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<blockquote data-quote="kip" data-source="post: 465184" data-attributes="member: 261613"><p>I have a real claim to fame here, i was arrested for pirate radio in the early nineties .We started when i was only 15 and played taped programs on a walkman with a car battery powering the transmitter and yes we used the famous dipole.. We used to lug this stuff up a very large hill in brighton every week ( we must have been mad ).. The DTI (as it was then ) raided us a couple of times but we&nbsp; got away with it. We only got caught when we started transmitting from our bedrooms - all weekend sometimes.. It was quite a shock to have the DTI and police turn up with battering ram and all - they even called the fire brigade to take the dipole off the roof.. To make things worse my friends mum (from who's house we were broadcasting from that week) was in the bath at the time. Luckily i opened the front door before they knocked it down.. We were arrested and had all our gear confiscated apart from our records for some reason - in fact after our court case they even had to return the record that was on the turntable that they took (crazy)..We appeared before a magistrates court and were given a conditional discharge but still had to serve out a 5 year ban from broadcasting imposed by the DTI. This didnt stop us from going on to hold several RSL&nbsp; licenses though using a friend to hold the licence in his name. We only came unstuck when the same DTI officer that raided us turned up to inspect the transmitter and i was there on air. Unbelievably&nbsp; he turned a blind eye to me being there and the fact we were running 75 watts and not the 25 that we were licensed for&nbsp; -&nbsp; i guess once a pirate always a pirate - anyway ive properly bored u all to sleep with this so ill shut up now:-Cbigsmil</p></blockquote><p></p>

[QUOTE="kip, post: 465184, member: 261613"] I have a real claim to fame here, i was arrested for pirate radio in the early nineties .We started when i was only 15 and played taped programs on a walkman with a car battery powering the transmitter and yes we used the famous dipole.. We used to lug this stuff up a very large hill in brighton every week ( we must have been mad ).. The DTI (as it was then ) raided us a couple of times but we got away with it. We only got caught when we started transmitting from our bedrooms - all weekend sometimes.. It was quite a shock to have the DTI and police turn up with battering ram and all - they even called the fire brigade to take the dipole off the roof.. To make things worse my friends mum (from who's house we were broadcasting from that week) was in the bath at the time. Luckily i opened the front door before they knocked it down.. We were arrested and had all our gear confiscated apart from our records for some reason - in fact after our court case they even had to return the record that was on the turntable that they took (crazy)..We appeared before a magistrates court and were given a conditional discharge but still had to serve out a 5 year ban from broadcasting imposed by the DTI. This didnt stop us from going on to hold several RSL licenses though using a friend to hold the licence in his name. We only came unstuck when the same DTI officer that raided us turned up to inspect the transmitter and i was there on air. Unbelievably he turned a blind eye to me being there and the fact we were running 75 watts and not the 25 that we were licensed for - i guess once a pirate always a pirate - anyway ive properly bored u all to sleep with this so ill shut up now:-Cbigsmil [/QUOTE]

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