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Please
help
to move the Ross Revenge
It is hoped that all the
"Radio Caroline" Facebook group members
and Woodley Net visitors will sign
a petition to Gravesham Borough
Council. This is to help
persuade the Council to agree to
allowing the Ross to move over to
Gravesend side
side of the river. It is a
"Riverside Heritage Town" but have
little or nothing moored on the river
front. It would be a great move
and bring many many visitors to the town
and visit The Ross Revenge.
If the petition contains more than 1500
signatures it will be automatically
debated by the Full Council. This means
that the issue raised in the petition
will be discussed at a meeting which all
councillors can attend
One of the best Christmas presents
you could give and wont cost you a penny
is to sign and ask family & friends to
sign too. The link is on your left
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 Getting
ready for new mast on the "Ross"
Lee Shuttlewood and Graham Coull
doing a great job preparing one of the
mounts for the new mast on the Ross Revenge.
Also an old generator was removed.
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Presenters returning to Caroline
Radio Caroline is delighted to announce
the return to the airwaves of two former
presenters. Steve Silby has been with
them on and off since their days at sea
and returns on Friday, 23rd December for
a regular programme between 2 and 6pm on
Friday afternoons. Nick Jackson, also a
veteran of their offshore days, makes
his second comeback over recent years.
He'll be rejoining them in early January
to present a programme between 3 and 5pm
on Saturday afternoons. Also welcome
back is Clive Derek to the team. Clive's
voice will be familiar to some as he has
appeared on many of Caroline's
commercials. He also did a show for them
during the last August Bank Holiday
broadcast from Ross Revenge. You'll be
able to hear Clive on Saturday evenings
between 5 and 8pm from early in the New
Year.
Message from Radio Caroline
"While the cost of our splendid new
tower will be borne with the kind help
of Radio Structures Ltd and Lockyer
Motors, the work will span many days or
weeks and our generators will have to
run day and night. Help us fill this
Lintons Fuel Tanker with Marine Gas Oil
to keep us running. In these tough times
fuel is costing around 75p a Litre. Any
donation would be appreciated. The more
generous you can be, the sooner the
tanker will head for Tilbury Docks to
refuel us. Our friends at Linton Fuel
Oils are in their fifth year of
supplying fuel to Ross Revenge."
If you can help please use button
below and click on the "Help fuel our
ship!" tab
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<<< Dismantling the
Ross Revenge masts begins Another
restoration weekend in early December on board the Ross Revenge in
Tilbury docks. Working on the mast can be a bit unnerving
but not for Jeremy Chartham who can be seen well strapped into his
boatswain's chair. This is believed to be the start of the
dismantling process. The generator room is also getting plenty of
action with the intention of installing the new generator.
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Radio
Caroline presenters visit Southampton Support group
meeting
The latest Radio Caroline Southampton
support group meeting took place at the
Netley Victoria Club, Netley Abbey on
Wednesday 30th November. We were pleased
that the Sponsor of the 60s and 70s show
Peter Smith made the long journey from Essex
to see us. We were also delighted to meet
three of Radio Caroline’s DJs Peter Antony,
Mike Brill and Ray Copeland who told us lots
of interesting stories about their early
days in radio. Albert and Georgina Hood
again brought along a great selection of
Caroline merchandise to sell including lots
of Caroline Christmas cards and Alan Beech
gave an update of the restoration work on
the Ross Revenge. It was also nice to see
Mike Mack from the local station Skyline
Gold who spoke briefly about Simon Dee’s
visit to his station just before he passed
away. Thanks to everyone that came along at
a busy time of year and for helping us to
raise more money for the restoration of
Radio Caroline’s ship the Ross Revenge. Our
next meeting will take place next March and
we welcome anyone that would like to join
us.
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<<< Mandy's time at
Radio Day A good friend of ours Mandy
Marton was at Radio Day in Holland recently, where she met up with
many friends of offshore radio days. Friends included Theo Bakker,
Tommy Gerrard, Roger Taylor, Richard Kuttschreutter and Fleur
Nooteboom. You can see photos Mandy sent us by clicking thumbnail on
your left.
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Caroline's new audio stream
Radio Caroline has recently opened up a
new high quality 128 kbps. mp3 stream.
All the other streams are still
available including the high quality 96k
aac plus stream but this new stream
makes it even easier to listen to your
favourite station. Users of the new
Radio Player will immediately
benefit as the new 128k stream is now
available as well as the existing 64k .
See link above
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<<< Spick & Span
Overdrive Studio Pictures from Stewart
Coleman of Ross studios and storage area after the clean and polish
by Stewart and Lawrence Scordellis on weekend, October 2nd
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Anorak Man
Don't forget Roland's Anorak Man page for views and articles
about gadgets, TV and radio including latest from Radio
Seagull...
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Caroline's new studio equipment Photos
of Caroline's recently installed mixing desk
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 Please
help Radio Caroline
During 2011 Peter Clayton the ships
engineer and the volunteer crew have had
to undertake urgent work to repair and
strengthen the inner hull of The Ross
Revenge as well as continuing the
ongoing work to preserve the ship and
keep her fit for her regular broadcasts.
You can read a full report on the story
as it developed in The September /
October HORIZON. The work has involved
lying in a restricted space in the
bottom of the ship carefully loosening
rust with a kitchen spatula. This was
very dirty work made more difficult by
having to wear dust masks and goggles in
the dusty atmosphere. The rust then had
to be collected, put into tins and
carried up several ladders to the deck.
HOW YOU CAN HELP...
The cost, of
steel, fuel, welding rods, cutting
disks, welding gas and paint has been
considerable. If you would like to make
a donation you can donate by post with a
cheque or Postal Order made out to
‘Radio Caroline Society’, The Barn,
Corner Farm, Brough, NEWARK NG23 7QB
Making a donation
is not as arduous as lying in the bottom
of the ship, loosening sheets of rust
using a kitchen spatula, but it will
make us feel as though we are all in
this together!
You can also use
the donation buttons on the
Horizon site
which are linked to The Radio Caroline
Society. YOU DO NOT NEED TO HAVE A
PAYPAL ACCOUNT TO USE YOUR CARD. All
donations will automatically be
acknowledged by a return email as a
donation to help restore The Ross
Revenge. All profits from the web shop
(entirely run by unpaid volunteers like
HORIZON) are also used to keep Radio
Caroline’s Radio Ship Ross Revenge
berthed, fuelled, insured & preserved
for the future.
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 Surrey Anoraks
Society
Just to let you know that
the Surrey Anorak's Society (formerly the Caroline
Movement East Surrey Branch) still meets on
the first Tuesday of every month. The new venue
is the Toby Inn & Carvery, Redstone Hill,
Surrey, RH1 4BL
from 8.30pm. Next meeting is November 1st.
Venue on Google
The meetings have been held
every month since January 1985. A chance to
have a drink, meet old friends or new and talk
about radio. Meet old land based pirate DJs,
and a few of the crew of Susy Radio - Reigate
and Redhill community radio).
They produce their own newsletter
SAS Interference (formerly the SAS Home Pages.
The SAS now has its own website
sasradiogroup.org Info
from Graham Foy
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Three
new presenter interviews
Three new presenter interviews have just been added to Woodley Net.
Roland interviews Doug Wood, Ray Copeland and Ted Elliott. To read
these very interesting revelations of Radio Caroline presenters
please click
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Caroline at the Cambridge Rock Festival ♫
Roland Beaney reports..
For several years now Radio Caroline have been present at the
Cambridge Rock festival, this year was no exception. It was held at
the Haggis Farm Polo club at Barton. Pandora, Phil Meek, Graham
Coull, Crispin Bardsley, Lee Shuttlewood, Barry James, John (Jazzy
Pants) Patrick were there representing the broadcasting and Ross
Revenge restoration crews.
Graham Coull who is now a member of
the broadcasting team as well as a member of the restoration crew
reports on the festival below. His full report can be found in the
next edition of Horizon magazine. For details of how to subscribe to
Horizon visit
http://www.horizonmagazine.co.uk/
Graham Coull reports
Once again, a motley crew of Caroline
folk (in JP's case the 'motley' was literally true!) gathered at
Haggis Farm, for the Cambridge Rock Festival. I missed the dodgy
weather of Thursday arriving just in time on Friday for John Otway's
set. The crowds built up steadily on Saturday and the Radio Caroline
stall did steady business as we spread the word. Prog-rockers Panic
Room played a splendid set, but the highlight of the weekend for me
was Chantel McGregor, a young Yorkshire lass from Bradford who plays
rock-blues guitar exceedingly well! The Caroline team enjoyed
themselves thoroughly and would like to thank everyone who took the
time to come and visit us on the Caroline stall for all their good
will and support. Thanks to CRF boss Dave Roberts and his
hard-working team for putting on another great Festival, we are
already looking forward to even bigger and better things next year!
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No more SKY CHANNEL 0199
 Radio
Caroline have now been removed from
the
SKY 0199 Electronic Programme Guide.
You will still be
able to listen to the station on Sky
and Freesat but you will have to
tune manually. Details
can be found on
www.radiocaroline.co.uk . Radio
Caroline are asking listeners who
are affected by the closure of the
SKY 0199 service to send your
contact details to
skyepg@radiocaroline.co.uk
or send them along with an SAE to
Radio Caroline, PO Box 318, SM6 6B
The manual tuning details for basic
Sky box are set
out below
(1 To
store Caroline)
First press the Services
button on your Sky remote then
select option 4 "system
set up" then select option 4 "Add Channels" on the next list, then
type in the Frequency 11428,
then
Polarisation H, then symbol rate
27.5, and finally FEC 2/3
then scroll down to "Find channels"
and press select to see the list of
channels being broadcast from the
transponder. Highlight Radio Caroline from the
list, and press the Yellow button to
store.
As instructed on screen press select
twice. Then you press back up button
three times to return to normal TV.
(2 To
listen to Caroline)
First press the Services
button on your Sky remote then
select option 7 "Other
Channels" and you should see Radio
Caroline in the list. Highlight Caroline and
press select to listen. Once you
have added the channel you only need
to do the second part to tune in
after that or until Sky change the
settings which they do from time to
time.
I've
just tried the HD box and its very
similar. Services, add channels and
don't forget to press the yellow
button to select the channel and
then store. After that you go to
added channels and select.
If you need help with tuning Radio
Caroline on your Sky box please
contact me. There is a problem with
certain boxes such as the Pace Sky
plus box but I would be interested
in details of any other problems you
may have.
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Caroline's Fair's Fair campaign changing
Radio Caroline has, after discussions
with politicians and media
practitioners, decided to change the
objective of the Fair's Fair campaign.
The station has been calling on Ofcom to
treat the station as a special case and
be allowed a licence to transmit its
programmes on medium wave to the south
east of the UK. Now its calling on Ofcom
to find a frequency, advertise its
availability and give the station a
chance to apply. Please go to the
campaign website, by clicking the link
below, for full details and how you can
help.
www.RadioCarolineOnAir.com
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January,
February "Horizon
Magazine"
Issue No 141 of the long running Radio
Caroline fans magazine includes..
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Every issue brings you news, memories and great
photos. If you have news, photos, Memories or comments
on Caroline or Free Radio please do get in touch
contactbill@horizonmagazine.co.uk
Click
HERE for details
Download
Horizon Magazine Example (PDF)
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Radio Caroline on
your mobile phone..
Enjoy Radio Caroline on your mobile phone. VirtualRadio
contains hundreds of Internet radio stations from all over the world
and Radio Caroline is among them. VirtualRadio is a radio player for
Symbian and Android phones including the Nokia 5800. It is an application
that you can install on your mobile phone like a game or any other application.
You have the option of directly connecting to the Internet by using
Wi-Fi (WLAN or hotspots) so that you can hear radio without being charged
by your mobile phone operator or it connects to the Internet through
your mobile phone operator's network and links to more than 1500 radio
stations from all over the world.
Click and Play! VirtualRadio is based on one single
basic functionality: playing a given set of Internet radio channels.
Just start up the player and it immediately starts playing audio. There
is no need to define play lists or find and type in URL's. All you have
to do is select from a given set of channels: Click and play! It’s easy.
Radio Caroline can be found by pressing select and it can be found in
the Pop, Top 40,Various group.
The application can be found on the following link
and you can download it to your PC or MAC and transfer it to your mobile.
http://www.vradio.org/radiostations.php
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Tom Anderson
visits the Mi-Amigo
Did you watch "Coast" on
BBC2 recently? It featured Tom Anderson and
the Mi Amigo in it's resting place. Watch the
video by clicking
HERE
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Another mystery photograph. Can anyone identify
the people in this photo and the date it was
taken?
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size
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Harry makes the news...
from the Sunday Times By Jonathan Leake and Jack
Grimston 15 August 2010
From pirates to poltergeists. A ghost
called Harry has apparently been haunting a ship that
once housed Radio Caroline, the illegal pop music station.
The spirit is said to have been seen flitting upstairs
and has been blamed for pranks such as tapping crew
members on the shoulder and stealing their tea.
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antics have been reported by enthusiasts restoring the
MV Ross Revenge, from where Radio Caroline made its
final offshore broadcast in 1990. The ghost stories
have been logged by Kimberley Peters, a researcher at
Royal Holloway, London University, who will present
her findings next month to the Royal Geographical Society.
One crew member told Peters: "I've
had several encounters with Harry. My first one goes
back to 2004. Having finished work, we were sitting
in the studio having a beer when we heard footsteps.
"I looked up just in time to see
someone coming round the landing and going round the
next set of stairs to the bridge. When we went to investigate,
no one was there and downstairs the doors were still
bolted."
Peters believes the hauntings could
be a psychological reaction driven by the nostalgia
of the restorers for the ship's history. "I cannot say
whether such ghostly experiences were real, but they
were real enough for the crew members who experienced
them," said Peters. "Underlying it is a very real sense
of seeing apparitions, conveying something else, like
lost heritage."
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How to build a AM
Frame / Loop Aerial
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The picture shows a design for an aerial that was
very popular in Radio Caroline's AM days when they
were broadcasting from the North Sea and it pulled
in a good signal over a wide area.
How to build a Frame / Loop Aerial
This aerial replaces the long wire and is very compact
and and can conveniently sit next to the radio and
as long as the radio has its own built in ferrite
rod aerial, no connections to the set are needed.
It is directional and after tuning in the aerial,
it can moved in different directions to cancel out
interference.
Materials needed
6 ft of 1 and a quarter inch timber 100 ft of single
plastic coated wire 1 x 400pf variable tuning capacitor
8 large rubber door stops screws, wire clips and
solder
Assembly
Cut timber into two lengths of 25 inches and four
lengths of 5 inches and assemble the frame as per
the drawing. Where the wire goes round the corners
cut 16 evenly spaced grooves (17 on the corner where
the wire starts and finishes) the wire must start
and finish on the same corner.
Tack the start of the wire onto the frame and start
winding it on, keeping each turn nice and tight.
When you have 16 turns of wire on the frame bring
the wire back down the same leg you started on and
make secure with tacks.
Solder the two ends of wire onto the two terminals
of the tuning capacitor, it does not matter which
one goes where just as long as they are well soldered.
The capacitor should be fixed with araldite or similar
in the corner.
Fix the rubber feet as on the diagram.
The aerial is now ready for use. Try different positions
for the frame as all sets have their ferrite rods
aerials in different places.
Good luck with this, we would appreciate any comments
on the construction.
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Radio Caroline
on your i-Pod or MP3 Player
Nearly all Radio Caroline shows are downloadable
from the Azanorak2 website. This will enable
you to listen to Radio Caroline on your i-Pod or
MP3 player. Just go to the Azanorak website and
download the show you want. This will be in a Zip
format. Click "Azanorak MP3 Recordings Archive"
link above. When you extract the MP3 and you are
asked for a password enquire at the
Radio Caroline Yahoo Mailinglist
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