D Bullock Q102 102MHz 90s

[FMEnjoyer]

D Bullock coming up with good recordings again, shout to the man like D Bullock, maybe he will create an account and reply

They were and Indie rock station.

This was a pirate that came on 102FM in London and Veronica supergold or Radio Veronica was not very happy so they traced their link to studio and overpowered it and said they needed to sort the situation out, I can remember listening in. So they shared it over the weekend. Nice to see stations were cooperating as well and nicking each other equipment and threatening each other.

I also recall GS and someone called Iain St John - If I recall correctly using a FM rig on a block with 2 remote links presumably using tones or something to trigger the rig on and off and having a chat to each other across london, I guess testing 2 different studios ability to switch rig on and swap studios mid transmission. Pirates were so clever.

[jvok]

Didnt q102 become xfm and went legal? Now radio x

[FMEnjoyer]

You may well be right there jvok, the music policy was indeed similar. Radio was absolutely buzzing in those days. It was really exciting and I was always trying to improve reception and put wires all over the place trying to bring in tiny staticy signals.Especially when they bled over each other trying to null one station out a bit.FM pirating you never knew what you were going to get, in the digital world it is all drip fed to you. Boring, little choice and actually it is dictated what you see and hear cause you are tracked. Dangerous times when people get stuck in their own effed up echo chambers on social media never exposed to differing views which is what makes moderate minds.

Radio on FM was a choice you could go anorak or listen to your favourite stations playing a very wide range of music, rave, indie, oldies, soul, funk. You never knew when a new station was going to appear, you scanned back and forth across the dial with great focus.
I know it is a bit old git like but it was fun, exciting and I miss it.