About Buzz FM :
Free radio. What does it mean?..A radio anorak?..Pirate
radio?
Since the age of 5, perhaps before that, the fascination of
radio has been in my blood. From a Gakkon Electronic 50 in1
kit, I built an AM broadcast station, which went the length
of our street, if we made the aerial around the same
length!! I thought it was great that I could tweak the
variable capacitor on the set and it would put a hetrodyne
on my fathers MW radio downstairs. I had aerial wire and
earth wire everywhere connected to the radiator pipes...etc
It went from that to walkie talkies which where great fun. I
could talk to my mate a few doors down.. We would try and
tweak them up and see how far they would go - 1/4 of a mile
at best. Then in the late 70s / early 80s, AM CB was the
thing. I could talk for miles, not just down the road, and
why was it, every now and then, I could hear strange
American voices talking that sounded gibberish ("19 a copy
good buddy ..rubber ducks, twigs, burners") In the mid 80s,
Radio Caroline, Laser558 and many happy memories of Radio
Luxembourg. Not to mention a mass of stations appearing on
45mtrs and 48mtrs SW. In 1985, an FM pirate appeared in
Nottingham. This was probably what gave me massive
inspiration. I had to find/build a transmitter. CB in those
days had become legalised on FM. Everybody had one in their
car, at home...and again during the sunspot, maximum
transatlantic and intercontinental calls could be made. I
was more interested in the SW stations, not just pirate, but
legal and hundreds of QSL cards where the result. I even
became the number 1 listener/dxer for Radio Bulgaria
International and got many mentions by them. I would be
their contact in England. Early 90s saw the dawn of more FM
pirate activity which was great. It was at that time that I
met the now called FRN.
1995 was the peak of our FM glory days with literally 100s
of listeners. In 1997, Buzz Fm took the brunt of a
devastating raid. FM days where never going be the same
again.. Outside broadcasts on FM soon dwindled and became
non existent.
SW outside broadcasting was to continue, and I gave a lot of
effort into listening to SW, but not with the same gusto as
in earlier years. RF transmitting has very very reluctantly
took a back burner. That is not to say I have lost any
enthusiasm for radio, in fact, completely the opposite. I
still have a passion for it and I know that all the other
lads in the group still have.
Internet transmitting comes no where near RF and never will
but it has a place, and until the powers that be put a stop
to it or start charging, WHICH IS ONLY A MATTER OF TIME, I
will continue.
THE ANSWER TO THE QUESTION" ABOUT US."...PEOPLE WITH THE
SAME PASSIONS AND THOUGHTS....TOP BLOKES AND GREAT MEMORIES.
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