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ggm
The head of music at radio Forth when it established in Edinburgh as the first commercial radio station in town was a zetlander who'd been on radio NorthSea. I think anything after that was a let-down.
readthenotes1
I bet they had a big stack of 45s!
ggm
Huge! And the Schwag in the seventies was amazing.
tinus_hn
Interesting to read that this story also features Roy Bates, from the Principality of Sealand
roca
My dad was one of the founders of Radio Hauraki, a similar pirate radio operation in New Zealand (inspired by Caroline IIRC).
aspenmayer
Index of this series is at the bottom of the page. Not sure why section 6 was posted.

https://www.icce.rug.nl/~soundscapes/DATABASES/CAR/car_all.s...

BoxOfRain
My mistake, I came across that article and found it interesting. Didn't think to look for the index.
aspenmayer
It’s all good! I thought there was some reason you chose it, perhaps. I wasn’t trying to shame you or make you feel bad. If I did, I am sorry!

If you ever need to change something like that, you can email mods anytime.

hn@ycombinator.com

BoxOfRain
No worries! That's probably not a bad call, although the post seems to be dying a natural death at this point.
BoxOfRain
If anyone's interested, they're actually still around as a licensed station and have been doing quite well recently. They have a cool mix of old and new where their ship's aerial actually transmits the studio's output over 4G which is relayed to a much more efficient land-based AM transmitter ironically based at a former BBC World Service site. They're on 648 kHz in south-east England, DAB in various British cities, and online.

Personally I recommend listening on a nearby SDR, it's before my time really but there's something cool about the aesthetic of crackly old MW in my opinion. This one usually has a good signal: http://grimsbysdr.ddns.net:8073/

lsllc
Radio Caroline was a bit before my time -- anyone remember Atlantic 252? Sure sounded like crap (longwave/mono) but the music was great and you could tune in all over the UK and never lose it no matter where you drove.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_252