any one got any roof stories

[ofcomhater]

My story is was stuck on a tower block for a couple of hrs as the fire brigade come up to inspect something. Don't no wat they was inspecting as I was to busy hiding under the water tank. Had to call my brother to let me out as they had locked the hatch to get back out lol.

[Justin]

Hiding on the roof of Pepys Estate Deptford. DTI turned up just after switching on one Friday night.
They was in the water tank room with there grinder.

[mrillusion]

I once jacked too far down a bin chute and pulled it back out underneath a mountain of nappies covered in shit

[whitenoisedb]

Whilst the Euro 2020 was on I went on the roof and into the tank / lift room to setup. Noticed some lights on that usually aren’t so I thought I’d poke my head up into the lift room. I started to climb the ladder and could see a bald head, as I got a bit higher the person was laid out on the floor and completely spark out. It was a lift engineer, obviously had a skin-full whilst watching an earlier game. I went back out onto the roof for a bit and thought I should go and come back later. As I was locking the gate he came out and caught up with me, he asked what I was doing to which I said what were you doing sleeping on the job! He didn’t have much to say after that

[Gigahertz]

Remember someone trying to bring back ICE FM on 89.6 and the person "told me", some of guys that were on 89.6 at the time from the otherside of London came to the block to remove the rig.

It was put inside a cupboard on the roof and they tried to crowbar the door open. The crowbar ping out and ended up smacking the guy's nose.

The "ICE FM" guy ended up meeting with them at the entrance to the block. When he meet them, one of the guy's face and t-shirt was just covered in blood, so asked what happen to you! the guy explained, the "ICE FM" person just cracked up in from of them.

[SamTheDog]

Hiding on the roof of Pepys Estate Deptford. DTI turned up just after switching on one Friday night.
They was in the water tank room with there grinder.

I was caught by the police on one of the pepys estate roofs..... They took two sets of kit from me that day... I got it all back though.. (long story, see my website) Did you ever make the jump? from the roof to the catwalk?

[Albert H]

We found someone (looked like Zack) trying to remove our gear from the top of one of the Addington blocks. We knew that he couldn't get to the gear, so chained the roof access door shut (from outside) and locked it with a big padlock. This was pre-mobile days, so we knew that the most he'd have was a pager!

We left him there overnight - it was winter, so he would have had an unpleasant night. One of our guys went up there the following day to release him, and just removed the chain. He called out through the door to say that it was open, and then left. We went back that afternoon, and whoever it was had gone.

Funnily enough, we never lost any gear from that block for as long as we used it!

[Albert H]

I had two events up Shepherds Bush blocks:

I went up Norland to scout out a good place to install, and found a huge drum of RG213. We went back a couple of hours later, with six of us, and we kept every station in London supplied with coax for months!!

I needed to get a certain station back on in a hurry, but didn't have a suitable heatsink for the rig...... It got attached to the underside of the cold water tank, secured by self-tapping screws..... The rig lasted for a few weeks of the intermittent broadcasts we did in those days, until Eric arrived to collect the gear. He unscrewed it from the bottom of the water tank, and flooded the top three floors of the block!

[SamTheDog]

We found someone (looked like Zack) trying to remove our gear from the top of one of the Addington blocks.

Steve and I had a Zack/LWR frightener-moment in the Paddington area.... A long story...!

If they are the two blocks I'm thinking about, Side by side, on the roundabout, Pub-Opposite...

One had the local TV repeater on the roof! I used them too many years ago. Even ran a 12 watt TV transmitter from one!

[Albert H]

Sam - it was Addington (down near Croydon)!

Another amusing incident was the valved rig up a block near Crystal Palace. Someone got into the tank room (where the gear was installed, and we received the alarm. We got there a couple of minutes later, to find this character flat on his back on the floor - unconscious - with a large lump on the back of his head. The output bottle was being rather over-run and had a very high voltage on its anodes (it was a dual tetrode QQV06-40). There was a purple glow around the valve that you could see in the dark. He'd obviously managed to zap himself with the anode voltage (or the corona), and when he was thrown back, his head had hit the water tank, and the result was obvious!

It turned out that this guy was some kind of radio ham and had gone to "inspect the apparatus". He was helped off the block and sent on his way!

[Twista UK]

friend of mine was looking for a new block a few years ago opened up the top room to find a large canabis farm growing.
He quickly got out of there and went on to the next blocks.

[SamTheDog]

Sam - it was Addington (down near Croydon)!

Thats right.. If they are the blocks I'm thinking of, they are the ones south of sparepenny lane / halfpenny lane? whatever it's called....
and one of them had a local TV in-fill repeater on the roof.....


My Zack related incident was in Paddington just south of the westway....

[SamTheDog]

Talking about radio hams and valves.....

Back in the W.N.K.R. days we had a barney-special shortwave transmitter (valve based 807 thing) and a tape deck stolen from a woodland site on the M2 by some rather self-rightious rad-ham folks.

As it happens, I was on speaking-terms with someone with the investigations team (Kenkey based I believe), so I phoned them and told them what had happened.. They confirmed that the removal of our kit wasn't official and would be "Looked-Into"

[WEBB-TECH]

I was told a story by a well known Essex-based radio person about another certain Essex-based radio person being dangled by his ankles over the other side of the block. Not gonna go in to detail but it did make me laugh.

[teckniqs]

I was told a story by a well known Essex-based radio person about another certain Essex-based radio person being dangled by his ankles over the other side of the block. Not gonna go in to detail but it did make me laugh.

Oh that old chestnut.

[Albert H]

Roger Howe was once caught on a block near Vauxhall and found himself being pushed back over the parapet rail.. The people who caught him were fed up with having their gear nicked, and assumed that he's been doing it. He stayed well away from blocks after that incident.

Roger also got chased from the "Battleship" block near Forest Hill by irate residents who were fed up with having their TV reception ruined!

[mixfm]

i remember back in the day we moved to a new block in birmingham. local to me, because offcock was on our case every weekend, & the transmitter went off one sunday afternoon, so we rushed to the block, the aerial was stiill up. when we got up to the roof the door was open. so we crept round the roof to find a pair of stepladders up, the we seen the caretaker on the top of the liftshaft roof trying to remove the dipole, so we grabbed the rig & took the stepladders with us. left the silly old chap stranded on there, lol we never used that block again.....

[Justin]

I was told a story by a well known Essex-based radio person about another certain Essex-based radio person being dangled by his ankles over the other side of the block. Not gonna go in to detail but it did make me laugh.

I think I know what story your on about, Not to be messed with that station in South London

[Justin]

Barney did me an FM rig, Was made out of old CB radio spares. Didn't last long was spogging on the Gas board DTI told me.

[ChazAnthony1982]

Killer seems to have a lot of stories on he’s tick tock