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- The story of Free radio part III
- RIGHT-WING RADIO
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- In autumn 1984 an 18-years-old boy
- founded a free radio station in Jyvas-
- kyla city, Finland. The boy was to be
- known as DJ Tex Willer and the station
- went on nameless until February 1985.
- During the winter 1984-85 Tex talked
- with his friends about free radio and
- managed to find six boys to operate the
- station with. In early 1985 the local
- radio licence of Jyvaskyla was given to
- a socialdemocratic newspaper company
- and the RWR-boys were afraid that the
- station would become some kind of a
- left- wing operation.RWR-boys wanted to
- attack those left-wingers and named
- their own station RIGHT-WING Radio.That
- was done, although RWR never meant and
- never did speak politics in the radio.
- Just sex'n'dugs'n'rock'n'roll...
- RWR started building their own trans-
- mitters and studio equipment in spring
- 1985. A four-channel mixer was soon
- built and a 25 watt FM-transmitter a
- little bit later. The first official
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- transmission was on air June 10th 1985
- in the frequency 91,2 MHz.
- Soon after that RWR started getting a
- lot of trouble. The transmitter blew
- twice, two boys went to the army and
- other two jumped off because they were
- too scared about the police and their
- parents("What would happen if my mother
- were to know???"). That's why RWR was
- pretty silent until the autumn 1986,
- and just a few test transmissions were
- transmitted.
- In autumn 1986 DJ Tex Willer and
- Simon 'Iceman' Heel decided to start
- making noise about the need for free
- radio. In August 1986 lots of press
- releases were sent around and regular
- transmissions were started with the 25
- watt FM transmitter. The results were
- quite cool and the local newspapers and
- the local radiostations printed long
- stories about RWR operations.
- When the snow fell to woods RWR had
- to slow down some.Tests on FM continued
- on frequency of 96 MHz, which was the
- official RWR frequency in those days.
- During that winter also short-wave
- transmissions were started ----->
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