BRISTOL PIRATE RADIO RECORDINGS: Dutch Pirates

BRISTOL PIRATE RADIO RECORDINGS

This blog is intended for me to post my pirate radio recordings. Most of the recordings are from Bristol, most will be pirate but there will be some legal stations and stations from other cities or national stations.

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Tuesday, 19 March 2013

Dutch Pirates

As there is nothing to listen to close enough to hear on FM in Bristol, I've been turning to Short Wave and Medium Wave for the thrills. The pirates of Europe can be heard above 1602 AM (get a radio that allows you to change to the US MW band that runs all the way to 1710 AM and tune in 1kHz steps) and in various spots on SW. Of course, UK SW pirate Lazer Hot Hits is on SW too, on 4026kHz. Their signal isn't that strong in Bristol, but with a half decent aerial attached to the Tecsun I can hear them well enough to listen most of the time, when the dreaded interference isn't around.

That is exactly how I came across the Dutch tuner 'Ulft FM' on Global Tuners. I was actually looking to hear some MW action from closer to the source, but instead found that this tuner had FM presets for a number of Dutch FM pirates.

http://www.globaltuners.com/receiver/704/classic - You need an account!

Somebody on Radio Necks also posted this link - http://geheimezender.com/streams.php - which has a variety of streams of these pirates.

Anyway, here is a recording of one I made from the Ulft tuner....

Dutch Pirate - 96.7FM via Global Tuners, Reciever in Ulft, Gelderland - 18th March 2013 by Bristolpirates on Mixcloud

As you can hear, they like their traditional music in the Netherlands, and their Beer. Here is another less hectic clip from another one....

Dutch Pirate on 99.5FM via Global Tuners - "Ulft FM" Tuner - 19th March 2013 by Bristolpirates on Mixcloud