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Old 29th Sep 2018, 11:31 pm   #33
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Default Re: 'Danger Man' aboard the estuary forts (Radio 390)

I'm sure it was Radio Caroline which was 'your all day music station' and, in the early days they closed down at 6PM each evening. Radio 390 , which always put a good strong signal into North Oxfordshire, no doubt because of it's relatively low frequency and (relatively again) high powered transmitter c/w a more efficient aerial than on the ship-based stations. As an aside, how many frequencies used by the pirates were later adopted by the I.B.A. and it's successors for local radio - 773kHz, later 774kHz (388M) R. 390's actual frequency, certainly was. Severn Sound in Gloucester were allocated that channel, which is still used today by, I think, Smooth Radio in the same area.
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