That is my original copy I think EEZYUK mentioned this tune….
The decks and mixer are modern (I decided to finally get some newer vinyl equipment) – unfortunately not real Technics but the middle range Reloop direct drive clone,which has a motor nearly as strong as the real thing. Don’t buy the cheapest models of these, they are nearly as bad as the first Soundlab direct drives (even the belt drives were better!)
The LED signal lamp is a modern mock up of the signalling system we had on the first pirate radio station I DJ’d on in 1990; the bell push for this was not where you’d expect it to be, but hidden at the bottom of a letter box (you had to know where it was), although it used an old style glow lamp and a 4.5V battery type 126 (near impossible to find nowadays but then widely used for door bells).
Every DJ would press it 3 times to signal to whoever was in the studio (a room in a big tower block in SE London) that they had arrived; if there was a load of knocking at the door you’d turn off all the electric to the decks, mixer and Band I TX very quickly, haul in the big antenna on the balcony and the TX and hide those somewhere!
the DTI Radiocommunications Agency (Communications Ministry, now known as Ofcom) can only have you arrested if they can prove in Court the transmitter was operating at the time they got into the building. Its not illegal to listen to loud music [even now its only a civil nuisance if someone complains] nor to have an unlicensed transmitter that isn’t switched on…
@General Lighting 598624 wrote:
That is my original copy I think EEZYUK mentioned this tune….
The decks and mixer are modern (I decided to finally get some newer vinyl equipment) – unfortunately not real Technics but the middle range Reloop direct drive clone,which has a motor nearly as strong as the real thing. Don’t buy the cheapest models of these, they are nearly as bad as the first Soundlab direct drives (even the belt drives were better!)
The LED signal lamp is a modern mock up of the signalling system we had on the first pirate radio station I DJ’d on in 1990; the bell push for this was not where you’d expect it to be, but hidden at the bottom of a letter box (you had to know where it was), although it used an old style glow lamp and a 4.5V battery type 126 (near impossible to find nowadays but then widely used for door bells).
Every DJ would press it 3 times to signal to whoever was in the studio (a room in a big tower block in SE London) that they had arrived; if there was a load of knocking at the door you’d turn off all the electric to the decks, mixer and Band I TX very quickly, haul in the big antenna on the balcony and the TX and hide those somewhere!
the DTI Radiocommunications Agency (Communications Ministry, now known as Ofcom) can only have you arrested if they can prove in Court the transmitter was operating at the time they got into the building. Its not illegal to listen to loud music [even now its only a civil nuisance if someone complains] nor to have an unlicensed transmitter that isn’t switched on…
GOOD OLD FPI PROJECT,they were the days
