Listening to a broadcast in September 1979, Gary heard on the air that the station was going to close down, and subsequently wrote a letter to Rick Dane. Here is the reply he received a week later, in which Rick talked about a court case on 14th September where a member of the station was fined £200 and given a 6 month suspended sentence.

On Boxing Day 1979, Rick Dane was on the air at 1100 with a 3rd Birthday broadcast for Radio Jackie North. There seemed to be some confusion as to the length of the broadcast. Initially Rick mentions 3 hours, but he later announced 11am to 5pm. Rick did the whole broadcast on his own, as Dick Barton had left the station earlier in the month. Rick gave a potted history of the station at times throughout the broadcast. Thanks go to Eric Monaghan for the use of his recordings of the first 4 hours of this broadcast.

There was a large and interesting article in the Liverpool Echo from Tuesday 1st April 1980 about pirate radio on Merseyside.
Both MAR and Radio Jackie North were featured.

Radio Jackie North had made a 'final broadcast' during April 1983, but had then been on and off the air during the Summer, on 963kHz/317m in addition to the normal 1395kHz/217m. As can be read in the Tim Jackson report below from 27th July 1983.

Rick did continue with RJN, but the arrival of Radio Caroline from the Ross Revenge on 963kHz on 19th August, caused him to look for another frequency. On the recordings below from late September 1983, he was announcing the frequency as 976.5kHz, and should there be a good response, they would obtain a crystal for the 'on channel' 981kHz.

Radio Jackie North were last reported with regular transmissions in Tim Jackson's Merseyside Report during late September 1983. There was a report of a single test broadcast on 18th December 1983 announcing 945kHz / 317m. This must have been a 'new' show as Rick thanked everyone for their Christmas Cards, and said Boxing Day would be the station's 7th birthday.  There were no reports of an actual 7th birthday on Boxing Day. Other tests were heard in early 1984, but nothing came of these. Rick hadn't given up on free radio though, and in early 1984 was involved with Radio Atlantis on 1242kHz, 936kHz and FM.  He then joined up with John Dwyer in a 'new' incarnation of Merseyland Alternative Radio on 819kHz in late 1984. This didn't last very long, and in October 1985, Rick was in Ballina, in Ireland's County Mayo, setting up a station with John Dwyer.  He was soon back in Liverpool and joined up with Steven Bishop to bring back Radio Atlantis in May 1987, on 936kHz. This took his time up for next few years until the early 1990's when the station disappeared. In the early 2000's Rick Dane started hosting shows on a new incarnation of Merseyland Alternative Radio on FM and on Central Radio, but sadly passed away on 16th November 2002.  Several tribute broadcasts were aired on FM in subsequent years and recordings of some of these can be heard on Merseypirates. In November 2010 another tribute was aired, this time on the old Radio Jackie North wavelength of 217m. Some of the shows recorded from 217m / 1386kHz near Blackpool can be heard in the files below, and a recording of the entire weekend output from the 2010 RJN Tribute web stream can be listened to here.