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In the summer of 1997, our second son Liam was born, and my wife Marianne suggested that I should take our eldest son Jimmy, then 4 years old, camping for a few days at the start of the school holidays. As I had been reading in the British DX Club’s monthly journal Communication about the forthcoming Radio London revival RSL, I instantly agreed with my beloved’s brainwave and informed Jimmy of our camping trip – to Essex!
We set off at 0740 BST on Friday 25th July 1997 in the Citroen AX fitted with Blaupunkt Bristol 27 car radio. A number of interesting or new (to me) radio stations were noted during our journey south. These included BBC Asian Network (Birmingham), Classic Gold 1557 (Northampton), Q103 (Cambridge), Invicta FM (Maidstone) and Essex FM (Southend).
As we headed east through Essex, Radio London / Big L was loud and clear on 1134 kHz. This is the European medium wave channel that is closest to Big L’s original wavelength of 266m, and indeed, the RSL announced as "266" as well as having it painted on the side of the ship. We arrived on the promenade in Frinton-on-Sea at 1400 BST on a beautiful warm and sunny day, with a great view of the Radio London ship – the MV Yeomen Rose – before out very eyes on the calm blue North Sea. Later, we pitched our tent at the Stranger’s Home campsite in Bradfield and headed back down to Walton-on-the-Naze for a night out at the fair!
The Radio London 266 programmes were proving to be excellent, quite irresistible listening. We were tuned in most of the time we were in the car, and also on the battery operated Tatung TMR7602 in the tent at breakfast times and last thing at night. Full details of what was heard in Essex and during our journeys are as follows: MW 558 Spectrum International 567 RTE Radio 1 603 SuperGold 648 BBC World Service 693 BBC Radio 5 Live 729 BBC Essex 765 BBC Essex 774 BBC Radio Kent 792 Classic Gold 828 HitRadio Veronica 855 BBC Radio Norfolk 873 BBC Radio Norfolk 882 BBC Radio Wales 909 BBC Radio 5 Live 945 South Coast Radio 963 Liberty 1026 BBC Radio Cambridgeshire 1035 RTL Country 1035 1053 Talk Radio UK 1089 Talk Radio UK 1107 Talk Radio UK 1134 Radio London 1152 Amber Radio, Norwich 1152 LBC 1152 1170 Amber Radio, Ipswich
1197 Virgin Radio 1215 Virgin Radio 1224 HitRadio Veronica 1233 Virgin Radio 1251 Amber Radio, Bury 1260 Virgin Radio 1260 Sabras Sound, Leicester 1269 Deutschlandradio, Köln 1287 Virgin Radio 1296 Radio XL, Birmingham 1305 Premier Radio 1314 NRK1, Norway 1323 South Coast Radio 1332 Classic Gold 1359 The Breeze 1413 Premier Radio 1431 The Breeze 1458 BBC Asian Network 1458 Sunrise Radio 1485 BBC Southern Counties Radio 1512 Radio Vlaanderen International 1530 BBC Essex 1557 Mellow 1557 1557 Classic Gold 1557 1602 BBC Radio Kent FM 88.1 BBC Radio 2 89.7 BBC Radio 2 90.3 BBC Radio 3 90.7 BBC Radio 3 91.3 BBC Radio 3 91.7 BBC Radio 3 91.9 BBC Radio 3 92.5 BBC Radio 4 93.5 BBC Radio 4 94.1 BBC Radio 4 96.1 SGR Colchester 96.4 SGR Bury St Edmunds 97.1 SGR Ipswich 97.3 News Direct, London 97.7 BBC Radio 1 98.8 BBC Radio 1 99.3 BBC Radio 1 100.9 Classic FM 101.5 Classic FM 102.4 Broadland 102, Norwich 102.6 Essex FM 103.0 Q103, Cambridge
103.1 Invicta FM, Maidstone 103.5 BBC Essex 103.9 BBC Radio Suffolk 104.6 BBC Radio Suffolk 106.9 Vibes FM, Ipswich SW 3795 PA3EVW, Netherlands 3795 G4EVK, Peterborough 6290 World Music Radio 6295 Reflections Europe 7066 CT/ON5NT/P, Portugal 14168 S50D, Slovenia
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