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Pirate radio circa 1984

NickHNickH
edited March 2009 in Chit chat
I just had a flashback of listening to the pirate radio station Lazer 558 on one of my first radios back in ~1984. There was also a station broadcasting at the same time calling itself "somethingsomething 570" - any ideas what it was called?
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  • thx1138thx1138
    edited March 2009
    I remember listening to 558, it got buzzed by the RAF once, and I saw what I think were the very aeroplanes in the sky at the time. :D

    I sometimes listened to Atalntic 252 which was an official radio station, and I'd sometimes listen to the English broadcasts of Radio Moscow on MW.

    Don't think I ever listened to any other pirate stations except for 558 though.
  • chaosmongerschaosmongers
    edited March 2009
    I remember the Laser one.

    Talking of radio, I bought one of those DAB radios a while ago. What a load of old pants. Being in Lincolnshire, theres a pretty restricted range of analogue FM stations anyway - Just the BBC ones, and one local commercial station, so I thought it'd bring me loads more choice.

    I can get 'Absolute' radio which is good, but have lost half of the BBC ones, and that's it!
  • thx1138thx1138
    edited March 2009
    yup I'm massively dissapointed by the lack of stations available.

    Can't get The Arrow which is a nice alternative to Planet Rock.

    I'm thinking I should buy a radio tuner thingy for the net instead.
  • zx1zx1
    edited March 2009
    You can get tons online or through freeview/sky. I don't listen to the radio as much these days. They all seem to play either Girls Aloud or Take That, shite.
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  • guesserguesser
    edited March 2009
    chaosmongers wrote: »
    I remember the Laser one.

    Talking of radio, I bought one of those DAB radios a while ago. What a load of old pants. Being in Lincolnshire, theres a pretty restricted range of analogue FM stations anyway - Just the BBC ones, and one local commercial station, so I thought it'd bring me loads more choice.

    I can get 'Absolute' radio which is good, but have lost half of the BBC ones, and that's it!

    I can hear everything from Sheffield all the way down to Peterborough from up on the Lincoln ridge :)

    you only have to touch the dial and you pick up another station, bloomin' nuisance! :)
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  • Scottie_ukScottie_uk
    edited March 2009
    I listen to BBC6 music now. It quite nice though the DJ's are a bit too OTT and Hyper in an late 80's local commercial radio style.

    BBC6 is halfway between R1 and R2 except they do not play the crap manufactured pop acts. However they do play lots of new music that R1 and R2 never play.

    I perticularly like it when they play live sets from the archive. Just the other day they had a live set by Depeche Mode from 1981. It was neat.
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  • zx1zx1
    edited March 2009
    I read somewhere recently with the rise of DAB and radio available online and on Sky etc that traditional FM and AM radio is on the way out. Probably because you get better quality digitally.
    Is this true??
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  • Scottie_ukScottie_uk
    edited March 2009
    zx1 wrote: »
    I read somewhere recently with the rise of DAB and radio available online and on Sky etc that traditional FM and AM radio is on the way out. Probably because you get better quality digitally.
    Is this true??

    Only if the sampling rate at which they broadcast is high. Unfortunately it is often quite low, on my DAB system the sound is no better than an FM radio.

    It is possible to get near CD quality via DAB, but because they want many stations on DAB the quality has to be reduced.
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  • guesserguesser
    edited March 2009
    zx1 wrote: »
    I read somewhere recently with the rise of DAB and radio available online and on Sky etc that traditional FM and AM radio is on the way out. Probably because you get better quality digitally.
    Is this true??

    no





    dab is dying, because it's rubbish and no-one wants it. most of the expansion plans for dab transmission have been scrapped, no company wants to buy channels on the transmitters, and the technology was obsolete before transmissions even started.

    everyone already has FM radios, there are already FM transmitters, FM signals go further and degrade gracefully in weak signal conditions.

    if you think a new technology will suddenly get rid of FM, ask yourself why are the bbc still broadcasting their local stations on AM as well as FM after all these decades
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  • mjwilsonmjwilson
    edited March 2009
    DAB is a big improvement for Radio 5 though.
  • NickHNickH
    edited March 2009
    mjwilson wrote: »
    DAB is a big improvement for Radio 5 though.

    Especially the Sports Extra channel for TMS :)

    And Jazz FM, which is now web and digital only.
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