Pirates Of The Airwaves

Copied From Digital Spy in case you haven't seen it,

Thursday 10th July 2008 on ITV 1 Yorkshire from 10:40pm to 11:10pm

Pirates of the Airwaves – Documentary

The activities of non-licenced radio stations presently broadcasting throughout West Yorkshire, following Leeds station Radio Frequency. These latter-day pirates have fallen foul of media regulator Ofcom for their refusal to end their transmissions. Tony Blackburn, himself a radio pirate in the 1960's, offers an insight into this type of lawbreaking, with comment from a Scarborough MP who set up his own station 40 years ago.

That can only be Wilf Proudfoot of Radio 270,

Not sure if it will be of much interest to us as it seems to be about the current FM Pirates,

For those of you who live outside of the Yorkshire area and have Sky the tuning details for Add Channels are,

Frequency (GHz) 10981 H Symbol Rate 22.0 FEC 5/6

Richard

Richard

The Sky setting for ITV1 W Yorkshire is Frequency (GHz) 10891 (not 10981!) H Symbol Rate 22.0 FEC 5/6

Am I right in my assumption I can't record that on the Sky+ box as it is not on an EPG channel?

Alan

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Alan Milewczyk <...> said:
Richard

The Sky setting for ITV1 W Yorkshire is Frequency (GHz) 10891 (not 10981!) H
Symbol Rate 22.0 FEC 5/6

Am I right in my assumption I can't record that on the Sky+ box as it is not
on an EPG channel?

Hi Alan thanks for that, As i said in my post i copied the details over from DS even the tuning details, That will teach me to check things first!!

Yes you are right,You cant record it on Sky Plus, I also have that and it is a nuisance you cant record Other Channels,

The only way is to use a external device like a DVD recorder or Video and use the timer on that leaving the Sky Plus box tuned to ITV W Yorkshire.

Richard

Well, as predicted the programme concentrated on Radio Frequency, a "drum and bass" pirate station from Leeds, with some footage devoted to Radio Caroline and Tony Blackburn, archive material which I've seen before. However, it was really good to see some Radio 270 footage that I've not seen before, together with a short interview with 270's MD, Wilf Proudfoot.

Once again, though, it was irritating to have one or two inacccuracies and sloppy research spoiling what was otherwise an interesting programme. The two errors that stood out for me were when the commentator told us, how in the wake of the Marine Offences Act, "Radio Caroline moved its ship to Dutch waters, but financial problems sunk its output a year later". Just the one ship was it, then? And, as for the Dutch move, I must have missed that one in 1967! Obviously the flower power "summer of love" had a greater toll on me than I'd thought.

As Chris has said before, it's this sort of sloppy journalism that gets presented as fact, and, no doubt, will get quoted as such in times to come…. sigh.

Alan

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Alan Milewczyk wrote:
: Well, as predicted the programme concentrated on Radio Frequency, a
: "drum and bass" pirate station from Leeds

I know the operator of that station personally, and although the music they play isn't my cuppa, IMHO they truly are fighting for free radio. They cause no interference – I've seen one of their rigs on a spectrum analyser so Ofcom should leave them alone.
—Steve Leyland

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Hi Steve

Yes, the guys interviewed came over as being genuinely committed to providing an outlet for "their" type of music that isn't being provided by mainstream radio, which is what I was looking for, as a listener in the 60s and 70s. It's interesting how nothing much has changed from the establishment in the last 30 or 40 years as they trot out the same generic "they're causing interference" reasons against the stations.