Grenfell Tower

[WEBB-TECH]

Was anybody using that block that burnt down at the time?

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[McDonalds]

if the fire exit were unlocked could people on the upper floors have had more chance on the roof?

[sde-1104]

The roof wasn't being used by a station at the time as far as I'm aware.

[teckniqs]

As far as I'm aware the last station that used it was LayLow FM 106.8/101.7 a good few years back.

....R.I.P to anyone who lost their lives. Absolutely awful and one of the worst things to ever happen in my lifetime, truly shocking.

[rissonew12]

R•I•P TO ALL THE LOST SOULS TRULY TRAGIC . LAYLOW USED TO BANG OUT FROM THERE AROUND 2009 ON 106.8 IF I REMEBER RIGHT I WAS RESIDING IN WHITE CITY AT THE TIME SO COUKD SEE THERE AERIAL FROM MY BACK GARDEN.

[Albert H]

I used it back in the early 80s. We had a studio on the White City estate and linked to that group of blocks for a while. We used all of them around there, and found that "Norland" was the best of them for some strange reason.

[Deadly906]

If anything. Going to cause problems for tower blocks accross london will be bang on fire safety now all blocks will be checked thoroughly... Rip all those involved..

[Giggles]

I used it back in the early 80s. We had a studio on the White City estate and linked to that group of blocks for a while. We used all of them around there, and found that "Norland" was the best of them for some strange reason.

Albert bro you should write a radio book man it would be awsome you have done everything used every site, every power rig,every security device for theifs and beat every offcom in the cat and mouse you have ran stations worldwide you seen it all bro why dont you write a book mate im sure it would be a bestseller 100%

[pirateaddict]

Totally agree giggles.. Write a book Albert. I would love to read it!

[Albert H]

Write a book Albert. I would love to read it!

I think that the "Global Travels of a Radio Engineer" might be a pretty dull book - for the most part. Bits of it have been fun - I haven't used most of the blocks in London, but I've been up most of them over the years. There were a few blocks that really stood out:

Trellick Tower was a nightmare to get up, because we had to bypass their reed switches that were attached to the gates at the top of the lift tower. Eventually I hit on the idea of holding the reed switches with really strong magnets stuck in place with "Blutack". The gate could then be opened without the reed switch going O/C and tripping the alarm. Getting the strong magnet and blob of Blutack through the wire mesh of the cage was really tricky....

Addington (Croydon) - great blocks with a really good northward view into London. Problem was always that Dawson liked to use them. He always put a huge padlock and chain on the roof access door, so we couldn't get access to one particularly dirty rig. The horse manure got dumped on the stairs leading to the roof access door.....

Aragon Tower (Pepys Estate Greenwich) - every block on the Pepys Estate used to get used at weekends. Quite often, we'd be up there and spot other people installing gear on the adjacent blocks!

Carrowdale House - top end of Blackwall Tunnel: Went up there for an install, and found three other stations already on various parts of the block!

There are too many others to remember!

[famefm]

Did you mean the LWR rigs?

[Roobru]

Well, you should do a blog anyway Albert. Even something like this would be cool.

http://www.djclockwork.com

[Albert H]

Did you mean the LWR rigs?

Yes. The early ones were particularly horrible. There was one he put up in Bromley over Christmas one year, that caused so much interference to the Ambulance service, that they called Gotts out on Christmas Day! We used to frequently dump horse manure over his heaps of crap, to turn them into even bigger heaps of crap! We'd always turn them off as well.

[famefm]

Thought so I remember the ones that had the horrible buzz spreading 3 points to the left and right of 92.05 fm I could never understand why they always said 92.5 when it wasn't

[Effemm]

I have faint memories of an 80's set up who had serious issues with a train line right on top of the rig,causing big issues whenever one went by...was also in the days of Stereo broadcasts ...Solar I remember had big outage to produce a serious signal in Stereo ..probably up on a CP hill

[famefm]

Solar 102.5 was from crystal palace with a sound quality 2nd to none incredible to believe it was only on for 11 months 1984/5

[Effemm]

Kiss 94 had a Stereo push too..dayzzz