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Easter Caroline North Broadcast Radio Caroline North's three day Easter broadcast has now ended, it was live from the radio ship the Ross Revenge in the River Blackwater. You heard some great music from the 60s to 90s – plus a chance to win a rugged Mesqool AM/FM radio in this month's competition draw.
Winners of the Mesqool AM/FM radio were:- John LaRivierre from Luton, Beds Jenny Williams from Hyde, Tameside James Nigel Benn from Neston, Cheshire
Presenters onboard included Peter Phillips, Johnny Lewis, Keith Rogers, Richard Jackson, Chris Pearson and Kevin Turner. They loved hearing from you during the broadcast via north@radiocaroline.co.uk and remember, it was the only email address that got you straight through to the North' broadcasters.
The Spirit of the 70s 2026 For three days recently, Radio Caroline brought back the spirit of the station between 1976 and 1980 with a final Spirit of the 70s broadcast. Once again some of the boys from those golden years were back aboard the current ship remembering the sinking of the previous ship, the much loved Mi Amigo, and marking the start of the 24 hour English language broadcasts which started 50 years ago this May. The final Spirit of the 70s was live from 7am on Friday 20th of March until Sunday evening on Sunday 22nd March.
The latest Southampton Support Group meeting was on Wednesday the 18th of March, 7pm, at the Hamble Club, Beaulieu Road, Hamble-le-Rice, Southampton. Unfortunately guest presenter and former Caroline 558 DJ Tim Allen, couldn't make the venue. He was the presenter who was on board Ross Revenge the night the 300ft mast came down. There was also a chance to win vouchers to visit the ship! Entry was a £10 donation, including buffet, with proceeds to the Ross Revenge Charity Dry Dock Appeal. Hopefully photos and report to follow. Southampton Caroline Supporters
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Radio Caroline new presenter Please give a warm Caroline welcome to their newest presenter Laura Pursey! They are pleased to announce that Laura has joined their broadcast team and you can catch her every Thursday from 7pm - 9pm Laura began her radio career at the age of 14 presenting on her local community radio station and on hospital radio. She’s also worked on Mi-Soul and FUBAR Radio. Laura took a break from radio in 2016 but became involved again a couple of years ago on Caroline Coastal. She has always had a keen interest in Radio Caroline and has broadcast from Ross Revenge Get in touch here - laurapursey@radiocaroline.co.uk Laura takes over the Thursday evening show from Josh Holmes-Bright, who is stepping back to concentrate on his broadcasting career. Josh will still be around and we wish him all the best
Radio Caroline now available on Freeview TV Radio Caroline is now available on Freeview compatible TVs, via the UK Radio Portal on Freeview Channel 277. UK Radio Portal is an interactive TV service designed to deliver radio channels to the UK Digital Terrestrial TV Freeview network via an easy-to-use interface accessible from channel 277 on the Freeview Programme Guide. Radio Caroline currently covers only England. The service works on compatible internet connected smart TVs, (such as Freeview Play), allowing listeners to access radio services without forcing them to leave the familiar surroundings of their main TV screen and Freeview menu. Freeview Play is built in to the majority of new TVs and available to viewers for free, with no monthly fees or joining costs. To access Radio Caroline on Freeview Channel 277 Please ensure that you have the following: A compatible Freeview TV or set-top-box A broadband Internet connection A TV or set-top-box that is connected to the Internet A TV or set-top-box that is connected to a UK Freeview/DTT (Digital Terrestrial TV) aerial NOT AVAILABLE IN THE HAMPSHIRE AREA VIA THE ROWBRIDGE TRANSMITTER
Ross Revenge on "Yesterday" TV Studio equipment from Radio Caroline’s former pirate radio ship Ross Revenge featured in an episode of a new TV show called Retro Electro Workshop on the Yesterday channel recently. The ten-part series about the dying art of repairing electronics is fronted by super-fixer Rob Howard. In the show he and his team find, fix, restore and revive ‘anything old with a plug on it’. Report from Brian Bailey Anyone tuning in the UK TV Play to the Yesterday channel, and viewing the new "Retro Electro Workshop" series, would be transported back to those various past decades. When various items of household electronic gadgets were used daily, until they could no longer be repaired, or were thrown out to make way for all the modern gadgets. The second program shows Rob taking a trip out to the Radio Caroline's ship "Ross Revenge" to fix a few studio Items in the old studio. The first item was one of the turntables, which needed some general maintenance work, with the cleaning of the major mechanical parts. The idler wheel had built up a deposit of rubber and dirt after years of use. Like a magician, Rob pulled out from his "retro tool box" some cotton wool buds and a bottle of isopropyl alcohol to clean various mechanical parts, thus restoring the turntable back to its fully working state. The next item was a faulty "spot master" jingle machine, that had no audio output. This needed to be taken back to Rob's workshop as the fault was more involved, before leaving the Ross, Rob looked around in the transmitter room to see if there was another faulty "spot master" to use for spare parts. Rob was in luck, he found two faulty machines, so selecting the better one, Rob then headed back on the tender with the spot master machines. Back in the workshop, Rob started to dismantle the spot masters (which were built to a very high standard, typical of equipment made in the USA), after removing a shielding screen, the electronic printed circuit panels could be accessed. Each of the PCB's could be identified by the labels indicating what function they preformed. The audio PCB was swapped from the other spot master machine, which identified where the fault was located. Rob then went about locating which electronic component had failed by swapping over the various Integrated Circuits “Chips” that plugged into their respected sockets! After a short while, the faulty chip was located! Which no doubt could be still obtained from companies that specialized in retro components. Then another trip back out to the Ross with the repaired spot master jingle machine, helped by Dave Foster the machine was re-installed back into the retro studio and back in action! It was interesting to contrast the technology in for repair at Robs workshop, from a 1930s/40's Defiant Valve Radio, to the 1980s Radio Caroline "Spot Master" jingle machine to the Sinclair C5. The series is well worth watching. Regards, Brian Bailey The episode featuring Radio Caroline is now available here on demand via "UK TV Play". Radio Caroline has arrived on YouTube!
The official Radio Caroline YouTube channel is now up and running, giving you the opportunity to watch exclusive content including behind-the-scenes action from weekends on board the Ross Revenge, interviews with musical guests and members of the team, and much more! Check out the first video where Josh Holmes-Bright welcomes you to the channel and with the help of this months crew, shows you how they set up for North weekends. Don't forget to ‘Like, Subscribe and Share’ now!
Ross Revenge Dry Docking Appeal
Ross Revenge presently moored on the River Blackwater. You can help Radio Caroline secure the future of their much-loved radio ship for years to come by donating to the Ross Revenge dry docking appeal via their charity website rossrevenge.com Just hit the 'Donate' button. Donations of any amount are gratefully received and all money goes towards getting the Ross into dry dock for essential work
Alan Watts support for the RNLI
Alan Watts was an avid listener and was so moved by the bravery of the RNLI Sheerness lifeboat crew who rescued his DJ heroes he became a lifelong supporter. He has since included the RNLI in his Will to support our lifesaving work – find out more about leaving a legacy here: https://rnli.org/support-us Watch Alan's video
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Radio Caroline's successful oil rig lifeboat conversion aptly named the "Ronan O'Rahilly" Thanks to the generosity of helper the late Roland Beaney and his wife Viv from Romsey in Hampshire, Caroline now have their own lifeboat. They purchased an enclosed oil rig lifeboat, which was then brought by road from Aberdeen to Essex and taken to a work shed. Various helpers stripped out the boat and Steve Anthony and Peter Moore removed the top. Assisted in the later stages by Pete Crisp and Howard Beer, and rewired by George Johnson and David Noakes. The boat was then rebuilt as shown below. In view of the sad passing this year of their founder and figurehead Ronan, the craft was appropriately named Ronan O'Rahilly. She has now been launched.
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Johnny Walker
March 2026
Caroline Southampton Support Group Meeting
40
years ago, Radio Caroline broadcast from the Mi Amigo for the last time
when a storm sank the pirate radio vessel. 
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The
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. 