Radio Interference - Local Pirates?

[Marmora Man]

Sometimes - when driving in East Dulwich my default FM radio station - BBC Radio 4 loses signal and is taken over by loud "modern" music - I'm not qualified to describe it accurately except that it's some form of Rap(?) music.

Has anyone else experienced this and is there anything I can do to stay tuned into the Today programme?

[Asset]

There is a pirate that sometimes broadcasts very close to the R4 frequency, I've had it muscle in occasionally. Not for a while though. The R4 frequency is quite wide so try tuning it slightly. Other than that not a lot you can do.

[tomdhu]

Asset Wrote:

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> There is a pirate that sometimes broadcasts very

> close to the R4 frequency, I've had it muscle in

> occasionally. Not for a while though. The R4

> frequency is quite wide so try tuning it slightly.

> Other than that not a lot you can do.

There is.

You can report it to OFCOM via this link:-

http://www.ofcom.org.uk/complain/inter/radio/293512/

Good luck!

[Asset]

Well yes, there is that but it won't help in the short-term!

[Xena Worried prince]

So that is what the "so called" East Dulwich Pirate does for a living then B)

[SeanMacGabhann]

You may have reasons against the following but works for me

Dab radio. Or online streaming at home. I rarely. . Meaning never. . Listen to fm anymore

Im aware of the cons but overall i prefer the methods above

[lenk]

There's a couple of ace pirate stations v close to the Radio 4 frequency whose name escapes me (most pirate stations wherever you are in the UK are at lower frequencies, the transmitters most people get hold of to set up a pirate sadly aren't powerful enough for higher frequencies)

Centreforce is a good one, usually around 88.4 . Select is my favourite, around 99.3 - plays a lot of old electro and house.

There's also a couple of good Ghanain ones v near the R4 frequency that sometimes have some good stuff iirc.

[Marmora Man]

SeanMacGabhann Wrote:

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> You may have reasons against the following but

> works for me

>

> Dab radio. Or online streaming at home. I rarely.

> . Meaning never. . Listen to fm anymore

>

> Im aware of the cons but overall i prefer the

> methods above

I use both - but not in the car.

[languagelounger]

lenk Wrote:

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> There's a couple of ace pirate stations v close to

> the Radio 4 frequency

> Centreforce is a good one, usually around 88.4 .

> Select is my favourite, around 99.3 - plays a lot

> of old electro and house.

> There's also a couple of good Ghanain ones

That's all true - there are also a couple that have been sitting on Radio 3 for years. It can be very irritating but as Lenk says some of them - including Latin/Central American broadcasts from SE15/SE17 - are also v good and they are a door into the parallel universe inhabited by those people you kindly employ to clean your house, etc.

If he wants to boost R3 and 4 Marmora Man could maybe follow local tradition and put up his own rig: "Here's pirate Radio 4, coming at you tonight from Honor Oak Rise".

[AllforNun]

Yes the free radio stations are great, Nunhead and Peckham are bristling with them. It's a great feeling to use these airwaves for free and deal a blow to that puppet of state control. tune into Powerjam now ! The main problem is that bearded auntie's armed wing of muppets Ofcom and their regular foot through the front door raids of innocent free town families in search of transmitters. Some of their guys are real rough bastards, x theatre types and the like, very camp but all with families. Depsite their best attempts to dress down or dress street their little lunch boxes give them away. Half of the old bermondsey smugglers moved out further south to set up www.piratefm.co.uk/ just to avoid Ofcom's and Aunties dark state backed tenticles. Resistance is not futile.

[Asset]

I used to listen to 'LWR You are in tune to, the best sound in London Town' when I first moved to London. Anyone remember that one?

Then Kiss before it got licensed and another called Girls FM in more recent times.

[woodie]

"are also v good and they are a door into the parallel universe inhabited by those people you kindly employ to clean your house, etc. "

thats a joke?

pirate radio rocks. I remember chatting with a guy once who told me in the 'golden days of pirate' (thought luxemburg/capitol radio/kissfm was supposed to be)that as he was small it was his job to crawl up inside pipes to place the transmitter where the police wouldnt find it.

Many of todays well known d's cut thier mustard on pirate. from john peel to fabio +grooverider.

once on ajourney to bristol i remeber a stretch of road that boshed together 2 stations. for a while there was a v funny moment where elton john and jungle somehow worked together..untill we drove too far towards...elton. heh/

[Huguenot]

I can see that these pirate stations are a hotbed of creativity, but aren't those who want to listen to Radio 4 entitled to do that as well?

Bandwidth is limited, so surely it makes sense that we should legislate to ensure that those that use it have the infrastructure and responsibility to use them wisely? Pirate radio isn't all John Peel, there's plenty of maim-yo-muvva and slap-yo-beatch that poisons our society.

I welcome the efforts of those who make the airwaves anarchy-free and the ownership of all.

There are local radio slots, so it's not necessarily a question of who's got the most cash - if certain radio stations have limited niche appeal, then they're quite welcome to pursue their interests online or in nightclubs.

Can I add that fees for bandwith auctions are paid back into our democratically appointed exchequer and consequently to the people of our great nation.

A free for all is something that benefits no-one but the violent.

[AllforNun]

free for all it is then !

[????]

Where's your Bucanneers? Under me Buckinhat

[languagelounger]

Haar, haar, haar.

[lenk]

Huguenot Wrote:

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> I can see that these pirate stations are a hotbed

> of creativity, but aren't those who want to listen

> to Radio 4 entitled to do that as well?

I don't think Radio 4 is really too threatened by pirate radio Huguenot. Something to do with their 3 million watt transmitter.

>Pirate radio isn't all John

> Peel, there's plenty of maim-yo-muvva and

> slap-yo-beatch that poisons our society.

That just sounds like code for 'I don't like or understand half the music they play on pirate radio therefore it's probably dangerous'

[Huguenot]

Seems the 3m watts isn't sufficient locally, the OP said he was having difficult receiving Radio 4 as the pirate station was interfering? Presumably if the pirate radio station is permitted here, then it's permitted everywhere, so your proposal doesn't seem scalable?

I don't think Pirate radio is dangerous, I think anarchy is destructive and tends to be dominated by those with the most aggressive agenda. I think characterising Pirate radio as kooky, creative and cuddly is disingenuous. It simply isn't all John Peel. I don't like John Peel either ;-).

To make a case for Pirate radio you need to make a case for anarchy (either in radio bandwidth management specifically, or for society in general), and I don't see anyone doing that - just saying it's cute isn't enough.

[lenk]

I don't think it's anarchy.

As with anything you have the underground and you have the mainstream.

The world would be dull with no underground. (And the mainstream would quickly run out of ideas to rip off)

[woodie]

zackly

[AllforNun]

" think anarchy is destructive and tends to be dominated by those with the most aggressive agenda" ... "To make a case for Pirate radio you need to make a case for anarchy"

If you would for one moment switch of the Thatcher story from your iplayer, I suggests you wonder out to a nice bookshop and purchase some of the following.....sadly your current anarchy based sound bites are as hollow and empty as the liberal economic policy forum. Enjoy !

On Fire - The battle of Genoa and the anti-capitalist movement

Fragments of an Anarchist Anthropology

T.A.Z - The Temporary Autonomous Zone : Ontological Anarchy Poetic Terrorism

[Huguenot]

As my wife's father is a professor in anarcho-syndicalism, I don't struggle for literature on the subject AFN ;-)

One thing about your choice of books is clear, that being published is no signpost of merit.

Anarchy is the stamping ground for redneck terrorists, not the union Dreamtime. You don't throw off the shackles of wage slavery, but capitulate to a jack-booted intellectual underclass. You'd have white van man in teams of six knocking on your door with pick-axe handles forcing you and your kids to make dysfunctional hinges that nobody wants to buy.

The anarchist political heartland is dominated by middle-aged ne'er-do-wells who, embarrassed by having achieved little in their lives, convince themselves that their failure will be less obvious if they destroy everything that everyone else has made.

Scatalogical Anarchy Poetic Terrorism has a more honest ring to it, don't you think? :-)

[AllforNun]

yes well you may have someone who knows someone who knows something about the subject but unless you actually open and read said books how would you be enlightened?

It seems from your own text that you write headlines for the SUN, a good job no doubt, but really rather lacking on substance don't you think. Ps most of my friends drive white vans as does my husband and intellectual underclass they are not. Now get back to writing copy and honing your class snobbery, which of course you view as a radio4 esq type of superiority !

[Huguenot]

LOL!

I would have thought the Sun was more populist than Radio 4, but it is of course known for metaphors to be mixed during a rage. I empathise with your husband's white van, I've driven one myself and know what it's like: the intense frustration that builds up.

The OP was nevertheless about pirate radio, and if it's a catalyst for Nunhead's Meltdown Massive then the case to contain it is already made.

I rather think that Radio 4 would probably ask nicely that you could act within the laws of our fine democratic nation, but otherwise feel free to pursue your home entertainment. If enough people support your cause you'd be welcome to the airwaves with open arms.

In contrast the Meltdown Massive would smash the state, kick the "raas arse" of pensioners (whatever that is), and force the community to listen to their own tyrannical anschluss of crack-house beats.

Your dystopia has more in common with the Clockwork Orange than cultural balance. Your strategies are more baseball bat than ballot box, and I don't need to quote you for you to know that ;-)

[Huguenot]

Poetic Terrorism by Hakim Bey...

"avoid politics, don't stick around to argue, don't be sentimental; be ruthless, take risks, vandalize only what must be defaced"

"Art Sabotage is the dark side of Poetic Terrorism--creation- through-destruction--but it cannot serve any Party, nor any nihilism, nor even art itself."

A magical recipe for self-indulgence. A wanton manifesto for wiping turd on your face and squealing "Look, look what I did". And of course you 'did' nothing, nothing that marked you at any higher level culturally or socially than a dung beetle. You just demanded attention like a screaming six year old who didn't get more cake than everyone else.

"Public book burnings-- the New York Times bestseller list; feminist tracts against pornography; schoolbooks (especially Social Studies, Civics, Health); piles of New York Post , Village Voice & other supermarket papers"

So it appears your ambition is so much more than demanding attention? You'd burn schoolbooks and newspapers? To be replaced in the whirlwind of your own cultural revolution with an evisceral manifesto of Glastonbury outhouse sweepings?

And you accuse me of being unenlightened?