A LEGENDARY former pirate radio station has bucked the trend in radio listening with a significant increase in power.
Radio Caroline, which also operates online, has now established a high-power service on 648AM just as it did when first going on air as an offshore radio station 57 years ago.
Previously the transmitter provided 1kw of power and this has now been increased to 4kw.
The stronger signal covers East Anglia, East Midlands, Kent, Sussex and beyond, as well as once again covering The Netherlands and Belgium, and into France and Germany.
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Radio station manager Peter Moore said: “It may seem crazy to turn the clock back when other radio stations and the BBC are winding down AM – and only Radio Caroline would do this – but there is method in our madness, in that AM radio works as well as…
