tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8629712540274987213.post7768356675195550053..comments2022-04-04T03:47:52.823+02:00Comments on Getting High on Radio: 18. PIONEER STATIONS MERGEUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8629712540274987213.post-41611219419852310302018-03-29T16:14:05.804+02:002018-03-29T16:14:05.804+02:00I remember seeing a program listing for Radio Caro...I remember seeing a program listing for Radio Caroline and Atlanta programs in the press. Curiosity and fascination of a thirteen year old boy got the better of me and I tuned along the dial of dads radiogram. Two very weak signal around 200metres, but just about readable. How can I improve this I thought. Taking a large drum of household wiring cable, I attached one end to a tree at the bottom of dads garden and the other end to the radiogram aerial socket. This only improved reception on shortwave and gave very little improvement on Medium wave. Not to be outdone, I opened the back cover of the radiogram and wound three turns of wire around the internal ferrite rod aerial and connected the free end of the cable to the radiogram chassis. Luckily all was safe as the radiogram had a mains transformer, so all was safe! The result, a wonderful clear signal from Radio Caroline and Atlanta and when dads anger had subsided over what I had done to his radiogram, the start of many happy hours of listening to all the offshore stations by my mum, dad and all the family. It also heralded the start of a long and sucessful career for me in radio, TV and telecommunications. Since thereafter I started building, reapairing and collecting radio sets.Stevehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00618048135475993603noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8629712540274987213.post-49966609089906883022018-03-13T07:57:23.755+01:002018-03-13T07:57:23.755+01:00Back in 64 I lived 200 miles from radio Caroline o...Back in 64 I lived 200 miles from radio Caroline on Merseyside,it was just possible to pick up a weak signal .The signal got a lot stronger when one lunch time I checked to find it was now sai!ing off northWalesHAPPY DAYS.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17789530974627522593noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8629712540274987213.post-78933451304405781632018-03-12T11:13:26.393+01:002018-03-12T11:13:26.393+01:00Howard Bond
That's a great memory, Trevor. I ...Howard Bond <br />That's a great memory, Trevor. I was at school in Manchester in the cadet force signals platoon. We had a comms receiver which easily picked up both Atlanta and Caroline pre-merger. We were allowed into school on the Sunday to track Freddie's progress and watched in amazement as the signal strength meter kept going up. On the Monday she was off Anglesey and by mid afternoon off Ramsey. The signal was so strong, we had to trim the aerial.oronieuwshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09483866118726598030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8629712540274987213.post-36764501403443612112018-03-12T11:11:47.417+01:002018-03-12T11:11:47.417+01:00Trevor Goldsworthy
I still remember well Sunday 5...Trevor Goldsworthy <br />I still remember well Sunday 5th July standing in the sun on the cliffs at Perranporth on the North Cornish coast with my transistor radio and watching her sail past. The crew were on deck flashing the sunlight to us with mirrors. My teenage years, only 15 at the time.oronieuwshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09483866118726598030noreply@blogger.com