Oh, Radio Luxembourg! I listened to it from behind the iron curtain and we - the young Poles in the Sixties - were dazed by the forbidden music of the West. Unforgettable impressions
God, how I miss sitting in the dark, listening to those humungous old reel-to-reel tape recorders with the dials that glowed like the lights on the bridge of the Enterprise ... the quality of the sound and the motion of the reels was positively hypnotic ... relaxing on the sofa with a drink and a smoke, feet up on the coffee table, watching a lava lamp ... those WERE the days!
I remember sitting up till near midnight with wire coat hangers and all sorts of stuff trying to get a decent reception here in Northern Ireland 69-74, wouldn't have changed it for the world, especially remember the "penpal" section even wrote for a few years to a girl from Suomi or as most people know it Finland, we are spoiled now, great memories.
Radio Luxemburg had a such a strong signal that you could pick it up far behind the Iron Curtain but sometimes it was jammed. It has always baffled me why. I used to hate the wavy signal but now I like it. It sounds so real.
I seem to recall reading that the jamming was actually a harmonic from the Russians' attempt to jam Radio Liberty, which was on half of Luxembourg's frequency... so, 416 metres, I guess?
A l'époque, j'habitais en RDA (Allemagne de l'est), à Erfurt. Avec mes copines, nous écoutions cette chaîne sur nos transistors. Elle représentait le symbole de la Liberté venu d'un pays aussi inatteignable pour nous que la planète Mars...
RTL used 208m/1439 kHz for multilingual broadcasts, notably German and English. Flemish programs where heard here on 6090 kHz/ 49 mb SW, French programs on 234 kHz LW and 15350 kHz SW. English px relayed night time on 6090 kHz. RTL used directional antenna on 208m, which made reception a tricky in Finland. Sankt Peterburg (Leningrad) used this frequency more or less sporadically. A strong Arabic station appeared in the 1980´s. I started listening in 1959, Johansson vs Patterson champion boxing.
Radio Luxembourg 208 m medium waves .. The Station of the Stars ... My youth spent listening ... Pity that ther was a lot of "fading" but I didn't care ... it was music with pep ... It is good to hear those voices again
In 1976, Radio Luxembourg retrofitted three triangular passive reflector masts to the two 1/4 wave 1440 kHz MW omnidirectional antennæ to focus the night-time signal of 1200 kW over the UK and focus the daytime signal of 600 kW over Germany. The single reflector for the UK aerial was slightly angled to give a vertical take off skip angle 324 degrees West North West towards the UK effectively skipping Luxembourg City aiming all of the signal at the United Kingdom with attenuation in other directions. The two reflectors for the German aerial were arranged at the back of the second omnidirectional antennæ to form an isoceles triangle 45 degrees East South East towards Germany utilizing 600 kW for the daytime programmes in German. Around 18.00h UK / 19.00h CET, 1440 kHz would be switched to the UK night antennæ and power increased for the Radio Luxembourg International programme with Mike Verdrengh, Qui Italia! for 15 minutes of Italian news and current affairs, the German religious programmes at 18.45 UK / 19.45 CET and the English Service at 19.00 UK / 20.00 CET.
My god, how I love to hear this. Started listening to RadioLux in late '66- early '67. I was four years old...never been the same again. Thank god my parents thought it was a great way to put their son 'to sleep with this on the transistor radio...few years later, they may have regretted it, as I'd become a young music maniac and later turning into a freaked out record collector, blowing the walls out all evening long after school with rockin' vinyl on the stereo! They were brave and kind folks.
When I was young, I often used to study in the nights for University exams with the undulant R L waves ( low volume ), to keep me company like a soundtrack. I remember the Tony Prince, Benny Brown, Bob Stewart and the others dj's voices. The advertising of " Aqua Manda, Cinzano Bianco, Peter Stuyvesant, Sunsilk " and the fabulous jingles. FANTASTIC............................Ciao from Sardinia.
Under my pillow every night on my £5 19 6 Ajax miniature Trannie Radio. Fab Radio Luxemburg. I still have one of these portable reporter tape machines.
Ah, Radio Luxembourg....That famous 'Teenscene'(Hunters) tune and Cliff Richard & Shadows (Live!) show....Of course I listened 'secretly', to small transistor radio, between the sheets...
Das waren Zeiten, als ich mit meinem Kofferradio "Stern Party" Radio Luxemburg hörte. Wir waren 14 ... und hatten unsere ersten Dates. Die Mädels waren toll... Die Musik auch, wenn auch nur auf MW oder KW.
3 X 10**8/208 would be about 1443 Khz on the USA dials I'm used to. I've noticed that radios from Europe are sometimes marked in meters, sometimes in Khz and sometimes both; it must have been confusing. Anyway, thanks for this glimpse into the past; I was a little surprised to have recognized every song.
Alvast bedankt voor de afgevoerde werk ! Ik ben u heel dankbaar om zo de tijd van toen" opnieuw leven in te blasen...Waar is onze jeugd naar toe ? Ook heel dankbaar voor de nieuwe generaties (onze kinderen en kleinkinderen)...
208! Fucking Great! I listened to this when i was a child alone in my room when i should be asleep. What i remember most was the kinda "singing" sound of the radio, like a sinus wave, up and down. Gave a special feel to it. Side effect was i learned English at a young age just by listening to the great lowwwww voices of the dj`s. Great time!
That "singing sound " was probably static caused by another radio station far away broadcasting on the same frequency or adjacent to it, sorry to say that the original 208 transmister in Luxembourg is no more, I heard on the Internet that has been demolished to make way for a refugee camp
Even the commercials seemed really listenable-to then with these gentlemen of the air - compared to 'in the face' stuff these days . Luxy WAS the station then - now we have quantity but no quality - we have now wallpaper radio , but a lousy pattern! Biggest mistake Radio Luxembourg made was ending English on 208 meters.
Problem is, trying to sell advertising airtime to advertisers on a poor fading medium wave signal was a problem that dogged Radio Luxembourg's image. In August 1990 RTL launched Radio Luxembourg on the Astra 1A satellite via channel 13 7.38 / 7.56 Mhz Wegener 🐼 1 in stereo initially to Scandinavia CATV systems as RTL International but royalties and cable carriage fees made the whole thing unviable so they turned it into a 24h Radio Luxembourg to serve the whole of Europe and the United Kingdom, it was broadcast all day on satellite and would hook up with 1440 kHz nightly from 7pm UK / 8pm CET, and from midnight UK / 1am CET to closedown at 3am UK / 4am CET on 1440 kHz it would be joined by 49.26 metres Shortwave at 500 kW omnidirectional power giving worldwide reception plus 89.0 93.3 and 97.0 FM Stereo to the Grand Duchy and surrounding areas At the end of 1991 they closed down 1440 kHz MW at 3am UK / 4am CET on 30th December 1991 and switched SW frequency to 15350 kHz beamed to North America at 50 kW directional power and carried on via Astra 1A channel 13 to Europe and the UK in stereo 7 38/7.56 MHz. In September of 1992 CLT announced it would closedown the English Service on 30th December 1992 because nobody knew how many people were listening via Astra 1A on their satellite systems and the take-up via CATV systems and FM rebroadcasters through a broadcast trade magazine was miniscule to make it worthwhile. 30th December 1992 the English Service closed for the final time at midnight UK / 1am CET on Astra Satelite / 15350 kHz and 1440 kHz leaving nothing but memories. A sad end to a brilliant radio station RIP Radio Luxembourg 1933-1992.
Vriendelijk bedankt voor dit upload, Nico. Hebt U niets van Peter Koelewijn ? Hij presenteerde de Top Hit op Luxemburg 208. Zondag 13 u. denk ik. 't is ver. Ik was 15 en ik ben nu 65.
One thing thats always turned me off about British pop/rock radio is the obsession with the inane `personality` DJ, who loves his own voice, talks incessantly about nothing, constantly interrupts songs and plays constant stupid jingles. Even as a kid the only thing that was important to me was the music. Still is. Lucky I was a rock, not a pop kid! Unfortunately records used to cost more than radio batteries!
I was a truck driver at that time traveling al over Europe and Luxemburg was my gide than.
From Greece to Spain or Italy, Viva Radio Luxemburg...
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My first taste of pop music was this station
Oh, Radio Luxembourg! I listened to it from behind the iron curtain and we - the young Poles in the Sixties - were dazed by the forbidden music of the West. Unforgettable impressions
Moje mládí...
Moje mládí...
Moje mládí...
Same for me in Leningrad, USSR - signal was damn weak, but there were lucky nights anyway...
@@DM1956x Was it hard to buy a reciever to listen to this?
Makes me cry 😢😢😢😢😢😢
The best radiostation ever.Remember when i was young and was listening to top 20(40) on saturday afternoon/evening.Lots of good memories :)
God, how I miss sitting in the dark, listening to those humungous old reel-to-reel tape recorders with the dials that glowed like the lights on the bridge of the Enterprise ... the quality of the sound and the motion of the reels was positively hypnotic ... relaxing on the sofa with a drink and a smoke, feet up on the coffee table, watching a lava lamp ... those WERE the days!
Heard it down in Barcelona in 1968. "Radio Luxembourg, Radio Luxembourg, Two-Oh-Eight!"
Radio Luxemburg was a pioneer ... I remember tge great shows ... I visited once Vila Louvigny in Luxemburg ... really nice ..
I remember sitting up till near midnight with wire coat hangers and all sorts of stuff trying to get a decent reception here in Northern Ireland 69-74, wouldn't have changed it for the world, especially remember the "penpal" section even wrote for a few years to a girl from Suomi or as most people know it Finland, we are spoiled now, great memories.
Radio Luxemburg had a such a strong signal that you could pick it up far behind the Iron Curtain but sometimes it was jammed. It has always baffled me why. I used to hate the wavy signal but now I like it. It sounds so real.
I seem to recall reading that the jamming was actually a harmonic from the Russians' attempt to jam Radio Liberty, which was on half of Luxembourg's frequency... so, 416 metres, I guess?
wonderful radio Luxembourg.It's a radio Luxembourg power play.
Thank you for all the info. The most I rember well. I was driving a truck in the 60s and70s in Europe and Luxem burk was my Station...
Ich vermisse Radio Luxemburg,war ein cooler,toller Radiosender habe diesen oft auf Mittelwelle 1440 gehört.
A l'époque, j'habitais en RDA (Allemagne de l'est), à Erfurt. Avec mes copines, nous écoutions cette chaîne sur nos transistors. Elle représentait le symbole de la Liberté venu d'un pays aussi inatteignable pour nous que la planète Mars...
RIP Brian Matthew, a good chap.
Listening under the blankets in 1958. Jerry Lee and the rest. Jack Jackson playing what are still our favourites.
Dank voor het posten..........een station met zoveel luisteraars in heel Europa
RTL used 208m/1439 kHz for multilingual broadcasts, notably German and English. Flemish programs where heard here on 6090 kHz/ 49 mb SW, French programs on 234 kHz LW and 15350 kHz SW. English px relayed night time on 6090 kHz. RTL used directional antenna on 208m, which made reception a tricky in Finland. Sankt Peterburg (Leningrad) used this frequency more or less sporadically. A strong Arabic station appeared in the 1980´s. I started listening in 1959, Johansson vs Patterson champion boxing.
and Donovan is still singing !
Radio Luxembourg 208 m medium waves .. The Station of the Stars ... My youth spent listening ... Pity that ther was a lot of "fading" but I didn't care ... it was music with pep ... It is good to hear those voices again
Super 💯 radio czar wspomnień
In 1976, Radio Luxembourg retrofitted three triangular passive reflector masts to the two 1/4 wave 1440 kHz MW omnidirectional antennæ to focus the night-time signal of 1200 kW over the UK and focus the daytime signal of 600 kW over Germany.
The single reflector for the UK aerial was slightly angled to give a vertical take off skip angle 324 degrees West North West towards the UK effectively skipping Luxembourg City aiming all of the signal at the United Kingdom with attenuation in other directions.
The two reflectors for the German aerial were arranged at the back of the second omnidirectional antennæ to form an isoceles triangle 45 degrees East South East towards Germany utilizing 600 kW for the daytime programmes in German.
Around 18.00h UK / 19.00h CET, 1440 kHz would be switched to the UK night antennæ and power increased for the Radio Luxembourg International programme with Mike Verdrengh, Qui Italia! for 15 minutes of Italian news and current affairs, the German religious programmes at 18.45 UK / 19.45 CET and the English Service at 19.00 UK / 20.00 CET.
I listened to Radio Luxembourg from 1963 to 1966.
greatest years ever..with best DJs ever..
Yep. very true.
magnificent radio
My god, how I love to hear this. Started listening to RadioLux in late '66- early '67. I was four years old...never been the same again. Thank god my parents thought it was a great way to put their son 'to sleep with this on the transistor radio...few years later, they may have regretted it, as I'd become a young music maniac and later turning into a freaked out record collector, blowing the walls out all evening long after school with rockin' vinyl on the stereo! They were brave and kind folks.
diddywahdaddy Although about the same age as you, it was the mid 70's before I was lucky enough to discover RadioLux. Better late than never.
When I was young, I often used to study in the nights for University exams with the undulant R L waves ( low volume ), to keep me company like a soundtrack.
I remember the Tony Prince, Benny Brown, Bob Stewart and the others dj's voices. The advertising of " Aqua Manda, Cinzano Bianco, Peter Stuyvesant, Sunsilk " and the fabulous jingles. FANTASTIC............................Ciao from Sardinia.
Under my pillow every night on my £5 19 6 Ajax miniature Trannie Radio. Fab Radio Luxemburg. I still have one of these portable reporter tape machines.
wonderful memories, thank you very much for posting
This is wonderful
Ah, Radio Luxembourg....That famous 'Teenscene'(Hunters) tune and Cliff Richard & Shadows (Live!) show....Of course I listened 'secretly', to small transistor radio, between the sheets...
Oh great stuff, just fantastic! Such great memories, thanks so much!
great recording thank you sir
Som en blixt tillbaka till tonåren, oj, vad jag lyssnade på denna station!
Das waren Zeiten, als ich mit meinem Kofferradio "Stern Party" Radio Luxemburg hörte. Wir waren 14 ... und hatten unsere ersten Dates. Die Mädels waren toll... Die Musik auch, wenn auch nur auf MW oder KW.
"wenn auch nur auf MW oder KW" --> gerade deshalb! Herrlich unperfekt.
3 X 10**8/208 would be about 1443 Khz on the USA dials I'm used to. I've noticed that radios from Europe are sometimes marked in meters, sometimes in Khz and sometimes both; it must have been confusing. Anyway, thanks for this glimpse into the past; I was a little surprised to have recognized every song.
Alvast bedankt voor de afgevoerde werk ! Ik ben u heel dankbaar om zo de tijd van toen" opnieuw leven in te blasen...Waar is onze jeugd naar toe ? Ook heel dankbaar voor de nieuwe generaties (onze kinderen en kleinkinderen)...
Thank you brilliant memories!
Donovan - Catch The Wind puts this at Spring of 1965
fab recording
208! Fucking Great! I listened to this when i was a child alone in my room when i should be asleep. What i remember most was the kinda "singing" sound of the radio, like a sinus wave, up and down. Gave a special feel to it. Side effect was i learned English at a young age just by listening to the great lowwwww voices of the dj`s. Great time!
Absoluut mijn gevoel. Geweldig verwoord Mars...
That "singing sound " was probably static caused by another radio station far away broadcasting on the same frequency or adjacent to it, sorry to say that the original 208 transmister in Luxembourg is no more, I heard on the Internet that has been demolished to make way for a refugee camp
And i
The Great 208!!!
loved it great music
God, how I love this. Need more.
Wow ! Was That In This Life Time ??? Thanks 'Staffan Fernander' For This Temp Time Bubble ! SMILES and Best To JL
Battle of the Giants! The fan club always voted for Billy Fury to win. Wonderful times.
Good memories indeed.
Good memory's..
those were djs in those days.always enjoyable and good
Even the commercials seemed really listenable-to then with these gentlemen of the air - compared to 'in the face' stuff these days . Luxy WAS the station then - now we have quantity but no quality - we have now wallpaper radio , but a lousy pattern! Biggest mistake Radio Luxembourg made was ending English on 208 meters.
Problem is, trying to sell advertising airtime to advertisers on a poor fading medium wave signal was a problem that dogged Radio Luxembourg's image.
In August 1990 RTL launched Radio Luxembourg on the Astra 1A satellite via channel 13 7.38 / 7.56 Mhz Wegener 🐼 1 in stereo initially to Scandinavia CATV systems as RTL International but royalties and cable carriage fees made the whole thing unviable so they turned it into a 24h Radio Luxembourg to serve the whole of Europe and the United Kingdom, it was broadcast all day on satellite and would hook up with 1440 kHz nightly from 7pm UK / 8pm CET, and from midnight UK / 1am CET to closedown at 3am UK / 4am CET on 1440 kHz it would be joined by 49.26 metres Shortwave at 500 kW omnidirectional power giving worldwide reception plus 89.0 93.3 and 97.0 FM Stereo to the Grand Duchy and surrounding areas
At the end of 1991 they closed down 1440 kHz MW at 3am UK / 4am CET on 30th December 1991 and switched SW frequency to 15350 kHz beamed to North America at 50 kW directional power and carried on via Astra 1A channel 13 to Europe and the UK in stereo 7 38/7.56 MHz. In September of 1992 CLT announced it would closedown the English Service on 30th December 1992 because nobody knew how many people were listening via Astra 1A on their satellite systems and the take-up via CATV systems and FM rebroadcasters through a broadcast trade magazine was miniscule to make it worthwhile.
30th December 1992 the English Service closed for the final time at midnight UK / 1am CET on Astra Satelite / 15350 kHz and 1440 kHz leaving nothing but memories.
A sad end to a brilliant radio station RIP Radio Luxembourg 1933-1992.
Op 4:08 Stan Haag op 208....de mooiste Nederlandse dj op 208 ..!
bedankt! pity it's scoped! The date could be early March 1965 according to the info going along with Donovan's Catch The Wind
2,33 in the programme are The Hunters med Teen Seen
Thankś for Your answer...
Thanks a lot for sharing. And Radio Veronica ?
What was the closing theme - the organ music one...? Stimorol chewing gum, man I can taste it now.
Keith Four Dice - get a fifth dice and we can play a game of Yahtzee!
Petr asks what is the title of the instrumental piece of music,
what can be heard from 2 minutes and 33 seconds. I'm curious
too, can you hep us?
in the netherlands the medium wave was the best to receive, remember stan haag, peter koelewijn, etc.
@AnthonyUK You'r right Antony but I didnt had shortwave receiver at that time.
Greetings from Holland.
208 meters is medium wave!
Hi there. I'm making a jingle compilation of Radio Luxembourg - can I have permission to use a small clip from your video?
Vriendelijk bedankt voor dit upload, Nico. Hebt U niets van Peter Koelewijn ? Hij presenteerde de Top Hit op Luxemburg 208. Zondag 13 u. denk ik. 't is ver. Ik was 15 en ik ben nu 65.
TOPP !
I am looking for melody on 2:33. Name of this melody, group? Help me! Thanks...
Nice
I don't know what you mean Petr. what do you men with 2:33???
Inderdaad jeejee. Iedere zondag vaste prik. ASPROOO en de pijn is verdwenen ASPRO en de pijn is weg. ASPROOOOOOH....
Barry Alldis een groot DJ...
maar Keith Fordeyce ook
notice that the brand "Fry's" was still going then; Crunchie bars...it's all Cadbury now
Natürlich Petr. Ich kann nicht so gut wie Deutsch zu schreiben, aber lesen.
Grüße von Nico.
I mean music on the time 2 minutes 33 seconds in Your video. Many thanks for Your answer.
Kann ich Ihnen auch in deutscher Sprache schreiben?
Ik heb nog veel te doen i.v.m. digitaliseren oude banden. VERONICA komt nog.
Ik heb nog uren band van Veronica en Noordzee...
Rolf Nillson Hit!
Jetzt verstehe ich, was Sie Peter bedeuten.
Ich hörte, aber nicht wissen. Entschuldigung.
Grüße, Nico
Underneath the blanced
You are very right. So did I...
Ок
Oh réel to réel
Where is my tandberrgandtapes
help, excuse me!
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One thing thats always turned me off about British pop/rock radio is the obsession with the inane `personality` DJ, who loves his own voice, talks incessantly about nothing, constantly interrupts songs and plays constant stupid jingles. Even as a kid the only thing that was important to me was the music. Still is. Lucky I was a rock, not a pop kid! Unfortunately records used to cost more than radio batteries!
Keith Four Dice - get a fifth dice and we can play a game of Yahtzee!