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i've done a few videos featuring various unusual and interesting radio stories recently and you seem to enjoy them so here are some more crazy and extraordinary stories from the world of radio this first story dates back over 120 years to 1901 and the america's cup yacht race of long island broadcasters should take heart when they suffer the indignity of deliberate radio charming in the knowledge that marconi himself suffered the same assault at the turn of the century as marconi was providing live coverage of the race to the press an unscrupulous competitor was jamming marconi spark transmission with another spark transmitter the audible zapping noise was seemingly erratic since it would occasionally stop and then begin again it was later learned that the pattern was actually a code used to send information to the competitor's receiver as a brick was picked up and set down for varying periods on the morse key so it just goes to show that radio jamming is definitely not a new thing at all this story goes back to the 25th of march 1990 to a transmission received by the coast guard station on nantucket island the transmission that went on to cause a tragic series of events said this is the fishing vessel salty mar a male voice shouted in frenzy we're sinking we need help now the plea then rose to a scream and the transmission was abruptly caught then there was only static coast guard monitors tried to get the caller back to locate the ship and send help but just a minute after the first call another distress signal came in sos i'm sinking a male voice said and then he laughed the coast guard thinking they were the objects of a hoax didn't dispatch rescue planes or ships william hockinson and his 19 year old son billy lost their lives when their fishing vessel the sullimar flooded and sank off the coast of martha's vineyard four days later the coast guard discovered that they had been wrong to a point the solemar it turns out was really in trouble and the father and son team that manned the boat were presumed dead i can't say that the fake call killed them said coast guard spokesman lieutenant paul wolf but it certainly lessened their chances it definitely influenced the way we responded in 1989 alone 16 hoaxes were recorded on the coast from canada to new jersey and the coast guard responded to most of them in the first three months of 1990 leading up to this tragic event there were 11 known hoaxers none of which were caught this story goes back to 1987 when hellraiser a renegade c beer from new york city felt the wrath of the u.s federal communications commission according to the agency u.s marshals with the assistance of engineers from the fcc's new york office raided the home of dwayne mayo confiscating his equipment the fcc arranged the bust after receiving...