Thameside 13Apr80 Two feet in a box
Jul 4, 2010
Bob finally gets to tell us about the funny things inside matchboxes that listeners have sent in. Dave sent Bob a flashing bit of jewellery - a heart with an LED in it. Bob describes the LED as "one of those modern things". Andrew Shepherd of Poplar sent Jelly Babies. Chris Brown sent a fried egg! John of Maidenhead sent a tape of Bob Edward mistakes. Other entries included the secret of life, money, a pair of gerbils feet, some transmitter components, Debbie Harry's phone number (Mark Bramley from Bromley) and a brain pacemaker. The winner was the gerbils feet embedded in resin.
Mark Hawkins of Brentwood wins five singles in the phone competition!
Listening to this broadcast shows how the Thameside Radio 90.2 superbeam easily covered the whole of London. The letters include listeners in Maidenhead, Bromley, Brentwood and Boreham Wood. All lie outside what is now the M25. That's a radius of at least 17 miles: A quick bit of O-level maths shows the Thameside transmitter covered an area of over 900 sq miles. Wow.
For the engineers out there: The photo shows a Thameside Radio transmitter of the time. The audio and power control circitry is in one of the die-cast boxes, the other box houses the driver board (exciter). On the front panel you can just see the meter which can show the DC voltage or audio levels. Switches on the front control power, meter readings and vox settings.
There are more poems for Sarah of Kew and a report on a Genesys concert at the Hammersmith Odeon. One of the new releases is Teen Romance by The Alsatians - who are regular listeners
Dave parodies the Hamlet advert. Remember when you saw cigar adverts on the TV? A lot of superquiz answers too as well as a new one. Simon Tindall (who wants to be a sound engineer) writes asking if he can visit the studio.
The Tony Lloyd fan club writes in to find out what has happened to him and to sell Dave a Tony Lloyd sweatshirt. Tony does appear briefly. (Where are you now Tony? Do email al@fmthen.com or leave a comment here.)
Thameside Radio listeners mentioned include: Jeff (Goeff?) Hawkins for University College. Boris Bartkiw for 6S2 at Latymer Upper School including Steve, Stephen, Petra, Zena of Kenton, Ingrid and everyone else in Kew Gardens. Patricia Hickey for Richard. John Firth of SW7. Anthony Osterwell. John Tenton. Steve Petherich. Markus of NW5. Andy Midsen of Chertsey. John of Boreham Wood, Brian Gording, Marcus Gonzales, Colin Mainu, Warren Stephenson of Chessington, Exeter University. Gary Wilkins of Bromley. Tony Anagranza of East Finchley. Martin Greaves. G S Rocket of Uxbridge. Keith Lang of Petersham.
This recording comes from Radio Eric. I was sent cassettes of the show (along with the previous two) which I had started converting to mp3 when I came across this one so I took the easy solution!
Glad you\'re enjoying it. If you have any recordings I\'d be very happy to digitize and put them up.
Al
What a goldmine! Joined the Facebook Thameside 90.2 group, and found this in the morning. Have collected Thameside-recordings for decades, but this source in one go easily outperforms my earlier attempts. Have enough \\\"new\\\" material now to easily last me the rest of the summer. Thanks for the effort! Much appreciated!
What a goldmine! Joined the Facebook Thameside 90.2 group, and found this in the morning. Have collected Thameside-recordings for decades, but this source in one go easily outperforms my earlier attempts. Have enough \\\\\\\"new\\\\\\\" material now to easily last me the rest of the summer. Thanks for the effort! Much appreciated!