Gary Drew a history in radio
Some of the stations I have worked on over the years and one or two of my own!
October 19th 1984 - February 11th 1985. WFR - Waltham Forest Radio (East London pirate) No studio just tape decks in fields rigged to a transmitter. 102.9 FM.
April 1985 - September 1985. Spectrum Radio 88.6 FM. East London pirate.
October 1985 - February 1986. S.O.S. Radio The Sound Of Soul. London pirate. Again from October 1986 - March 1987. Various frequencies.
May 1986 - October 1986. City Sound Radio 94.5 FM. London pirate.
May 1987 - September 1987. Melody FM 102.4. East London pirate.
Septmber 1987 - July 1988. Soul FM 91 MHz and later 96.9 The Sound Of Underground London. East London pirate. Night club stints most weekends from 1987 - 1990.
July 1988 - August 1988. Jive FM. London pirate.
August 1988 - December 1988. Throwdown FM. London pirate.
April 1989 - August 1992. GFM. Great Funky Music also nicknamed Gary's frequency modulation by the listeners . My own East London pirate from Chingford, Highams Park and Walthamstow. Well received in Leytonstone, Leyton and Stratford and at its prime in 1990 - 1991 with a big following.
April 1990 Base FM. North London pirate - spring period only.
Mobile disco work from 1990 - 1996.
July 1993 - November 1994. Helped to install and set up studio equipment for many RSL stations.
Easter 1995 - August Bank Holiday 1995. QBC (Quality Broadcasting Company) Low power east London pirate broadcast the old fashioned way from tapes in remote woods instead of a studio. The idea came from QVC the shopping channel.
1996 - 1999. Consultant for various AM long term (LPAM) & FM short term (RSL) stations like Town FM north London 1997 (with cable radio) and the London experimental Greater London community radio project throughout its peak in 1997.
2000 - 2001. Various one off shows for experimental internet radio stations - too many to mention learning how to stream and broadcast online. Helped to launch a short term community RSL to North London from Nov 2000 - May 2002. Helped launch an RSL FM station for Norwich in 2001.
2002 Radio North Mid hospital radio - January to September. From the North Middelsex University Hospital in Edmonton north london.
2003 Gaz Links Radio - G.L.R. My 1st full time internet station using jingles from the former Greater London radio where I pinched the idea.
September 2003 - March 2004. Various programmes for the testing of Band 'L' DAB in London later dropped in favour of an analogue community radio project in Southgate named Chase FM and an AM partner in east Herts called Chase Extra both went bust.
2004 Archive Radio. My other internet radio project for one year.
2005 G.L.R. Gold. Another short lived version of my GLR station online (now closed).
April 2005 Some one off shows for Radio 390 (Internet).
2006 Radio Gary International. For fun I changed the name of my internet station for a few months. In July 2006 I made a one off show for North London Radio (NLR) which was an internet copy of the seventies inland pirate.
May 19th 2007. Here we are with SHR (South Herts Radio) - ongoing via the internet and analogue worldband radio!
The present day: Consultant for getting hospital radio stations on the internet with a web stream and presenter on Laser Hot Hits 4025 KHz shortwave and online at http://www.laserhothits.co.uk stream them anytime here.
Favourite all time radio stations: Solar, Horizon, LWR, TKO, JFM, Laser Hot Hits.
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Updated: Thursday, 9 July 2009 8:48 PM BST