Ian Anderson was on board the mv Mi Amigo in October 1973 when the aerial mast collapsed. At that time the Belgian station Radio Atlantis was being broadcast from the ship during
the day, Radio Seagull was on air 9pm to 5am, and another Belgian company was sponsoring an hour between the two at weekends to promote their magazine Joepie (more details here).
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The last days of Radio Atlantis from the Mi Amigo
From 5th October 1973 the Mi Amigo was broadcasting, with Radio Atlantis during the day and Radio Seagull from late evenings, on relatively low power from a temporary antenna attached to the remains of the triangular De Kerf mast that had partly collapsed on 1 October. Radio Atlantis was into its last ten days of a three month contract to broadcast from the Mi Amigo with Radio Mi Amigo to take over eventually. Some of the tapes for the last days never arrived and so some older tapes were repeated. As the days went on, and up until 18 October, when the remaining lower sections of the mast came off the insulators, those on board the Mi Amigo, broadcasters and Dutch crew, mainly Harry Bergman, took turns to play music with some announcements. Among those were Bob Noakes, transmitter engineer, and Barbara Johnson. The two pictures show them on air in the main studio. The audio is of myself (Ian Anderson) back-announcing, at 20:00, one of the last tapes of the Joepie Show before the transmitter went silent carrier until Radio Seagull started at 21:00. Joepie was at that time a Belgian bi-weekly magazine for teens. |
Ian Anderson throwing forward to the start of Radio Seagull in one hour's time (duration 40 seconds)