Skyport Radio 50th Anniversary Broadcast

Well we made it with the help of our friends at Ten Sixtyfive Overdrive, Skyport Radio made the first full RF broadcast since the end of 1982, on 106.5MHz in the North West of England, Mark King presented several hours of old and some new music to commemorate our first broadcast made on 25th December 1971 which was on 7405KHz in the 41 metre band. Our anniversary broadcast was live from 1600-2100 GMT on 106.5MHz with a power of 30W covering Liverpool, Chester, Crewe and probably further afield. 

From 1971-1982 Skyport Radio carried on almost weekly broadcasts on the 48 and 41 metre bands with then many thousands of listeners across Europe. 

We are following this up with further transmissions with our new DJ's; Lord Dialup and Winkel. Lord Dialup plays a mixture of his own electronic compositions and experimental electronic music, Winkel will play the latest Techno from the new centre of techno music Medellín, which has hosted many Techno festivals in the past year and has many more to come in 2022.

We hope to carry on the tradition of Skyport Radio, that is playing music you cannot hear anywhere else, the main output will be streamed, archived at Archives and weekly on 106.5MHz from 2000-2300 GMT. Many thanks to all who have made this possible particularly the DJ's and the transmitter operator for 106.5MHz, I doubt we'll make another 50 years, I certainly won't, but hopefully free radio will never die and by whatever technical means will lead the way in playing new music not played on the official radio stations.

All the best for the New Year

Mark King

Station Manager












 

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