 For the
third year in a row, Radio Waddenzee
and Radio Seagull
went offshore from 30th April to 16th May 2010. Both stations broadcast
from the radio ship Jenni Baynton, which was again moored 8 miles off
Harlingen in the northwest in the Netherlands.
The final offshore weekend on 15th and 16th May saw nostalgic Radio Seagull live broadcasts 24 hours per day with former offshore radio presenters Norman Barrington (Radio Seagull and Radio Caroline in 1973/74 from the MV Mi Amigo), Stevie Gordon (one of those having been rescued from the sinking Mi Amigo in March 1980), Chris Kennedy (a Radio Caroline mainstay on the Ross Revenge during the 1980s), Dave Foster (Caroline from the Ross Revenge and until today via satellite and Internet) who were supported by Mandy Morton and Andy Brooks. Besides station manager Sietse Brouwer there were radio technicians Walter Galle from Belgium and Alan Beech from the UK. Twice a day, the tender boat Ome Cor went out from Harlingen enabling radio enthusiasts to visit the watery wireless vessel. Like in 2008 and 2009, the broadcasts become a major success definitely transporting a real offshore radio feeling. Everyone on board was in a superb mood. Well done Sietse and friends, congratulations to you all!
Click here for
132 pictures
taken by Martin van der Ven, Jörg Krips, Norman Barrington and Christian
Willers. |
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The Amsterdam Radio Day
[Thursday
July 1st 2010]
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Statistics since April 28th 1999:
"The reason for true ship based, and of course fort based, offshore radio has always been that it is free of governmental control and interference." (Chris Edwards in Offshore Echo's Magazine Issue 98) |
| John Lennon on "offshore radio" (mp3-file, 65 kB) |
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"I can't understand the Government's attitude over the pirates. Why don't they make the BBC illegal as well - it doesn't give the public the service it wants, otherwise the pirates wouldn't be here to fill the gap. The Government makes me sick. This is becoming a Police State. They should leave the pirates alone. At least they've had a go, which is more than the BBC has done..." [George Harrison in an interview with Ray Coleman in Disc (August 6th, 1966).] |
