A convenient way to import all your favourite Internet Pirate Radio streams into iTunes or WinAmp, just down the playlist here and drag into the iTunes playlist window. Features, Radio Caroline, BigL, Radio Seagull and many more

Rob Townsend has sent in some memories of his time with Radio Kathy on the Isle of Wight, read about the station here

This years Radio Day will be held on Saturday 8th November 2008 at the Amsterdam's Hotel Casa 400 near the Amstel railway station (James Wattstraat 75) from 11:00 till 17:00 CET. Doors will be open from 10:30. Admission is 12,50 €. The event has been organised by Hans Knot, Rob Olthof and Martin van der Ven and will feature Radio Caroline 1977-1980 as the main topic. Full details of how to book and travel arrangements can be found on Martin van der Ven's website

Another refresh of the site design, also check out this months video picks from YouTube on the Guest Book page. The Rave pages have been removed and will form a new site coming soon. Don't forget our sister site dedicated to Unix.

When Skyport Radio started in 1971 the main source of radio components and transmitters was war time 1940's government surplus equipment. This was on sale in various shops around the Soho area in Lisle Street and Old Compton Street, we however bought our first transmitters at Southern Surplus in London Road, Kingston, Surrey. The No. 38 set was bought in as new condition for £5, in order to comply with the law the shop keeper had cut the wire to the transmit relay and covered it with a rubber sleeve, it took us a while to find that one. The second transmitter was a No.19 set bought some months after when it was realised that the No.38 had a range of about 1km!

Details of these old rigs can now be found on the Skyport Radio page

The site layouts and adverts have been updated, please click through the ads and use the new custom search engine now and again. This helps fund the costs of the site.

Don't miss the Radio Caroline North ‘Pirates of the Irish Sea’ Exhibition and 40th Anniversary Convention 19/20/21 September 2008 Douglas, Isle of Man, more details can be found here and here. A vintage QSL from Manx Radio is now shown on the Listeners page. Could anyone with any items relating to Radio Caroline North please contact the Matthew Richardson at the Manx Museum on 648000 or e-mail Matthew.Richardson@mnh.gov.im

You can now listen to the original programmes of Skyport Radio and Uptown Radio on the Radio Eric sound archive, featuring Terry Anderson, Bob Earl, Rob Holland, Paul Richards and yours truly. There are also some jingles in the new Audio index, more audio/video files will be added so visit regularly

Apparently a new film depicting the story of Radio Caroline is to be made, look out for this one.

The history of Thames Radio and Radio Britannia has been recently added to the Landbased Pirates page

The Landbased Pirates page has been updated to provide a comprehensive history of Land-based Free Radio from 1968-1984, more material from the early 80's will be added soon. Keep an eye on the Skyport Radio photo page as I am currently adding more photos of some the transmitters used.

Some sensational history revealed of the early days of Radio Kaleidscope you can also read more about Kaleidoscope here and here