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Radio Atlantis 02-08-1974 23:40-00:45 Dave Owen

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1974.08.02  23:43-00:00  Radio Atlantis  Midnight special  Dave Owen

1974.08.03  00:00-00:48  Radio Atlantis  Midnight Special Dave Owen

Gr. Rony

Thanks Ben.

A great recording of Dave Owen, one of my favourite presenters of all time. It's interesting as this was the first day on 229 metres as reported by Monitor magazine number 7.

There was a minor catastrophe on August 1st when, at approximately 17.30 BST, a fault occurred in the oscillator of the transmitter destroying the 962 kHz crystal (crystals are very fragile things - precision made, which have to be handled with extreme care). It was thought that it would be a good idea to use a variable frequency oscillator, by which means, the transmitter could have been tuned up to roughly 312 metres; but the idea was abandoned when it was found that there were insufficient parts on the ship to make a sufficiently good VFO that would keep the stability of the radio station on channel, exactly 962 kHz. Had an unstable oscillator been used it could very easily have interfered with nearby stations. Therefore, Adriaan van Landschoot was contacted via the ship-to-shore link, and it was put to him than an oscillator could be made to keep the station on around about 312 metres. The situation was explained to him about the lack of stability of such an oscillator with the parts to hand, so it was decided, instead, to use a crystal that they had for the split-frequency of 1317•5 kHz. Frantic activity by Andy Anderson got the station back on the air by about 00.05 BST the following day, on, what was announced as 229 metres. They were to remain on this channel until the 10th when the 1317•5 kHz crystal became intermittent due to a manufacturing fault. This necessitated a further frequency change, and we awoke on the 11th to find that they had moved to 1313 kHz, however, this channel was prone to heavy interference after dark from a 100 kW transmitter at Stravanger in Norway.

Ben het vergeten. Hoe ging het verder met de frequentie tot 31 augustus 1974? Aan een frequentie tussen twee frequenties in "herinner" ik niet.

1 uur geleden zei scotty:

Thanks Ben.

A great recording of Dave Owen, one of my favourite presenters of all time.

Thanks for the info, Ian!

I also very much like Dave's presentation style. What I noticed in this recording is that he uses the word "me" instead of "my" and I recognised that. Because I used a part of his program of the next morning (early on August 3rd) at the start of this film of Kurt Sellenthin:

3 augustus3 aug bewerkt door Ben

3 uur geleden zei Helmut:

Ben het vergeten. Hoe ging het verder met de frequentie tot 31 augustus 1974? Aan een frequentie tussen twee frequenties in "herinner" ik niet.

Radio Atlantis were mainly on 1313 kHz until August 31st 1974.

Double two nine voor de laatste maand. Special offer this week: Atlantis on 229, uiteindelijk toch een maand rondom deze golflengte. De nieuwe golflengte was niet zo leuk voor de mensen aan boord van de Mebo II. Ze konden Atlantis niet meer horen, dixit Michael O aka AJ.