Cambridge All Music Radio, or CAM Radio, started in the city of Cambridge in 1980. They could be heard on 95.3 FM. CAM Radio eventually morphed into Cambridge Community Radio. If anyone has any more information on this station please contact The Pirate Archive. Downloads To save any item from this list then Right Click…
This particular Radio Atlantis (there have been a few!), was first heard in 1978 broadcasting on medium wave. They ran a weekly Sunday morning service for 2 years. In 1980/81 they relayed on Short Wave the programmes of Radio Julie, the first all female pirate station staffed by their wives or girlfriends. These were successful,…
Romford based soul station Stomp FM were first heard in 1987. Early broadcasts were on Friday nights on 93.9, using one of the station founder’s girlfriends flat in East Ham! A change of site to Dagenham, and frequency to 105.2, happened later that year but it was then decided to go off the air until…
Canvey Radio were first heard in 1985. They mostly broadcast at weekends and could be heard on 93.1 FM. The station was founded by DJ’s John Hanson, Jim Price and John Allen and soon attracted the attention of other DJ’s who provided other material and shows. By 1987, they were experimenting with a second transmitter…
ABC Radio were a regular station on the South Coast in the mid 80s. Despite only operating for a few hours at weekends, they had many problems from the DTI, sometimes being raided every week. They even had their P.O. Box closed down! Perhaps it was the fact that, although only using modest transmitter power,…
Ray Magnum had been helping out a friend with disco’s, who was also running a lo-tech AM pirate from his house in Lower Rainham. The station was called Radio Atlantis and they could be heard on 235m medium wave. Following a raid, Ray got hold of an FM transmitter and Radio Atlantis then became a…
Radio Sovereign broadcast from the Newhaven/Hastings area of Sussex in the mid 1980s. If anyone has any more information on this station please contact The Pirate Archive. Downloads To save any item from this list then Right Click and ‘Save Target As…’ Newspaper Cuttings/Artwork Audio Tony Francis – Unknown DJ – Clips – 1986 3…
Premier FM broadcast from the Southend-on-Sea area of Essex from Spring 2001 until their closure in 2003. Their signal could be heard in areas from South London and parts of Kent to well up the east coast. Premier used a couple of main frequencies while they were on air, the first was 88.3 FM which…
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Inner City Radio was first heard during 1988, broadcasting from Stock in Essex on 105.6 FM. They were heard mainly at weekends and the odd week night and was run by Mark Roman and Keith Stafford. Keith had done a ten year apprenticeship at Marconi & there was nothing you could tell him about FM…