"Built in 1960, the Ross Revenge is a 200ft former deep sea fishing trawler that was converted into a fully-functioning radio ship. Radio Caroline was broadcast from the ship until 1991 when it was shipwrecked off the Kent coast."
Here's an informative video about the laws surrounding #radioScanning in the #uk. Turns out there has been much skullduggery from the UK government.
It really helps drive home the fact that #canadians take a lot of our protections for granted. We have an enormous amount of work to do, but in some areas we shine.
Imagine jailing a 17 year old for being interested in the electromagnetic spectrum! Unthinkable in this country. Right?
"On the night of November 22, 1987, the television signals of two stations in Chicago, Illinois, were hijacked, briefly sending a pirate broadcast of an unidentified person wearing a Max Headroom mask and costume to thousands of home viewers."
Halloween is proving to be a good night to test out some lesser used shortwave radios in the shack. This is the RadioShack DX-398 tuned to X-FM on 4195 kHz.
The button remotely triggers a noise that's broadcasted in the whole warehouse via an FM transmitter, making it an actual pirate radio station on which we can play music and talk :QueerInvader:
When we're open, you should hear something or at least some silence on the 108MHz then the buzz when you press the button !
Photo: Brian Greene stands next to the footpath, on a concrete pad surrounded by grass, where the phot box once was Grey hair, blue button-down shirt, brown trousers, talking on the phone.
Blackbeard sailing in the dead of night
Running ships aground, he was fright
All your life
You have never seen him or you would not be alive
Blackbeard! Hide
Blackbeard! Hide
Lower your flags 'fore he sets his sight