Media Network Vintage Vault 2018-2019

Hello, welcome back to Part 2 of the Maarten van delft tapes. This time with unique studio recordings from the Caribbean made around 1988. Here is the link to LIST.   Just to recap it is January 2023 and I’m playing around in the Media Network archive vault which sits on my hard drive. In the 1970’s and 80’s several of us interested in international broadcasting collected the sign-on and sign-offs of radio stations from around the world. Whilst it was easy to make an off-air tape of a far-off station, there was no guarantee you could hear it just by tuning in the right frequency. In fact the hobby of Dxing, was a popular pastime in some countries where you’d scan the dial looking for a weak station, trying to identify which one it was from an announcement, often given at the top of the hour. In the early 1970’s I remember Maarten van Delft would sometimes play some very clear recordings on Radio Nederland’s DX Juke box programme. And as a fellow jingle and ID collector, I often wondered how he got those tapes