It would be interesting to get to the bottom of what’s actually going on with all this Isle of Man malarkey. It’s very difficult to dig properly when you’ve got this little clique of badly burned ‘shareholders’ and their mates trying to stifle free debate and discussion, whilst putting round false rumours and hope for their dream project.
I mean, right, they scream and shout that the ultimate and only place for information is the IOMIB website. They then prove how corporate this is now that it’s in anorak hands, by putting spoof 404 pages on with stuff about radio stations not being found. Hilarious, I’m sure. This certainly leaves investors and everybody in the real world of business with the clear signal that they are not to be taken seriously, and the website is not really there to pass on legitimate information but to tease and wind-up radio enthusiasts.
Indeed, one fellow has camped on every domain name he can find with the words ‘Caroline’ and ‘279’ in, registering them with a fever. Why? One can only assume it’s in the hope that he will have some financial or power gain from a) annoying the owner of the UK version of Radio Caroline by stealing his trading name and b) having control of the name of an intended station coming from the Isle of Man, or c) winding up radio enthusiasts. What other legitimate purpose could he possibly have for doing this?
Indeed, one of his many “Caroline 279” sites barks out at other sites aimed at bringing information about the project calling them ‘perverse’, whilst also saying that news of his own spoof “Caroline 279” project will be coming soon. Surely it’s perverse to wind-up radio enthusiasts in such a wicked way? Apparently not, or he wouldn’t be doing such an ungodly immoral act himself, would he?
Then we have the twitter site giving us daily updates from Cairo where the CFA is supposedly being fitted onto a conveniently un-named ship. As somebody said it’s like a living soap, but at least it’s giving out information, bogus or not. The most important ‘legitimising’ of this particular site being that the moment it reported the ship having arrived in Cairo, the Crossed Field Antenna website removed all (bad) reference to IOMIB. Co-incidence? Maybe. Equally, maybe the whole thing is another ‘perverse’ wind-up for gullible radio enthusiasts.
It’s in the interests of a tiny group of gentlemen to try to suggest that I am behind the twitter updates, and this has extended to suggestions that I am also behind the false 404 pages on the IOMIB site. You have to ask yourself why these people want you to believe such things. That will lead you to the truth about them, I suspect!
Ever wondered why they hate Anorak Nation so? The reason why they try to discourage others from using it? Yep, it’s the free speech and free thinking, the discussion without fear of having to toe any particular line that is encouraged at Anorak Nation, innit! They can’t control the free speech there. They can’t get threads closed down, like they can with Digital Spy, etc. And that scares them. Think about it.
Just what is the real truth? Why does this small group of gentlemen try to disrupt any free discussion about IOMIB or the Long Wave project? They are particularly good at attacking discussion threads on Digital Spy, choreographed as efficiently as a team of Scientologists going after anybody that questions their fundamentalism, digging at people with personal remarks until those people explode and then get banned and threads locked or removed, or simply stop posting due to the orchestrated campaign of intimidation or invasion into their private life. A brilliant tactic nevertheless. But, sadly, it continues to keep us all away from the real truth about what’s going on. The more they organise their attacks, the more we have to ask what exactly it is they are hiding.
If these people truly do get hold of a transmitter operating on 279 Long Wave, what sinister thing is it they have plans to use it for? It must be something pretty big and pretty hot for them to be so organised against anybody questioning their activities, mustn’t it? So, what’s really going on, eh?
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Hi… Whats the latest on IOMB-279 long wave?
The web site has now closed down.
Is this radio station going to happen?
Regards Geoff.
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It was never going to happen. The amount of money they wanted was far too much. The likelihood of many people listening was far too little. Thus, nobody would invest. It died.
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Leave Caroline alone to make its way they have enough obstacles without parasites
You have the iom location to broadcast
to the uk coast with a new 20th Century name
that could capture the youth of today rather
than the nostalgists of the 60’s
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I had never heard of musicmann 279 until today, I was just googling around during my tea break at work and could not believe what I was reading. A 500kw longwave station, longwave no less, with poor audio quality, notoriously large broadcasting infrastructure, on an offshore platform and using an unproven expensive type of antenna. I suppose the studio’s would be on the isle of mann and there would be some kind of link to the transmitter. Good grief! A multi-million pound (currency) platform, a fuel consumption of around 75000 litres a month, fuel delivery, a vessel capable of transporting this huge amount of fuel, (and this is only one months worth), staff to sort out the fuel on the platform, the transmitter maintenance, the platform maintenance, the costs of staffing the platform, the presenters, the land based studios, linking equipment and general maintenance facilitities………unbelievable, if this was ever put forward as a serious business suggestion it must have come straight from someone who was qualified at the drooling lunatic shool of business. I think I should have read this to-morrow, april 1st, it would have been far more appropriate. If anyone really did put money into this nonsense they desrved to lose it.
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