Looking at YouTube videos of the very first Radio Caroline vessel- it seems ver small. If you compare this to the station when it became Radio Caroline North- what's a difference! In fact-looking at the first vessel complete with its radio mast- it doesn't look as though the signal would have got far at all. Having said that- I know it got into London pretty extensively - which is what they intended.
Was the frequency (199 meters) picked solely because it rhymed with 'Caroline'- or was it carefully selected to avoid interference with neighboring transmitters on the same frequency? Anyone know?
Quote: BigJohn wrote in post #1Looking at YouTube videos of the very first Radio Caroline vessel- it seems ver small. If you compare this to the station when it became Radio Caroline North- what's a difference! In fact-looking at the first vessel complete with its radio mast- it doesn't look as though the signal would have got far at all. Having said that- I know it got into London pretty extensively - which is what they intended.
Was the frequency (199 meters) picked solely because it rhymed with 'Caroline'- or was it carefully selected to avoid interference with neighboring transmitters on the same frequency? Anyone know?
Was it ever actually on 199? So certainly to rhyme.
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AFAIK, the frequency was 192 metres announced 199 to rhyme.
The very first Caroline vessel was an ex Danish ferry called the M.V Fredericia and she had a massive mast. (I saw it go past the Breakwater here at Holyhead on her way up to the Isle of Man)
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Funny you should say that Chris- because if you take a look at the YouTube videos- the one labeled Radio Caroline North (and it may not be!) is very much bigger than the original Radio Caroline vessel. Was Fredericia a lot smaller than the subsequent vessels used?
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