Radio Center never came on the air. I take you back to the month of April 1965 and the country of Sweden. There, Britt Wadner, the owner of Radio Syd, had been in a women’s prison since the 22nd of March to serve a month’s sentence for being the person ultimately responsible for the said … Read more
A memory of Radio Syd, the organisation run by Britt Wadner, recurred that she and her team were also planning to provide television broadcasts from the Cheeta II. In my mind, along with many others, it seems an impossibility to receive such broadcasts from a ship in good condition. Partly given that a transmitting ship … Read more
In een herinnering aan Radio Syd, de door Britt Wadner gerunde organisatie, kwam weer terug dat zij met haar team ook van plan waren om televisie-uitzendingen te gaan verzorgen vanaf de Cheeta II. In gedachten lijkt het mij, met vele anderen, een onmogelijke zaak om dergelijke uitzendingen vanaf een schip in goede conditie te ontvangen. … Read more
Nieuwsblad van het Noorden versus Tonny M. van der Veen Het is begin 1971 als het 25-jarig bestaan wordt gevierd van de RONO: de Regionale Omroep Noord en Oost was sinds 1959 de regionale omroep voor Friesland, Groningen, Drenthe en Overijssel. Vanaf 1965 was het ook nog eens de regionale omroep voor Gelderland. Om die … Read more
Das Fracht- und Vermessungsschiff Gorsethorn, ursprünglich die Dido 77, mit einer Länge von 258 Fuß, wurde 1963 von Charles Hill & Sons Ltd in Bristol, England, erbaut. Das Schiff, nun in rostigem Braun gestrichen und mit einem Gewicht von 1.140 Tonnen, wurde im Frühjahr 1990 mit monumentalen chinesischen Schriftzeichen versehen. An der Bugseite des Radioschiffs … Read more
The 258-foot-long Gorsethorn, formerly known as Dido 77, was built in 1963 by Charles Hill & Sons Ltd in Bristol, England, and served as a cargo and surveying vessel. The now rust-brown-painted, 1,140-ton heavy freighter was adorned with massive Chinese characters in the spring of 1990. At the bow of the radio ship was a … Read more
By Ian Anderson In Offshore Echo’s Magazine 150 I explained how in the summer of 2007 I decided to settle something that had bugged me about Radio London’s radio mast ever since the time I first saw a picture of the Galaxy in 1965. In that article, and in the follow-up in Offshore Echoes 151, … Read more
To add to much of the historical information already published about the Ross Revenge I’ve sent you some interesting photos which were taken by me during our first trip to view the Ross in Cairnryan. On inspection by both myself and Chicago it soon became apparent that we had found the ship we had been … Read more
The Caroline Road Show started in December 1977 in the Grasshopper in Westham (Kent). The Tour visited East Anglia, the South East and the Home Counties. On many occasions the shows were completely sold out and the visitors number exceeded 500. Next to the regular Road Show presenters, the deejays from the Caroline ship attended … Read more
Die schwimmende Radiostation der britischen Besetzung in Madagaskar Nach der Unterzeichnung des deutsch-französischen Waffenstillstands im Wald von Compiègne am 22. Juni 1940 infolge der deutschen Westoffensive wurde Frankreich aufgeteilt. Der Norden mit der Hauptstadt Paris befand sich unter deutscher Besatzung. Im unbesetzten Süden wurde der Kurort Vichy im Departement Allier ab Juli 1940 zum Sitz … Read more