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Who were the first pirate broadcsters?
Topic Started: Friday, 4. March 2011, 16:19 (1,612 Views)
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Yes I know exactly who you mean he built very good AM and FM TX's
I have 2 in my museum.
Paul Mckenna started on Jackie.
the DTI man well there were 2 but 1 was worse than the other (Midlands)
Then we got Dick who was on the dioptric servayer dti boat in Eurosiege.
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Saturday, 5. March 2011, 13:53
the DTI man well there were 2 but 1 was worse than the other (Midlands)
One of midlands DTI guy's was called Preston. He was Scottish & if you remember the VHF station Electronic Sounding Transmissions (EST) Preston was the guy who raided them on 3 consecutive weeks running, or at least on 3 occasions very close together. He was also suspected of kicking their TX etc into a canal as it was all a very long walk from the nearest car access, so rather than carry it, they kicked into the canal.
I also seem to think that it was Preston who did the live mid week news interview about the TV station where he said they were out at that moment trying to track it down :clap: :clap: :headbang: First the station was a weekend only operator & secondly it was a 11pm plus station. So tea time mid week was never going to be a good time to track them down. :doh:
The other guy, the one with the bad name was dragged out of his car & beaten up in a very rough area of the midlands. He was a total Cowboy & it was never known if it was during a legitimate raid or during one of his self opointed lone wolf operations that had no official support or even if he was on duty at the time. (It was a red light area :whistle: ) Anyhow about 9 months later he had a heart attack, agian no evidence to link this to radio in any way & then about 18 months after that the DTI put out a press release which said he had been dragged out of his car, been beaten up & died as a result.
At one time due to DTI activity there was an attempt at a multi TX 48 meter station. The idea was that each TX would do a show & then the next TX would switch on & do a show. The order of the TX's would change each time the station came on making the DTI's job harder. I seem to think Apollo was part of this.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLBq6Vu9KC4

I spy for the DTI by the Moronic Surveyors
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bitman
Saturday, 5. March 2011, 00:02
Oggy
Friday, 4. March 2011, 22:43
Am I correct that the Ross Revenge was left to rot and now a group of brave souls are restoring her to her former glory??. As most know this was the last ship used they did have previous vessels.
true, i was on the mi-amigo the mv before the ross :)

i can tell you that i had tears in my eyes when i found out that she was really sunk this time
Wow..........you were on the Mi-Amigo..........did you work for the station?.
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Saturday, 5. March 2011, 14:45
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLBq6Vu9KC4

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LOL.......even too Radio Hobbyists on 11 Meters in the 80's and 90's the DTI (Department of Trade and Industy) was a force to be recond with.......many working for them were Radio Amateurs.....some with a chip on their shoulder. :(
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Yes the guy was on one of his own little jobs and was badly battered but there was more to him than his radio exploits it was a long time after he passed they said from his injuries.
I have some photo's on board the ross :whistle: I will try to put them somewhere and then link to them if you are interested I will have to scan them in.
do you have any ideas where .
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Saturday, 5. March 2011, 15:33
do you have any ideas where .
If you're asking for a suggest of somewhere to host Pictures for onward linking to a Post, then Photobucket (http://photobucket.com) is as good as any. Or, if you get stuck, you can always forward to me by email and I'll put them on my Photobucket account, or host them on DX11,org.
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Cheers Steve will give it a go
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Here are some pics on the Ross Revenge at Sea I will put some more on a few at a time, I am on one of the pics guess which one is me!
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Thats all for now sorry to have taken up so much space Falcon :pirate:


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Just awesome photos.........I guess your the young guy with black hair......it must be great been part of Caroline's history, what did you do on the Ross Revenge?.........Dave :)
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This is a site for the Ross, the antenna mast fell off the ship in the 1987 storms http://www.rossrevenge.co.uk/tx/txroom.htm
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Hi Dave,
No I am not the young guy with the black hair sorry,
We were on a visit went out with a supply boat had a few hours on board,
I was supprised how stable it was,
I had my own station to run :whistle:
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Dont know if this link will work

http://www.anorak.nildram.co.uk/listen/highplayer09.htm

Seems to B)
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Oggy
Saturday, 5. March 2011, 15:14
Wow..........you were on the Mi-Amigo..........did you work for the station?.
no just visiting but i do sponsor radio waddenzee :)
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The Waddenzee boat looks like light Vessel 17 used for RNI RSL in the UK a few years ago,
Is It? Biton,
I have answered it for myself its Light Vessel 8

FFFR Andy
Edited by Falcon, Sunday, 6. March 2011, 16:32.
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Great Photos & a very interesting link posted from Dave makes me wonder how it ran for so long with masts this big would not have took much work to find hardly a little spot in the Ocean!

Pete
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