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KFM Radio
KFM was a pirate radio station, and, later, a licensed radio station, based in Stockport, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom.
"KFM gained one of the early specialist music licenses and started legal programming on Saturday 17th February 1990. "
The station was created by Alastair Bates and Charles Turner, who both also presented weekend shows. Charles Turner, in the 1970s, had been involved in a 'hippy' unlicensed pirate radio station called Radio Aquarius. Alastair Bates and Ian Walsh, in the early 1980s, had been involved in a Manchester station called RFM.
KFM's name on the business board was Mersey Valley Electronics.
Charles Turner used a frequency synthesiser transmitter of his own design and a stereo encoder designed by Trevor Brook (published in Wireless World in 1977).
The first broadcasts were test transmissions from pub car parks and the tops of local hills such as Werneth Low and Lantern Wood near Bowstonegate Farm in Higher Disley. Transmissions from Middle Hillgate and Goyt Mill came much later; the earliest broadcasts preceded 1983. The first broadcasts were transmitted from a radio mast at Bowstonegate Farm in Lyme Park. They were initially 2 hours long, pre-recorded at Ride Music Studio's and other secret locations on to a Revox B77 reel-to-reel tape recorder, then transferred to the boot of a car which was then parked at a pub car park near Disley. The broadcast of only two hours at a time made it difficult for government departments to trace the transmitter
KFM originally broadcast on 94.2 MHz FM from a studio on Middle Hillgate, Stockport with the transmitter and aerial at Goyt Mill, Bredbury in Marple, Greater Manchester from November 1983 to February 1985. The station was raided by the authorities several times, but was soon back on air each time.
Although a pirate radio station, KFM broadcast test transmissions for a number of weeks prior to going live and was featured more than once on Granada Television's "Granada Reports" news programme.
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KFM Radio
KFM was a pirate radio station, and, later, a licensed radio station, based in Stockport, Greater Manchester, United Kingdom.
"KFM gained one of the early specialist music licenses and started legal programming on Saturday 17th February 1990. "
The station was created by Alastair Bates and Charles Turner, who both also presented weekend shows. Charles Turner, in the 1970s, had been involved in a 'hippy' unlicensed pirate radio station called Radio Aquarius. Alastair Bates and Ian Walsh, in the early 1980s, had been involved in a Manchester station called RFM.
KFM's name on the business board was Mersey Valley Electronics.
Charles Turner used a frequency synthesiser transmitter of his own design and a stereo encoder designed by Trevor Brook (published in Wireless World in 1977).
The first broadcasts were test transmissions from pub car parks and the tops of local hills such as Werneth Low and Lantern Wood near Bowstonegate Farm in Higher Disley. Transmissions from Middle Hillgate and Goyt Mill came much later; the earliest broadcasts preceded 1983. The first broadcasts were transmitted from a radio mast at Bowstonegate Farm in Lyme Park. They were initially 2 hours long, pre-recorded at Ride Music Studio's and other secret locations on to a Revox B77 reel-to-reel tape recorder, then transferred to the boot of a car which was then parked at a pub car park near Disley. The broadcast of only two hours at a time made it difficult for government departments to trace the transmitter
KFM originally broadcast on 94.2 MHz FM from a studio on Middle Hillgate, Stockport with the transmitter and aerial at Goyt Mill, Bredbury in Marple, Greater Manchester from November 1983 to February 1985. The station was raided by the authorities several times, but was soon back on air each time.
Although a pirate radio station, KFM broadcast test transmissions for a number of weeks prior to going live and was featured more than once on Granada Television's "Granada Reports" news programme.