My Offshore Radio QSL Card Collection

The list below is a record of QSL cards that I have received during the years from offshore stations. I was an offshore fanatic at the time and spent lots of time searching the MW band for new stations. I even tried to get a job as technician with Radio Caroline, but my dream was never realised. Maybe as well, as I rarely cope with rough seas! However, as a jingle creator I managed to get my somewhat primitive jingles played on a couple of offshore stations! The data listed with each QSL card is the actual date, time and SINPO for the reception report. Two of the cards I had to create myself and send on to the stations and was lucky enough to get them verified and sent back to me. One of these exclusive cards is from Radio Nordzee and the other is an early Radio Caroline card.

All clips are my own off the air recordings in Danderyd just north of Stockholm, Sweden. Only the 1974 RNI clip, was taped in Sachseln, central Switzerland where I lived until 1978. The transmissions were all, except for the 1974 RNI clip, received on a TRIO 9R-59 and recorded on a Tandberg Model B43. The RNI clip was probably received on a Yaesu FR 101. The aerial was a originally a dipole for 40 m, but for most of the Radio London recordings I used a home made 1 meter square selective frame antenna to avoid interference. This antenna was so directive that I could phase out the local 150 kW Stockholm on 773 kHz, located some 20 km from my QTH, and receive Radio 390 on the same frequency! In Switzerland I used a 15 meter long wire in the attic of our apartment building. ZURÜCK ZU HOBBY-INHALT

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STATION NAME	ORIGIN	DATE OF REPORT	TIME (UTC)	QRG	SINPO
Radio Veronica	NL	10th August 1964	2308-2359 GMT	1562 kHz	4 4 4 3 3
Radio Caroline	GB	11th August 1964	0001-0116 GMT	1520 kHz	4 4 4 3 4
Radio London	GB	19th October 1965	1910-2002 GMT	1130 kHz	5 3 4 4 4
Radio 390	GB	2nd November 1965	2306-0002 GMT	773 kHz	4 4 4 3 4
Radio Caroline	GB	16th November 1965	1300-1330 GMT	1495 kHz	4 4 3 4 4
Radio Essex	GB	19th November 1965	0000-0109 GMT	1350 kHz	3 3 4 2 3
Radio Scotland	GB	8th January 1966	0000-0200 GMT	1241 kHz	4 4 4 3 3
Radio City	GB	26th July 1966	2223-2303 GMT	1034 kHz	4 3 4 3 4
Radio England	GB	5th September 1966	2237-2321 GMT	1320 kHz	5 5 4 4 4
Britain Radio	GB	15th September 1966	2100-2130 GMT	845 kHz	4 3 4 3 3
Radio Nordzee	NL	24th September 1970	0910-1003 GMT	9940 kHz	4 4 4 3 4
Radio Nordzee	NL	14th February 1971	1300-1500 GMT	6204 kHz	4 3 4 3 3
Radio Nordzee	NL	25th August 1974	0800-0957 GMT	6205 kHz	4 4 4 3 4

TOP	RADIO 390	Radio 390 from 2nd November 1965 on 773 kHz, 388 m		Station ID Station ID
TOP	RADIO CAROLINE NORTH	Radio Caroline North from 11/4/66 on 1520 kHz, 199 m		Clip 1965
TOP	RADIO CAROLINE NORTH	Radio Caroline North and South on 1169 kHz, 256 m and 1187 kHz 253 m
TOP	RADIO CAROLINE SOUTH	Radio Caroline South from 16th Nov. 1965 on 1495 kHz, 199 m		Station ID Johnnie Walker (1967)
TOP	RADIO CAROLINE	Radio Caroline from 11th Aug. 1964 on 1520 kHz, 197.5 m. Audio clips from the very beginning of July 1964, when she was steaming north from Harwich to Ramsey, off Isle of Man to become Caroline North. Caroline on the Web: http://www.radiocaroline.co.uk		Sailing Captain's message Station ID
TOP	RADIO CITY	Radio City from 25th July 1966 on 1034 kHz, 290 m		Station ID Station ID Station ID
TOP	RADIO ESSEX	Radio Essex from 1967 on 1349 kHz, 222 m		Vince Allen aircheck from October 1965
TOP	RADIO ENGLAND BRITAIN RADIO	Radio England and Britain Radio on one ship on 1320/845 kHz, 227/355 m		My own Jingle Jingle (1) Walker Walker leaving... Britain Radio Jingle
TOP	RADIO LONDON	Radio London (Big L) from 19th Oct. 1965 on 1133 kHz, 266 m		Wonderful News Station ID London after midnight
TOP	RADIO LONDON XMAS CARD	Radio London Radio London Christmas Card signed by Mark Roman
TOP	RADIO NORDZEE INTER- NATIONAL	Normal Edition QSL card from 14th February 1971 on 6204 kHz in the 49 meter band. This was the official start of the 49 m band service.
TOP	RADIO NORDZEE INTER- NATIONAL Special QSL Card	Radio Nordzee from 24th March 1971 on 6205 kHz, 49 meter band
TOP	RADIO NORTH SEA INTER- NATIONAL	Radio North Sea International from 24th Sep. 1970 on 9940 kHz, 31 meter band. Very special, one off QSL! It is from the close-down of the 31 m service on that day 1003 GMT.		Closedown on 9940 kHz
TOP	RADIO NORDZEE NORTH SEA GOES DX Special Close-down QSL card	Special QSL Card from 31st Aug. 1974 on 6205 kHz, 49 mb. Location given as 52N 10' 2'', 4E 12' 4''. From yet another close-down of RNI.		Station ID
TOP	RADIO SCOTLAND	Radio Scotland from 8th January 1966 on (1241 kHz, my record) 1236.5 kHz, 242 m. According to the broadcast were they at that time anchored 4 miles off Dunbar, Scotland. The transmitter was an Ampliphase 10-20 kW with a half-wave inverted V dipole arial.		Station ID Station ID
TOP	RADIO VERONICA	Radio Veronica from 10th Aug. 1964 on 1562 kHz, 192 m.

The QSL Cards I did not manage to get:
Radio Nord (SE)	Super reception from my Stockholm QTH, but for some reason I never managed to get their card! This picture is a photo I took of a Radio Nord QSL card. The photo was taken in 1965.	Lyssna! Jingle Station ID
Radio Syd (SE)	Heard a couple of times when travelling through Helsingborg in southern Sweden.
Radio 270 (GB)	Frequently heard at my location, but its signal was pretty full of interference.

SOME OTHER FUN STUFF:
Kosmonaut Nikolayev	Received just by chance on (about) 20008 kHz when he and his Vostok 3 passed over Scandinavia in the afternoon of the 13th August 1962. (Couldn't see him, though!) (48 kb)	Nikolayev
The East is red	The first Chinese satellite playing a Chinese chart topper! Heard on short wave near 20.0 MHz for a few weeks in the beginning of May 1970, until it went more and more weird and finally went dead. This recording is from 9th May 1970 in the afternoon. (87 kb)	Space music box

TV SNAP SHOTS FROM MY OLD QTH
CH 7 Norway 31st Oct. 1964 1400 Z	CH 2 USSR 8th June 1962 1015 Z	CH 2 RAI, Summer 1964

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