Pirate stuff from
DX-NEWS
of
DX-Listeners Club Norway©
Some
illustrations from the Hans Knot archive
1964-1967
1/64 SYD-TV was only a CATV-system,
narrowcasting to people in a large
building-complex
in Malmö. Mrs.Wadner had hoped to transmit from the Cheetah 2, though[1].
4/64 The address of Radio Caroline is
54-62 Regent street, London W1.This is the address of Planet productions who
are dealing with the advertising to be heard from Radio Caroline last week.
Another ship, the ”Mi Amigo”, is being fitted out at the moment and
is due to join the ”Caroline” in 2 months time, broadcasting as
Radio Atlanta. Will be anchored in a position near the Caroline. Radio Caroline
operates at 0500-1700 with approx. 10 kw on 1519 kcs which varies a little.
5/64 The address of Radio Atlanta is 47
Dean street, London W1.The station is on the air 0300-1900 on 1493 kcs. Radio
Caroline verifies with a card in black and white showing the outline of a bell.
(SCDX)
6-7/64 Radio Caroline 0500-2000 and
2300-0200, 1520 kcs. Off Harwich. Radio Red Rose, ”GBLN”, 12 hrs to
England and 12 to France (nighttime) Approx. 310 metres(SCDX)
A 3rd
pirate. Dagens Nyheter reporting the Radio Red Rose test on 200 metres July
12th,1964 from 1140-1320 on a steamship 5 miles from the Mersey Bar per the
”Daily Telegraph” for July 13th. The project was said to be owned
by 3 Liverpool Night Club owners. From the collection of Hans Knot.
Radio Sutch
1100-1515, 1600-1900, 2515-0115 GMT, 7
Denmark
street, London WC2. Situated on an ”island” in the Thames Estuary.
MW-loggings:
1495 1422 R
Atlanta QSA 5
1525 1020 R
Caroline QSA 5
9/64 Radio Noordzee broadcasts on app.
1395 kcs, from the REM island off Holland
and has
also now started commercial TV ch 11. The station is heard well and has many
good and varied music programs. The company that runs Caroline
has acc. to
rumours bought a Norwegian ship and will transmit to Germany
off the
mouth of the Elbe. A German night-club owner will be the prgr. director. 150
kilowatts? Will also broadcast to Denmark with Danish programmes .
”Musik
mit heissen Rhythmen” to come. From the collection of Hans Knot.
10/64 1395 1002 R Noordzee off Holland.
Hudson march QSA 5
1535 1550
UNID pirate interfering with Caroline. City? 5/4
Britt Wadner
received a sentence of 5 months imprisonment. R. Syd transmitter
no spots
for liquor or tobacco, gave free airtime to many worthwhile causes,
including a
school for the blind in Lund. Club Radio Syd had 5000 members,
and managed
to gather 12000 on one occasion.
DXN
11/64
6-7/65 -110 Rolf Mong has got veries from R.City 1034/1609 with c.
8 days and
K-I-N-G
Radio 1268 with letter, car stickers etc after 14 days addr. KING RADIO, Oxford
house, Folkestone, Kent, England.
QSL to DX-LA 110 Rolf Mong, for report May 2nd, 1965, received May 29th, 1965
BIGL 1127
answered 2 in that issue with letters.(28/45 days)
9/65 -47 Rolf Lövstrom says: Radio
City may be hrd now and then during
the night
on 1034 kcs. The fort where the station is situated , will be removed, and it
is rumored that the owner has bought a ship. The station has now finished its
”cultural” programs on 1625 and 299 m is now 15 kw.
Radio
Scotland will start on 265 in November(same as BIG L). R.Caesar testing on 1530
kcs, 196 m, with a power of 190-500 watts. BIGL heard with QSA 4 on 1133 at
1845 in Oslo.
10/65 R.Caroline North rumoured to start on FM also. A possible
merger between
Manx Radio
and Caroline.
1/66 Radio Two-Seven-O is a new pirate station
which plans to go on the air in March on 270 metres, 1111 kcs. Transmitting
power will be 10 kW and the station will be anchored either off Scarborough or
Bridlington. In Yorkshire according to official info from the station.
R.Scotland address: Technical control. 38 Bath Street. Glasgow C.2. (SCDX)
2/66 Radio Caroline broke its anchor a
while ago and drifted onto a pier in Frinton-on-sea. Later it hit the beach and
Dutch Tugboats were needed to get the boat back into International Waters. The
British Authorities made no attempt of utilizing the situation, maybe not so
strange taking into account that the Egg Marketing Board and the Dairy business
used Radio Caroline to praise its products.
4/66 New British-American project to begin late May, 1966 on board
vessel Olga Patricia with two programmes: One freq with pop-music, and one with
"light good music”.R.Caroline South reactive on 1495 kcs. (SCDX)
Radio 2-7-0
was due to start on April 2nd but the ship was driven back to port owing to
rough sea, and a 100 feet section of the mast was broken. Intends to anchor 3
miles off Scarborough, Yorkshire.
5/66 Twin station project RADIO BRITAIN
and RADIO ENGLAND is due to start
May 5th, with 55 kw each. R.Britain will be playing pop music 24 hrs a day and Radio England will do the show with light romantic music 21 hrs a day. The ship is renamed ”Laissez Faire”. R Manchester to start off Fleetwood on 300 metres. R. Channel anchored off Bexhill, Sussex plans to start soon by Edward Campbell. R Mayflower rumoured. R.Scotland now on 1260. Plans to boost power to 50 kw. R.Caroline South now from vessel Cheetah 2 formerly used by the Swedish pirate Radio Syd.
The Cheetah II was fitted with a 10 kW transmitter from the Mi Amigo and used a wire aerial in its time as Radio Caroline South/Caroline 3 in 1966. Was it also used for a R 365 test in preparation for 390 North on June 18th the same year? Picture: Unknown.
R.Dynavision hrd April 30th at 1430-1530 on app. 1280 kcs. A projected station testing? R.Tower on 1266 kcs will soon operate, at 0600-1800 hours. 270 will now begin mid-May. City now 20 kw 0600-1800 s/off also rpted at midnight. R.Essex 1351 kcs. Addr.: T.P.Bates, 33 Avenue Road, Westcliffe-on-sea, Essex, England.
6-7/66 SRE hrd for the first time at 2001
on May 21, uses both 845/1320. The stn. sent me a card, showing station/ship,
after 30 days. Britain Radio hrd on 1320 or 845. Addr is 32 Curzon street,
London W.I. acc. To the DJ. R.London is now on 1115 approx. This is not 270
which has not been heard(-278)
R.Corsair
with addr. Corsair house, 36
Toronto rd, Gillingham, Kent.
England.
The station operates on 7340 kcs 50 watts from a ship located app. 9 miles off
No.Kent coast in int.waters. Sce: At present low-power engineering tests. Full
sce. expected to be effective as from summer 1966, with int. programs.
Verification by letter, IRC appreciated. ID: ”This is Corsair calling, on
41 for fun.”
8/66 SRE on 1317 now. BIG L on 1138
after drifting. 390 heard as R 365 on June 18th. City raided and silenced June
20th. Back June 26th in the evening. Will probably soon be renamed UKGM United
Kingdom Good Music under the control of BIG L. R 310 heard June 26th on 962 kcs
sign off 1800. 270 came on the air around June 3rd and was hrd that day with a
strong signal. On the air until midnight on 1115. R Rag reported to start in
the Humber, 5 miles off Hull on June 18th 6 hrs a day from ”Yawl
Temptress” on 215/220m. Rag week at Univ. of Hull with Norwegian students
taking part.
9/66 Mr. T.P. Bates, owner of Radio
Essex-scheduled 24 hrs a day on 222 metres at 5 kw, is to open a new station,
R.Albatross in November. The station will be based on an old naval fort at
Tongue sands in the Thames estuary. The fort is of identical design to the one
at Knock John sands used by Radio Essex. However, the Tongue Sands fort was
recently condemned by the Port of London Authority as ”insecure”.
The format and wavelength of Albatross is not yet available for general
release.(SCDX)
10/66:
11/66. Britain Radio Nov.2, 1966 at 1015.
"From Monday on Swinging Radio England will become Radio Holland
broadcasting in the Dutch language. SRE 13.nov. 1966 at 2300. Last prgr in
English with many of the DJs saying goodbye. There were Gordon Bennett, Bill
"Boss" Berry, Roger Day and others. Former dj Johnnie Walker is now
on Caroline, and dj Rick Randall went back to WFUN Miami, Fla. SRE ceased
transmissions at 2339 in English with jingle "Boss Radio". R.England
became Radio Dolfijn 227 m on Nov.14
1966
broadcasting in Dutch from 0500-2300 every day. First day non stop
instrumental
music only... Second day djs were doing the show with pop
and light
music. -Caroline North operates also on 1169 kcs-259 m between
2230 and
0600.
12/66 Heard: BBMS ex R. Essex at 2330 on 1349
with QSA 4.(28/11). Radio Essex has been renamed Britains better music station.
R.Jim hrd irregularly on Sun. only as
”Your
Sunday music station." QRG 1511 kcs. Also on a Sun in May from 1000.
QSL
letter for the author’s R390 report signed by Ted Allbeury as late as
1991
1/67 Address of Radio Dolfijn:Amsteldijk
65, Amsterdam, Holland. BIG L hrd on approx 1080 kcs 277 metres.
2/67 R.City with new address Clifford
House, 15 Clifford Street, London W.1. has been served with summons for illegal
broadcasting. Scotland Yard has informed the owner, mrs. Dorothy Calvert, that
a second boarding party can probably be expected on the station. R.Essex plans
a new station on Rough sands tower orf Harwich. Negotiations are going on with
Caroline for a new station 6 miles off Felixstowe.
4/67 Britain Radio and Radio Doifijn
returned on March 15th following repairs of the antenna mast on board
"Laissez Faire". During the first day Britain changed to R.355 and
Dolfijn to R.227. After having been anchored off Troon, Ayrshire, and
fined-Scotland will now start again from off Berwickshire in the North Sea. 1/4
at 0945 on 1133 "This is R.East Anglia”. Drowned Big L, new pirate
rumours, land-based, GPO tried to locate it in vain. Then Big L announced that
it was April Fool’s day....
When
meeting Keith Skues in Sheffield 1983,the author had the marvellous opportunity
of reading some of the text of his script ”Pop went the pirates”
many years before it was published. It was very interesting, particularly
regarding Caroline South, London, and City.
5/67 Radio Aberdeen will be on the air
during the month of April as part
of the
Aberdeen University Charities Campaign. The stn is being organised,
constructed
and ran by the students. All money gained from adverts will
go to charity.
Power 1 kw. The exact MW freq has
not as yet been decided
on.
Transmissions will be made from 3 1/2miles off Aberdeen. On May 21st a new
low-powered pirate, R.Activity will operate on 222 metres with 15 hrs daily
pop-music(SCDX).
DX-LA
110 Rolf Mong heard and verified this rare station when it was testing in
December 1965.