Friday, May 27, 2011

Bank Holiday Weekend 30 May 2011

Merseyland Alternative Radio (MAR) raided

This statement has appeared in the British DX Club Journal, 'Communication'

"Sorry to all of our faithful listeners for the lack of any AM transmissions from late afternoon onwards on Saturday 14th May, but unfortunately one of the MAR transmitter locations (on 1314 AM) was raided by Ofcom and a lot of expensive equipment was seized. As a precaution our other AM transmitter location (on 1395 AM) was switched off. For the rest of the weekend we continued on the web only via our streams. For at least the next couple of weekends we will probably be on via our web streams only. So please understand this, MAR hasn't gone away and programmes will continue and hopefully we will be back on the AM band very soon. It's just that once you lose a good transmitter location they are very hard to replace and there aren't that many volunteers!

MAR would like to thank all of its regular listeners and please let it be known that your support is most appreciated. As we keep saying 'your texts and emails are our wages, we don't get paid for doing any of this1 and indeed it costs a small fortune to run MAR, so please keep on listening and please keep supporting one of the last few remaining traditional old style AM land based pirates in the UK! Thank you.

MAR's web streams are available via the website: http://www.mar.me.uk . Please sign our guestbook if you visit. Email us; mar@rock.com Text us; 07504464678. MAR broadcasts in the spirit of the original offshore stations including Radio Caroline and Big L. Please join us every weekend." (MARkrew14May)

Gary Phillips

The Merseypirates Forum: (http://www.merseypirates.co.uk/forum/viewtopic.php?f=3&t=240&sid=8231966e270184cf4479f8bfd0a02dea )

MAR have since returned on 105 with separate progs with Bert Williams 29/5 @ 1751

100.8 Central Radio also made an appearance on Monday 30 May from 0930 to 0100

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