ICOMJAPAN: OFFSHORE RADIOS OF THE PAST Netherlands, Belgium, Scandinavia.

jeudi 10 août 2023

OFFSHORE RADIOS OF THE PAST Netherlands, Belgium, Scandinavia.

For part ONE Offshore radios in UK

https://icomjapan.blogspot.com/2023/08/offshore-radio-of-past.html

For part THREE Offshore radios in USA, Midlle East and Asia

https://icomjapan.blogspot.com/2023/08/offshore-radio-pirate-radios-from-usa.html

Netherlands and Belgium

Radio Northsea International -also targeted British and (occasionally) German listeners

Radio and TV Noordzee

Radio Veronica

Radio Monique

https://radiomonique.am/?fbclid=IwAR2JtBugu_CYAytkgftnRqZdjAkQo4jd63ZPTU-9uMfCh_TkCEC42ClqsQA

Radio Atlantis

https://www.radiomiamigo.international/english/sw-frequencies.html

Radio Delmare

Capital Radio

Radio 819

Radio Antwerpen aka Radio Uilenspiegel
https://www.techniekvantoen.nl/radio-antwerpen/

Radio 227

https://www.techniekvantoen.nl/radio-condor/

OFFSHORE RADIOS FROM SCANDINAVIA

Scandinavia

Radio Nord (Sweden)

http://www.ungermark.se/mediaradionordeng.html

https://radionowandthen.weebly.com/conversation-central/radio-nord-sweden

Radio Syd (Sweden)

Radio Mercur (Denmark and Sweden)

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1565751103518945

Part ONE Offshore radios from UK

https://icomjapan.blogspot.com/2023/08/offshore-radio-of-past.html

LINKS

It is therefore almost impossible to imagine that it was ever different. What was the broadcasting situation like in Europe at the end of the 1950s – the beginning of the era of offshore transmitters?

All radio stations at that time were owned by government or quasi-government agencies. (BBC, BRT, WDR, etc). The Netherlands was more or less an exception with its system of broadcasting associations that were allocated airtime based on membership numbers, but the system as such held a strict monopoly on the use of the airwaves, which was jealously guarded.

Commercialism was taboo: the broadcasts were paid for from the state treasury or through a compulsory listening fee, which meant that you had to pay per set (the same applied to television). Listening “black” was punishable.

The broadcaster mainly concentrated on the AM bands: long wave, medium wave and short wave. FM served to support long and medium wave and often broadcast the same programs, in better sound quality.

There were more transmitters than available wavelengths, so they had to be distributed as well as possible to avoid mutual interference as much as possible. In 1948 the “Copenhagen Plan” came into effect. This regulated the frequency spacing between the transmitters (9KHz) and distributed the available wavelength as fairly as possible among the European candidates. The “scarcity in the ether”, in later years often an argument to kill unwelcome ether activities, was a reality. Nevertheless, by the mid-1960s many new and legal transmitters had managed to find a place somewhere (and not always with low power). So the ether was full.

https://www.techniekvantoen.nl/zeezenders/

https://sixtiescity.net/Radio/PirateStations.shtm

Other links

https://web.archive.org/web/20060212144652/http://www.cracksman.connectfree.co.uk/index.htm

http://www.offshore-radio.de/fleet/index.html

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