Door Menno Dekker Tijdens de paasdagen 2025 op 20 en 21 april vond een bijzonder evenement plaats onder de rook van Amsterdam in de plaats Halfweg. Er was een grote piraten reünie van de radio stations van Amsterdam uit de jaren 80. Het evenement vond plaats in het complex ‘Broedplaats Botoga’ aan de Haarlemmerstraatweg 79 … Read more
Early on a dull damp miserable March morning in 1965 a lonely fishing boat makes way out to sea on the rising tide, its engine reverberating off the metal shuttering of the Harbour Quay. Picking up buoyed pots of whelks and crabs, the boat named ‘Harvester’ steadily makes northeast to its destination. Onboard are 50 … Read more
I have written about practically every offshore radio station in book form, but Radio Antwerp, from the Uilenspiegel, I left out. Over the years, many documents came to me and were added to the Uilenspiegel file. And such a file then goes back into the archive again and again. Thanks to follower Albert Pleijsier, I … Read more
Over praktisch elke zeezender heb ik in boekvorm het nodige geschreven, maar Radio Antwerpen, vanaf de Uilenspiegel, heb ik links laten liggen. In de loop der jaren zijn vele documenten tot mij gekomen en werden toegevoegd aan het dossier Uilenspiegel. En zo’n dossier gaat dan telkens weer terug in het archief. Dankzij volger Albert Pleijsier … Read more
Hello Hans, How are you? I just read your latest newsletter. In particular, my eye was caught by the interesting story about the attempt to build an offshore radio station for Suriname. I have a related anecdote about another attempt to establish a free Radio station by the Suriname resistance, one that takes place a … Read more
Hallo Hans, Alles goed? Ik las net je laatste nieuwsbrief. Vooral het verhaal over de mislukte poging rond een zeezender voor Suriname. Ik heb zelf ook een anekdote over een andere poging om een vrije radiozender op te zetten door het Surinaamse verzet, enkele jaren later, ergens in de tweede helft van 1984. De exacte … Read more
A bit of my life story, in which it interweaves with Jon Wolfert of JAM Productions. I wrote this as an accompaniment to a three part jingle montage of JAM jingles, to mark Jon’s 50th Anniversary running JAM. As soon as I got a tape recorder I started recording things from the radio. When the … Read more
In 1993-94, American magazine W5YI Report reported in detail on an new radioship in Boston Harbour. W5YI Report 01-08-1993 PIRATE TO BROADCAST FROM THE HIGH SEAS Do you remember Radio New York International, a pirate radio station that was operated some years ago by Alan Weiner from international waters outside the U.S. three mile … Read more
In the second half of the 1980s, American radio magazines reported extensively on another new radioship in Boston Harbour. Radio World – 1996-07-24 Vessel to Broadcast Message of Peace Former Radio Pirate Says He Will Play by the Rules When Broadcasting from the High Seas by Alan Haber KIOWA, Kan. A new offshore shortwave and … Read more
In October 1965, reports first emerged about a new offshore radio project called “Radio Channel,” which was set to broadcast from a former Italian naval frigate. The plan was to station the floating radio station six miles off the coast of Bexhill-on-Sea and to transmit pop music programmes to southern England. The first announcement was … Read more