On 21/07/2022 18:47, Roland Perry wrote:
> In message <tbbuk2$2flrj$1@dont-email.me>, at 17:24:34 on Thu, 21 Jul
> 2022, MB <MB@nospam.net> remarked:
>> On 20/07/2022 19:04, Charles Ellson wrote:
>>> There still is/are but nowhere near the North Sea. It is quite
>>> possible there was a contemporary one among the multiplicity of
>>> land-based weekend pirate stations but Google doesn't seem to find any
>>> apart from what seem to be typos or Spanish/Portuguese translations of
>>> Radio Caroline.
>>
>> Coventry Evening Telegraph - Saturday 17 October 1970
>> Pop radio - A GROUP of teenagers are planning to broadcast next
>> weekend from "Radio Carolina." a new pirate station in East Anglia—and
>> contend that they will not be breaking the law in doing so.
>> They plan to broadcast from Reach, a small Cambridgeshire village.
>>
>> Reading Evening Post - Monday 19 October 1970
>> According to Mr Len Warren, a member of Newmarket Rural Council, the
>> village was granted the right of self-government In 1201 by King John.
>> And Mr Warden, self-appointed successor to the last "ruler," claims
>> Reach Is still entitled to it and has the status of an independent
>> kingdom.
>> He has given "Radio Carolina" permission to broadcast from his
>> "kingdom" (pop-ulation 269).
>
> Come back (Passport to) Pimlico, all is forgiven. [Some of the rail
> scenes especially interesting]

The customs scene on the London Underground is particularly endearing.

In article <tb8dnk$1iua$1@gioia.aioe.org>, Muttley@dastardlyhq.com
scribeth thus
>On Tue, 19 Jul 2022 20:53:05 +0100
>tony sayer <tony@bancom.co.uk> wrote:
>>In article <tb6hkb$12sm$1@gioia.aioe.org>, Muttley@dastardlyhq.com
>>scribeth thus
>>>Allegedly Ofcom used to trace the links back to the studios where plod could
>>>nick the DJs instead of just impounding the transmitter immediately. But if
>>>it was just a transmitter and cassette deck playing pre-recorded stuff there's
>>
>>>not much they could do I imagine.
>>>
>>
>>There wasn't, it used a C120 tape in Mono track 1 then 2 and 3, 4 auto
>>reverse system there was a basic remote control on the system and a very
>>clever system that pulled the aerial cable out of a loose joint, the Box
>>was buried underground so it would look as if someone would have
>>unplugged the tree mounted aerial and taken the box with the TX;!..
>
>You do seem to have a rather more intricate knowledge of this than someone
>who'd just heard about it on the grapevine :)
>

Dunno wot yer torking abaht squire;!..
--
Tony Sayer

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.

Give him a keyboard, and he will reveal himself.