The current owner of the radio ship MV Communicator, Dave Miller, is advertising the ship for sale. An advertisement on his Web site invites offers over £25k, but says that no radio equipment is included in the sale. The ship, which is the former home of Laser 558, is currently situated in St Margarets Hope in the Orkney Islands where it was recently broadcasting on FM under a three-month Restricted Service Licence as the Superstation. (Thanks to David Leadbeater for alerting us to this).
on Nov 28th, 2004 at 20:53
As I understand it, any radio equipment that wasn’t already removed (by force) whilst it was in the Netherlands was removed under the supervision of OFCOM when it arrived in the UK.
Therefore there should be no “radio equipment” of any kind on it …
on Nov 28th, 2004 at 20:58
By force? I thought Nozema just took the stuff off the ship when they got rid of it.
on Nov 28th, 2004 at 23:40
Nozema had brought in a new solid-state transmitter for their operations (probably Harris, but I could be entirely wrong here).
I think we saw a website with pictures of the ship a while ago. If I recall correct the rooms not used by Nozema looked just disastrous with no usable equipment whatsoever.
on Nov 29th, 2004 at 07:04
I was (obviously)! referring to the vandalsim that took place on the boat between Nozema vacating it and its arrival in the UK - where anything that wasn’t screwed down disappeared overnight and most things that were screwed down were simply ripped out!