Feb. 1971
* GBR. London. 92.4 mHz VHF. VHF FM broadcasts soon catch on, and soul station Radio Invicta starts using 94.8 mHz VHF weekday evenings. However, it is not initially on FM on this frequency, but AM using a modified PMR set…
* GBR. London. 94.4 FM. Another station, run by a TV engineer, Abe Cohen, Radio Aquarius, starts broadcasts, and forms the LTIR, or London Transmitter of Independant Radio. This is to involve other stations, but unlike Radio Free London and the Helen Broadcasting Network, all these stations come from the one transmitter, not various different ones that turned on and off in turn and could only be heard in different places. Relaying has come of age. Stations thus relayed include: Radio Jackie, Radio Star, Radio London Underground [RLU], JFM [Which grew out of the Jackie VHF Saturday night service], Radio Classic and Radio Odyssey [Ideally I would like start dates and end dates of these stations]
Feb. 1977
* GBR. London. 1358 kHz MW. Around this time, LMR starts suffering from internal divisions, and is soon to close down. However, this only happens a few Sundays after two different ‘LMR’s appear on the same day, one from the Usual Sundridge Park site and the other from Mottingham!
* FIN. 6255 kHz SW. Weekends. Radio Red Lion starts broadcasting. It only lasts a few weeks. [where can I find out more about this, and other Finnish stations?]
Feb. 1978
* The following stations are noted by this month in Cleveland, North East UK: –
IRL. 263m MW [1140 kHz]. Radio Seagull, running 15 watts
IRL. Dublin. 257m MW [1167 kHz]. Alternative Radio Dublin
GBR. Isle of Wight. 227m MW [1321 kHz]. Radio Kathy, running 15 watts
GBR. London. 227m MW [1321 kHz]. Radio Jackie, running 300 watts plus
IRL. 227m MW [1321 kHz]. Radio Pandora, running 20 watts
IRL. Dublin. 222m MW. [1351 kHz]. Weekend Music Radio, 08:00-11:00
IRL. Clonmel. 220m MW [1363 kHz]. Radio Clonmel. Sundays 14:00-20:00
IRL. Dublin. 217m MW [1382 kHz]. East Coast Radio, Saturday afternoons from 15:00, running 60 watts
[???]. 6200 kHz SW. Free Radio Broadcasting Company, claiming to be the best Free Radio station in Europe, 10:00-12:00 Sundays
[???]. 6220 kHz SW. West European Radio with a weak signal
IRL. 6220 or 6230 kHz SW. SBSS (Skull and Bones Radio System) running 50 watts
DEN. 6225 or 6240 kHz SW. Danish station Radio Viking, running 50 watts.
GBR. 6235 kHz SW. Radio Sunshine International 11:00-13:00 Sundays, also on MW and FM
GBR. 6250 kHz SW. Radio Corsair mornings before Skyport Radio start broadcasts
GBR. 6250 kHz SW. Skyport Radio, on air after Radio Corsair finishes
GBR. 6270 kHz SW. Radio Zodiac International
GBR. 6270 kHz SW. Britain Radio International.11:00-12:30 Sundays, running 50 watts.
GBR. 6280 kHz SW. Radio Solent City
DEN? 6285 kHz SW. Radio Domingo, running 60 watts, Danish maildrop
GBR. London. 90.4 FM. Thameside Radio, Sundays 19:00-20:00
GBR. London. 92.8 FM. Radio Telstar South, 19:00-20:00 Sundays
GBR. London. 94.2 FM. Radio Invicta, Sundays 12:00-15:00
Feb. 1981
* GBR. West Midlands. 94.2 FM. UK Radio acquires a 20-watt FM rig; Paul Johnson and David leave Radio Free Birmingham, and Nigel Gordon joins the team. The station broadcasts alternate Sundays, 19:00-23:00. During one of these broadcasts, which were sited at the time in a field near Rubery, the farmer chases Paul and Steve Merrick off his land with a shotgun! He then threatens to call the police, but Paul and Steve have gone before they turn up. Steve leaves a shoe behind, stuck in the mud [which alternate Sundays? one date will be enough to fix this]
* GBR. Colchester. This month Red Fox Radio closes down. Garry Lee goes to look for a better rig.
Feb. 1982
* GBR. Merseyside. 999 kHz MW. Radio Alpine is noted on air in this month, this station broadcasts 12:00-18:00 Mondays to Fridays, sometimes later with guest DJs [When did this end?]
Feb. 1986
* BEL. The Radio Delmare transmitter remains off the air this month, Free Radio Service Holland negotiates relays with two Irish stations, Radio Rainbow International and International Radio Relay Service [IRRS], Rainbow will relay 1 hour on the 2nd Sunday of the month, and IRRS will broadcast 3 hours each on the 3rd and 4th Sundays
* GBR. Wolverhampton. 105.0 FM. UK Radio makes a few tests on this frequency this month. [do dates for these broadcasts exist?]
* GBR. London. 93.0 FM. Alices Restaurant is on air this month, it had planned to close down around Christmas but is now planning to close in Easter. [what dates was it on?]
* GBR. London. 94.3 FM. RFM moves channel from 90.2 mHz. Arthur Burton joins
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