ORTF Nouméa, New Caledonia 670 kHz - From 1973
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- čas přidán 6. 09. 2024
- Long-time DXers will remember when, between 1964 and 1974, France and all its dependencies lived under the umbrella of the public broadcaster Office de Radiodiffusion Télévision Française (ORTF). And so, during this time French overseas possessions in far-flung places like Reunion Island, Tahiti, Comoro Islands, as well as some African nations included the title of ORTF in the names of their national broadcasters.
The recording below is from the last part of that ORTF period. It was recorded on August 15, 1973 at my home in suburban Melbourne when I was 19 years old. I think the receiver was a Lafayette HA230. The antenna was a small indoor rotatable loop antenna. It was originally recorded on a reel-to-reel machine, and at some point, I must have transferred it to the current cassette tape.
What you hear is the opening of the morning service at 1900 UTC. It begins with a bird call interval signal, the French anthem and a frequency announcement.
QUIZ: Identify the chirpy little bird on the interval signal!
Read more about this recording at the Mount Evelyn DX Report:
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It's a great souvenir for me as a new caledonian
Great Rob,
a beautiful recording and reminder of a time gone by ... congratulations.
73. Giuseppe iz0gzw.
That interval signal almost sounds like the yapping dog down the hallway of our apartment ;-)
it's the KAGOU Crys, the new caledonian typical bird emblema, as the kiwi is for NZ
French national anthem plays in this radio
Yes. Of course! The country is a part of France's Overseas Territories.
I really would like to understand why someone come here to leave a dislike...
Hahahaha.... Yep! You and me both! :-) The world is full of weird people. I have long gotten over worrying why some homo sapiens do what they do on CZcams. I appreciate your comment, though! 73, Rob VK3BVW
Nice video’s Greetings. Albert. The Netherlands. City. Dalfsen
I Googled your old address a while back, after seeing it on an old KSL QSL card. Looks like a beautiful house...how long ago did you move from there?
Did you move for a better radio location?
Well! That's a new comment! :-) I wonder how many others have googled the address? So, just now I Googled it myself. That's certainly not the house I grew up in. That current building is about five years old. The place I grew up in as a child/teenager was an old Edwardian style house built in around 1910. Electrically, it was very quiet in those days except for the occasional TV carrier or Fluro light noise. Nothing like it is now with all the electronic noisemakers we have polluting the RF spectrum. Best wishes, Ken. Rob VK3BVW