Sunday, 10 August 2008

Taken from Offshore Radio.De

Ray Anderson reporting:

PIRATE RADIO NIGHT

Get ready... Anoraks off!

A UK Television first for RED CHANNEL 186 which broadcasts on SKY DIGITAL. A celebration of UK PIRATE RADIO on Thursday 14th August 2008.

Tune in between 17.00 and 21.00. Four hours of great memories from the Offshore Radio Days between the 1960s and 1980s. Stations featured include BIG L, RADIO ENGLAND, FORTS PIRATES, RADIO CAROLINE AND LASER 558 with many Offshore Radio DJ's taking part.

So get those Anoraks off for a TV celebration of Great Radio that came from the high seas in the 1960s – 1980s.

Red TV is broadcasting on Astra 28.2° East, Sky 186, 12480 V, tp 40, 27500, 2/3
 
Ray Anderson, The Seawolf and Roscoe were doing some filming on Frinton beach the other day as part of this.

Taken from Offshore Radio.De

Ray Anderson reporting:

PIRATE RADIO NIGHT

Get ready... Anoraks off!

A UK Television first for RED CHANNEL 186 which broadcasts on SKY DIGITAL. A celebration of UK PIRATE RADIO on Thursday 14th August 2008.

Tune in between 17.00 and 21.00. Four hours of great memories from the Offshore Radio Days between the 1960s and 1980s. Stations featured include BIG L, RADIO ENGLAND, FORTS PIRATES, RADIO CAROLINE AND LASER 558 with many Offshore Radio DJ's taking part.

So get those Anoraks off for a TV celebration of Great Radio that came from the high seas in the 1960s – 1980s.

Red TV is broadcasting on Astra 28.2° East, Sky 186, 12480 V, tp 40, 27500, 2/3
 
Ray Anderson, The Seawolf and Roscoe were doing some filming on Frinton beach the other day as part of this.

Special programs start tonight at midnight, go here to listen, http://www.geocities.com/wnkr_sw/mboa.htm

Dave

Christopher England said:

Not really. I've got unlimited 3G access for a fiver a month which means
I can listen to anything I want whenever I want, as a by-product of
having always-on internet access. The only enemy is battery power which
goes down quite fast I notice if I stream (or use the Satnav!) for too
long not plugged into an adapter / charger.

Sounds fair enough. Can you or anyone else recomend a type of phone ?- I've had a quick look at a few sites and they all seem to offer really helpful advice like ''The N95 8GB is a 3G handset running Symbian OS version 9.2 with a Series 60 user interface, dedicated media keys, multimedia menu and an active standby screen'' which... frankly.... means fuck all to me. For some reason, none of the phones I found were advertising that you could get Arrow Classic Rock on them which is all I'm really after at the end of the day.

gloworm558 . <(Address removed)> said:

Can you or anyone else recomend a type of phone ?-
I've had a quick look at a few sites and they all seem to offer really
helpful advice like ''The N95 8GB is a 3G handset running Symbian OS
version 9.2 with a Series 60 user interface, dedicated media keys,
multimedia menu and an active standby screen'' which... frankly....
means fuck all to me. For some reason, none of the phones I found were
advertising that you could get Arrow Classic Rock on them which is all
I'm really after at the end of the day.

However, the N95 will easily provide you with anywhere-you-like listening to Arrow Classic Rock. I have just selected it on mine. I wouldn't normally listen to oldies you understand so I'm highly medicated to avoid any dangerous reaction, but as I type this my phone has a large logo on screen saying "Arrow Classic Rock" and a scrolling ticker saying "*** Classic Rock 70s 80s ***" and the speaker is spewing out Robert Palmer's Every Kind of People.

So, the very short answer is yes, you can get Arrow Classic Rock (in high quality), plus any of about 200 other stations originating from the Netherlands, including Radio Seagull.

The longer answer is that you have to think of your phone as a computer. Instead of 'Windows XP / Vista' it uses 'Symbian OS'. Instead of a 'broadband' connection it uses a '3G' connection. Just like with broadband there are different price plans available for 3G service. There are pay as you go (ouch) or unlimited packages.

Then, like with a real computer where you have to do a one-time download of your favourite media player (like 'Winamp'), there are 'players' you can download to your phone, all depending on how anoraky you want to be.

Once you have that done then it's dead simple to just click on the player on your phone, scroll through the hundreds of words to the name of the station of your choice and press play. That's what I just did to force myself to listen to Arrow Classic Rock. (Do they really only have one 'jingle' and it just says "Arrow" and that's it?)

PS. If you are drunk and lost on your bike, the N95 also has an integrated Sat Nav. :-)

Hallo everyone. Radio Seagull is the evening and night radiostation "of" Radio Waddenzee and transmits also on the 1602 kHz AM when Radio Waddenzee is off air. Enjoy listening to it! Greetings of Nico from Gouda, the Netherlands.

Radio Seagull is now available online 24/7 although at present the daytime output is non stop music with news on the hour. http://www.radioseagull.com/news.htm

Bex Marshall, last heard on air in the early days of the 21st century BigL, can now be heard on a Sunday evening on Seagull. http://www.radioseagull.com/bex.htm
Bex is married to Barry Everitt (also on Seagull every Sunday night
into Monday morning).
http://www.radioseagull.com/barry_everitt.htm

MEBO – August 1967 Marine Etc. Broadcasting Offences act.
It's THAT time of year again and Radio Seagull has unearthed a hitherto unheard (at least on this side of the Atlantic) pirate radio documentary...
http://www.radioseagull.com/schedule_uk.htm
In 1977, whilst working for radio station KDKB in Phoenix, Arizona, Barry Everitt presented a history of pirate radio for USA listeners. Tonight on Seagull you can hear this archive show for the first time. Barry talks about being drafted in by Ronan O'Rahilly to help set up a progressive rock Caroline on the Mi Amigo radio ship. This became Radio Seagull.

On 8th August uklightradio.co.uk began its test broadcast.On the holding page you can see the shedule. Looks interesting

From: "Q_1_2_3_4_5_6" <(Address removed)>

Hallo everyone. Radio Seagull is the evening and night radiostation "of"
Radio Waddenzee and transmits also on the 1602 kHz AM when Radio
Waddenzee is off air. Enjoy listening to it! Greetings of Nico from
Gouda, the Netherlands.

Radio Seagull is now available online 24/7 although at present the
daytime output is non stop music with news on the hour.
http://www.radioseagull.com/news.htm

Bex Marshall, last heard on air in the early days of the 21st century
BigL, can now be heard on a Sunday evening on Seagull.
http://www.radioseagull.com/bex.htm
Bex is married to Barry Everitt (also on Seagull every Sunday night
into Monday morning).
http://www.radioseagull.com/barry_everitt.htm

MEBO – August 1967 Marine Etc. Broadcasting Offences act.
It's THAT time of year again and Radio Seagull has unearthed a hitherto
unheard (at least on this side of the Atlantic) pirate radio
documentary...
http://www.radioseagull.com/schedule_uk.htm
In 1977, whilst working for radio station KDKB in Phoenix, Arizona,
Barry Everitt presented a history of pirate radio for USA listeners.
Tonight on Seagull you can hear this archive show for the first time.
Barry talks about being drafted in by Ronan O'Rahilly to help set up a
progressive rock Caroline on the Mi Amigo radio ship. This became Radio
Seagull.

And just to give a little bit of credit to the original poster that Nico has forgotten to credit. This was originally posted by Chris B on the Seagull Yahoo Group.