Radio North Sea International

Radio North Sea International (RNI) was an offshore radio which broadcast from January 1970 to 31 August 1974.



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[hide] *1 Start  ==Start[ Edit] == The station began broadcasting from the radio ship MEBO II on 23 January 1970, 5 km off the coast of Noordwijk aan Zee. The owners were the Swiss Erwin Meister andEdwin Bollier. The name of the broadcasting ship is a composition of the first 2 letters of the owners MEister and BOllier. The first ship was purchased in Norway and MEBO I baptized. On inspection, by the slipway me. However, it proved unsuitable to Scheveningen to as zend ship service to do and it was used as a tender ship. The Silvretta, a Dutch coaster, MEBO II was met and baptized. Radio Noordzee was no pirate radio, any more than Radio Veronica, because zeezenders to 1 september1974 were not illegal because of the absence of legislation. One week out to sea because according to the commercial radio Broadcasting Act was not allowed. The official launch took place on 28 February 1970. ==To England[ Edit] == The broadcasts were Englishand German language. But advertisers are hardly reported. It was decided by location change. The MEBO II sailed on 23 March 1970, all broadcasting, to the English coast for Clacton-on-sea. The English were not happy with the arrival of the ship and put a Jammer in on the frequency of RNI. Between 13 and 20 June 1970 changed the drive, according to some sources in consultation with Ronan O'Rahilly of Radio Caroline, by name and supported as Radio Caroline International the conservatives in their election campaign. The Conservatives were before free radio.However, after the elections remained the Jammer in the air and left the MEBO II back to Scheveningen and ankerde for the Netherlands coast. ==Back to Netherlands[ Edit] == Radio Veronica, which saw a new competitor in RNI show up, offered Meister and Bollier to stop a large amount to broadcasting and certainly no Dutch-speaking programs to take care of. On 24 september 1970 at 11 am in the morning took RNI farewell to the listeners with turning the last plate: The long and winding road of The Beatles. On 14 February 1971 RNI was back, however, with test transmissions on 220 meters medium wave, after the captain of the ship placed by Veronica on Board was lured and the lump-sum cash at Veronica was returned.
 * 2 to England
 * 3 back to Netherlands
 * The bomb attack 4
 * 5 Action for radio licence
 * 6 the end
 * 7 the history of the Mebo II

On 6 March 1971 began broadcasting English programmes provided by the music publisher Strengholt from the Throw, with DJs who were stopped around 1969/1970 at Radio Veronica, such as Jan van Veen. Ferry Size and Hans Hammond also went for the transmitter work. Joost den Draaijer, starting from april 1971 his work for Hilversum 3 stopped, put in this time the Radio North Sea Top 50 on.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">It was the only offshore radio who both on the medium wave (220 m-1367 kHz) as well as on the short wave (49-meter band — 6.205 kHz and 31-meter band — 9.935 kHz) and FM band (can. 44 — 100.00 MHz) broadcast. On the 49 meter-and 31-meter band there were also broadcasts to hear from ' World Service ' and ' RNI RNI Goes DX '. It also had a 2nd medium wave transmitter with which after the frequency change by Veronica (of 192 to 538) in september 1972 a second Radio North Sea program temporarily on 192 metres was broadcast to listeners the broadcasts to lure 220 metres. These broadcasts eventually disturbed the Coast Guard (for example, ' said ') and were eventually discontinued. ==The bomb attack<span class="mw-editsection" len="349" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">On Saturday 15 may 1971 a incendiary bomb exploded aboard the Mebo II. Not the oil pipe in the engine room as originally intended, was hit, but the water pipe of the MEBO II. The stern summed up flame. Dj Alan West, who at the time a live program in English-in the evening there was a English-language programming-was presented, while turning the Melting pot plate of Blue Mink rocked by the explosion and went Polish take height. He saw even just leave a small motor boat with outboard engine. He ran back to the studio and called over the transmitter (he was clearly in panic) for help: ' Mayday, mayday, the Mebo II is on fire, SOS, SOS, we had an explosion on board, mayday, mayday, we need help! ' This call he continued repeating several times in English, later did the Dutch Captain another call. There was help from fire-fighting boats managed to extinguish the fire quickly. The station went off the air. There were no injuries. The damage to the MEBO II remained limited; the upper part of the galley and the back deck were largely burned down.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The next day was the transmitter back into the air. Although initially stories appeared in the press that the BVD was behind the attack-Meister and Bollier might have ties to the reign of the GDR or even Libya, and the short wave transmitter use to send coded secret messages<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-1" len="181" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[1]  - Radio Veronica soon turned out, that was the culprit: there were three divers get caught, to whom Veronica 100,000 guilder (= € 45.380in particular,-had paid to get the ship), so that one batter on the ship could lay because RNI the mutual agreement would not have complied with.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">But the attack edited exactly the opposite of what Veronica had intended: the Radio North Sea triggered a lot of sympathy of listeners on the station and won huge popularity. However, it also spurred the Dutch Government to the zeezenders now finally with legislation. Bull Verweij, one of the brothers Verweij, owners of Veronica, and Veronica-shareholder Norbert Jürgens were, just like the three divers, to prison sentences. ==Action for radio licence<span class="mw-editsection" len="361" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">RNI started In March 1973 and Radio Veronica an action to preserve their transmitters and obtaining a radio licence, when increasingly clear was that the anti-piratenwet, as laid down in the Treaty of Strasbourg, would ratify it. The action was called on RNI Love in the air. Among other things, the occasion formationsang a North Sea chorus<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-2" len="181" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;">[2], a members yard song give us a chance. The efforts of Radio North Sea were in vain, but Veronica would from 1976 as Veronica Broadcasting Organisation to become the largest Dutch public broadcasting.<sup class="reference" id="cite_ref-3" len="181" style="line-height:1;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;"> [3]

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">One component was the single More of Jan van Veen. ==The end<span class="mw-editsection" len="345" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The curtain fell on 31 August 1974, as for most other zeezenders. At 20: 00 the broadcasts were discontinued, 2 hours later than Radio Veronica. As a last act was ' Man of Action ' of the Les Reed Orchestra turned, the North Sea, on the recognition of Radio music show last left fade with sea and the sound of seagulls, after which the transmitter was turned off anything after 8 hours. Only Radio Mi Amigo and Radio Caroline from the MV Mi Amigo would continue.

<p lang="en" len="854" style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">On 13 July 1992 Strengholt started the transmitter Radio North Sea North Sea FMNational, later, but this one has-except the same initiator to make little with Radio North Sea International-. ==The history of the Mebo II<span class="mw-editsection" len="366" style="-webkit-user-select:none;font-size:small;margin-left:1em;line-height:1em;display:inline-block;white-space:nowrap;unicode-bidi:-webkit-isolate;font-family:sans-serif;"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">[ Edit<span class="mw-editsection-bracket" len="1" style="color:rgb(85,85,85);">] == <p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">The ship was built and christened as Silvretta for Schellen shipping & Chartering N.V., Rotterdam. The call sign was PHMQ. It was sold to Panama in september 1969 Mebo S.A., and renamed Mebo II. In december 1969 it was transformed into radio station at N.V. Shipbuilding yard v/h Dan & van Vliet, slikkerveer, and left 22 January 1970 to theNorth Sea. It was anchored in position 52.52 NB-03.50 OL. In late February 1970, with broadcasting started. On March 23, 1970 to the English coast for Clacton-on-sea and 24 July 1970 get back to Netherlands, weather off the coast of Scheveningen .

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In september 1974, in the port for the yard in slikkerveer moored, where the 10 October 1974 by Justice to the chain was laid. The transmitters were aboard the Mebo II sealed by the then Radio Control Service (RCD) of the PTT, because they were not allowed to be used for broadcasts.
 * 15 May 1971 exploded a bomb on board and fire broke out.
 * 22 november 1971 by the anchors struck.
 * 23 February 1973 by the anchors struck.

<p style="margin-top:0.5em;margin-bottom:0.5em;line-height:22.3999996185303px;color:rgb(37,37,37);font-family:sans-serif;">In March 1978 the ship was sold to Libya and renamed El Fatah. In 1984 it was used as a target ship for the Libyan Navy and sunk in the Gulf of Sidra.