Red Sands Radio takes its name from the sandbank and WWII Army Sea Forts off the coast of Whitstable in the Thames Estuary.
This is from where the station first broadcast in the wake of the last ‘Pirate’ (Offshore Radio) stations that ceased transmissions 40 years earlier when outlawed by British legislation.
With a sharp focus on the coastal towns community, Red Sands Radio came ashore for the first time in 2009 operating from Whitstable Harbour which is where we broadcast from again in 2010.
