Offshore radio acquired the yacht Ceto and installed radio equipment. Unfortunately, the apparatus could not operate properly overboard, the signal being heavily affected by the climate conditions. The transmitter was then replaced by Siemens loudspeakers and the Ceto toured England "broadcasting" gramophone records interspersed by advertising. Unauthorized offshore broadcasting stations operating from ships or fixed platforms in the coastal waters of the Northern Sea first appeared in 1958. There were as many as eleven such stations in the mid-1960s. One of the most popular offshore radio broadcasts in Europe came from Radio Caroline, which developed out both of the strict broadcasting regulations
Radio Invicta (London pirate station) of the DJs on the soul, funk, and jazz-funk scenes at the time played on the station, including Froggy, Chris Hill, et al. Perhaps the best known ones who continued their careers at the BBC being Gilles Peterson (first on BBC Radio 1, then later on BBC Radio 6 Music) and Pete Tong (BBC Radio 1). Radio Invicta (London pirate station) Radio Invicta was a pirate radio station that broadcast in London from 1970 to 1984. Most of the time, Radio Invicta operated on VHF on 92.4 MHz. It used the slogans "Soul over London" and "Europe's first and only