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Offline fpeconsultant

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Radio Aquarius
« on: July 02, 2022, 1647 UTC »
https://hackaday.com/2022/06/28/an-epic-tale-of-pirate-radio-in-its-golden-age/

Six part series on Radio Aquarius from the early 70s.
Was a treat to watch.
This is when pirates were f*cking pirates!
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Re: Radio Aquarius
« Reply #1 on: July 04, 2022, 1843 UTC »
Thanks for posting this! In the '90s, I read a long, multi-part story about the station history from one of the Radio Aquarius ops. I wrote to the author at the time & he'd hoped to write & publish a book about it. I thought it was really amazing stuff (and still do)
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Re: Radio Aquarius
« Reply #2 on: July 05, 2022, 0034 UTC »
Andy,
You’re welcome - it’s a great series of videos.  True pioneers.  They were incredibly bold - at one point going back on the air the day after getting the knock.  And their cat & mouse game with Gordon of the PO is like a Monty Python sketch.
Hope you are well.
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