UK-based Shortwave Free Radio on YouTube

Throughout my time authoring this blog, I have been frustrated by the lack of online information regarding the 1990s UK shortwave free radio scene. Perhaps it is too soon after the event as it were, with the potential for individual archives to land on the 'net in the years and even decades to come. With such a wealth of online data for the offshore and land-based eras up until the end of the 1980s, these times were not of course within the connected age in which we now live, but even now there will I am sure be new caches of memories, photographs, QSL cards, and so on turning up online, whilst the 1990s remains a comparative desert. 

As you will see below, I have used YouTube to good effect, and whilst some of the following clips will have accompanied other blog posts I've written, there are several nuggets which I have unearthed these last few days. As an aside, should anyone reading this have anything of interest which is not as of yet in the public domain, I urge you where possible to digitise your archive, thus enabling the vibrant 1990s free radio scene to receive the full justice it deserves. 

Enjoy some nostalgia!

Radio East Coast Commercial:

Freesound Radio:

Centre Radio International (the world famous Paul Stuart of Station Sierra Sierra):

Galaxy International (Paul Stuart again, along with Mr. Blackbeard and friends):

Radio Titanic International (this clip is albeit from 1989):

Live Wire Radio:

Atlanta Radio (final broadcast):

Radio Mutiny International (forerunner to the Xenon Transmitting Company, with the inimitable Matt Roberts at the controls):

Radio 48:

Britain Radio International: (Whatever happened to Roger Davis?)

Radio Confusion: (Forerunner to Subterranean Sounds)

Radio Freedom International:

April Fools Day parody broadcast:

Radio Geronimo:

Rocket 48: (Despite stated as Radio 48)

Radio Gemini: 

Radio Orion:

West and North Kent Radio:

Wonderful Free Radio London:

Radio 49: (Steve Most of Radio Pamela)

The Bogusman: (albeit from the 21st century)

Radio Fax: 

Weekend Music Radio:

Radio Galaxy International: (Forerunner to Radio Merlin International)

Radio Merlin International:

A broader history of and some audio from UK Radio International: UK Radio – Wolverhampton – The Pirate Archive

I am still hopeful of sourcing audio clips of these notable absentees:

Subterranean Sounds

Radio Blackbeard - Yes, the station still operates on mediumwave, but I best remember it on shortwave circa 1994. 

The Bogus Jobseeker - post Radio Orion, but pre the Bogusman iteration.

Radio Mi Amigo International - the 90s station operated by Terry Phillips.

Radio Armadillo

Radio Pandora - As with Blackbeard, the station is still going strong. However, recordings from the 1990s are harder to come by to non-existent.

Radio Mirage International

Midlands Music Radio

Radio Gloria International - Scotland

Radio Atlantis - early to mid 1990s; West Midlands-based.

Total Control Radio, and its predecessor The Nitrozone.

SF03 - QSO station. Brian.

Voice of the Leek - Pirate Memories ... back to the 80s: Voice of the Leek - occasional broadcaster, parody station, and not necessarily Welsh...

Wizard's Magic Spell (WMS) and Radio London - Both stations operated during the 1990s by a very well-known to this day free radio doyen.

Station Sierra Sierra itself.

Any recordings from the above plus those I have missed would be very much appreciated.