Talk:UKC Radio

History

I have re-written the first part of the history section which was completely wrong. Where on earth did the bit about the submarine transmitter feeding the radiators come from? I was in at the beginning, the original tests for radiator broadcasting were carried out from my room in Eliot N3N. As you can see from the references, it all happened in November 1967.(not 1966 as the University Archives like to claim). Happy days! UKC was the first University to offer Electronics as a science subject rather than an offshoot of electrical engineering so there were some very keen electronics enthusiasts there at the time.

Aurorawatcher (talk) 13:52, 6 May 2014 (UTC)

It's great to see this article here - I was a lat night music show presenter and technical operator back in 1975/1977. Like most people who became hooked on the station, I should have spent more time studying and less time in the bowels of Elliot having all-night sessions making jungle tapes and sound effects for radio plays and such (it was the only time we could use the big old Revox tape machine and the tape splicing equipment in Studio B). So...who remembers the "Doctor-X" show? I doubt anything like that would get aired these days!

Fun, fun, fun!

SteveBaker 18:27, 21 October 2007 (UTC)

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Added by SteveBaker (talk) 03:25, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

Frequency?

The article says that the original AM frequency was 301m, 999kHz - but we made a bunch of jingle tapes with the station call sign and such - and those definitely said 998kHz, 300m. I remember this because I was the tech operator who recorded a jingle against a piece of Bach harpsichord - which went:

"Nine nine eight - three oh oh,

nine nine eight - three oh oh,

you're in tune wi-ith you kay ce-e radi-o".

Which wouldn't have rhymed if it was "three oh one"! It's possible the frequency shifted at some time - but for sure, it was 998/300 in 1976 and 1977.

SteveBaker (talk) 22:35, 9 December 2010 (UTC)

We do need to reference the article to reliable written sources, not out own recollections. This is not to say that you are wrong, just that we can't rely on our own recollections. I was once told that the frequency was once slightly off 999Khz and was brought into alignment with the standard European pattern where all LW and MW frequencies are meant be divisible by 9. It was certainly on 999Khz by 1988 and the station phone's internal number was 3301 to match the wavelength. In practice, I'll bet the transmitter was never accurate enough for there to be a material difference between 998 and 999Khz. The difference is primarily one of branding.

I guess the best place we could find corroboration of this is in the licensing documents. I am not sure if these are readily available. This is a long time prior to the Ofcom website. Next best would be any old student newspapers or any other coverage of student radio. --DanielRigal (talk) 23:06, 9 December 2010 (UTC)

You're certainly right about needing references for contentious data - but the original 301/999 numbers were also completely unreferenced. So there isn't much to choose. I think I have a student radio handbook from that era with news from a bunch of student radio stations - I bet that has the UKC Radio frequency in it. Now...which box full of garage crap is it in?!?  :-)

The Bach music in the Jingle was the beginning of the Brandenberg Concerto - we did another Jingle based on "The Teddy-Bears' picnic" that relied on the rhyme between "go" and "oh"..."If you go down to E-3 today you're sure of a real surprise...etc". SteveBaker (talk) 02:45, 10 December 2010 (UTC)