posted on Jul, 7 2008 @ 10:39 AM
I was another one who heard the broadcast as it went out. I was in a house on Clapham Common at the time..
ignoring the message, which is a cheesy as Liberace playing Reggie Wilson's 20 Supermarket greats...
That signal covered over 600 square miles and the TV company didn't have the slightest clue their signal was being hijacked until their phones went
crazy.
It would have taken a huge amount of power to have achieved what they managed to do.
It was put around, by the police, that it was s student prank in the aftermath of it happening. A couple of researchers went and checked the court
records where the police claimed they had been dealt with, Southampton if memory serves me right and there was absolutely no record whatsoever of any
people being charged under the broadcasting act.
What is more this wasn't the only incident that happened at the time. I have heard a tape, smuggled out of the radio station by an engineer, of an
interrupted broadcast from LBC radio. (London Broadcasting Company i believe)
There was a particularly acerbic phone in guy called Brian (Hayes ?) who was famous for giving short shrift to anyone he viewed less than lucid in
their arguments.
One show he gets a call from some guy who speaks with a metallic sounding voice. The voice begins to make some similar remarks to the 77 broadcast and
the DJ just switched them off and goes to another line. Only the voice is on the line as well and merely picks up where it left off. This was the same
on every line into the guys show. Again the engineers on the show had no idea this was happening, or how it happened. Because of the slight delay, for
a bad language filter, on the station the public never heard the full extent of the broadcast and how it took them quite a while to clear the phone
lines.
I would be interested to hear if anyone has heard, or knows of someone with a copy, of that LBC tape..