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Thank you, Jonathan Mark! I remember listening to your program with your unique voice when I was 14 in Morocco, using an AIWA radio cassette recorder. You’ve taken me back to the early 80s and 90s! I truly appreciate it!

Very nice

Very nice and informative.

What a brilliant interview. Dan's receiver collection is great to see....some really lovely items and it makes me realise that my own Short Wave RX collection / hoard isn't too much 😁 Thanks for posting this video. Fascinating.

Very informative

Radio Caroline’s signal reaches Northern Finland in Winter with just their 4kW transmitter. Orfordness is a great transmitter site.

It's a shame that AM has largely disappeared from view, it was a reliable method that would work in any emergency getting to the people who needed it. I have a Gospell DRM radio and get regular transmissions via analogue SW as well as high quality DRM from different parts of the world, there are a (minority) of broadcasters who still believe in analogue SW and DRM digital radio via that method, shame Europe and the UK has given it the heave-ho.

Radio Caroline now emit 4kw on 648khz and have applied for an increase to 16kw. Let's hope they get it, there's life in AM yet. However, back in the day, they had 50kw on a big red trawler, Ross Revenge. Would love to see that fired up again.

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I did wonder why I got such a good signal on Radio Caroline and then I looked at a map - it’s virtually a straight line from here in Rainham (Kent), over the pan-flat Hoo Peninsula and up the coast to Orfordness.

How do you explain this? I farm near Moreton-in-Marsh, on the Gloucestershire, Oxfordshire, Warwickshire border. One of my ‘Working Classic’ tractors is a 1992 Ford with its original Ford AM Long wave radios. It’ll pick up 648 metres as clear as a bell, yet any more modern type car radio that still has an AM receiver can hardly pick the 648 signal up. Why does that ancient radio work so well on 648, but nothing else does? I love listening to Radio Caroline and to listen to it on anything other than that tractor have to use ‘Tune In’ via Bluetooth to the vehicle radios. Or on ‘Alexa’ when indoors.

Radio Caroline now keeping 648 and the Orfordness history going.

Enjoyed this thank you

What ever happened to Deanna Johnson what did she end up doing?

Great interview so far Jonathan, but are you sure of your dates? At 6:23 Dan refers to it being 2017 but you say you did this interview in 2019.

Repeatedly astonishing, and I'm only 40 minutes in........ Thank you, Thank you...!

Graham was certainly in the right place given all his views.

Fascinating

Wow! I get to make the first comment. Thanks so much for sharing this interview. It is great to watch your videos. Reminds me of listening to Media Network. Thanks!

My best wishes for you Jonathan from Chile South America

So , nobody in Europe believe in propaganda ,scums and manipulation ?

Great video and good to Andy again! I left the FCO in 1985 and worked on high power RF systems for science for the next 20-years. Orfordness, Cyprus and Masirah were great places to be stationed.

Anyone know of an antenna definition (locations, dimensions, feeds etc.) or model for the antennas at this site?

Goodby world service welcome radio Caroline at last . Should have had a licence years ago

And now Apple/Google pay transactions are in their thousands every second.

GM4 HIG calling. Wonderful, and from my retired perch in Malta, I can hear Radio Caroline on MW from time to time from your wonderful site.

Fascinating. I could watch a couple of hours just on the antennas alone. Great work and thanks for presenting this. More please. from Tim in Mobile Alabama.

It is now 2022 and western countries are living to regret their abandonment of Short Wave services. Canada & Australia should be singled out and shamed. In the case of Canada the magnificent sight at Sackville New Brunswick, located on marsh land was taken down. I for one would like to know what happened to the transmitters, towers and miles of copper wire??? I sense wrong doing and would like conservatives to account for every penny of property taken down. Were the transmitters sold or just dumped somewhere ??? Did the money from copper wire go back to taxpayers or did it line the pockets of Conservative Party friends??? These are legitimate questions that have not been asked or answered by Tories?

Imagine building a new Short Wave Station with Nautel transmitters. Very little upkeep required.

Remember you from Media Network. Still dabbling in radio and electronics at 65! Wishing you and your family all the best in life. Stay safe and healthy and God Bless.

Documentary gem that stands out from the 'click-bait', informed, considerate and straight forward. Fascinating gentleman Andy (reminds me of a family friend who was a big influence for me, worked at TVNZ in the video room). Glad the British taxpayer had some use of this latest example of American corporate $90+ million swindle. OHR really was flawed and an attempt at primitive Remote Sensing. I'm sure what really ended OHR was the Apollo program, reliable launch-to-orbit and satellites. -Christchurch, New Zealand 1/22

Wow Jonathan, many thanks. Digital age pretty ended much of the technical world Andy and his colleagues (myself included) created and maintained. I seem to have followed Andy several decades on closing his systems down. The FCO 'Crowborough' transmitters Andy installed at BBC Ladies Miles in Cyprus, I started removal in 2001 after three decades of dutiful service to be replaced by American made solid-state transmitters and the BBC Masirah (Sultanate of Oman) services closed in ~2003 replaced by a new transmission site 150km away at A'Seela, the construction of which I project managed. I did meet Andy; our organisation was full of wonderfully talented people; he was one. Andy also mentions BBC Zygi in Cyprus. I passed by there the other week, it closed in 2013, has been demolished and partly returned to farmland. It is amazing how quickly the BBC HF & MF services disappeared replaced by the global super highway and GSM technologies. Technologies in which UK led much of the world are now pretty much redundant. Thank you for capturing a important part of it.

Access to this site reminded me of the several occasions I visited what was Radio Australia Darwin, or more correctly Cox Peninsula. This involved a 20 minute fast boat ride across Darwin Harbour to Mandorah, and then about a 15 minute bus ride from the southern end to the northern end of Cox Peninsula. As the shift period for the staff started and finished at the Darwin end of each shift, and the place was 'manned' from about 7am to 12 midnight local time, the cost of labour (with 3 men on each shift) was quite considerable!

I believe there is mixup in the video. Maybe time for a re-upload.

Great stuff - that ident still packs a punch...

Just a few days before his 80th birthday Wolf Harranth passed away. www.infosat.de/entertainment/jc-trauert-um-prof-wolf-harranth-orf-journalist-schriftsteller-und-bersetzer www.dokufunk.org/ OE1WHC hat für immer das Band verlassen…

Keep up the good work earth tv. Love the way you show the beauty of the world

Really interesting.

Jonathan, as always, wonderful to see the Series Two episodes, but it's been a few months again. Will you continue?

25:30 Mike Bullen ASIASCAN co host

Id say a VERY good thing lol cheers Rob

There will always be radio it’s pretty much impossible to put all stations off the air. The pirates will always be out there !

When the internet fails, hopefully radio is still alive. Unfortunately, most stations rely on internet for content.

Jonathan Marks ,thank you for sharing this historical document of RNW I miss night and morning shortwave broadcasts,forever in my mind.!!

Cyprus?! Did he just admit to being an engineer on the Lincolnshire Poacher numbers station?

Great video also great view of this enigmatic part of the east coast and Orfords huge sand spit... Home of Radar Nuclear Bomb testing Pagoda like buildings Cobra mist A river which changes name midway.. A superb East Coast Tiwn Alderborough Lost port of Blyth inland from Walberswick

Great video. Glad to see the Radio Museum in Cork featured, I'm a Cork native (no longer living there though) , and have been to that museum a few times. Great to see Jonathan Marks putting up this incredible content. As a Radio Netherlands DX Jukebox listener the 1980's, Radio Netherlands was one of the best Shortwave Stations on the air. I still have many of the printed content that they produced for Shortwave listeners - the DX Course, Antenna & Receiver guides etc. It was the golden era for shortwave radio, sad to see it disappearing.

Wonderful thank you very much. Sad to see the demise of these facilities, particularly here in Daventry. The place just isn't the same somehow.

13:33 the BUSBOY of radio history !!

I detect the small aroma of CIA money around 33:33