02-12-2013, 11:14 AM
I suspect there were many people making off air recordings of the last day(s) of the pirates for nostalgic reasons. Some of these will have disappeared and several will have been transferred to CD/MP3.
A former work colleague found a set of tapes he'd made of the last whole day of Radio 270 off the coast of East Yorkshire. There were also recordings from early 1967 and 1966. I've transferred these to .wav format (about 25Gb in total). All that needs to be done is to clean them up.
I would think that recordings of the pirates other than the final day and of Radio Caroline or Radio London would be rarer. There were probably fewer people with the necessary recording equipment around in the sixties. Back then there were plenty of programmes I'd like to have recorded but couldn't afford the recorder. Now I've got the recorder but there's nothing I'd like to record!
Keith
A former work colleague found a set of tapes he'd made of the last whole day of Radio 270 off the coast of East Yorkshire. There were also recordings from early 1967 and 1966. I've transferred these to .wav format (about 25Gb in total). All that needs to be done is to clean them up.
I would think that recordings of the pirates other than the final day and of Radio Caroline or Radio London would be rarer. There were probably fewer people with the necessary recording equipment around in the sixties. Back then there were plenty of programmes I'd like to have recorded but couldn't afford the recorder. Now I've got the recorder but there's nothing I'd like to record!
Keith
