Radio Builders
Radio Discussion => Outer London Pirate Radio => Topic started by: Schmellenschmellen on December 04, 2025, 04:41:44 pm
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I think you are right there. If a station is not too greedy with their coverage and use good kit and maybe 5 - 20W or whatever it needs I think you make your
chances of staying on longer better. Sure you don't have the strong signal but you keep that signal out of areas where there might be less welcome listeners.
Always difficult to know but with more publicity of any kind there comes more unwelcome listeners as well. A double edged sword.
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I do remember this thing years ago in manchester were someone was transmitting quite high power signal, it was been talked about on a forum, went on for a while kept hoping they would stop, they got caught. There was quite a low power signal, it was mentioned in afew places, someone was saying how good it was wrote to ofcom, after been on 24/7 for a year it triggered them.
i’m pretty sure too someone was tracked from the videos they were posting, able to get the location from the videos, also the tx would of been putting out alot of noise over fm.
Do wish we had a different culture, dutch do have a nice culture of putting polka music out, in amercia people do put christmas stations on air, theres been the odd time were someone has put a really low power transmitter for some christmas lights, anything more likely be away to get the whole thing closed down. I know of someone who got reported for having a caravan in their back garden, large garden, some were selling food outside a house sandwhiches, got closed down, sad.
Sounds like the station your listening to is problalby going as far as it needs to go and no further, the sound of what frequent lee was saying on the old forum, they don’t like signals that cover a whole city, they would take them off every week. The way to build up an audience is online, doing over fm seems like it would be dangerous to me.
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The sole pirate I can pick up here, I won't mention frequency, I am going to be very cautious about that as I swear when any attention is given Ofcom and come and make a collection.
They dropped about 20db to almost impossible to hear, so weak I literally thought they had been raided. Back up to 20dB on the Tecsun PL-310 again.
Nice to have them back as a pirate radio dinner making listen. Hopefully they will be about over Chrissy.