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whats happened to all the pirates? ofcom?
« on: November 05, 2025, 08:13:07 am »
seems a lot of stations have been taken off over the last few weeks.

87.5 live fm has been down but that freq is back again.
93.9 which i think was live fm again txing a blank carrier has gone
94.2 tf live gone a few weeks back.
106.5 wkend off for a month or so.

i heard s dance and playback have also suffered some losses.

vision on 88.4 have been on and are getting into north kent quite well.
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Re: whats happened to all the pirates? ofcom?
« Reply #1 on: November 05, 2025, 08:42:50 am »
only station i can pick up is live fm in sw london atm.

Re: whats happened to all the pirates? ofcom?
« Reply #2 on: November 06, 2025, 03:24:23 pm »
There's little or no interest in free-radiating piracy now.  The kids that were doing it have realised that it's cheaper and easier on-line.

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Re: whats happened to all the pirates? ofcom?
« Reply #3 on: November 06, 2025, 08:13:28 pm »
in london there has always been a few stations on but everything got hit this summer
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Re: whats happened to all the pirates? ofcom?
« Reply #4 on: November 07, 2025, 06:39:44 pm »
what is happend with necks forum ?

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Re: whats happened to all the pirates? ofcom?
« Reply #5 on: November 08, 2025, 06:41:17 am »
Well, this is only a guess, but I'd say the forum core directory has become corrupted or subject to malicious attack? There is also a possibility that a phpbb forum upgrade attempt has failed, or something else trivial ??

We can only guess until the admin actually confirms what's happened, but I always had my suspicions that the forum at one point was hosted on a local machine in someones house other than a dedicated server. This might explain how it was terrible slow on occasions. I do know there is Cloudflare somewhere in the chain.



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Re: whats happened to all the pirates? ofcom?
« Reply #6 on: November 08, 2025, 06:34:17 pm »
We can only guess until the admin actually confirms what's happened,

I recive report not deliverd ...no email...

yeah alot of stations seem to gone over the past week when I listen on the north and south London recievers, (duncanorak got their aerial glued back together again so we can hear them) i’ve not heard wax fm since easter, 90.0 (power 105) 93.8 (vibes), 99.6, 99.8, are always there, live does go off a lot maybe 87.5 is a frequency they don’t like, i’m glad s dance is there thought.