James May Man Lab Thursday - setting up offshore pirate radio

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• CraigSteele2001 Posts: 971

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  17/04/13 - 00:34 #2

  Won't this programme show novice people how to set up their own pirate station? Surely the BBC cleared the idea with Ofcom

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• Station ID Posts: 7,411

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  17/04/13 - 01:14 #3

  Is this the return of the Big L lol

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• [Deleted User] Posts: 4,398

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  17/04/13 - 01:29 #4

  An i-Trip in a dinghy?

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• -ajm- Posts: 5,879

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  17/04/13 - 01:44 #5

  Will it be anything like when Top Gear did those amphibious cars?
  
  Joking I am.

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• StereRowe Posts: 1,305

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  17/04/13 - 02:03 #6

  The pic on the website looks like he's on a river!!!

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• JELLIES0 Posts: 6,709

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  17/04/13 - 13:03 #7

  CraigSteele2001 wrote: »

  Won't this programme show novice people how to set up their own pirate station? Surely the BBC cleared the idea with Ofcom

  
  I doubt that the BBC will do anything to encourage pirate radio. This is the broadcaster who did a feature in the 1980s about Radio Caroline (on a later post Bob Harris edition of OGWT IIRC) and told us all that it ended completely when the MOA was passed.
  Caroline, at the time was still blasting away on medium wave

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• moordown66 Posts: 539

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  17/04/13 - 13:20 #8

  It'll probably be fun to watch

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• 62 Posts: 295

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  18/04/13 - 03:18 #9

  I've seen various listings which say 'pirate radio station' but none that use the word 'offshore'.
  
  The 2 things are not synonymous!

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• MikeBr Posts: 7,886

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  18/04/13 - 03:58 #10

  62 wrote: »

  I've seen various listings which say 'pirate radio station' but none that use the word 'offshore'.
  
  The 2 things are not synonymous!

  
  Setting sail appears to be accurate.

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• [Deleted User] Posts: 4,398

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  19/04/13 - 00:59 #11

  It's just about to start on BBC2 fellow radio folks.

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• [Deleted User] Posts: 4,398

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  19/04/13 - 01:39 #12

  So basically it was an RSL in Milton Keynes with a 3G link to a narrowboat studio on the canal..

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• JELLIES0 Posts: 6,709

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  19/04/13 - 13:59 #13

  Is there a more dire boring TV programme available anywhere at the moment ? :yawn:
  
  I dare say those involved enjoyed themselves, not sure about the poor old viewers though.

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• LaurelandHardy Posts: 3,806

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  19/04/13 - 14:24 #14

  Nice photos of the Ross Revenge and the Communicator though.

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• MikeBr Posts: 7,886

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  19/04/13 - 19:47 #15

  LaurelandHardy wrote: »

  Nice photos of the Ross Revenge and the Communicator though.

  
  Checking Twitter the original date for Radio ManLab to broadcast was August 14 last year but it got delayed at last minute, don't know if the date had been chosen because of the MOA anniversary.

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• CraigSteele2001 Posts: 971

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  20/04/13 - 02:15 #16

  http://www.wiredbroadcast.com/downloads/James%20Mays%20Canal%20Trip%20RSL.pdf
  
  Interesting 2 page document that says what equipment was used for the broadcast, and about the broadcast itself

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• tezenis Posts: 152

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  24/04/13 - 02:34 #17

  Is there a more "natural" TV presenter than James May. I've never met him but I imagine he is 100% the same as he is on the telly. Seems like a thoroughly likeable person.
  
  Love the show too.

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• mikw Posts: 48,715

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  24/04/13 - 03:00 #18

  tezenis wrote: »

  Is there a more "natural" TV presenter than James May. I've never met him but I imagine he is 100% the same as he is on the telly. Seems like a thoroughly likeable person.
  
  Love the show too.

  
  Me too, he's just really natural. Friend of mine has met him a few times, says he's just the same.
  
  He makes Science and technology fun and accessible.

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• iceola Posts: 1,314

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  07/05/13 - 15:31 #19

  Is that true that for every minute of silence on a radio station they can potentially get fined 25K ?

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• big brother 9 Posts: 18,153

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  07/05/13 - 15:33 #20

  isnt this ileagal

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• PhilH Posts: 2,789

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  07/05/13 - 15:51 #21

  big brother 9 wrote: »

  isnt this ileagal

  
  They made it quite clear on the programme that they had obtained a license.
  
  I think they were using the term 'pirate' to mean 'radio station on a boat'.

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• PhilH Posts: 2,789

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  07/05/13 - 15:52 #22

  iceola wrote: »

  Is that true that for every minute of silence on a radio station they can potentially get fined 25K ?

  
  What about Radio 3?

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• Mark C Posts: 20,894

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  07/05/13 - 16:02 #23

  iceola wrote: »

  Is that true that for every minute of silence on a radio station they can potentially get fined 25K ?

  
  I don't think so, no.

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  07/05/13 - 21:19 #24

  PhilH wrote: »

  I think they were using the term 'pirate' to mean 'radio station on a boat'.

  Although I'm not sure how many pirates have used barges on the Grand Union canal in Milton Keynes..

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• PhilH Posts: 2,789

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  07/05/13 - 21:26 #25

  bowland37 wrote: »

  Although I'm not sure how many pirates have used barges on the Grand Union canal in Milton Keynes..

  
  Quite.

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• ahall41116 Posts: 107

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  08/05/13 - 02:14 #26

  CraigSteele2001 wrote: »

  http://www.wiredbroadcast.com/downloads/James%20Mays%20Canal%20Trip%20RSL.pdf
  
  Interesting 2 page document that says what equipment was used for the broadcast, and about the broadcast itself

  
  When I did my rsl for hospital radio danum (Doncaster) 20 years ago (cripes) there was a 10m height restriction on the antenna, which prevented us putting our transmitter on the roof of the 15 floor hospital building.
  
  Has this been removed from rsl licenses now?

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