Von: BueschelW@web.de im Auftrag von Wolfgang Bueschel ...

(Noel Green-UK, to wb, wwdxc BC-DX TopNews Oct 9/10) yes navy comm. wb.
ANDORRA ARTHUR WARD wdxc-UK: Further to the item last month on Radio
Andorra, here is a Radio Andorre Diary - translated by Philip J Ward
(recent resident of Paris) from
1935: Project to create a national radio station in the principality of
Andorra. A franchise of 30 years is signed.
1936: Creation of regulatory body 'Radio Information'. The radio contract
signed the previous year is extended from 30 to 60 years.
1937: Beginning of the construction of the transmitter for Radio Andorre,
with official response from the French state with regulation on the power
of the signal. France refuses signal strength over 200 watts.
1938: the colonel of the gendarmerie (armed police force) Baulard attempts
to stop the construction works for the transmitter, the Andorrans support
Jacques Tremoulet and Stanislas Puiggros against the assault coming from
the French. After refusing to do so, France eventually gives authorization
to Radio Andorre to construct the transmitter. However, the strength of
the transmission is fixed at 60 kw long-wave and 1 kw shortwave.
1939: August 7th: the first transmissions go out where you can here the
famous "Here, Radio Andorre" from Victoria Zorzano.
1940: The war having erupted in France, the transmissions are only made in
Spanish and Catalan from July to October.
1946: Victoria Zorzano leaves the station to marry an owner of car
dealership in the principality of Andorra
1948: Several incidents of interference of the station occur, and France
prohibits border access [border sanctions] to discs and radiophonic
material. Radio Andorre demonstrates and complains to the director general
of the RDF, retrieving damages payments and interest.
1949: the measures taken the year before are recognised as illegal by the
French state.
1956: Increase in the signal strength.
1960: The Marquet brothers take over the station that they will develop
until its last broadcast.
1961: A radio contract of 20 years is signed with the SOFIRAD [the
regulatory body].
1964: The station welcomes a stage of the Tour de France in the
principality of Andorra
1971: Death of Jacques Tremoulet.
1975: A long-wave transmission project in multiple European languages is
proposed and rejected, with Andorra using any resources to transmit this
program project.
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