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Uploaded by on Feb 9, 2008

Off-air 'May-Day' calls from Alan West on Radio Nordsee International off the Dutch coast in 1971. Despite the damage, the station returned to the air the following day.
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A longer version of this can be found at
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tLaJxP7ATBs

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  • It's strange to hear the happy music mixed with the desperation of the may-day call. Eerie sounding really. "Once again we have trouble, this time somebody's bombed us."

  • I remember this when i was a teenager. RNI was never boring to listen to!

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  • @organisten I suppose it might be like Radio 4 using Sailing By for the Shipping Broadcast, so that as soon as you hear it tuning in you know the frequency and the station. Man of Action being North Sea's theme tune would have made people know what ship was on fire without hearing the words "Radio North Sea International".

    Well, that's what I'm guessing anyway.

  • Today, we had Private Radio stations, but only a few of them really make their own program.... Why dont they send a ship again on international waters to bring us good music :)

  • sad day in radio history

  • If you are sending a mayday, having music on in the background strikes me as very odd. Very odd indeed.

  • I remember being about 7 years old and hiding under the sheets trying to get Luxemburg on my little transistor radio, and finding this great station "RNI" instead. When I mentioned what I'd heard next day to my Mother she was a bit worried because she'd heard it was illegal to listen to the pirates! I was told not to listen, which of course made me all the more keen to. Some nights RNI came in well on that little radio, others not so good, but it really captured the imagination, a pirate ship!

  • @1945Jaap Het woord Laptop dat wellicht in de tekst staat, is niet door mij daar neergezet. Er zit op Youtube een vertaalapplicatie die dat doet. Kies in elk geval voor "origineel weergeven"

  • @1945Jaap ???

  • En zo hielp Veronica ook zichzelf om zeep...

  • Zo hielp Veronica ook zichzelf om zeep...

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