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HOW THE THINGS STARTED !

1983.


1983 was quite short for us on the air with only four or five tests on 6250 khz then we move to 6275 khz which was a better channel.

1984.


On February we worked on the antenna to improve the matching of the dipole and we add a ballun which gave a good TOS.

March came with the oppenning of the "RELAY SERVICE " with RADIO MARABU & later RADIO PACIFIC INT.

April see new tests on the 41 mb on 7430 khz;the tx got a few technical problems and was only driving its half power outpout.

May.A new DJ Andy Top from Austria made the RWI's german service. It was a nice experience for the station as most reports were comming from East & West Germany.

June:it was time for us tto repair the TX and replace the DC inverter and its battery by a power supply from the mains.

FIRST RESULTS.


Just after more than six month on the air RADIO WAVES became known all over Europe with listenners every where in:East & WestGermany, Belgium,Netherland,United Kingdom & Channel islands,France, Spain & Italy.

RWI ACROSS THE WORLD


NEW ZEALAND


The only pirate station from this country KIWI RADIO joined the "RELAY SERVICE" and R.W.I was relay in NEW ZEALAND.

RWI's QSL CARD


The blue & white nice QSL card arrived one year after the starting of the station ; it gave us a lot of job to send more than sixty QSL cards to confirm all the reports received from Nov 83 until Sept 84.

RWI & THE PRESS


RWI was mentionned in a lot of magazines :

FREE RADIO MAGAZINE (HOLLAND)
SHORT WAVES NEWS (DANEMARK)
LAUTSPRECHER & RADIOTELEX
AIRSPEC NEWS (U.K)Etc...


FIRST BIRTHDAY


November 1984 came with the 1st birthday of the station.
Radio KBC (With Tom De WIT)from Holland joined us.

1985


The PO BOX never saw an activity like this ,the relay service and RWI bring us a lot of job with the infos-sheet which became on monthly format including the U.K report by RADIO PACIFIC. The relay service growing with RADIO CANZONI & RADIO 49.
RADIO KIWI was raided in NZ but continue to be relay in Europe.

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