Hans Knot's International Radio Report - August 2006 (2)
Welcome
to another edition and thanks for all the e mails.
In this issue once again some info from the
Carl Mitchell archive,
which was given to me in March by Tom and Hoodle, who were the
housekeepers of Carl Mitchell and many other deejays in the late sixties
and early seventies in Amsterdam. Opening once again some of the letters
I
found some which were sent to Carl form Thornton Heath in Surrey. They
were written by one of his former shipmates on the MEBO II as the sender
wrote: ‘Meant to write you before. I’ve been very busy since my return.
No problems at immigration, but hours after my arrival home police
called in connection with an unpaid fine. ‘ Further on in the letter the
sender wrote some line on ‘Ampex equipment’: ‘As I told you the
equipment is no longer in production and there will be a difficulty in
obtaining a motor. The price I was quoted was 100 Pounds, this probably
being higher than the original price because the supply demand
situation. I also inquired about scrap equipment, but they were unable
to suggest anything.’
Also the writer came back to the topic of the piece of equipment by
advising to sell the ‘machine’ for less than 40 Pounds as he’s
interested to buy it for that: ‘I’m slowly collecting studio equipment
and either of my own or perhaps with Spangles it could perhaps be put in
good use. The most recent acquisition is a pair of RCA Microphones.’ The
sender has also good memories to Hoodle as he wrote: ‘Give my love to
Betty (which is Hoodle’s original name), whom I meant to see before I
departed.
As
usual my decision to return was made on the spur of a moment, when I was
feeling somewhat depressed and not quite my irresponsible self. ‘
Deep thinking who it could be writing the letter undated to Carl and
some envelopes later again the same person writing to Carl. This time I
could mention that it was written on October 21st 1970. One of the lines
was: ‘I’ve tested the mixer and it’s working OK. Also I had a look at
the Spotmaster that plays back but it’s not recording. I want to ask
Spangles what he knows about the machines.’
Well strange lines but mentioning Spangles and the equipment gave me the
ideas the writer was mentioning equipment which was formerly on one of
the Caroline ships which were caught by the Wijsmuller Company in 1968
and were in Amsterdam harbour and later Zaandam. It’s known to me and
many other people that some former Caroline deejays and technicians were
so clever to visit both ships to get equipment from the ships for use
when a comeback was possible, So here’s the big question: ‘Who wrote
those two letters?’
All answers can be send to the regular address:
Hknot@home.nl
Also some of the other 1968 documents I want to bring back for the first
time to this open forum. In the Carl Mitchell archive letters can be
found sent to 'c/o' in several places. In Amsterdam, Groningen, Haarlem
and Amstelveen he had several so called 'hiding' addresses where people
could sent in letters and on several occasions also money for his
'prestigious' projects. This was in the period 1968 up till 1969, so
after he left Radio Caroline. He had all kind of ideas to make money.
The first one I found were several letters in which Caroline listeners
had been asked to sent in a card for more information for flats to be
rented in Spain. A commercial for that purpose had been produced just
days before the last transmission from the MV Mi Amigo of the British
East Coast, early March 1968. Letters were coming in up till late March
asking for more info and the brochure about the flats. The original
address from Caroline, at Singel 160, was used, as well as one at
Bieschbosch in Amstelveen, a place not far away from Amsterdam. Also I
found back a bunch of letters, concerning the same issue 'flats to rent
in Spain' in an envelope whereby a typed memo was found, written by Nan
Richardson, who - together with her husband Don, were mainly were doing
the daily running of the office in Amsterdam till the end of March 1968.
You can see that the letter was sent to a certain 'Jim'. Who can tell us
more about this 'flat project' as well as Jim Houlihan. I think it's the
same person who once was the personal guard for Ronan O'Rahilly and was
on the MV Mi Amigo for some time in the seventies. Who can tell more?
Hi Hans.
Thanks very much for another interesting report - I always look forward
to reading this. Steve Beddard's question relating to the Caroline
South's programme schedule on
14th August 1967 prompted me to look up my radio notebooks, which
I hadn't looked at properly in nearly 40 years! I've rediscovered all
sorts of things I never knew I still had, such as my old Caroline Club
membership card, letters from Caroline North DJs Mike Marriott, Tom
Lodge and DLT! It's taken me 3 hours of interesting distractions to be
able to reply to the question! Anyway, my notes for the day show the
following for Caroline South:
0000 Kilroy
0600 Keith Hampshire
0900 Roger Day
1200 Tom Edwards/Johnnie Walker (the final UK tender arrived during the
show)
1500 New DJ to Caroline: RWB (Ross William Brown)
1800 Robbie Dale
2100-2400 Johnnie Walker
The tender took off Killroy, Keith Hampshire and Tom Edwards for the
last time and Roger Day to get his passport renewed. Hope this helps. As
a matter of interest, I don't know whether anyone is looking for the
following information, but quickly looking through my notes for 1970, I
see that I have jotted down complete chart listings for RNI for many
months during 1970. I would be happy to share/add these into the
appropriate archives if anyone wants them.
Finally, I've decided to go to the Radio Day for the first time this
year. I plan coming over on early Saturday morning and staying over in
Amsterdam for a few days - I wonder where people are staying because it
would be nice to spend some time in the evening with my fellow anoraks
after the main proceedings for the Radio Day have been concluded. If
anyone wants to contact me, my e-mail address is
alan@tinkster1949.demon.co.uk.
Best wishes Alan Milewczyk
Thanks Alan and I hope to shake hands with you too on November 4th.
Another answer comes from Holland and reader Rob Gerritsen: ‘I remember
the programming after 3 in the afternoon with RWB till 6 in the evening.
This followed till 9 with Robbie Dale. Then Johnny Walker who also went
the first minutes into illegality after midnight. But what happened
after midnight? Carl Mitchell arrived at a later stage. I do remember
Ross Brown was a new lad on the ship and didn’t paid attention to the
law on Caroline South. It was
Robbie
Dale who came in a few minutes after three in the afternoon to say
goodbye to the guys at Radio London and also asked for some silence. I
still recall this and I must say at that stage, in 1967, I was a young
boy going to school and it really did hurt that the British Government
did act against our stations.
August 14th 1967 was remembered again this year on several radio
stations as well on internet radio. Keith Skues was on BBC Eastern
Countries Radio with his Pirate Skues Radio and brought an old episode
from BBC Radio 1 series ‘The story of pop’ called ‘From ship to shore’.
Also many other station paid attention, this after 39 years!
From Dick Offringa an internetsite to click: site from Alan Bailey -
www.208itwasgreatradioluxembourg.co.uk
It’s about a new book about the rich history of the station and is more
than an inside look. A must for those who have good memories to the
station of the stars. In a later issue of the Knot International Radio
Report I will tell you more about the book as the publishers will sent
me a review copy
In
last issue I asked you who was the crewmember or deejay on the photo,
which was made in 1965 on the
Radio Syd ship Cheetah 2. Well a lot of answers and almost
everybody thought to know the guy. However there were only a few who had
the correct answer and the first one who had it right was Oeds Jan
Koster from Holland. Well we all know the man on the photo in last
issue, as it was a very young Mick Jagger who made, together with fellow
Rolling Stones in that year, a trip to the ship of the Swedish coast.
Another Stone on board Radio Syd, Brian Jones
(Archive Martin van der Ven)
Hello Hans, ’I want to ask if you do remember the deejay or crewmember
on the next photo which was for a short period on the radio ship of
Radio Syd in 1965’, you asked in the early August Radio report. Well,
the answer is Mick Jagger. There are several pictures in the same serie,
I've been told. This spring Swedish Television showed a program called
‘Rolling like a stone’ This program was a documentary and contained
several private films taken in Malmö/Sweden in 1965. One of them was
taken when the Rolling Stones visited Radio Syd. Here is a link to SvT:
http://svt.se/svt/jsp/Crosslink.jsp?d=6107&a=551867&printerfriendly=true
Regards, Per Alarud
In last issue I wrote: ‘This time a shorter issue of the Knot Report,
due to the fact I was too busy’.
A response and question on that came in: ‘hahahah you put out more
material than anybody! how long does it take you each month? hour a day?
What ever happened to Rick Dane? emp
Well about Rick Dane I
took a look at the Pirate Hall of Fame: ‘There seems to be some
confusion as to where and when Rick was born. Who's Who In Pop Radio
says it was Cape Town, South Africa. John Venmore-Rowland's Radio
Caroline claims Port Louis, Mauritius, on 22nd February 1941. A 1967
profile in the New Musical Express says Mauritius but prefers the birth
year of 1945. The article also gives his real name as Randall Gautier.
All agree that, while still a teenager, he worked on Springbok Radio in
South Africa as well as comparing touring pop package shows. Rick came
to England and studied acting at the Webber Douglas Academy, performing
in a stage version of The Knack and acting alongside Vanessa Redgrave in
The World's Baby at London's Royal Court Theatre. After a spell as
resident DJ at the Wimbledon Palais and a brief stint on Radio City,
Rick joined Radio Caroline in early 1966. He worked on both ships and
had a couple of different theme tunes: All For You by Earl Van Dyke and
In The Midnight Hour by Little Mack and the Boss Sound. He was involved
in a drama at sea when, in May 1966, he helped rescue two female sailors
when their catamaran got into trouble near Caroline South. After he left
the ship at the end of 1966, Rick continued to be heard on the station
via the pre-recorded Lucky Birthday Bonanza competition. He was involved
in the promotion of concerts at London's Saville Theatre, then owned by
Beatles manager Brian Epstein, and was one of the many ex-pirates to
join Radio One at its launch in September 1967. He was a co-host on Top
Gear but did not stay with the station for long. He worked in club
promotion, both in the UK and on the continent, but, having lost touch
with him, we asked if anyone knew his present whereabouts. An anonymous
email arrived at the end of 2001 with the following information: “Rick
Dane aka Richard Gautier is now a very successful designer of nightclubs
with offices in Miami, Florida. He also supplies DJs to nightclubs all
over Europe especially Germany. He can be seen at the Miami Music
Conference each year as a speaker.”
Talking about the Pirate Hall of
Fame, after two months they have a wonderful update: ‘What's new
on the Hall of Fame this month? We remember Caroline North's Ric Jonns
with a long-lost interview; and following Radio 270's fortieth
anniversary, two more DJs from that station, Hal Yorke and Mike Hayes,
have contributed their memories (and, in Hal's case, some photographs).
See the newly updated feature; in June 2006 BBC Radio York celebrated
Radio 270's 40th anniversary with special programmes broadcast from a
the pleasure boat. We have photos. As always, the DJ Directory has
details of the site contents and news of the latest additions.’ So I
advice you to go at once to:
http://www.offshoreradio.co.uk
In last issue I mentioned the people at Monitor, department Guernsey,
were looking for a recording.
Some two weeks later this a mail came in from Guernsey: ‘I'd thought
that you'd like to know that your few lines in your last International
Radio Reports worked wonders, I've now got that missing recording of the
Radio Caroline Radio Nordsee International
Christmas Link Up of
1972. My thanks to Ian Biggar from Scotland for the valuable recording
of the Link Up from 03.51 to 04.55 which now I think completes our
missing section of recording from our Monitor Audio data base library.
He was also able to fill in some of our other blanks which I didn't know
existed recording wise concerning the year 1972. We traded recordings
from our Monitor Audio Library which he did not have in his audio
library. I spoke with him on the landline and found out that he worked
with the late Daffy Don Allen and I think the other great Allan non
other than Tony Allan, in Ireland. He no longer is in the broadcasting
field and now works for a Telecommunications company in Scotland. One
other detail he now lives very close to where the old light ship Comet
(Radio Scotland 242 fame) was anchored and broadcasted from. Ian is one
person I will stay in touch with as he certainly has a very large data
base of recordings from our Broadcasting Fleet of old. Thanks again Hans
for your wonderful help and my thanks also to Dr. Martin van der Ven who
wrote to you about my problems.’
Oké Robert good to know also you became a bit happier with the help of
our readers. Also Ian wrote in himself with another subject: ‘Hi Hans, I
was having a chat with my old mate Paul Graham the other day and the
conversation got around to days gone by, as it normally does! We were
talking about the old landbased pirate World Music Radio that operated
on short wave from the Netherlands during the late 60's and early 70's.
Paul well remembered listening to them on a Sunday, but unfortunately I
got my first short wave receiver the month after they were raided, in
August 1973. I did eventually hear them from other locations like
Andorra, Italy and Ireland, but sadly missed their true pirate days.
Paul and I did agree that it is hard to get recordings of WMR from that
pirate period and it would be nice to have some to remember the station.
Therefore I was wondering if any readers have some tapes of the original
World Music Radio in their collection. I would be glad to buy, swap or
whatever.
Thanks Hans, Ian.’
Well I hope that also on this subject someone has the answer (in this
case some recordings of WMR) and can reflect to the Knot International
Radio Report.
I had some fun receiving the next e mail from Australia: ‘Now you and
Graham Gill aren't the only guys outside the US and UK with a Swinging
Radio England Reunion t-shirt from Rick Randall. Well, I guess Sven has
one up in Norway. too. Also not sure if Colin Nichol received one as
well since Rick offered the last remaining two samples to the Down under
veterans. Mine arrived a few days ago and I wore it to my wife's art
gallery opening last night in Port Adelaide. That's her on the left and
the other woman, Gay Lewis, acted in the play (‘Separate Tables’) I
helped produce and direct last month. The tire, by the way, has a floral
design instead of tread and is one of Melanie's most talked about
pieces.
best regards, Jack Curtis.’
A question from Letty van Stouten. She was surfing the web lately to see
if there were any memories to
Radio Delmare and her late brother Rob van Stouten, who worked as
Rob van der Meer some stint on Radio Delmare in the late seventies.
Sadly Rob passed away in 1993. One thing she missed, up till now, is a
videorecording of a VOO special about Delmare. In this recording her
brother is jumping into the sea. She would love to have a copy. Please
if you have sent Letty an e mail:
lettylief@hotmail.com
From far away as New Zealand the next mention: ‘Hi ! Today I visited the
Radio Hauraki website
www.hauraki.co.nz
If you visit click on the history button and you will view a slide show
and also you can listen live also. Regards David Miller.’
An e mail from Enschede, near the German border in eastern Holland.
‘Thanks for another interesting radio report with memories from the good
old days. A pity to read that
Quality Radio has lost four of their frequencies. I think the
medium wave is getting lesser interesting. A very good golden oldie
station seems far away now and everything runs around a lot of money.
Well we still have Radio Waddenzee, a pity they are only on 1 kW, while
Radio Vittoria from Spain – which uses the same frequency (1602kHz)
comes sometimes in very good and often makes it very unpleasant to
listen to our Dutch station. Hopefully this will change when the signal
comes from the ship one day. Greetings, Martin van der Valk.’
Thanks Martin and hopefully a dream comes true when the signal of
Waddenzee will come in stronger at your place. Next e mail comes from
England.
‘Hi Hans, it's been a while since we met at one of the reunions but
great to be kept in touch via your informative newsletters. Goodness
knows how you
keep up with it all. Could you please note my change of address as above
to be used from now on as the old one will shortly cease to be. Thanks,
wouldn't want to miss anything. Cheers, Pauline Miller.’
Thanks for the nice words Pauline. I met Pauline, who is also an avid
lover of the real Big L, for the first time in 1997 at an RSL in the St.
Katherine’s Dock in London. Second time was in 2002 when the Big L
reunion took place in London. Keep enjoying the report Pauline!
Late 1984 Radio Caroline got on the Ross Revenge a sister station called
Radio Monique. The Dutch station partly paid the running costs (well
most of them) for the Caroline organisation and brought us – like every
radio station – good as well as bad presenters. In the category ‘good’
we can put Jan Veldkamp.
He nowadays is working for Omroep Zeeland, the regional station in the
Province of Zeeland. And I think they must be happy that have Jan
Veldkamp (Parent which is his real name) within the team. Next to that
Jan is very fond on sports. He can be seen on his bike very often in the
South Western Part of
Holland
but also in other countries during the summer. This year his cycling
trip ended in the surrounding of Nice, in France. And that made visit
him to the home of Marjo and
Leen Vingerling who did a part of the tendering of the Ross
Revenge in the eighties. So they once again shared a lot of memories.
Leen wrote me that, after more than 25 years, Jan Veldkamp still has a
daily memory to his time in international waters.
Leen Vingerling and Jan Veldkamp
Another former Monique deejay had lately some contact with John
Kotschack, the son of former Radio Nord director
Jack Kotschack. I’m
talking about Walter Zwart (now Sky Radio) and known as Walter Simons on
some stations, including Monique. He’s very interested in the MV Mi
Amigo which had some other names before that. He was interested in the
flag problems and learned that history is rewritten on some internet
sites. Here’s what he learned from Sweden: ‘Dear Walter, when Radio Nord
started the name of the ship was Bon Jour (formerly Olga and
Margaretha). But it's correct that the Swedish government put pressure
on Nicaragua to withdraw its flag. On March 19, 1962 she was granted a
flag from Panama and at the same time changed her name to Magda Maria.
This provisional permit was renewed on the 25 of May, 1962. You don't
have to be in doubt about this as I have in my possessions the documents
from Germanischer Lloyd and the general consulate of Panama in Hamburg
that prove these dates. Best regards, Jan Kotschack.’
A few issues ago I mentioned that it was party time in England as Roger
Day was 40 years in radio. Some of the photos made at one of the two
parties can be seen at:
http://www.offshore-radio.de/images3/rogerday/
Our cat Ollie was very happy again to go after a
bird in the garden
lately. Not that he catched the birdie but you could see he had some
fun. It suddenly brought back some memories to the photo my good friend
Marc Jacobs sent me some months ago from the bird onboard the MV Mi
Amigo. But it wasn’t the only bird on the ship. Let’s go back to May
27th 1976, some days before Marc would enter the Mi Amigo for the very
first time. In my archive I found the report Monitor Magazine made: ‘We
were informed that a pigeon had arrived on board and was being fed and
sheltered by the captain. A few days later, two more birds arrived. By
June 15th there were no less than seven birds on board. And none had
left at all. Stuart Russell read out a report during his afternoon show
that day: ‘We had one arrive on May 27th, the right leg ring has a
colour and a number as you obviously know. The colour on the right leg
is blue and the number is NU75E63104, and on the left ring, a white
rubber band, the number 416. This pigeon has a light grey body, two
black lines on the wings and a dark grey tail.’ Then on June12th 1976
another four pigeons showed up onboard the MV Mi Amigo. The right leg of
one of the birds had a silver ring with the number NL7346538 and the
left ring had a white band, but unfortunately we can’t make out the
number on that. The description on the bird: it’s grey, black spotted
body and the edge of the tail and the wings are black. Another has a red
ring on the right leg with the number NL75149917 and so on’ Stuart
chatted on for a few minutes and told at the end nine pigeons were on
the ship and save and well treated. June 20th once again the pigeons
were part of the program, this time it was Tom Anderson put out an
appeal for some pigeon food to be sent out to the Ross Revenge – before
the personnel on board ran out of food for themselves! Some days later
the amount was 15 pigeons and the captain decided to made some handiwork
with the making of nesting-boxes on deck the Ross Revenge.’ While typing
out this segment of the report I recalled myself the story I once heard
of one the deck mates on the MV Fredericia in the mid sixties. On the
ship for Caroline North there was a captain who once decided to have his
own chickens on board. Well who within the readership of the Knot
International Radio Report can tell me more about the chickens or other
animals on the radio ships: hknot@home.nl
More sports as onboard the MV Mi Amigo, the same year 1976. The captain
had invested in expensive gear to ‘go go fishing’. Not only the captain
but also a few of the crewmembers and deejays. They went for baby sharks
who were around near the Frinton on the Naze coast in those days. Late
Samantha Dubois complained a lot when the captain caught a baby shark
and killed it. Some of the crew members however were quite unsympathetic
as they attempted to justify the action by telling that there are more
sharks in the sea than people on earth!
Philip Fieoen from Belgium asked me in an e mail if he could get a plug
for his own website about offshore radio:
http://users.skynet.be/miamigo.
A pity Philip has taken photos from the web from several other
people without mentioning the official source.
Another question from Belgium came in: ‘What is known about the
listeners to offshore radio station behind the
Iron Curtain? I know some
of the readers are living in that area and could possible bring in their
own story. As always to Hknot@home.nl
When I had written, in cooperation with some other people, the book ’20
Years Radio Caroline’ it was mentioned on the station, including my
personal address. I did get a few orders from Eastern Germany, Poland as
well from one listener to Caroline in Moscow. He asked me to get a free
copy as it was impossible for him to sent in IRC’s or dollars. After
about 9 month I got a thank you card from the person. I also do remember
AJ Beirens mentioned listeners in the former Eastern Europe in his
program ‘RNI goes DX’ in the seventies. Maybe AJ, as a reader of the
Knot International Radio Report, can come with his memories about this
subject?
Another question from the same guy was if the Volans, the ship who
helped when the MEBO II was on fire (May 15th 1971) had something to do
with the ship Volans, which was near the Ross Revenge in August 1989
when the raid on the ship took place. Well I can tell you that it is
indeed the same ship.
Laser Deejay DL Bogart had another
nickname ‘Europe’s most
desired single man’ and this with thanks to Jan Fré Vos, who did sent it
in after hearing some old recordings.
Then an e mail from Steve in England: ‘Thanks Hans for another
informative report. Did you see the one I wrote, and the pictures, of
the Roger Day evening in Margate at
www.offshore-radio.de? I have also written one about my trip to your
country for Bospop 2006.’
Well
you can have yourself a look there. Another very interesting story with
many unique photos as well as air-checks can be found on the same page
and is called: ‘Ständig auf Empfang. Ein nostalgischer Rundblick auf die
Seesender’. It’s the ultimate story how Martin van der Ven wrote down
his personal memories to the radio listening through the years and
remembered very well the places and countries where he was at certain
historic moments. Although in German everyone can get some nice time
visiting this story.
www.offshore-radio.de
Young Martin (Archive Martin van der Ven)
Can I give myself a plug? Yes on
www.hansknot.com a new
story can be found when you click on the photo which shows a 12 years
young Hans Knot and a record player you can find the story telling my
first 25 years in love with the radio.
Archive Hans Knot
Some people go, some come and other make a comeback. Sad to hear that
the VARA Radio has
decided to end a long series of programs called ‘Off the record’ on
Radio 2. It was on the station every Saturday between 11 in the evening
and 1 in the night an highlighted American music. It was very popular.
Due to the fact the public radiostation are getting lesser money a lot
of interesting programs have been dropped after summer. ‘Off the record’
was well presented by Mart Smeets. He is known by Offshore Radio Lovers
from the program ‘AD Sport en Sportwereld’ which was on RNI in the
seventies. He is also on TV for several decades as anchor man on the NOS
Sport Program.
Since August 12th listeners to the regional station Radio Gelderland can
listen to Eddie Becker,
returning to the radio. He presents on Saturdays and Sundays ‘Weekend
Retour.’ It can be heard from 13 up till 15. However it’s only for three
weeks. Eddie is sitting in for Tom Blomberg, who is on holiday. Tom is
as well as Eddie a reader of the Knot International Report and are both
avid radio lovers for many years. Eddie was a very popular Veronica
deejay in the sixties. Later he worked for VARA as well as NCRV, both
Public stations and in the early nineties also was heard on Holland FM.
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The German Radio Day
DER 6. ERKRATHER RADIOTAG AM 9.SEPT. 2006
An diesem Samstag veranstalten wir wieder das Treffen für Radiomacher
und Hörer in den Räumen des Observatoriums . Die Veranstaltung findet
von 14.00 Uhr bis 21.00 Uhr der Sternwarte Neanderhöhe SNH, in 40699
Erkrath statt. Einlass ist ab 12.00 Uhr. Programmpunkte:
-Kurzwelle mit Relais : MV BalticRadio und Radio Marabu.
-Eine Expedition zum Red-Sands Fort in der Themse-Mündung. Im Sommer
besuchten drei deutsche Offshore-Fans diese Anlage. Die künstliche Insel
diente in den sechziger Jahren als Basis für die Station Radio 390.
Inzwischen kümmert sich eine Stiftung in England um den Erhalt des
Forts. Robin Adcroft von der Stiftung und Graham Gill, seinerzeit als DJ
bei Radio 390 tätig gewesen, sind Gäste unserer Veranstaltung .
-Bürgerfunk in NRW: hat die Zukunft schon begonnen? Die Regierung von
NRW beabsichtigt eine Neuregelung des Bürgerfunks in einer Novelle des
Landesmediengesetzes. Dazu wird die "Volpers-Studie" gern von der
Politik und der Landesmedienanstalt in ihren Schlußfolgerungen
zitiert.Wenn man die Studie liest, dann muß man nicht zwingend zu den
gleichen Schlußfolgerungen kommen. Zur Klärung der IST-Situation und zur
Erläuterung der politischen
Zielsetzung erwarten wir eine spannende und hochaktuelle
Diskussionsrunde für
die beiden Verbände des Bürgerfunks in NRW, LBF und IGR, ihre Teilnahme
zugesagt haben. Veranstaltungsort: Vom Düsseldorfer Hauptbahnhof aus
fährt man mit der S -Bahn Linie S 8 in Richtung Hagen Wuppertal bis
Haltepunkt Hochdahl-Millrath, geht dann in Fahrtrichtung an der
Landstraße bis zum Hausmannsweg. An diesem liegt nach ein paar hundert
Metern das Observatorium. Die Anfahrt mit dem Auto ab der Autobahn
Abfahrt Haan-West der A 46 ist im Ort Erkrath ausgeschildert. Es gibt
auch einen Lageplan unter
http://www.sternwarte-neanderhoehe.de oder
http://www.radiocaroline.de
Der Eintritt beträgt 9.-EURO ( 5,- EURO für Mitglieder der Caroline
Support Group ). Voranmeldung oder Rückfragen bitte an:
Jan Sundermann , Millrather Weg 74 , D -40699 Erkrath.
e-mail :
jansundermann@fastmail.fm
Telefon : 0171 - 492 5829
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When going to Dublin, to visit our son Pim, Jana and I made the trip
with a plane from Schiphol Airport to Ireland. It was very nice to have
a short talk with Robbie Dale
and his wife Stella, who were sitting in front of us at the airbus. Will
have a longer talk soon. Hope you had a good time in Ireland too.
Sad to announce that on August 16th
Krijn Torringa died after
a long fight with cancer. Krijn became 66 and was first part of the duo
‘Bob and Brenda’ on Veronica. Brenda became his later wife (Freda) and
they were both successful in the sixties on Radio Veronica. He left for
AVRO radio and tv in the seventies and made a long career in radio as
well as presenting the radio and tv programmes ‘Hollands Glorie’ and
‘Top Pop’. In the nineties he was back on offshore radio by presenting
programs on Radio 819. During the last years he was doing programs on
regional and local radio. A special ‘goodbye’ to Krijn was held at the
Arke football stadium in Enschede, where he was stadium speaker during
the last years too. Speeches were held by several people including
Father Abraham (Pierre Kartner) and former AVRO and Veronica colleague
Cees van Zijtveld.
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Krijn Torringa 1973 (photo Hans Knot) | Krijn 2001 (photo Hans Knot) |
Internetradiostation Radio Mi
Amigo 192 will be ‘on air’ from a radioship, MS Fortuna,
remembering the days of Offshore Radio. The station claims to be a
follow up from which was once the offshore radio station Mi Amigo. It is
this year 32 years ago the Dutch law against the offshore station came
in. Mi Amigo went on transmitting her programs up till 1979. On
www.radiomiago.eu the trip with the Fortuna can be listened to between
August 30 at 18 hrs Dutch time up till late in the evening of August
31st. Known voices from then, including Peter de Vries, Ad Roberts,
Hendrik van Nellestijd, Ferry Eden, Ad Roland and Erik de Zwart can be
heard. Also, if weather conditions are good, the signal will be relayed
on 1224 kHz, one of the Quality Radio Frequencies from Ruud Poeze.
Just before closing this edition of the Knot International Radio Report
an e mail came in from ‘Young’
Paul Rusling: ‘I shall be fronting a programme on Offshore Music
Radio next Monday night (27th), straight after Coronation Street. No
doubt the old 'platforms at sea' jingle will be aired, along with a
Yorkie one too - not to mention some traditional Long Wave stuff ("The
Shopping Forecast" anyone?) . . . . and there is bound to be some Nancy
Sinatra, Shocking Blue, Earth & Fire, Zen, Chi Coltrane, and all those
other red hot girlies! Maybe that will give them something to talk about
on Digispy / YukOnAir & Anorak Nation ? I cannot say more or I shall be
accused of soliciting listeners.’
Next an e mail from Canada: ‘I was away for a few weeks on vacation and
I haven't seen any recent newsletters from you. Have I dropped off your
mailing list or have you been taking some time off too? I am still
hoping to attend the VOP reunion this year and have to start to make
arrangements for flight and
hotel. I was hoping you have some updated information. Look forward to
hearing from you soon and meeting you in person later this year.
Regards, John Thomson.’
Thanks John.
It’s August and yes I was on vacation too. And indeed the
Radio Day will take place
in Amsterdam within 3 months from now. For all the latest info, you can
go to a special site:
www.offshore-radio.de/radioday/
Well Paul have some fun. I’ll be back in some weeks with more goodies
and memories. Don’t forget to switch off as my radio still has batteries
and keep your memories and news coming to
Hknot@home.nl
Greetings
Hans Knot
Offshore Radio Programme Names - Programmanamen Zeezenders 1958-1990
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