BRISTOL PIRATE RADIO RECORDINGS

This blog is intended for me to post my pirate radio recordings. Most of the recordings are from Bristol, most will be pirate but there will be some legal stations and stations from other cities or national stations.

IF YOU OR YOUR FRIENDS HAVE ANY TAPE RECORDINGS OF PIRATE RADIO FROM BRISTOL, PLEASE SUBMIT THEM TO THIS BLOG BY RECORDING THEM TO MP3 (CLICK HERE FOR A HELP GUIDE) AND UPLOADING THEM TO http://www.sharebee.com, or a similar site such as Megaupload, Mediafire, ZShare, but not Rapidshare as it's getting a bit hard to use. SEND THE URL IT GIVES YOU TO ME VIA A COMMENT ON MY LATEST POST or BY EMAIL AT bristolpirates at gmail.com (you'll have to correct that with the proper @ symbol, I started getting spam on the address). WE COULD ALSO ARRANGE A PICK-UP OF YOUR TAPES IF YOU LIVE IN BRISTOL AND CAN'T CONVERT TAPES TO MP3. THANKS IN ADVANCE, YOU WILL BE CREDITED.

Tuesday 19 April 2011

Drowned City (film)

Drowned City Teaser 1 from Pundersons Gardens on Vimeo.


Drowned City Teaser 2 from Pundersons Gardens on Vimeo.


http://www.drownedcity.com/

Ofcom propaganda on 87.7 in London

Ofcom have been broadcasting their own propaganda message on 87.7 across parts of London...






 


We all know their game. Tell the public that pirate radio endangers lives and get them on Ofcom's side. There ARE some problems, agreed, but...

"There are no excuses for causing excess interferance. Yes you can expect a certain amount of de-sense to local receivers due to the relatively high signal levels produced by the output-transmitter. Good filtering of harmonics, and a well positioned aerial will sort out the vast majority of these problems. The authorities will claim that your equipment could cause interferance to the emergency services as it is not built to a high standard. This is un-true if you build and install your transmitters well and monitor their output for frequency stability, over-deviation, and harmonics.

I spent five years working for the radio section of the ambulance service and I never once had an interferance complaint tracable to a pirate station. Minicabs and french stations were the largest source of problems, and then second only to faults on our own kit or operator errors."

Taken from - http://www.qq22.demon.co.uk/playground/page/pr1.html

FACT : Community stations and even the BBC themselves have been known to interfere with things, it's the nature of radio. There are ways to avoid it and a pirate that cares will take measures to do that.

Sunday 3 April 2011

Irie FM (Midlands) raid caught on camera

Not an amazingly exciting video, but this was caught by IrieUK's own webcam. One of the Ofcom officers is Mike Bothma, who has been in his job for years and is well known by the pirates in the Midlands.