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Radio Caroline North - Technical
Transmitter
2 x 10Kw Continental Electronics 316B transmitters, coupled together in a combining unit. Serial numbers 77 and 79
Aerial Height
155’ (47m) from deck level. The top 120’ (36.6m) was tubular welded-section steel mounted on 35’ (10.6m) of the original ship’s mast.
The station’s claimed height of 165’ (50.2m) was measured to the bottom of the keel.
The aerial was a wire cage series feed.
VIEWS OF THE STUDIO
Top
The Caroline North studio in 1967
Photo: Andy Cadier
Second
Don Allen on air
Third
Mike Ahern in the studio
Photo: Kenny Tosh
Bottom
Martin Kayne on air
Photo: Andy Cadier/Mike Wright
Right: the aerial mast on board MV Caroline
Studio
1 x Gates Studioette mixer unit
2 x Gates CB 510 16” turntables
2 x Ampex 351 tape recorders and amplifiers
2 x Spotmaster 500 cartridge machines
1 x AKG D12 microphone
QSL Cards
Radio station engineering departments issue QSL cards to verify reception reports received from listeners
Radio Caroline QSL card issued shortly after the merger with Radio Atlanta
Thanks to Ian Anderson for providing information from his research into offshore radio aerial masts (originally published in Offshore Echos Magazine December 2007 and April 2008)
Left: the transmitter room on board MV Caroline
Photo Hans Knot/Nick Bailey
Back to Radio Caroline North
Left: the newsroom on MV Caroline
Photo: Kenny Tosh
