been listening to this, the first recording, lot of the music is from 10 years earlier, sounds like they were on the internet…I hear m people playing.
https://www.piratearchive.co.uk/yorkshi ... r-2004.mp3
I can’t remember hearing it over fm,I guess there would of been real radio blocking the frequency. The other recording had joy division, then the streets, then went into dance mix afterwards.
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A great find, Northeast. You're right the music does sound earlier than 2004. I'm sure it's none of the same people but it reminds me of the pirates in York in the early 90s which appeared just after acid house started and into the rave era. I used to visit regularly in the early 90s (had an ex who lived near there) and for a small town almost middle of nowhere, it had a surprisingly good pirate scene! I'm surprised there isn't more audio around from that era. At least one of the stations on at that time, KLFM, was huge - so where's the audio?
I see the pirate archive site asking for info on Freak FM and just had a thought - it sounds like the guy in the first recording was running it but he obviously isn't a local. They're talking about "The Fulford Massive" though, so I wonder if he's a student. The local student station, University Radio York (URY) had been chasing an FM license for years and had got nowhere by 2004. Prior to that though, they had form for running pirate stations "on the side". So, I'm wondering if this had something to do with URY.
I see the pirate archive site asking for info on Freak FM and just had a thought - it sounds like the guy in the first recording was running it but he obviously isn't a local. They're talking about "The Fulford Massive" though, so I wonder if he's a student. The local student station, University Radio York (URY) had been chasing an FM license for years and had got nowhere by 2004. Prior to that though, they had form for running pirate stations "on the side". So, I'm wondering if this had something to do with URY.
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the audio is an easy listen, smooth not like a lot of pirates, not to compressed sounding. big and bassy as well another gem from from the Radio northeast's investigations
The dial is Glowing 88-108 , spin the wheel to light those Red LEDs , see signal needle rise.
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Thanks, I do remember ury on 106.6 when it was doing an rsl, hear it well at some woods were we used to go to. Trying to see how far you can see the minster is quite interesting, York is an interesting place, has all the musumes too old buildings. We’d often skirt round it on day trips, often found it quiet on fm, heard the dream fm relay but nothing else, i’ve always wondered what stations were there, theres not much out there about them, there might be more in the miscellaneous section.
A while ago I found a bandscan it was done from the hills years back it showed a station there on 108, in the 90’s, tried to find this again no luck. I think there was something called equinox used to post on another forum, had a look on the dx achive too nothing there about York stations either.
I think ury is on the south eastern side of York, I hope they might turn down sutton coldfield would help it get out better, it is probably better than been on the north west at least if you're in the south.
A while ago I found a bandscan it was done from the hills years back it showed a station there on 108, in the 90’s, tried to find this again no luck. I think there was something called equinox used to post on another forum, had a look on the dx achive too nothing there about York stations either.
I think ury is on the south eastern side of York, I hope they might turn down sutton coldfield would help it get out better, it is probably better than been on the north west at least if you're in the south.
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Looking down the list on the pirate archive what we’ve got for York
kl-fm, laser fm, power fm, rush fm quite a number of the stations don’t have a location so I suppose there could of been more out there. (I remember a station called laser uk on 106.2 it would come from the opposite side of the pennines, so not very useful here, it does have one of these stations listed as 106.2, it might of been there under it) from what I remember 105-108 became mondo congested in the late 90’s when I lived on a hill there were always things coming and going, filled up with local radio, was a bit boring was doing the same thing the beeb were doing to a smaller area, it left no were to hear anything by the end of it.
listened to the 3rd one from freak, brits medley, then more chilled out, definitely do wish there was more stuff like this, when you finish you want more
https://www.piratearchive.co.uk/yorkshi ... n-2005.mp3
What I was saying, I think ury is on the south eastern side of York, is a good location, nothing but counrtyside infront of it, flat, it is problably better than been on the north west, y01 dosen’t get out so well on 102.8, 90.0 is surrounded by powerful radio 2 transmitters. I did think all the old minster fm presenters had gone over to it I don’t really know, sounds like they went over to yorkmix. Theres also jorvik radio, interesting there are all these stations there compared to Leeds, you do wonder why, theres no aire mix or anything. I suppose the minster did always have a better transmitter, lot of people did complain the aire fm transmitter wasn't good.
kl-fm, laser fm, power fm, rush fm quite a number of the stations don’t have a location so I suppose there could of been more out there. (I remember a station called laser uk on 106.2 it would come from the opposite side of the pennines, so not very useful here, it does have one of these stations listed as 106.2, it might of been there under it) from what I remember 105-108 became mondo congested in the late 90’s when I lived on a hill there were always things coming and going, filled up with local radio, was a bit boring was doing the same thing the beeb were doing to a smaller area, it left no were to hear anything by the end of it.
listened to the 3rd one from freak, brits medley, then more chilled out, definitely do wish there was more stuff like this, when you finish you want more
https://www.piratearchive.co.uk/yorkshi ... n-2005.mp3
What I was saying, I think ury is on the south eastern side of York, is a good location, nothing but counrtyside infront of it, flat, it is problably better than been on the north west, y01 dosen’t get out so well on 102.8, 90.0 is surrounded by powerful radio 2 transmitters. I did think all the old minster fm presenters had gone over to it I don’t really know, sounds like they went over to yorkmix. Theres also jorvik radio, interesting there are all these stations there compared to Leeds, you do wonder why, theres no aire mix or anything. I suppose the minster did always have a better transmitter, lot of people did complain the aire fm transmitter wasn't good.
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I enjoyed all 3 Freak FM recordings. Web stream rips maybe?
KLFM broadcast for a couple of years with various TX sites in and around York town centre and numerous studios, mostly located on the east side. The guy who ran it was from Heworth. Laser came from Haxby, which is north York, generally on Sunday nights on 100.2. I loved those two stations. I'm not sure where Power FM came from - if I ever knew, I can't remember. I got the impression it was being run by kids and wasn't far from the town centre. That was a little later, about 1993 maybe. I think I was losing interest by that time. Don't know anything about RUSH FM. Could be one of those Fly By Night stations
Back when I used to go across there, the FM band was very quiet indeed. Minster hadn't started - Viking was the local ILR. You could pick up radio Tees, which I think had been rebranded TFM by that point, Radio Aire and Metro.
I've a friend who's a York graduate (in the 80s, I assume) and was at the BBC for many years. He's now back up there working at the university, got some proper toe-curling stories about University Radio York which I won't repeat here, but told me that in addition to the internet, URY is now on FM and also a local DAB SFN with transmitters on York hospital and the university library which is a high point on the campus. These students are getting spoiled - in my era student radio was typically knackered ex-military gear modified for medium wave into leaky feeders and you were lucky if you could pick it up in the same building (unless it was snowing).
I thought of loads more anecdotes whilst writing this one but I'm off topic for this thread so I'll wind my neck in!
KLFM broadcast for a couple of years with various TX sites in and around York town centre and numerous studios, mostly located on the east side. The guy who ran it was from Heworth. Laser came from Haxby, which is north York, generally on Sunday nights on 100.2. I loved those two stations. I'm not sure where Power FM came from - if I ever knew, I can't remember. I got the impression it was being run by kids and wasn't far from the town centre. That was a little later, about 1993 maybe. I think I was losing interest by that time. Don't know anything about RUSH FM. Could be one of those Fly By Night stations
Back when I used to go across there, the FM band was very quiet indeed. Minster hadn't started - Viking was the local ILR. You could pick up radio Tees, which I think had been rebranded TFM by that point, Radio Aire and Metro.
I've a friend who's a York graduate (in the 80s, I assume) and was at the BBC for many years. He's now back up there working at the university, got some proper toe-curling stories about University Radio York which I won't repeat here, but told me that in addition to the internet, URY is now on FM and also a local DAB SFN with transmitters on York hospital and the university library which is a high point on the campus. These students are getting spoiled - in my era student radio was typically knackered ex-military gear modified for medium wave into leaky feeders and you were lucky if you could pick it up in the same building (unless it was snowing).
I thought of loads more anecdotes whilst writing this one but I'm off topic for this thread so I'll wind my neck in!
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Yeah ury dose have a low level signal, weak but consistent, was switched over from am to fm, took up the trial of lpfm, I don’t think any of the universities did so else were, they might of abandoned mw, they couldn't get offered the trial. Wonder if any of the people on yo1, yorvik, or yorkmix had anything to do with pirate radio in the past, or maybe its just google's ai thats making it seem they did.
My friend would think minster was a pirate, were there were dream must of been simliar strenght, did play some dance on evening, remember hearing jam and spoon right in the night, 2 in tent i go cleaning windows had on cd, had to go look it up again its so amusing, it had nice sounding audio too.
My friend would think minster was a pirate, were there were dream must of been simliar strenght, did play some dance on evening, remember hearing jam and spoon right in the night, 2 in tent i go cleaning windows had on cd, had to go look it up again its so amusing, it had nice sounding audio too.