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I've heard about a Christmas Tape that went out after closedown, and also the Plympton relay station (which serves a large chunk of Plymouth) having its RBL feed from Caradon Hill replaced (after closedown) by a pirate transmission of a Christmas Tape. The former would/could have gone out on the entire SW tx network, but surely the IBA monitoring centre would have seen it, and cut the tx remotely ? The latter would have been a VHS machine, feeding a UHF 'burner' somewhere near the Plympton relay station so the RBL aerials picked up the signal. Never seen any definite news on whether that was the same incident, or whether it/they happened at all ?
There was a pirate TV channel in Birmingham, that used to occupy BBC 2's UHF frequency after closedown.
No BBC equipment was hi-jacked as such, they just used a VHS machine etc feeding a Tx on top of a tower block somewhere.
That's the incident I was thinking of.
I have heard about a similar taking over of an RBS/L link happening with one of TSWs transmitters after closedown. I think it was the same incident that was reported as being an engineer at the station watching something they shouldn't
I have heard about a similar taking over of an RBS/L link happening with one of TSWs transmitters after closedown. I think it was the same incident that was reported as being an engineer at the station watching something they shouldn't
I've heard about a Christmas Tape that went out after closedown, and also the Plympton relay station (which serves a large chunk of Plymouth) having its RBL feed from Caradon Hill replaced (after closedown) by a pirate transmission of a Christmas Tape. The former would/could have gone out on the entire SW tx network, but surely the IBA monitoring centre would have seen it, and cut the tx remotely ? The latter would have been a VHS machine, feeding a UHF 'burner' somewhere near the Plympton relay station so the RBL aerials picked up the signal. Never seen any definite news on whether that was the same incident, or whether it/they happened at all ?
There was a pirate TV channel in Birmingham, that used to occupy BBC 2's UHF frequency after closedown.
No BBC equipment was hi-jacked as such, they just used a VHS machine etc feeding a Tx on top of a tower block somewhere.