Comet,[1] which had been fitted out as a radio station in Guernsey using RCA technology and engineers,[2] it was anchored at locations off Scotland, usually outside territorial waters.
The station began on 31 December 1965[3][4][5] and featured DJs including Paul Young, Richard Park, Stuart Henry and Jack McLaughlin with a céilidh programme that promised to tickle the "tartan tonsils".
Later disc-jockeys included John Kerr, Tony Allan, Ben Healy, Mark Wesley (as Mark West), Alan Black, David Kinnaird, Charlie Whyte, Pete Bowman, Larry Marshall, Bryan Vaughan, Mel Howard, Roger Gale (now Sir Roger Gale, Conservative MP and Deputy Speaker of the House of Commons), Eddie White, Drew Hamlyn, Jimmy Mack, Cathy Spence, Stevie Merike and Brian McKenzie (as Brian Webb).
Peter Alex's 1966 book Who's Who In Pop Radio claimed that as well as covering Scotland and Northern Ireland, the station's reception area included the east coast of England down to Cambridge.
It was left to Andy Main, electrical engineer and occasional late night DJ, to give the last transmission and put Radio Scotland off air.