone
+ GBR. Cornwall. 1503 MW [Camborne], 1602 MW [St. Dennis], 102.8 FM [St. Agnes], and 103.1 FM [St. Ives]. Radio Argus Cornwall is on air today
+ GBR. Bromley. 1611 kHz MW. Radio Argus London is on air today
Bert
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