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Imagine it's 3am , sixty years ago.
3am, and you can't sleep. Radio Luxembourg has just shut down. Commercial TV has arrived in the UK, but it closed hours ago. The pirates are still years away.
What's on the radio? Anything? |
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3am, and you can't sleep. Radio Luxembourg has just shut down. Commercial TV has arrived in the UK, but it closed hours ago. The pirates are still years away.
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My mother used to listen to AFN, presumably from Germany. Would that have been around at 3am in the 1950s?
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3am, and you can't sleep. Radio Luxembourg has just shut down. Commercial TV has arrived in the UK, but it closed hours ago. The pirates are still years away.
What's on the radio? Anything? |
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3am, and you can't sleep. Radio Luxembourg has just shut down. Commercial TV has arrived in the UK, but it closed hours ago. The pirates are still years away.
What's on the radio? Anything? |
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1956. The BBC Home Service closed after the 11pm news and the Light Programme closed at midnight. Third Programme went to bed after the Stock Market Prices around ten past eleven. Luxembourg on 208 went as far as 2am but after that you didn't have many options. AFN was certainly one of them, but there was no 'World Service' under that name because in 1956 it was still the BBC General Overseas Service and was only on shortwave. The BBC European Service did use 232m and sometimes 1500m but mostly those wavelengths were used for programmes in German, French, Italian and Spanish.
You would undoubtedly find music somewhere on the dial from one of the overnight programmes on German radio but without any English links. |
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Just checked my 1958, 1961 and 1965 Handbooks and they all have AFN as 0500-0005 GMT. Next one I have is 1972 and that has them as 24 hours.
In 1958 Norddeutscher Rundfunk has an overnight programme on 971 Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday also carried by Westdeutscher Rundfunk on the same channel. RIAS Berlin is 24 hours on 683 as is Deutschlandsender East Germany on 728 and 782. Rome 845 is 24 hours with the Notturno dall'Italia programme 2235-0540 including newscasts in Italian, French, English and German. Can't spot anything else overnight in the European section. |
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Stack a few 45s on the Dansette.
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Just checked my 1958, 1961 and 1965 Handbooks and they all have AFN as 0500-0005 GMT. Next one I have is 1972 and that has them as 24 hours.
In 1958 Norddeutscher Rundfunk has an overnight programme on 971 Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday also carried by Westdeutscher Rundfunk on the same channel. RIAS Berlin is 24 hours on 683 as is Deutschlandsender East Germany on 728 and 782. Rome 845 is 24 hours with the Notturno dall'Italia programme 2235-0540 including newscasts in Italian, French, English and German. Can't spot anything else overnight in the European section.
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Presumably leaving the band more open to transatlantic DX, for those who wear their anoraks to bed?
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I do think there was at least some transatlantic DX at this point. I'm looking forward to a final golden age of DX if Europe shuts down it's AM services before the US.
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Just checked my 1958, 1961 and 1965 Handbooks and they all have AFN as 0500-0005 GMT. Next one I have is 1972 and that has them as 24 hours.
In 1958 Norddeutscher Rundfunk has an overnight programme on 971 Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday also carried by Westdeutscher Rundfunk on the same channel. RIAS Berlin is 24 hours on 683 as is Deutschlandsender East Germany on 728 and 782. Rome 845 is 24 hours with the Notturno dall'Italia programme 2235-0540 including newscasts in Italian, French, English and German. Can't spot anything else overnight in the European section. |
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I heard of music radio 77 WABC being heard in the UK back in the 60's/70's under the right conditions,never heard it myself,maybe someone on here did?
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Would you not just read a book? I would.
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I heard of music radio 77 WABC being heard in the UK back in the 60's/70's under the right conditions,never heard it myself,maybe someone on here did?
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Would you not just read a book? I would.
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Here's a poster advertising France-Inter's 24-hour service in 1966:
https://www.pinterest.com/pin/22940279325619713/ (If that link doesn't work: https://twitter.com/MediaHistoryNow/...48479943512064) |
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I guess most folks had more physically demanding jobs then rather than tapping on a keyboard so were probably genuinely knackered..
I guess there were things to listen too if you looked around. There wasn't much in the 70s and early 80s to be honest. Radio 2 & ILR would often play non needle time tripe. Seem to remember being awake at 4am once with a choice of some awful local band in session or Mrs Mills... |
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I guess most folks had more physically demanding jobs then rather than tapping on a keyboard so were probably genuinely knackered.
I only started listening in bed when a generous uncle gave me one of the first Grundig pocket transistors. This was MW only so no SW overseas service but I became a regular with AFN. I clearly remember listening early one evening (I was doing my exam revision in bed) when they announced that the president had been shot. Soon after they said he was dead and all regular programmes stopped. |
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Radio Moscow 1968
https://shortwavearchive.com/archive...45s0v7s2uhe54k https://shortwavearchive.com/archive...radio%20moscow Lots more on that site. |
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