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Broadcast Schedule 2023

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Saturday 12th August

Midnight Garry Lee

2am Paul Windsor

5am Reverend Rabbit

6am Olly Kinvig

8am Chris Morgan

10am Jon Sketchley

Midday Ian Chambers

2pm Keith Skues

4pm Chris B

6pm Neon Nancy

7pm Stonehenge Disco

10pm Chris B

Sunday 13th August

Midnight Dave Kent

3am Paul Windsor

6am Olly Kinvig

9am Gordon Bathgate

10am Steven Foster

Midday Garry Lee

2pm Keith Skues

4pm Chris Cooper

5pm Jim Fourniadis

6pm Paul Windsor

7pm Ian Riches

9pm Party Time and Close Down

Radio Broadcast 2023 Official Press Release

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DJ’s line up for a celebration of offshore Pirate Radio
Radio Mi Amigo will be joining up with Carillon Wellbeing Radio to return to the airwaves on Saturday and Sunday this week.
The two-day pirate radio event will take place on Harwich Quay and has attracted a host of DJs who are coming from near and far to transmit from the restored Lightvessel LV18 as a tribute to the 60’s offshore radio stations.
This year’s on-air team, headed by programme director and trustee Garry Lee, will bring back the popular sound of the offshore pirate stations that broadcast from just off the coast and were served from the Ha’penny Pier, which is now the LV18s permanent berth.
Joining the crew will be two DJs from America and music connoisseurs, former pirate radio and Radio 1 DJ Keith Skues and former BBC Suffolk presenter and current Radio Caroline DJ Stephen ‘Foz’ Foster.
The broadcast will run 24 hours a day, from midnight on Friday night until midnight on Sunday night, the 12th and 13th August.
This tribute to the offshore pirate radio stations will celebrate the likes of Radio Caroline, Radio London and several others that appeared off the coast of Harwich in the 1960s, bringing about a revolution in radio broadcasting.
Following the previous pirate radio broadcasts from LV18, which attracted thousands of visitors to the area, Radio Mi Amigo will celebrate the watery wireless days from the new studio, located on the bridge of the lightvessel.
Further to previous year’s events, LV18 will broadcast from her permanent berth by the Ha’penny Pier, Harwich, enabling members of the public to not only visit the classic vessel on Sunday, but to meet the DJ’s.
The classic heritage vessel LV18 featured in the film The Boat that Rocked and now hosts a pirate radio exhibition, with new interactive audiovisual systems and interpretation signage.
TUNE IN @ 1476khz AM if you are in the listening area.
OR : Listen Online @ https://carillonradio.com/
(Player at bottom of the page).

Annual Live Radio Broadcast !!!!

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It’s that time of year again. The anniversary of the Marine Offences Act is almost upon us. To mark the occasion, Radio Mi Amigo will be on the air again.

You will be able to listen on the internet carillonradio.com and on 1476 Medium Wave. Broadcasting begins 0000 hrs Saturday 12th August 2023 and finishes 0000hrs on Monday 14th August.

Broadcasting will be jointly managed by Garry Lee and Jon Sketchley and our special guest DJs will include Stephen Foster (BBC Radio Suffolk and Radio Caroline) and Keith Skues (Radios Caroline, Luxembourg, London….the list goes on).

The LV18 will be open as usual over the weekend so we would love to see as many of you as possible on board and you may get to meet some of the DJs.

For further details, watch this space

Open for 2023

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This year we will be open April 1st and will be open six days a week* until a yet to be confirmed date in October.

*opening is volunteer dependent. If in doubt or if you are part of a large group or a school party, don’t hesitate to give us a call on 07446171320.