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'The Link' deserves a plug...on air

Submitted by Jonathan on 12 March 2004 - 1:39am

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Pirate BBC Essex Radio station is soon to go 'on air' - all our efforts are now focused on developing the software which will enable members of the public to TXT message or email the radio presenters whilst on board LV Eighteen, the Lightship from which the broadcast will be made.

We needed to obtain an SMS number and a mobile phone. We went to a number of Mobile phone shops in Chelmsford, asking for "mobile phone numbers which are good for broadcasting on air."

Luckily, many people were keen enough to help us out, they dug through hundreds of numbers, until we found the one, well... sadly it wasn't available so we settled for the next best number. We cheekily asked if they'd lend us a phone for the duration of the Pirate radio broadcast, and in true British style they provided us with a Nokia Picture phone - cool huh!

Our first plug goes to Adam Jamieson & Russ McIntosh at The Link in Chelmsford, cheers guys.

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visitor

12 April 2004 - 7:36pm

I wanted to be able to receive text messages in our (student) radio station too... Was hoping to find a company offering a cheap incoming-SMS web-based service so DJs could just check the text messages from a website, but we settled on, yes, a simple mobile phone kicking around in the studio (this time provided by Orange).

The biggest problem is making sure DJs delete messages when the inbox gets full...

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