Some of the stations mentioned, including Pan American Radio, are listed in the 1960 edition of the WRH, but according to http://www.portalmundos.com/mundoradio/historia/decada50.htm they were not on the air at the time. At http://www.ctv.es/USERS/josemolina/pagina13.htm one can see a couple of old adverts and a few station names. Among other Moroccans were Radio Dersa, Tetu�n (Spanish Morocco) and the US Navy and Air Force stations at Fort Lyautey, Kenitra and Nouasseur, all of which were rather commonplace on MW at the end of the 50�s. Henrik Klemetz
--- Jari Savolainen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> skrev: > Hi Bob, Henrik and Bernd. > Many thanks for your comments and info. > From the IBRA history > http://www.ibra.org/info/historia.html > I got the impression that they build the new > transmitter > site at Pirate Hill, but were actually operating > under the > license of Radio Africa group? > I guess WTAN/Voice of Tangier had it's own > transmitters. > Also Finnish programs were aired by some religious > stations > and at least one Finnish company (Paulig) had it's > commercial > program (maybe only tests) transmitted on sw from > Tanger. > I don't know which station they used. > WRTH 1960 still lists under Tanger the R Africa > group, > Pan American stations, R Tanger and Voice of Tanger. > And of course VOA. I guess this was last listing of > these > private stations. I haven't got the 1961 and 1962 > books. > > 73, Jari > ------- > Henrik wrote: > > Several stations had facilities of their own. On of > the stations > that closed down on Oct 29 1956 when Tangier lost > its international > status was Pan American Radio. They were on MW, same > channel as > H�rby, and sw 7290. According to their printed > schedules and > illustrated pamphlets, they regularly received > reception report from > all over the world to their offices at the Pan > American Building, > 16, Delacroix, in Tangier. They had regularly > sceduled programs in > Spanish, English, French, Italian, Arabic and Hindu. > I have a QSL > from 1955. > In 1955 some receiver manufacturers, such as the > Swedish Philips and > Dux companies were conducting test transmissions > from Tangier under > the auspices of a company called Intercontinental > Radio Company S.A. > The idea was to start commercial programing from > Tangier. Shortwave > listening in Sweden was seething at the time, with > tens of thousands > of people regularly tuning in to foreign stations > while the sole > national network, the state owned non-commercial > Radiotj�nst, was > having a break (2 hours in the morning, 2 hours in > the afternoon and > also from 2230 to 0600). Finally a few religious > broadcasters, > notably Ibra Radio, started broadcasts from Tangier. > They were > refused the right to operate from Swedish soil. The > Swedish > government subsequently tried to stop their > broadcasts from Tangier > by witholding the funds Ibra Radio were sending to > Tangier to build > their premises. It was illegal to export this money, > about 2M Sw. > Crowns of the day, the government said. The banning > attempt was > thwarted by the members of the pentecostal church > who started to > send small individual contributions by mail to > Morocco. The > Moroccans had to open a special post office to take > care of all > these postal money orders. The activities of Ibra > Radio, Norea > Radio, The Voice of Tangier (WTAN) and the VOA > continued some time > after Tangier lost its international status. But in > Sweden the > Swedish monopoly stayed put. Only in the early 60�s, > in an answer > to pirate broadcasters Radio Nord and Radio Syd > (also banned), > Swedish radio listeners could enjou a national music > channel. For > political reasons, commercial or community radio in > Sweden would > remain banned for many more years. > Henrik Klemetz > > ---[Start Commercial]--------------------- World Radio TV Handbook 2005 is coming out. Preorder yours and support open communications for DXers: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0823077942/hardcoredxcom ---[End Commercial]----------------------- ________________________________________ Hard-Core-DX mailing list [email protected] http://dallas.hard-core-dx.com/mailman/listinfo/hard-core-dx http://www.hard-core-dx.com/ _______________________________________________ THE INFORMATION IN THIS ARTICLE IS FREE. It may be copied, distributed and/or modified under the conditions set down in the Design Science License published by Michael Stutz at http://dsl.org/copyleft/dsl.txt
