GB0RSR on air today

Icom UK will be on the air today from the Red Sands forts, located in the Thames Estuary.

Using the special callsign GB0RSR, Icom will be broadcasting on HF using an IC-756PROIII in the evening and on VHF/UHF in the day.

Icom UK also plan to conduct D-Star transmissions into a repeater system and the Internet. A vertical antenna will be affixed to the stanchions on the Southern Gun Tower roof to support the communications.
Icom to broadcast from WWII sea fort

Icom UK is also sponsoring Red Sands Radio, a special ten-day radio station which is currently broadcasting to 1,000's of listeners in Kent on 1278kHz and via the Internet at http://www.redsandonline.co.uk

We have found the following four videos posted on YouTube which will give you the history and flavour of these old wartime defence forts - built to defend London during WWII.

BBC NEWS AUG 2005
Redsand Fort

Danger Man - Patrick Mcgoohan - Radio 390 Red Sands
1966, "NOT SO JOLLY ROGER" episode. Filmed on Radio 390, Maunsell sea fort, Red Sands. John Drake poses as a Pirate DJ.

Sea Forts 1951
Red Sands Army Fort