[Goanet] Radio Broadcasting in Portuguese Goa

[Stephen Dias]

Dear BC

I think there is no much truth in it. I may be wrong . But what I know is
that I saw the fighter jets coming directly to Emissora de Goa in Bambolim
and destroyed the AIR Goa and the flames were seen in full swing. That was
well planned. The jets must have done a good home work with the drawings
etc and knew exactly where this AIR Goa was airing news. Portuguese never
realized that this could have happened.I saw 3 jets from Portais where i
had gone for No.2  in the Neugui Nagar bund ( for shitting). Once the
explosion and fire took place I disappeared and whole our family left for
safety at our relatives places in Taleigao and there also another problem.
I was 17 years old and people told me that BNU-Panjim  ( Banco National
Ultramarino) brought Portuguese notes and burned them in Taleigao and many
managed to collect and became rich. I was told by my father not to step out
and remain at home. If I had gone I would also become rich.
Also we heard guns noises from a lone vessel  Afonso de Albuquerque naval
fighter vessel  gave a solid fight with the  Indian naval fleet.
What I want to say to BC is that the Portuguese transmitter AIR-Goa was
destroyed completely  and nothing could be salvage and taken to India. That
is wrong rumours which this gentleman Naguesh Bhatcar  said :

Quote:

 It was believed that the more powerful transmitter from the Portuguese
Emissora de Goa was dismantled and carted away to Delhi, shortly after
Liberation of Goa.

Naguesh Bhatcar

Senhor Bernado Colaco no transmitter was stolen by India troupes at that
time. Please tell Nagesh. Later we went and seen that the area where the
transmission was going on was destroyed completely as the fumes were seen
in sky up. May be some few parts from transmitter might have been stolen.
India have much better transmitters. These Portuguese ones are bsolete even
if it was there.

Stephen Dias



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Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2017 11:33:48 + (UTC)
From: Bernado Colaco <ole_...@yahoo.co.uk>
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Subject: [Goanet] Radio Broadcasting in Portuguese Goa
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They came, they saw and stole our transmitter and this is called liberation?
BC


 >During the year 1961 a 50 kW. shortwave transmitter was installed, and
this
>unit made test broadcasts on three different channels, beamed towards
>Africa, the Persian Gulf, and the Far East.

>With the changing winds of fortune, Emissora de Goa finally left the air
>and closed down forever at 8:00 am on December 18, 1961.? Less than two
>months later, All India Radio came on the air from the same studios, though
>with only one transmitter, the 5 kw. mediumwave unit on 880 kHz.


It was believed that the more powerful transmitter from the Portuguese
Emissora de Goa was dismantled and carted away to Delhi, shortly after
Liberation of Goa.

Naguesh Bhatcar

[Goanet] Radio Broadcasting in Portuguese Goa

[Bernado Colaco]

They came, they saw and stole our transmitter and this is called liberation?
BC


 >During the year 1961 a 50 kW. shortwave transmitter was installed, and this
>unit made test broadcasts on three different channels, beamed towards
>Africa, the Persian Gulf, and the Far East.

>With the changing winds of fortune, Emissora de Goa finally left the air
>and closed down forever at 8:00 am on December 18, 1961.  Less than two
>months later, All India Radio came on the air from the same studios, though
>with only one transmitter, the 5 kw. mediumwave unit on 880 kHz.


It was believed that the more powerful transmitter from the Portuguese Emissora 
de Goa was dismantled and carted away to Delhi, shortly after Liberation of Goa.

Naguesh Bhatcar

   

Re: [Goanet] Radio Broadcasting in Portuguese Goa

[Eddie Fernandes]

>From Goan Voice Daily Newsletter, 18 August 2017 at
http://www.goanvoice.org.uk/printerfile.php?link=2017-08-18



<http://www.goanvoice.org.uk/printerfile.php?link=2017-08-18>
Libia Lobo Sardesai: India: 70 years of independence
14 Aug. 2017: The National (Dubai). India has undoubtedly achieved much
since breaking free of the British. But it has still not fulfilled its
essential duty of uniting its citizens… Libia Lobo Sardesai, 91, now lives
in Goa, but in 1947, she was at university in Bombay. Her father was away
working in Kenya … “In Bombay, we lived in Dhobi Talao … There were three
days of grand celebrations for independence… Our family always thought we
belonged in Goa, not in Bombay… I became a freedom-fighter. On the day Goa
was liberated I was the one who made the announcement on radio. That very
day also, I moved back to Goa… In retrospect, I feel that Goa was more
beautiful when it was undeveloped. I’m quite disillusioned with what has
happened since then…
https://www.thenational.ae/world/asia/india-70-years-of-independence-1.619751

Video: BBC. Libia Lobo Sardesai, who ran the Voice of Freedom radio station
in Goa, was part of the political struggle to win independence. She tells
of the "intoxicating" feeling of winning freedom at last… 4m. 11s
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/magazine-30297213/goa-s-fight-for-independence-from-portugal

Forwarded by Eddie Fernandes

On 12 September 2017 at 14:00, Naguesh Bhatcar <sgbhat...@hotmail.com>
wrote:

>
> I am not aware of the role played by Ms Libia Lobo Sardessai and her late
> husband.
>
>
> I had also heard that the "beeps" broadcast every hour by AIR Delhi,
> similar to the  BBC beeps/pips (Greenwich Mean Time signal), had also
> previously belonged to Emissora de Goa!
>
> NagueshBhatcar
> 
> From: Goanet <goanet-boun...@lists.goanet.org> on behalf of Frederick
> Noronha <fredericknoron...@gmail.com>
> Sent: Monday, September 11, 2017 2:20 PM
> To: Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994!
> Subject: Re: [Goanet] Radio Broadcasting in Portuguese Goa
>
> Actually, no. Libia and Vaman Sardessai (later ambassador to Angola and
> also editor of Goa Today for awhile) play an active role in running the
> India-supported 'clandestine' radio station out of near Castle Rock on the
> India-side of the then border.
>
> To my knowledge they were not involved with the Panjim radio station,
> though Mrs Lobo-Sardessai has somewhere (if I recall right) spoken about
> her role in announcing via hlicopter and calling for peace and calm after
> the Indian troops moved in.
>
> FN
>
> On Sep 11, 2017 10:46 PM, "Dan Driscoll" <driscoll@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > And you may know that at least one of the persons who did that is still
> > happily living in 'Pius Xth Bldg' on Church Square in Panaji. Libya Lobo
> > Sardessai & late Spouse 'Vaman' were the ones who got it going, if my
> > information is correct. I had the good fortune to have known both of
> them,
> > personally.
> >
> > On Mon, Sep 11, 2017 at 10:07 AM, Naguesh Bhatcar <sgbhat...@hotmail.com
> >
> > wrote:
> >
> > >  >During the year 1961 a 50 kW. shortwave transmitter was installed,
> and
> > > this
> > > >unit made test broadcasts on three different channels, beamed towards
> > > >Africa, the Persian Gulf, and the Far East.
> > >
> > > >With the changing winds of fortune, Emissora de Goa finally left the
> air
> > > >and closed down forever at 8:00 am on December 18, 1961.  Less than
> two
> > > >months later, All India Radio came on the air from the same studios,
> > > though
> > > >with only one transmitter, the 5 kw. mediumwave unit on 880 kHz.
> > >
> > >
> > > It was believed that the more powerful transmitter from the Portuguese
> > > Emissora de Goa was dismantled and carted away to Delhi, shortly after
> > > Liberation of Goa.
> > >
> > > Naguesh Bhatcar
> > > 
> >
>

Re: [Goanet] Radio Broadcasting in Portuguese Goa

[Naguesh Bhatcar]

I am not aware of the role played by Ms Libia Lobo Sardessai and her late 
husband.


I had also heard that the "beeps" broadcast every hour by AIR Delhi, similar to 
the  BBC beeps/pips (Greenwich Mean Time signal), had also previously belonged 
to Emissora de Goa!

NagueshBhatcar

From: Goanet <goanet-boun...@lists.goanet.org> on behalf of Frederick Noronha 
<fredericknoron...@gmail.com>
Sent: Monday, September 11, 2017 2:20 PM
To: Goa's premiere mailing list, estb. 1994!
Subject: Re: [Goanet] Radio Broadcasting in Portuguese Goa

Actually, no. Libia and Vaman Sardessai (later ambassador to Angola and
also editor of Goa Today for awhile) play an active role in running the
India-supported 'clandestine' radio station out of near Castle Rock on the
India-side of the then border.

To my knowledge they were not involved with the Panjim radio station,
though Mrs Lobo-Sardessai has somewhere (if I recall right) spoken about
her role in announcing via hlicopter and calling for peace and calm after
the Indian troops moved in.

FN

On Sep 11, 2017 10:46 PM, "Dan Driscoll" <driscoll@gmail.com> wrote:

> And you may know that at least one of the persons who did that is still
> happily living in 'Pius Xth Bldg' on Church Square in Panaji. Libya Lobo
> Sardessai & late Spouse 'Vaman' were the ones who got it going, if my
> information is correct. I had the good fortune to have known both of them,
> personally.
>
> On Mon, Sep 11, 2017 at 10:07 AM, Naguesh Bhatcar <sgbhat...@hotmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> >  >During the year 1961 a 50 kW. shortwave transmitter was installed, and
> > this
> > >unit made test broadcasts on three different channels, beamed towards
> > >Africa, the Persian Gulf, and the Far East.
> >
> > >With the changing winds of fortune, Emissora de Goa finally left the air
> > >and closed down forever at 8:00 am on December 18, 1961.  Less than two
> > >months later, All India Radio came on the air from the same studios,
> > though
> > >with only one transmitter, the 5 kw. mediumwave unit on 880 kHz.
> >
> >
> > It was believed that the more powerful transmitter from the Portuguese
> > Emissora de Goa was dismantled and carted away to Delhi, shortly after
> > Liberation of Goa.
> >
> > Naguesh Bhatcar
> > 
>

Re: [Goanet] Radio Broadcasting in Portuguese Goa

[Venantius J Pinto]

Thanks Naguesh!

As we said as kids in Mumbai, not your normal half-baked sainted Catholic
kids:
Howre sale, bhaddve, bhikkar chot kutle!

Many this is funny.
Beyond Hahahhaha funny.

Hum conkuest kiya, to sab chijen hamari.
Nahin to kya?!
Chanas mila tha to, meri sat bibiyan ho sakti thi.
Nahin to kya?!
Leking mein pheni piya. Hanh! Bahut maza aaya.
Apna sunao.

NO OFFENSE to ANYBODY, but suffice to say that in the next life if an
ersthwhile Camot / (Kamat, maybe) (Camtigher: at the Camot/Kamat’s
[home]) gets one—I hope to be back as a storyteller or a comedian. This is
even more funny. Now, I think visually for the most part.

—Venantius J Pinto

On Mon, Sep 11, 2017 at 9:07 AM, Naguesh Bhatcar <sgbhat...@hotmail.com>
wrote:

>  >During the year 1961 a 50 kW. shortwave transmitter was installed, and
> this
> >unit made test broadcasts on three different channels, beamed towards
> >Africa, the Persian Gulf, and the Far East.
>
> >With the changing winds of fortune, Emissora de Goa finally left the air
> >and closed down forever at 8:00 am on December 18, 1961.  Less than two
> >months later, All India Radio came on the air from the same studios,
> though
> >with only one transmitter, the 5 kw. mediumwave unit on 880 kHz.
>
>
> It was believed that the more powerful transmitter from the Portuguese
> Emissora de Goa was dismantled and carted away to Delhi, shortly after
> Liberation of Goa.
>
> Naguesh Bhatcar
> 
> From: Goanet <goanet-boun...@lists.goanet.org> on behalf of Frederick
> Noronha <fredericknoro...@gmail.com>
> Sent: Sunday, September 10, 2017 4:06 PM
> To: goamusic...@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [Goanet] Radio Broadcasting in Portuguese Goa
>
> *http://www.ontheshortwaves.com/Wavescan/wavescan301.html
> <http://www.ontheshortwaves.com/Wavescan/wavescan301.html>*
>
>
>
>

Re: [Goanet] Radio Broadcasting in Portuguese Goa

[Frederick Noronha]

Actually, no. Libia and Vaman Sardessai (later ambassador to Angola and
also editor of Goa Today for awhile) play an active role in running the
India-supported 'clandestine' radio station out of near Castle Rock on the
India-side of the then border.

To my knowledge they were not involved with the Panjim radio station,
though Mrs Lobo-Sardessai has somewhere (if I recall right) spoken about
her role in announcing via hlicopter and calling for peace and calm after
the Indian troops moved in.

FN

On Sep 11, 2017 10:46 PM, "Dan Driscoll" <driscoll@gmail.com> wrote:

> And you may know that at least one of the persons who did that is still
> happily living in 'Pius Xth Bldg' on Church Square in Panaji. Libya Lobo
> Sardessai & late Spouse 'Vaman' were the ones who got it going, if my
> information is correct. I had the good fortune to have known both of them,
> personally.
>
> On Mon, Sep 11, 2017 at 10:07 AM, Naguesh Bhatcar <sgbhat...@hotmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> >  >During the year 1961 a 50 kW. shortwave transmitter was installed, and
> > this
> > >unit made test broadcasts on three different channels, beamed towards
> > >Africa, the Persian Gulf, and the Far East.
> >
> > >With the changing winds of fortune, Emissora de Goa finally left the air
> > >and closed down forever at 8:00 am on December 18, 1961.  Less than two
> > >months later, All India Radio came on the air from the same studios,
> > though
> > >with only one transmitter, the 5 kw. mediumwave unit on 880 kHz.
> >
> >
> > It was believed that the more powerful transmitter from the Portuguese
> > Emissora de Goa was dismantled and carted away to Delhi, shortly after
> > Liberation of Goa.
> >
> > Naguesh Bhatcar
> > 
> > From: Goanet <goanet-boun...@lists.goanet.org> on behalf of Frederick
> > Noronha <fredericknoro...@gmail.com>
> > Sent: Sunday, September 10, 2017 4:06 PM
> > To: goamusic...@yahoogroups.com
> > Subject: [Goanet] Radio Broadcasting in Portuguese Goa
> >
> > *http://www.ontheshortwaves.com/Wavescan/wavescan301.html
> > <http://www.ontheshortwaves.com/Wavescan/wavescan301.html>*
> >
> >
> >
> >
>

Re: [Goanet] Radio Broadcasting in Portuguese Goa

[Dan Driscoll]

And you may know that at least one of the persons who did that is still
happily living in 'Pius Xth Bldg' on Church Square in Panaji. Libya Lobo
Sardessai & late Spouse 'Vaman' were the ones who got it going, if my
information is correct. I had the good fortune to have known both of them,
personally.

On Mon, Sep 11, 2017 at 10:07 AM, Naguesh Bhatcar <sgbhat...@hotmail.com>
wrote:

>  >During the year 1961 a 50 kW. shortwave transmitter was installed, and
> this
> >unit made test broadcasts on three different channels, beamed towards
> >Africa, the Persian Gulf, and the Far East.
>
> >With the changing winds of fortune, Emissora de Goa finally left the air
> >and closed down forever at 8:00 am on December 18, 1961.  Less than two
> >months later, All India Radio came on the air from the same studios,
> though
> >with only one transmitter, the 5 kw. mediumwave unit on 880 kHz.
>
>
> It was believed that the more powerful transmitter from the Portuguese
> Emissora de Goa was dismantled and carted away to Delhi, shortly after
> Liberation of Goa.
>
> Naguesh Bhatcar
> 
> From: Goanet <goanet-boun...@lists.goanet.org> on behalf of Frederick
> Noronha <fredericknoro...@gmail.com>
> Sent: Sunday, September 10, 2017 4:06 PM
> To: goamusic...@yahoogroups.com
> Subject: [Goanet] Radio Broadcasting in Portuguese Goa
>
> *http://www.ontheshortwaves.com/Wavescan/wavescan301.html
> <http://www.ontheshortwaves.com/Wavescan/wavescan301.html>*
>
>
>
>

Re: [Goanet] Radio Broadcasting in Portuguese Goa

[Naguesh Bhatcar]

 >During the year 1961 a 50 kW. shortwave transmitter was installed, and this
>unit made test broadcasts on three different channels, beamed towards
>Africa, the Persian Gulf, and the Far East.

>With the changing winds of fortune, Emissora de Goa finally left the air
>and closed down forever at 8:00 am on December 18, 1961.  Less than two
>months later, All India Radio came on the air from the same studios, though
>with only one transmitter, the 5 kw. mediumwave unit on 880 kHz.


It was believed that the more powerful transmitter from the Portuguese Emissora 
de Goa was dismantled and carted away to Delhi, shortly after Liberation of Goa.

Naguesh Bhatcar

From: Goanet <goanet-boun...@lists.goanet.org> on behalf of Frederick Noronha 
<fredericknoro...@gmail.com>
Sent: Sunday, September 10, 2017 4:06 PM
To: goamusic...@yahoogroups.com
Subject: [Goanet] Radio Broadcasting in Portuguese Goa

*http://www.ontheshortwaves.com/Wavescan/wavescan301.html
<http://www.ontheshortwaves.com/Wavescan/wavescan301.html>*

[Goanet] Radio Broadcasting in Portuguese Goa

[Frederick Noronha]

*http://www.ontheshortwaves.com/Wavescan/wavescan301.html
*

*Wavescan 301, October 1, 2000*

*Radio Broadcasting in Portuguese Goa*

The one-time Portuguese colony of Goa lies on the western coast of India,
nearly half way from Bombay to the southern tip of the peninsula.  This
small territory was settled by the Portuguese in the year 1510 and was
re-incorporated into India in December 1961.

Goa is a fascinating place to visit, with its extended miles of wide ocean
beaches, its varied coastal and inland scenery, and its tropical and
sub-tropical fruits.  To this day, Goa still exudes a subtle evidence of
its earlier European culture, with its Latin style church architecture, its
European style of dress, its Portuguese Konkani music, and the occasional
usage of the Portuguese language.

On many occasions I have visited favored Goa.  I have swum at its beaches,
I have jogged the entire 65 mile coastline, I have shopped in its exotic
bazaars, I have eaten in its restaurants, and I have visited its radio
stations.

It was back on May 28, 1946 that the first experimental radio broadcasts
went on the air in old Goa.  This radio program service was radiated from a
500 watt transmitter operated by the Post & Telegraph Office.  It was on
the air for only a short period of time.

A regular broadcasting service was inaugurated in 1949 using a temporary 1
kW. shortwave transmitter in Panjim, the small capital city.  This unit was
located at the radio studios of what became Emissora de Goa, on a hill
overlooking the city.  The current studios and offices of All India Radio
in Goa incorporated the older studio buildings at the same site.

During the following year an additional 2.5 kW. mediumwave transmitter was
installed at the studio location, and a country transmitter base was
constructed some 6 miles from Panjim.  Over a period of time, two shortwave
transmitters and one mediumwave were installed at this country location.

During the year 1961 a 50 kW. shortwave transmitter was installed, and this
unit made test broadcasts on three different channels, beamed towards
Africa, the Persian Gulf, and the Far East.

With the changing winds of fortune, Emissora de Goa finally left the air
and closed down forever at 8:00 am on December 18, 1961.  Less than two
months later, All India Radio came on the air from the same studios, though
with only one transmitter, the 5 kw. mediumwave unit on 880 kHz.

It should be remembered that the first broadcasts in Southern Asia of the
familiar AWR program, "Voice of Prophecy," went on the air from station
CR8AA, the old Emissora de Goa, in the year 1950.  The half hour broadcasts
of the English language "Voice of Prophecy" were on the air from Goa for
two years, though this programming was subsequently transferred to the
Commercial Service of Radio Ceylon in Colombo.

So what happend to Emissora de Goa, R. Goa afterwards?  Well, the studios
and offices on the hill overlooking Panjim have been rebuilt twice and are
in use today by All India Radio.  There is a new shortwave base out in the
country containing two transmitters at 250 kw. which are in use for the
General Overseas Service of All India Radio.  And what about the old radio
base out in the country?  I visited this location many years ago, and all
that was left at that time was some wreckage from one of the old buildings
and lots of overgrown grass.

[Jerry Berg has provided scans of his 1961 QSL card
 and 1960 letter
 from Emissora de Goa]

http://www.ontheshortwaves.com/images/Goa-Card.jpg

http://www.ontheshortwaves.com/images/Goa-Ltr.jpg