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Title : Radio North Sea International
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Another slow news packet day :(
I thought I'd send this article found on a website...
[www.simonmason.karoo.net/page12.html]
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Yodelling For The Cause
The Tyrolean Music Station
(the archetypal cloak and dagger transmissions, which, now over two
decades since its demise, still sends shivers down the spine when
heard on tape!)
Surely some of you remember those jolly German songs of the early 1970s
played every weekend at 1130 UTC on 6650/6425kHz. Usually the same
three of four German beer-drinking songs (with brass band accompaniment)
were broadcast followed by blank carrier until 1159 when an interval
signature, seven notes from the "Internationale" took us up to 1159,
after which it would speed up with a sense of urgency for the final
minute - a warning that messages were impending.
On the hour a strident military sounding German male voice would announce
several German names. Each name in turn, after a commanding "Achtung!"
then received a short message of five figure groups and all would finish
with "Ende!"
This was the usual format. Sometimes the songs were different, which must
have had some meaning to the initiated. Often, this was a warning for
messages of a different nature. These took the form of phrases.
The same live announcer would greet several named addresses with
'Gutentag! Hans, Adolf, Helmut", etc. and several very odd phrases were
then read out to all addresses together, e.g. (translated) "Our hen has
laid one egg", "The sunshine has faded", etc.
The yodeling would stop abruptly for the announcements, which were
repeated twice, again by cutting off the music. After the final repeat
he'd bid farewell to his listeners with "Auf wiedesehen!" and the usual
number messages would appear on the hour.
Technical hitches were frequent - tapes being rewound and set before start
time, loud clicks of toggle switches in the "studio", the wrong music being
played, then stopped, and sounds of fumbling with tapes being the correct
songs appeared, even coughs and sneezes, etc. Signal strength and audio
quality were excellent, however, and at times it sounded as if "he" was
just behind you!
Sometimes the two carriers stayed on after the Saturday broadcast ready for
Sunday's transmission, which always carried different messages. An early
Monday/Friday evening schedule on lower frequencies also existed, which
probably sent repeats. All this coincided with the life of Radio North Sea
International, the DDR-funded pirate ship whose real function was far
removed from entertainment. Late at night after closedown, their short wave
carriers sometimes remained on, and a few tracks of Tyrolean music would be
aired in the small hours. RNI's two Swiss directors were Stasi agents, and
their company MEBO provided the timer used in the Lockerbie bomb.
Was a sinister side to the operation. Was it a front for East German spying
activities and were the Swiss owners, Mr Meister and Mr Bollier Stasi
agents?
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