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<body class='hmmessage'><div dir='ltr'>Anyone who's visited Baldock will know that Ofcom can and does keep tabs on all UK broadcasters - legal and otherwise.<br>Because of imposed financial and manning restraints they have a priority system for dealing with pirates.<div>Those who aren't actually causing any interference - regardless of their illegality - get shoved to the back and effectively are rarely pursued.</div><div>It is totally irrelevant - and needn't have been mentioned at all - that other cities and countries don't have the problem.</div><div>We do - we have perfectly good legislation to deal with it - but the motivation, funding and support from H M G simply aren't there.</div><div>Write to your MP if you want this to change!<br><br><div><div style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34);font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:12.8000001907349px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:1;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);"><font size="3"><b>Ian Hickling</b><br></font></div><font style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:1;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);font-size:12pt;" size="3"><font style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34);background-color:rgb(255, 255, 255);">Partner</font></font><br><br><a href="http://www.transplanuk.com/" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17, 85, 204);"><img alt="" src="https://ci4.googleusercontent.com/proxy/2SkDsnIzSZgRbNnNKBSiwxiFhFQWRGV55mTjVL23fulnJpstZmYxeKrrYefY4qxiSgkMrAETld64XINLXCsujE_zI5gAsQyWeCWvHixcrNYtar3Sij4YlVBgN2NSQ-n2DsgZvrnpWZlfwCQ=s0-d-e1-ft#http://www.transplanuk.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/transplan_UK_weblogo_190x60.png"></a><div style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34);font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:12.8000001907349px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:1;word-spacing:0px;"><i><font size="3">Office: 01635 578435 (7am-11pm UK time)</font></i></div><div style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34);font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:12.8000001907349px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:1;word-spacing:0px;"><i><font size="3">Carphone: 07530 980115 (only responds when driving)</font></i></div><div style="color:rgb(34, 34, 34);font-family:arial, sans-serif;font-size:12.8000001907349px;font-style:normal;font-variant:normal;font-weight:normal;letter-spacing:normal;line-height:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;widows:1;word-spacing:0px;"><i><font size="3">6 Horn Street, Compton, NEWBURY, RG20 6QS</font></i></div></div><br><br><div><hr id="stopSpelling">Date: Tue, 7 Jul 2015 08:11:27 +0100<br>From: ravensound@pilgrimsound.co.uk<br>To: cma-l@mailman.commedia.org.uk<br>Subject: Re: [cma-l] Four hundred pirate radio setups shut down in London in just two years<br><br>
<div class="ecxmoz-cite-prefix">This is full of interesting bits:<br>
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"It's a big problem, especially in London," he said. "There are
about 70 active stations in the London area. In the whole of the
UK we've got something like just over 100.<br>
"From the enquiries we've carried out, this problem doesn't exist
in New York or Rome or Paris - it's a London phenomenon."<br>
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Maybe because in Rome and Paris the FM band is planned for the
city - not the surrounding countryside as it is in London?<br>
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Tony Bailey<br>
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On 06/07/15 18:08, Ian Hickling wrote:<br>
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<div dir="ltr">"........internet radio and the introduction of
community broadcasting licences have taken away some of the
incentive for pirates to broadcast........"?
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<div>Sorry - on which planet is this?<br>
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<div><b>Ian Hickling</b><br>
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<div><i>Office: 01635 578435 (7am-11pm UK time)</i></div>
<div><i>Carphone: 07530 980115 (only responds when driving)</i></div>
<div><i>6 Horn Street, Compton, NEWBURY, RG20 6QS</i></div>
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<hr id="ecxstopSpelling">From: <a class="ecxmoz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:cma-l@commedia.org.uk">cma-l@commedia.org.uk</a><br>
Date: Mon, 6 Jul 2015 11:40:18 +0100<br>
To: <a class="ecxmoz-txt-link-abbreviated" href="mailto:cma-l@commedia.org.uk">cma-l@commedia.org.uk</a><br>
Subject: [cma-l] Four hundred pirate radio setups shut down
in London in just two years<br>
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Regulators have raided nearly 400 suspected pirate
radio setups in London over the last two years, the
<a href="http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/four-hundred-pirate-radio-stations-shut-down-in-london-in-just-two-years-10362974.html" target="_blank">Standard</a> can reveal.<br>
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Figures released by Ofcom in response to a Freedom of
Information request show nearly a quarter of the raids
took place in Haringey, north London, while 90 resulted
in equipment being seized.<br>
Lambeth, south London, was the next biggest offender,
with more than 50 raids on suspected pirates between
April 2013 and March this year.<br>
The communications regulator says internet radio and the
introduction of community broadcasting licences have
taken away some of the incentive for pirates to
broadcast.<br>
But pirate stations remain a problem because they can
interfere with vital comms channels used by the
emergency services.<br>
"It's not about raising revenue," Clive Corrie, Ofcom's
head of spectrum enforcement, told the Standard. "It's
about protecting the spectrum from harmful interference.<br>
"Last year Ofcom received 53 complaints of interference
to aviation services - ground-to-air radio location and
radio navigation systems."<br>
Of the 53 complaints, 48 related to the London area.<br>
Mr Corrie added the problem was largely confined to the
capital, though the reason for this has experts at
something of a loss.<br>
"It's a big problem, especially in London," he said.
"There are about 70 active stations in the London area.
In the whole of the UK we've got something like just
over 100.<br>
"From the enquiries we've carried out, this problem
doesn't exist in New York or Rome or Paris - it's a
London phenomenon."<br>
The true figures are likely to be even higher - councils
don't have to tell Ofcom when they raid pirate radio
setups.<br>
Hackney Council revealed last month it had dismantled 29
masts and transmitters being used by pirate broadcasters
in 12 months - only five of which are recorded in the
FOI disclosure given to the Standard.<br>
Aviation doesn't use the same bandwidth as FM radio but
because the home-made transmitters are typically a dozen
times stronger than community radio equipment -
sometimes up to 300 Watts - and are often poorly
installed, they can inadvertently take over higher
frequencies.<br>
Corrie added pirates typically chose tower blocks on
high ground, and often hide equipment in lift shafts and
air vents - not just to stop authorities from getting to
it, but also to protect it from other pirate groups.
"It's a bit of a Wild West situation," he said.<br>
Among the council raids in Hackney this year was one on
the Summit Estate, Upper Clapton.<br>
Hackney's housing chief Cllr Philip Glanville said:
"Surprisingly, this type of activity is still quite
common, and can have an impact on the lives of our
residents."<br>
Three years ago, the Army inadvertently raided an
illegal dance music station in north-east London.<br>
Soldiers stumbled upon a group of "young men"
broadcasting from Highfield Towers in Collier Row as
they set up surveillance equipment ahead of the
Olympics.<br>
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Source: <a href="http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/four-hundred-pirate-radio-stations-shut-down-in-london-in-just-two-years-10362974.html" target="_blank">http://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/four-hundred-pirate-radio-stations-shut-down-in-london-in-just-two-years-10362974.html</a><br>
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