Radio Scotland

This article is about the offshore pirate radio station. For the national radio station launched in 1978, see BBC Radio Scotland.

Radio Scotland was an offshore pirate radio station broadcasting on 1241 kHz mediumwave (242 metres), created by Tommy Shields in 1965. The station was on the former lightship L.V. Comet,[1] which had been fitted out as a radio station in Guernsey using RCA technology and engineers,[2] it was anchored at locations off Scotland, usually outside territorial waters.

  1. ^ "Lightships in the Irish Lighthouse Service". Commissioners of Irish Lights. Archived from the original on 1 January 2009. Retrieved 5 December 2011.
  2. ^ "I built Radio Scotland with a little help from my friends". Offshore Radio.